Joe Campbell at the AJHA conference with the organization's outgoing president, Mike Conway of Indiana University.

On Wednesday, Chung-Wei Huang was invited to screen her work, "Days Without End," an experimental dance for the camera video inspired by her immigration experience, for the graduate students in the Producing Narrative Short Films class within the Film and Media Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, she delivered a guest lecture, offering an in-depth exploration of grant application processes and sharing proven strategies for success.

Aram Sinnreich was featured in this DCNewsNow story about the NSA's new AI initiative.

Aram was also quoted in this Forbes article about Elon Musk’s comments denigrating traditional journalism. 

In this week's Media in the Mix news, Grace Ibrahim had SOC & SPA/BA '06 alumna Irina Gilbertson on to discuss everything from resume building to job interviews and networking. With so many golden nuggets, you don't want to miss this episode! Listen Here

Media in the Mix was also featured in a Staff Edition of AU Now, highlighting our last episode with David Ruck & Grace Eggleston, "The Erie Situation." Click here to catch up if you missed it! 

The Austin Film Festival has nominated one of Chris Halsne’s original screenplays for the Drama Feature and the Enderby Entertainment award. The Orlando Film Festival also made “Nor Any Drop” an official selection in the feature film screenplay category. The movie script is an adaptation of Halsne’s novel, To Suffer is Human, a fiction thriller detailing the inner workings of an animal rights terror group.  

Meredith Rose, Senior Policy Counsel for public interest tech policy NGO Public Knowledge, guest lectured for the students in Aram Sinnreich’s course Communication, Copyright & Culture. A wonderful time was had by all.

Meredith Rose visits Aram Sinnreich’s Communication, Copyright and Culture class.

Professor Kylos Brannon has been approved to teach a new course in the Honors Program in Spring 2024. Working with the Honors Committee he proposed a course titled "Our Hidden Stories: DC Based Documentary Storytelling With Smartphones." This course will be available to any Honors Student with appropriate semester standing, will expose students outside of our SOC majors to accessible media production skills, and reach out into the broader DC history and community to tell stories. 

Jane Hall and Aarushi Sahejpal co-moderated an American Forum, “AAPI Journalists: Past, Present and Future,” which featured an outstanding panel of journalists and news executives—Emily Ikeda, NBC News correspondent; Ted Kim, director of career programs at the New York Times; and Paul Cheung, CEO of the Center for Public Integrity—in an event and video production that also marked the launch of the first-ever student chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association here.  Emilie Ikeda and Ted Kim are both SOC journalism alumni, Emilie from undergraduate journalism and Ted from our graduate program.  Paul and CPI have a long-standing relationship with IRW. 

The panelists spoke personally and professionally with students and Jane and Aarushi about their work and careers as AAPI journalists, structural and systemic barriers to greater representation of AAPI journalists and other communities in newsrooms and what news organizations are and should be doing to improve and reflect greater diversity, the causes and impacts of racist, sexist media coverage —and their advice about navigating newsroom culture as well as their job-seeking and career advice for our students overall. They were introduced by Mina Allen, co-head of the new student chapter of AAJA, and Shreya Joshi, director of the Kennedy Political Union.   

Kudos and thanks to Mina Allen and the chapter e-board; Shreya Joshi, Ian Whitehouse, Lily O and KPU; Jacob Audoin, Kati Vera, Tia Milledge, Veronica Castro, Grace Ibrahim, and Tom Fish; Dr. Sara Kaplan and Dr. Lily Wong of the Antiracist Research Policy Center; SOC journalism faculty, SOC DEI committee; Nora Younes-Ireland and Adrienne Frank; Leena Jaysawal, Kristi Plahn-Gjersvold, Gerard Maguire, Meriem Tikue and Blake Harris; and the DC professional chapter of AAJA. 

The program was videotaped, and we will be in touch re: airings.

Finally, The American Forum with Jane interviewing Representative Jamie Raskin is now posted on NBC-TV in DC's website and YouTube after multiple airings on their streaming channel.