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• Four more Pulitzer winners added to SCT alumni ranks

  Four SCT alumni were among the winners of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize awards.

  A team from the Philadelphia Inquirer won the Pulitzer for public service for their series “Assault on Learning.” SCT alumni on that team were Kristen Graham, JOUR ’00; Dylan Purcell, JOUR ’00; and Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel, COMM ’73.

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  Also, The Huffington Post won its first-ever Pulitzer for, “Beyond the Battlefield,” by David Wood, JOUR ’70.

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  Other SCT Pulitzer winners include:

  • John Dotson, JOUR ’58. He was publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal when it won the prize for … Read more »

• Ad agency experience give students an ‘Edge’ in the job market

  By Tiarra Fisher
  Advertising student

  Student-run advertising agencies are few and far between, but those involved with Diamond Edge Communications say the School of Communications and Theater plays host to one of the best. Reconstructed 10 years ago by Professor James Marra, ADV, DEC prepares its students for the challenges they will face in the real world.

  Diamond Edge Communications caters to two of the advertising student’s needs: an internship and credits. A course that is open to all Temple advertising students, it’s more like an internship in the sense that the classroom is turned into a functioning advertising … Read more »

• Owls discuss the ‘Hoo’s Hoo’ of Hollywood at Alumni Weekend

  Photos by Paul C. Imburgia

  As part of a weekend in which thousands of Owls returned to campus, three SCT alumni gathered to discuss how the media plays to America’s obsession with celebrities.

  They should know – they’ve all made careers out of it.

  Journalism Professor Andrew Mendelson led a conversation with Barry Levine, JOUR ’81, managing editor of the National Enquirer; Lisa Marsh, JOUR ’89, celebrity and fashion journalist and author; and Dyana Williams, RTF ’97, CEO and founder of Influence Entertainment.

  “People You Can’t Get Enough Of: Celebrity in the 21^st Century” was presented as part of … Read more »

• Weiss Award winners discuss the stories behind their stories

  The reporters who created what were deemed the three best examples of investigative journalism in the Delaware Valley revealed the stories behind the stories at the inaugural Weiss Award for Investigative Journalism April 19 at WHYY.

  Through the vision and generosity of Larry Weiss, the president of venture capital firm Hippographics Inc., Temple University’s Center for Public Interest Journalism established the awards this year to encourage more reporters in South Jersey, Delaware and southeast Pennsylvania to increase public awareness about under-recognized social problems; malfeasance in local or state government; waste, fraud and abuse in government agencies or business; or other … Read more »

• Owls flock to Arden Theatre stage in recent show

  During the Arden Theatre Company’s recent run of Clybourne Park, the 2nd Street venue could have been renamed “Temple Theaters South.”

  The show, which ran from Jan. 26 to March 25, was directed by Assistant Professor Ed Sobel and starred Associate Professor David Ingram; Josh Tower, THEA ’95, and former theater student Maggie Lakis.

  Watch the SCT-ers involved in the production talk about performing in Philadelphia and how the Theater Department prepares its students for the professional world.

  Video by Ryan Geffert

  Clybourne Park footage courtesy of Jorge Cousineau and Arden Theatre Company … Read more »

• SCT speakers in spotlight at university, school graduation ceremonies

  May 10 will be a big day for all students celebrating their graduation, but it will extra special for a few people who will be addressing the graduates at both the School of Communications and Theater ceremony and the university commencement.

  LaToya Stroman, BTMM, will be the student speaker at the University Commencement in Liacouras Center.

  She received the news via mail. “I happened to be looking at what mail came for that day,” she recalls. “I looked at my mother and said, ‘Mom, why didn’t you tell me I had a letter from the president’s office?’”

  She screamed … Read more »

• Associate Professor Williams-Witherspoon publishes textbook

  Continuing the work from her earlier book, Associate Professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, THEA, has written Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011), which offers a much needed contextualization of West, East and South African performance traditions. From the development of musical instruments, to the creation of song styles and cadence, to the playful comic parody that would serve as modest entertainment for hundreds of thousands of Negroes in the plantation quarters of the South, this text seeks to shed light on the rich history and tradition of African American Theater. It is a … Read more »