Renowned journalist Bob Woodward will receive a degree of humane letters, the first honorary doctorate awarded from Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication, at a graduation ceremony in May.
“Bob Woodward is the most important journalist of our time, and one of the premier reporters in American history,” said Dean David Boardman. “We are thrilled to have him address our graduates and to honor his service to our nation.”
Woodward is best known for his role, with partner Carl Bernstein, in investigating the Watergate story as a reporter for The Washin...
The Philly Ad Club, with more than 2,500 members of the Philadelphia ad agencies, announced that Professor David Brown and Bernie Prazenica, KLN ’79, will both receive the group’s Movers and Shakers Pinnacle award at a ceremony this week. The award is given to professionals who demonstrate leadership and leave a profound impact on their community in their communications position.
Brown, who serves as diversity advisor to the Office of the Dean and as a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, joined Klein College 2016. Brown has previously won the Nat...
Professor David W. Brown has been named Klein College’s first Diversity Advisor to the Office of the Dean. The announcement was made at a collegewide celebration honoring the college’s selection as the recipient of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Equity & Diversity Award.
Klein College was honored at the AEJMC convention last summer, recognized for the diversity of its faculty, staff and students, and for the clear presence of the values of equity and inclusion in the curriculum and programming of the college.
"I'm enormously proud of o...
Philadelphia, PA - Students from the Klein College of Media and Communication join together to present a series of personal stories in a TED-like format as a call to action for the Temple University community to create social change. The second annual Owl Be The Change Story Series will be held in 103 Tuttleman Hall on Monday, April 22 from 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 pm. The event is presented in association with the Temple Global Days of Service.
The five stories were developed by students in one of the newest courses in the college's Department of Communication and Social Influence; Co...
When Nicholas Daly graduated from Temple University in 2009 with degrees in film studies and Spanish, his path to economics did not seem to be an obvious one. Now, working at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a think tank in Manhattan, he says that his experiences at Temple and beyond gave him the skills to reach his unique destination.
Daly works with the Young Scholars Initiative, a program run by the Institute of New Economic Thinking, that serves as a way to connect scholars from all over the world in conversations about what economics can look like without the pressu...
The college mourns former instructor, Lew Klein Alumni in the Media honoree and Syracuse University Newhouse School dean Lorraine Branham, KLN ’76, who passed away on April 2.
Before joining Newhouse, had a 25-year career as a newspaper editor, editorial writer and reporter, including nine years at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She taught reporting and writing at Klein College of Media and Communication.
Branham received a Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Award at the annual ceremony in 2017.
A scholarship in Branham’s memory has been established to support Klein College students...
Seven Klein College of Media and Communication students from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations took home three Louix awards this semester. The annual awards were distributed by One Club Philly, formerly known as the Art Directors Club of Philadelphia. The Louix awards honor creativity within the Philadelphia advertising and marketing community, and are among the city's top honors in the field.
Six of the students — Lauren Bottino (KLN '20, advertising and art direction), Leah Hillegas (KLN '19, advertising, applied communication, public relations), Nicholas Ho...
Matt Talbot, a first-year communication studies student, has always had a love for dogs. That's what encouraged him and his mom to create Animal Aid USA.
Talbot attended a St. Joseph Elementary School in Hammonton, NJ in 2009 and had to do an outreach project to help his community and improve people's lives. He and his mother, Karen Talbot, were struggling to think of what they could do until they watched a PETA video about how shelter dogs are treated in the southeastern United States.
They were inspired.
Matt and Karen wanted to personally see what the conditions were like for...
by Adam Dvorin, Public Relations adjunct instructor
The clock on the wall said 4:32 p.m., when Demaris Watford welcomed a visitor into her office in Weiss Hall at Temple University.
During the previous several hours, Watford had done the things an office manager does, which is to say a little of everything.
Watford was recently distinguished by adjunct instructor Adam Dvorin as a difference-maker at Temple University, the fourth-leading employer in Philadelphia.
She may not be as well-known publicly as President Richard Englert or former Men's Basketball Coach Fran Dunphy, Dvorin says. Still, to those inside the Department...
Globalization and Development Communication (GDC) student Emma Restrepo never thought about leaving Colombia until she had no other option.
Restrepo graduated from Colombian school Pontifical Xavierian University in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in social communication for development. Following that, she worked for UNICEF, Colombian president Ernesto Samper, and the Colombian Ministry of National Education, to name just a few high-level positions.
Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC), a guerilla paramilitary group, started growing in si...
The children's media industry is exploding with career opportunities that span from content creation, production, advertising, marketing, research, journalism and education. Children's media has a global reach, but it thrives in Los Angeles, California.
Over winter break, the Office of Global Opportunities at Klein College debuted a new study away immersion program. Twenty Klein College students earned three credits in eight days by studying children's media in L.A.
When Professor Hope Culver proposed the program, her goal was to expose students to the many career opportunitie...
Klein College of Media and Communication professors Nancy Morris and Jan Gera won Faculty Teaching, Research and Creative Awards handed out by Temple University. Morris won the university's most prestigious honor, the Great Teaching Award, and Gera won the Part-Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Instruction Award.
Nancy Morris, Great Teaching AwardMorris, who teaches in the Department of Media Studies and production, has served as a faculty member at Temple University since 1999. Before that, she taught at the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 2002 Morris was the Unesc...
Four Klein College of Media and Communication students made the semi-finals of the Washington Media Scholars Media Planning Case Study Competition. The competition's top 24 teams advanced from the qualifying round to the semi-finals. The top six teams from the semi-finals will advance to the final round with an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. to battle for the National Excellence in Media Award and $16,000 in scholarships.
Two of the teams that advanced to the semi-finals are from Klein College. Jessica Mihalczo (KLN '20, advertising) and Raelie Mulvey (KLN '20, adverti...
Sabrina Briggs, who will graduate in the summer with a communication and social influence degree, has a strong footing in community service.
Briggs is the director of a non-profit organization called Spark The Wave. The organization's mission is to empower young students to serve as strong community leaders and give back through community service.
She has been with Spark The Wave since 2016, and she was promoted to director in January. Before that, Briggs served as deputy program manager and program manager. She said being director has given her the chance to affect the organiza...
Klein College of Media and Communication adjunct professor Geoffrey Klein is a natural storyteller.
While his grandfather, Judge Charles Klein (after whom the Temple University Beasley School of Law's Klein Hall is named), and his father, Judge Richard Klein, went into the public legal sector, Geoffrey Klein's calling has always been creative storytelling.
"I always like to say that I have a very active brain," he said. "My left and right side always seem to be in conversation."
His active brain, his talent for storytelling and the legal interest that seems imprinted in his...
Three Klein College of Media and Communication students have been accepted to the DePauw National Undergraduate Honors Conference for Communication and Theatre, which will take place in April.
Rachel Berson, Claire McGlinchey, and Isaac Smoler-Schatz have been accepted to present at the conference based on their research papers they completed. They follow in the footsteps of Hazim Hardeman, KLN '17, whose paper was accepted at the same conference when he was an undergraduate. He went on to become the university's first Rhodes Scholar.
Berson, KLN '21, who plans to work with a no...
The 2016 election cycle energized millions of people to get involved in the political process. Kate Yeager is one of those people.
"After the 2016 election, I felt like I couldn't sit idle and watch our government go in the direction that it was going," she said.
Yeager graduated from Klein College of Media and Communication in December 2018 with a bachelor's degree in strategic communication. When she started at Temple University in 2015, she was undeclared, but after taking intro to public relations, she changed her major. She was the director of public relations at PRowl Publ...
When Kristina Hammerschmidt accepted the news director position at KYW Newsradio, she fulfilled a lifelong goal.
"I always knew I wanted to work as a news manager in this market but never thought the opportunity would come so soon," she said.
Hammerschmidt, KLN '11, graduated from Klein College of Media and Communication with a bachelor's degree in journalism. While at Temple University, she worked her way up from a volunteer role with TUTV's Temple Update to executive producer there. Her experiences with Temple Update taught her how to effectively manage a news team and how to...
The Temple University Ice Hockey Club has a unique history. From playing at rinks inaccessible to students without cars to having a former goaltender dress up for the Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks, the club has a lot of stories.
While Temple Ice Hockey has had media teams broadcast games live, cover games and take photos for the past few seasons, this year the media team — composed entirely of Klein College students — has come into its own. Among the highlights is a new YouTube channel with highlights, interviews, live game coverage and archived games.
The t...
If you have a chance to love what you do as a career, take it.
Tracey Weiss, an associate professor at Klein College of Media and Communication who is currently teaching Klein College students studying abroad in London, has followed this rule all her life.
Weiss graduated from Temple University in 1971 with an education degree and a minor in communication and theater.
The 1960s were a time of activism, and Weiss was no stranger to it. Although she wasn't formally a part of any activist organizations, Weiss recalled going on bus trips with other Temple students to Washington, D...
