Faculty/Staff
JMC Professors Receive Kentucky Communication Association Awards
Public Relations Alumna Krista Kimmel (PR 2002) awarded Dr. Melony Shemberger and Dr. MarcieHinton top prizes at the 2023 Kentucky Communication Association (KCA) Annual Conference.In her capacity as First Vice-President of KCA, Kimmel presented the awards on behalf of theorganization to Hinton at a different state meeting, who accepted on behalf of Shemberger andherself. Shemberger […]
Read MoreTarracina-Hartman Accepts First Amendment Award
Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, assistant professor in journalism and mass communications, was honored with the Louis E. Ingelhart First Amendment Award by the College Media Association on Oct. 31, 2023, at the organization’s fall national convention in Atlanta, Georgia. College Media Association President Chris Whitley said this award is not one that is presented everyyear, but […]
Read MoreTerracina-Hartman contributes at AEJMC national conference
Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, assistant professor of journalism, also serves as the vice head for the Magazine Media division of The Association for Education in Journalism & MassCommunication. This past August, she planned programming for the annual conference in Washington, D.C. This involved 12 sessions, partnering with Broadcast and Mobile Media Journalism, Critical Cultural Studies, Communicating […]
Read MoreWright lands award in national teaching competition
Leigh Landini Wright, student media adviser and associate professor of journalism, won honorable mention in the Best Practices in Teaching competition at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference in August. Wright’s poster presentation focused on her journalism capstone’s digital project, the 270 Stories. The 270 Stories website tells the story of rebuilding, hope […]
Read MoreJMC faculty to teach one-credit residential college classes
How would you like to take a class about Star Trek? What about movies in journalism? Or social justice? Those are the themes of three one-hour elective classes that will be taught in the residential colleges during the second-half semester. These courses are listed as IDC 199 in MyGate. Dr. Debbie Owens will teach “Let’s […]
Read MoreMcGaughey lecture: If you missed it, here’s the recording
Courier-Journal political cartoonist Marc Murphy spoke about the value of dissent during the inaugural McGaughey Lecture on Press Freedom and Responsibility on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at Murray State University. In case you missed it, here’s a link to the lecture:
Read MoreJMC faculty present research, teaching ideas on national stage
JMC faculty provide service and discuss their research at a variety of national conferences. * Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, adviser to the Murray State News, presented her paper “How a pandemic and social justice movement prompted student journalists to rethink the campus magazine” at the AEJMC national convention in Detroit in August 2022. She also was […]
Read MoreA note from the chair
During the slightly more-than-a-year that I have served as JMC chair, I coordinated our efforts in the once-every-six years monumental task known as, “The Self-Study.” It is a comprehensive report on our department that is submitted to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Everyone in the department was involved, to some […]
Read MoreLongtime GCM instructor Gross Magee dies
William Gross Magee, who taught photography and graphic communications at Murray State University, died Aug. 31 at Mercy Health in Paducah. Magee taught at Murray State for 25 years. He wrote and produced the book “Mammoth Cave Photographic Co. Then and Now.” The book took readers on a visual tour of the world’s longest cave […]
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