Nic Uff, KLN ’22, is an Associate Segment Producer at Good Morning America

by Emma Paige

September 19

While many recent Klein College of Media and Communication alumni are settling into new jobs and truly beginning the next chapter of their lives, Nic Uff, KLN '22 (he/him), had the privilege of staying right where he had been, at Good Morning America (GMA). Uff started as a booking intern at GMA in January 2022 and worked full-time until May 2022. As a booking intern, Uff periodically drove from Philadelphia to New York City by 6 a.m. so he could be in the control room during the show. "There's a feeling that I get in the control room that ensures me that I'm doing what I love...

TUTV Receives 11 NATAS Mid-Atlantic Chapter Student Production Award Nominations

by Emma Paige

September 15

On August 9, 2022, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) hosted a virtual ceremony where member organizations presented the nominations for the 2021-2022 Student Production Awards. TUTV - Temple University Television is proud to have received the following 11 nominations: College/university student production - newscast: "OwlSports Update" (3/17/22) "Temple Update" (3/17/22) "Inside the Nest" (11/9/21) "The Temp" (April 2021) College/university student production - news report Manayunk: Businesses Still Struggling to Recover...

Klein College Welcomes Inaugural Mexico Chair

by Lindsay Hargrave

September 13

Dr. Rubén Arnoldo González Macías is only the second Mexico Chair to visit the U.S. and the first in Pennsylvania FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication will host professor and researcher Dr. Rubén Arnoldo González Macías next month as the college's first Mexico Chair. The Mexico Chair program is an initiative of the Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AMEXID). Prominent Mexican scholars travel to international universities to share their research expertise and meet with faculty and...

Claire Smith Center for Sports Media hosts student chat with Marlins Manager Don Mattingly

by Lindsay Hargrave

September 12

Miami Marlins Manager Don Mattingly spoke to a small group of Klein College of Media and Communication students, faculty and staff on Wednesday, September 7 in Charles Library. The conversation was the first of an ongoing series being kicked off by Klein College's Claire Smith Center for Sports Media, home to the undergraduate sports media certificate. During the event, Claire Smith, co-director of the center, and Klein Assistant Professor Lauren Bullock moderated a conversation with Mattingly, whose career Smith covered during her time at The New York Times and ESPN. A...

Advertising Students Mia Iannucci and Shiv Vats Represent Temple at Washington Media Scholars Case Competition in Washington, DC

by Emma Paige

September 06

While most students take a much needed and deserved break from schoolwork after their finals end in May each year, advertising students Mia Iannucci (she/her) and Shiv Vats (he/him) spent the beginning of their summer preparing to present at the Washington Media Scholars Foundation's Media Plan Case Competition in June 2022. Both students took ADV 4054: Advanced Media Planning with Associate Professor of Instruction Alison Ebbecke (she/her) in the fall of 2021. In that class, Ebbecke splits her students into mini-agencies and has them create a media plan for a hypothetical...

Staying in the Game With Team Klein: Six Alumni Working At ESPN

by Emma Paige

August 15

Have you ever heard a member of the Temple University community say, "Owls are everywhere?" No matter what students decide to do after graduation, they often run into other Temple alumni. Regardless of their major, age or experience, Owls support each other wherever they go.Prior to July 2022, seven Klein College of Media and Communication alumni, six of whom we reached for comment, were working at ESPN, the biggest sports media network in the nation. Whether they've been there for 15 years or five months, the Owl community at the network is proud to be representing Temple in...

Professor Sherri Hope Culver Selected To Be a Fulbright Global Scholar

by Emma Paige

August 09

"There are things that I'm getting to do now that I might have said to you in my 20s, 'I would love to do this,' but I could never have imagined any position I would ever have that would enable me to. It really feels unreal," said Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Center for Media Information Literacy (CMIL) Sherri Hope Culver (she/her).When Culver first started her career, she dreamed of being on camera. Now, she is just a few months away from starting her project as a Fulbright Global Scholar.More specifically, Culver is one of 16 Fulbright Global...

Paper By Kirtney Metz, KLN ’22, Accepted to National Communication Association Conference

by Emma Paige

July 29

Temple University provides many opportunities for students to pursue research at the undergraduate level. But what happens to that research after graduation?After presenting at this year's Symposium for Undergraduate Research And Creativity, Kirtney Metz, KLN '22 (she/her) decided to submit her paper, Blaire White's Bodies: Transmedicalism and Homonationalism in a Youtube Influencer, to the National Communication Association (NCA) in hopes of being considered to present at the NCA Convention in November 2022.Metz is currently finishing her degree in communication studies and...

A Conversation with Professor Barry Vacker After Participating in NASA Futures Workshop

by Emma Paige

July 06

Recently, Associate Professor in the Media Studies and Production Department at Klein College of Media and Communication Barry Vacker (he/him) attended the NASA Futures Workshop with 30 other professionals from various fields with an interest in space exploration. We talked to Vacker to find out more about the workshop and how he combines his interest in space with his background in critical media studies. What can you tell me about the Futures Workshop?The roundtable, or workshop, was set up in various little sessions with about 30 people. Sometimes it was all 30 of us in a...

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Journalism Carolyn Kitch, KLN '98, and Former Staff and Alumna Shannon Rooney, KLN '13 '20, Receive 2022 AEJMC Awards

by Emma Paige

July 05

This year's Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's (AEJMC) conference will be held in Detroit in August 2022, and two members of the Klein College of Media and Communication community will be receiving awards for their outstanding work.Established in 2020, the History Division gives the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award to one distinguished member of the division with a minimum of 15 years of work in the media history field. This year's recipient is Klein College of Media and Communication's Laura H. Carnell Professor of Journalism Carolyn Kitch, KLN...

Remembering Long Time Faculty Member Herb Simons

by Emma Paige

June 30

On April 17, 2022, Temple University and the Klein College of Media and Communication lost retired faculty member Herb Simons at the age of 87.Simons taught at Temple for more than 40 years in what was at that point called the communication and rhetoric department. Now, the closest department is the communication and social influence (CSI) program, though the curriculum has changed quite a bit."He weathered this change in home departments several different times," said former Film and Media Arts (FMA) Professor Paul Swann (he/him).Swann started at Temple in 1981, when FMA and...

Professor Lance Holbert and Esul Park, KLN ’21, Win ICA Outstanding Article Award

by Emma Paige

June 29

At this year's 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference held in Paris, Communication and Social Influence Professor at Klein College of Media and Communication Lance Holbert (he/him) and alumna Esul Park, KLN '21 (she/her), received the biannual Outstanding Article Award for the work they co-authored and published in 2020.Holbert and Park started working together four summers ago when Holbert was advising Park as she completed her PhD. The former was looking for help quoting articles as he started working on his article examining how communication...

CMST Student Brian Mermelstein Interns with the Kentucky Derby for a Second Year

by Emma Paige

June 21

"It's like getting into football by going to the Super Bowl. It really makes no sense," said rising senior and communication studies student Brian Mermelstein (he/him).Though Mermelstein always had an interest in the Triple Crown races, he didn't have much knowledge of horse racing until he applied to a posting he saw for an internship position with the Kentucky Derby in 2021.In May 2022, Mermelstein attended the Derby for the second year in a row to shoot photo and video for the Derby social media team. This year, he said, was different from 2021. Last year, much of his...

One Family Remembers Their Sister and Empowers Students to Travel

by Lindsay Hargrave

June 20

When disaster and tragedy strike, it can be difficult to find a way to stay hopeful. But when a family loses someone whose light shines extra brightly, there are ways to keep that light shining for years to come.Diane Rencevicz was a radio, television and film major at Temple University from September 1985 through December 1988. While she was traveling home from studying abroad in London on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb was detonated. Diane was one of 259 passengers and crew killed in the terrorist attack along with 11...

Danielle Salvato, KLN ’22, Turns Her Internship at Harmelin and Associates Into a Full-Time Job

by Emma Paige

June 17

Many media studies and production (MSP) students hold an internship and take MSP 4785: Internship before finishing their time at Temple University. From the moment recent graduate Danielle Salvato, KLN '22 (she/her), started her internship at Harmelin Media, she knew she wanted to stay and work there after her internship ended.Salvato found Harmelin at a Klein College of Media and Communication networking event in 2019 and is glad she was able to make that connection early on, before it was time to take MSP 4785.As an intern in the paid search department, Salvato worked two...

Students Prepare to Attend and Intern at NYC Pride as Part of “Pride Class”

by Emma Paige

June 08

In Spring 2022, 20 students took CSI 4628, Klein College of Media and Communications' class all about the history of the Pride movement and that gives students the opportunity to intern for the New York City Pride March.The class, which is taught by Director of Undergraduate and Communication Studies Scott Gratson (he/him), ran for the second half of the spring semester, but won't truly end until after NYC Pride on June 26th, 2022. At the march, Temple University students will volunteer with spectator services, of which Gratson is the captain, and they will walk in the march...

Klein College Hosts First In-Person Global Fusion Conference Since COVID

by Lindsay Hargrave

June 06

Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University is one of six universities that hosts the Global Fusion conference in rotation, and the conference will return to Philadelphia on October 14-16, 2022. As the first Global Fusion conference to be held in person since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is no surprise that the theme this year is "(Re)Connecting." The call for papers has been extended through July 1, 2022.Klein College's conference planning committee consists of Associate Dean for Research...

Angel Taylor, KLN ’15, Covers Premiere of Bad Boys Los Angeles for Her Podcast, All Of The Above

by Emma Paige

June 02

It is safe to say that over the last two years podcasts have become quite popular, but Klein College of Media and Communication alumna Angel Taylor, KLN '15 (she/her), has been in the game since February 2017 when she and her brother-in-law, Kevin Strickland, CLA '03, launched their podcast All Of The Above."Our main goal was to promote and highlight local entertainers, musicians, entrepreneurs - basically anyone local," Taylor said.All Of The Above is based in Philadelphia on the PHL Radio app and airs once a week. Taylor and Strickland collaborate on each episode as Taylor...

Dean David Boardman Named Administrator of the Year

by Klein College Staff

May 19

PHILADELPHIA, PA - David Boardman, dean of Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, has been chosen as Administrator of the Year in the 2022 Scripps Howard Awards, the Scripps Howard Foundation announced today.A panel composed primarily of journalism and communication educators from across the country selected the winner of the award, which is given in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award recognizes a single administrator annually for excellence in leadership of journalism and...

Klein’s Brutus Turner Community Service Award Honors Acts of Kindness and a Furry Friend

by Lindsay Hargrave

May 18

Brutus was a beloved golden retriever certified therapy dog belonging to Associate Professor of Journalism Karen M. Turner (she/her). He was known throughout Annenberg Hall for his many guest appearances at college events as well as impromptu visits that lifted the spirits of students, faculty and staff. Now, Turner is ensuring Brutus' memory and joyful spirit lives on through a term fund. This award, the Brutus Turner Community Service Award, will be presented to one rising sophomore, junior or senior each year who has shown outstanding commitment to volunteer work in the...