BY Mary Garbacz
J Alumni News editor
A team of CoJMC advertising/public relations students is working with students in UNL’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management in a new collaboration to become involved with the origins…
Digital Media India: What I learned last summer
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BY Hailey Konnath
J Alumni News staff
Hailey Konnath was one of 19 UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications students who participated in the India study-abroad experience. In this story, Hailey describes what she learned.
The day I…
Summer study trip to Southeast Asia a learning leap
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BY Teresa Lostroh
J Alumni News staff
Paige Cornwell stood on the beach in Trincomalee, a port city in eastern Sri Lanka, armed with a camera and a notebook, talking to a man whose house had been wiped out…
Alissa Skelton called up to the New York Times
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BY Teresa Lostroh
J Alumni News staff
New media is a global phenomenon, and CoJMC students have seen firsthand how journalism and advertising professionals are working to embrace the change across the Atlantic.
Seventeen students from the College of…
Miss Nebraska-USA faces personal grief
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by CAROLINE BRAUER
When Belinda Wright left small-town Nebraska for a UNL education in public relations she had no idea she would be representing herself and her state on a national stage. In May 2010 Wright had the opportunity to…
Inside out, upside down
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by JAMIE SWINARSKI
One decision may certainly throw you; turn your life inside out, upside down. This was made literal for senior broadcasting major Garret Durst, around midnight on August 9, 2009.
Earlier that day, Durst had nothing…
Washington Post’s Emily Ingram credits ACES with helping her make smooth transition from college to work
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by SUE BURZYNSKI BULLARD
As a University of Nebraska student, Emily Ingram was one of just five students nationally to win an ACES scholarship last April.
Just a few months later, she was hired as an overnight producer at
By BRANDI KRUSE
Kruse placed first in the Hearst Broadcast News National Championships in New York City June 8-12. She earned a $5,000 prize and a Hearst medallion, and won an additional $1,000 prize for Best Use of Radio for…
An opportunity to see the human side
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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 —…
A new twist on distance ed
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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…
Making connections
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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…
From master of the story to master of arts
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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…
Students study media, culture in Cozumel
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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…
PR mentors pay it forward
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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…
Dreaming of Dave
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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,…
