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Winter 2018News from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication

FacultyTerry Scott Bertling, an adjunct lecturer and the new

publications and special projects editor for the San Antonio Express-News, edited a coffee-table book that is being published this March by Trinity University Press. The book, San Antonio Stories: Centuries of Culture and Community is more than 500 pages and is a compilation of stories from the daily history series Bertling has edited since April 2017, pegged to San Antonio’s Tricentennial. This is the second history book published from a series that Bertling assigned and edited.

Elizabeth Clark received an Alkek Library research grant in February to acquire materials for her project on the history, cultural preservation and memorial landscape design of Lidice, a village in Czech Republic destroyed by Nazi forces in 1942 and reconstructed in 1948.

Mike Devlin was recognized as 2017 Second Place Most Promising Professor by AEJMC’s Mass Communication and Society Division. In addition, Mike had five peer-reviewed publications examining the intersection of sports fans, psychology, and mass media accepted and/or published in the fall of 2017. In November, Dr. Devlin received a top paper award in the National Communication Association Sport Communication Interest Group for his conference paper titled “Not All Fans Act That Way: The Role of Individual Personality in Predicting BIRGing and CORFing Behaviors.”

Cindy Royal received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for $75,000 to host the first PhDigital Bootcamp: Preparing Future Faculty to Lead Innovative Curriculum. The program received 85 applications for 20 seats. Participants will begin online modules in March, leading to an in-person workshop May 14-20 hosted at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In January, Royal was named to the inaugural EducationShift20 by MediaShift, honoring innovative journalism educators.

SJMC Electronic Media lecturer and graduate program assistant Dan Seed was selected as a 2018 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Faculty Fellow. As a NATPE Faculty Fellow he attended the Miami Marketplace and Conference from January 14-18 in Miami Beach, FL.

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Join Us! 2018 Barbara Jordan

Media Awards LuncheonThursday, April 2611 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.LBJ Student Center

Honoring award-winning Texas journalism. Hosted by SJMC PR graduate Michael Vela, Special Projects Manager for the San Antonio Tricentennial Commission. If you’re interested in attending, RSVP by April 20 at jmc@txstate.edu.

SJMC Awards CeremonyTuesday, May 1

1:30 - 3 p.m.Reed Parr Room, JCK Building

Featuring KVUE television journalist Quita Culpepper as the inaugural Michael S. George Lecture speaker. RSVP by April 24 at jmc@txstate.edu.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Kristin Marcum (BA Public Relations) was recently named President at Elizabeth Christian Public Relations in Austin. She is a communications strategist with more than 15 years of experience in media relations, public affairs, crisis communications and special event management. Kristin services a variety of high-profile clients including St. David’s HealthCare, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare and SouthWest Water Company, among others. She is a graduate of Leadership Austin, a former Austin Area Research Organization McBee Fellow and a 2016 AU40 finalist.

StudentsTexas State University’s chapter of

the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) welcomed 135 attendees to campus on Saturday, February 10, for the PRSSA 2018 Regional Conference: Deep in the Heart PR. Attendees included PRSSA National President, Andrew Cook, and representatives from 11 universities throughout Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and two Texas high schools: San Marcos High School and Vidal M. Trevino School of Communication and Fine Arts. Students had the opportunity to participate in professional development sessions, learn from professionals about the various sectors public relations practitioners can work in and network with their peers. Deep in the Heart PR was organized by SJMC students Alana Zamora, Charlcee Cervantez, Jacob Schatte and Andrew Terrell and SJMC lecturer Paul Villagran.

The conference was sponsored by the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and D.D. Hachar Visiting Hispanic Media Professionals Program. There was a Diversity and Inclusion session at the PRSSA Regional Conference. Speakers Ana Toro, APR, Fellow PRSA and Immediate Past PRSA National D&I Committee Chair, Gretel Perera, head of

Students and faculty at the PRSSA 2018 Regional Conference: Deep in the Heart PR.

Global PR, HomeAway and co-founder, Latinas in Tech and Marsha Burney, Communication Studies lecturer, shared challenges and how to address these proactively through solid PR strategies to meet D&I-specific needs. Olga Mayoral Wilson, APR, Fellow PRSA, moderated this panel.

The Hachar Program, a grant dedicated to funding education related activities specifically addressing youth in Laredo, hosted ten students and two instructors from Laredo’s Vidal M. Trevino School of Communications and Fine Arts to attend the conference. This is the first time the students attended a Public Relations-specific conference where they explored the field in detail and networked with other students and well-known field pros from PRSA National, Austin and Texas State University. Olga Mayoral Wilson, APR, Fellow PRSA, and Hachar Program coordinator led this initiative at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

SJMC graduate student Eun Jeong Lee, Marketing sophomore John Lee, and Communication Study senior lecturer Dr. Michael Burns worked with NBC covering the 2018 Winter Olympics. You can learn more in this University Marketing piece.

Graduate student Eun Jeong Lee at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

After graduating in 2014, Nicholas Ross (BS Advertising and BA Communication Studies) worked as a Junior Art Director at Bromley Communications in San Antonio and Dieste Inc. in Dallas a year later. In 2016, he won the Advertising Age Cannes Cover Contest and was part of the Omnicom Emerging Stars program. Nick was promoted to Art Director at Dieste in 2017, where he is part of the Digital/Social Team for AT&T and DIRECTV. He also helped develop the concept for the Laliá Home Hearing Device, a plug-in for voice-activated devices that would identify inconsistencies in speech and predict early warning signs of illness, which was published in PSFK’s Future of Health report in August 2017. Also in 2017, he published his first book, Food and Poor Design.

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