School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Professor Ann Schierhorn, Lecturer David LaBelle and Althemese Barnes received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in the 2014 Leadership in History Awards for their exhibit “They Led the Way." The Leadership in History Awards recognizes “achievement in the preservation a...

Three JMC students took top honors in the student media section at The Press Club of Cleveland’s Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, with four first-place awards in print and TV news. In the Best Print Feature Story category: Grant Engle received first place for “Behind Those Haze l Eyes.”In the Best Print News Story 4 Year...

Kent State University Independent Films (KSUIF) received its first Bronze Telly Award for an original JMC student-produced music video, “Freaky Love” at the 35th Annual Telly Awards. Students were advised by JMC faculty members, Associate Lecturer Traci E. Williams and Associate Professor Dave Smeltzer, but were ultimately ...

Fox 8 Cleveland News Co-anchor Wayne D. Dawson, ’79, and JMC’s Coordinator for Career ServicesJohn Butte will be recognized as broadcast pioneers when they are inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Lower Great Lakes Region this Saturday. “The Silver Circle recognizes i...

With its latest fifth-place finish in the national Hearst Multimedia News Competition, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at Kent State University is tied for fifth place in the overall multimedia rankings to date, with final intercollegiate winners to be named in April. This is the highest ranking that JMC has achieved ...

The Kent State TV2 anchors deliver a 5:30 p.m. newscast from the studio in Franklin Hall.

For the second year in a row, Kent State University’s TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Association’s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 TV Station of the Year award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. TV2 is Kent State’s nationally award-winning, high-definition digital TV station. The Agenda, ...

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is back at Kent State and quickly gaining new ground.  NABJ Kent is an organization of journalists, students and media professionals that encourages students of color to work in student media. NABJ membership is open to all JMC students and majors, and to all Kent State students ...

Applications Accepted from Dec. 1 to February 1. To attract and retain the strongest journalism and mass communication students in the nation, JMC is introducing a financial award program specifically designed for first-time freshmen entering our School in fall semester 2014. The Promising Scholar Awards will provide $2,000 a year, rene...

photo of Dr. Trevor Brown

JMC students are encouraged to attend an information session with Dr. Trevor Brown, Professor Emeritus  and retired Dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism, who will visit JMC from Nov. 12-14, as part of JMC’s reaccreditation process. Dr. Brown is a member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Ed...

School of Media and Journalism

The culture of coal mining. The process of hydraulic fracturing. The impact  on a community. These are the themes explored in “The Fracturing of Greene County,” a gallery showing by Jacob Byk, a junior visual journalism major, and Daniel Moore, a senior news major, that will be presented on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. in ...