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BYU Students top regional and national awards
The students from the School of Communications are no strangers to awards or national rankings.
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Director of the School of Communications wins award
The Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education awarded Ed Carter, Director of the School of Communications, the 2016 Faculty Teaching Award for his work with BYU Continuing Education.
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Comms alumna used her experiences in broadcast journalism at BYU to serve in faith
When several of Boston’s prominent LDS athletes happen to be in your ward, what do you do? For Heather Walker Sandstrom (BA ’81), the answer was obvious: get them on local talk shows to discuss their beliefs. With her background in broadcasting, Sandstrom secured these athletes opportunities throughout the Boston area.
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ElevenNEWS Students win at Gracie Awards
Four ElevenNEWS students from the School of Communications won Gracie Awards in the student national-level competition this year.
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Making it There: Beginnings of Comms NYC Internship
In 1977, Ray Beckham started the New York City Internship Program for Communications majors’ after hearing students repeatedly talk about their future in what he says were limited terms.
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Morgan State University professor visits BYU
Pat Wheeler, a public relations professor from Morgan State University in Baltimore, visited BYU campus this past week to observe the Communications Department.
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Dr. Jay Rosen encourages students to see their publics as people
Dr. Jay Rosen, professor of journalism from New York University, addressed students from the School of Communications on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016.
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Comms alumna and New KSL-TV anchor Ashley Moser says news is ‘in my blood’
SALT LAKE CITY/Deseret News — Thanks to her mother’s career as a reporter and anchor, Ashley Moser was literally surrounded by a TV newsroom environment before she can even remember. “It’s kind of in my blood I guess,” Moser said. “She was pregnant with me when she was covering breaking news. She even talks about how she remembers me kicking during live shots.”
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Study Abroad available in New York City for COMMS students
The School of Communications invites you to spend spring in New York City—the world’s media capital—to study its history and tell its story.
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News Media student one of nine to receive BEA’s largest scholarship
Esther Raty, a junior News Media student in the Communications program, recently received the largest scholarship offered by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). The BEA is a national group supporting students pursuing an education in broadcasting.
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New Faculty Announced
Two new faculty members have joined the School of Communications beginning January 1, 2016.
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Visiting NYU Professor Rosen to Deliver Lecture January 14
Students and faculty will have a unique opportunity to hear from one of the nation’s foremost thinkers on the role of journalism when the School of Communications hosts NYU professor Jay Rosen. Dr. Rosen will lecture on Thursday, January 14 at 11:00 a.m. in the auditorium of the Maeser Building (room 321).
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Alumna Teaches Home Cooks to Navigate The Kitchen in New TV Show
As you flip through the channels, watch out for BYU alumni, Kelsey Nixon, host of “Kelsey’s Homemade,” which premiered on the Cooking Channel, Nov. 14.
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BYU’s Laycock Center ‘Puts the Brakes on Drunk Driving’
This news release includes a report on the results of the collaboration of Pat Doyle, Manager of the Advanced Advertising Lab, and Jeff Sheets, Associate Professor of Advertising and Director of the Laycock Center for Creative Collaboration. Local Broadcast TV’s 12th Annual Project Roadblock “Puts the Brakes on Drunk Driving” PSA Campaign has contributed to significant decrease in impaired driving fatalities.
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Mentoring: More than just an education
Before each semester, Ed Carter sits in his office and flips through course notes and syllabi from when he was a student. Now the director of the School of Communications, Carter still thinks about one of his influential professors and how he approached teaching.
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Sports broadcaster and Comms Alumnus Todd Harris Featured by BYU Alumni Association
National sports broadcaster Todd A. Harris didn’t particularly enjoy taking exams in BYU’s testing center, but says, “I had a great time learning to snowboard on the slope just outside the Grant Building, which houses the testing center.”
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When Students Ask the Right People the Right Questions
Abigail Norton’s parents have always instilled in her the value of asking the right questions at the right time. This lesson has served her well through high school and BYU. Now at her second year at BYU, with an eye to the future as a national newscaster, she speaks with a confidence beyond her years.
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Director of the School of Communications graduates from Oxford
Summer is often a time of sun-filled relaxation. Not so for the new director of the School of Communications, Ed Carter, who spent four weeks this summer in damp England finishing his master’s degree in international human rights law at the University of Oxford.
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