JMC hosts high school students at four-day Jayhawk Media Workshop at Stauffer-Flint
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Seventy students from five states participated in the Jayhawk Media Workshop on June 7-10. | Photo by Steve Rottinghaus
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Seventy students representing 22 high schools from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee participated in the four-day Jayhawk Media Workshop June 7-10 at Stauffer-Flint Hall. Students and high school journalism advisers attended sessions on advising, yearbook theme and planning, photojournalism, writing and editing, publication design studio, video journalism, multimedia storytelling and leadership.
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The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is excited to welcome Associate Professors of Practice Diego Gutierrez and Maria Scott to its faculty. They will begin Aug. 18.
The College Media Convention in Kansas City Nov. 4-7 is accepting session proposals. CMA is looking for presenters on fundamentals, such as reporting (across media) and design as well as social media, analytics and advertising, plus career/management/leadership. The audience is mainly students and advisers for college media organizations. Details and link to submit a proposal You need to either have a Whova account or create one to submit. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis until Oct. 1.
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JMC students Elise Heidrick, Jackson Engle, Cole Dickey and Sally Green presented at the National Student Advertising Competition team finals.
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JMC students Elise Heidrick, Sally Green, Jackson Engle and Cole Dickey competed at the National Student Advertising Competition team finals in Austin, Texas. They presented in front of the NFL chief marketing officer, the vice president of social responsibility and the vice president of global consumer marketing. For the first time since 1989, KU students won the district competition and awarded for best presentation team.
JMC student Molly Stover-Brown has received the Kansas Association of Broadcasters scholarship for the 2026-27 academic year.
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Former Eudora Times chief photographer Annalynn Phanthadeth (left) and Professor Teri Finneman attended the Kansas Press Association conference, where they picked up 30 awards won by the Eudora Times.
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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS |
Professor Teri Finneman delivered a North Dakota journalism history traveling museum exhibit she co-created this spring to the North Dakota Newspaper Association.
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Professor Teri Finneman delivered a North Dakota journalism history traveling museum exhibit she co-created this spring to the North Dakota Newspaper Association. She created two sets of the exhibit to use for public displays, lecturing and teaching about the importance of community journalism. Her and senior Elena Akerberg's museum display case of North Dakota journalism history is now featured in Snow Hall through Labor Day.
Assistant Professor Sarah Cavanah led two sessions for American Public Media’s first Civic Learning Professional Development Summit June 5 in Gladstone. Both sessions involved testing and feedback for an experiential learning game she has developed along with Assistant Professor Tamar Wilner and Ashley Muddiman in Communication Studies hypothesized to hold steady or lower levels of cynicism during media literacy interventions by introducing students to concepts in media sociology and media economics. The first session continued to gather data on the game from high school students and recent graduates. The second session introduced the game to K-12 teachers from around western Missouri and Eastern Kansas, including its pedagogical foundations. Eleven of the K-12 educators signed up to potentially have the full media literacy intervention tested in their schools, grant funding permitting.
Lacy C. Haynes Professor Patricia Gaston presented "A Pulitzer Conversation" on a violence against women project on Sunday at the Red Rocks State Historic Site Visitor Center in Emporia, Kansas. It was hosted by the William Allen White Community Partnership and Red Rocks State Historic Site.
A research paper by Ph.D. student Belal Hossain and Distinguished Professor Hyunjin Seo, titled “Spatiotemporal Dimension of Health Information Seeking: Native American Older Adults in Rural Communities,” has been selected for the Top Three Faculty Paper Award by the Minorities and Communication Division at the 2026 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference.
Professor of the Practice Lisa McLendon spoke at KU Mini College on June 3. Her lecture, “The Smorgasbord of English,” explored how words are borrowed and created in English, using words for foods as examples. This was McLendon’s seventh year presenting at Mini College.
Professor of Practice Stephen Wolgast co-presented at the International Communication Association annual conference June 4-8 in Cape Town, South Africa. The topics were “Journalist Lawfare and the Defamation Lawsuit Against Mississippi Today,” and “From SLAPPs to Systematic Lawfare: How Legal Mechanisms Undermine Journalism’s Democratic Role.” Associate Professor Alyssa Appelman presented on “The Effects of Journalistic Clarity and Transparency on Processing Fluency." Associate Professor Steve Bien-Aime was in the "Rethinking Global Discourses of Racial Inequality" preconference and presented on the co-authored effort: "Mocking 'Otherness' as a Form of Therapy? An Exploration of the Immigrant Comedian." Assistant Professor Tamar Wilner presented on “Research in Progress—Information Empowerment for Teens: Using Experiential Learning to Raise Media Literacy Levels without Raising Media Cynicism and Nihilism.”
Professor Teri Finneman, JMC alums Clay Wirestone and Lily O'Shea Becker and Kansas City Star assistant managing editor Mará Rose Williams hosted a panel Friday night at the Kansas Museum of History to discuss the state of journalism today and lessons of William Allen White.
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Clay Wirestone, Teri Finneman, Lily O'Shea Becker and Mara Rose Williams hosted on Friday a panel at the Kansas Museum of History.
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| • Morgan Cormack Price is a writer/editor at Burns & McDonnell.
• Nick Couzin is a sports content contributor and videographer for Roundtable Sports.
• Emma Crouch is the photo editor and digital asset management seasonal associate with the Minnesota Vikings.
• Chelan David is a graduate of the Leadership Olathe Class of 2026.
• Cole Dickey is a marketing specialist for T-Mobile for Business.
• Jeremy Latronica is enterprise account executive at 4MINDS.
• Eric Nelson is senior vice president/content innovation at McClatchy Media.
• Shanzay Qalbani is coordinator of partnership marketing for the Chicago Bulls.
• Rashada Smith is a media coordinator for True Media.
• Grayson Strong is marketing coordinator at Emery Sapp & Sons.
• Ella Wilson is email marketing and automation coordinator at MMGY Global.
• Lily Witkowski is the digital content manager for the Kansas City Sports Commission and Foundation.
• Alyssa Woodhouse is an account coordinator for MMGY Global.
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Internships and student jobs
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Scott Reinardy
Interim Dean
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Mugur Geana
Interim Associate Dean
Research & Faculty Development
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Lisa McLendon
Interim Associate Dean
Student Success
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• Aug. 23: Academic Welcome, Stauffer-Flint Hall
• Aug 27: Part-time job fair, Kansas Union, fifth floor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
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