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Excellence in Action

Whats inside:

stories from india

neW director takes office

Professor makes historic flight

alumna goes for the gold

fall 2012 | Volume lXXiii | issue 1

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ntents direct

n the cover: The illustration was created by photo illustration major Melinda Yohoing a combination o Adobe Photoshop and photo collage techniques.

nt State University School o Journalism & Mass Communication4 Franklin Hall, P.O. BOX 5190, Kent, OH 44242

hone: 330-672-2572 | Fax: 330-672-4064 | E-mail: [email protected]://jmc.kent.edu

editor: thor Wasbotten

managing editor: treVor iVan

graPhic designer: allison struck

Photo editor: melinda Yoho

art director/Production manager: katie barnes

To look at the uture, however, I must irstacknowledge the past. Jeff Fruit, who led ourprogram or the past 10 years, has returnedto the aculty. We all need to thank Je or hisservice to JMC and Kent State. His leadershipin the Franklin Hall remodel provided thestudents, aculty and sta with one o the mosttechnically advanced buildings anywhere inhigher education.

The uture is bright or our School.We have a strong aculty, dedicated sta andengaged students. Our alumni have expressedenthusiasm or helping JMC achieve evengreater success.

My vision or JMC is simple: We will be themost relevant, student-centered and ethicallydriven accredited program in the country.

This vision ocuses on the our areas that arethe most critical to the success o journalismand mass communication programs in 2012and beyond. Let me take a moment toexplain the components o the vision.

Jmc a t b o sAs I write this, I am in my thirdull month as the Director o theSchool o Journalism and Mass

Communication. Since my arrival,I have spoken with aculty, sta,students and alumni, and as is the

case with any leadership transition,there have been many questionsregarding my vision and plans

or the School.

Thor WasbottenDirector, School o Journalism &Mass Communication

RelevantIt is our mission to educate students so thboth enhance their critical thinking and btheir skill set to be competitive in the workTo ulill that mission, we must oer a curthat will prepare undergraduates or chanindustries, and we must create more challscholarship agendas to train our graduateor increasingly competitive research careneed to invest wisely in technology, equipinrastructure that will allow us to maintaistandards. We need to continually assess, and reine our program to maintain releva

Student-centered

We must have support mechanisms in plathe entire student lie cycle, rom recruitmacademics, to internships, to career placemsupport and to alumni relations. We need develop our retention strategies to make sour students are inishing what they have Students must take responsibility or theireducation, but we have to do what we canensure they dont all through the cracks.

Ethically Driven

More than ever, critical thinking skills are gto help distinguish graduates who are preor jobs and those who are prepared to escareers. We must have ethics embedded incurriculum, in our programs and in our stThe curricular and extracurricular opportuwe oer need to challenge students to thionly about their decisions but the processuse to reach their decisions and the potenoutcomes o those decisions.

Accredited We are one o only 109 journalism

and mass communications programs accrby the Accrediting Council on Education iJournalism and Mass Communication (ACAccreditation helps us remain ocused onimproving every aspect o our School.

11Students chronicle Indian life

with the Dateline Delhi project

I am looking orward to working with our aculty, sta, students andalumni to improve JMC. It is a special place that has a great uture.

A change in leadership:JMC has passed the torch to a new

director with a resh perspective andenthusiasm or Kent State

4

Soaring to a world record:Proessor lies vintage planeacross Ohio, raises moneyor a scholarship

6

JMC Anniversary: A timeline8

Holocaust project documentssurvivors stories

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Lessons rom medias top innovators:

Student recounts what she learnedvisiting New York media giants aspart o JMC class

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Kent in London provides studentswith global industry perspective

3

National survey indicates strongpresence o scholastic media in U.S.

4

ASNE Institute provideshigh school teachers withresh look at advising

15

Alumna named 2012 recipiento William D. Taylor Award17

Sisters seek to tell theStory o Your Lie18

JMC class launchesdata-driven website16

Young entrepreneurconceptualizes businessduring graduate study

20

Alumna inds success Down Under21

Going or the gold: Recent gradovercomes setbacks to continuetraining or 2016 games

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Alumni notes and student awards23

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neW W director

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es heard the jokes about his name.es even made a ew himsel.

hat thunderstorm rolling through?eah, he made it that loud.

ut all joking aside, the man at the Schoolselm knows he has a job to do.

hor Wasbotten was hired as the new

rector o the School o Journalism and Massommunication at Kent State University to use hisast experience to steer the School into the uture

modern journalism.

he School had seen great success under the-year reign o Jeff Fruit, and now therescitement in the air to see how much urther

MC can be pushed. Wasbotten should haveo problem leading the charge.

he level o excitement and passion, I dontant to say surprised me, but it was deinitelybit more than I expected, he said just aters irst ull week in Franklin Hall, with his oice

elongings still stacked in boxes waiting to benpacked. The School has been led by Jend the group o senior aculty who really gave

much to the School it was a great, strongast decade. But at the same time, I think thatverybody, including Je and the recently retiredculty, is looking orward to seeing what we can

o next. Im ready or that as well.

MC has passed the torch to a new director with aesh perspective and enthusiasm or Kent State

y Kelly Pickerel

Wasbotten most recently was the assistant deanor student media and online operations at ThePennsylvania State University, where he also wasa senior lecturer o journalism.

But beore that, his proessional career was deeplyinvolved in television news. His irst job was withthe CBS ailiate in Portland, Ore., in 1994. He thenmoved to Boise, Idaho, irst as managing editor o theNBC ailiate and then the news director at KTRV-TV,building the Fox stations newsroom rom the groundup. Eventually, he took on the role o news director oKGUN 9-TV, the ABC ailiate in Tucson, Ariz.

But in 2004, he switched rom the industry to theacademic world and joined Penn State.

Penn State is a large program. Its larger than KentStates program, he said. But Kents program is stillrobust and has a good-sized student body. I thinkbeing part o a larger program is a beneit. Focusingon the growth o student media, curriculumbuilding, teaching and undraising and all the thingsI did there, I think, will transer very well here.

At Penn State, Wasbotten taught two classes a newscast class and a hal-hour sports magazineor television class. He said he cant imagine notteaching, but right now JMC needs him or otherthings like marketing the Schools graduateprogram.

Our graduate program is a tremendous one with alot o great opportunities, but we need to be able tomanage it better, he said. Our online public relationsmasters program has grown by leaps and bounds andis a model or how to build a program. Our Centeror Scholastic Journalism has an online programthat also is extremely strong and has opportunity orgrowth. Our Plus 24 program needs more eectivemanagement.

Mark Goodman, proessor and Knight Chair inScholastic Journalism, said hes excited to haveWasbotten as the new team leader because hebrings a resh perspective and enthusiasm orthe job thats contagious.

Im pleased to see Thors interest in strengtheningour graduate programs and ensuring that they allreceive the resources they need to maintain thehighest quality, he said. That will be a greatbeneit to our online masters degree programor journalism educators, which is the onlyone o its kind in the country.

Wasbotten believes in ocusing on the studentexperience in three areas academics,extracurriculars and proessional opportunities.

Student media gives students an incredibleopportunity to understand their proessions priorto their graduation, he said. Well tryto maintain that experience or them. T here areother opportunities within classes where you canidentiy opportunities to help students still g rowproessionally and still grow ac ademically.

I were really ocused on the student experience,that will allow us to help the aculty to be as strong

as they can be, help us to oer the right curr iculumand give us the opportunity to build a lastingeducation or the students who are coming here.

Wasbotten is deinitely conident in the talent atKent State, and he wants to let the world know.

Im excited, he said. I think there are certainthings that will work really well and certainthings that we will need to reassess and addressdierently, he said.

Everything rom letting people know all the incredithings that our aculty has accomplished, what ourstudents have done and incorporating that with ourWeb eorts, our mobile eorts, our social media e we need to do a better job with that, he said. Weneed to go rom an institution that is well known inNortheast Ohio and spread that out. Our messageneeds to be heard in Caliornia and Oregon and Florand Spain and Italy and China and every place else.

These irst ew months at Kent State were a learningcurve or Wasbotten. He wants to be a comortableixture in Franklin Hall, but he also wants to push thSchool to the next level.

Photos byMelindaYoho

Im not one to say that things are

going to be difficult; they are what they

are. You have a focus, you have a vision

and you build consensus, and I think

that things will happen the way they

need to happen, Wasbotten said.

Thor Wasbotten, the new JMC director, meets w ith ormer director Je Fruit, assistant proessor Danielle Coombs,associate director Greg Blase and senior secretary Sharon Marquis. Wasbotten assumed duties as director July 1.

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historstoric flight

wo Northeast Ohio pilots lew two antiquerplanes on a 1,809-nautical-mile journey toayton Wright Brothers Airport. A direct l ight roment State University to Dayton is about 160 miles,ut this particular trip involved a more scenic route.

sociate proessor Joe Murray, Ph.D. and Ronwik, M.D., a retired radiologist and ormer U.S.ilitary light surgeon who served in Vietnam, werethe controls o two 1946 Piper J3C-65 Cub

rplanes in the skies over Ohio in May.

urray and Siwik departed Kent States Andrew. Paton airport on a record-setting lightwhich they landed in all o Ohios 88

ounties beore the journeys end. A lighte this has never been attempted beore.

s t a W rurray ies vintage plane across Ohio, raises money or a scholarship.

y Britney Beaman and Nicole Gennarelli

The aircrat were alot or 36 hours and sixminutes over nine consecutive days, butweather delays and time spent on the ground at eachairport added to that time. Their journey was documentedat http://www.lostinoscarhotel.com.

The Lost in Oscar Hotel moniker is a light-hearted reerenceto the peculiar trip with all o its zigs and zags across the state.Oscar Hotel is pilot-speak, reerring to Ohios abbreviation, OH.This phrase comes rom the Federal Aviation Administrationsphonetic alphabet used or in-light radio transmissions.

Inspiration or this light came rom Murrays desire to writea book about general aviation in Ohio. Murray said, Aviationis ull o character and also good characters. He hopesto capture the spirit o lying in the state, while improvingthe publics understanding o general aviation and creating

opportunities or his students to learn about digitalstorytelling and narrative non-iction.

Throughout the journey, Murray and Gary Harwood,an award-winning photographer and JMC instructor,researched stories and recorded video, audio andphotographs that will be used in a documentaryvideo and book to be published next year.

Their route took them to every corner o the staterom May 13 until May 22 when they landed in

Dayton. What I didnt expect was the interest romthe communities, the people who came out to theairport to shake our hands and see us. You know,theyd buy us a tank o gas, make a meal or us, putus up overnight, hangar our airplanes, Murray saidin a WEWS news report.

The pilots have raised about $3,000 towarda scholarship established by Murray at KentState University to help disadvantagedstudents attend the school.

But Ive got to tell you, the people who donatedgave rom the heart, and that really meant a lot tome. I had armers walk up to me and stick dollarsin my pocket and say, Give it to the kids . I had astudent put $100 in an envelope and leave it on myseat. I knew she couldnt aord that, so the peoplewho donated truly donated rom the heart and thatmeant a lot, Murray said.

In September, Murray and Siwik were invited to theHouse o Representatives in the state capitol to be

recognized with a special resolution to the 129thOhio General Assembly honoring the historic light.

oto by Sam Verbuleczsociate proessor Joe Murray

bove) and Ron Siwik each piloted946 J3C-65 Cub plane across

e state during a nine-day periodMay. Their journey took them toch o Ohios 88 counties.

Individual donations toward the scholarship arealso appreciated. These checks can be madepayable to the Kent State University Foundationand mailed to School o Journalism and MassCommunication, Kent State University, 201Franklin Hall, Kent, OH, 44242-0001.

...the people who donated

gave from the heart, and that

really meant a lot to me. I had

farmers walk up to me and

stick dollars in my pocket

and say, Give it to the kids.

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Jmc annmc anniVersarY

937: Journalism is oered as an independent our-year major.

Students lm a program or a WKSU television class.udents working in the ofces o the Kent Stater.

urnalism students work in aotographic darkroom.

1938: NOSPA (Northeast Ohio Scholastic Press Association) is established asan outreach project to area high school journalism students and advisers.

Prize-winning pictures in the journalism lounge are a constant reminder to students o the increasing im

o photography. The lounge is also a haven or journalism students who come in to watch TV and read pa

Photograph appears on Page 38 o the 1955 Chestnut Burr. Photographs were entries in the universitys anShort Course in News Photography photographic contest.

1946: A public relations degree is oered.

1948: The School o Speech establishes a radio broadcasting sequence.

A student cameraman lms a

WKSU News television show.

1968: TV2 broadcastson campus. The irstcable broadcast occursin 1975.

1970: An advertisingdegree is oered.

1987: The Schoolo Journalism andthe School oTelecommunicationsare ormally mergesto become the Schoolo Journalism andMass Communication.

2002: The College oCommunication andInormation is established.It houses our schools:Journalism and MassCommunication, Libraryand Inormation Science,Communication Studies,and Visual CommunicationDesign.

Proessor William Taylor, Head o the

School o Journalism

2007: The School moves into its state-o-the-artrenovated acility in Franklin Hall. The building, whichis one o the most technologically up-to-date o its kindin the country, aords students with immeasurableopportunities or proessional growth.

2007: The Center or Scholastic Journalism is establishedas a national clearinghouse or inormation and researchpertaining to scholastic media. The Ohio Scholastic MediaAssociation is ormed a ter NOSPA and several otherscholastic press associations in the state decide to combineeorts to better serve the needs o students and teachers.

2011: The School oers two ully online masters degrees,one in public relations and another in journalism education.

This year, we mark a few milestonesthe School of Journalism

and Mass Communication celebrates its 75th anniversary, the College of

Communication and Information turns 10, and JMC relocated to Franklin Hall

five years ago. For a little historical perspective, we stroll through some of the

accomplishments and triumphs of the past three-quarters of a century.

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international storlocaust eXhibit

Eighteen communication students and three proessorsrom Kent State spent 10 days during March in Delhi, India,reporting on culture, environment, the economy andmore or DatelineDelhi.org, a multimedia news websiteand product o the International Storytelling course.

The School o Journalism and Mass Communication

partnered with Amity University School oCommunication in Noida, India, or the project.

Amity provided students and aculty to help withcollaborative reporting. T hese partners providedguidance and helped the class ind sources.

The Kent students stayed in on-campus housingand even set up a newsroom in the School oCommunications acilities.

This is the second International Storytelling course thataculty members Gary Hanson andMitch McKenney

s c i lW d d PjBy Anne Dudley

have led. Last year, the team produced Dateline Shanghai Shanghai International Studies University. LuEtt Hanson, Passociate dean o the College o Communication and Inoaccompanied the group and secured relationships with Amleaders or uture academic exchanges.

Teams o students gathered images, video and aud

news and eature stories rom the Delhi area, takingsights and sounds o the capital city and its peoplerode elephants and visited orphanages and hospitawhile others ventured into the slums, construction and the local YMCA.

The course met or 10 weeks prior to leaving or India,using the time to report on Indian culture in Northeastas a practice run with multimedia journalism in teamsreturning to Ohio, students spent the remaining courspreparing their stories or the website debut.

Photo by Melinda YohoAnne Dudley, along with her Amit

University student partner, interviewan adopted child and her mother at an

orphanage in Delhi, India

MC students collaborated earlier thisar to tell the stories o Holocaustrvivors. Photojournalism instructor

avid LaBelle said the project sought toeserve and celebrate the lives o thoseinstrumental in the worlds history.

veral Holocaust survivors are picturedth LaBelle at right: Rose Gelbart, Arthur

elbart, Erika Gold, Sol Factor, Mimirmond, Betty Gold and Ruth Frojmovic.

ockwise rom top let are some o thehotographs shot by photojournalismudents or the project: Arthur Gelbarty Jacob Byk); Sidney Steinberger, son

a Holocaust survivor (by Matt Haley);ika Gold (by Jacob Byk); Romanayman (by Thomas Song); Alice Mimihleissnere (by Lindsay Fr umker).

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Twenty-our students rom Kent StatesCollege o Communication and Inormationtraveled to London May 10-27 or alie-changing study abroad experience.

Kent in London: Global Ad & PR, taught by assistantproessor Danielle Coombs, Ph.D., and associateproessor Michele Ewing, was designed to providean academically challenging yet proessionalstudy abroad experience or students interested incommunication careers. The two-part course beganin January when each student was expected to selectan area o expertise. T hese areas could be content-ocused (health and beauty, ashion or sp orts), role-ocused (copywriting, event planning or management),or media-ocused (social media, television or print).

During the semester the students researched and gave amultimedia presentation about their area o expertise inrelation to the United States. Once in London, studentsbegan to research the same area in relation to theUnited Kingdom. The inal presentation compared andcontrasted the dierences between the two countries.

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heres media, and then theres New York media.

he 11 students, including mysel, enrolled inis springs New York Media Seminar learned thissthand as we sp ent a week in New York City thisay touring media organizations and meeting withoessionals who are spurr ing innovation within

e industry.

culty members Ann Schierhorn and Cherylushner led our class as we visited organizations likehe New York Times, the Associated Press, Peopleagazine, TIME Magazine, ESPN, NBC, Bloombergews, Newsday, Billboard and Vibe magazines andorts Illustrated.

ur class already knew todays medianvironment is in a state o transition. The

perience helped answer our questions aboutriving in a multimedia-driven world.

ublications like The New York Times have star tedperimenting with ways to both deliver content andrengthen their brands. Nancy Lee, 75, is the viceesident and executive editor o news service and

he New York Times Syndicate. She helps T he Timesepare its content as a p roduct to sell to other mediach as National Geographic and Bloomberg News.

len Kirtner, a public relations graduateudent who also attended the seminar, said shepreciated The Times syndication eorts as well asnovative projects like Lens, a blog created by seniora photographer Jim Estr in to tell stories through

hotos. Readers can browse through photo galleriesn topics ranging rom tornadoes, attacks in Pakistannd horses in Iceland.

uring our classs meeting with Lee and Estrin,ey devised a plan to create a book about Lens.was amazing to see some o that innovationking place in ront o our class.

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tudent recounts what she learned visiting

ew York media giants as part o JMC class

y Cassie Neiden

Other publications are taking advantage o newways to distribute their content.

We spoke to designers at People Magazine and learnedhow they design each page or an iPad application.Designers must create a page both or when the tabletis vertical and horizontal. Thus, they need to create twoiPad pages or every page o the magazine.

The trip showed Airielle Farley, senior inormation design/visual journalism major, that jobs exist in the journalismield. She said all the desks we pa ssed on our tour oPeople surprised her.

It never occurred to me how many people really workedor a magazine, she said. It made me eel l ike it mayactually be something that I can manage to do.

We also met Tom Curley, CEO o The Assoc iated Press,who stressed the importance o presenting journalismon a multimedia platorm. But he also said that asideorm learning all the ancy tricks o the Web, video,design and social media, its still important to havecredibility and accountability by citing sourcescorrectly and by veriying inormation.

From the contacts our class acquired to the irst-hand look

at how major media are changing, taking this class wasworth the time and money.

New York is the powerhouse o media. Its the place whereall major media organizations converge. New York is theplace where innovation happens and can be experimentedwith on a larger scale. And the preparation to work in aplace like New York starts r ight here at Kent State.

The Global Ad & Public Relations course ocused ocomparative research project to help students devearea o expertise and lear n about the inluence o cdierences in advertising and public relations strateEwing said. This cultural understanding will give stan edge when they interview or internships and job

The students visited we are social, a global conversaagency; Action Aid, a non-proit charity dedicated tpoverty; Mother, a major advertising agency; and Eda global public relations irm. They attended a sociaglobal PR lecture with students rom the London Coo Communication and also took a trip Oxord.

While planning this course, Coombs and Ewingwanted it to pay o or students.

Our thinking was that we wanted this to be a chancor the students to test the waters, Coombs said. Yneed to go out and interview people. You have to ggood at pitching yoursel and what youre doing.

To read more about the trip, including studentsexperiences, visit http://www.kentinlondon.com.

Photo by Christina Students in the GloAdvertising and PuRelations coursevisited London or atwo-week period inMay. Students toureagencies throughouthe city and expandtheir understandingo the worldwidecommunication ind

Photo by Jessica DentonRachel Hagenbaugh and Airielle Farley talk with Kathy Kudravi,87, ollowing a media discussion panel at the Fashion School.

By Nicole Gennarelli

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Twenty-our high school journalism educators spent twweeks in Franklin Hall again this summer as part o theAmerican Society o News Editors High School JournaliInstitute sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundat

The Institute, which ran rom July 8-20, providedattendees with an immersion in all aspects o producinand sustaining a scholastic journalism programwritinreporting, multimedia story telling, undraising as well aa thorough background in media law and ethics.

Candace Perkins Bowen, associate proessor and direco the Center or Scholastic Journalism, coordinated thInstitute along with John Bowen and Mark Goodman, other members o the Centers aculty. H. L. Hall and SuHathaway Tantillo, both o whom teach in the Centersonline masters program or journalism educators, serveas lead instructors as well. Graduate assistants Trevor Iand Shelley Blundell provided technical and educationsupport to the participants.

For the irst time, several o the sessions during the Instwere recorded and streamed live on the Web. A digitalarchive o those sessions exists as a resource or teacheto use in their classroom. This included some o the museul sessions to scholastic journalism advisers: teachithe dierence between journalistic and essay writing,writing eature stories, creating editorial policies orstudent media, and understanding copyright law.

This years participants once again created collaborativmultimedia projects with topics ranging rom beer brewin Northeast Ohio to the inluence o religion on a collecampus. These projects teach the participants to use thsame skills they are trying to instill in their studentscredible inormation gathering, clear writing andeective storytelling across media platorms.

To view their projects or the archived sessions,check out www.ksuasne.org.

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he Center or Scholastic Journalism undertook a surveyoject last year to gauge the number o journalism-lated opportunities available to students in public highhools across the country.

andace Perkins Bowen and Mark Goodman, bothculty members in the Center, directed the project,ong with guidance rom Piotr Bobkowski rom theniversity o Kansas.

he survey, conducted by randomly sampling more than300 high school principals across the country, oundproximately 11,000 student publications and media

utlets, the most prominent being a yearbook.

he surveys purpose was to provide concrete evidencemid a lot o speculation, Goodman said. For instance,any assume student publications do have some onlineesence. However, the survey pointed out that an onlineesence was lacking or many scholastic publications.

his survey gives us some understanding o whereducators can direct their resources to help s tudentublications succeed.

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The researchers also compared the data about thenumber o student media outlets in a given schoolwith demographic data. This analysis showed a lacko media opportunities in smaller, poorer schools orthose with a higher minority population.

Goodman also noted that the students who produceand consume student media will one day create anduse proessional news products.

Student media present an opportunity to teachyoung people about becoming news consumers,he said. Proessional news organizations can ind

ways to better support scholastic journalism andto teach young people about media literacy.

The Center plans to repeat the sur vey in abouttwo years to track changes in the data.

To learn more, visit the Centers websiteat www.csjkent.org.

Photo by Susan TantilloAmy Reiman o Illinois waits to ask a questionduring a mock press conerence led byinstructor John Bowen at the ASNE Institute.

sx fy rv PFour tenure-track faculty members received

the rank of associate professor this spring:

Candace Perkins Bowen:Director o the Centeror Scholastic Journalism and the Ohio ScholasticMedia Association

Jan Leach: Director o the Media Law Center orEthics and Access and coordinator o the yearly ethicsworkshop in coordination with the Poynter Institute

Jacqueline Marino: Long-orm narrative journalist andauthor o the recently published White Coats: ThreeJourneys Through an American Medical School

Joe Murray: Digital storyteller, Web designerand aviation enthusiast

Two non-tenure-track facult y

were promoted as well:

Gene Shelton: A ormer reporter, musicpublicist and press agent

Traci Williams: Director o the Center orPan-Arican culture, documentarian andilm producer

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udents rom the schools o Journalism and Massommunication and Digital Sciences have created aata-driven website, www.opencampuskent.com, thatatures a recent eed o whats happening in the Kentea, including Kent State campus buildings.

sitors to the OpenCampus Kent website will be ableget the latest crime updates, news, event listings,

ormation on discount deals and restaurant reviews.sers can also check out the latest Kent-area photosnd videos uploaded to F lickr and YouTube.

his resource will have a community-building eect,elping students and local residents look at what theyave in common, be more knowledgeable about whatsoing on around them and make better decisions abouthat to do with their time, said associate proessorcqueline Marino.

penCampus Kent is a product o the Kent State courseeb Programming or Multimedia Journalism. Last all,e project was awarded one o 10 Bridge Grants unded the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through

e Association or Education in Journalism and Massommunication (AEJMC).

idge Grant recipients were tasked with developingew academic applications o projects already undedy the Knight News Challenge, which, according to thenight Foundation, is a contest to spur innovation inews and inormation by unding c utting-edgeplications and projects.

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According to AEJMC, the goal is to implement theseprojects in ways that enhance the education o uturejourn alists or the new media lands cape.

OpenCampus Kent uses the open-sourcesotware OpenBlock, a technology that wasdeveloped through unding by the Knight Foundation.Kent State students are among the irst to applyOpenBlock to a college campus and its surroundingcity. Customizations o OpenCampus Kent allowusers to search events, news and other inormationby neighborhood, zip code or street. The campus isalso searchable by building.

Kent State student media took over the sites

operations this all and will continue toimprove its design and unction.

The course was co-taught by Marino, Liz Yokum,an instructor in the School o Digital Sciences, andSue Zake, a JMC instructor and adviser to KentWired,which is an online collaboration o the universitysindependent student media.

This story originally appeared on www.kent.edu.

Photo by Melinda YohoAssociate proessor Jacqueline Marino works witha student in Web Programming or MultimediaJournalism. The class created an open-source siteabout Kent State and the surrounding communitycalled OpenCampus Kent.

Elizabeth Bartz, 80, is still inawe she is the 2012 WilliamD. Taylor Award recipientand said she eels extremelyhonored to be chosen.

The Taylor Award is thehighest distinction JMCbestows on alumni whoare nationally and/or

internationally recognizedor preeminent contributionsto their proessions or lieswork as they relate to theield o journalism andmass communication.

Bartz holds a Bachelor o Science in public relationsand a Master o Arts in political science, both romKent State University. Originally rom Warren, Ohio,she resides in Akron, Ohio, where she is presidentand CEO o State and Federal Communications, Inc.According to its website, it is a company with a strongcommitment to helping companies and organizationscomply with their political contributions, statelobbying and procurement activities.

Every day is a new adventure in the oice, Bartzsaid. I come in with a plan o what I want to getdone. Am I dealing with budgets, editing or marketingproposals? Im always working on something dierent.We had a lot o clients who were involved with partyconventions, Democratic and Republican. They wantto know i they can give a git to a legislator whoattended an event or who is running in a certainstate. We provide them with that inormation.

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Beore her current job, Bartz spent time workinthe assistant director o the Washington PrograNational Issues in 1982. Ater she let that positspent 10 years managing the publications depaat State and Federal Associates. She oversaw upto guidebooks about lobbying and campaigncontribution laws. She bought the department moved it to Akron, and renamed it State and FeCommunications, Inc. She now has a sta o 3

A lesson Bartz learned rom her time spent at KState University is to always jump at opportunit

Whether it was a summer job, or any o the jobhad, Ive always been the person to raise my haask what needs to be done, she said. Regardlehow small a company is, it wants someone to con, and I made sure I was that person. I alwaysto step up and be the person who can help.

When JMC Director Thor Wasbotten contacte

to tell her she was this years award winner, sheit had to be a mistake.

My predecessors o this award have been Pulitprize winners, she said. I d ont do that. Im stiin shock Im being compared to people with thaccomplishments. Im very happy because last winner was Stephanie Smith who has worked the Central Intelligence Agency. She and I bothas commuter students at Kent States Trumbull and not many people inished the journalism pFor two Trumbull campus people to be a winneaward is an honor.

Elizabeth Bartz

Homecoming weekend is Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 20.

JMC and CCI are hosting several events to mark the weekend:

A reception Friday evening in Franklin Hall will honorTaylor Award recipient Elizabeth Bartz, this years FastTrack Award winners and the Friends o JMC Awardee.

On Saturday morning, visitors will be able to join Friendso JMC at a hospitality tent along Main Street outside oFranklin Hall to watch the annual Homecoming parade.

Aterward, JMC will host a luncheon in the irst-lolobby o Franklin Hall. This includes a silent auctionsponsored by PRSSA.

The Homecoming ootball game will take pl ace at at Dix Stadium. The Golden Flashes will take on thWestern Michigan Broncos.

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sters Michelle Park, 05, and Stephanie Park, 08,egan creating their own newspaper when they werehildren. Michelle wrote the articles and Stephanie

ed scissors and a glue stick to put the pap er together.om a young age, they were dedicated to celebratingilestones, as their irst newspapers lead story was aature on the amily cats birthday.

oday, the Park sisters are using their love oorytelling and design to share others lieories as though they are ront-page news.

o me, its just something my sister and I are bothssionate about, and we do because we love it,ephanie said. For us, its the excitement and exhilarationa deadline and getting the publication out.

chelle and Stephanie respectively a ormer Daily Kentater editor and design director have created StoryYour Lie, a way or everyday people to see their liesilestones written and designed as ront-page news.

hen a colleague o Michelles got marr ied, she thoughtat it would be a one-o-a-kind git to write her loveory as i it were ront-page news. Although the gitea was never executed, when Michelle moved backCleveland, she and her sister created the business.

guess the proximity to my sister and just the desire too something entrepreneurial with the talents and skills weave developed took over, Michelle said. We launched theusiness in August 2011, so were a year old.

chelle said the process o putting together a clientsory is the same as any story she writes or her ull-me job at Crains Cleveland Business. For Stephanie,e uses the design skills she learned while working ate Daily Kent Stater, a year-long position at the Plainealer and her current job as ar t director o custom

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Story o Your Lie has been hired mostly in its irst yearto create stories about weddings. Michelle interviewsthe bride and groom, and the couple can choose ourto ive more people, whether r iends or amily, tocontribute to the story as well.

I then take all o the notes Ive taken rom all o those

people and crat the best story I can that is highly relectiveo the bride and groom, but also gives the couple awindow o what other people see in them, Michelle said.

The company gathers photographs o the couple rom thebride and groom. Then, Stephanie takes Michelles storyand the photographs and designs a newspaper layout.

The sisters set up a Story o Your Lie booth tointroduce their business during a bridal show hostedby Todays Bride in Cleveland in January.

The booth included more than promotionalmaterials. It had an interactive eel.

The sisters set up a red-carpet runway, at the end o

which brides could speed-interview with Michelle.

Its sae to say I did more than 150 speed interviews,Michelle said. We are still in the process o taking thosespeed interviews and writing mini stories or the bridesand grooms. This gives the couple a taste o what itslike to be written about and see i they like it.

Probably the most eye-catching eature o the sistersbridal show eort was the bumper stickers they askedspeed interviewees to stick on their backs.

The stickers eatured three prompts, among them,I love him because... and Our relationship startedwith... and the brides illed in the rest. Michelleused their answers to guide their s peed interviews.

Ater they participated in the show, Todays Bridewrote a eature about Story o Your Lie. Stephanie

Photo by C Julia PhotographyCo-ounders, journalists and sisters, Michelle and StephaniePark model the popular bumper stickers they stuck to bridesduring their rst bridal show in January 2012. Brides-to-bebegan their speed interviews, which have been usedto create mini stories or them, by lling in the blanks.

said it elt pretty sweet to be covered, especialsince they were a new business.

So ar, the sisters have created stories about weda sister who gave her brother a kidney and a retiStephanie said theyd be open to any kind o pro

Michelle said she urges journalism studentsto have a passion or what theyre doing.

I I didnt have a passion or what I do, I wouldnhome ater working, interviewing and writing alwanting to work, write and interview all night oo Your Lie, Michelle said. Having that passionhelp get you through some o the tougher experand it will also make the accomplishments and pyou achieve so much more satisying.

Its a nice git because no love story

is the same, Stephanie said. Just

running with their personality and

having photos that relect that oten

helps our stories look dierent.

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pon graduation, many students crat a resumed cover letter, sending them out with ingersossed, in hopes o inding a job. Justin McCraw,1 , designed a magazine and drated a businessan in hopes o starting a company.

ounder and editor o Dumpling Magazine, an onlineblication or Asian Americans, the entrepreneur

ot only conceptualized the entire enterprise but hasccessully launched it. And McCraw has a day job.

n R&D Developer at Paragon Robotics LLC, McCraw spendsght hours at the oice, mostly at his computer, and thenes home, oten spending an additional our hoursmoreon his computer working on the magazine.

umpling Magazine began as part o McCrawsasters project, which he started at thed o his irst year in graduate school.

he name o the magazine was chosen or whatrepresents. A culinary classic, the dumpling isrsatilewith appearances in both Asian and

merican cuisine. McCraws riends and classmatesom Kent State and Oregon, where he earned hischelors degree in computer inormation science,

rite or the magazine, and he is hiring two interns.

though it targets the second- and later-generationian-American, as the online magazine states, itsbject matter varies. With a sleek, minimalistic design,e magazine has articles about everything rom ood,

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celebrity proiles and book reviews to politics andcurrent events. A cover story this summer proiledAsian Americans on the U.S. Olympic Team.

McCraws bio, which accompanies a headshot witha aint glimpse o Franklin Hall in the background,explains that Dumpling Magazine was createdto address a lack o Asian American content inmainstream media.

McCraws love o magazine journalism started in highschool when he worked at his schools newspaper.I started getting into magazines when I was takingdrivers ed class, he said. Aterward, I would go to agrocery store and wait or my mom to pick me up, soI would buy a magazine to lip through and then Idread it cover-to-cover.

Today he subscribes to more than 20 magazines,including Esquire, New York Observer andEntertainment Weekly.

The leadership roles hes assumed as the ounder and

editor o his own magazine are nothing new to McCraw.While in graduate school, he served at various times asmanaging editor, editor-in-chie and art director o theSchools award-winning Fusion magazine.

Dumpling Magazine is not yet making a proit, butwith more than 1,000 hits in the irst months andcompanies like Toyota showing interest in advertising,Dumpling Magazine could be McCraws next day job.

To check out Dumpling Magazine,visit www.dumplingmag.com.

Ater spending time in Sydney,Australia, in 2010, Brianne Kimmel,

11 , decided to make the city herhome a year later by acceptingan advertising position.

Kimmel, who graduated witha degree in advertising anda minor in marketing, landedthe job at Apparent in Sydneythrough networking with previous

acquaintances in the city and usingnetworking sites like LinkedIn.

As part o her duties at the agency, Kimmel works closelywith more than 30 ast-ood chains like McDonalds andPizza Hut to ensure they have up-to-date nutritional menuboard data. New South Wales was the irst Australianstate to implement mandatory kilojoule labeling on menuboards at large ast-ood chains.

This campaign ocuses on ast acts on ast ood andhelps consumers make more inormed choices on the go,especially or young children at risk o obesity, she said.

Kimmel also serves as the social media strategist andaccount manager or Nikon. She works closely withphotographers and partners, who include Australianashion designers sass & bide, Tropest, the worlds largestshort ilm estival, and Suring Australia.

She helped the agency launch Nikon In Focus, whichprovides the opportunity or My Nikon Lie members tointeract with a group o photographers k nown as NikonAmbassadors through Google+ Hangouts.

Becoming a Nikon Ambassador is one o the highesthonors as a proessional photographer. Giving My

Nikon Lie members the chance to ask Ambassadorsquestions on their lie experiences and lessons learned

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over their photography career is invaluable, she We work really hard to provide exclusive contenphotographers at all skill levels.

Her portolio also includes reelance wr iting andphotography. She worked alongside a photograpan exclusive Katy Perry shoot or the Sydney premo her movie Part o Me.

She said starting her irst agency job in Sydney hpresented challenges. As with any new country, are many cultural dierences, she said. Not to mI had to brush up on my British English and metrconversions. Sydney is such a sae and progressicity. Not to mention, we are surrounded by b eaubeaches. I couldnt imagine living anywhere else

She said her time at Kent State equipped her to wor an advertising agency by providing her with awell-rounded view o the industry.

At an agency you have to wear many hats. SomeIm writing copy and other days Im working witha media company on a multi-channel media planshe said. Its such a relie to understand how eacdepartment o an agency works and having the s

contribute to the overall success o a major camp

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Photos by Melinda YohoJustin McCraw launched

Dumpling Magazine aspart o his masters

proessional project.

Y ep cpzb W g P Working with Nikon photographers and

getting involved in the entertainment anashion world has been such an amazin

experience, she said. The hours are lon

but its worth it. Youre always on your

toes and up against harsh deadlines.

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rittni Borrero, 12, has Olympic-sized dreams. She hoped to compete to representuerto Rico in the discus-throwing event during this years games in London, but shednt meet the minimum throw length to q ualiy.

owever, that setback has not deterred her rom setting her sights on the 2016ames in Rio de Janeiro once she resumes her training in January. In addition tonishing grad school and starting her job hunt, Borrero sustained two leg injurieshat delayed her training.

Now I have our more years to train, Borrero said. Most women peak between8 and 32 years o age, and I ll be in that range by the time the next Olympics rollsound. I eel like Ive got a pretty good shot as long as I keep going and stay healthy.

orrero received her Master o the Arts degree in public relations in May. She alsoceived a bachelors degree in advertising rom Kent State. While at the university,

he was part o the track and ield team.

orrero now works or Gelia, a marketing communications agency based in New York.orrero joined the companys Detroit branch this summer. Her main responsibilitiesclude creating press releases and blog posts, attending trade shows, and organizingoduct launches or one o the agencys biggest clients, Caterpillar.

he said the support she received at Kent State helped her excel both on and o theeld. The proessors at Kent State were always very supportive, not only with myducation, but also with my track career, too, Borrero said. Everyone was alwaysterested, and they always wanted to know what was going on. Getting to k nowy proessors on a p ersonal level was really nice. Theyre genuinely interested.

he also plans to pursue a doctorate degree rom Michigan State.

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Brittni Borrero at the CentralAmerican and CaribbeanChampionships in Mayaguez,Puerto Rico in 2011. She wonthe silver medal at that meet.

endy Wardell joined the Schools advertising aculty.ter working or ad agencies in Northeast Ohio and

hicago, Wardell said she hopes she can instill inudents a positive outlook on the industry and thatcan help them attain the qualities o a successuldvertising proessionaldetail-oriented, thick-skinned,eative, analytical, individualistic, open-minded.ardell will also serve as adviser to the ad club.

uke Armour is an assistant proessor o publiclations and the coordinator o F lash CommunicationsUniversity Communications and Marketing. He has

Jmc W nw fyworked at several public relations irms, most recentlyat Fleishman-Hillard. While there, he managed social

media, mobile and Web project development orconsumer, state and healthcare clients.

Cheryl Kushner assumed a ull-time position on theaculty ater teaching in JMC since 2009. A 1973 grad,she has worked as a reporter and editor at majornewspapers across the country. She received hermasters rom Kent State in 2011 and has co-authoreda textbook about theater and theater criticism.

The Student Media Business Oice sta received recognition rom the CollegeNewspaper Business & Advertising Managers in March during the groupsconvention in Miami. The sta received a second place award or sales increaseo a special section and irst place in the display adcolor category.

Lindsay Ridinger, 12, was awarded Student Leader o the Year by the Kent StateCenter or Student Development. She served as president o the universitys PRSSAchapter during the past academic year. Christine Morgan, senior public relationsstudent and 2012-13 PRSSA Kent president, won a PRSSA National Gold Key award.This award honors PR students who excel in academics, proessional developmentand as PRSSA chapter leaders.

The Associated Collegiate Press bestowed a pacemaker, the groupshighest award, on KentWired.com and Fusion in 2011.

TV2 received the ollowing recognition rom the Broadcast EducationAssociation:Second Place Rich Pierce or sports anchoring. T hird Place Jasen Sokol or weather anchoring. Honorable Mention The Agenda orvideo studio production.

Three entries placed in the top three o their categories in the 2012 Association orEducation in Journalism and Mass Communication Student Magazine Contest. ThirdPlace, Consumer Magazine Article Waiting or I do by Leighann McGivern inthe Burr. Second Place, Online Magazine theamag.com, the online presenceo A Magazine. First Place, Single Issue o an Ongoing Print Magazine: Designcategory Winter 2012 issue o Fusion.

The Society o Proessional Journalists announced its Region 4 Mark o ExcellenceAward winners in March or the 2011 calendar year. Kent State student media receivedthe ollowing recognition: Best student magazine: Second Place The Burr; ThirdPlace Fusion. Non-iction magazine article: First PlaceIn an instant: Howormer Kent State basketball star Malika Willoughby lost everything by JoeyPompignano. Third PlaceJim Nash: Speaking or the transgendercommunity by Simon Husted.

Best ailiated website: Third Place KSU Buzz (ksubuzz.com). Online eaturereporting: Third Place Rock the Runway, KentWired.com sta Online in-depthreporting: First Place Kents changing landscape: Redeining a college townby Nathan Edwards. Online news reporting: Third Place Tracking downtownKent development by KentWired.com sta.

Television in-depth reporting: First Place Kent State sues ormer student orunpaid tuition by Megan Moore-Closser. Television breaking news reporting:Second Place Crain Avenue crash injures ive by Chris Lambert, Rich Pierceand Casey Braun. Third Place House ex plodes in Suield Township byKassandra Meholick and Nathan Edwards. Television sports reporting: ThirdPlace Kent States bass ishing team by Jenn Bellissimo.

William Moushey, Jr.,

authored the book GaJerry Sandusky, Penn the Code o Silence wDvorchak. Both men wormer investigative reat the Pittsburgh Post-They wrote the book isix months by gatherindocuments and intervmore than 100 people

Melissa Andrews, 04

WTOL in Toledo, Ohiomorning newscast antraic reporter. She prworked or WTVG in Tand WBGU in Bowling

Darlene Biese Schultz

recently published henovel, titled DecisionDestiny. She also teaciction-writing class oand writes a column o

newspaper.

Kathy Kudravi, 87, beCNNs irst editorial spdirector in July. She hecoordinate the networcoverage o the summOlympics. Beore movCNN, she worked or 1ESPN, and, previous toworked or newspapeWorth, Nashville, ClevMyrtle Beach.

In Memory

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He resided with his wEaston, Md.

Terry Oblander, who asome classes at Kent Staway in November at anewspaper career incluat the Akron Beacon JoThe Plain Dealer.

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