Bozo the Clown fan. Emmy winner. Video production specialist. That is a very abbreviated resume for Mike Wiseman, UT’s newest staff member in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media. Wiseman helps operate The Volunteer Channel, the campus’ student television station, which is now controlled by the school, and his position at the channel is
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are sharing the big ideas that make a difference in their world. Emma MacMillan, an alumna with a degree in journalism and electronic media, has the big idea of using compelling writing to get the public interested in science.
As the fifty-seventh presidential inauguration draws near, a traveling photo exhibit entitled The American President is on display in the Rotunda of the Baker Center. More than eighty photos from the Associated Press’s vast photo archive are in the display showing American presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama at war, in victory and defeat,
Robert Heller, professor of journalism and electronic media, had a big idea: getting his students to think about the importance of voting in the upcoming presidential election. He had his students create posters to encourage the UT community to vote.
Journalist Woody Paige is best known for his sports knowledge and wit. The ESPN broadcaster and Denver Post reporter and columnist credits UT’s journalism school for building a great foundation for his career. Paige was honored Monday with an Accomplished Alumni award.
University of Tennessee journalism professor Mike Martinez will watch the Olympics this year like most of us—during his leisure time—rather than working the event. Martinez has been connected to chronicling the Olympics for more than eighteen years.
Suzanna McCloskey, a senior journalism and electronic media major, is one of the winners of the annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Nine winners from around the country were chosen for the high quality of their work, an essay about their interest in international affairs, and letters
Stephen S. Hall, a science writer famed for his New York Times Magazine cover stories and his six books, will give the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, in the Shiloh Room of the University Center.
Honors and awards for UT Knoxville faculty and graduate students.
J. Zollie Howard, an award-winning editor, and Richard F. Knight, a long-time newspaper publisher, have been selected for posthumous induction into the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame November 4. Howard and Knight will join fifty-three other journalists and newspaper executives in the hall of fame, co-sponsored by the Tennessee Press Association and the University of
WUTK 90.3 FM “The Rock,” UT Knoxville’s student-run modern rock radio station, was named as the station showing “Biggest Improvement” in the 2011 College Radio Awards, sponsored by the College Music Journal and held last weekend in New York City. This is the first CMJ award for WUTK, which won national recognition as the runner-up
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) voted unanimously to fully reaccredit the undergraduate programs of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville schools of Advertising and Public Relations and Journalism and Electronic Media in the College of Communication and Information. UT Knoxville was one of eight universities, out of nineteen undergoing ACEJMC