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Carolyn Potlock Fulfills Lifelong Dream of Becoming a UT Graduate
Carolyn Potlock, second from left, with her parents and son and her UT acceptance letter. From left: her father, Jay Potlock (’79); Carolyn; her son, Payton Potlock; and mother, Mary Kay Potlock. Carolyn Potlock (’22) had dreamed of becoming a Volunteer ever since she was a little girl watching college football by her father’s side.…
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Comm Studies Alum Says CCI Changed Her Life, So She Gives Back
Alexanderia Honeycutt’s (‘03) career has taken her around the world and into the offices of politicians and changemakers. It also allowed her to become a partner at a lobbying agency firm, and finally, to launch her own government relations and consulting firm, Honeycutt Strategies, in 2012. She says none of it would have happened if…
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CCI’s Director of Career Development Guides Students to Find Their Success
A chance meeting led to a new professional direction for Devan Lane, College of Communication and Information’s new director of career development. Lane had experience in sales and marketing but had learned what she really wanted to do was connect job seekers with information to aid in their hunt. That’s when she ran into a…
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JEM Duo Awarded AEJMC Collaborative Scholars Grant
College of Communication and Information PhD student Teodora Trifonova and Journalism and Electronic Media Assistant Professor Joy Jenkins were awarded the highly competitive Collaborative Scholars Grant by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. They will be studying the experiences of Eastern European foreign correspondents reporting on the war in Ukraine. Trifonova, who…
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ADPR Alum Mary Beth West Named PRCA International Fellow
July 5, 2022 / Knoxville, Tennessee – The Public Relations & Communications Association (PRCA) – the largest global public relations body, based in London – recently honored two East Tennessee public relations executives as inaugural members of its International Fellows: Fletcher Marketing PR CEO Kelly Fletcher and Senior Strategist Mary Beth West. For more than…
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Alum Deborah Woolley Creates Endowed Scholarship for Land Grant Films
When Deborah Woolley (’70) first saw the Land Grant Films work started by Nick Geidner, School of Journalism & Electronic Media associate professor, she knew it was something special. “He really taught me a lot about what it takes to do a documentary. I was so impressed not just by what he was doing, but…
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Celebrating 75 Years of JEM: Forward Focused
75 Sparkling Years: The Diamond Jubilee This article was written by students as part of the next issue of SCOOP Magazine, an annual publication created through the guidance of faculty members. Introduction by Christian Knox Symposium interviews by Christian Knox, Andrew Peters, Chloe Sutton, Natalie Welch, and Riley Woody As the rate of evolution within…
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CCI Dean Mazer Embraces the Volunteer Spirit in First Year
As dean of the College of Communication and Information, Joe Mazer deals with a lot of numbers: the approximately 5,000 students majoring or minoring in CCI programs or meeting a general education requirement, five bachelor’s programs, two master’s programs, a PhD program, more than 100 faculty and staff, and of course a litany of budgets.…
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ADPR Alumnus Loebner Hired as Global Head of Inclusive Design at Wunderman Thompson
Creating inclusive design has risen to the forefront of conversation in advertising and other fields, and the timing couldn’t be better for Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations master’s alumnus Josh Loebner (’99). Loebner recently landed a role he calls a dream job: global head of inclusive design for international marketing communications agency Wunderman…
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Faizer Given Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award
Melanie Faizer, senior lecturer for the School of Journalism and Electronic Media, said teaching is not her first career but it is the one that suits her the most. So it is fitting that, after a decade of lecturing for JEM, she was recently given the Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award by the University of Tennessee…