The Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) began its 100th anniversary celebrations earlier this year while the BYU SPJ chapter will commemorate its 50th anniversary in fall 2009.
Celebrations for the 100th anniversary began in April at a conference hosted at DePauw University in Indiana, where SPJ was originally founded. The annual SPJ conference will be held [...]
The Daily Universe won multiple awards earlier this month at the annual Utah Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
BYU’s newspaper and staff competed for the Utah Headliners Awards in the B category against other state newspapers, such as the Daily Herald, the Spectrum, and the Daily Utah Chronicle. The Daily Universe was awarded a total of [...]
Provo, Utah – (May 13, 2009) Susan B. Walton, currently associate professor of communications, has been appointed associate chair for student media of BYU’s Department of Communications, effective May 1.
“Our student media labs are critical to our learning environment and it’s about time we dedicated an administrative position to provide more support to them,” said [...]
Those who frequently eat at Squatters restaurant in Salt Lake City might have noticed a change on March 23. Rising above the typical restaurant dining experience was an unusual phrase repeated excitedly by servers: “that table just bought water.”
“The restaurant servers developed their own in-house competition to see who could sell the most glasses of [...]
The BYU Department of Communications was granted full reaccreditation in a 23-0 affirmative vote by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) in Portland, Oregon, on May 1, 2009. This is the fourth consecutive reaccreditation of the program since its initial accreditation in 1984.
Although support for reaccreditation was unanimous at the [...]
Most students carry it with them wherever they go. Almost all take good care of it and keep it in a safe place. Some have even been known to sleep outside on the grass with it. While most students are intimately familiar with their textbook, few ever get a chance to meet the face behind [...]
Brigham Young University’s student run newspaper, The Daily Universe, kept up its award-winning pace after claiming yet another national honor.
The 2008 Newspaper and Magazine Pacemaker contest, sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press, awarded The Daily Universe as a finalist for excellent journalism and newspaper presentation on Nov. 1, 2008 at the National College Media Convention [...]
New ways to communicate are popping up every day, especially on the internet. Public relations professionals have become engrossed in using the internet to transport messages and influence their publics. But how can they know if they succeed?
Katie Paine, CEO and founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC, visited the communications department at BYU towards the [...]
By Sara Anderson
Brigham Young University placed in both the television and radio portions of the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Award Program.
BYU’s Broadcast program tied for fifth in the Intercollegiate Broadcast News Competition and graduate Jason Sparks placed sixth in the radio feature portion of the competition. Sparks received a $500 reward. Caitlin Hansen and [...]
L’Oreal USA, the American branch of L’Oreal and the world’s largest beauty company, visited Brigham Young University’s campus to kick off the annual L’Oreal Brandstorm.
The L’Oreal Brandstorm is an annual event that gives university undergraduates around the globe the opportunity to become a brand manager in charge of a signature L’Oreal product. BYU has been [...]