School of Journalism and Mass Communication

School of Media and Journalism
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Ten students from JMC and Communication Studies depart on August 3 for a two-week exploration of modern media and democracy in Prague, the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic. They will be accompanied by JMC Professor Candace Perkins Bowen and Communication Studies Professor Catherine Goodall.  The students spent three w...

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Campus Lifeline: A College Report on Suicide, the ground-breaking student project examining college suicide, has been honored with a prestigious national award: the Associated Press Media Editors’ (APME) Innovator of the Year for College Students. APME was unanimous in its selection of Campus Lifeline for this award. This is t...

Four books published by the Kent State University Press received IPPY awards during the 17th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards that took place in New York on May 29. The IPPY awards was created in 1996 to recognize books published by independent authors and publishers. Author and Kent State Associate Professor in the School of Jo...

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After capturing several highly competitive awards for her photo illustrations, DiDonato has now been selected for the prestigiousEddie Adams Workshop, “an intense-four day gathering of the top photography professionals and 100 carefully selected students.” This is the 25th anniversary of the workshop. DiDonato’s evocative photo illustrati...

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Thirty-five teachers from 21 states in all parts of the country will get a mix of media theory and hands-on practice in Franklin Hall for two weeks July 7 – 19. They are the Fellows of the 2013 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute, planning to take what they learn back to their schools and their new or soon-to-be re-invigorated stu...

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JMC students dominated the student media portion of The Press Club of Cleveland’s Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, winning seven awards in print and TV news.In the Best Print News Story category: •    Doug Brown, Frank Yonkof and Rachel Kilroy placed first for “The courting of Cope: Behind the sce...

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JMC is re-imagining, re-designing, and re-launching our website - www.kent.edu/jmc* -- to provide all users with a better, simpler and more visually powerful experience. Current and future students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, future employers and friends familiar with the old site will immediately notice a new vibrancy t...

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Kent State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication student photojournalists and photojournalism instructors won 12 awards, including Best of Show, at the Ohio News Photographers Association’s (ONPA) 2012 annual contest, making 2012-2013 the most award-winning year for the school’s photojournalism program in the last 30 yea...

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The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism has selected Mark Goodman, JMC professor and Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, to be part of a team of national researchers and educators that produces lessons plans, classroom activities and research assignments for high school, community college an...

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JMC student journalists and student media outlets continue to earn regional awards in the most award-winning academic year in JMC’s history.   Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards The Press Club of Cleveland honored several JMC student journalists with Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, in the first year that the competiti...