Updates for Spring 2020 semester
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Need help?
The J-School has resources to help students. C
ontact
Professor Scott Reinardy
at
reinardy@ku.edu
.
Another great resource is
help.ku.edu.
Classes:
The deadline to withdraw from 16-week classes has been extended to May 4. Get tech help for online classes at
remote.ku.edu
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Report discrimination or harassment
to
ioa@ku.edu
or 785-864-6414.
The Bremner Center
is taking virtual appointments. Email
lisamclendon@ku.edu
or call 785-864-7623.
Advising:
Journalism advising appointments are by email or phone until further notice. Schedule your appointment through
JayhawkGPS.
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Faculty and staff online town hall meeting
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Dean Brill
is inviting faculty and staff to an online town hall meeting at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 23. Members of the Dean's Advisory Group (
Scott Reinardy
,
Chuck Marsh
,
Frances Lyons
,
Matt Tidwell
,
Lisa McLendon
,
Kerry Benson
and
Julie Adam
) will be online, too. Join to check in, see some familiar faces and/or ask questions. (Join through the Zoom meeting ID that you received through email.)
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Associate Professor Jerry Crawford
has been voted, in a special election, as the new chair for AEJMC’s Professional Freedom & Responsibility (PF&R) standing committee.
This link
explains PF&R’s role. Crawford also will serve on the AEJMC Board of Directors 2020-21. Crawford will begin his term in August.
Matt Tidwell
along with
podcast and marketing expert
Brent Bowen
have launched The Cultivated Marketer, a podcast focused on professional development and marketing excellence in Kansas City and the
New Midwest
. Find it
here
or on Spotify, Google Play or Apple Podcasts.
Assistant Professor Teri Finneman
's Journalism History podcast features Professor
Beth Garfrerick
discussing the partnership between community newspapers – such as the one run by iconic small-town editor William Allen White – and national newspaper syndication services in the first half of the 20th century. Widely syndicated editorial and advertising content influenced thousands of rural newspaper readers.
Find the podcast
on iTunes, Podbean, or Spotify.
Cal Butcher
, director of Media Crossroads, has served as a judge for the following media and video contests this year:
- KSPA Monthly Contest
- KSPA All Kansas Video Critiques
- BEA Festival of Media Arts
- MIPA (Missouri Interscholastic Press Association) Spring Contest
- e-Magine Media Festival
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Nominate a colleague for the Katich Award for Creativity
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Nominations for the John Katich Award for Creativity are due this week. The Katich award goes to a full-time faculty member who has demonstrated creativity in teaching, research, service or a combination of these areas. Please email your nomination materials by 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, to
Joseph Erba
(
erba@ku.edu
) and
Yvonnes Chen
(
y.chen@ku.edu
), our 2018 and 2019 Katich Creativity Award recipients. The award winner will be announced at the May 12 town hall faculty and staff meeting.
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Research, Presentations and Publications
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Associate Professor Jerry Crawford
was an invited participant and panelist for several online forums and webinars for the Gardner Institute:
- March 31 session: “Coronavirus Campus Crisis - Pandemic Pivot: Adjusting & Adapting.” The topics included communication in a crisis, insta-teaching/working in crisis, equity and access, best practices for online teaching and learning, and demonstrating grace and self-care.
- April 8 session: “The New Advising Reality”
- April 15 webinar: “HBCU Response to the Coronavirus Crisis”
Associate Professor Jerry Crawford
’s article, “High School Journalism Advisers and Diversified Newsrooms,” has been accepted for print in the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Journal of Media Education (JoME) April 20 online publication. This study examined whether African American participation in high school journalism is lower than participation of other students in the state of Kansas. Past research has found that participation on high school newspapers and yearbook staffs is often the pathway for students to consider careers in journalism.
Associate Professor Genelle Belmas
has had accepted for publication a chapter in a forthcoming book on live-streaming. Co-authored with Texas A&M law professor
Brian Larson
, the chapter is titled
“
Fixed? The Law of Live-Streaming.” It is a summary of how live-streaming is regulated by both the law and by corporations and includes a discussion of the current law and ethics of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 is under attack by victims’ rights advocates as creating an online haven for sexual abuse and harassment, but the law enabled the growth of the interactive internet as we know it today.
Lisa McLendon
, Bremner Editing Center coordinator, was invited to present
one of four sessions for a virtual day of the ACES: The Society for Editing conference
on May 1. The annual national conference was canceled due to COVID-19. McLendon’s session, Grammar Arcana, delves into some of the lesser-known areas of grammar. Other sessions will discuss dictionaries, the editing process, and updates to the AP Stylebook. Registration is free and open to the first 1,000 people (ACES members or not).
A research paper on misinformation and vulnerable populations written by
Associate Professor Hyunjin Seo
, doctoral students
Matt Blomberg
and
Darcey Altschwager
, and
Assistant Professor Hong Vu
has been accepted for publication in New Media & Society. Entitled “Vulnerable Populations and Misinformation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Underserved Older Adults’ Online Information Assessment,” the paper is based on a survey and interviews of low-income minority seniors on their evaluations of health information online.
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Instagram Live suffrage event
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Suffrage historians
Teri Finneman
and
Candi Carter Olson
(Utah State) will host an Instagram Live show at 1 p.m. April 23, discussing the movement against women's rights and the Night of Terror that was a pivotal moment in women's voting rights history. The new event is part of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. To join, follow Journalism History on Instagram, go into the app on your phone at the time of the show, and click on the profile picture.
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DIAG seeks submissions for 2020 Applied Research Award
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The J-School's Diversity and Inclusion Action Group
invites the submission of proposals for the 2020 Applied Research Award.
The research award of $5,000 aims to promote applied research in an area of mass communication science that can directly benefit our understanding, acknowledgment, interaction with, research and/or acceptance of diversity.
Proposals are due by 5 p.m.
Learn more here.
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Student News and Opportunities
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Kansas Association of Broadcasters scholarships
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The deadline to apply for Kansas Association of Broadcasters' scholarships is May 1. The KAB offers up to $16,000 annually in scholarship awards (for tuition and books).
Learn more and apply here.
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Clean Cities University Workforce Development Program
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U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities University Workforce Development Program (CCUWDP) is offering 39 positions across the nation for students looking to gain experience in the energy and transportation areas.
Learn more here.
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Science Journalism Student Award
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The Society for Neuroscience has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Science Journalism Student Award. Recipients will attend
Neuroscience 2020
, the society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Oct. 24-28.
Learn more here.
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Native American Journalists Association Fellowship
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Find career and work opportunities on the J-School
’
s jobs and internships web page. You can filter by job or internship and full or part time. And don
’
t forget that our career and outreach coordinator,
Steve Rottinghaus
, can help you with your search.
See more job and internship opportunities on the
J-School's website
and check out the
University Career Center’s
job and internship board
.
JOBS
INTERNSHIPS
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Join the next Adobe XD Creative Jam
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JSchoolTech is still here!
Miss stopping by the JBar? No worries! Email
Heather
for a Zoom meeting. It is like the JBar, but you might see a cat. Ask a quick question or get tech help.
Join the next Adobe XD Creative Jam:
Use our
Adobe XD tutorials
to build your skills then sign up for the
XD Creative Jam
. Maybe get your October Creative Jam team back together!
Get job-ready:
Need help with resume or portfolio? Contact
Heather Lawrenz
for a digital critique or feedback.
Suggestion box:
Heather is working on new tutorials. Anything you want to see on
jschooltech.org
? Let her know.
Take a creative break:
Tune out the bad news for a few minutes and practice some mindful motivation: The
JST Creative Break
is a short daily challenge designed to help you cope by creating.
Three new JST workshops
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Getting Started with Adobe: April 21, 10 -11 a.m.
What’s up with this free Adobe stuff? How do I access it? Why do I want to? If you have questions about Adobe – whether that be how to access, what it includes or how you can learn, join us for this online workshop. Once you
sign up
, you will receive a Zoom calendar invite (as well as reminders).
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Using Spark: April 28, 2-3 p.m.
April 28, 2-3 p.m.
Spark is Adobe’s free tool set. With Spark, you can create social media posts, posters, videos and web pages. Additionally, you can build your own branding within Spark.
Sign up here.
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Mobile Tools Workshop,
May 5, 10-11 a.m.
Pop in for a tutorial on how you can use Adobe’s mobile tools to help you with creation. We will be doing overview of Rush (mobile video editing), Capture (creation machine. Imagine looking through your camera to see patterns, vectors, and even fonts), Spark Post (social media posts), and Lightroom (photo editing). This is a great way to develop some mobile technology skills. Once you
sign up
for any event, you will receive a Zoom calendar invite (as well as reminders).
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Jonathan Shorman
, 2012 J-School graduate, has won a George Polk Award for Political Reporting. Shorman and fellow Wichita Eagle reporters
Chance Swaim
and
Dion Lefler
reported that Mayor
Jeff Longwell
steered a $524 million contract for a desperately needed water treatment plant to friends and supporters, rejecting the unanimous choice of a selection panel. Longwell lost his re-election bid after a campaign that turned on the Eagle’s investigation of an ad falsely connecting his opponent to sexual harassment allegations. Shorman also spoke last week to the Multimedia Reporting class taught by
Knight Chair Steve Wolgast
and
Assistant Professor Teri Finneman
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Everyone’s an Editor:
Finding “Truth” in Cyber News:
Dole Institute of Politics Fellow
Ron Marks
and
Shelby Coffey
, former editor of the L.A. Times and U.S. News and World Report, will discuss how dramatically the world of journalism has changed in only 40 years. The event is on Facebook Live at 4 p.m. on April 22.
Learn more here.
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April 22-26:
KSPA State Contest remote judging
April 23:
Faculty and staff town hall meeting, 3:30 p.m., Zoom
April 23:
(CANCELED) Doughnuts with the Dean, 9-10 a.m., Clarkson Gallery
May 8:
Stop day
May 8:
Faculty/staff meeting 10:30 a.m.-noon, followed by lunch, Clarkson Gallery
May 15:
Last day of finals
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William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications
1435 Jayhawk Boulevard
Stauffer-Flint Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-4755
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