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Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference Features Authors Angela Johnson, Gary Schmidt and Yuyi Morales

ֱ State 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 ֱ Student Center. The conference provides a forum for discussion of multicultu…

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Sports Illustrated Photo Editor Focuses on Visceral Power of Photography

“For 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 – crying, laughing, thinking.” Internationally renowned photo editor Jim Colton, recently retired after a distinguished career at Sports Illustrated (SI), N…

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National League: Students Meet Network News Leaders in NYC

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 techniques and styles a…

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ֱ State Student Becomes an American Citizen

ֱ State University attracts students from all over the world, but one student decided to make his life here official. Andrés Solano officially became an American citizen last month. Solano, who goes by Dre, was born in Ecuador but moved to Chile at a very young age. In 2001, Solano and his mothe…

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Public Relations Students Take On Bullying For National Competition

Two teams of ֱ State University public relations students are competing in this year’s 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. “This class is differen…

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Center for Scholastic Journalism Hosts Educators to Revise Principal’s Guide

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 Journalism Mark Goodman, an…

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Class Teaches Social Media Skills for Business and Professional Use

Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Pinterest and Instagram are apps people access everyday on their smart phones or tablets without thinking about how it can benefit them and their careers. Social media has grown and will continue to grow, changing the way that people communicate day-to-day. Social M…

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Cleveland’S Wkyc Anchor Named 2013 Mcgruder Award for Media Diversity Winner at Tenth Anniversary Event

Russ Mitchell, managing editor of evening news and lead anchor of the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts on WKYC Channel 3 News in Cleveland, has been named the 2013 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ֱ State University. The award …

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KENT STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PLACE IN NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARDS PROGRAMS

With its latest eighth place finish in the national Hearst Multimedia News Competition, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at ֱ State University secured a solid sixth place in the overall multimedia rankings to date, with final intercollegiate winners to be named in April. K…

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Photographer’s Forum Honors, Features Work of JMC Alumna

Another dream has been fulfilled for Brooke DiDonato. DiDonato, a 2012 alumna, was awarded fourth place in Photographer’s Forum magazine “2013 Best of College Photography” contest for “Exorcism,” one of the powerfully evocative photographs from “Dreamscape Diary,” her astounding one-year conceptual…

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