News & Events
July 15, 2014
The Burr won first and second place in the first-person category of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Magazine Division’s student magazine contest.
Senior magazine…
July 15, 2014
Professor Ann Schierhorn, Lecturer David LaBelle and Althemese Barnes received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in the 2014 Leadership in History Awards for their exhibit “…
June 20, 2014
Three JMC students took top honors in the student media section at The Press Club of Cleveland’s Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, with four first-place awards in print and TV news.
In the Best Print Feature Story category: Grant Engle received first place for “…
June 20, 2014
Kent State University Independent Films (KSUIF) received its first Bronze Telly Award for an original JMC student-produced music video, “Freaky Love” at the 35th Annual Telly Awards.
June 6, 2014
Fox 8 Cleveland News Co-anchor Wayne D. Dawson, ’79, and JMC’s Coordinator for Career ServicesJohn Butte will be recognized as broadcast pioneers when they are inducted into the Silver Circle of the National…
June 2, 2014
Kent State has won two finalist placements in the national Society of Professional Journalists
(SPJ) 2013 Mark of Excellence Awards: the Burr’s “The KSU Bucket List” issue (November 2013) for Best Student Ma
May 21, 2014
First impressions. First classes. First days of independence.
Freshmen in JMC’s class of 2017, like college freshmen of every era, started college filled with apprehensions and aspirations.
March 23, 2014
With its latest fifth-place finish in the national Hearst Multimedia News Competition, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at Kent State University is tied for fifth place in the overall multimedia rankings to date, with final intercollegiate winners to be…
Nov. 25, 2013
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is back at Kent State and quickly gaining new ground.
NABJ Kent is an organization of journalists, students and media professionals that encourages students of color to work in student media. NABJ membership is open to…
Nov. 21, 2013
Applications Accepted from Dec. 1 to February 1.