2018
2018 Stories & News
WTTW’s Phil Ponce named visiting lecturer at Loyola
Phil Ponce, the award-winning journalist and host of Chicago Tonight, has been appointed as a visiting lecturer at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Communication.
Experiences
Iceland Airwaves Festival 2018
Loyola SOC student Carolyn Droke shares her experience at the Iceland Airwaves Festival
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Symposium features on issues facing marginalized identities
“I would like to see really courageous, intersectional feminist thinking about design, ethics and science take the center stage in these emerging conversations about data and technology".
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Loyola Celebrates 10th Annual Octoberfest
Students, faculty and staff gathered on the first floor of the SOC building for the 10th Annual Octoberfest. Guests enjoyed live music from an accordion player, food and refreshments to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the School of Communication and celebrate tradition.
Dance the Vote
A group of students, faculty, and alumni from the School of Communication joined with the Loyola Dance Program and school kids from Peirce Elementary in Edgewater, to create a unique PSA aimed at increasing voter turnout: “Dance the Vote!”
Loyola to host Digital Ethics Symposium
This year’s symposium theme is “Ethics from the Margins,” focusing on topics related to women, people of color, and others who may feel disenfranchised by and through technology.
Latest exhibit highlights ads across the globe
Morris hopes that in looking at these images, students will be inclined to delve deeper into the questions and themes depicted. “[Students can] put together all their skills and passions to look at research.”
WLUW concert kicks off anniversary celebration
“This event was very fun, we’ve worked on this all summer whether it’s from deciding where we’re gonna put it, to the numerous meetings for logistics, to making a brand image,” Hudock said. “It took us a lot of work and a lot of thought, so this is our proud moment.”
Loyola’s School of Communication plans 10th anniversary celebration
Loyola University Chicago’s School of Communication is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an outdoor concert, an Octoberfest, a spring gala, and other events throughout the 2018-19 school year.
Loyola Debate Team takes top honors
The season opener marked the first event sanctioned by the Midwest Debate Association.“It was a great way to start our season,” said team President Kathleen Koehenke.
Latest exhibit highlights ads across the globe
Morris hopes that in looking at these images, students will be inclined to delve deeper into the questions and themes depicted. “[Students can] put together all their skills and passions to look at research.”
WLUW concert kicks off anniversary celebration
“This event was very fun, we’ve worked on this all summer whether it’s from deciding where we’re gonna put it, to the numerous meetings for logistics, to making a brand image,” Hudock said. “It took us a lot of work and a lot of thought, so this is our proud moment.”
Student news site offers experience to young reporters
The RogersEdge Reporter is a local news website covering all things Rogers Park and Edgewater. Their staff includes students from Loyola, Nicholas Senn High School, and Roger C. Sullivan High School. In partnership with After School Matters, the students are part of a six week summer program at Loyola that runs four days a week that teaches them basic journalism skills.
Loyola hosts 7th annual High School Digital Storytelling Workshop
High school students from around the country learned about reporting and writing, infographics, recording audio, and shooting and editing video during the 7th annual High School Digital Storytelling Workshop at Loyola University Chicago.
Alum Sean Keenehan says Loyola changed his life
“My job is to make life easier for my producer,” he said. The show centers around historical infrastructure that transformed America, so Keenehan’s job involves “finding interviewees, narrowing story ideas, fact checking historical research, gathering archival images and photographs and tracking down the right images.”
School of Communication trains Danish journalists
During her two weeks in Denmark this May, Loyola’s own Jill Geisler offered professional insight for the Danish broadcasting outlet DR that included running tight newsrooms, deepening journalistic objectives, and of course, the joy of Garrett’s Popcorn.
Havana, Cuba: A Film Student’s Dream
I can wholeheartedly say the trip was life-changing. Not only did I become a better filmmaker and storyteller, but I really grew as a person by being out of my Loyola bubble and comfort zone and immersing myself in a new culture.
Student-run PR agency wins entrepreneurship award
The EntrepreneurshipU Awards are held through 1871 a tech-incubator housed in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. This community work space is home to many startups, including a space for Inigo, and the student agency has received several clients from inside 1871’s walls.
Journalism program starts neighborhood news bureau
With the collapse of the news site DNA Info, Chicago neighborhoods like Rogers Park and Edgewater were left with a gaping hole where local news once stood. Loyola’s School of Communication is trying to fill some of this role by creating a student-run neighborhood news bureau.
Expanded awards and speakers highlight annual AD/PR Reception
“We’re graduating our first cohort of advertising creative majors. There are few universities that have tackled educating advertising creatives … this is a major accomplishment,” Morris said. “It’s a great time to be here and everybody should have good reason to celebrate. There’s change on the horizon and we’re going to embrace it to better our teaching and learning of our students.”
SOC Dean wins national leadership award
Don Heider, founding Dean of Loyola’s School of Communication (SOC) embodies all these characteristics. He was named the 2017 Scripps Howard Foundation Administrator of the Year through the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
SOC Rambler Sports Locker, The Phoenix at NCAA Tournament
The Loyola Phoenix and Rambler Sports Locker (RSL) covered every game during this breakout season, before the team showed up on the radar of local and national media. For the last four years the School of Communication (SoC) has provided travel to the Missouri Valley Conference in St. Louis for a number of students in an effort to enhance their education around what it means to act as professional reporters.
SOC alumnae, student, become social media influencers
Loyola’s School of Communication will host an Influencers Panel 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, to discuss how people can turn social media skills and branding into a successful career. The panel will feature two Loyola graduates and one student: Abbie Boudreau of ABC’s Good Morning America, Addie Martanovic of Chickpea in the City, and Megan Rogers-Reilley of Bowtiful Life.
SOC alum makes headlines as political reporter
Tina Sfondeles is a newspaper reporter. But she loves her job so much, it doesn’t feel like work. Sfondeles, a Loyola graduate, is a Chicago Sun-Times political reporter. She knew she wanted to be a print news reporter since she was in sixth grade. Sfondeles did not start in the political beat, but she said her personality is perfect for this beat and the skills it requires.
Ten Ethics Lessons from the #MeToo Movement in Media -- and Beyond
The foundation for my work was the Power Shift Summit in January 2018, at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I moderated the gathering of 130 diverse media leaders, educators, legal experts and victims of harassment. Their insights and calls to action became a report; the report became a project. The Newseum Institute asked me to help guide that work – in newsrooms and beyond.
NBA communication executive, Loyola alumnus, honored for service
McIntyre graduated from Loyola in 1972 and took off toward an ever-climbing career in the basketball industry. McIntyre worked in communications for the Chicago Bulls and began working as the vice president of communications for the NBA from 1981-2010 when he was promoted to and retired as the senior communications advisor for the NBA in 2014.
SOC professor leaves lasting impression on students
“I always have a motto. The thing I want to be written on my grave is ‘you were a warm person,’” Dr. Jing Yang said. “I try to give off some of my authority as a teacher, I’m just a few years older than them [the students] and have been learning a few years longer, that’s all that sets us apart.”
SOC students win broadcast journalism awards
This year, three SOC students – Jeffrey Chow, Erin Law and Megan McKinley – were acknowledged for their storytelling, receiving the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Award of Excellence within the student documentary section.
Jobs, Internships and More!
In this technological age, many applications are online, but nothing competes with making a strong first impression with an employer in-person. The Networking and Career Fair, along with the other events, allows students to make these connections with people directly, so their resumes are moved to the top of the pile, according to Heider.
Teaching with passion and compassion
Lozano was born in Colombia and began teaching at Loyola in 1993 with a brief hiatus from 1996-1999 when she returned to her native country to teach. Lozano said she never fully assimilated into either of the contrasting Colombian or American cultures. Lozano described herself as quirky, passionate and bi-cultural – she has adopted parts of both cultures into her life.
Sexual misconduct in the newsroom: Jill Geisler leads discussions with industry experts in DC
The Newseum in Washington, DC, hosted “The Power Shift Summit,” a gathering of leaders in journalism and media that focused on sexual misconduct in newsrooms. Loyola University Chicago’s Bill Plante Chair of Leadership and Media Integrity, Jill Geisler, led the discussion.