BY CARA PESEK
J Alumni News staff
Since the 1980s, thousands of refugees have rebuilt their lives in Lincoln. They’ve come from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bosnia, China, Sudan and dozens of other countries, placed by resettlement agencies, or relocating in…
BY Mary Garbacz
J Alumni News editor
The Innovators in Residence program brings students and media innovators and entrepreneurs together. Innovators in Residence in the college to date are Shiv Bhaskar Dravid, founder and chief executive of The Viewspaper…
By BRITTANY McNEAL
Imagine a world where news only comes in the form of a newspaper in the morning and the evening news at night. Getting directions takes a paper map or a stop at a gas station. And Facebook?…
by MICHAEL RIESE
Imagine having the opportunity to study in a Zen temple or a small coastal village or on the Isle of Crete.
In the past year, 71 students from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications studied in…
by McKENZIE WESSLING
Last summer, Jenna Gibson, Jamie Klein and Kate Veik got paid to eat mangos in Burkina Faso, watch dancers over dinner in an Ethiopian restaurant, sightsee in an African nature preserve and, finally, write about the scientists…
By NATE POHLEN
Growing up, Andy Boyle noticed his dad reading the Omaha World-Herald in the living room every day.
For a young, aspiring journalist from South Sioux City, writing for the state’s largest paper seemed like a dream job…
Lincoln, Neb., July 28th, 2010 — Matt Waite, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Politifact.com, will teach this fall in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Waite will teach a new course, “Developing…
By CHARLYNE BERENS
If one goal of higher education is to make students’ world bigger, the journalism college has found an efficient and cost-effective way to do that: Get students from UNL talking in real time with college…
By JEREMY STEELE
J Alumni News staff
Karoline Kastanek probably isn’t the first college student to discover a new type of beer on spring break — but she may be the only one getting paid to study it.
Kastanek,…
By BECKY GAILEY
J Alumni News staff
Elicia Dover loves New York.
“I think everything happens here,” the recent UNL grad said. “You can walk down the street and always see someone doing something cool and new. There is…
By BECKY GAILEY
J Alumni News staff
Sean McMullen and fellow UNL meteorology major Doug Meyers share a common goal: They want to be your local weatherman.
“Weather is a common conversation topic, and it affects everybody whether you…
By JENNA GIBSON
J Alumni News staff
Andrea Vasquez became a journalism student to write. She transferred into the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the end of her freshman year, expecting to learn how to report and…
By EMILY NOHR
J Alumni News staff
Imagine an out-of-towner approaching you while you’re shopping for groceries, filling up for gas or driving down Main Street in your small, rural community in Nebraska.
He says he’s a professor at…
By JANELLE KEELER
J Alumni News staff
McCann and BBDO may be big names in the advertising agency world in New York, but that’s not the only place they can be found. Nine UNL students recently visited both in…
By SUE BURZYNSKI BULLARD
Three UNL students joined journalism students from 12 top U.S. universities last summer to produce in-depth news coverage on key issues facing America.
The students — Courtnee Lowe, Ford Clark and Astrid Munn — used innovative…
By JESSICA SIMPSON
J Alumni News staff
Four study abroad opportunities offered by the College of Journalism and Mass Communication support the college’s growing effort to extend education beyond the United States.
Summer 2010 trips to Japan, Greece, Southeast…
By JOHNNA HJERSMAN
J Alumni News staff
For nearly 50 years, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internships have been a mark of journalism prestige.
Students earning the highly competitive internships receive some of the best training available, giving…
