Homecoming Alumni Takeover is this week! | |
Students, join us for our Alumni Takeover event on Friday, Sept. 30, during KU’s annual Homecoming weekend! You’ll have the opportunity to meet and network with these amazing J-School alumni:
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Kameron Mack, Director of Original Content at Westbrook Inc.
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Jackson Kurtz, Reporter at KMBC Channel 9
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Malik Jackson, Reporter at WDAF-TV Fox 4
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Sam Valdez, Associate Connections Manager, Paid Media at VMLY&R
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Angel Tran, Marketing Coordinator II at Populous
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Nate Bukaty, Sports Commentator at Fox Sports and Sporting KC
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Jesse Newell, Chiefs Beat Reporter at The Kansas City Star
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Amie Just, Sports Journalist at Lincoln Journal Star
We will be offering a variety of programming from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., including alumni presentations related to careers in each of our concentrations. Alumni will be available for portfolio reviews. Please RSVP here. Questions? Email jmcrecruitment@ku.edu.
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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS | |
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Assistant Professor Ever Figueroa’s research study titled "Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images" was published last week in Critical Studies in Media Communication.
The research article "When 'meaningless' means more: Biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment," co-authored by Assistant Professor Judy Watts and colleagues from The Ohio State University, was recently published in the Journal of Communication. The article discusses the relationship between re-exposure to familiar music and films, memory and appreciation. Read the article.
Associate Professor Mugur Geana was awarded a Fall 2022 Course Transformation Grant by the KU Center for Teaching Excellence. The grant will support redesigning course assignments and content updates of JMC 862 - Data Collection II, an online graduate course.
Lisa McLendon, Bremner Editing Center coordinator, presented a session at ACES: The Society for Editing’s virtual national conference, Accelerate, on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Her topic, “Grammar Obscura” drew close to 400 attendees.
Nathan Pettengill of Sunflower Publications was a guest speaker on Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Lisa McLendon’s JMC 201 class on journalism in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Pettengill spoke about his time as a journalist for Reuters in Moscow in the 1990s and discussed covering politics, Chechnya and the rise of Vladimir Putin.
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Professor opens art exhibit
Assistant Professor Rebekka Schlichting opened an art show with Sydney Pursel, who is a fellow Iowa Tribal member who works as a curator at the Spencer Art Museum. The exhibit is a story of the Ioway people, past and present, told through art loaned by members of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. "Ioway: Here to Stay" is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., until Oct. 15, 2022, at Iowa, Sac & Fox Mission Museum in Highland, Kansas.
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More than 500 students to attend KSPA conference this week
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association will host its first fall conference in three years on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Kansas Union. More than a dozen staff and faculty members from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications will present sessions for the high school students attending. KU film professor and Oscar award winner Kevin Willmott will be the keynote speaker. More than 500 students are currently registered with more expected. The Kansas Scholastic Press Association is hosted at KU and supports middle and high school journalism students along with their teachers.
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STUDENT NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES | |
Live from The Studio
Programming is underway at The Studio! Watch programs on the Media Crossroads YouTube Channel. Here is the lineup for this semester:
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Mondays: LFK Unscripted at 1 p.m., Take a Side at 2 p.m. and Good Evening KU at 4 p.m.
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Tuesdays: Run it Back at noon, Cheers to Careers at 1 p.m. and On the Clock at 3 p.m.
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Wednesdays: Good Morning Indian Country at 10 a.m., Good Morning KU at 12:30 p.m. and KUJH News at 4 p.m.
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Thursdays: Accent at 11 a.m. and Jayhawk Jukebox at 4:30 p.m.
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Fridays: Good Morning Sports at 9 a.m. and Playmakers at noon
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Podcasts: Sideline Stories, Beyond the Lines and Walk Chalk
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The Kansas City Area Development Center is bringing KC Heartland to the University of Kansas from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the KU Memorial Union. This is an opportunity for students to chat one on one with young professionals living and working in Kansas City. Admission is free. Register here.
The Lewis Scholarship is a new scholarship program that will provide free housing and a monthly stipend to support student journalists of color who plan to intern at news media outlets in Washington, D.C., beginning in 2023. The Lewis Scholarship has an estimated value of $10,000 and will be awarded to one undergraduate student journalist of color each fall, spring and summer semester. The scholarship will provide a stipend of $1,000 a month and free housing provided through Washington Intern Student Housing for the duration of the student’s internship, usually four months. Learn more and apply here.
The KU Public Relations Student Society of America will meet at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 in Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 303. A guest speaker will discuss why Nike is so successful and will look at a few PR fails.
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Cheers to Careers: Mark Fagan and Earl Richardson
Mark Fagan, j’91, copy editor at Burns and McDonnell, and Earl Richardson, j’83, photographer, were recent guests with Steve Rottinghaus on the Career and Outreach Center’s Cheers to Careers podcast.
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Job opportunities
▮ Johnson County reporter, The Kansas City Star (Kansas City)
▮ Editor/reporter, Junction City Union (Junction City, Kansas)
▮ Director, public relations, Tractor Supply Company (Nashville, Tennessee)
Internships and student jobs
▮ Content writing intern, Penda (Cape Town, South Africa, or remote)
▮ Storytelling intern, Sustainable Coffee Bay (Coffee Bay, South Africa)
▮ Writing intern, MOSAIC (Cape Town, South Africa)
▮ Media and communications intern, Malawi Schools Permaculture Club (Malawi)
▮ Writing and communications intern, Baobuyu Learning Center (Livingstone, Zambia, or remote)
▮ Communications intern, OKO Forests (Ghana or remote)
▮ Digital marketing intern, TEARS (Cape Town, South Africa)
▮ Communications intern, Adonis Musati Project (Cape Town, South Africa)
▮ Corporate communications intern, AT&T (Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia)
▮ Marketing and communications intern, KU School of Business (Lawrence, Kansas)
▮ Marketing and communications intern, Ketchum (various locations)
▮ Media relations intern, Shure (Chicago, Illinois)
Find more job and internship postings on the J-School website.
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J-School Career Fair set for Oct. 20
The J-School Career Fair is three weeks away! All students are welcome to attend from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 20 at Stauffer-Flint Hall. Learn more about internships, part-time positions and full-time positions. A professional photographer will take portraits from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Clarkson Gallery for students’ LinkedIn profiles. For more information, contact Steve Rottinghaus at steve_rottinghaus@ku.edu
These companies have committed to attending the fair and more may be added:
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Patricia Gaston, the Lacy C. Haynes Professor of Journalism, will be one of the leaders of a new virtual series this fall at the University of Kansas that will ask important questions about the threats that misinformation and disinformation pose to democracy. The series will be led by Najarian Peters, KU associate professor of law and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; Patricia Weems Gaston, who is a former editor at The Washington Post; and Emily Ryan, director of The Commons at KU. The series begins at 7 p.m. Sept. 28.
Read the KU story. Register here.
The Kansas City Public Library is presenting a special program Sept. 28 featuring former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and David Von Drehle, a Kansas City-based columnist for The Washington Post. The event, “Can We Trust the Mainstream Media?” is at 6 p.m. at the Central Library. Learn more here.
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J-School alumna and FBI analyst to speak at virtual event Oct. 4
Rebecca Rumptz, j’17, an intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will speak virtually to KU Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (ICCAE) students at 4 p.m. Oct. 4. Rumptz has over 14 years of experience in all-source intelligence analysis, and information, physical and personnel security procedures. The virtual event is free and open to the public. RSVP to the event by contacting Ashley Urban at ashleylu@ku.edu.
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Jeanny Sharp is marketing and community development manager for Silver Lake Bank.
Chris Hernandez is special liaison officer in the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department for the City of Kansas City.
Hannah Pierangelo, j’16, is a Salesforce business analyst at Axos Bank in San Diego, California.
Walter Cayce, j’17, is a communications advisor for ConocoPhillips in Houston, Texas.
Faith Ries, j’17, is associate communications manager with Naughty Dog.
Sydney Di Bernardo, j’19, is an employer branding specialist at Glassdoor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Calendar
Sept. 26: Curriculum & Assessment Committee meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 201
Sept. 27: Graduate Committee meeting, 1-2 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Sept. 30: Future Professoriate session for Lawrence graduate students, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
Oct. 4: Doughnuts with the Dean, 9-10:30 a.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall lobby
Oct. 7: Strategic Communication faculty meeting, 1-2 p.m., online
Oct. 12: Technology Committee meeting, 9:30 a.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Oct. 20: J-School Career Fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall
Oct. 21: Strategic Communication faculty meeting, 1-2 p.m., online
Oct. 24: Curriculum & Assessment Committee meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 201
Oct. 26: Technology Committee meeting, 9:30 a.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Oct. 28: Faculty and staff meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
Oct. 28: Promotion and Tenure Committee meeting, 3-5 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 303
Nov. 4: Concur training session for faculty/staff, noon-1:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
Nov. 4: Strategic Communication faculty meeting, 1-2 p.m., online
Nov. 7: Curriculum & Assessment Committee meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 201
Nov. 7: Graduate Committee meeting, 1-2 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Nov. 9: Technology Committee meeting, 9:30 a.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Nov. 11: Future Professoriate session for Lawrence graduate students, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
Nov. 21: Curriculum & Assessment Committee meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 201
Nov. 23: Technology Committee meeting, 9:30 a.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 312
Dec. 2: Future Professoriate session for Lawrence graduate students, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
Dec. 5: Curriculum & Assessment Committee meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Stauffer-Flint Hall, Room 201
Dec. 5: Concur training session for faculty/staff, 3:30-5 p.m., Zoom
Dec. 9: Faculty and staff meeting with lunch afterward,10:30 a.m.-noon, Clarkson Gallery
Feb. 10: Faculty and staff meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
March 31: Faculty and staff meeting, 1-2:30 p.m., Clarkson Gallery
May 5: Faculty and staff meeting with lunch afterward, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Clarkson Gallery
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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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