Kent State College of Communication and Information
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Award winning reporter and news executive Mizell Stewart III will discuss “Journalism as a Civic Good” at 7 p.m. on March 1, 2023, in Franklin Hall’s First Energy Auditorium (Room 340).
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Before he graduated in December 2022, digital media production alumnus Sam Teyssier had already racked up some impressive credits: He’d worked on television shows including “American Rust” and “A League of Their Own” (among others), as well as Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award winner “Cha Cha Real Smooth.” These experiences — which he began seeking out in his hometown of Pittsburgh during the summer of 2021 — have prepared him for post-graduation life.
![Lacy Starling](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Untitled%20design_0.jpg?VersionId=HrTtGiJS0.ZVirEYDKArWEEDpQCY9VKc&h=7f412c8f&itok=bagIeTs9)
In March 2021, Lacy Starling, '02, got a call from a community organization in northern Kentucky looking for a CEO for a start-up news organization. They knew Starling only for her business background; after earning her Bachelor of Science in journalism from Kent State University, she went on to earn her M.B.A. For 20 years, she had been an entrepreneur.
![A World of Her Own. Photo credit: Leah Klafczynski A World of Her Own. Photo credit: Leah Klafczynski](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/7cb333_3f8058a824ea4ccf8df479f57518edc5.jpg_srb_p_815_595_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.jpg?VersionId=uwlyqHiN6pF9z5VFGCOi3N1XJ7YfvQwG&h=bfa30c9d&itok=IUdkbRyy)