Graduate Studies

Greenlee professor updates ‘Global Journalism’ book
How many students get to say their professor was the editor of their textbook? Not many. And yet that’s exactly what University Professor Daniela Dimitrova… Read More

February 5, 2025
Greenlee alum visits with students, provides international communications insight
Greenlee alum Etse Sikanku visited with Greenlee undergraduate and graduate students during the second week of classes this fall semester to share professional tips with aspiring journalists and offer advice to future communication scholars. Read More

September 16, 2024
Greenlee graduate student presents AI research paper at international conference
Richard Mensah Adonu, a graduate student in journalism and mass communication, spoke at the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, last September. Adonu presented his academic paper “Investigative Journalism in The New Age: Examining the Use of AI Tools in Investigative Journalism Practices in Ghana.” Read More

April 5, 2024
Dimitrova reflects on Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Vienna
During the summer 2022 semester, Iowa State University Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication Professor Daniela Dimitrova traveled to Vienna, Austria, for a Fulbright Fellowship. The University of Vienna hosted Dimitrova as Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences. Read More

October 19, 2022
Greenlee alumnus breaks barriers for journalistic research in Ghana
A Greenlee master’s program alumnus took talents back to a place he knew better than any other: home. Since leaving Iowa State, Dr. Etse Sikanku has invested his wealth of knowledge to challenge the systematic barriers of research in Ghana. Since leaving Iowa State, Dr. Etse Sikanku has invested his wealth of knowledge to challenge the systematic barriers of research in Ghana. Read More

April 22, 2021
Graduate students study relationship between food and media in Greenlee seminar course
Graduate students learned how media products can be used to tell stories, share news and unite people for a greater cause around food systems in a course taught by Laura Witzling, assistant professor in the Greenlee School. Read More

January 7, 2021
Novotny Lawrence to present LAS Dean’s Lecture Nov. 5
Associate Professor Novotny Lawrence will present the Fall 2020 Dean’s Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. online. The lecture, “White Mansions, Black Bodies: Jordan Peele’s 'Get Out' and the New Age Slave Plantation,” will discuss the horror thriller, demonstrating the ways in which the director employs traditional filmmaking storytelling tropes to examine contemporary racial politics. Read More

October 15, 2020
Co-author of ‘McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory’ textbook visits Greenlee graduate class
Dr. Mark Deuze, author of "McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory," the seminal textbook in the field, spoke to Greenlee School graduate students as a guest lecturer in Professor Daniela Dimitrova's Fall 2020 Theories of Mass Communication course. Read More

October 5, 2020
Professor Jay Newell receives Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship
Jay Newell, Greenlee professor and associate director, is the 2020 recipient of the Greenlee School’s Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship recognizing excellence in advertising and/or public relations education. It was made possible by Iowa State alumna Denise Essman (’73 marketing) in memory of her late husband, Allen K. Essman, an alumnus, distinguished advertising professional and former instructor. Read More

September 29, 2020
My adventure co-authoring and presenting a paper at AEJMC as a Greenlee master’s student
Second-year Greenlee master's student Lexi He co-authored a paper with Professor Angela Powers on alternative and mainstream local news competition and the COVID-19 pandemic. She presented the research at the virtual AEJMC conference in August 2020. Read More

September 14, 2020