September 2022
Greenlee students finalists in national media planning competition
Last fall, then first-year students Clare Vilmont, public relations and political science, and Ellie Flynn-Snider, public relations and data science, began the months-long process of competing in the Washington Media Scholars Media Plan Case Competition. This summer they traveled to Washington, D.C. as finalists.The Washington Media Scholars Foundation holds an annual media planning case competition where students work individually or in teams to present their media plan. There are three rounds, and the top six teams are brought to Washington, D.C. to present their plan to a panel of judges.

Associate teaching professor Michael Wigton receives Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship
Michael Wigton, associate teaching professor in advertising, is the 2022 recipient of the Greenlee School’s Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship.

Established in 2018, the Essman Faculty Fellowship recognizes excellence in advertising and/or public relations education. The award was made possible by Iowa State alumna Denise Essman (’73 marketing) in memory of her late husband, Allen K. Essman, an alumnus and distinguished advertising professional who was also an instructor in advertising and photography at the Greenlee School from 1969 through 1972. He passed away in 2010.
Thomas Emmerson named Greenlee School’s 2022 James W. Schwartz Award recipient
The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University has named James Thomas (Tom) Emmerson the recipient of its 2022 James W. Schwartz Award. The annual award recognizes distinguished service to journalism and communication and is the highest honor conferred by the school.

Emmerson’s Iowa State career spans from being a student in the 1950s, returning in 1974 as a professor, and serving as chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1986-1993. He advised hundreds of journalism students and taught reporting, print media editing, media ethics, American journalism history and public relations.
Announcing the 2022-2023 Dotdash Meredith apprentices from Iowa State University
Ten Iowa State students have been selected to participate in the Dotdash Meredith Apprentice Program for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication’s partnership with Dotdash Meredith (formerly Meredith Corp.) places Iowa State students in yearlong apprenticeships at the nation’s largest digital and print publisher.

Editorial apprentices include Molly Blanco, Home Testing; Zachary Brown, Premium Publishing Copy Editing; Eleanor Chalstrom, EatingWell.com; Emerson Latham, BHG.com – Home; Halee Miller, Better Homes & Gardens – Home; Paige Mountain, DailyPaws.com; Ella Schulte, Traditional Home; and Ashlyn Ware, Do It Yourself/Meredith Premium Publishing.

Graphic design apprentices include Landie Brown, Successful Farming; and Maura Timmerman, Allrecipes.
Announcing the 2022 Greenlee School alumni award recipients
Ron Schara (’66 journalism)
Ron Schara Productions, founder

Ron Schara is the recipient of the 2022 Greenlee Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes a Greenlee School graduate who has demonstrated leadership, impact and achievement in advertising, journalism and mass communication and/or public relations.
Kelly Howard (‘08 journalism and mass communication)
EightSixtySouth, CEO

The recipient of the 2022 Greenlee Young Alumni Award is Kelly Howard. This award recognizes a Greenlee School graduate under 40 years of age or with fewer than 15 years of professional experience who has demonstrated excellence within their field.
Greenlee senior Teagan Gara selected to serve as a White House Next-Gen Leader
Teagan Gara, Greenlee senior in journalism and mass communication and political science, was selected as a 2022 Next-Gen Leader for the White House Historical Association.

This inaugural group brings together young professionals from a wide variety of fields, all bound together by a passion for history, civics and education, for a year-long fellowship.
Greenlee advertising students bring home gold, silver awards
Congratulations to Greenlee advertising students who won American Advertising Federation (AAF) of Des Moines awards recently!

Petra Owusu, Haley Williams, Lexi Sneller and Sarah Carney collectively won three gold and three silver awards at the Addy show. Several Des Moines agencies showed interest in their work and set up interviews with them as a result.
Jump-Start Internship and Networking Fair
The Greenlee Jump-Start Internship and Networking Fair will be held virtually Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. via CyHire.

The Jump-Start Internship & Networking Fair helps students majoring in advertising, journalism and mass communication, public relations and related fields to build their personal network of local and regional employers and learn about internship and job opportunities.
FACULTY & STAFF UPDATES
Congratulations to our faculty who have recently received promotions:
  • Kelly Winfrey, Associate Professor with tenure.
  • Brenda Witherspoon, Teaching Professor.
  • Gary Sawyer, Associate Teaching Professor.
Associate Professor Jan Lauren Boyles served as the lead conference planner for this summer's AEJMC annual conference in Detroit. Drawing more than 1,800 attendees, Boyles was responsible for coordinating more than 300 panel sessions at the conference. She also was selected by the Association for its Institute for Diverse Leadership -- a year-long training program for eight tenured faculty members seeking careers in academic administration. This academic year, she will also conclude her four-year term on the Association's Board of Directors. Starting in September, Boyles will serve as lead guest editor for a special issue in Digital Journalism (IF = 7.986) focused on code and journalism. Boyles co-led a workshop for the journal in June. Earlier in the summer, Boyles presented research at the International Communication Association conference, where she also participated in the Journalism Studies Division's Doctoral Colloquium. For ICA, she is also serving as a Ph.D. mentor for two students. Earlier this summer, Boyles shared research findings at the World Journalism Education Congress.
Advisor Tyler Schoh shares that former Greenlee Ambassador Mia Kawamitsu was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi study abroad grant. She will be studying in Seoul, South Korea for the Fall 2022 semester. This is a highly competitive grant worth $1,000 and was awarded to 125 student nationwide.
Michael Bugeja, distinguished professor, published the following:

Our first president left us lessons on civility and humility, Iowa Capital Dispatch, July 3, 2022, https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/07/03/our-first-president-left-us-lessons-on-civility-and-humility/

Journalists should better define ‘RINO’ to disempower its autocratic use, Poynter Institute, June 30, 2022, https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/journalists-need-to-define-rino/

The Case for Trigger Warnings: What Chairs Should Know, The Department Chair, Spring 2022, pp. 10-12, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dch.30458


How to disarm manipulation and gaslighting, personally and politically, Iowa Capital Dispatch, May 30, 2022, https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/05/30/how-to-disarm-manipulation-and-gaslighting-personally-and-politically/
Michael Wigton, associate teaching professor, reports the following:

  • Received university award for Academic Advising Impact. The award recognizes outstanding performance by an academic advisor over an extended period of time.
Associate Professor Tracy Lucht Receives 2022 American Journalism Best Article Award
 
American Journalism, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, awarded its 2022 Best Article prize to Tracy Lucht, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.
 
This annual award honors the best of the best scholarship that was published in American Journalism between Summer 2021 and Spring 2022. Lucht’s study, “Amelia Bloomer, The Lily, and Early Feminist Discourse in the US,” appeared in the Fall 2021 edition of the journal. Lucht will receive her award during the 41st Annual AJHA Convention, scheduled for Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Memphis.
 
“This article was several years in the making and the result of a sabbatical project,” said Lucht. “For me, it demonstrates the importance of revisiting the historical narratives we think we know best, paying attention to whose perspectives have driven those narratives and why. It was a special project for me, and I’m gratified to see it recognized.”
 
Lucht thanked the American Journalism editors and advisory board for their support and promotion of media history.
 
“American Journalism is blessed with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the high quality of scholarship that our authors submit each year,” said Editor Pamela Walck. “That said, Dr. Lucht’s manuscript quickly rose to the top for its clear purpose, smooth incorporation of theory, and elegant writing style.”
 
Among the comments from the advisory board members judging this year, one noted the elegance with which Lucht made a clear and convincing argument about the impact made by Bloomer and The Lily, one of the first U.S. publications dedicated to advancing women’s rights: “Lucht organizes her primary and secondary sources effectively and in ways that support her conclusions, which are, to my mind, a significant contribution to the literature on nineteenth-century feminist discourse in the U.S.”
Greenlee and Iowa State University has a new club that is dedicated to the discussion and promotion of the First Amendment.
 
The new club was organized by Julie Roosa, former First Amendment Specialist in the Greenlee school.
 
Hannah Patton currently serves as the president and Eva Newland is the treasurer. Greenlee Associate Professor of Teaching Gary Sawyer is the club advisor.
 
The students have planned a series of guest speakers and discussions about the five freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.
Professor Daniela Dimitrova delivered keynote address “Global Journalism in Times of Change,” at the at the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) congress.

Dimitrova spoke with students and faculty at the University of Salzberg in Austria about her book “Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems.”
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