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JMC 114 class awarded 2013 Silver Telly

The Telly Awards has named Drake University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Advanced Video Production class as a Silver Award winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards for their piece titled “Emerging Media SJMC Promo.” With nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries, this is truly an honor. “The Telly Awards...

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Drake SJMC grads Tanner Stransky and Rachel DeSchepper return as visiting professionals

Link baits, new media rules, audience engagement, editors who don’t edit, and weathering instability—it’s all part of our evolving media landscape. But where do we all fit in? Two Drake magazine graduates will help put the pattern pieces together as part of the annual visiting professional event sponsored by the E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine...

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Instructor Rick Tapscott dies of cancer

SJMC journalism instructor Rick Tapscott died on Sunday, Dec. 1, of complications of a fast-growing cancer. Tapscott taught news reporting and writing classes at Drake since 2007 after retiring from a distinguished newspaper career that included jobs at the Washington Post, the Des Moines Register and the Wilmington, Del., News Journal. The same qualities that...

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Public relations professors win honors

The Central Iowa Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America presented two of Drake’s assistant professors of public relations with 2013 Awards of Excellence, the highest individual honors bestowed by the organization. Kelly Bruhn, Ph.D., APR, was named Outstanding Chapter Member, and David Remund, Ph.D., APR, was named Outstanding PR Professional.