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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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Comms Advertising Grad Launches “StorySnacker” App Idea on Kickstarter
StorySnacker to Launch in Fall, Funding on Kickstarter Now Fun New App Offers “Snack-Size Stories” for Time-Crunched Parents StorySnacker is the brainchild of award-winning children’s book author Erik Slangerup. His new app is designed to give parents more chances to fit storytime into their modern, busy lives with a mobile collection of original, 60-second, “snack-size stories.” Parents on the go will be able to use their phones to read a series of quick stories to their kids—whenever a free minute pops up.
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The CFAC Highlights Prophets, Founders, Friends and Alumni as Part of the HFAC 50th Celebration
To commemorate the 50 year history of the HFAC, we have selected a few individuals we consider as prophets, founders, friends and alumni of the arts and communications who have either gone from the HFAC into a global arena or have been impacted by our students and faculty.
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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY JOURNALIST HONORED WITH PRESTIGIOUS HEARST JOURNALISM AWARD
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program announced Brigham Young University’s Jeremy Harris as a finalist and fifth place winner in the 2014-2015 television broadcast features competition.
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McKay Coppins as Mr. Buzzfeed and the ‘Mormon Wikipedia’
Most people would send a gift basket and a thank you card to Donald Trump if he invited them to stay in his mansion. BYU graduate McKay Coppins is not most people.
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BYU alumni Jeanette and Matt Bennett awarded Best Magazine
BYU communications alumni Jeanette and Matt Bennett, the creators of Utah Valley Magazine, were recently awarded the Utah Society of Professional Journalists (USPJ) award for Best Magazine.
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29 years later Rhonda Shelby still has fond memories of BYU
BYU’s Department of Communications has one of the nation’s most renowned university journalism programs. For 50 years, students have come to BYU to learn how to become professionals in the field of journalism.
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BYUtv International hires new station manager
For Daniel Souza, life has been an uphill battle with obstacles in every direction. Yet with a determination to succeed, he has overcome his life’s challenges.
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PR alumna makes waves in NYC
Chelsey Saatkamp, an alumna from the public relations emphasis in the department of communications, completed an internship at the end of her BYU career and has not looked back since being hired on with Goodman Media International located in New York City. As one of the small number of college graduates working in the same industry in which she studied, Saatkamp is as happy as ever.
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Alumnus named news director of KSL television
In 2001, Chris Moore, a graduate of BYU’s Department of Communications hit the ground running in a news career that has only snowballed into success since that point. His most recent accomplishment is being named news director for Salt Lake’s NBC affiliate, KSL.
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