Kent State University - School of Journalism and Mass Communication

JMC students, student media cover 2008 election from OH to AZ

 

Students from the Daily Kent Stater, TV2, KentNewsNet.com, Black Squirrel Radio and the Reporting Public Affairs class covered the election from Ravenna to Phoenix, from Kent to Chicago.

Photos from right, clockwise: KentNewsNet's front page with national coverage and lots of Tweets; reporter Aaron Martin interviews KSU professor and League of Women Voters representative, Barb Hipsman in the converged newsroom; and photo coverage from staffers in Columbus, Phoenix and Chicago.

 

Click here for a Google map by JMC graduate student Trevor Ivan that shows just who was where doing what.

And click here for a major collaborative multimedia project, "Voice of the Voters."

Barb Hipsman also was at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, but didn't miss a class back in Kent. How?
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