TCU Department of Journalism

Calling all students - the first NAHJ meeting of the semester is this Thursday at 5:30 p.m!

Congratulations to our own Jean Marie Brown!

We congratulate Jean Marie Brown, assistant professor of professional practice in the TCU Department of Journalism and director of student media, who was named one of three winners of the TCU deans’ award for teaching during today's virtual convocation. Thanks for your great work!

You can watch the awards presentation here: https://youtu.be/cN_M7xoMWR4

Our reporting class and TCU 360 student media team are hard at work covering the impact of COVID-19 on TCU students and beyond. Check out their work on the new TCU360 site! https://www.tcu360.com

Save the date! Join us on March 26 for our annual symposium in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting! This year's symposium will include an expert panel discussion about the global food crisis and how it affects vulnerable populations. Admission is free and open to the general public. See you there!

Our first NAHJ meeting is Wednesday at 5pm in the newsroom! See you there!

Happy Friday! Today is the priority application deadline for students interested in the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting summer fellowship! Applications will continue to be accepted until March 1st.

Photo by Kelsey Emery, our 2017 fellow who reported on the rhino poaching crisis in South Africa. You can view all of our fellows' work at pulitzercenter.org/projects.

Reminder: our Pulitzer Pizza Party is tonight at 5! Stop by to learn more about the student reporting fellowship, get all of your questions answered and enjoy a slice on us! 🍕

We are now accepting applications for the Summer 2020 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellowship! This fellowship gives students the opportunity to pursue reporting projects of global importance that have been underreported in the mainstream American media.

Our TCU fellows traveled to South Africa to report on the cultural and economic impacts of the rhinoceros poaching crisis in 2017, and in 2018 to explore the conservation efforts during the height of the water crisis. Last summer, our fellow traveled to Colombia to report on the issues surrounding citizenship for children born to Venezuelan refugee families.

Fellows receive travel stipends, help with pre-reporting research, local contacts and resources, a professional journalist to mentor them and the opportunity to publish their work. They will also travel to Washington, D.C. for the student fellow weekend to present their project, meet other fellows and network with professional journalists.

Applications are open to all Journalism and News & Media Studies majors and minors (including graduating seniors). Interested? Find more info on our website! The deadline to apply is February 21!

Attention juniors and seniors! We are now accepting applications for the Fall 2020 Schieffer Washington internship program! Apply by February 1st. Find all the details here: https://schieffercollege.tcu.edu/journalism/student-experience/programs/schieffer-college-in-washington/

Bob Schieffer College of Communication in Washington - Journalism In the Schieffer College’s Washington, D.C. internship program, junior and senior students may spend a semester in the nation’s capital working at an internship and taking elective classes related to degrees in journalism and strategic communication. The central experience is a full-time interns...

Welcome back! We’re looking forward to a great spring semester!

Congratulations to Dr. Tommy Thomason on his retirement after 35 years at TCU! We'll miss you!

The latest issue of TCU – Texas Christian University's The Boller Review features an article from Bob Schieffer College of Communication alumna Elizabeth Campbell. Check it out!

#TLDR: Twitter is Changing Everything | The Boller Review : Twitter is Changing Everything Article Sidebar Article PDF Published Feb 14, 2019 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18776/tcu/br/3/82 Main Article Content Elizabeth CampbellClass of 2017 Abstract Twitter. What some view as just a social media site to see and share ratings with dogs; politicians and j...

Award-winner spotlight! Garrett Podell placed third in the Celeste Williams Star Sportswriter of the Year category of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awards. His entry included this feature on TCU basketball coach Jamie Dixon.

National expectations match Dixon’s for No. 20 TCU The team enters the season looking to reach the NCAA tournament for the second straight year.

Congratulation to Mariana Rivas, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting/TCU Campus Consortium International Reporting Student Fellowship! Mariana will be traveling to Cucuta, Colombia, to look into the situation faced by Venezuelan immigrants whose Colombian-born children have citizenship in neither country. To see past Bob Schieffer College of Communication student projects, visit the link below.

Texas Christian University Bob Schieffer College of Communication TCU's Bob Schieffer College of Communication is the academic home for approximately 1,100 undergraduate students majoring in four departments and for small graduate programs in Communication Studies and Strategic Communication.

Award-winners spotlight! Marissa Stacy and Benton Mcdonald placed second in the online live coverage category of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awards for their story, "Power outage affects campus Tuesday." Take a look!

Power outage affects campus Tuesday A tree falling on a power line during heavy rainfall caused the hour-long power outage Tuesday.

Congratulations to Professor Daxton “Chip” Stewart who, together with co-author and Associate Professor Amy Kristin Sanders of The University of Texas, won first place in the National Freedom of Information Coalition research competition for the paper, "Countering the Privatization of Public Records: How Trade Secrets, Purported Competitive Harm and Third-Party Interventions Keep Government Business in the Dark."

NFOIC Announces FOI Research Competition Winners | National Freedom of Information Coalition Submitted by NFOIC on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 1:51pm News Release For Immediate Release - March 27, 2019 Contact: Daniel Bevarly, Executive Director National Freedom of Information Coalition [email protected] 352-294-7082 Twelve winning research papers have been accepted to the first National Freedom of....

Did you know that TCU 360 is hosting a NCAA tournament bracket contest? Join the Horned Hoops Challenge today and you could win a $200 Amazon gift card!

Hoops: Submit Your Picks Welcome to the 2019 Horned Hoops Challenge, an NCAA tournament bracket contest hosted by TCU 360 and brought to you by The Pub. Enter your picks to compete against other TCU students, alumni and fans for the top spot. 

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We would like to congratulate our students Grace Amiss, Carolina Olivares, Corinne Hildebrandt, Benton McDonald, Marissa Stacy, Garrett Podell, Robbie Vaglio, and Colin Post for receiving honors from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.

https://www.tcu360.com/2019/03/student-journalists-honored/

- with Bob Schieffer College of Communication, Jean Marie Brown

Student journalists honored Students for TCU Student Media received awards at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors annual awards ceremony.

Join us this summer for our high school journalism camp!

The Schieffer Summer Journalism Camp 2019 application is now open!

Congratulations to our department chair, Uche Onyebadi, for the recent publication of his book, Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena.

https://www.igi-global.com/book/music-messaging-african-political-arena/205597

The application for the 2019 Schieffer Summer Journalism Camp at the Bob Schieffer College of Communication is now open. Apply today!

Apply to the Schieffer Summer Journalism Camp

Advocate World interviewed Melita Marie Garza, associate professor, about the business of media. You can listen to the interview here.

The business of media - Activate World Media organizations are companies so there is a business of media. We explore the interaction between media and business and red and blue.

TCU's celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" starts tomorrow!

Join the Frankenstein forum and the TCU classic film series for a showing of "Frankenstein" (1931) and "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) in Moudy South 164 at 7 p.m.

Save the date for lectures, panel discussions and the London National Theater Live's "Frankenstein" on Nov. 8 and 9. Admission to all events is free and open to the public. The Schieffer College is a sponsor of the forum.