University Daily Kansan and Dole Institute sponsor Bob Dole event |
This year marks 25 years since Bob Dole left the United States Senate. In honor of this important milestone, The University Daily Kansan is publishing a multi-page feature on Dole and his life in public service. Student journalists who led the project will be featured in a Journalism and Politics lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Dole Institute of Politics. Students Stef Manchen, Kansan editor, Carly Johnson, managing editor, and Blake Ullman, news editor, will engage in a panel discussion about the project. Copies of the special Kansan edition will be available at the event. Join in person or watch the livestream of the event on the Dole Institute YouTube channel.
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The Curriculum and Assessment Committee invites all School of Journalism and Mass Communications instructors to attend the inaugural Assessment Show-and-Tell on Friday, Sept. 24, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Room 303. As the reporting requirements for course assessments increase, everyone can benefit from learning about the course assessments that are being used across the school. Colleagues will share the assessments they use, explain how they designed these assessments, how they implement them, and what they do with the results.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to a town hall discussion of the new Media Arts & Production (MA&P) concentration currently in development for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Discussion will include vision and goals for the new MA&P concentration, curriculum updates and Q&A. Join us from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 30 in Clarkson Gallery.
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association will host area high school journalism advisors in Stauffer-Flint Hall on Sept. 29 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The KSPA Fall Conference, which annually hosts hundreds of area high school journalism students, was re-imagined with the recent surge of COVID-19. The new, smaller footprint concept is a Professional Development Event for area high school teachers. After a 9 a.m. keynote address by Hannah Wise, j’14, teachers will attend breakout sessions throughout the building. If you would like to present, help or open your classes to guests, please contact Kerry Navinskey at [email protected].
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Mark your calendars because Doughnuts with the Dean is back! Join us from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Sept. 27 in Clarkson Gallery to chat with Dean Brill and pick up a doughnut.
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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS |
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Associate Professor Hong Vu is a featured speaker at the first Red Hot Research series of the fall semester at 4 p.m. Sept. 24 at The Commons in Spooner Hall. The theme is Climate, Culture, Communication. Learn more here. Vu also was the featured speaker last week at a Lunch Lecture Series sponsored by the KU Musicians for an Anti-Racist College (MARC) and the Midwest Music Research Collective (MMRC). Vu presented his research on news coverage of climate change, as well as how NGOs communicate climate change to the public, which largely reflects the broader understanding of this issue in societies.
Associate Professor Doug Ward was interviewed for this KSHB story about how teaching science has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fernada Silva, master’s student, and John Watson, Ph.D. candidate, co-authored a snap analysis titled “Representing high performance: Brazilian sports journalists and mass communication professionals discuss their philosophies on producing progressive Paralympic coverage.” They conducted interviews with Renato Peters, Globo’s lead Paralympic beat reporter, as well as Giovana Pinheiro, manager of the website Olimpiada Todo Dia (Olympics Everyday). The reporters shared their experiences covering the Paralympics over the years and during the 2020 Games. Silva and Watson’s work was published alongside 114 articles from over 150 authors from all over the world in a special edited report titled "Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport." The report was published by the Center for Sports Communication & Media at the University of Texas at Austin in association with the ICA Sports Communication Special Interest Group and the IAMCR Media, Communication and Sport Section.
Associate Professor Genelle Belmas and Ph.D. candidate Harrison Rosenthal were quoted in The Kansas City Star discussing KU’s response to the student body president’s controversial “Death to america [sic]” retweet. Read a copy of the article here.
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STUDENT NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES |
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Free food and prizes for Wall Street Wednesdays participants |
The University Daily Kansan is partnering with The Wall Street Journal, the School of Business and Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe for Wall Street Wednesdays, a series of events designed to enhance student engagement with The Wall Street Journal. Each event begins at 12:20 p.m. with a quiz on the main ideas encapsulated in articles and stories reported in The Wall Street Journal during the previous week. This is followed by Professor Perspective, a short discussion led by a faculty expert on a recent story from the newspaper. The event concludes by 12:50 p.m. with prizes for the top three scorers on the quiz and a light snack. The first event is this Wednesday, Sept. 22. Learn more and register here.
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Student Lily Becker had photos published in the Kansas Reflector last week of the student protests on campus following sexual assault allegations against a fraternity member. Becker photographed the protests as part of her work in J410: Photojournalism.
HOPE@CAPS Mental Health Peer Educators are a team of currently enrolled KU students who are certified and trained in providing support, education and resources to their peers who may be experiencing distress that might not rise to the level of need for mental health intervention at Counseling and Psychological Services. The J-School is on the Peer Listening schedule on Tuesdays from 9 to 11 a.m. in the lobby of Stauffer-Flint Hall for students who would like to drop in. Learn more here.
The Inez Y. Kaiser GKC-PRSA Memorial Scholarship, valued at $2,500, is open for applications. The deadline to apply is Sept. 24. It is open to all Black juniors or seniors enrolled in strategic communications, public relations or communications programs at an accredited college or university in Kansas or Missouri. The student must live in Kansas or Missouri at the time of application. Preference is given to PRSSA members and affiliate chapters. However, membership or affiliation is not a requirement. Applicants must have earned at least a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. The application should reflect the applicant’s commitment to volunteerism, a hallmark of Inez Kaiser’s legacy. Two scholarship recipients will be announced at the GKC-PRSA Chapter Prism event on Oct. 21. Apply here.
Premier Roofing Company is accepting applications for its sales scholarship. Six winners will be selected; one will receive $2,500, and the others will receive $1,000. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1. Scholarship winners will be announced on Jan. 31, 2022. Get details and apply here.
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The Playmakers take over Instagram |
Thanks to student journalists of The Playmakers for showing us a behind-the-scenes look at how they prepare for their show and cover KU sports. The Playmakers team took over the J-School's Instagram account last Friday and Saturday, all while filming their weekly show. If you missed the takeover, you can check it out on the J-School Instagram's highlights. Also, watch a recording of the The Playmakers' Friday show here.
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Cheers to Careers podcast: Taiju Takahashi |
Taiju Takahashi, j'91, news director at WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi, and WHLT in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a guest with Steve Rottinghaus on the Career and Outreach Center’s Cheers to Careers podcast recently. Watch the video here.
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Job opportunities
Student jobs and internships
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Apply now for the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship |
A representative from the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship plans to conduct virtual interviews via Zoom on Wednesday, Sept. 29, for the summer 2022 program (June 6-Aug. 12). University of Kansas students of junior, senior or graduate standing as of Nov. 1, 2021, are eligible to apply and participate in the interviews. The fellowship pays each fellow $650 a week for 10 weeks at the Indianapolis Star or Arizona Republic. Eight interviews will be conducted between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sept. 29. Interested students should submit their resume and work samples (nor more than two articles) by Sept. 23 to Steve Rottinghaus, career and outreach coordinator, at [email protected] or drop them off in Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 120.
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Sarah Smarsh, j’03, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 National TRIO Achiever Award. Smarsh was recognized during the Council on Opportunity in Education’s 40th Annual Conference Award Banquet on Sept. 13 in Atlanta. The TRIO Achiever award acknowledges TRIO alumni who have accomplished something extraordinary in their designated professions. Read the KU News story here.
James Hoyt, j’17, is the marketing coordinator at Finicity.
Nicole Dolan, j’21, has accepted a full-time reporting position at the Kansas City Business Journal.
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William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications
Stauffer-Flint Hall
1435 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66012
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