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JEM Students Place Second at SEJC Competition

A student team from the UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media placed second among 26 schools in the onsite, deadline-driven team competition at the Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC), which was held Feb. 13-15 at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Tennessee team earned two individual wins in the onsite competition: senior…
Documenting Life

Nick Geidner suspects that if he’d asked his students several years ago if they’d ever watched a documentary, few, if any, would have raised their hands. So when Land Grant films was born in 2016, Geidner had no idea how wildly successful his documentary program would become. “We hit at the perfect time,” said Geidner,…
Come Hail or High Water: UT Journalism Students Delve into Extreme Weather

Melanie Faizer, senior lecturer in UT’s College of Communication and Information’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media, encourages her digital news reporting students to sleuth out hard-hitting stories on significant news topics. This fall their mission is to report on extreme weather issues, and the students are writing about everything from mosquito-borne illnesses to future…
Former NOVA Executive Producer to Spend a Week Mentoring Students at UT

Sixteen students in a documentary production class at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have spent much of the fall semester at Oak Ridge National Laboratory doing interviews and filming to make a 30-minute documentary about the Spallation Neutron Source. Now the students—14 undergraduates and two graduate students—are getting an extraordinary opportunity: they will work alongside…
After Whitewater Canoeing, Kerns Finds Grad School Smooth Sailing

Journalism PhD student Charli Kerns has fought her way through whitewater rapids and cascaded over waterfalls in her canoe. Knowing that adrenaline rush, she doesn’t get too stressed out over research, writing, or teaching a class. Kerns been an action sports enthusiast since being introduced to kayaking through UT’s Outdoor Pursuits during her undergraduate days…
JEM Students Earn Regional Journalism Accolades

Students from the UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media (JEM) competed at the Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC), taking home two onsite victories and a wide range of additional awards. This year’s conference was held Feb. 14-16 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. JEM assembled an eight-journalist squad to participate in the onsite…
Watch Live as Team Provides Social Media Monitoring of Super Bowl’s Ads

A faculty member and a team of students from UT’s College of Communication and Information will be providing real-time analysis of Super Bowl LIII’s commercials for WLVT on Sunday. Viewers will be able to see them at work on the station’s Facebook page and during the 10 p.m. coverage on WBXX, the CW Knoxville. The…
JEM student and faculty productions accepted for screening at 2018 film festivals

School of Journalism and Electronic Media (JEM) professor Dr. Nick Geidner, and nine former or current JEM students will have their short-form documentaries screened at three upcoming film festivals: the Knox Film Fest https://www.knoxfilmfest.com in Knoxville, TN, the Full Bloom Film Festival http://fullbloomfilmfestival.com in Statesville, NC, and the Immigration Film Festival http://immigrationfilmfest.org in Washington, DC.…
Torchbearer Justin Crawford reflects on JEM-CCI experience, opportunities.

For Torchbearer and recent alum Justin Crawford, an undergraduate program in Journalism and Electronic Media was about more than just a degree. Throughout the past four years of packed semesters, summer internships, and extracurricular programs, he found time to work as a career advisor with the Center for Career Development, a student director helping new…