School of Media and Journalism
Student Media Advertising Staff Earns National College Newspaper Awards
Students and staff of Student Media’s advertising staff traveled to San Diego last week for the annual College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers convention. This year was the 41st National CNBAM convention. Students and staff spent time in sessions focusing on new digital concepts, soci…
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Perkins Bowen Wins 2013 Indiana Scholastic Journalism Award
The Ball State University Department of Journalism presented associate professor Candace Perkins Bowen with the 2013 Indiana Scholastic Journalism award at its annual conference earlier this month. Bowen is also the director for the Center for Scholastic Journalism. The award citation describes P…
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JMC Earns Highest Number of Regional Honors in SPJ Mark of Excellence Competition
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) announced its 2012 Mark of Excellence (MOE) Award winners from region 4 last week, and JMC students and student media earned 24 top placements in 19 categories -- the highest number of winners among all regional entrants. JMC took first place in nine cat…
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JMC Earns Spot in Top 10 Of Ongoing Hearst Writing Competition
With two students earning spots in the top 20 of the personality/profile writing competition, JMC now ranks 10th overall in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Senior magazine journalism major Anthony Dominic earned seventh place for his winning article, …
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Photojournalism Student Makes JMC History in Hearst Photography Competition
Hannah Potes, a JMC senior photojournalism major, won fifth place in the recent photojournalism competition II of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. With this ranking, Potes becomes the first JMC photojournalism student to place three times in the top 10 of the Hearst photography competition. …
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Broadcast Grad Student Selected for New Diversity Fellowship
Shanice Dunning, a graduate student in broadcast journalism, was one of 11 student journalists from across the country selected to participate in the first paid fellowship program sponsored by the Capitol Broadcasting Company (CBC) WRAL-TV and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill's …
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JMC Professor Named National Honor Society Outstanding Advisor For 2013
Jeff Fruit, professor and former JMC director, has been named the 2013 chapter adviser of the year for Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA), the national college honor society for journalism and mass communications. He will receive the William H. Taft Outstanding Adviser Award in August during the annual con…
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School of Journalism and Mass Communication Scholarship Winners for 2013-2014
Congratulations to the 2013-2014 scholarship recipients. Sydney Baltrusaitis Jason Kostura Alicia Balog Erica Batyko Carrie Blazina Katherine Boetger Kirsten Bowers Raven Brinson Christina Bucciere Jacob Byk Caitlyn Callahan Meghan Caprez Caitrin Cardosi Amy Cooknick Megan Corder Chelsie Corso Ly…
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International Storytelling Class Reports on Issues in Largest Latin American Country
Sixteen students will travel to Brazil with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s International Storytelling class from March 15 to March 31 to develop multimedia news stories about the country. The class will partner with a journalism program at Pontifical Catholic University of Para…
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Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference Features Authors Angela Johnson, Gary Schmidt and Yuyi Morales
91¿´Æ¬Íø University’s 29th Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth will be held on the evening of Thursday, April 4, 2013, and all day on Friday, April 5, 2013, at the Kent Student Center. The conference provides a forum for discussion of multicultu…
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