Jay Stahl, an award-winning journalist and entertainment reporter with USA Today, will headline Greenlee’s Black History Month celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 20, with a reading and question-and-answer session in Hamilton Hall’s Commons (613 Wallace Road, Ames). The free event runs from 6-8 p.m. and kicks off with a Black History trivia contest hosted by Greenlee’s Student Media Leadership Team (SMLT).
In the fall 2023 semester, I spent weeks working with a real client in PR 321, “Public Relations Writing.” This experience opened my eyes to career possibilities in content creation and social media planning.
Seventeen students in the public relations campaigns class set out to create a connected community among their peers at Iowa State University. The initiative, called MIND SPACE, was part of a campaign competition the students participated in for their PR 424 class project. Ultimately, the students achieved their goal, and won the national competition.
Jan Lauren Boyles, associate director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University and associate professor, will serve as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism this summer.
This past summer, I was a sports information and communications intern at the Iowa High School Athletic Association. I got to spend my time working state events, running social media, dabbling in web design, strengthening my Adobe software skills and building my professionalism in a workplace.
The White House Historical Association, in partnership with Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, have awarded Cleo Westin with the Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship in Journalism.
Even before her first day of classes at Iowa State, Mia Kawamitsu (’24 journalism and mass communication, international studies) sought out leads to write a future story. Her story, that is. The summer before her freshman year of college, she clicked through Iowa State’s website listings of over 800 student organizations and selected the ones she wanted to pursue.
For my 499A internship, I had the privilege of working with the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau, also known as Discover Ames. My experience with this nonprofit organization has been nothing short of remarkable, providing me with valuable insights, connections and opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.
Students in the Greenlee School produced their first episode of the brand-new show “EverGreenlee News” Nov. 7. All semester, students in assistant teaching professor Tony Moton’s Broadcast Media Production course learned and practiced with the production equipment in the Student Innovation Center’s digital media studio in preparation for creating the TV news show.
This summer I had an incredible opportunity to dive into the world of social media and copywriting through my content internship with Deksia. Deksia is an advertising agency with locations across several states, including Iowa. As a content intern, I got to learn and grow my skills in social media planning and management, content writing, and project collaboration across several teams.