Drake magazine program featured prominently in MediaShift article

SJMC magazine professor Jeff Inman was featured prominently in an article on Mediashift, a website that bills itself as the “premier destination for insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology.”  The article, titled “Teaching Magazine Students More Than Magazines,”  examines the changing nature of magazine journalism education and the challenges facing teachers attempting to replicate the breakneck nature of online journalism in the classroom.

Senior journalism website features musical mashup

The latest edition of Urban Plains (http://urban-plains.com/)—the award-winning multimedia website produced by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s magazine, news, and digital media production students—has been live for several weeks and is being continually updated. A fun feature of this year’s Urban Plains: Urban Mash Up, in which local musicians from diverse backgrounds (jazz, classical, dixieland, rock, folk) are invited into the Turner Jazz Center and left to experiment for an hour. Their musical collaboration is then recorded.

—Kathleen Richardson, Dean, SJMC