Sustained Excellence
The power of storytelling: The School of Media and Journalism, one of five schools in Kent State’s College of Communication and Information, helps students discover the power of storytelling – the news story, the feature story, the multimedia story, the client’s story and the short film. And in the process, we help students discover their own brand stories: who they are, what unique skills they offer and what they want to do with their professional lives.
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Explore Franklin Hall — home to the School of Media and Journalism — in this immersive 3D Matterport experience.
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) hosts this competition each year challenging participants to develop and implement a comprehensive communications campaign for a client.
Kent State senior Carter Adams is committed to journalism and keeping media professionals safe.

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.
“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.