by Shannon Rooney

Marc Lamont Hill Joining Temple’s Klein College of Media and Communication

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a renowned scholar, journalist and social commentator who grew up in North Philadelphia and attended Temple University, is returning to his alma mater to focus on how media can help solve challenges faced by cities. Hill will join the faculty of the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication, as the first Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions. The chair was endowed last year with a $2 million gift from Temple trustee and alumnus Steve Charles.  "Dr. Hill is a superb teacher, an outstanding researcher, and a high-profile, highly respected jou...
by Michele Zipkin

Hall of Fame Writer Claire Smith ’79 to Address First Klein College Graduating Class

Claire Smith, a Temple University alumna who this summer will become the first woman inducted as a sportswriter to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, will be the keynote speaker at Temple's Klein College of Media and Communication exercises in May. "We are so proud to count Claire among our alumni," said Klein College Dean David Boardman, "and we are thrilled that she will offer insight from her trailblazing career to the first graduating class of our newly named college." Smith, a 1979 graduate, will be inducted to the Hall of Fame in July in recognition of her work as the fir...
by Michele Zipkin

PRSSA Students host Fourth Annual TU Invitational

The 2017 fourth annual TU Invitational, "You as a Brand: Setting Yourself Apart from Your Competition," took place on Saturday April 1 at the Tuttleman Learning Center. Chris Vasquez, conference coordinator for the Temple University chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, organized the event with the help of the rest of the board. Temple's PRSSA chapter is the oldest in the country, turning 50 in 2019.    The event manifested in lectures with discussions and Q and As with three big names in local public relations - Ike Richman, vice president of public rela...
by Michele Zipkin

Klein Students Continue Domination at Keystone Press Awards

Klein College continued its record of excellence in the Student Keystone Press Awards, winning the most awards compared to other schools in their league this year. The Temple News received 13 awards and honorable mentions for news coverage, layout and graphic illustration, and photography. Philadelphia Neighborhoods took home two awards, one for a sports story and the other for its overall website. "It truly attests to the work we're able to do at Temple," said Gillian McGoldrick, assistant news editor for the Temple News. McGoldrick won first place for her story "Students Shak...
by Michele Zipkin

Sarah Hanson Photos from Haiti on Display in Temple Saxbys

Sarah Hanson is finishing up a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Temple, after picking up a Master's in Globalization and Development Communication in 2016. As a full-time research assistant at Temple's Center for Biodiversity, Hanson has gone on three research trips to Haiti with the director of the evolutionary biology lab, Dr. Stephen Blair Hedges. On these trips, her job is to collect frogs, snakes and lizards for biological research. Though Hanson has had a passion for photography for several years, she developed an interest in conservation pho...
by Michele Zipkin

Emily Scott Wins Japan Trip

When journalism student Emily Scott received an email calling for submissions to the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition, she decided to apply in the hope of winning  a nine-day study trip to Japan this spring.   Much to her surprise, she was one of just nine journalism students across America to be selected to go on the trip. The Scripps Howard Foundation chose the students based on the work they submitted in the areas of print, digital and broadcast journalism.   The student journalists will study and go on outings in Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, and will vi...
by Michele Zipkin

OwlSports Update Programs Run on ESPNU

OwlSports Update is Temple's student- and volunteer-run TUTV program that provides regular broadcasts about Temple athletes and events. It is a new class for Temple media students interested in sports broadcasting. MSP professor Matthew Fine oversees the programming.   Thanks to their relationship with ESPNU's Campus Connection, some of OwlSports programs have been accepted onto ESPNU's Vimeo site. In the span of just one week, two OwlSports segments appeared on ESPNU's site, which is quite an accomplishment for the SMC's student reporters. What makes these two programs unique?...
by Michele Zipkin

Advertising Students Win Gold in Graphis New Talent Competition

Advertising students Justin Mosley and Grant Woodworth, along with Taylor Robbins and Ian Campbell, won Gold Awards in the 2017 Graphis New Talent Competition for their ad campaigns Let the Games Begin, and Think Outside the Blocks, respectively.  Advertising Professor Kathy Mueller received a call for submissions in 2015 from the Young Ones Competition. Their client, Lego, needed a campaign to promote their new in-store product. Mueller tasked her Art Direction I class with creating advertising campaigns for the product, Lego's new PlayBox.  The challenge was working with a s...
by Paul Jablow

Larisa Mann Brings Important Perspective to Department of Media Studies and Production

When 36 people were killed in Oakland, Calif. at a dance party at a warehouse that had been serving as makeshift art studios,  Larisa Mann was furious."I knew people there," said the newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of  Media Studies and Production. "It was horrifying. The person on the lease was unconcerned about safety."For her, the tragedy in December went well beyond personal loss.It symbolized the difficulty artists outside the cultural mainstream experience in finding suitable places to perform.Among other things, Mann is a scholar of music outside t...
by Paul Jablow

Course on Press and the Presidency Perfectly Timed

With the ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, there are more questions than ever about the relationship between the press and the nation's highest office.The School of Media and Communication is fortunate to have one of the country's leading experts in the field on its faculty as a visiting professor.Todd Brewster, a distinguished author, journalist and American history documentarian is teaching a course on "The Press and the Presidency" this semester.For Brewster, who spent a decade at Time, Inc. and another at ABC news, the topic blends 21st Century technology with...
by Michele Zipkin

Understand Your Brand and the What If Innovation Festival: Student Entrepreneurialism and Innovation at Temple

It's not often that a business idea for a school project turns into something larger. Fox Business School student Brandon Study originally conceived of the idea for Understand Your brand, a clothing line made via environmentally friendly and ethically sound methods, as a social awareness campaign for a business ethics class. From there, it has turned into a successful business built on sustainability and social change. Study's main incentive for creating Understand Your Brand stems from his experiences doing volunteer work in poverty-stricken communities in El Salvador. "I've be...
by Michele Zipkin

Temple Donates to Hartranft

When the John. F Hartranft School approached The School of Media and Communication Care Committee asking for a hand to fund its upcoming field trip to a Temple women's basketball game, the responses flooded in.  "The outpouring of support was tremendous," said Rochelle Davis, Executive Assistant to the Dean of the SMC. "The turnaround time was incredible." Within a week of Hartranft's request, Temple donated $600 to the school, enough to provide them with everything they need to take their sixth, seventh and eighth grade classes to the  basketball game, as well as $220 for the...
by Paul Jablow

Alumna Marsha Cooke Addresses Graduating Class

Thirty years after leaving Temple with "no connections, no money, no legacy," Marsha Cooke returned with an inspiring account of her rise to the top of the media world. "I grew up in the Bronx with crazy but loving and lovable immigrant parents," the vice president of News Services at CBS News said in her keynote speech. "They taught me by example…work, work, work, work work." For Cooke, a 1987 graduate, this meant a journey from rock radio in California, to the CBS News Bureau in Los Angeles, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, London, Tokyo and finally back to "the fishbow...

Digital transformation of local news organizations focus of new $4.8 million investment from Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

MIAMI — Feb. 13, 2017 — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced $4.8 million in new funding to expand a project that helps advance digital transformation at local news organizations across the country. In October 2015, with support from Knight Foundation, Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication announced the Knight-Temple Table Stakes project designed to help four major metropolitan daily news organizations accelerate a shift to digital from print, evolving their practices to reach new audiences...
by Michele Zipkin

Temple Welcomes New MSP Adjunct Bob Tuschman, Former Food Network Manager

Bob Tuschman, formerly the manager of the Food Network, shifted gears in his career and now teaches media studies at Temple and NYU. He started by teaching the class Current Issues in Media Management in the fall of 2016, and teaches Programming for Multiplatform Media this semester. "I've always wanted to teach," Tuschman said. "A lot of my job at the Food Network was about teaching and nurturing and guiding the staff, and I really enjoyed that part of the job immensely." Over the course of his nearly 20 years at the Food Network, Tuschman led a creative team of 25 people who c...
by Michele Zipkin

Temple PR Professor Celebrates 40 Years in the Field

This past year, Assistant Professor of Public Relations David Brown celebrated 40 years in the field. In honor of this momentous anniversary, he decided to execute a project called 40 Hours to Make a Difference, in which he donated 10 hours of his time to helping four local nonprofits advance their missions.   Brown selected Temple PR students Hilkiah Bailey, Marlo Brooks, Stacey Motachwa and Khalil Bullock, otherwise known as 40 Hour Scholars, to work alongside him for a small stipend. They gained practical experience using their skills to give back to organizations that inte...
by Shannon Rooney

Temple University School of Media and Communication to be named in honor of broadcasting legend and teacher Lew Klein

Temple University announced today that its School of Media and Communication is being renamed the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication, in tribute to broadcasting pioneer Lew Klein. The naming honors Klein's magnificent career in television and his more than six decades of teaching service to Temple University, and recognizes a historic, multimillion-dollar gift to the school from Lew and Janet Klein. The Kleins' gift is supported by two additional seven-figure contributions from Temple University trustee and school alumnus Steve Charles, '80, and trustee H.F. "Gerry" L...
by Michele Zipkin

Advertising Professor’s Poster Wins A’ Design Award, Shows in International Traveling Exhibition

Temple Advertising Professor Kathy Mueller recently won the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics and Visual Communication Design Category for her design of a poster promoting Cocktails Against Cancer's annual fundraising event.   As a result, the piece appeared in the A' Design Competition's international traveling exhibition, and has been shown in Bologna Design Week in Italy, Cube Design Museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands, Festival of Architecture and Interior Designing Conference in Mumbai, India and other international festivals and museums, with more in the works. A' Graph...
by Michele Zipkin

Temple alumna lands job as a story assistant for Dancing with the Stars

Temple SMC graduates are qualified to get jobs in a variety of fields within the media industry. They go on to become writers, editors, media consultants, videographers, recording engineers and producers.   Vu Kong, a Temple alumna with a degree in Media Studies and Production, was lucky enough to land a job as a story assistant for Dancing with the Stars just a year and a half after she graduated in 2014.   The gig at Dancing with the Stars materialized when Kong was working in Los Angeles as an office production assistant for the show First Dates. There, she met a few peop...
by Michele Zipkin

Temple Students Win First Place at Third Annual Journalism School Hackathon

This past October, Assistant Professor Jillian Bauer took nine journalism students from Temple to MediaShift's third annual Journalism School Hackathon in Athens, Georgia. Two Temple students, Anh Nguyen and Brianna Spause, along with three students from other universities, were on the team that placed first in the competition.   Temple students Brittany Salerno, Jon Dowding, Steph Hirsch, Albert Hong, Alexa Monteleone, Erin Moran and EJ Smith also participated in the Hackathon, all of whom took either design, multimedia, data or user experience classes with Bauer.   "I coul...