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Meet the Journalism Alumni Society: Brian Hayes
Educational Background: MAE Educational Administration and Supervision, Ball State University, 2010 MA Journalism, Ball State University, 2002 BS Journalism, Ball State University, 1996 Professional Experience: Hayes has a wide range of professional experience. He worked at Lawrence North High School teaching journalism, communications and photography from […]
Meet the Journalism Alumni Society: Michael Holmes
Educational Background: PhD Speech Communication , University of Minnesota, 1991 MS Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1986 BA Speech Communication, Southwestern Minnesota State University, 1985 Professional Experience: Michael Holmes began his academic career in 1990 as a faculty member of Purdue University. He joined the communication department […]
Journalism program welcomes Dr. Blom
Robin Blom joins the Ball State journalism program after serving as an instructor and teaching assistant at Michigan State University and Point Park University. His research focuses on a number of issues including media law, memory and cognition, eyewitness identification and news media perceptions. Dr. Blom’s professional experience includes numerous news articles for national and […]
iMedia initiative provides students with leading edge technology
This fall, the award-winning student magazine Ball Bearings continued its tradition of providing a multimedia, cross-platform approach to storytelling with the launch of an interactive iPad edition. The digital magazine, which is available through the Apple App Store, is the culmination of two years of work by the iMedia faculty to help students develop interactive […]
Alumna nabs position at Time magazine
Chelsea Kardokus has traded the quiet streets of Muncie and the surroundings of Ball State University for the bright lights and sounds of New York City. Kardokus, a 2012 journalism graphics sequence graduate, recently acquired a position as a freelance assistant art director with Time magazine. While this latest endeavor represents the culmination of hark […]
Journalism revamps master of arts curriculum
The “traditional” journalist is changing rapidly, and Ball State University has taken notice in terms of revamping its curriculum to equip this new and growing generation of news contributors. Following nearly two years of planning and development, the Department of Journalism has revised its master of arts curriculum for the journalism graduate program. After all, […]
News-Ink allows students to contribute to local papers
Ball State students are taking their journalistic skills to the next level with the development of a new, comprehensive program that showcases students’ reporting and multimedia talents to readers of two nearby newspapers. News-Ink, launched in January 2012, operates as a student-driven news bureau for the Winchester News-Gazette and Hartford City News-Times. The project, funded […]
International students develop journalistic skills on campus
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines were just a few of the countries represented on campus this past summer by aspiring young journalists from across the globe. Although each of these students represented unique cultural backgrounds and were only on campus for a five-week study program, all left with an increased knowledge about new media and […]
Happy Birthday AEJMC!
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) officially turned 100 on November 30, 2012. As the celebration of AEJMC’s centennial continues, Ball State’s Department of Journalism joined in the excitement with a birthday cake as hundreds of other colleges and universities are planning similar celebrations. AEJMC is a nonprofit organization of more […]