The Media Center
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Graduating Senior Grey MacNicoll Views Experience on Rocky Top As ‘Second to None’
Grey MacNicoll was initially going to decline Assistant Professor of Practice Brittany Tarwater’s invitation to enroll in her Advanced Television News Reporting and Producing course. But MacNicoll’s parents encouraged her to reconsider. “Professors don’t say that to anybody. You should take advantage of whatever she is seeing in you that you don’t see in yourself,…
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Media Center Announces New Student Leadership
The Media Center is excited to announce the senior leadership team for the 2025-2026academic year for The Daily Beacon, Ablaze Magazine, and The Volunteer Channel. Caden Dyer – Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beacon “I am honored to continue the Beacon’s prestigious legacy, and I am thrilled to stewardan organization that has given me invaluable career training. The…
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TVC Earns Gracie Awards Honorable Mention for 2024 Election Day Live Special
The Volunteer Channel (TVC) received a 2025 Gracie Awards Honorable Mention for the student-run television station’s hour-long Election Day live special Voting Matters. The special was a mix of pre-recorded segments and live interviews with local public officials as part of the Election Project—a collaborative reporting initiative between the School of Journalism and Media and…
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WUOT’s Todd Steed Receives J&M Alumni of the Year Award
Alumnus Todd Steed (‘84) can still recall the first time he began using his journalism degree after earning it at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was working at a music school in Lithuania. One day a woman came up to him on the street because he looked American. She was looking for someone who…
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J&M Students and Faculty Win Broadcast Education Association Awards
Sophomore Eliza Noell had never touched a professional camera until her freshman year, when she joined the documentary production unit Land Grant Films at the College of Communication and Information (CCI). “I was a complete beginner. It was really neat to be able to walk in and have this opportunity to try it out and…
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UT Student Journalists win regional SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards
Student journalists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, won several first-place and finalist awards at the annual Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Region 12 Conference last month. Award-winning work included stories covering Hurricane Helene and the 2024 presidential election campaign. Senior journalism and media major and The Daily Beacon Editor-in-Chief Shelby Wright said she is…
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Student Media Leadership Openings
The Media Center is excited to launch the search process for 2025-2026 student media senior leadership. The student media senior leadership includes: All positions are paid, student positions. Specific pay rates and length of appointment will be discussed during the interview process. To apply, you must be a current student in good standing with at…
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Graduating Senior Griffin Hadley Proud To ‘Carry The Torch’
Griffin Hadley and Kate McCarville the Tennessee men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams receiving the Torchbearer award at Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center in Knoxville, TN. (Photo By Kyndall Williams/Tennessee Athletics) School of Journalism and Media Professor Erin Whiteside met graduating senior Griffin Hadley for the first time during an informational session for students…
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Land Grant Films Team Produces Award-Winning Short Documentary on Blind Woodworker
Senior Carter Moore interviewing Greenville, Tennessee native and woodworker George Wurtzel for the Land Grant Films short documentary “Carving The Creative Vision”. In small-town America, there always seems to be that person everyone knows who perfectly reflects what that community is all about. This phenomenon is what prompted Nick Geidner, School of Journalism and Media…
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Thatcher, Durben Selected for 2025 Carnegie-Knight News21 Project
Juniors Gracyn Thatcher and Alexa Durben, both journalism and media majors, will represent the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this summer at the 2025 Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellowship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Two School of Journalism and Media students have been selected to participate in a prestigious…