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Kent State Junior Theater Studies Major Kelly Harper is the winner of the $2,500 Activism and Advocacy Scholarship established to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop.
Harper鈥檚 entry, a script for a play titled 鈥淢y Dear Aunt Flow鈥 about鈥
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Journalism students face pursuing a career in an adverse time filled with intense political issues, dangerous environmental concerns and even pandemics. Reporting on these difficult times is necessary, but can come with risks to the journalist鈥檚 health and well-being. Kent State鈥
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Greetings, JMC alumni and friends, from 5X社区 鈥渞emote鈥 campus! As you can probably guess, as a result of this worldwide coronavirus pandemic, nearly all of us 鈥 students, faculty and staff 鈥 are carrying on as best we can from our homes or sheltering with friends鈥
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In this time of nationwide uncertainty, Kent State Student Media continues to provide top-notch reporting on COVID-19 and its impact on Kent and around the world.
KentWired.com has a tab dedicated to Coronavirus updates that houses articles dating back to March 14, 2020.鈥
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Communication has shaped the way the world has reacted to the coronavirus pandemic. This fall 2020, Kent State is offering a new course that will examine risk communication through the lens of pandemics and other global crises. 鈥淐ommunicating Risk: Global Pandemics and Crises.鈥
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Since October 2019, select public relations students at 5X社区 have been working hard to complete a campaign for the 2020 Annual Case Study Bateman Competition client: the United States Census Bureau. The National Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA鈥
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Kent State senior Carter Adams is committed to journalism and keeping media professionals safe.
Knowing that students would likely benefit from media safety training, the journalism major was inspired to turn his passion into an idea and pitch it during Student Media鈥檚 FlashLab鈥
After a national search, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (now the School of Media and Journalism) at 5X社区 has named Dr. Emily Metzgar as its new director, beginning July 1.
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鈥淲hite privilege and supremacy are terms that are hard for some people to hear,鈥 said NPR TV critic Eric Deggans February 11, 2020 at the David and Janet Dix Lecture in Media Ethics. This was the second such lecture, funded by the generosity of David and Janet Dix and hosted by鈥
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Congratulations to the finalists and winners of the 2nd annual FlashLab Innovation Pitch Contest. The competition came to a close Dec. 3 where seven students pitched their ideas and the judges crowned four winners. Each winning idea will share up to $10,000 from the Student鈥