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1 Vera Fischer’s award winning Corporate Branding and Package Design for Hye Cider Company 2 Alumni, Polo Sandoval anchoring on CNN 3 Students, led by Dan Seed and Bryan Miller, working to put Bobcat home football and basketball games on ESPN platforms JOURNALISMANDMASS COMMUNICATION Advertising, Digital Media Innovation, Electronic Media , Mass Communication, Journalism, & Public Relations FACULTY ACCOLADES Dr. Clay Craig was named Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Vera Fischer was awarded a 2018 International Davey award for Corporate Branding and Package Design for her work on Hye Cider Company. [1] Kym Fox , Beth Clark and Dale Blasingame coordinated a Common Experience screening and panel discussion Nov. 26 of Te Wall , a documentary exploring the 2,000-mile U.S.- Mexico border. Produced by USA Today Network, the flm is part of a collaborative project that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. led the panel discussion featuring two reporters who worked on the project: SJMC alumna Kirsten Crow, enterprise reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times ; and John Moritz of the Caller-Times’ Austin bureau. Journalism Sequence Coordinator Kym Fox presented a workshop about using apps to produce content at the annual Texas Association of Journalism Educators conference in San Antonio in October. She also made a presentation to the association’s board of directors to bring professional journalists to high school classrooms. Dr. Cindy Royal published a chapter in the online textbook Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship . Titled “Product Management,” it deals with the emerging role of digital product manager in media companies. She was also the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual International Research Conference for Graduate Students held in the LBJ Student Center on November 14. Her talk, “Bending, Breaking, and Blending the Academy: Innovations in Teaching and Research,” addressed the conference and Common Experience theme of Innovation. STUDENT ACCOLADES Advertising senior DeMornay Harper has been selected as one of 50 of the Most Promising Multicultural Students in the country by Te American Advertising Federation. Ms Harper and Assistant Professor Jenny Buschhorn will be honored at a luncheon in New York City in February. Advertising major Justin Manor has been selected as a fnalist for the American Association of Advertising Agency’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) Fellowship. Advertising senior Alyssa Nodorft placed frst in the One Show regional One-ID Creative Boot Camp. Te weeklong immersion into the advertising business is turned into an advertising campaign competition. Alyssa and her team out performed six other teams including second place winner and fellow Bobcat, Sawyer Stull. Nodorft’s team wowed, chief creative ofcers, executive creative directors and the client, with a full advertising campaign complete with activation and mock-ups. Alyssa now has bragging rights and the opportunity to interview with ad agency, GSD&M, and will be scouted by recruiters through the CBC Participant Look Book. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Polo Sandoval is a correspondent at CNN. On Monday, November 26, he did his frst CNN anchoring assignment as he co-hosted Early Start with Christine Romans. [ 2] In October, he was recognized with the university’s Rising Star Award for alumni under the age of 40). SCHOOL ACCOLADES Te Media Innovation Lab in the SJMC is the recipient of a $150,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Tis grant is a renewal of the PhDigital Bootcamp for two additional years. Te PhDigital Bootcamp, directed by Cindy Royal , recruits doctoral students and early career faculty from mass communication programs to prepare them to be digital scholar-educators and lead innovative curriculum. Te University Star placed in the top 10 nationally for our website and newspaper at the National College Media Convention during October in Louisville, Kentucky. Te Star also won second place for Best Breaking News Story for coverage of the Sutherland Springs tragedy. Te School of Journalism and Mass Communication entered a partnership with Texas State Athletics for a pilot independent study course where eight students, led by Dan Seed of our electronic media sequence, and Bryan Miller from athletics, worked to put Bobcat home football and basketball games on ESPN platforms, most notably ESPN+. [ 3] Students engaged in behind-the- scenes work and produced a total of 16 feature stories on Texas State athletes, coaches and support personnel. A number of those stories ran on ESPN+ during halftimes of the football and basketball broadcasts, on the in-house video boards at Bobcat Stadium and Strahan Arena at the University Events Center, and more will be released via txstatebobcats.com. For their fnal class assignment, the students served as the crew that live streamed the introductory press conference for new head football coach, Jake Spavital. Students worked in a variety of roles, from fxed-position cameras, to technical directing, to gathering b-roll and conducting interviews. FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR Holly Wise is a Fulbright Scholar in Bangalore, India. She is teaching an Advanced Print class as well as a solutions journalism module in a Development Communication course. She has delivered guest lectures and workshops to all the frst-year journalism students at Mount Carmel College. She has also presented her research at the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi and for the U.S. Consulate General and Christ College. 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