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Agadez’s elite business classes now include drug dealers, smugglers and pimps – the types of people who rape newly trafficked women to “break: them, beat migrants who haven’t paid their passage or bribe officials so this illicit work may continue.

Pulitzer Center Grantee to Speak ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ International Refugee Crisis

The School of Communication Studies at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ will host its fall Global Issues Forum with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16 in Rm. 226/226A Taylor Hall. International reporter Malia Politzer will present, “Refugee Boom and Bust: A Global G…

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Jimmy Miller, a 2017 ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ graduate who served as editor of The ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°ær, takes notes while talking to a fellow student in the student media newsroom in Franklin Hall.

ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°ær Named Best in Ohio

ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s student newspaper, The ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°ær, is the best collegiate daily (published three times per week or more) in Ohio, according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Alumna Neville Hardman, ’16, and journalism major Kelly Powell, ’18, also rec…

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SPJ Names The Burr Best Student Magazine in Nation

The Burr Magazine, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s general interest student magazine, was named the best student magazine in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ also earned national finalist status in two categories in SPJ’s annual national Mark of Excellence Awards competition. …

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Jimmy Miller, a 2017 ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ graduate who served as editor of The ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°ær, takes notes while talking to a fellow student in the student media newsroom in Franklin Hall.

Student Journalist Traverses Nation to Document Voting Rights Challenges

ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ journalism major Jimmy Miller recently spent 10 weeks traveling the country examining the political views of white, working-class Americans, a group now credited as a difference maker in the successful campaign of President-elect Donald Trump. The project was part …

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Paula Madison, former NBC journalist and executive, will be honored by ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ with the 2016 Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Award for her accomplishments in media diversity.

ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Honors Trailblazers in Media Diversity at Annual McGruder Lecture and Awards Luncheon

Former NBC executive Paula Madison is 2016 McGruder Award recipient; Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris to Be Honored with Diversity Leadership Award ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will honor Paula Madison…

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MEDIA ADVISORY: ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Experts Available for the RNC

  The following experts from ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ are available to media covering the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Their areas of expertise and topics they can discuss are provided, as well as links to additional information and contact information. Areas of expertise includ…

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Vivian Feke, a recent graduate of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ, is the winner of the 2016 Student Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence Award for video. The award recognizes outstanding work by student journalists. (Photo credit: Gary Hanson)

2016 Journalism Grad Wins Student Murrow Award for Video Excellence

Vivian Feke, a recent graduate of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ who studied broadcast journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the winner of the 2016 Student Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence Award for video. 

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ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Advertising Students Named National Finalists in Collegiate Effie Competition

Team will present integrated marketing campaign to V8®+Energy brand team For the first time, a team of ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ students and alumni will compete as finalists in the Collegiate Effie Competition later this month. The students – Ellie Schering, ’17, of Malvern, Ohio; Emily Wahl, ’16, of…

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ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Senior Combines Passion for Public Relations and Fashion to Raise Awareness ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æ Human Trafficking

Student helps bring UNCHAINED fashion show to campus on April 4 A project that began as part of a public relations course in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication is now coming to fruition and raising awareness about human trafficking. Mackenzie Lunde, a senior fashio…

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 Danielle Sarver Coombs, associate professor in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆÆ½â°æâ€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, lectures in a Franklin Hall classroom during an afternoon journalism class.

Scholar of the Month

Scholar of the Month Danielle Sarver Coombs Associate Professor   College of Communication and Information 2007-present Danielle Sarver Coombs is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the College of Communication and Information. Her research focuse…

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