A JMC School student speaks with an employer at the Career Fair on Oct. 16. | Photo by Maya Smith. 

A record 316 students attended the journalism career fair on Thursday, connecting with 25 organizations at Stauffer-Flint Hall. The breakdown by class was the following: 76 seniors, 131 juniors, 80 sophomores and 25 freshmen. The previous high mark was 218 in fall 2024. With 154 students, the Digital Marketing Communications, Advertising and Public Relations had the highest turnout among the William Allen White School of Journalism’s four concentrations, followed by Sports Media and Society (63), Multimedia Journalism (42) and Media Arts and Production (23). Other majors represented at the fair were marketing, business, political science, finance, English, atmospheric science, communications, sports management, film and nursing. JMC alum Nick Krug, of Nick Krug Photography, took 185 portraits at the photo booth.

Recruiters from KSHB (Kansas City), WIBW (Topeka), KAKE  (Wichita), Fox4 (Kansas City), KSNW (Wichita) and KMBC (Kansas City) reviewed video reels from 28 KU students during 39 sessions. Five students had their reels reviewed multiple times.

New Resource Center Hours: Please take note of the new hours for the Carole Jackson Moreno Resource Center. Journalism students may check out equipment from the Resource Center, and it’s also a great place to study and work on group projects. More information is available here.

Drop-in advising is available through the rest of the semester in 117 Stauffer-Flint from 12:30-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Any enrollment, current semester, sequencing and other questions you have, we are here to answer.

Guest speakers Boomer Jenkins, Mark Handler and Deanne Belshe pose with JMC 575 students last week. | Photo courtesy of Lauri Bollig. 

JMC 575 (Sports Message Strategies) hosted a trio of guest speakers last Thursday. Deanne Belshe from Johnson Country Community College and Sporting KC Reps Boomer Jenkins and Mark Handler discussed the 10-year partnership between the college and the team. Shared values, including a commitment to the Kansas City community and higher education, have been a driving force for the partnership’s success.  

KU Athletics Deputy AD and Chief Strategy Officer Collin Sexton stopped by JMC 430 (Communicating Sports Information) to discuss his role with KU Athletics and how the department is adapting to the changing college sports landscape. 

Sign up for the CSIS bootcamp: The application for this year’s CSIS bootcamp is now open! You can find it along with other important details here. The travel dates are from March 14-21. Applications and recommendations are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24. The bootcamp will be a five-day program during KU’s spring break in 2026 in Washington, D.C., and Professor of the Practice Patricia Gaston will accompany students. You can read the reporting from last year’s group here.  

Rebekka Schlichting presents at a conference in Albuquerque last Friday. | Photo courtesy of Schlichting.

Assistant Professor of the Practice Rebekka Schlichting presented at the Western History Association conference in Albuquerque last Friday. Schlichting’s presentation, “Honoring Our Ancestors, Forging Our Futures: Indigenous Women Artists and Narrative Sovereignty Roundtable,” reflected on her experience as an Ioway.

Assistant Professor Megan Denneny published her study The Double-Edged Scroll: Feminist Insights into Noninvasive Prenatal Testing in Women's Reproductive Health.

Assistant professor, Yunwen Wang is a coauthor on the research paper, Multimodal Behavioral Characterization of Dyadic Alliance in Support Groups. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 4-15) on Oct. 12, 2024. It was produced from a multi-year collaboration with the teams of Mohammad Soleymani, Lynn C. Miller, and Maja Matarić. 

Resource Center hosting camera workshop: Learn the basics of using a camera at this workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m. in the Stauffer-Flint Hall Resource Center. Email rcstaff@ku.edu to register. 

What role should the media play in civic engagement? Does the fourth estate have a duty in our system of checks and balances? This conversation with two accomplished journalists will consider how storytelling, fact-checking, and mass media are changing, and whether reporting the news and reporters on newsmakers should be connected to civic engagement.

Great Plains Media is hiring for a promotions and on-air internship. Email your resume to kboulware@gpmnow.com to express your interest.

The Kansas Association of Counties is hiring a communications intern to work onsite in Topeka. The position offers up to 20 hours per week at $15 per hour. The communications intern will assist the Events and Communications Director and Membership Manager with a wide range of projects that support the organization’s strategic messaging and statewide engagement. More information on the position and how to apply is available here. 

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Daldoprh (left) and Wolgast (right) pose for a photo. | Photo courtesy of Wolgast.

Professor of the Practice Stephen Wolgast met with alumna Brenna Daldoprh in London on Oct. 10. She is working as the producer of a multi-part podcast about a man who spun lies about the FBI, faked his own death and generally deceived people for years. The show is scheduled to be broadcast on the BBC next year.

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