Kent State University - School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Student media staffers help at ONA conference

Four students from JMC student media, along with adviser, Susan Zake, provided news coverage for the recent Ohio Newspaper Association convention in Columbus. Students included Kristine Gill, Cody Francis, Jackie Valley and Jessica Kanalas. Click here to see their work.

JMC faculty have worked 'around the world'

Cuba, England, France, Egypt, Azerbaijan, China. Kent JMC faculty have travelled around the world to teach, recruit and do research and creative activity. Learn more

Online ethics workshop ponders 'What Values?

Online journalists joined Poynter ethics faculty to discuss core ethical values of online journalism. For event coverage, go here.

Homecoming 2009 honors Earl Jones, '70

Homecoming was a huge success. Here's the winner of the William Taylor Award, Earl Jones (second from left), founder and CEO of Jones Broadcast Group. Enjoying the moment are JMC Director, Jeff Fruit; Jones; CCI Dean, Stan Wearden; and JMC Associate Director, Greg Blase. Photo by Johnathan Peltz

Here are 2009 JMC scholarship winners

Idsvoog, Smeltzer honored for Web site

Professors Karl Idsvoog and Dave Smeltzer have won an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association for their ground breaking Web site, Media Job Pod.

Student media saw lots of changes in Spring '09

More news on BSR. An a.m. vodcast on KentNewsNet. New entertainment programs on TV2 including dates and bands. Tighter budgets everywhere. It all added up to plenty of changes in JMC student media. The Co-Lab reports.

New Knight Professor sets goals

Mark Goodman, Kent JMC's Knight Professor of scholastic journalism, has many goals for the new Center for Scholastic Journalism and has set his sights high. View the story and video

PRSSA wins Ohio 'Do It Now' competition

Kent State public relations students have won the statewide Do It Now College Competition, aimed at increasing the number of organ and tissue donors in the Ohio Organ Donor Registry. Read more

JMC celebrates grand opening of Franklin Hall

The president spoke. The dean spoke. The director spoke. It's official: the cutting-edge Franklin Hall is open for business. Read more

December 2008 JMC grad earns top award in Hearst

Beth Rankin won first place in editorial writing in the Hearst Foundation contest. She received a $2,000 scholarship for her article, "I am not a White bitch,' published in The Stater. She qualified for the Hearst Writing Championship in San Francisco.

Student media, classes cover Election 2008

From Portage County to Columbus to Chicago to Phoenix, student media and class teams produced news and multimedia content for the Stater, TV2, Black Squirrel Radio and KentNewsNet. Read more

Ethics guidelines for blogging, Twittering?

A Kent JMC-Poynter conference draws national experts to debate the rules for online journalists. We have full coverage of the event, with narrative, blogs, video and audio. Take a look.

Talkin' convergence; JMC students blog, vlog, podcast

Read, watch, listen to students comment on convergence, the new newsroom, collaboration and related subjects.

TV2 goes live . . . in hi def

After two days of tryouts, weeks of practice and months of learning new high def equipment and software, TV2 has gone live. We've got it covered. Click here for stories, video, audio slideshow and staff list.

JMC students win 18 awards in SPJ Region 4

Here's a list of all winners:

Breaking News Reporting
Third Place - Megan Rozsa, Caitlyn Wachovec, September 11 memorial coverage

General News Reporting
First Place - Tyrel Linkhorn, "I didn't know you, but I loved you"
Second Place - Staff, Daily Kent Stater, "Five years later: Life after five years in Iraq"

Editorial Cartooning
Second Place - Christopher Sharron

Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper (published 4+ times per week) Second Place - Daily Kent Stater

Non-Fiction Article
First Place - Ted Hamilton, "The Last great gun debate," The Burr Second Place - Ben Wolford, "A New Era," Fusion Third Place - Sarah Steimer, "Anyone can come and not be judged," Fusion

Best Student Magazine
First Place - Fusion
Second Place - The Burr

Feature Photography
Second Place - 24 hours in Portage County

Best Affiliated Web Site
First Place - CyBurr
Second Place - KentNewsNet.com

Online Sports Reporting
First place - KentNewsNet.com, KSU football vs. Akron

Online News Reporting
First place - KentNewsNet.com, Prentice Hall fire

TV In-Depth reporting
First place place - Julie Landis, Lauren Yelichek, Jenelle Maddox, Cystic Fibrosis

TV General News Reporting
First place - Kyle Miller, Center of Hope Third place - Julie Landis, MROD

Murray wins BEA award

Assistant professor Joe Murray has won a national writing competition sponsored by the Broadcast Education Association. His research report, "Adapt or Die: A Ten-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools Stuck in the Fourth Estate," won first place in the Courses, Curricula and Administration division. The report explores strategies that universities might apply to modernize their journalism curricula. The report may be downloaded by clicking here.

JMC celebrated 20th anniversary in 2007-2008

After two years of secret meetings and noisy negotiations, the School of Journalism and the Department of Telecommunications got hitched starting in 1987-1988.  Read Story.

Jacquie Marino wins award from Folio magazine

Assistant prof receives Gold Eddie for "Blood Brothers," feature on 16 Marines who died in Iraq. Read story in e-Inside.

MediaMindsets conference explores new audiences

Nationally known speakers tackle changing roles of media consumers. The Co-Lab's Jen Guerrieri has a report.  Click here.

JMC, Franklin Hall hosts KSU trustees, media officials

Kent JMC has been hosting a number of important meetings this semester, as professionals and University officials get to see the renovated Franklin Hall.

The Board of Trustees met here, as did officials from the Plain Dealer.

The Grand Opening was in April. See coverage here.

Click here for photos of the Trustees meeting in Franklin.