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...
by Sam Seifman

PPRA Annual Meeting Honors Temple Communication Student With Dr. Jean Brodey Award for Student Achievement

On June 22, Marissa Reale, ('18) received the Dr. Jean Brodey Student Achievement Award at the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) annual meeting at the new Museum of the American Revolution in Old City. The award is given to a college junior or senior who has exhibited outstanding professional promise in the field of public relations, has an excellent academic track record and contributes to his or her community. Only one student is selected from among student nominees from colleges in the Greater Philadelphia region. "I am so honored to be selected to receive such...
by Sydney Schaefer

Jessica Lawlor and Brian Hart, Temple University Entrepreneur Alumni

In the midst of driving to a work meeting, Jessica Lawlor, 29, received a frustrating call from her boss, leading her to what she calls her "defining moment." After she hung up, she called her best friend to vent about the job she didn't want anymore.  "Jess, what are you doing?" her friend Julia asked. "Quit your job, you can do this." This pushed Lawlor to walk away from her job as communications manager in February 2016 and start Jessica Lawlor & Company, LLC (JL&Co). "I had always thought about potentially quitting my job to start my own business," said Lawlor. "I j...
by Michele Zipkin

Alumna Daria Salusbury to Open Her Own Firm

Daria Salusbury, a 1975 alumna of Temple's Klein College, is a big player in the world of real estate development. After working for the Related Companies for 25 years, she started her own real estate development, branding and marketing firm, Salusbury & Co., in December of 2016.  "It was something that I always had an interest in," Salusbury said. "How people decide where they want to live, what was their lifestyle, how they decide whether to buy this house versus that house."  At Related, Salusbury served as senior vice president and director of the luxury rental divisio...
by Michele Zipkin

Klein College Grad Student Leads Team of Students at Social Justice Competition

Klein College Strategic Communications grad student and Northeast High School teacher Amanda Fiegel led a team of students at the 2017 Aspen Challenge, a national competition that engages with the community to address social justice issues. Each year, the Aspen Challenge launches in a different city, and this year it came to Philadelphia, with 20 public and charter schools participating. At the Aspen Institute forum in February, leaders, scholars and members of the public associated with the institute presented challenges to each participating group. Fiegel's group had to figure...
by Michele Zipkin

Spanish Talk Show La Charla Premieres on TUTV

TUTV welcomes its first Spanish language talk show La Charla, or The Chat. It made its debut on May 4 on Comcast channel 50 and online at templetv.net. It officially begins as a regular program in the fall of 2017. Temple Communication Studies student Rafael Logroño conceptualized and successfully pitched the show to TUTV manager Paul Gluck. "I think that media really fails to represent minority voices," Logroño said. "I want to see change. And then I noticed, if I want to see change, I have to be that change." In addition to Logroño, who serves as host and moderator, the sho...
by Michele Zipkin

Teaching with Tech Award

Laura Zaylea's courses are a combination of online classes, large lecture and studio production, to name a few. She has incorporated the digital teaching platforms Nearpod and TopHat into her classroom methods, which facilitate interactive lesson plans using mobile apps. She has also used Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat as modes of classroom discussion. In her class Introduction to Media Technology, Zaylea has her students use Photoshop to design graphics, Audacity to edit audio and Adobe Premiere to edit video, all of which is housed on a student-designed website using WordPress...
by Michele Zipkin

Teaching with Tech Award

Laura Zaylea's courses are a combination of online classes, large lecture and studio production, to name a few. She has incorporated the digital teaching platforms Nearpod and TopHat into her classroom methods, which facilitate interactive lesson plans using mobile apps. She has also used Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat as modes of classroom discussion. In her class Introduction to Media Technology, Zaylea has her students use Photoshop to design graphics, Audacity to edit audio and Adobe Premiere to edit video, all of which is housed on a student-designed website using WordPress...
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 respect...
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 t...
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

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

Sarah Hanson Photos from Haiti on Display in Temple Saxby’s

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

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 w...
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...