Students in the Jayhawk Media Workshop (top) and Native Storytelling Workshop (bottom) pose for group photos. 

Last week, high school students flocked to Stauffer-Flint Hall and the Dole Human Development Center for the Native Storytelling Workshop and the Jayhawk Media Workshop.

The Native Storytelling Workshop introduced Native American high school students from across the country to journalism. They explored ways that storytelling skills offer opportunities to give back to Native communities. Students attended Haskell University to tour the school and connect with Native leaders. The workshop was led by Assistant Professor Melissa Greene Blye (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma) and Assistant Professor Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska). Program Director and Senior Digital Media Trainer Heather Lawrenz led workshops teaching students the basics of Adobe software.

High school students attended the four-day Jayhawk Media Workshop that featured instructors from local high schools and KU faculty-led sessions ranging from multimedia journalism to yearbook design. Students attended classes in Stauffer-Flint and Dole and toured campus during the day. In the evening, students worked on projects and participated in activities. The camp was hosted by Kansas Press Association Director Eric Thomas, and events and hospitality coordinator Kerry Navinskey catered both workshops.

 Students pictured from the top of the Wallace Monument overlooking the city of Stirling. | Photo courtesy of Cal Butcher.

Classes are underway in Stirling, Scotland at the journalism program. After a day of brainstorming sports media story ideas with Professor Scott Reinardy, students are now making contacts, developing stories and learning about Scottish history.

Staff from The Eudora Times (pictured above with Associate Professor Teri Finneman) attended the Kansas Press Association convention in June and received 32 awards.

Academic Advisor Jay Haverty was recently named the Rising Star Award Winner by Jayhawk Academic Advising. 

The KU Center for Digital Inclusion in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications has been selected for a Digital Opportunities to Connect Kansas (DOCK) program grant aimed at improving “the digital skills of Kansans who have not yet been able to fully capitalize on the power of the internet.” The Center for Digital Inclusion is cited as one of the most innovative programs in this area in a press release from Kansas Governor Kelly’s Office on May 30. Read the Governor’s Office press release here. 

Jay Haverty accepts his award. | Photo courtesy of Jayhawk Academic Advising. 

An extended abstract co-authored by Doctoral Candidate Yiwen Wu from KU’s School of Public Affairs, Associate Professor Hong Vu, Associate Professor Ward Lyles, also from KU's School of Public Affairs, and Doctoral student Giang Do from Deakin University, Australia has been accepted for presentation at the Associate for Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)’s 2024 conference. The project, which is titled “Time for AI’s turn? Human and Machine-Assisted Plan Quality Evaluation,” compares different approaches to analyzing large amounts of text from hazard mitigation plan documents from 105 counties across the Southeastern and Midwestern regions between humans and artificial intelligence tools. The conference will be held in November 2024 in Seattle.

Hong Vu.

Professor Stephen Wolgast addressed a plenary session of the Kansas Press Association’s annual conference about Kansas journalists’ reactions to the police raid on the Marion County Record newsroom last year. Wolgast, the Knight Chair in audience and community engagement in news, conducted the research with Professor Nick Mathews of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The KPA conference was held in Lawrence on June 7 and 8.

Director of Professional Graduate Studies Matt Tidwell gave a presentation on best practices in crisis communications to the Mid-America Regional Council's public information officers monthly meeting on May 17. The group is comprised of communications leaders from area cities and counties.

Professor Hyunjin Seo was an invited speaker for an international workshop on digital rehabilitation on June 5 in Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia, which was organized by the U.S. Embassy Skopje, the Faculty of Law in Bitola, and the Faculty of Law in Nis, Serbia. Seo gave a talk on her interdisciplinary project offering evidence-based digital skills training to justice-impacted communities in the U.S. Midwest through the KU Center for Digital Inclusion. 

Lisa McLendon presented at KU Mini College on June 4, speaking about the history and use of punctuation. This was her fifth appearance at Mini College.

Doctoral student Rim H. Chaif and associate professor Teri Finneman's paper on “#My place isn’t in the kitchen”: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement" has been accepted for presentation at the annual AEJMC conference and has won the Top Student-Faculty Paper award. 

Doctoral student Rim H. Chaif's extended abstract "Exploring Public Support of Female Athletes Engaged in traditionally male-dominated Sports in Social Media," has been accepted for presentation at the annual AEJMC conference.  

Cheers to Careers podcasts: JMC School alum James Sido, director of media relations and issues management for the Downtown Seattle Association, was a recent guest on Cheers to Careers. 

Internship and student jobs

Job opportunities

Kansas Athletics hiring a sports photography intern: The position is for a sports photographer to capture photos of corporate partners’ assets at all home football and men’s basketball games, with the occasional need at other home sporting events. Students must have their own camera to use. Interested students should send their resume and photography samples to Shane Glatz at shane.glatz@learfield.com.

Business Insider featured a short essay written by JMC School alum Dick Grove. He is the CEO of Ink Inc. Public Relations in Kansas City.

Matt Hoffman, a multimedia journalist at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, received an investigative reporting award from the Iowa Broadcasters Association.

Erin (Gough) McDaniel, director of communications at City of Newton, was honored as a 2024 Newton (Kansas) High School Distinguished Alumni recipient.

Cami Koons, rural affairs reporter for Flatland KC, placed first in Report for America’s Local News Awards video category for “Making a New Meat Market” as part of the Harvesting Change series on sustainable food systems.

Alumni job updates

William D. Goodwin died May 8 at age 86. Read his obituary.

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