News & Events
Student Journalists Report on COVID-19's Impact on Kent and the World
In this time of nationwide uncertainty, Kent State Student Media continues to provide top-notch reporting on COVID-19 and its impact on Kent and around the world. KentWired.com has a tab dedicated to Coronavirus updates that houses articles dating back to March 14, 2020. Since th...
Kent State Course to Focus on Communication Related to Pandemics and Global Crises
Communication has shaped the way the world has reacted to the coronavirus pandemic. This fall 2020, Kent State is offering a new course that will examine risk communication through the lens of pandemics and other global crises. “Communicating Risk: Global Pandemics and Crises.”
Kent State Public Relations Students Create Census Campaign
Since October 2019, select public relations students at Kent State University have been working hard to complete a campaign for the 2020 Annual Case Study Bateman Competition client: the United States Census Bureau. The National Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA)...
Journalism Student Sees Idea Come to Life Through Safety Workshop for Media Professionals
Kent State senior Carter Adams is committed to journalism and keeping media professionals safe. Knowing that students would likely benefit from media safety training, the journalism major was inspired to turn his passion into an idea and pitch it during Student Media’s FlashLab I...School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hires New Director
After a national search, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (now the School of Media and Journalism) at Kent State University has named Dr. Emily Metzgar as its new director, beginning July 1.
NPR's Eric Deggans Delivers Second Annual David and Janet Dix Media Ethics Lecture
“White privilege and supremacy are terms that are hard for some people to hear,” said NPR TV critic Eric Deggans February 11, 2020 at the David and Janet Dix Lecture in Media Ethics. This was the second such lecture, funded by the generosity of David and Janet Dix and hosted by t...
Exploring Game Design — An Intersection of Storytelling and Graphic Design
The opportunities provided to Sarah Riedlinger, ’20, as a visual communication design major at Kent State allowed her to channel her creativity and life-long passions into her independent project, Point Verity, a single-player, story-driven video game and “passion project” of her...
Students Pitch Innovative Media Ideas in FlashLab
Congratulations to the finalists and winners of the 2nd annual FlashLab Innovation Pitch Contest. The competition came to a close Dec. 3 where seven students pitched their ideas and the judges crowned four winners. Each winning idea will share up to $10,000 from the Student Media...
Journalism Student Earns Professional-Level Awards for Internship Work
When Gretchen Lasso, senior journalism and digital media production major, interned at WEWS News 5 in Cleveland during summer 2018, she didn’t just gain relevant experience — she received professional-level awards and recognition for her hard work.