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In a return to the School of Media and Journalism’s pre-COVID tradition of hosting a spring scholarship reception, this Sunday (April 23), MDJ is awarding more than $100,000 in 42 different named scholarships to more than 70 returning and incoming students. We are so grateful to the donors who make it possible for us to help support our st...

Collaboration and teamwork have been the common threads that have led Kent State Media and Journalism alumna Raytevia Evans, M.A. ‘12, through teaching English abroad, graduate school, work as an education reporter and now, as a public information officer. She says that every time she’s produced work she’s proud of, it has been the resu...

In America, conversations about grief and loss are often avoided, and in art, tend to be sugarcoated, or even “corny.” Kent State Assistant Professor and independent filmmaker Dana White is changing that narrative through her work, and was recently recognized by the Ohio Arts Council. “We don’t address these really uncomfortably topi...

An abstract eye for film, creative camera work and a feminist mindset are all factors that make up Kent State alumna Ailene Joven, '21. As a digital media production student, she began creating the short film “Define” during the early days of COVID-19. Several years later, that film was screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival...

Peter Bobkowski will join the School of Media and Journalism this fall as Kent State University’s second Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, dedicated to leading national efforts to revitalize journalism in the nation's high schools. He replaces retired chair Mark Goodman, who held the role since it was established in 2007. Bobkowski...

Laura Gordon, '87, had such a fulfilling experience as a Kent State University student, that she now gives back so that others may find their way to the types of relationships and encounters that helped set her on her path. When her adult children — one recently graduated and one still in college — were looking at schools, she encourage...