On February 15, the KU community will come together for One Day. One KU., KU’s 24-hour day of giving. Collectively, we can ignite the next BIG IDEA at KU. Now in its 7th year, One Day. One KU. has raised more than $13 million to transform lives at KU across all five campuses and The University of Kansas Health System. Join us on February 15 and feel the impact of everyone, united in purpose for KU.

JMC 430, Communicating Sports Information, received a visit from Carter Woodiel, senior director broadcasting and media relations for Kansas City Monarchs baseball. Woodiel shared his career experiences and discussed what it takes to be successful in sports media. 

JMC 340, Creative Concepting, received a visit from Kris Kennedy, manager of creative strategy at Reddit, Inc. Kennedy shared a myriad of tips with the class, including spending most of your time finding a more interesting problem and not just the one given to you. 

The Kansas Scholastic Press Association, hosted at KU, will begin a search for an executive director after Eric Thomas announced he would step away at the end of this academic year. After 10 years leading KSPA, Thomas will remain as an instructor in the William Allen White School. The board of directors for KSPA will partner with KU to hire the next director who will teach at the university. More information on the search will be coming soon. For more details, University Daily Kansan photographer Dylan Shah took photos of KU students and Chiefs fans flooding Mass Street after the Chiefs won Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday. View the photos here.

Volunteers needed to judge in the KSPA Regional Contest: The Kansas High School Regional Journalism Contest is quickly approaching. Assist the KSPA and support scholastic journalism by judging digital entries from student journalists around the state. More information on the time commitment and how to volunteer is available here.  

Associate Professor of the Practice Lisa McLendon served as the official pronouncer for the Douglas County Spelling Bee on Saturday, Feb. 10. This bee is the first step for local students on the route to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

CBS sportscaster to be on campus Thursday: Tracy Wolfson, a sportscaster for CBS Sports, will be in the KU Memorial Union lobby from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, connecting with journalism students wanting to learn more about a paid sports broadcasting summer internship through Camp Winadu. As a sports broadcasting counselor, students will design a program and teach campers between ages 7-15 years old for seven weeks in the summer in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts.

Senior Raneem Alasmi is one of nine KU Fulbright semifinalists: The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program and is designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. Alasmi, who will graduate in December, applied to be an English teaching assistant in Switzerland. Read the full KU Today news release.

The Technology Committee is proud to present a student panel on internships. Join us at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Clarkson Gallery to learn more about what skills you may want for a top internship. Journalism students Nnamdi Anyanike, Prescott Deckinger, Mya Peterson, Lane Rozin Phifer, Hannah Brown, Rachel Mallory and Elizabeth Walters will share about their internships and other experiences, what tech skills they used and how they developed them. This will give you a road map for what you can do to earn an internship. And we will have pizza!

The Kansas Association of Broadcasters is accepting entries for the 2024 student broadcast awards until 11:59 p.m., Feb. 15. The Student Broadcast Excellence Awards celebrate and honor the exceptional achievements of students in broadcast and media. See the Student Awards webpage for full lists of revised categories and updated contest rules and guidelines.

Students and Faculty invited to Election Administration Symposium at Dole Institute: This two-day event from Feb. 15-16 will seek to evaluate how to bolster funding and protections for resilient elections in Kansas and around the country. The symposium will kick off Thursday at 7 p.m. with a public program featuring Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew and Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab. A full schedule of events is available on the Dole Institute’s website. Students and faculty interested in attending Friday’s sessions must register by filling out this online form.

Assistant Professor Steve Bien-Aimé published a new study in the Journal of Black Studies “Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson. This study found that newspaper coverage in the aftermath of the 2020 death of legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson highlighted both Johnson’s rarity as a woman in STEM, but also her significant contributions to the space program, which transcended her racial and gender identities.

News items also routinely treated the racial and gender discrimination Johnson faced as part of the past and not as a current issue. Additionally, journalists provided scant explanation as to why racism and sexism existed in those particular formats during Johnson’s career, who benefited from the discriminatory apparatuses, and who implemented and maintained those discriminatory systems.

Save the date for Career Fair and Career Fair Prep Workshop: Learn how to make the most from the Career Fair experience the following week. Students will receive tips on resumes, networking and professional pitches at the 1 p.m. session in the Clarkson Gallery on Feb. 21. Pizza will be provided. Check the career fair page for an updated list of 25 companies slated to attend.

Internship and student jobs

Job opportunities

Make sure you are following @jschooltech on TikTok and Instagram. We have some great content planned for you this week.

Getting your resume polished up for the Career Fair? Check out our InDesign tutorials featuring a Resume Workshop!

Kevin Harlan calls Chiefs game-winning touchdown: Harlan, a KU JMC alum, called Sunday’s Super Bowl on the radio for Westwood One Sports.

Mary Cecile Carter, a 1986 William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications alum, will be inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame this spring. Carter, one of 12 inductees, spent 20 years working at the Dallas Morning News, where she was a member of the team that received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Carter was the founding senior producer of CNNHealth.com and also has worked for WebMD and NBCNews.com. 

Mary Cecile Carter. Headshot courtesy of The Oklahoman. 

Alumni job updates

Jean Embree Peete died Jan. 27 at the age of 93. Read her obituary here.

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