News & Events
From Taylor Hall to the third floor of Franklin Hall, Fred Endres, Carl Schierhorn and Tim Smith have been professional neighbors for more than 20 years. These three cornerstones of the journalism sequence have counseled hundreds of young journalists as professors in the School…
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host its first Kent Multimedia Workshop — a three-day, hands-on video and photography multimedia storytelling workshop — June 14-16 in Franklin Hall on the Kent Campus.
Media professionals…
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Students from С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and Digital Sciences have created a data-driven website, that features a recent feed of what’s happening in the Kent area…
What's going on? OpenCampus Kent has the answer. This website features a recent feed of what's happening wherever you are in Kent, even at the campus building level—and it was created by students.
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Veteran Journalist Eric Mansfield Joins С»ÆƬÊÓƵ As Executive Director, University Media Relations
WKYC-TV anchor and reporter Eric Mansfield will become С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s new executive director for university media relations. The award-winning journalist and Akron native begins his new position with the university on June 1.
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication will honor Debra Adams Simmons, editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and 2012 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity, at an awards luncheon and lecture on Monday, March 26, on the Kent…
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Debra Adams Simmons, editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, has been named the 2012 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ. The award recognizes the accomplishments of media…
Debra Adams Simmons, editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, has been named the 2012 winner of the Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ. The award recognizes the…
This spring, two Piper J3 Cubs will set out on a journey to the place where aviation began. It will be the first flight to Wright Brothers Airport via all of Ohio's 88 counties and will honor the 75th anniversary of the airplane that taught nearly a half-million pilots to fly.…
The first annual College of Communication and Information (CCI) Film and Photography Gala invites С»ÆƬÊÓƵ students to submit photography and short films for a juried competition to be held on Friday, March 30 at 5 p.m. in Franklin Hall. CCI, in…