By MITCH SMITH
Mitch Smith is a journalism major who will begin his second year at UNL in August. Originally from Overland Park, Kan., Smith was the winner of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas…
By CAMERON KLITZ
J Alumni News staff
Discovering what one wants to do after college graduation can be tough. As a double major in journalism and theater, Mai Mijoe Sahiouni wasn’t sure about her career goals —…
By MOLLIE ADAM
J Alumni News staff
During spring semester, 13 students were enrolled in the first half of a yearlong depth report on Bolivia — but one of the students was never in class.
The “absent” student was…
By COLIN CLIFFORD
J Alumni News staff
Imagine being given an assignment on something you know nothing about. A project so demanding that it’s a government matter. Now imagine being a sophomore in college and having this…
By ALIA CONLEY
J Alumni News staff
When Elise Hernandez introduced herself onstage at dinner reception in New York City for promising minority advertising students, she uttered a catch phrase that any student from Nebraska would say.
Go Big…
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 ELIZABETH STEHLIK
J Alumni News staff
It’s late on a Wednesday evening, and Les Rose is making the two-hour drive back to his home in Los Angeles. He shifts a little in his seat, stretching his shoulders, which…
Mitch Smith leaves for Gabon May 8. You can keep up with Smith’s blogs at http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/.
Mitch Smith, a 19-year-old from Overland Park, Kan., has been selected to go on a reporting trip to Africa this summer with…
By ERIN STARKEBAUM
It’s not easy to be a journalist in Mexico.
That was clear quickly to the 10 students who spent two weeks on the island of Cozumel in late May, studying the media in a developing country.
The…
By Emily Nohr
J Alumni News staff
Matt Gersib was five years out of college when he was approached about mentoring a Public Relations Student Society of America member.
The J school alum thought it sounded like…
It sounds like a dream: an internships on “Late Night with David Letterman.” But for one journalism graduate student, the dream has come true. Carson Stokebrand, in just his second semester of graduate school at CoJMC, is in New York,…
By KIONNA COMER
J Alumni News staff
Matt Buxton’s deep interest in telling stories has paid off in a big way for the senior news-editorial major.
Last summer, Buxton learned new ways to tell stories by participating in the…
By JESSICA WILLIAMS
J Alumni News staff
The buildings are taller and the streets are more crowded in New York City, but 14 CoJMC advertising students from UNL had no trouble navigating the heart of the U.S. advertising industry…
By TAWNY BURMOOD, NICOLE MANSKE and JACLYN TAN
J Alumni News staff
After two weeks in Germany, some students came back to Nebraska last summer re-thinking their career goals.
Others simply came back with a…
T-shirts can help tell the world who you are. Now, one of the things your shirt can say is that you support the J school.
The CoJMC Student Advisory Board is selling T-shirts to raise funds to help recruit and…
By DAMIEN CROGHAN and SUE BURZYNSKI BULLARD
J Alumni News staff
For the first time, CoJMC advertising students were among the finalists last June in the regional National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC), a prestigious program sponsored by the American…
By JENNA GIBSON
J Alumni News staff
A class at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is giving new meaning to loving your car.
An advertising and public relations campaigns class has spent the semester working on an integrated marketing campaign…
By JESSICA SIMPSON
J Alumni News staff
Back in the spring of 2007 as gas prices soared, ethanol was front-page news in Nebraska. At the same time, the CoJMC faculty members were brainstorming topics for an in-depth reporting class.…
