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 she hadn’t transferred to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and landed School of Communication Studies Associate Professor John Haas as an advisor.
“I absolutely love what I do and I very well could have had a different trajectory for my path if … Read more “Comm Studies Alum Says CCI Changed Her Life, So She Gives Back”
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 career counselor on the rooftop of her gym in Chicago who inspired her to research what it would take for her to become someone who helps others discover their own career paths.
Lane has gathered a wealth of experience in her field after she … Read more “CCI’s Director of Career Development Guides Students to Find Their Success”
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 is from Bulgaria and works as a reporter for the country’s leading TV network, said she wants to explore how journalists from seven countries are covering the Ukraine war because it aligns with her interest in research around foreign correspondents as well as freedom of … Read more “JEM Duo Awarded AEJMC Collaborative Scholars Grant”
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 20 years, Fletcher and West have served in various leadership positions in the industry. They manage a public relations podcast, “Ms. InterPReted,” which focuses on leadership, ethics and strategic issues in the PR industry – including marketing to women and advancing women in career … Read more “ADPR Alum Mary Beth West Named PRCA International Fellow”
SCRIPS Grant Funding Supports Innovative Research at CCI
The Research and Innovation Center (RIC) supports College of Communication and Information (CCI) scholarship by offering services to aid researchers throughout the research process, with a particular focus on helping compete for and win grants. This year, the center introduced the Summer CCI Research and Innovation Projects Support (SCRIPS) program. This competitive program provides CCI funding to awardees.
SCRIPS grants promote broad participation from the CCI research community. Tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track faculty can submit a proposal and CCI staff can also team up with faculty for project proposals, said Suzie Allard, director of RIC and Chancellor’s Professor in … Read more “SCRIPS Grant Funding Supports Innovative Research at CCI”
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 how he was doing it,” Woolley said.
As a UT alumna who graduated with a degree in journalism and worked in newspapers for 20 years, Woolley understands what it takes to report a good story—but she didn’t fully know how stories are told through the … Read more “Alum Deborah Woolley Creates Endowed Scholarship for Land Grant Films”
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 the field of journalism increased exponentially over the past 75 years, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media (JEM) adapted at every twist and turn along the way to provide a top-tier theoretical and practical journalism education to its students. … Read more “Celebrating 75 Years of JEM: Forward Focused”
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. Yet even with these all-important figures constantly demanding his attention, Mazer still manages to keep one aspect of CCI at the forefront of his mind and at the center of conversation: people.
All the planning and action he has undertaken in his first year as … Read more “CCI Dean Mazer Embraces the Volunteer Spirit in First Year”
CCI Offers Auditorium Seat Naming Opportunity
Over the past year, the College of Communication and Information has continued to create excellent academic and experiential learning opportunities for students. Here are just some of the accomplishments that highlight the continued upward trajectory of CCI:
- In late December 2021, CCI received a transformational gift from the Tombras Agency. In February 2022, the Board of Trustees recognized the magnitude of this gift by renaming CCI’s School of Advertising and Public Relations as the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations – creating the first named school on campus and the first named school of its kind among all land-grant
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 Thompson. It’s a position he has worked towards for the past 23 years by developing skills and interests at various jobs, as well as by attaining his PhD in rhetoric, communication, and information design from Clemson University.
Loebner’s initial route to advertising was, as … Read more “ADPR Alumnus Loebner Hired as Global Head of Inclusive Design at Wunderman Thompson”