20th Annual First Amendment Days |
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Join us for our 20th anniversary celebrating the First Amendment!
First Amendment Days is a weeklong celebration of our First Amendment freedoms – religion, speech, press, assembly, petition. A diverse assortment of speakers, events and activities are offered on campus every spring as a creative way to engage students and the entire Iowa State community to better understand the power of free expression. First Amendment Days is also designed to provide opportunities to exercise our five freedoms.
Now in its 20th year, First Amendment Days is the longest-running continual student-led First Amendment celebration at any university in the U.S. The celebration is organized by the First Amendment Committee, which is made up of members of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication and the Iowa State Daily Media Group.
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The guarantee of free speech is essential to any well-functioning democracy, and yet here in the United States free speech is losing its moorings on both the right and the left, with mounting encroachments on open discourse in schools, universities, the news, media and online. Meanwhile pitched battles are taking place over words, ideas, books, historical interpretations, posts and tweets. In an increasingly polarized America, free speech defenders seem to be increasingly selective, crying out when their rights are encroached upon, but often going mum when the silencing targets the other side. This talk will lay out a blueprint for how we can live together in a diverse, digitized and divided society without resorting to curbs on free speech.
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Introducing the new Greenlee 4+1 Graduate Program! |
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Students at Iowa State can now complete an accelerated master's program with the 4+1 Graduate Program at Greenlee.
The 4+1 program is designed for students majoring in journalism, advertising or public relations to complete their B.S. and M.S. degrees in five years.
In year 4, or their senior year of undergrad, students complete their B.S. degree and begin working on their M.S. degree. Some of the coursework during this year will count for both the undergraduate and graduate degrees.
In year 5, students complete their master’s degree in journalism and mass communication. This will include coursework and completing a thesis or creative component.
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Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship recipient: Cooper Pierce |
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The Sidey Scholarship was established in 2006 at Sidey’s alma mater, Iowa State University, by way of The White House Historical Association. The award supports aspiring print journalists at the Greenlee School who exhibit extraordinary understanding of the responsibilities of covering the chief executive and the core principle of social responsibility that resides with print journalist.
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Students collaborate on a Valentine's Day chocolate booth and PR promotion |
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Jack McClellan/Iowa State Daily
Public relations students at Iowa State collaborated with the Cardinal & Gold advertising agency club to create a promotion and accompanying pop-up chocolate booth to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
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Greenlee advertising students bring home gold, silver awards |
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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.
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Associate Professor and Provost Faculty Fellow Jan Lauren Boyles will present a paper on civic technology, journalism and youth participation at this year's International Communication Association's conference in Paris. She is also a selected participant for ICA's invitation-only preconference on "What Comes After Disinformation Studies." The session will be held at Sciences Po this May. In addition, she will be serving as a senior mentor for ICA's Journalism Studies Ph.D. Student Colloquium. Last month, Boyles served as a panelist at AEJMC's Midwinter and Southeast Colloquium regional conferences. She also reviewed a manuscript for Digital Journalism.
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Associate Professor Deni Chamberlin recently appeared on Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa program. The show was focused on the history and culture of Ukraine, and she talked about her experiences during her Fulbright in 2016-17, as well as experiences in 2019 when she took students to Lviv for a multimedia storytelling workshop. Listen to the Talk of Iowa episode here.
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Fulbright Professor Daniela Dimitrova reports that her joint paper titled "Does Context Matter? Opportunities and Challenges for Migration NGOs in Two Neighbouring Countries” has won Best Faculty Paper from ICA’s Global Communication and Social Change division. Additionally, Dimitrova is presenting two other research papers and was invited as a panelists to a roundtable discussion on Comparative Communication Research and Covering Global Risk hosted by UNESCO.
A new article in New Media & Society (with Tobias Heidenreich and Teodor Georgiev) titled “The Relationship between Humanitarian NGO Communication and User Engagement on Twitter” was just accepted for publication.
Dimitrova will deliver the keynote address for the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) conference in June on the topic of Global Media Systems in the Age of Social and Technological Change. She was also invited to give a talk about her recent book Global Journalism in the department of Communication Studies at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg.
Dimitrova did two media interviews: one with SAGE and one with Die Falter:
Last but not least, Dimitrova’s Fulbright visit was featured in the online magazine for Bulgarian expatriates in Vienna, MelangeBulgaren:
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Michael Wigton, associate teaching professor, reports the following:
- Congratulations to our advertising students who won American Advertising Awards recently. Petra Owusu, Haley Williams, Lexi Sneller and Sarah Carney collectively won 3 gold and 3 silver awards at the Addy show. Several Des Moines agencies showed interest in their work and set up interviews with them.
- The two campaigns courses - ADVRT 434 and ADVRT 436 - are working on a project with former Greenlee graduate Sam Flynn. He is the social media manager at Pepsico. The students will be developing advertising materials for the new Mt. Dew Energy product with his direction and feedback.
- The Ad Club is planning an agency tour field trip to Kansas City this semester at VML, Trozzolo, Signal Theory, EAG and more. This is an opportunity for students to tour agencies and network with professionals.
- Ad Club members are participating in an American Advertising Federation event in Des Moines touring several agencies in early April.
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On Feb. 23, retired professional editorial advisor for the Iowa State Daily, Mark Witherspoon, shared true tales of press freedom from his days on the front lines in honor of #StudentPressFreedom Day, which is Feb. 24.
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Assistant Professor Laura Witzling has two new publications: "Fresh, grown, made, and proud: How state governments use stewardship to collectively promote their state's food products" in the Journal of Applied Communications and "Building a bridge between civic agriculture and civic engagement: Farmers markets as communication infrastructure" in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy with co-author Bret Shaw.
Her graduate students are beginning a service-learning project for the Iowa Learning Farms. They will be creating social media content to increase engagement with agricultural conservation practices among farmers and landowners in Iowa.
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