School of Journalism & Electronic Media

UT Today newscast places first in state AP competition

Three Journalism and Electronic Media students placed first in a state broadcast competition.

Chelsea Jensen Koerten ('13), Brooke Fraser ('12) and Kristyn Royster ('12) received highest honors in the college division of the 2013 Tennessee AP Broadcasters Awards for Best TV Newscast.

Koerten, Fraser and Royster produced the winning 30-minute newscast last spring for UT Today, taught by Dr. Sam Swan. It aired on WBIR-TV on May 13, 2012.

"This was a group effort of about 30 students," says Royster. "It took a lot of collaborating with reporters, anchors and crew to make this happen."

Fraser says winning the award is a bonus to an already rewarding experience.

"This was a great project for all of us and one I repeatedly got asked about last semester as I was interviewing for jobs," says Fraser, who works for NBC in New York. "Many employers found it very impressive and a great opportunity to prepare for the real world."

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WSJ journalist to speak at CCI 2013 Commencement

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Monica Langley, a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal, will deliver the the spring commencement address for the College of Communication and Information (CCI) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

She will address graduates and their families at 8:30am on Thursday, May 9, in Thompson-Boling Assembly Center and Arena.

Langley is the Journal’s preeminent writer of the page-one profile, particularly of CEOs, billionaires, presidential candidates and key figures in the news. Her in-depth articles regularly appear on the front page of the Journal, where she has reported for nearly 25 years from New York and Washington DC.

Langley graduated with highest honors in journalism from the University of Tennessee in 1980. In addition to being the managing editor of the Daily Beacon, she was named a Torchbearer. She is also the recipient of CCI’s highest honor: The Donald G. Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award.

She has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University and of First Amendment law at Georgetown University Law Center. Also, a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia and Tennessee, she was a corporate lawyer for several years.

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Tennessee Journalism Series publishes 10th iBook

Penny Press iBook Cover Image The Tennessee Journalism added a new title to its line of iBooks. The newest titled "The Devil and His Due: James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and the Beginnings of Modern Journalism," by Dr. Dwight Teeter is now available on the iBookstore.

Teeter was assisted in this venture by JEM 499 student David Doyle, who designed the book and added many of the multimedia features. Dr. Ed Caudill also appears in videos in the book where he talks about the importance of the Penny Press.

The book can be found on the iBookstore here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-devil-and-his-due/id639595273?ls=1

This is the 10th book in the Tennessee Journalism Series. A couple of others are near completion, and I should be announcing those very shortly.

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PhD student Natalie Manayeva accepted to American Association for Public Opinion Research 68th Annual Conference

Manayeva Profile Image JEM Ph.D. Student Natalie Manayeva is accepted for the The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 68th Annual Conference in Boston on May 16-19, 2013 with the paper "Outside looking in: An examination of the kaleidoscopic nature of international public opinion of the United States during the Bush and Obama Presidencies", co-authored with Political Science Ph.D. Student Alexandra Brewer and Dr. Mike R. Fitzgerald, Professor at the UT Department of Political Science.

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Fundraising website set up for JEM grad injured in Afghanistan

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A fundraising page has been set up for Kelly Hunt, the JEM graduate injured in Afghanistan.

The page titled "Climbing for Kelly" on YouCaring.com has met its fundraising goal, but dontations are still being accepted. The page has been set up by Kelly's friends who write this:

"Our friend, Kelly Hunt, is a Public Diplomacy Officer with the U.S. State Department. She's a great friend. She's been in Afghanistan promoting human rights and was excited to be there. On April 6, 2013, she was injured in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and is currently in hospital in Germany in critical condition.

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UPDATE: Six JEM students recognized for their work on four videos

Six Journalism and Electronic Media students have been recognized for their work on four videos.

The promotional video “Streetwise: Burn the Night - Trailer,” created by Emily Blocher and Hanna-Margaret Allen, was the first place winner for CCI and one of the Best of Show winners for the overall competition in the recent Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) competition at UT.

It has also won first place in the promotional category at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts.

Gabi Caballero, a JEM senior, and Sara Corkern, a JEM junior, received top honors in the Free Range Video Contest with their documentaries. The videos tied for first place.

Caballero's entry titled "Effervescence: The art of dancing through the mask of a scuba diver" was guided by JEM Associate Professor Bob Legg.

Corkern's "Deweyeyes" profiled two recovering drug addicts who use music to aid in their recovery. The video was originally created in JEM 422 instructed by JEM Lecturer Melanie Faizer.

Placing third in the competition was another JEM 422 project. MC Suhocki and Molly Morgan were awarded for their Instragram-spoof titled "Instafail."

During the screening, the audience voted for the audience favorite documentary. Awards were also given to the top three videos chosen by a committee of student and faculty film and storytelling enthusiasts.

The annual Free Range Video Contest is sponsored by the Studio in the Hodges Library Commons. The contest was open to all UT students, faculty, and staff. Entrants were able to borrow cameras and get technical help in the Studio.

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