Alumna Erica D’Costa is Living Her Dream as Part of an Emmy Award-Winning National News Team
By Sam Starnes GSN’04 for Rutgers Magazine.
By Sam Starnes GSN’04 for Rutgers Magazine.
The conference explores methods to articulate critical interconnections between crises and forms of resistance.
These new findings “will exclusively benefit a diverse range of audiences, who are typically underserved by the mainstream media,” wrote study co-author SC&I Assistant Professor Kiran Garimella and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin.
SC&I faculty members Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, and Gina Marcello Ph.D.’08, MCM’95, COM’93 have developed a new cutting-edge curriculum for teaching about dis- and misinformation and developing cultural literacy among Rutgers undergraduates.
Born and bred in New Jersey, Joe Brecht left the state to earn a BA in Political Communication at The George Washington University. He returned home to pursue his graduate studies at Rutgers, earning his Master of Communication and Media (MCM) degree. Joe kindly shares his educational experiences and outcomes with us.
I learned much from this program and took away valuable information to add to my arsenal with each class. What I especially appreciated was the ability to apply aspects of my current role to the assignments directly, so not only was I able to gain more knowledge, but I had something I could immediately use at work.
SC&I faculty members Kristina Scharp and Dajung (DJ) Woo have been recognized by the journal Communication Education.
The Rutgers University RPSO, based at SC&I, is a fun, collegial group of Rutgers students who are working to improve their communicating, public speaking, interviewing, and presenting skills. All students, regardless of their initial level of interest and commitment, are welcome to join, and club members are not required to participate in public speaking competitions.
A fateful search on Indeed led Kaley to apply for a youth services position at Collingswood Public Library. They recalled, “I was convinced there was a literal lightbulb turning on above my head as I realized that library work is the perfect nexus of education, literature, and community service. Soon after, I enrolled in SC&I’s Master of Information program with a concentration in School Librarianship.”
Roman, a journalist and an editor who has worked throughout her career for local and national publications including the Journal News in Westchester County, NY, Reader’s Digest magazine, the New York Times Syndicate, and Consumer Reports, said she advises current Journalism and Media Studies students to always remember “Content is King.”