Daniel Moore earns prestigious fellowship
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Friday, January 4
Daniel Moore, a junior majoring in newspaper journalism at Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), has been awarded the prestigious News21 Fellowship. Moore is the first JMC student to receive this honor and one of only 25 student journalists in the country selected for the paid summer fellowship, which is annually awarded to the top student journalists in the country. News21 is funded by Carnegie-KnightInitiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The fellowship gives next-generation journalism students the opportunity to cover a national issue and have their work published in national media. This year's program will focus on the re-entry into civilian life of returning veterans from Afghanistan and …
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'PatchU' collaboration with journalism school at Kent State spotlights student work
It's no secret that athletics spending outpaces money spent on academics at many of America's public universities. The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics released a report in 2010 highlighting that disparity in a broad sense, including with figures on Mid-American Conference schools in Ohio and other divisions across the nation. But that report was very much on the macro level. So 10 students in Karl Idsvoog's computer-assisted reporting class at Kent State University this spring filed public records requests with MAC schools, analyzed the data and scaled the issue down to the micro level — explaining how the money you pay to attend college funds athletic programs. The result is an incredible amount of financial information …
