Pictured from left to right: Shia Blackcloud, Allison Levering, Cole Brings Plenty, Victor Organista, Allen Stephenson. | Photo courtesy of Assistant Professor Melissa Greene-Blye. 

The Good Morning Indian Country (GMIC) team once again received top honors in the Indigenous Media Awards, earning first and second-place honors for Best Newscast in the Student Division. GMIC team members will travel to Oklahoma City at the end of July where they will be recognized at this year's Indigenous Media Conference hosted by the Indigenous Journalists Association. The Indigenous Journalists Association will honor GMIC team member Cole Brings Plenty in memoriam at this year's conference. 

Pictured from left to right: Sydney Clark, Federico Moreno, Carson Shea. 

Three JMC students earn KAB scholarship: Congratulations to Sydney Clark, Federico Moreno and Carson Shea on receiving a scholarship from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Foundation. Ten in-state students pursuing careers in broadcasting received a scholarship from the foundation.

JMC Students make honor roll: Congratulations to the 296 JMC undergraduate students who earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2024 semester.

Sports media and society students hit the road for media day: JMC sports media and society students traveled to Las Vegas to cover Big 12 football media day last week. Take a look at one of their videos, Olympics, KU Football edition, on the Playmakers' Instagram.

Follow our day-in-the-life series on the JMC Instagram: Students give us a behind-the-scenes look at their summer internships and study abroad programs. The most recent installment in the series, Abby Moore, is a marketing assistant for Lee Media Group in Wichita.

30 Faculty and Graduate Students Present at 2024 AEJMC Conference (6 Association Awards): Thirty faculty and graduate students from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications are presenting their research studies, teaching best practices, and creative projects at the 107th annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The AEJMC conference will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown on Aug. 8-11, 2024.

Their projects cover topics including creativity in the age of AI, college students’ AI self-efficacy, climate change communication, virtual influencers in advertising, social media and health communication, and journalism practices. The School’s faculty and students also won four research paper awards, one dissertation award, and one administrator award. Here is the list of the presentations and awards at the 2024 AEJMC conference.

Assistant Professor Melissa Greene-Blye's publication, “War Chief, Friend of the President, Prohibitionist: Would the 'Real' Little Turtle Please Stand Up?,” published in Vol. 40-3 of American Journalism was named winner of American Journalism’s 2024 Best Article Award. This annual award honors research published in the journal during the last year that is original, rigorous and makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship in journalism and mass communication history. Members of the AJ editorial board judged the top article from the best manuscripts published in each of the four issues of the journal that year.

Professor of the Practice Lisa McLendon won the Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching from AEJMC's Champions of Editing. Her entry, “Ask AI — and check the answer,” was part of JMC 553, where students asked questions of generative AI and then fact-checked the answers. A video description of the exercise will be posted on the Champions of Editing site after the AEJMC conference.

Doctoral student Rim Chaif and Associate Professor Teri Finneman had their article, "#My place isn’t in the kitchen: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement," accepted into Social Media and Society.

Knight Chair of Audience & Community Engagement in News Professor of the Practice Stephen Wolgast was an invited speaker at the Mensa National Convention in Kansas City on July 6. His presentation, “Free Speech Opportunist: Elon Musk’s Degradation of the Town Square,” showed how X’s new owner, despite his claim to be a free speech opportunist, actually limits free speech in ways that harm public discussion on his social media platform.

Associate Professor Teri Finneman has received a contract offer from Lexington Books for her upcoming book, "News Desert U," with Pamela Walck of Duquesne University.

Lecturer Gerri Berendzen and Professor of the Practice Lisa McLendon reprised their presentations from the April ACES conference for members of the KU Marketing staff on July 8. Berendzen discussed fact-checking tools and practices, and McLendon talked about clichés in writing.

Internship and student jobs

Job opportunities

Postdoctoral opportunity on research team: The postdoctoral researcher will join the research team of David Rand (MIT), Thomas Costello (American University) and Gordon Pennycook (Cornell University) for two years with the possibility of extending.

The researcher will hold a joint appointment in David Rand's Human Cooperation Lab at MIT Sloan and Gordon Pennycook’s Behavioral Science Lab at Cornell University while collaborating closely with Thomas Costello’s new laboratory at American University. Fellows will design and run research studies, analyze data, prepare publications, and be core members of the collective intellectual community spanning the labs. Information on the position and how to apply is available here.  

Emma Greenwood had the opportunity to represent her company, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, on the orange carpet during the Garfield movie premiere in May. Greenwood called her experience at the premiere interviewing movie stars such as Chris Pratt and Cecily Strong an “exhilarating and unforgettable experience.”

In her role as a social media analyst for Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Greenwood analyzes, strategizes and executes the company’s social media presence for vet professionals and pet parents/ ecosystems to help drive engagement and brand awareness across platforms. Greenwood cites opportunities to have hands-on experiences and work on real-world projects as a JMC student as being invaluable to her success in the early stages of her career. 

Read more about her experience with Hill’s Pet Nutrition, her work on the orange carpet and why her time at the JMC School prepared her for big moments like this.  

Emma Greenwood poses for a photo at the Garfield movie orange carpet premiere. | Photo courtesy of Emma Greenwood.

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Frank Hansel died June 21 at age 62. Read his obituary.

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