School of Mass Communication

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.

Spending your summer working may not seem like the greatest option, but four UALR students who interned on campus found the experience both fun and enriching.

UALR senior Cameron Moix recently earned the Reporter of the Year award during the Arkansas College Media Association’s annual convention in Arkadelphia.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.