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What equipment do you need us to purchase for your research and education in the SIUC SoJ?

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	Laptops
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Greetings for 2009/10 from the Director

Welcome to the 2009-2010 year at the SIUC School of Journalism. During the past year, the School has worked on revising and modernizing its curriculum, completed its second multi-media reporting project, sponsored a two-bus caravan to the presidential inauguration, obtained the funds to endow a new photojournalism scholarship and helped initiate a nationwide consortium of colleges sponsoring multimedia reporting abroad. The school also convened a new advisory group of media professionals and continued its program with the Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA) advertising school in India.

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Prepare for rewarding
communications careers

Specializations:

advertising/integrated marketing
digital media
news-editorial
photojournalism

Win-Win for news students

SoJ students produce an award winning student newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, and its web site, siuDE.com. The “DE” boasts an independent operation that pays student workers an hourly wage as they gain experience in

newswriting
photography
editing
design
advertising sales
ad creation
web production

The Daily Egyptian is one of very few college newspapers to own an offset printing press.

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Advertising IMC

Ad students bring home Addys

Learn more about AAF, which took second in district 6 in College World Series
Saluki Advertising Agency provides real experience

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Faculty Factoid

Journalists-in-residence and faculty members earned national recognition while working at news agencies such as

The Paul Simon Legacy

Paul Simon
Public Policy Institute

In 1997, former Illinois U.S. Senator Paul Simon joined the SoJ faculty and directed the University's Public Policy Institute until his death in December, 2003. Now named in his honor, the Simon Institute hosts numerous nationally renowned speakers and panelists on issues such as war, politics and the impact of digital media.

Institute Events

Watch videos John Cullerton, Doyle McManus, Lisa Madigan, Ray Suarez and other institute guests.
Check for the Fall 2009 schedule.

Global Media Research Center

SoJ faculty and students enjoy contributing to research and participating in a lively series of events programmed by the GMRC.
Fall 2009 events:

Sept. 14 -- 4:30 p.m. Meenakshi Gigi Durham, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Iowa, will discuss girls and sexuality in international media.
Sept. 28 -- 4:30 p.m. Anne Elizabeth Moore, School of the Art Institute, Chicago. The Advantage and Disadvantage of Zine: The First Generation of Khmer Feminists Reinvent Democracy.
Oct. 8 -- 4:30 p.m. Angharad Valdivia, research professor, College of Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ìUses and Abuses of Hybridity: Contemporary Mainstream Latinidad as the Malleable Construct.î V
Oct. 12 -- 4:30 p.m. Margaret Hunter, associate professor of sociology, Mills College, Oakland, Calif. ìSkin Color, Global Racism, and the Shifting Policies of Feminism.
Oct. 21 -- 4:30 p.m. Satoshi Toyosaki, assistant professor, Department of Speech Communication, SIUC. Toyosaki will look at ecological feminism in Miyazakiís animation movies
TBA, November. Deborah A. Tudor, associate dean, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, SIUC. Tudor will explore masculinity in videogames

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