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The 2008 Alumni Newsletter is now available.

Advertising competition team heads to nationals
Students in journalism’s Strategic Campaigns in Advertising class are busy preparing to compete in a national competition on June 8-9 in Atlanta. The team won first place last month at the District 8 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in St. Paul, Minn., finishing ahead of schools from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Canada. In the competition, sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, students were required to create an integrated marketing plan for AOL Instant Messenger and its suite of social media products. Members of the cross-college team are: Nycol Block (journalism), Margaret Brill (journalism), Marie Daniel (journalism), Matt Decker (graphic design), Ann DeVillers (journalism), Preston Fayas (marketing), Brittany Harms (journalism), JJ Heber (marketing and radio/TV/film), Tina Hove (journalism), Jessica Malcolm (journalism), Samuel Mark (radio/TV/film), Kelly Meyer (journalism), Jamie Neitzel (marketing), Erin School (journalism), Liz Schulze (marketing), Kelly Shew (journalism), Kirsten Strom (marketing), Ashley Taylor (journalism) and Heather Verhelst (graphic design).

The Spring Internship Newsletter is now available in the Internship section.

Journalism student makes splash on blog: Becky Thomas, a journalism major who is taking Feature Writing this semester with Grace Lim, has caused quite a stir on a New York Times blog.
Laura Denissen Scherr receives Outstanding Young Alumni recognition. [story]
The Journalism Bulletin has been updated and a new New Curriculum Worksheet is available.
The mock interview session for the journalism department was held on October 25, 2007, and proved to be a great tool for students graduating or those looking for an internship. For information regarding future mock interview sessions, contact Barb Benish, Journalism Internship coordinator, at 424-7145 or benish@uwosh.edu.

COMPUTER SCIENCE 125 CLASS REQUIRED: Starting with the Fall 2007 semester, newly declared journalism majors will use the new curriculum and will be required to take the Computer Science 125, Web Site Development class to meet the increasing demand of the journalism industry for Web designing skills. The Computer Science Department is offering the class during the spring semester and also during the summer. The summer session will meet the first four weeks starting June 16 and running through July 11, 2008, Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Students under the old curriculum (News/Ed & AdPR emphases) are not required to take CompSci 125.

About the department
Established in 1968, the department is a nationally accredited program that prepares students for careers in the news media, advertising, public relations and related fields. The eight full-time faculty members are active in a range of scholarly fields, and many of them have extensive professional experience. More...

Journalism Department Fact Sheet [PDF]
Speaker Series on Minorities and Women in Journalism [PDF]

Department Jobs
Assistant Professor to teach Online Publishing and be qualified to assist in the development of other potential interactive media classes [PDF]
Assistant Professor to teach Advertising Media and other courses [PDF]