If you have any interest in foreign correspondents, media in other countries, getting a couple of perspectives on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a pretty decent satirical novel, then you might enjoy the international media class next semester. Graduate and undergraduate students meet together and have different reading lists, although they will share a couple of…
Dr. Robert Dardenne is meeting with international journalists to talk about blogging and citizen journalism in the Dean’s conference room (Davis Hall) at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The international journalists come from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. On Thursday at 3:30, also in the Dean’s Conference Room, we’ll host a group of journalists from South Africa to talk…
JMS becomes the 95th program in the United States to be awarded a chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, the 100-year-old Nation Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication. Students with appropriate grade point averages — the top 10 percent of the class — are invited to join the society. The department can invite alumni…
To all USFSP journalism students: We are in the process of making significant changes to the registration process for our students. First and foremost, the departmental advising process is being re-evaluated. We understand registration begins shortly and appreciate your patience while the changes are fully implemented. These changes are being made to help streamline your…
The Department of Journalism and Media Studies at USF St. Petersburg, one of six accredited journalism programs in Florida, earned re-accreditation in 19-0 vote from the national agency responsible for evaluating journalism programs. The department’s reaccreditation, confirmed April 30, keeps the program among the approximately one quarter of journalism programs in the United States that…
Hi, JMS students and friends, 1) JMS offices will be closed Friday (tomorrow), April 9, as faculty are in a day-long meeting off-campus. 2) Ms. Nickens’ departure will make for a tough adjustment. I can’t tell you how much we value her years of service to the department and its faculty and students, and I…
Robert Dardenne Journalism and Media Studies University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Fla. What I express here is an ideal that sometimes varies little from what I’ve read in dozens of publications from Nigerian journalists and authors. I’ve said it differently and in a different context, and for that I hope it can be useful.…
