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: Gloria Freeland

---

• Director of Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media
• Office: Kedzie 110
• Phone: 532-0721
• E-mail: gfreela@ksu.edu
• Website: http://faculty.jmc.ksu.edu/freeland/index.html
• BA and MBA Kansas State University

---

Courses Taught

Advertising Sales, Community News, Newspaper Management, News and Feature Writing

Professional Information

Gloria Freeland is the director of the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media and an assistant professor in the A. Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University. Her journalism experience has taken her near and far. Before beginning her career at K-State in 1983, she worked on several Kansas newspapers, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, worked as a reporter, then co-manager of The San Jose News in Costa Rica and was the communications coordinator for the International Trade Institute at K-State. She also worked as associate director of K-State's Student Publications Inc. for 15 years. In addition to teaching classes in journalism and advertising, she coordinates the Miller School's internship program. As the director of the Huck Boyd Center, she assists various community publications in Kansas, organizes the annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media and coordinates the "Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium, co-sponsored by the National Newspaper Association Foundation. She also writes a weekly column, "Snapshots," for the Riley Countian, for which she has won several state-wide awards. She received both her B.A. in journalism and her M.B.A. from K-State.