Klein Alumnus’ Company Played a Role In Biden’s Presidential Inauguration

by Emma Paige
July 29
"In January, we really needed something to bring us together and we really needed some things that were just something that everybody could watch and be a part of," said CEO and founder of event production company Synergetic Jason Weldon (he/him), KLN '03.On January 20, 2021, Parade Across America played on the screens of millions of Americans tuning in to watch the first-ever virtual Inauguration Day parade. A little over an hour into the event, the parade featured a performance of one of the Biden family's favorite songs, "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals, filmed in...

Klein’s Partnership with Resolve’s Broke in Philly Lays Foundations for Collaborative Work

by Lindsay Hargrave
July 27
Student journalists at Klein College of Media and Communication have been producing professional-quality work for years. Reporters at student news outlets such as WHIP, Temple Update and The Temple News are well-acquainted with covering city-wide issues from a student perspective, and so it is no surprise that these outlets and Klein have entered a partnership with Resolve Philly's Broke in Philly project. Under this agreement, student reporters worked collaboratively across outlets as well as with Broke in Philly representatives in order to craft stories that speak to both the...

Jenny Kerrigan, KLN ’18, Is the Wall Street Journal’s First Weekend Photo Editor

by Emma Paige
July 22
While most students who went to high school with Jenny Kerrigan, KLN '18, chose to shadow a teacher within the school for their mandatory community study, go-getter Kerrigan decided to call up the Philadelphia Inquirer to see if she could shadow someone there to meet the requirement. Fast forward to 2019, just one year after graduating from Temple, when Kerrigan became the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) first weekend photo editor. Since then, Kerrigan has also become photo editor for WSJ's property report section and has done stints in the U.S., World, Business, Life...

Klein College Establishes Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting

by Klein College of Media and Communication
July 20
Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication will soon launch a Center for Urban Investigative Reporting, thanks to a $1.2 million founding grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation of Berkeley, California.The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Center for Urban Investigative Reporting will focus exclusively on the issues facing Philadelphia and other large American cities, including gun violence, economic inequality, education and health disparities, crumbling infrastructure and eroding trust in institutions. Through the Logan Center, Klein students and...

TUTV Wins Its First Professional Level Award

by Emma Paige
July 10
What started out as an experiment in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to see if Temple University Television (TUTV) could create new content over Zoom has now turned into the project that won a bronze Telly Award for a local TV biography, the station's first professional award. In the summer of 2020, most students involved with TUTV were working on covering the pandemic. However, General Manager of TUTV Paul Gluck decided to conduct an experiment. "We felt we had an obligation to our audience and to ourselves to continue to create original content," Gluck said.He decided...

Klein Alumna Brianna Baker Tells Human Stories from an Environmental Perspective

by Emma Paige
July 09
Many people have a desire to better the environment from a young age, yet some keep the spark while others lose it. For Brianna Baker, KLN '19, her spark was reignited in May 2018 when she became an editorial intern at Green Philly.As a journalism major, Baker was originally interested in the internship for the editorial experience. By the end, however, Baker's environmental activism that she had as a kid in the form of encouraging people to take shorter showers and not use plastic straws came rushing back.After adding a minor in environmental studies her senior year, Baker...

Suzi Analogue, KLN ’09, Creates Opportunities For Herself and Others

by Emma Paige
July 08
"This is the most sure offer I have of doing anything in life right now because I cannot get a job," said Suzi Analogue (she/they), KLN '09. From this mindset of perseverance, creativity and survival, her music career was launched.After graduating from Klein College of Media and Communications' communications program in 2009, Analogue and the rest of her graduating classmates were left with the seemingly impossible task of finding work as the country was coming out of the Great Recession.Though she did not study music at Temple University, Analogue connected with other artists...

Carly Mascitti, KLN ’16, Covers the Buffalo Bills at WHEC-TV in Rochester

by Emma Paige
June 30
"Once I got to Temple freshman year, I went into the TV studio and basically was just like 'what can I do?'" said Carly Mascitti, KLN '16. Mascitti's continuous involvement with Temple University Television (TUTV) and Temple's radio station, WHIP, throughout her time at Klein prepared her for current job as sports anchor and reporter for NBC's Rochester affiliate, WHEC-TV.Mascitti got an early start into the workforce and showbusiness when she got a job working in the casting department of musical competition show The Voice the summer before her senior year of college. By the...

Klein’s Creating the Future Student Media Symposium Wins Runner Up Lindy Award

by Emma Paige
June 22
"We just wanted to create a space where we could bring high school students, college students and industry professionals together in a room to kind of just engage," digital media instructor at The Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School (Dobbins) Anis Taylor said. Taylor, along with digital music instructor Indy Shome and Klein College of Media and Communications Assistant Director of External Affairs Kalie Wertz planned the Creating the Future Student Media Symposium to create such a space.In addition to the invaluable connections made at the symposium, the...

Center for Media and Information Literacy Works with Philly Youth Media Collaborative

by Emma Paige
June 21
Philadelphia has no shortage of youth media organizations. Now, those organizations have a place to convene and collaborate: the Philly Youth Media Collaborative (PYMC). PYMC officially launched in 2009, but was rather inactive for several years. Last year, Director of Temple University's Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL) Sherri Hope Culver saw a need for an organization like PYMC and reached out to previously involved member organizations to see if they were interested in rebooting the collaborative."I realized recently that it was something that was helpful for...

Married Doctoral Alumni Publish Books Based on Their Dissertations on the Same Day

by Emma Paige
June 18
"Just hang in there. If there are some people like us -" Jaehyeon Jeong said. " - I don't think there's people like us," Hoejeong Lee said.Lee and Jeong met at Yonsei University in Korea where they were pursuing master's degrees in the communications field. They eventually moved to the United States to study at New York University, and one marriage and two kids later, Lee and Jeong entered the Klein College of Media and Communication media and communications doctoral program in 2010.While it generally takes most people five or six years to complete a PhD, Jeong said it took Lee...

Layla Jones, KLN ’14, Works as a Reporter for Billy Penn at WHYY

by Emma Paige
June 17
"My mom always said I was a good writer," said Layla Jones, KLN '14.At first, Jones was not sure whether she wanted to pursue journalism or biology. She made the decision to pursue the latter her freshman year at Temple University after she took her first college-level math course and decided that biology was not for her. Instead, Jones majored in journalism on the magazine track that the program offered at the time, and added a minor in political science after taking a political science general education course.Currently, Jones is a reporter at Billy Penn, an online newsroom...

Media and Communications PhD Student Pursues Interdisciplinary Research

by Emma Paige
June 15
"Nicole is a great example of an interdisciplinary researcher. It's not easy to come from a very different discipline and pick up a lot of these technologies," Fox School of Business's Center for Applied Research in Decision Making (CARD) Director Vinod Venkatraman said of media and communications doctoral candidate Nicole Henninger. While Henninger's degree comes from Klein College of Media and Communication, her research is through CARD, and she will be the first Klein student to hold a graduate distinction in neuroscience from the College of Liberal Arts.Henninger's research...

CMST Student Robbie Bryant Pursues Career Opportunities Everywhere He Goes

by Emma Paige
June 07
"I love doing a bunch of different things. I like dipping my toes in everything because I feel like if I don't, I'll never know if I like it or not," Robbie Bryant said. Bryant is pursuing a double major in Spanish and communication studies (CMST) with a concentration in international relations, as well as a Mandarin Chinese minor. In addition to his studies, Bryant has held a variety of internships and jobs in his two years as a Temple University student."I'm one of those people that likes to do a million different things," Bryant said. "I got two internships and a couple jobs...

Alumni Celebrate 35 Years Since London Study Abroad Program

by Emma Padner and Brooke Finkill
June 03
A group of alumni who went to London in 1985 came together virtually to discuss their experience and the bond they formed while abroad. In Annenberg Hall in a box marked "SMC Study Away," Klein Global Opportunities Director Allie Miller found a "treasure trove" of photos, most notably, large black and white photos of Klein students in London.With some of the photos marked solely with names, Allie set out to find the group of Klein alumni who studied in London and hear their story.What she found was a tight-knit group of alumni who stayed in touch over the past 35 years,...

Alumni Business Owners Endow Scholarship After Beloved Professor

by Lindsay Hargrave
May 27
"Without Rick we would not have each other." Rob Czyzewicz, KLN '10, credits meeting his business partner and cofounder of 20/20 Visual Media Patrick Rosenbaum, KLN '11, to their experiences at Temple Update and their time spent with studio manager Rick Beardsley. Both Czyzewicz and Rosenbaum emphasize that though Beardsley was not an official professor, he had an even greater impact on them than only of the lessons they learned in the classroom. Now, with the 10-year anniversary of Bearsley's passing coinciding with the 10-year anniversary of 20/20's founding, the two alumni...

Love Letters to Our 14-Year-Old Selves: PhD Alumnae Start Digital Media Archive

by Emma Paige
May 24
From classmates meeting in the basement of Annenberg Hall while pursuing their PhDs to nerding out over their favorite music, Mary Beth Ray, KLN '12, and Carrie Teresa, KLN '14, have been through a lot together. In November 2020, the two alumnae launched The Adolescentia Project, a digital music history archive where visitors can submit the album that was formative for them when they were 14 years old. "We've launched The Adolescentia Project in an attempt to kind of create this living archive to document and celebrate all of these formative music experiences," Ray said.The...

Temple News Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Ukenye is Inaugural Ida B. Wells Award Recipient

by Lindsay Hargrave
May 24
Ida B. Wells, prominent 19th century journalist and activist, has fascinated Journalism Chair David Mindich since the 1990s. The subject of his research and the founding thinker behind much of his work on press objectivity, Ida B. Wells is now also the namesake of an award Dr. Mindich established earlier this year. The award is open to current journalism students enrolled in Klein College of Media and Communication. The first recipient, rising junior journalism and political science double major and new Editor-in-Chief of The Temple News Lawrence Ukenye, strives to embody Wells...

Temple University Designated Voter-Friendly Campus Thanks to Diamond Edge Communication

by Lindsay Hargrave
May 24
While no one could have possibly planned for a global pandemic, Senior Associate Dean of Students Chris Carey was anticipating a lot of excitement surrounding the 2020 presidential election. That's why he jumped at the opportunity to partner with Diamond Edge Communication (DEC), a student-run advertising agency at Klein College of Media and Communication, to develop centralized messaging for students on how to register and get involved in the voting process. As a result of the students' hard work, Temple University has been named a Voter-Friendly Campus jointly by NASPA...

Tom Hanslin, KLN ’18, Works as Digital Content Producer for CBS Sports Radio

by Emma Paige
May 21
"Ya know what? I wanna cover football, I wanna cover basketball," Tom Hanslin, KLN '18, thought to himself during his first week of his first year at Temple University. With that thought in mind, he explored all of the media clubs Klein College of Media and Communication had to offer and found himself at WHIP, Temple's student-run radio station, where he would get the valuable hands-on experiences that prepared him for his current job as a digital content producer at CBS Sports Radio.Since graduating with a degree in journalism in 2018, Hanslin has already held several jobs in...