Happy Thanksgiving!

SOC Accomplishments will pause for one week and return on December 6

Natalie’s complex Problems freshman core seminar “Music, Mass Movements and Democracy” at the Go-Go Museum. 

Natalie’s COMM468 Musical and Cultural Industries seminar course at the Go-Go Museum. 

Phillip Lewis, Homepage editor of the Huffington Post, who covered the museum opening. It turns out he is the incoming president of the Washington Association of Black Journalists. Natalie was able to introduce him to SOC senior Brandon Smith, who is in my Global Trends in Journalism course who covered the event as well. He is holding the Traditional Arts DC magazine project that Natalie advised, for which he served as copy editor. 

Natalie and Phillip Kulubya. Phillip is a 2024 SOC journalism graduate who was hired to do some comms work for the museum and is also the Print Editor in Chief of Traditional Arts DC “Global Lens” special magazine issue that started with him taking Natalie’s Global Trends in Journalism in Fall 2022 course and her Feature Writing Course in Spring 2023. Phillip’s hire was possible through a grant that Natalie secured.

Bill Gentile hosted foreign correspondent Aryn Baker in his "Why We Fight" class. A long-time correspondent for Time magazine mostly covering climate change and various conflicts around the world, Aryn now works for The New York Times. She is based in Rome, assigned to cover Gaza. Aryn is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the world's leading organization dedicated to supporting journalism abroad.

KPU and Abigail Turner, EIC of the campus newspaper, The Eagle, Wednesday hosted a media panel "Election Debrief: Tales from the Trail" featuring Shawna Mizelle (CBS), Katherine Swartz (Allbritton Journalism Institute) and Rebecca Morin (USA TODAY). With feet on the ground, chugging coffee and flying to sometimes four sites a day, they heard from voters why Trump would win – the economy. Amy Eisman moderated.

Reporters from the presidential campaign trail share a moment of laughter. Panelists compared how often their mothers called them on the road. PHOTO CREDIT: Emilia Pianalto, Deputy Director of Communications for KPU. 

Jane Hall was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal for her take on the “Morning Joe” hosts meeting with Donal Trump.  

This week, Kylos Brannon participated in The Kennedy Center's Reach Residency program on the design team to workshop The Figs, a new play opening in February from Rorschach Theatre. 

First year student Ridha Rayani has taken to writing for the website like a duck to water! Check out her profiles of CNN White House Reporter Camila DeChalus, SOC/BA '16; student athlete and PR Strat Comm junior Elle McClary, and senior canine rescue advocate Patty Stanton, SOC/BA '80 — and stay tuned for more!  

Filippo Trevisan co-edited a rapid report titled U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Voters, Media, and the Campaign with 88 short and accessible articles from leading scholars in political communication, policy, and democracy about the recent election results and their short- and long-term implications. Among others, the report includes articles from SOC professor Adrienne Massanari and alumni Dorian Davis, Madhavi Reddi, and Arthur Soto-Vásquez. The report is part of the Election Analysis Report series hosted by Bournemouth University (England). In addition to Bournemouth and AU, the editorial team included colleagues from Northwestern University, Ravensbourne University in London, and Latrobe University in Melbourne.