COM Students Learn How to Report the Most Difficult Stories
Sarah Kess was a student at an all-girls high school in Ohio when the two planes flew into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. “Most of the girls were crying and trying to call home, and I just instinctively took a notebook out and was going up to people asking them where… Read More
podcasting partners in crime
“I’m so excited by this story—so excited,” Em Schulz says at the beginning of episode 86 of And That’s Why We Drink, a podcast focused on true crime and paranormal stories. “I’ve never done so much research,” Schulz says before launching into an hour-long rendition of the story of Harold the haunted doll, a possessed toy… Read More
TACKLING COMMUNICATIONS’ LACK OF DIVERSITY
When Ermolande Jean-Simon walked into her first master’s degree class at COM, she had a thought familiar to many people of color entering the communications business: where are all the people who look like me? “I was the only black person,” she says. Although COM does well by some diversity measures—28 percent of all students… Read More
In Search of Great Narrative
As he fought to gain purchase on the rain-greased log bridging a ravine, Mitchell Zuckoff tried not to think about the jagged rocks 15 feet below. He’d find out later that his guide for the trek through New Guinea’s isolated Shangri-La valley had a local pilot on standby in case they needed an emergency evacuation…. Read More
Grand prize for PR case study goes to COM students
Olivia Zed (‘19) and Sarah Dasher (‘19), graduate students in COM’s public relations program, together won the grand prize in April for their entry to the 2019 Case Study Competition in Corporate Communications sponsored by Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations. The case, “Dove: A Purpose-Driven Brand in A Crisis of… Read More
COM Researchers Study How Binge-Watching Netflix Warps Your Worldview
Online platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have transformed the way we watch television shows—instead of waiting for a new episode to come out once a week, viewers can now watch their favorite series whenever and wherever it’s convenient. It’s not uncommon for people to binge-watch popular shows, sometimes consuming an entire season (or… Read More
Tammy Vigil’s Book Moms in Chief Explores the Pitfalls Women in Politics Face
There may be no better time to talk about women’s political rhetoric than right now, with as many as five women already seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. And that makes publication of Tammy R. Vigil’s new book, Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992–2016 (University Press of Kansas, 2019),… Read More
From Rachael Ray Magazine to West Elm
On the first day of her first “real-world” job at Rachael Ray Every Day, journalism alumna Grace Rasmus (’15) was handed the keys to the magazine’s official Instagram account. Before she knew it, she was styling and shooting food content, producing videos, and managing digital strategy, while still writing and editing across their online and print publications…. Read More
Interview with ADVERTISING PROFESSOR DOUG GOULD
A professor of advertising at the College of Communication, Professor Doug Gould is one of the most influential names in the business today. He’s won pretty much all the major advertising awards, earned two Emmy nominations, and his Super Bowl spots (1, 2) have made it to two separate All-Time Top 5 Super Bowl Commercials lists…. Read More
Alum Celia Hubbard Produces Trailer for Professor’s Documentary Film
This is what it means to come full circle. It’s been six years since Celia Hubbard (’13) was a student in Garland Waller’s Hothouse Productions class, collaborating with a team of fellow filmmakers on an intensive, client-driven production. She produced a behind-the-scenes video highlighting the experience of creating a PSA for The No Project: a global… Read More