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JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION Advertising, Digital Media Innovation, Electronic Media , Mass Communication, Journalism, & Public Relations FACULTY ACCOLADES Nandini Bhalla is a co-panelist on a peer-reviewed panel, “How to Teach PR Writing Online: A Practical Approach to Creating Engaging and Meaningful Curriculum Regardless of Modality,” for presentation at PRSA Educators Academy’s Summit on Nov. 12. To fly on campus, permission was received from Risk Management, UPD and the San Marcos Airport. Attendees consisted of members of the Innovation Club and students from professor Dale Blasingame’s Drone Storytelling course. Jenny Buschhorn and Dr. Clay Craig were finalists in this year’s AAF Austin Big Wigs Educator of the year. Kym Fox gave two presentations at the Investigative Reporters and Editors symposium on Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion (DBEI) in October. The sessions were How to Include Investigating Inequity into Your Curriculum No Matter the Course, and College Press Freedom 101. They featured professional journalists and faculty from several universities. Dr. Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce led a group of Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas fellows in a recent co-authored publication analyzing how local, national, regional and global networks of power intersect in this digital era and impact journalism. Their research, entitled “Spatial dimensions within hierarchy of influences: How re-conceived notions of space in networked societies impact Latin American journalists” was recently published in the journal International Communication Gazette . Eleven SJMC students participated in a drone workshop on Nov. 18, capturing some beautiful footage of our 14 | November & December | College News Chuck Kaufman reports that the student-run media strategies firm has had a busy fall with two clients Jon Zmikl y led virtual reality demonstrations for 300 high schoolers Madison Tetrault of Blackhawk Digital Marketing shared her career experiences with students in Cindy Royal's DMI Capstone course 1 2 3