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August 2007
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation recently announced the winners of nine scholarships for 2007, naming Brigham Young University communications student Jennifer Borget as the recipient of this year's Ed Bradley Scholarship.
A senior studying broadcast journalism, Borget will receive $10,000 along with an all-expense-paid trip to RTNDF@NAB, the Radio-Television News Directors Association's annual conference and exhibition in Las Vegas in April 2008. To read more, click here.
June 2007
Zack Tolbert, Jamie Bond and Stanton Jones of the Ad Lab were awarded "Best Communications Campaign" by the CEO of the world's 4th-largest advertising and communications company in the annual Brandstorm marketing competition sponsored by L'Oreal. The team from the university's Ad Lab faced the top advertising students from 35 countries. To read more, click here.
April 2007
Stanton Jones, Jamie Bond, Zack Tolbert, and adviser Jeff Sheets of the Ad Lab won L'Oreal's 15th annual Brandstorm Competition in New York City and will represent the United States in the international finals in Paris this June.
The Brandstorm Competition is a challenge to university advertising students to create a strategic advertising campaign for one of the L'Oreal brands. This year's brand was Redken for Men hair products. To read more, click here.
March 2007
Jane Clayson Johnson gave soon-to-be graduates advice on what it takes to be successful. She also recommended students find a mentor and trust their instincts. But when it came down to what matters most in Johnson's life, it's that she's a mother.
Johnson began her career in broadcast journalism as a BYU student working for KBYU and KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. From there she went on to work for ABC News as a correspondent for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" and "Good Morning America." She also co-anchored "The Early Show" on CBS with Bryant Gumbel, worked on "48 Hours" and "The CBS Evening News." To read more, click here.
February 2007
Ed Carter, an assistant professor in communications, analyzed more than 390 cases from the last three chief justices to determine whether they were protective of minority speech or not. His findings were published in the latest issue of the Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, the top academic journal in journalism. To read more, click here.
January 2007
John Hughes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lead the Deseret Morning News since 1997, stepped down from his position at the end of 2006 to become a BYU professor. To read more, click here.
Jeff Sheets, director of the advanced advertising lab, and Blake Hadley, a senior majoring in advertising, were on hand at the Washington, D.C. press conference with Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt to unveil the Ad Council's Coalition for Healthy Children, a campaign promoting better nutrition and more physical activity to children and parents.
Sheets and Hadley, along with other students in the lab, contributed a logo and slogan to the campaign to promote energy balance. To read more, click here.
December 2006
Bradley Public relations presented campaigns they designed and implemented for various clients over the semester at a trade show at the Wilkinson Center early this month.
Bradley PR teams worked for nine clients this semester, including The Boy's and Girl's Club, Coney's Subzero and The BYU Museum of Art. The campaigns were judged at the tradeshow, and the campaign for the Boy's and Girl's Club was awarded first place. To read more, click here.
November 2006
Advertising student Stanton Jones recently beat out thousands of nationwide applicants to become one of 60 finalists for a summer internship with L’Oréal in New York City. As a finalist, Jones receives an all-expenses paid trip to New York City, where he will participate in an interview and L’Oréal’s Brandstorm Weekend.
Daily Universe Web editors Bonnie Boyd and Jon Tollestrup recently put together a fast-paced video tour of campus. To watch the video, click here.
The Daily Herald recently featured broadcast student Kelsey Nixon and her local cooking show, “Kelsey’s Kitchen.” To read the story, click here.
October 2006
A team of BYU researchers, including public relations professor Steve Thomsen, has developed a method to diagnose eating disorders using hair samples from patients. The team achieved 80 percent accuracy with five hairs from each participant. Larger studies will be conducted later to develop an approach that can be used clinically. To read more, click here.
At the recent Southwest Symposium Caitlin Anderson and the coauthoring group of Tony Nisse, Rob Nyland, Raquel Marvez and Lois Bauman received top paper awards. A paper by Dawn Magoffin, Jennifer Moore, Tom Robinson and Mark Callister received an honorable mention. All three of those papers were among the top eight and were offered publication in the Southwestern Journal.
Cammon Randle was recently named one of Businessweek.com's 25 best young entrepreneurs in the country. Randle, a 2005 communications graduate, runs CopperRain Productions, which makes promotions, training videos, and creative shorts for companies of various sizes, including Hitachi DataSystems, Xango, and The Marketing Success Institute. To read more, click here.
Dale Cressman and Robert Walz, assistant professors of broadcast journalism, were recently featured on a new KBYU-FM program, "Thinking Aloud," to discuss broadcast news giants. Steve Thomsen, professor of public relations, also did a segment for the show based on his advertising eye-tracking research.
September 2006
The Daily Universe recently beat out top college newspapers across the country to receive the 2006 National Newspaper Association's General Excellence Award in the College Division. The paper also received awards in six other categories, competing against 253 community papers. To read more, click here.
Jeff Sheets, director of the Advanced Advertising Lab, published an article in the inaugural issue of Marketing At Retail, a new magazine geared toward branding professionals, retailers, and advertising agencies. His article, “Experiential Marketing: Building Loyal Relationships—In the Store,” discusses the opportunities available in marketing at retail as the value of traditional marketing methods declines. To read his article, click here.
June 2006
Advertising student Hunter Sebresos submitted his own ads to One Show's largest-ever annual college competition and became a finalist amongst the 948 students worldwide who participated. He received an award of merit for his work, which was displayed in a Madison Avenue gallery and will be published in the annual One Show awards book. To read more, click here.
Nearly 40 percent of older cartoon characters are portrayed negatively, leading to stereotyping of the elderly, according to a recently published study by Tom Robinson, associate professor of communications. “These stereotypes, when learned at a young age, have a lasting impact,” Robinson said. “We don't want to raise a generation fearful of growing old, or have these children rise to positions of influence and power only to dismiss the older age group because of these stereotypes.” To read more, click here.
Danielle Wood, Florence Chen and Ryan McIlvain traveled to San Francisco June 7, 2006 to compete in the final round of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program, and set records for BYU. The combined final standings of these three earned BYU second place in the competition. To read more, click here.
May 2006
Jennifer Borget was selected to receive a $20,000 scholarship from The National Association of Broadcasters in Education Foundation.
Paul McHardy, Danielle Wood, and Kimberly Christenson are recognized on the list of winners at the Society of Professional Journalist Mark of Excellence Awards in Indianapolis. They placed in one or more of the top three slots within four different categories.
Quint Randle, a print journalism professor, released his first album, Joshua Creek. The album includes 12 tracks of inspirational music with a country style. To read more, click here.
April 2006
The Daily Universe received six first-place awards, three second-places and two third-places in the annual Utah Press Association contest, which awards local newspapers for excellence in news coverage and advertising. To read more, click here.
March 2006
Broadcast journalism students have reached the semi-finals of the Hearst Broadcast Journalism Awards Program. After two preliminary rounds, three out of the 10 students chosen to advance to the semi-finals are from BYU. Florence Chen won first place in the television hard news preliminary. In the radio features category, Ryan McIlvain won third place and Danielle Wood won fourth place.
In a ceremony to honor the life of former communications chair Michael K. Perkins, Room 370 of the Brimhall Building was named the Michael K. Perkins Conference Room. "The Michael K. Perkins Conference Room will be where everything positive happens," said Newell Dayley, former dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Perkins died in a kayaking accident in 2003. To read more about the ceremony, click here.
A paper by Edward L. Carter, Kevin R. Kemper and Barbara L. Morgenstern called “Applying Hazelwood to College Speech: Forum Doctrine and Government Speech in the U.S. Courts of Appeals” was awarded Top Faculty Paper in the Law Division of the Southeast Colloquium of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
February 2006
Advertising professor Chris Cutri's film "Reconciling Ruby" won first place in the LDS Film Festival's short film competition. His film also won the Audience Choice Award. Cutri's documentary explores the lives of a mother and daughter who were separated when the daughter was put up for adoption but later reconnected and together found reconciliation.
January 2006
Professors Joel Campbell and Ed Carter testified before Utah Senate Committees in January. Campbell provided testimony as an expert on open records law, and Carter testified as an expert on libel statutes. Carter also presented a paper to the American Bar Association’s annual meeting.
For additional news dating back to January 2005, click here.
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