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Comms professor featured during BYU Honor Week
BYU School of Communications professor Robert Walz was featured during this year’s Honor Week. Honor Week celebrates what makes BYU different from other college campuses. BYU Student Service Association leads Honor Week by bringing together multiple entities across campus, hosting events and by asking students and faculty what honor means to them. Professor Walz was asked to share what living with honor means to him:
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Sought-after BYU alum tapped to cover Trump White House
To all the never-saw-that-comings of the 2016 American presidential campaign add this: the reporter who said it was never going to happen just got a nice, fancy new job because it did.
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News Media student co-directed new music video for BYU football
Screenshot from YouTube of JamesTheMormon’s latest video with BYU Football.
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Republican or Democrat, Incumbent or Newcomer? BYU Research Show Substantial Shift in Who Newspapers Endorse for President
Newspapers have shifted from strongly favoring Republican candidates in the 1950s to dividing their editorial endorsements almost equally In the 1948 U.S. presidential election, republican presidential candidate and Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey was heavily favored and endorsed by more than 80 percent of America’s newspapers. Journalists at the Chicago Tribune were so sure of Dewey’s win that the newspaper printed its morning edition early with the now infamous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
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BYU Broadcast Journalism Ranked in the Top Five BEA Collegiate Student News Programs
The BYU Broadcast Journalism program has been placed among the five top university student news programs by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), ranked along with other schools including University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and Arizona State University.
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Student/Faculty: Read—and Watch—All About It!
With his vividly composed narrative on a 3,700-year-old Peruvian culture, BYU communications student Donovan Baltich recently took second place in the Multimedia Enterprise Reporting Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards. His multimedia article incorporates text, video, and images.
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Alumnus Art Rascon: Curiosity of the World
Arthur “Art” Rascon (BA ’85), broadcast journalist for ABC-13 KTRK in Houston, is a 21-time Emmy Award–winning reporter. His work has landed him in several tight situations, from “being chased in the jungle by men with machetes in Nicaragua” to “having guns pulled on in the Middle East.”
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Communications professors and students travel to Santiago, Chile
The group using a selfie stick. From left to right: Quint Randle, Cassidy Hansen, Jasmine Harouny, Jaylen Bohman, Kjersten Johnson, Victoria Estrada, Liesl Nielsen and Ed Carter. (Quint Randle)Students and professors from BYU’s School of Communications traveled to Santiago, Chile, during May to complete a mentored multimedia journalism project. The project was designed to report on BYU’s anti-poverty efforts there, as well as the efforts of local citizens.
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Honesty Is Still the Best Policy
It was late 2001 and the Enron scandal weighed heavily in the national consciousness. Whistleblowers were taking heat from defrauded investors, employees stood agog while their retirements evaporated, and journalists sought out experts to explain the ethical lapses that led to one of the biggest corporate bankruptcies in history.
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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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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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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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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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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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