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by Michele Zipkin

Rosalyn Mizgorski: A Passion for Financial Literacy

Communications Studies major Roslyn Mizgorski started Temple's first financial awareness organization for students in the fall of 2016. It is the local iteration of the national organization, Generation Financial Knowledge Development (GenFKD), initially created by college students in 2013. "Our generation is not getting the proper financial literacy education that we need," Mizgorski said. "People don't realize that finance is going to be a huge aspect of their life, no matter what their major is." GenFKD consists of three or four workshops per semester, featuring guest lecture...
by Finnian Saylor

Philly Ad Club Visits Comcast Headquarters

Hosted by the Philly Ad Club, Klein College students visited Comcast's Headquarters this spring, learning from industry professionals about technology and advertising innovations. Their visit included tours of the media company's Innovation Lab, a panel session with advertising and marketing professionals and a networking discussion related to career opportunities with the company.  Senior advertising student, Shawn Armato, felt the visit gave him a fresh perspective on the company. He said, "I thought the Innovation Lab gave us a great sneak peek into the future capabilities o...
by Montana Bassett

Mark Pokedoff’s “Happy Accident”

Covering one of the greatest sports spectacles of year has almost become routine for Klein College alum and sports production specialist, Mark Pokedoff, who recently finished his 16th Stanley Cup assignment. He also just received his fifth Sports Emmy; this time for his coverage of beach volleyball in the Rio Olympics under the category "Outstanding Technical Team Remote."Pokedoff was, of course, not always as prominent as he is today. 15 years after he left Temple, he first became a freelance journalist.It was fairly new at the time and the networks were just starting to employ...

DocumentCloud, an annotation tool for journalists, moves to Klein College at Temple University

PHILADELPHIA - Aug. 1, 2017 - DocumentCloud, an open-source platform used by thousands of newsrooms to share, analyze and publish documents, will receive $250,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build additional features and develop a payment plan allowing users to support the platform directly. DocumentCloud was created with the support from the Knight News Challenge in 2009 and became a project of the Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2011. The platform now hosts more than 3.6 million source documents, which collectively have been viewed...
by Michele Zipkin

Alumni Profile: Craig Shoemaker

Craig Shoemaker, KLN '82, wears many hats. He has a successful standup comedy career, has appeared in the TV shows "Matlock" and "Parks and Recreation," had small roles in the films "Witness" and "Blowout," and has written books including the best-selling "LoveMaster'd." At Temple University, Shoemaker studied in the Department of Radio-Television-Film (known as Media Studies and Production today). Shoemaker's work experiences reflected the diversity of his class at Temple. "I was never very specific like my friend Billy [Goldenberg] who went on to be a film editor," Shoemaker s...
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