In our high-speed, high-tech, linked-up world, students who have mastered online research and social media sometimes find themselves intimidated by good, old-fashioned networking.
Loyola graduate and Livingston Award winner, Abbie Boudreau (Communication) is joining ABC News as a correspondent in the Los Angeles Bureau according to ABC News President David Westin. She joins David Wright and Mike Von Fremd as bureau correspondents and will report for all broadcasts and platforms, including “World News with Diane Sawyer,” “Nightline,” [...]
It’s a challenge, certainly, to find an internship in the United States while you are studying abroad. But it can be done, and resourceful Loyola students are finding ways to make it happen.
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Chicago Tonight anchor Phil Ponce and a panel of distinguished journalists and commentators will discuss media coverage of President Barack Obama at Promises Kept/Promises Broken: The Media’s Midterm Assessment of Barack Obama, an upcoming forum at Loyola University Chicago. The free event, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, September 14, will feature:
Mary [...]
By Jamason Chen
That was almost 2 months ago, my first trip to Las Vegas, the trip I had never thought I’d like to make. But that was an inspiring trip, seeing the “sin” city and the very innovative media technology showcase. This blog is a delayed on-site report what I saw in the show mostly, [...]
Should there be no restrictions whatever, making these spaces free-fire zones?
By John Slania
I’m an old school journalism professor.
I insist that my students conduct interviews either face-to-face or by telephone.
A voice conversation allows for much richer interviews, as the questions and answers are spontaneous and usually more enlightening.
But recently, one of my students used the new social media tools to score a scoop.
In my Reporting and [...]
What the heck is news literacy? I had a primer two weeks ago when I sat down with three grant officers from the McCormick Foundation and Don Heider, dean of the school of communication at Loyola University Chicago.
Most literacy projects are aimed at American youth. According to the folks at McCormick, [...]
By Don Heider
When I learned how to type, it was actually on a typewriter. Those who know me well will be surprised to read that I claim to know how to type, because somewhere along the way, my typing deteriorated into the four-finger newsroom peck. I learned to type, really type, in eighth grade. I [...]
By John Slania
Students in Loyola University Chicago’s School of Communication are eligible to receive awards and scholarships as part of the SOC’s annual Awards Ceremony.
Faculty can nominate students, or students can nominate themselves.
Nominations forms are available at the reception desk on the second floor of the School of Communication, 51 E. Pearson Street, Chicago, Il. [...]
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These small towns are where some of the most precious gems, and most exciting news, are often hidden by outsider misconceptions. But journalists must be curious. It is our job to find these stories and give a voice to people who have simply never been asked about their lives before
Once you start looking [for women religious in popular culture], they are everywhere. Murphy wanted to make sense of why the U.S. seemed to be the only nation to portray women religious in this way.
Watch 2012 STUDENT Winners BEA Festival of Media Arts Student Video Competition Music Video 1st Place: Jake Brusha, Loyola University Chicago Rome Has Fallen -Point Place
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