Journalism & Media

  • CCI Schools Win 2024 AEJMC Equity and Diversity Award

    CCI Schools Win 2024 AEJMC Equity and Diversity Award

    The Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations and the School of Journalism and Media received the 2024 Equity and Diversity Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) at its annual conference in Philadelphia. AEJMC is a prominent international organization for academics in the field, providing regional and national conferences…

  • Alumna Cecelia Prewett Sees Her Study Abroad Scholarship Impact by Joining Ireland Trip

    Alumna Cecelia Prewett Sees Her Study Abroad Scholarship Impact by Joining Ireland Trip

    When Cecelia Prewett (’93) was studying journalism at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she had one of the most impactful experiences of her life when she participated in a study abroad trip to the Netherlands. “It changed my life. So, when I was asked to join the Board of Visitors and they said, ‘You can…

  • UT Alumnus Teaching Course in Sports Promotion and Branding while Working for UT Athletics

    UT Alumnus Teaching Course in Sports Promotion and Branding while Working for UT Athletics

    Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations adjunct lecturer Josh Lively (‘16, ‘19) holds many roles at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition to teaching, he serves as an assistant director for strategic communications at Tennessee Athletics, where he’s responsible for overseeing the media relations of the men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and…

  • Inside Global Programs: Ford Sanders

    Ford Sanders (JEM ’20) participated in the Going on Assignment in Prague program during summer 2019. A junior at the time, we checked in with Sanders, now an on-air reporter with the Nexstar Media Group in Nashville, to hear about how this program re-ignited his passion in journalism.   Learn more about CCI’s Going on Assignment in…

  • Students Earn Eight Tennessee AP Awards

    Students in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media and members of UT student media earned eight awards from the Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors’ 2019 college contest, which were announced in April. Tennessee students earned three first place honors for their work in investigative features, television reporting, and graphic design. Journalism and…

  • JEM Students Move Weekly Show Online

    When spring semester classes moved online after spring break, School of Journalism and Electronic Media lecturer Melissa Greene-Blye was not sure about the future of UT Today. The student-led weekly TV news program is produced by Greene-Blye’s advanced multimedia reporting class. From on-camera roles to operating the teleprompter, the course gives students who want to…

  • Geidner: ‘Goodnight with Dolly’ Off to Great Start

    With Dolly Parton’s new 10-week bedtime-story series Goodnight with Dolly under way, the honorary UT alumna is doing her part to comfort kids all over the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to Associate Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media Nick Geidner, who produced and directed the documentary film The Library That Dolly Built.…

  • John Jackson Miller: From Daily Beacon Editor to Star Fantasy Writer

    After graduating from the University of Tennessee where he served as editor of The Daily Beacon, John Jackson Miller (JEM ’90) set his sights on the stars.  Specifically, the stars in a galaxy far, far away and the ones in the far-flung future where no man has gone before. Miller turned his lifelong passion for…

  • Dolly Parton Film by Land Grant Films to Debut Nationally April 2

    The Library That Dolly Built, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, student-driven film and documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, will premiere April 2 in New York City and be screened in theaters across the nation. Associate Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media Nick Geidner is the director and producer of the film, which was crewed…

  • Student Blog: Networking Trips to New York City and Washington, D.C.

    This January, students from the School of Advertising and Public Relations and School and Journalism and Electronic Media traveled to New York City to get an insider’s view of the industry. In February, the Communications Studies club ventured to D.C. to learn more about professional opportunities with a Communication Studies degree. They were hosted by…