Photo courtesy of Assistant Professor Melissa Greene-Blye. 

A group of students representing the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska visited the Studio to watch Good Morning Indian Country last week. The group met anchors Allison Levering, Amaya Harris and Victor Organista. Good Morning Indian Country is a Native, student-led weekly news and information program that streams weekly to its Facebook page.

Students in the school’s Digital Integrated Marketing Communications online master’s program completed original quantitative and qualitative research for the State of Kansas as part of their efforts to recruit talent to the state. Professor of the Practice Angie Hendershot’s JMC 829 Marketing Communications Research class studied the marketing challenge of employee shortages for the growing number of professional and technical jobs resulting from the state’s business development efforts. The class conducted interviews and a survey with college-educated professionals regarding their perceptions of the state and their decision-making process on relocation. The results were presented to Kansas Department of Commerce officials and will be used to develop a strategic marketing communications plan as the program’s capstone course this spring. 

Media entrepreneurs Melody Alexander and Topher Enneking of STATSdraft joined Assistant Professor Chris Etheridge's Audience Experience class (JMC 345) last week to talk audience segmenting.

PRSSA Club to meet April 3: Jessica Palm, vice president of marketing and public Relations for the Kansas City Area development council, will speak to the JMC PRSSA Club later this week. Her colleague, Addie Linn, will also attend Wednesday’s meeting at 6 p.m. in Stauffer-Flint Hall, room 206.

The 6th edition of Strategic Writing: Multimedia Writing for Public Relations, Advertising and More was published by Routledge last week. Professor of the Practice Angie Hendershot and Lecturer Lisa Loewen edited the latest edition, which includes updated material on emerging practices in the field and diverse examples from the profession. The book is used nationally in public relations, advertising and strategic communications courses and was originally developed by Professor Emeritus Chuck Marsh, Associated Professor Emeritus David Guth, and Bonney Poovey Short. 

Lecturer Amber Fraley had two articles published in the latest Lawrence Magazine. The first one tells the story of a Ukrainian Easter Egg making workshop at KU led by Megan Luttrell, outreach coordinator for Russian East European & Eurasian Studies. The second spotlights the new director of the Haskell Cultural Center & Museum, Travis Campbell.

Photo courtesy of Angie Hendershot

Assistant Professor Steve Bien-Aimé is scheduled to present during UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day events this May in Chile. Bien-Aimé's presentation is titled “Artificial intelligence and aggregation, and the danger their combination will pose to the future of the journalism business model,” and he will present with Marisa Porto from the University of North Carolina.

A manuscript coauthored by Associate Professor Hong Vu and his collaborators from Yale University, including Marija Verner, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Seth Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz, has recently been accepted for presentation at the 2024 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) conference. The study, titled: “Gender, Development, and Belief in Anthropogenic Climate Change” analyzes survey data on public perceptions of climate change collected from 119 countries in the world. This is one of the collaborative projects that was developed during Vu’s sabbatical at Yale University.   

Knight Chair of Audience & Community Engagement in News Stephen Wolgast presented results on Tuesday from interviews about a police raid in a research project with Dr. Nick Mathews of the Missouri School of Journalism. He shared responses in “Abridging the Press: How Kansas Journalists Responded to the Police Raid on the Marion County Record” at the Local Journalism Researchers’ Workshop, hosted by Duke University. The 19 journalists who participated express disbelief and anger at at the raid, and indicated that they were were largely unaware of their legal rights in federal and state law that protect them from police seizure. 

Photo courtesy of Stephen Wolgast

Assistant Professor Chris Etheridge and co-author Heidi Skurat Harris recently published a chapter on "Reflective Learning in Data Storytelling" as a part of the "Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces" edited volume. In the piece, they present research-supported techniques for improving student learning and retention in data-driven communication courses.

Cheers to Careers podcasts: JMC alums Adam Sechrist, executive vice president/head of earned media at BCW Global, and Claudia Close, assistant director of communications at the ACC, were recent guests on the Cheers to Careers podcast. 

Internship and student jobs

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Work with us in the JMC School: The JMC School is hiring a student media and technology assistant. For more information and to apply scan the QR code in the graphic or click here. 

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New tutorials will drop on on the JSchoolTech website over the next few weeks. 

Alumni job updates

Gerry Cain died March 14 at age 62. Read his obituary.

Michael Strong died Feb. 2 at age 76. Read his obituary.

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