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Professor Hyunjin Seo was a featured speaker at the Kansas Digital Equity Collaborative Kickoff event held via Zoom on Oct. 7. In her talk, she discussed how to use community-based research approaches to enhance digital equity and inclusion.
Associate Professor Teri Finneman co-hosted an oral history workshop during the American Journalism Historians Association conference. Finneman also presented a research in progress, #FreeMary: The Framing of Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Insanity Trial. Finneman serves on the organization's board of directors and will be exploring creating an oral history interest group for AJHA.
Attorney and Ph.D. candidate Harrison Rosenthal and Associate Professor Genelle Belmas are co-authors of an article tracing gaming’s evolution to social media, which was published in the journal Jurimetrics. Read the KU News story here.
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On KU Homecoming Day on Oct. 16, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications will have an open house before the football game from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Alumni, prospective students and all campus visitors are welcome to tour Stauffer-Flint Hall and enjoy refreshments. See the full KU Homecoming week schedule here.
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Take a look inside The Studio at Media Crossroads |
The Studio inside Stauffer-Flint Hall is a hub of activity all week long with students producing a variety of programs. Listen to J-School students Mya Peterson and Nathaniel Duncan talk about their shows, The Playmakers and Jayhawk Jukebox, and what it's like to work in The Studio. (Video produced by student Fabian Rosales.) Watch video here.
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STUDENT NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES |
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The Power of the Sisterhood workshop with Laura Okmin |
Laura Okmin, NFL sideline reporter for FOX and 1991 KU J-School graduate, will host a free workshop for J-School students on Oct. 26 from 5-9 p.m. via Zoom. Okmin started her organization, GALvanize, to give young women who want to work in the world of media something that she didn’t have: a network of supportive women. Okmin’s bootcamps empower women by teaching participants to build their own foundations through establishing relationships, building confidence and supporting each other. Okmin is a proud Jayhawk Journalist, and the workshop is her gift to the J-School. She is especially hoping students whose confidence has been affected by the pandemic will attend. Learn more about GALvanize here. Spots are limited, so please register now.
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Congratulations to doctoral student Pan “Jackie” Liu for successfully passing his comprehensive exams.
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 next event is this Wednesday, Oct. 13. Learn more and register here.
Get vaccinated and win prizes! Fully vaccinated students at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses are eligible to receive incentives worth more than $235,000, including weekly drawings for free tuition, upgraded parking passes and a range of other prizes after uploading their COVID-19 vaccine records. If you haven't participated yet, learn more and enter here.
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.
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Students invited to PRSSA meeting this week |
Students are invited to join the Public Relations Student Society of America meeting on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Clarkson Gallery featuring guest speaker Lindsey Morin (j’21), a marketing coordinator at TLC Marketing Consultants. Interested in becoming a PRSSA member? Email [email protected].
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A Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star editor will be at Stauffer-Flint Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, in Room 201, conducting interviews for the Journal Star’s summer reporting internship. A typical day for Journal Star interns involves interviewing news sources, writing articles and working with an editor to develop stories. The internship is a full-time position and pays $12 an hour. Interested students should send a resume, cover letter and four to five clips to Alex Lantz, weekend editor, at [email protected] by Oct. 12. Also, please inform Steve Rottinghaus, career and outreach coordinator, of your plans to apply and be interviewed so he can coordinate a schedule for Oct. 14.
The Pulliam Journalism Fellowship plans to conduct virtual interviews via Zoom on Wednesday, Oct. 27, for the summer 2022 program (June 6-Aug. 12). KU 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 Oct. 27. Interested students should submit a resume and work samples (no more than two articles) by Oct. 15 to Steve Rottinghaus, career and outreach coordinator, or drop them off in Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 120.
Internship opportunities with Roots: If you are studying communications, journalism, marketing or a related field and would like to live in Cape Town, South Africa, this might be the perfect opportunity for you! A wide range of communications internships and content writing internships with NGOs are available now. Learn more here.
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Cheers to Careers: Nikki Wentling |
Nikki Wentling, j'14, national reporter for Stars and Stripes in Washington, D.C., 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
▮ Reporter, Startland News (Kansas City)
Student jobs and internships
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Joel Klaassen (j’68), Tom Slaughter, (j’72) and John Hanna (j’87) were honored this weekend by the Kansas Press Association as Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame inductees. Klaassen, a former owner of the Hillsboro Free Press, and Slaughter, executive director of the Inland Press Foundation and William Allen White Foundation trustee, were 2021 inductees. Hanna, a longtime Associated Press correspondent, was a 2020 inductee and was invited to be honored at this year’s ceremony. (Photo: John Hanna at left and Tom Slaughter with his family at right. Joel Klaassen did not attend the ceremony.)
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Keith Harriston (MSJ ’83) has published a book, “Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America,” along with co-authors Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Curtis Bunn and Nick Charles. Harriston worked for 23 years at The Washington Post as a senior newsroom manager, department editor, investigative reporter, and beat reporter covering public safety policy. Since leaving The Post, Harriston has taught journalism at American University, Howard University and George Washington University, where he currently is a professorial lecturer in journalism.
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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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