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 ]

Readiness Communications

Fall 2007 Convergence Reporting

Students enrolled in MC 589, Issues in Convergence Reporting, taught by Dr. Angela Powers and Stacy Neumann, prepared several multimedia reports on topics of biosecurity, food safety, and military life. You can find their stories, slideshows, videos, podcasts and other interactive media here.

2006 Readiness Communications Conference, Kansas State University

The 2006 Readiness Communications Conference was held in Manhattan, Kansas, Nov. 8-10, 2006 and was sponsored by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University. The conference coincides with the opening of the university’s new National Agricultural Biosecurity Research Center (NABRC).

The goal of this conference is to generate a media guide that addresses what to do before, during and after an emergency or disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, food safety incident or bio-terrorist attack. Such events call for timely, informed, accurate, non-sensational and trustworthy communications. The guide will include:

• knowing who to contact to get accurate information
• understanding how the emergency and disaster response systems operate and what roles emergency personnel play
• developing an emergency preparedness plan, including knowing how to cover the community when an emergency or disaster occurs