Thirty-two members of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications are participating in or being recognized at the 102nd Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference Aug. 7-10 in Toronto.
Bellisario College doctoral student Carlina DiRusso is completing a summer internship with the global public relations firm Ketchum to learn more about the field and to enhance her skills in the classroom to benefit Penn State undergraduate students.
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed's journey to earning a doctoral degree from Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications began 5,000 miles away in her hometown of Tamale, Ghana, when she was working at one of the local radio stations after high school.
Two of six participants selected for a national program pairing educators with media organizations to focus on how technology is changing the way news is delivered have connections to the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
A contingent of more than 50 faculty members, graduate students and alumni from the Bellisario College of Communications represented Penn State at the recent International Communication Association conference in Washington, D.C.
An award-winning faculty member in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications has earned a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research and teach in Greece during the 2019-20 academic year.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, one of the largest, most respected, media-related charitable foundations in the United States, has provided a $100,000 grant to support construction of the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center at Penn State.
Film Professor Pearl Gluck has produced a short, call-to-action film featuring actors whose credits include “Atlanta,” “Law and Order” and “Orange is the New Black,” for the New Jersey-based The Nature Conservancy. The film will be available online on Earth Day, April 22.
The inaugural winner of the David Ethics Award, Anita Varma of Stanford University, suggests journalists would do better to aim for a sense of "solidarity" with the plight of marginalized groups rather than trying to cultivate empathy.
For graduate student Bumgi Min, experience drives his research ideas. It was a chance meeting with North Korean refugees that sparked his interest in refugee communications, and it was a conversation with a student that led Min to his dissertation idea.
Three Penn State alumni and former Nittany Lions now starring in the NFL will return to campus April 12, the day before the Blue-White Game, to participate in a panel discussion about the business of football at 4:30 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Center.
Danese Kenon, director of photography and video for The Philadelphia Inquirer, will present a free public lecture titled “Digital Storytelling and Tips on How to Land a Job in the Newsroom” at 7 p.m. April 2 in 117 Henderson Building at University Park.
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers, who worked a quarter century at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before being fired last year after the paper’s editorial director refused to publish several of his cartoons, will discuss journalism ethics at 7 p.m. March 26 in Kern Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus.
Victor Pickard, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Confronting the Misinformation Society” as the spring 2019 Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library.
Faculty member's yearlong study focuses on availability and cost of internet access in Pennsylvania — and the potential for investment to solve the problem.
