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In America, conversations about grief and loss are often avoided, and in art, tend to be sugarcoated, or even 鈥渃orny.鈥
Kent State Assistant Professor and independent filmmaker Dana White is changing that narrative through her work, and was recently recognized by the Ohio Arts鈥
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This semester, twelve students in the School of Media and Journalism are engaged in national competition that centers on spreading awareness about news literacy.
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As a digital media production student, Ailene Joven, '21, began creating the short film 鈥淒efine鈥 during the early days of COVID-19. Several years later, that film is set to be screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) on March 28, 2023.
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This summer, Kent State students will be powering the backstage stream of the Regional Emmy Awards, serving as directors, technical directors, audio board operators, video editors, photographer, on-air talent and more. To kick off this collaboration, Adam Sharp, President and鈥
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Peter Bobkowski will join the School of Media and Journalism this fall as 黑料网鈥檚 second Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, dedicated to leading national efforts to revitalize journalism in the nation's high schools.
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For Kent State digital media production majors like Cyrus Adkins, 鈥23, senior year is marked by the opportunity to create a television or digital film project from start to finish. This is part of the capstone course, Production II, and from it, comes student-produced short鈥
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As television industry leaders prepare for the future, they are looking to get today鈥檚 college students involved in major industry events, like the regional and national Emmy Awards.
On March 14, two leaders from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)鈥
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The Kent State School of Media and Journalism (MDJ) welcomed Mizell Stewart III, award winning reporter, corporate news executive and president and CEO of Emerging Leaders LLC, to give the third annual Dix Media Ethics Lecture, 鈥淛ournalism as a Civic Good,鈥 on March 1, 2023.
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Mandy Jenkins began her robust journalism career during a time where the news industry was changing quickly, and faculty who taught her say she was particularly well-suited for this challenge.
鈥淚 could see that she thought on a trajectory that was light-years ahead of other鈥
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Walking down the streets of Manhattan, surrounded by 49 college students of diverse backgrounds, Kent State student Rafael Guedes Bonacin, 鈥23, felt at home, even though he was far from his native Brazil.