INDIANAPOLIS—Outgoing Editor in Chief Danielle Ferguson accepted top honors on behalf of the Iowa State Daily and incoming Editor in Chief Emily Barske took top honors for feature writing at the recent Region 7 “Mark of Excellence” competition by the Society of Professional Journalists. Region 7 includes schools in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. First-place … Continue reading Iowa State Daily Nets Two Regional Awards
Throughout the 2015-16 school year, Alexander Hanson, sophomore in journalism and mass communication and political science, has led the Iowa State Daily’s political coverage as one of the student newspaper’s news editors. Hanson’s role has put him in contact with a number of presidential candidates, as they began their bids for their parties’ nominations in … Continue reading Sophomore Alex Hanson Selected as 2016 Hugh Sidey Scholar
After making it through multiple rounds of interviews, a record 11 Iowa State undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the Meredith Apprentice Program for the 2016-17 school year. These students were hand-picked by the Greenlee School’s Meredith Professional-in-Residence Deb Gibson, with input from the 2015-16 apprentices, to complete year-long apprenticeships with Meredith publications. … Continue reading Gibson Names 2016-17 Meredith Apprentices
Spoon University is a nationwide student-run organization new to Iowa State University. Spoon University’s mission is to simplify recipes for college students and to educate them on food hacks and local food and restaurants near their campus, all while helping students get practice in digital media and leadership. The groups is an online publiation, which … Continue reading After Gaining Students’ Interest, PR Majors Bring SpoonU to Campus
Did you miss the Greenlee Futures Forum: Digital Storytelling 101 with The Des Moines Register last week? No worries! We’ve got the key points from the event, so you can learn the tips and tricks that the Register’s Jason Noble, an ’03 Greenlee graduate, Courtney Crowder, and Amalie Nash have to share. Here are the … Continue reading Register Staffers Offer Digital Storytelling Advice at Spring 2016 Futures Forum
Richard Martinez, junior in journalism and mass communication and pre-law, and Rachel Geronimo, senior in journalism and mass communication, started working on a video project about the Iowa State Fashion Show almost a year ago, when they both worked at the Iowa State Daily. Their original idea was to produce a short video about the … Continue reading Students Take on Documentary Passion Project
Associate Professor Dennis Chamberlin reports that the 15 students participating in the Greenlee Study Abroad program in Urbino, Italy, are settled in and consider Urbino their new home. (While on an exhausting four-day visit to Florence with an art history professor a few students asked when they would be going “home” to Urbino.) In addition … Continue reading Greenlee Study Abroad Course Reports from Italy
Des Moines—Iowa State University students snared top honors Saturday in the AAF-Des Moines awards competition, winning “Best of Show” plus one Gold and three Silver prizes. The Greenlee School’s Alyssa Gonzalez and Maddi Ott won the top student prize for their Burt’s Bees print campaign developed in “Advertising Creativity” class. Other entries included students in … Continue reading Greenlee Wins Best of Show at AAF Awards
Mass media regularly attracts criticism for its coverage of this or lack of coverage of that. The Greenlee’s School’s fall Futures Forum focused on the realities and ethical dilemmas of today’s digitally-connected world and what implications that has and will continue to have on professional communicators and journalists. The forum titled, “Media: Informants or Enablers?” … Continue reading Futures Forum Highlights Importance of Ethics in Modern Media
The months leading up to the Iowa caucuses brings an endless parade of presidential candidates through the state and the national spotlight follows. Greenlee students have reported for class assignments and student media alongside members of the national press at candidates’ events across the state, but on Thursday one journalist, TIME’s Philip Elliott, stopped at … Continue reading Students get Insight, Advice from TIME’s Philip Elliott