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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鈥
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.
Congratulations to the 2013-2014 scholarship recipients.
Sixteen students will travel to Brazil with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication鈥檚 International Storytelling class from March 15 to March 31 to develop multimedia news stories about the country.
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Kent State University鈥檚 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鈥
鈥淔or a photo to be effective, it has to be affective. A picture has to move you in some way. It must evoke a visceral reaction in the viewer 鈥 crying, laughing, thinking.鈥
Students from the Advanced Producing class, accompanied by JMC professor Gary Hanson and practitioner-in-residence John Butte, spent four days last week in New York City, meeting with a host of national producers, anchors and correspondents. Their goal was to learn production鈥
Kent State University attracts students from all over the world, but one student decided to make his life here official. Andr茅s Solano officially became an American citizen last month.
Two teams of Kent State University public relations students are competing in this year鈥檚 2013 Bateman Case Study Competition where they have been presented with the challenge to develop a campaign to increase awareness and inform key audiences about the effects of bullying.
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Members of the Journalism Education Association (JEA) Scholastic Press Rights Commission and Quill and Scroll International Honor Society convened at Franklin Hall from February 28 through March 3 to work with CSJ Director Candace Perkins Bowen, Knight Chair in Scholastic鈥