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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

Each year for four years, emeritus professor Bud Pagel has taken a handful of talented beginning reporting students to Nebraska newspapers to report and write a series of stories for the papers. The three-day experience gives students the opportunity for…

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 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 MEKITA RIVAS
J Alumni News staff

It’s time to socialize.

As daily life becomes increasingly packed with status updates and tweets, Social Media Club, a national organization encouraging user of all social media to connect, has arrived at…

By SUE BURZYNSKI BULLARD

What do you get if you ask college students to give up a sunny autumn Saturday to spend all day inside a classroom learning about editing, math, bias and more?

Answer:  Six enthusiastic members of UNL’s…