Alumni Stories
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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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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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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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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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View Recent Beckham Lectures on YouTube
Did you miss the first two lectures in the Beckham Lecture in Communication Series?
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Shaun Parry, CFAC Alumnus, to Receive BYU Alumni Achievement Award
Shaun Parry will be presented with a BYU Alumni Achievement Award on Thursday, Oct. 8. Prior to the award reception, Parry will give a lecture entitled “Impossible Dreams I Didn’t Know Enough To Dream.” The lecture will be held in the Madsen Recital Hall at 11 a.m. Admission is free and the lecture is open to the public.
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Art Rascon and Sons: Witnesses for the world
By Sarah Ostler Hill From an early age, Art Rascon recalls having an intense curiosity about the world around him. In the evenings, the family would gather around the television set to watch the news while he held the rabbit ear antennas.
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Comms Alumna Named ‘Freedom Award’ Recipient
Sharlene Wells Hawkes, alumna of the BYU School of Communications, will be honored July 2 during the Freedom Awards Gala as part of America’s Freedom Festival at Provo. According to festival organizers, Hawkes is among four recipients to be recognized for “unique contributions to the cause of the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and the cherished America values of God, family, freedom, and country.”
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Journalism Graduate Takes Home Regional Emmy by Storm
Kylee Knoles (Maddux), a Brigham Young University journalism graduate, was recently awarded a New York Regional Emmy in the Teen Category for spot news reporting.The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences annually presents Emmy awards to those recognized in achieving outstanding quality in the arts, crafts and sciences of television. The award is arguably the industry’s most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction and highlights the caliber of students graduating from BYU’s School of Communications’ programs.
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