A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Kansas State University
105 Kedzie Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6890
Fax: 785-532-5484

JMC Announcements

• JMC Centennial Celebration coming Sept. 2-4, 2010. [ more ]
• JMC alumna Gail Pennybacker appears on "Good Morning America" to discuss breast cancer awareness coverage: [ story with video ]
• The Common Good Internship/Career Fair will be 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
• K-State PRSSA participates in "Cotton from Blue to Green" campaign. [ watch the video ]
• JMC wins 2009 University Outstanding Department Award for Enhancing Diversity. [ more ]
• JMC professor H.S. Jin wins Presidential Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. [ more ]
• K-State implements contingencies and responses during H1N1 flu outbreak. [ more ]
• JMC alum Pete Souza takes us into the Oval Office on ABC's Good Morning America. [ GMA slideshow / Whitehouse.gov slideshow]
• Miller School alum named Obama White House photographer. [ more ]
• School moves forward with Community Readiness Communications Initiative. [ more ]

Faculty: KIM Baltrip

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• Assistant Professor
• News Adviser for K-State Collegian
• Office: Kedzie 107A
• Phone: 532-3596
• E-mail: kbaltrip@ksu.edu

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Professional Information

Kim gained her print media experience as a copy editor on the business and metro desks at The New York Times, where she also worked as an education reporter. She also was a news copy editor at the Houston Chronicle and a copy editor for Shining Light magazine.

Before entering industry, she worked at Prairie View A&M University, serving as acting chair of the Languages and Communication Department in 2001, and as an assistant professor in journalism and adviser of the university’s student newspaper for four years. In 2006, she was a presenter at the American Journalism Historians Association’s convention. She had a column published in Black Issues in Higher Education in 2000 and in the same year, she was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, spending five weeks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, studying religious newspapers.

In 1995, she was one of 46 contributors published in the hardcover book, Women’s Periodicals of the United States: Consumer Magazines. She is a member of the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists and a member of College Media Advisers.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Prairie View A&M University and a master’s in mass communication and doctorate in education from the University of Akron.