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Rich
Ramhoff wins Kent JMC welcomed back more than 120 grads and friends for the first Homecoming celebration in beautifully renovated Franklin Hall. A social hour was followed by a brunch and the awards presentation. The William Taylor Award this year went to Rich Ramhoff, '89, vice president of Gannett's Midwest Group and president and publisher of the Lansing, Mich. State Journal. Rachel Dissell and Jon Wile received Friends of JMC Awards. And, Anne Reid, of the College of Arts office, received the JMC Director's Service Award. Former prof and DKS adviser, Bruce Larrick, dies
OCA names Scott Juba
top
Center for Privacy The new Media Center for Ethics and Access offers more help to professionals. Read more JMC
gets Knight Chair A $2 million endowment
establishes the Knight Foundation's 20th chair in journalism.
Where has media audience gone? MediaMindsets conference explores key question facing mainstream media. JMC plays major role in meeting. Multimedia coverage. Miami Herald columnist, CCI Commons is in Theme community for CCI majors has 100 members living and learning together. Read story Welcome to Kent JMC Six new tenure track faculty join the school. Here's your chance to meet them. Read more
Connie Schultz, 1979 grad, wins Pulitzer Prize Tempted as an undergrad to change majors to PR, she's glad now she chose the path she did. Read story Investigating CAR Computer-Assisted-Reporting class researches top U.S. CAR reporters. Read their stories.
Spanning the globe ... Karl Idsvoog spends summers teaching broadcast journalism at the Caucasus School of Journalism in the Republic of Georgia. Megan Burgasser has the story. Videography by Jennifer Stephens. View story (You'll need QuickTime video player. Click here to get a free copy.) JMC student wins
ONPA Visual journalism major, David Foster, has been named Student Photographer of the Year by the Ohio News Photographers Association. Greg Ruffing, a JMC graduate now freelancing, placed third in the professional competition for News Photographer of the Year. For a complete list of winners, including a number of other JMC students and alums, click here. Foster also recently placed 12th in the Photojournalism Competition II of the Hearst contest with his news and sports photos. Hyangsook Lee heads Info Design program
Kent JMC students win JMC students continue to win top honors in the SPJ Region 4 Mark of Excellence Awards. And, word of more winners is coming in every day. Here are the most recent winners: Deanna Stevens, Online Sports Reporting; Julie Bercik and Justin Kiek, TV In-Depth Reporting; Nick Stroud and Jim Everetts, TV Feature Stories; Katie Morse, TV General News Reporting. Other winners include: Fusion and The Burr, Best Student Magazines; DKS staff, Breaking News Reporting (Lester Lefton hiring); DKS Editorial Board, Editorial Writing; Ben Brier and Ryan Houk, General Column Writing; TaLeiza Calloway, Non-Fiction Article; and Sean Daugherty, Feature Photography. |
Franklin Hall Archives Franklin Hall undergoes
Click here to watch a photo gallery.
FRANKLIN FOLLIES
A fairly whimsical look at what might ... could ... happen if JMC head man, Jeff Fruit, were in charge of renovating our new home in Frankln Hall. Click here to view slideshow. Laptops in your future?
When JMC moves to Franklin Hall, you'll have to provide your own computer. . Read story
For multimedia features on how our new home, Franklin Hall, was renovated, click here |
2006
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Homecoming big success Kent JMC welcomed back dozens of alums and friends for Homecoming 2006 in the Schwebel Garden Room of the Student Center. A social hour was followed by a brunch and the awards presentation. The William Taylor Award this year went to Brooke Spectorsky, '69, President and General Manager of WKYC-TV in Cleveland. Others honored were the Canton Repository's Rick Senften, '76; Radio City Rubber Group's Ed Esposito, and JMC's retired professor, Bob West, '50. Click here for photos. JMC students win Emmy Three Kent JMC students won an Emmy from the Cleveland chapter of NATAS for Best Student Program. Brain Handler, Joseph Seaman and Ned Bockrath won the award for their documentary entitled "Dragged Under." It was produced in Karl Idsvoog's Documentary class. Senior wins 1st place in SPJ Kara Pospichel, senior broadcast news major, has won a Mark of Excellence award in the national SPJ television breaking news category. Pospichel won the top spot for her story on "Battalion 325." Broadcast news majors Erin Moore and Amanda Seese were national finalists in the television in-depth reporting category for their package on "H1B Visas." 5 Knight winners from Kent JMC Five of the six John S. Knight scholarships went to Kent JMC students again this year. Winners were Meranda Watling, Beth Rankin, Tara Pringle, Stephanie Park and Jennifer Farquhar.
The Kent JMC chapter of PRSSA won a number of major awards at the University Student Leadership and Honors Award Celebration. They included: Organization Excellence Award; Prof. Michele Ewing, Adviser Excellence Award; Carli Cichocki, Community Excellence Award; and Elaine Laps, both the Student Leader of the Year Award and the Nancy and John Scott Leadership Award. This follows on the heels of the organization winning a national Teahan award for an Outstanding PRSA/PRSSA Chapter Relationship. The honor recognized the strong partnership with the Akron PRSA chapter. The organization received a plaque and $300. Whither goes the Web? Kent JMC faculty are exploring exciting
new vistas in the world of 21st century Internet journalism
and education. Court -- and class -- are in session RPA print and broadcast students cover triple murder case in Portage County. Read story 24 hours in the county Grueling photo shoot ends in successful gallery show in Kent. Read story |
Joe Harper retires After 25 years as director and faculty member, Harper 'heads for the hills'. Read story Students cover professionals, Twelve JMC news majors produced an eight-page newsletter covering the annual convention. Read story Student media big winners in SPJ competition JMC student media again did exceptionally well in the Region 4 competition of the Society of Professional Journalists. Winners included: • Ryan Lowe, first place, and Erin Roof,
second place, in Magazine Non-Fiction Article. A full list of all winners may be found
at on the
SPJ site. PRSSA wins leadership
awards The Kent JMC chapter of PRSSA won a number of major awards at the University Student Leadership and Honors Award Celebration. They included: Organization Excellence Award; Prof. Michele Ewing, Adviser Excellence Award; Carli Cichocki, Community Excellence Award; and Elaine Laps, both the Student Leader of the Year Award and the Nancy and John Scott Leadership Award. This follows on the heels of the organization winning a national Teahan award for an Outstanding PRSA/PRSSA Chapter Relationship. The honor recognized the strong partnership with the Akron PRSA chapter. The organization received a plaque and $300.
Kent NABJ chapter
helps JMC students, Canton Repository join in assisting high school students improve writing, editing skills. Read more Stories of love, anguish and . . . poker! Prof. Karl Idsvoog's Documentary students tell fascinating video stories. Read story 60 attend Kent JMC workshop on ethics More than 60 people discussed such topics as covering tragic events and online journalism at the ethics 'road show' sponsored by JMC and Poynter. Read story |
JMC's
Fitzpatrick wins McGruder Award
Al Fitzpatrick, a JMC alum and adjunct professor,received
the third Robert G. McGruder Award for championing diversity in the
media. Read
story
Flash
Communications
wins CASE award Full
story
Burr wins 3 major awards:
The Burr has won three major awards in the 2004 AEJMC
Magazine contest. The Spring 2004 issue, edited by Steven Harbaugh,
won first place in two categories: Single Issues of Ongoing Print
Magazine: Editorial and Single Issues of Ongoing Print Magazine: General
Excellence. The CyBurr took second place in the Online Magazine competition.
Jamie Carracher was editor and Meranda Watling webmaster. Prof. Ann
Schierhorn is adviser to the publications.
Gannett Foundation renews Producing class grant:
The Gannett Foundation has provided another $18,000
in grant money to continue its support of the Advanced News Producing
class. The course, in partnership with Gannett-owned Cleveland station,
WKYC, provides advanced instruction in television news producing,
with strong emphasis on professional presentations by Channel 3 staffers
under the direction of Executive Producer Rita Adelson.
6 JMC faculty win teaching honors:
Kent JMC prides itself on providing quality classroom
education. This semester, six full- and part-time faculty have been
honored by their students. They received Graduate's Applause awards
after being named by graduating seniors as faculty who made a difference
in their academic careers. Awards went to Candace Bowen, Kim Colebrooke,
Michele Ewing, Gary Hanson, William Sledzik and Davis Young.
Fall NewsOhio staff chosen
Here is the staff for the fall semester NewsOhio,
our scholastic public affairs program. Natalie Pasquarella will be
the anchor; Brooke Whitney will be the field reporter; Kara Pospichel
will be the video conference reporter; and Mariah Zickafoose will
handle The Buzz. Returning talent will be Jonathan Harvat, Tony Hardman,
John Paul and Joe Harrington.
Related
Story
JMC enrollment levels out
Full Story
Related Story
Nationally known journalists visit Full
story
New job for Wearden
JMC Prof. Stan Wearden has been named Director of the School of Communication Studies. Wearden, who joined the faculty in 1984, served as interim head of Comm Studies last year.
A dream job
Broadcast senior Dave Holmes wins ESPN's second 'Dream Job' competition. Read story
Alum wins Murrow Award
Kent JMC graduate Michelle Chyatte, reporter/producer
at WKSU-FM, won a 2005 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence
in journalism.
Read story
35 high school teachers attend ASNE workshop
They came from Utah and Texas and Hawaii and, yes, even Ohio, to learn more about teaching journalism and advising publications. Read story
'77 graduate
gets journalism award:
Jeannine Guttman, editor and vice president of the Portland
Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram has won the Judith W. Brown Spirit
of Journalism Award.
The award is given annually to an outstanding woman in journalism. It
is named for Judy Brown, longtime publisher and editor of the New Britain
(Conn.) Herald and NESNE's first female president.
Jeannine, a 1977 graduate of JMC and a former Stater editor, heads a news
staff of 110. The paper is the largest in Maine, and the Telegram is the
only statewide paper.
JMC adjunct professors add experience, fresh perspectives for students
in the classroom Full
Story
Al Fitzpatrick wins award from AJHA:
JMC graduate and Adjunct Professor, Al Fitzpatrick, has
received the Local Journalists Award given by the American Journalism
Historians' Association for outstanding career contributions to journalism.
The presentation was made at a special luncheon of the AJHA, meeting in
Cleveland for its annual national convention. Fitzpatrick had a long,
productive career with Knight-Ridder and the Akron Beacon Journal. He
teaches a course in Managing Diversity at Kent State.
Non-JMC majors get new experiences in student media Full
Story
Fidler joins U of Missouri
Roger Fidler, former professor of JMC and head of the Institute for CyberInformation, has left the faculty to work with the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.
Students win Knight awards
Kent JMC students won five of the six John S. Knight Scholarships presented by the Akron Press Club. Winners included Erin Galletta, Kathryn Hilbert, Shannon Peluso and Tara Pringle. Elizabeth Baldwin won the Ludel Sauvageot Scholarship. They received their $3,000 scholarships at a luncheon in late spring.
Homecoming
honors Schultz,
Women of Distinction
More than 80 alums, friends, faculty and staff attended the 2005 JMC Homecoming celebration honoring five distinguished women. Read story
NewsOhio
auditions set
Full
story
Feature
on NewOhio
NewsOhio
Home Page
Kent JMC co-sponsors privacy seminar Full story
Lonely at the top Full story
60 alums, friends gather at 'Bracket Buster' social event Full story
Denver Post editor delivers McGruder diversity lecture Read more
JMC Director back from Kyrgyzstan Read more
JMC has 3 SPJ national winners Full story
Homecoming
2003 a big success Read
more
2 staff members win university service awards Read more
JMC
has 3 SPJ national winners Read
more
3
new faculty members join staff Read
more
Jeff Fruit named permanent director Read
more
32 teachers attend ASNE institute Read more
1962
grad enters MLB Hall of Fame Read
more
Bosnia's Biljana Full
story
Internship gives student professional head start Read more
Learning to show story, not just tell it in words Read more
Stress
in the Studio: Students try out for TV-2 spots Read
more
Foreign Correspondent Read more
Former professor, Charlie Brill, dies Read
more
Kent JMC has 3 SPJ finalists Read more
NewsOhio Program Full more
From college to cartooning Read more
JMC Online Journalism Course Read more
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