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Making the Headlines in 2017

December 31, 2017

Students and faculty at the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) have a front row seat to history and this year was particularly up close and personal...

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SMPA Announces 2017-18 Manheim-Sterling Prize Recipients

Student projects will tell the story of Haitians working to rebuild their own country and explore the intersection of partisanship and emotion.

December 23, 2017

Koralie Barrau, a senior studying Journalism and Mass Communication, and Steven Kelly, a senior studying Political Communication, are the 2017-18...

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Alumnus Wins Emmy Award for PBS Production

PBS NewsHour producer Jason Kane took home an Emmy for “The End of AIDS?” in the News & Documentary category.

December 20, 2017

What’s the best way to score a job at PBS NewsHour and become an Emmy-winning producer?

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Hitting the Internship Jackpot at the American Gaming Association

December 19, 2017

This fall I interned at the American Gaming Association, better known as AGA, a trade association representing the casino industry in the United States.

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Student-Professor Byline Makes The Washington Post Front Page

December 18, 2017

Debbie Cenziper, an assistant professor at SMPA and investigative reporter at The Washington Post, and M.A. student Scott Nover garnered bylines on...

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Setting the Stage for Innovative Research Techniques

Kerric Harvey Appointed Inaugural Visiting Fellow for New Research Methods at Centre for Imaginative Ethnography

December 5, 2017

Kerric Harvey was appointed the inaugural Visiting Fellow for New Research Methods at Canada’s Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE), a transnational...