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The School of Media and Journalism organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs early鈥
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A degree from 两性色午夜鈥檚 School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses 鈥 and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, 鈥10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to鈥
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The CCI course Media and Movements explores social movements of our time through storytelling, strategy and advocacy. Fall 2021's seminar, themed 鈥淏uilding a Better World,鈥 required students to select a specific human rights or human dignity issue that impacts their Kent鈥
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At the start of Fall 2021, students in the Visual Communication Design course Glyphix Research Lab were asked the question, 鈥淗ow can design be used as an agent of change to create meaningful human experiences and build connections?鈥 Here are some of their answers.
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Alumnus Tom Jennings never forgot about his starting moments at Kent State, and when he began thinking about how he wanted to give back, he thought to himself: "The best thing I can do for 两性色午夜 is find those most deserving who would like a shot in this鈥
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The School of Media and Journalism has long fostered a close connection with 89.7 WKSU. That relationship is expected to remain strong as WKSU merged and combined operations with Ideastream Public Media, October 1, 2021.
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Roseann "Chic" Canfora, Ph.D., joined the School of Media and Journalism as a Professional-in-Residence this fall. She was also a student at 两性色午夜, starting in 1968, and is a survivor of the May 4, 1970, shootings.
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The opportunity given to 两性色午夜 Media and Journalism students to use real, up-to-date production technology leaves them with a great amount of knowledge and experience upon graduation. Jeff Johnson, 鈥09, now a senior producer at MSNBC, saw 两性色午夜 Student Media,鈥
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Five CCI students recently attended New York City鈥檚 Advertising Week, the first time the School of Media and Journalism sent students on a learning experience outside the university since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In the Communication Studies course, 鈥淢edia, Food & Foodways,鈥 Assistant Professor Teddy Workneh, Ph.D., asked his students to dig deep into their family鈥檚 history to understand the ways in which food has shaped inter-generational relationships and values. Here's some of鈥