Award-winning and multitalented journalist Tom Verducci, who has been honored for his work in a variety of mediums, will present the commencement address for the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications during exercises May 4 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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.
Ashanti Rubin and Rachel Tasker, seniors in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, were selected to serve as NFL public relations assistants at the Super Bowl.
Fully autonomous vehicles may not be crisscrossing the United States just yet, but they are causing traffic on news sites and social media. New research shows this heavy media coverage influences how the public perceives the vehicles, which can have lasting effects on the emerging technology and society.
Alumnus excited about creation of Media Innovator-in-Residence Fund in Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
Faculty member's yearlong study focuses on availability and cost of internet access in Pennsylvania — and the potential for investment to solve the problem.
Award-winning director and writer Megan Griffiths will screen her latest film, "Sadie," at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 in Carnegie Cinema on the University Park campus.
A book-launch event to celebrate "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia," written by Alex Fattal, an assistant professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Penn State, will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 at Webster’s Bookstore Café in State College.
A research team led by a Penn State faculty member was one of 20 projects — from a pool of over 600 proposals from around the world — selected to receive funding from WhatsApp to study misinformation.
A large contingent of researchers and scholars will represent Penn State at the annual National Communication Association Convention, Nov. 8-11.
An open design to encourage collaboration and creativity anchors state-of-the-art plans for the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center, set to open in the heart of Penn State’s University Park campus in 2020.
Ten Penn State students have been selected as the inaugural group of Bellisario College Fellows in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. The 10 students, two each from the Bellisario College’s five majors, were selected after initial faculty recommendations and by completing a rigorous application process that included reviews by alumni and faculty, as well as personal interviews.
Mary Beth Oliver, a Penn State faculty member renowned for her research in entertainment psychology and her mentorship of students, has been named the inaugural Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Media Studies.
Joe Cruz does not have a one-track mind. If he did, he wouldn’t be in his third year of doctoral work in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where he studies politics through the lenses of comic books, film and social media.
