PR Capstone Course Partners With Dean of Students Office to Understand Vaccination Rates

by Emma Paige
October 08
Temple University students and administrators have a long history of forming mutually beneficial partnerships that help both parties involved, as well as the wider Temple community. The most recent of these partnerships comes in the form of Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Advertising and Public Relations (PR) Department David Brown's (he/him) capstone course partnering with the Dean of Students Office to understand and encourage vaccination rates at the university."It helps us as administrators learn what is going to resonate with students and then it helps the...

Three PR Professors Create New Klein GO Winter Session Program

by Emma Paige
October 06
There is nothing Klein College of Media and Communication professors cannot do when they put their minds to it. Recently, three professors in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations put their heads together to create a new course to be offered through Klein Global Opportunities (Klein GO).It all started when Associate Professor of Instruction Dana Saewitz (she/her) attended a training at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the summer of 2019. The course was meant for middle school teachers that had to teach Holocaust studies, but Saewitz had been studying...

Klein College Announces Claire Smith Center for Sports Media

by Klein College of Media and Communication
October 05
Honoring a pioneer alumna and paving the way for tomorrow's sports media scholars and professionalsPHILADELPHIA (October 6, 2021) -- Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication today announced plans for the Claire Smith Center for Sports Media, to be named for its distinguished alumna who has been a trailblazer for women and people of color in the sports media industry. Claire Smith, the first woman sportswriter to be honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, has joined the Klein College faculty and will help lead the center."The Claire Smith Center will...

Amber Mak, KLN ’20, Explores the World of Late-Night Television

by Emma Paige
October 01
"Her résumé reads like she's almost 30 years old," said Senior Vice Provost for Strategic Communications Betsy Tutelman (she/her) of Klein College of Media and Communication alumna Amber Mak, KLN '20 (she/her).In her short year and a half since graduating, Mak has added work at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to her already-impressive résumé.Mak's time at Stephen Colbert began in January 2020 when she interned for the show. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, her internship was cut short. However, in June 2021, a...

Emily Milliron, KLN ’17, Grows Professionally with CBS Sports HQ

by Emma Paige
September 17
CBS Sports HQ, CBS's 24/7 digital sports network, launched on February 26, 2018, and Klein College of Media and Communication alumna Emily Milliron, KLN '17 (she/her), has been with them from the start. Milliron started at the company as a digital line producer making sure the network was up-to-date with accurate, relevant news. Now, she is the manager of content strategy and oversees the department where she began."That was really cool, to kind of just grow with the company," Milliron said. "I felt immensely lucky to essentially be doing the same thing through this whole crazy...

Retired Journalism Chair Gives Generously to The Temple News, Empowering Student Reporters

by Lindsay Hargrave
September 17
With a background in journalism education that goes back over fifty years, Tom Eveslage (he/him) knows all too well the difference a student publication can make in the life of a budding journalist. When he began his career as a media law professor at Temple University forty years ago in 1981, Eveslage was aware that a staff position at The Temple News was the perfect opportunity for students to gain experience in the field. However, not many could afford to commit so much time to efforts that, while seen as an enriching experience and a labor of love, were often unpaid. This...

Four Klein Alumni Begin New Chapters in Their Careers

by Emma Paige
September 13
Since the beginning of 2021, four Klein College of Media and Communication alumni have started new jobs in their fields. From TikTok, to magazines, to digital news; each alumnus is finding their place and chasing incredible opportunities. Though each found their niche in the media and communication industry, each one mentioned that they draw their roots back to their time at Temple University. Keep reading to find out what these hard-working individuals have been up to. Lawrence Watling, KLN '15 (he/him)Industry Education Strategist | TikTok Since graduating from Temple with a...

Breland Moore, KLN ’14, Returns to Philadelphia to Pursue Job as Sports Anchor at Fox 29

by Emma Paige
September 01
"This has been the easiest transition in my career simply because I'm coming home," said Klein College of Media and Communication alumna Breland Moore, KLN '14 (she/her).After spending time in Allentown, PA; Rochester, NY; and Kansas City, MO; Moore has returned to Philadelphia to work as a sports anchor at Fox 29 Philadelphia.Since starting in May, during the middle of the Philadelphia 76ers playoffs, Moore has been quite busy. "In sports journalism, you don't really get a ton of downtime to get your feet wet and get acclimated. You kind of have to jump right in," she said. "...

Mackenzi Hockensmith, KLN ’21, Receives Dr. Jean Brodey Student Achievement Award

by Emma Paige
August 24
Each year, the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) gives an award in honor of former Temple University faculty and former Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) advisor Jean Brodey to an outstanding junior or senior in the Philadelphia area who demonstrates excellence in leadership. This year's recipient of the Dr. Jean Brodey Student Achievement Award is recent Klein College of Media and Communication graduate Mackenzi Hockensmith, KLN '21 (she/her)."She was really a leader in the Philadelphia community and was really influential to Klein College as a...

Communications Student Ajay Patel Pursues Job With USA Badminton

by Emma Paige
August 20
Sophomore Ajay Patel (he/him) is what many people would describe as a self-starter. Before he even began his time at Temple University in the summer of 2020, he was already reaching out to people and organizations he was interested in."He was one of those self-starter type people who just wanted, before they stepped on campus, to know there was somewhere where they'd be welcome to get kicking for their career," said Patel's Klein Rising Peer Mentor and General Manager at Temple's radio station, WHIP, Ray Dunne (he/him).As Patel was preparing for college, he reached out to Dunne...

Klein Faculty Member Andrea Wenzel Receives Recognition for Her Community-Centered Journalism Projects

by Emma Paige
August 17
"I'm trying to reimagine how journalists can relate to communities and build trust with communities," said Assistant Professor in Journalism at Klein College of Media and Communication Andrea Wenzel (she/her).In addition to teaching, Wenzel has dedicated her career to pursuing a line of research on relationship-building between journalists and communities, particularly those that have been historically marginalized. Recently, several of Wenzel's projects have received recognition and awards for their efforts to improve the field of community-centered journalism.Wenzel's book...

Announcing the Fred Brown Scholarship For Aspiring Journalists

by Lindsay Hargrave
August 13
Fred Brown, KLN '78, was an award-winning journalist and media manager who opened doors and launched careers for countless young people who dreamed of telling stories that matter and making a difference in their community. Brown passed away July 25, 2020, at the age of 69 at his home in Hartford, Connecticut. Yet his legacy, one of perseverance and inclusion, lives on in his family, and now in the many opportunities the Fred Brown Scholarship For Aspiring Journalists will create for generations to come.Brown's widow, Sarah Barr, KLN '86, daughters Lauren, STHM '04, Carey and...

Three Klein College Professors Receive Tenure

by Lindsay Hargrave
August 09
Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication has promoted faculty members Logan Molyneux, Department of Journalism; Bruce Hardy, Department of Communication and Social Influence (CSI); and Kathy Mueller, Department of Advertising; to associate professors with tenure."We are excited for and proud of Kathy, Logan and Bruce," Dean David Boardman said. "All three are outstanding scholars, teachers and citizens of Temple and Klein."Each of these faculty members maintains a long record of pedagogical excellence and fascinating research, detailed below. Logan Molyneux...

Caitlyn Love, KLN ’21, Starts Job at QVC Just Four Days After Graduating

by Emma Paige
August 02
While most people would take a well-deserved break after graduating from college, Caitlyn Love (she/her), KLN '21, jumped straight into her new job as the senior digital marketing coordinator for influencer partnerships at QVC.Love's job at QVC came after she served as a YouTube and TikTok intern on the company's social strategy team her senior year. Though Love applied for an internship at QVC three times since the beginning of her sophomore year at Temple University, she kept on growing herself until she was finally ready for a role.Love's perseverance paid off. After her...

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

by Emma Paige
July 30
"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...