Miami University (OH) Journalism

10/11/2021

Coming soon: All new episodes from the award winning “True Stories in Sound” podcast team.

20/03/2019

08/02/2019

It’s not every day that you get to put on a Stanley Cup ring! This one belongs to Miami grad John Walton, voice of Washington Capitals. Inside Washington Program students talked w John today about his broadcast career

28/11/2018

Love insider tips: Miami Women’s Soccer Coach Courtney Sirmans & AD communications guru Chad Twaro offered news-writing students sage advice today about covering sports. With 4 current or former varsity athletes in class, plus 1 Bengals intern, their tips were well-received !

16/11/2018

Environmental Communication students and Professor Blair submersed today in the ecological restoration at Fernald Preserve, the former uranium-processing site. Cold! But many migrating ducks made the outdoor viewing bearable.

04/10/2018

MJF Environmental Communication students started work on a client project for the Miami University Farm by... moving solar panels to make way for the farm’s new green irrigation system! Nothing like getting your hands dirty while working on a professional project.

04/09/2018

Oxford League of Women Voters leaders schooled Journalism Capstone students today on democracy in action. The League led passage of Ohio Issue 1 in May, to head off gerrymandering. That’s League President Sybil Harris Miller at right. !

25/08/2018

Congrats to winners of 2018 Ohio's Best awards, an annual all-state competition hosted by three chapters of The Society of Professional Journalists. Among them, recognized at an event today, were Miami grads Emily Williams, 1st, business profiles, Columbus Dispatch; JD Malone, 1st, consumer reporting, Columbus Dispatch; Jenn Smola, 2nd, education reporting, Columbus Dispatch; Katie Wedell, 1st, public service journalism, Dayton Daily News; and Tana Weingartner and Maryanne Zeleznik, several 1sts and 2nds, WVXU-FM. Congrats to working journalists among our faculty, too: Dan Sewell, 2nd, criminal justice reporting, Associated Press; and Mark Curnutte (also a grad), two 2nds, minority and social issues reporting, Cincinnati Enquirer. (Photo, from left, includes Tana, me, Dan and Katie.) Full results at https://www.ohiospjawards.org/

20/08/2018

Congrats to 2018 JRN grad Isabelle Hanson on her new reporting job at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, MO. Well done, Isabelle!

20/08/2018

Miami Journalism grad Reis Thebault reports for The Atlantic magazine on Fresno, California’s long history of housing discrimination

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/fresnos-segregation/567299/

More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city.

08/08/2018

Happy to spend two weeks with some super-smart high-schoolers participating in this summer's Media Matters Summer Scholars program. Look for them on campus in the years ahead. Thanks, as always, to generous journalists (11 of them alums!) who shared their time and talent with the group.

Find your own stories. Cold call sources. Collect audio and take hand-written notes. Aim for conversations. Know your audience. Remember to be a human first, and a reporter second. Read, read, read…

19/07/2018

Faculty member Joe Sampson, who was a RIAS-RTDNA fellow this summer, writes about how online regulations in Europe impact newsrooms.
https://rtdna.org/article/tougher_online_content_regulations_pose_new_challenges_for_german_newsrooms

German newsrooms now required to remove objectionable content.

08/07/2018

Nan Luo, a Miami journalism student from China, tried really, really hard to enjoy Italian cheeses while studying abroad. Her cultural food essay for Advanced Storytelling in Florence with Prof. Blair:

During my college spring break in 2017, I went to Denver to do some backcountry skiing. My tour group leader took out a cheese stick – that typical American foo...

02/07/2018

Journalism major Mackenzie Rossero - in Florence, Italy, for Miami's summer program here - writes about Emily Crusi, a young Italian with a passion for teaching tourists about food.

A young, redheaded woman stands in a stall in Florence’s Mercato Centrale. She ties on a black apron and quickly twists her thick hair into a single braid over

18/04/2018

Today: Terence Moore talks about his job as a national sports reporter and the responses he gets from the public to his writing. At 4 p.m. in 419 McGuffey! (flyer has wrong location)

Terence Moore ('78), a visiting prof in the Journalism Program, will speak at 4 p.m. Wednesday McGuffey Hall 419. His speech is titled "Handling the Haters." Moore has faced his share of criticism as a TV and web sports columnist at the national level -- including physical confrontations and even death threats. In his annual spring talk, Moore lays out his best solutions for dealing with Monday morning quarterbacks, know-it-all naysayers and anyone else itching for a fight. (Note: This is a NEW location, with change from the attached flyer!)

13/04/2018

MUDEC Intro to Journalism students are in Italy this week on a reporting Study Tour. Colosseum, Cinecitta Film Studios, cooking school & student-led walking tours were our first agenda!

06/04/2018

Cheryl Heckler Memorial
Scheduled for May 5

The Department of Media, Journalism & Film will remember Associate Professor of Journalism Cheryl Heckler -- our colleague who died in February -- at a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5 in the MacMillan Great Room.

Heckler taught at Miami for 20 years. She was also the adviser for The Miami Student from 1997 to 2004. Heckler also graduated from Miami in 1981 with a degree in journalism.

She died Feb. 18 at her home in Carthagena, Ohio. She was 59.

The Memorial Service will be followed with a reception. The Great Room in MacMillan is Room 212.