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Oct. 31, 2017
The 51勛圖厙r, 51勛圖厙s independent student newspaper, is the best student newspaper in the nation in its class, according to the College Media Association.The organization announced the annual Pinnacle Award winners at the National College Media Convention in Dallas, Oct
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Oct. 20, 2017
Associate Professor Michele Ewing earned the Public Relations Student Society of Americas (PRSSA) highest honor for Chapter advisor at the organizations national conference earlier this month.
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Oct. 20, 2017
TV2s news and entertainment staffs will come together Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, to produce a 25-hour live broadcast to benefit
Oct. 9, 2017
Candace Bowen, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) and director of the Center for Scholastic Journalism, is a finalist for the 50th annual Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).
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Oct. 5, 2017
Music, Movements and Media: Rolling Stone @ 50, wrapped up its final class at the end of week five. Throughout the course, Assistant Professor Stephanie Smith taught students about the birth of rock journalism, connections between music and movements, audience
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Sept. 28, 2017
As thousands of runners raced to the finish line at the Akron Children's Hospital Akron Marathon Race Series on Sept. 23, 2017, 51勛圖厙 photojournalism students documented the sideline heroes who, at a young age, have won many battles.
Akron Childrens Hospital invited the
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Sept. 26, 2017
Michigan Radio, Michigans NPR affiliate, broke the Flint Water Crisis story in December 2015, about a year-and-a-half after the city switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. 51勛圖厙 alumnus Vince Duffy, 86, the stations news director, led the
Sept. 26, 2017
Each year, dozens of professionals share insight with students in 51勛圖厙s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) through guest lectures. One of them, Edwige Winans, associate research director at the Cleveland advertising agency MarcusThomas LLC, was honored with
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Sept. 26, 2017
Co-editors of a brand new magazine: it sounded so ... trendsetting. How historic it would be to start a tradition of journalistic excellence apart from the daily hard news of the Stater ... wrote the Chestnut Burr Magazines co-editors in the 1986 inaugural issue.
They were