Free film screening brings defendant, mother of victim to UALR campus

Jason Baldwin, a former defendant in the controversial West Memphis Three case, will appear with Pam Hobbs, mother of murder victim Stevie Branch, for a documentary screening at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A question and answer session with Baldwin will follow. Continue reading “Free film screening brings defendant, mother of victim to UALR campus”

My Summer as an Intern

Web work, photo shoots, historical research, community events, and graphic design are just some of the things UALR students got to do while interning at the Institute on Race and Ethnicity this summer. They explain what a taste of the “real world” was for like for them. Continue reading “My Summer as an Intern”

Student newspaper brings home Reporter of the Year, other awards

UALR senior Cameron Moix recently earned the Reporter of the Year award during the Arkansas College Media Association’s annual convention in Arkadelphia. Continue reading “Student newspaper brings home Reporter of the Year, other awards”

‘Must See’ Documentary Set for Oct. 11

“Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story,” a critically acclaimed documentary, will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at UALR’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Film critic Roger Ebert called the film a must-see documentary, and Indiewire named it the best documentary this year so far.
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School of Mass Comm Gets New Director

Dr. Olaf Hoerschelmann, author of a 2006 book on quiz shows in American culture, has been named the new director of the School of Mass Communication at UALR.

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Mass Comm Professor Wins Research Award

Dr. Bruce Plopper, a professor of journalism in UALR’s School of Mass Communications, won the Laurence Campbell Research Award, a top faculty paper award from Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, for the fourth time in his career.

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SMC Student Film Picked for Little Rock Festival

A documentary film by Keith Clements, a student in the School of Mass Communication, has been accepted by the Little Rock Film Festival. The documentary, “Go the Distance,” was his final project for the Documentary Techniques class he took under instructor David Weekley.

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UALR Offers Movie-Making Option

Lights, camera, action! A new series of classes offered by UALR’s School of Mass Communication will give students interested in a movie making career new opportunities in the growing Arkansas entertainment industry.

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Journalist Discusses Social Media and Revolution, April 19

Tatsiana Karaliova, a journalist from Belarus and graduate student in the UALR School of Mass Communication, will present a lecture on the recent social upheavals in Belarus at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Stabler Hall room 409.

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Student’s Grant Proposal Lands Job

Jef Ferguson, a UALR graduate student in the School of Mass Communications, wrote a grant for his Rhetoric and Writing class this semester, and it landed him a job.

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