Department News
July 30, 2010
A BYU graduate student in communications has been selected as one of 13 fellows to participate in a German and American journalist exchange program this upcoming fall.
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The William Randolph Hearst Foundation recently recognized the BYU broadcast journalism program as the sixth best in the nation out of 112 accredited journalism programs at the Hearst Journalism Award ceremony held in New York last week.
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BYU’s campus newspaper, The Daily Universe, took home numerous awards at the Society for Professional Journalists Headliners awards dinner on Friday night. Of the 24 awards received by the paper, 12 of those were first-place wins.
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The Public Relations Society of America recently spotlighted Professor Susan Walton on its website, noting her active involvement in the organization.
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The BYU Ad Lab continued its winning streak as it received another award for its advertising campaign and commercial created for the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” contest.
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The BYU Department of Communications Annual Report is now available online.
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Garrett Tenney, a BYU broadcast journalism student, took first place in the best feature report and best overall reporter categories in the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Regional Competition held in Denver, Colorado this year.
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BYU’s Department of Communications today announced broadcast journalism professor Dr. Dale Cressman as the new Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies.
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Kimber Crandall, a former BYU broadcast journalism student, received a New York Emmy Award, the most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction in television, for her story, “Sauce on the Run.”
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Valentina Rodriguez de Almeida, a BYU advertising student, has been awarded the Allen Rosenshine Minority Education and Training Fund internship by BBDO, one of the leading advertising agencies in the world.
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Three BYU Communications graduate students were awarded top ethics paper at the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Conference on Friday, March 5.
Austin Cameron, Sara Shawcroft and Holly Wallace contributed to the award-winning paper, Getting Religion Right: Toward an Ethical Model for Media Coverage of Religion in Elections, as a part of a mentored group project under the direction of Dr. Sherry Baker, associate professor of communications studies.
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Nicolas Perner, Erin Sanford, Brooke Camit and Chris Taylor arrived in New York to meet with top Garnier marketing staff members. After practicing their pitch and finalizing materials, including a 45-page innovation report and recommendation, they delivered a two-hour presentation to Garnier executives, including the associated vice president of marketing.
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Communications students Sable Petersen, Kristine Pratt, and Amy West are winners of 2010 Gracie Awards given by AWRT, American Women in Radio and Television. Click below for details.
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Six undergraduate communications students and their faculty mentor recently were awarded the top research paper at the annual conference of the Southwest Educational Council for Journalism and Mass Communications (SWECJMC) in Arlington, Texas. Their paper was judged the best of all papers submitted by faculty and graduate students from universities throughout the Southwestern U.S.
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Broadcast Student Wins BEA Scholarship
Natalie Tripp, a communications student in the Broadcast Journalism program was one of thirteen students from eleven different campuses to be awarded a scholarship in the Broadcast Education Association's 2010-2011 competition. Tripp was one of four students to be awarded a Harold Fellows Scholarship, which is sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters.
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