Category Archives: Faculty

Kuhlin Center plays host to NFL Broadcast Boot Camp

by Bob Cunningham BGSU Marketing and Communication Bowling Green State University played host to the NFL’s 12th annual Broadcast Boot Camp from April 9-11. There were 35 participants from the NFL, including 14 current players, who took part in a … Continue reading

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Broadcast instructor promoted to lecturer

by Erica Hanko Reporting Student Thousands of Americans tune into their local news stations every day to listen to clean cut, well-dressed men and women talk about the world’s happenings. Journalism instructor Ken Garland was part of that industry. Garland … Continue reading

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New professor settling into job of teaching multimedia skills

By Haley Yuhas Reporting Student With the sequence change from print to multiplatform, the department had been looking for someone who could help take the program to the next level.  They have found that with new faculty member Saif Shahin. … Continue reading

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Student media director promotes Toledo Press Club event

Bob Bortel, director of student media, has been busy promoting a Toledo Press Club panel on fake news that will be held Feb. 25. Bortel, who was featured on WTOL-11 in Toledo on the morning show, will moderate the panel of local … Continue reading

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Broadcast professor gains knowledge about television news coverage abroad through German fellowship

Kathy Bradshaw, associate professor, spent a small portion of her summer in Germany and Belgium as a RIAS Berlin Kommission Fellow learning about politics, economics and broadcast journalism in Germany and Europe. With 11 commercial and public, local and network, radio … Continue reading

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School of Media and Communication seeking two Instructors

School of Media and Communication Instructor, Social Media The School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University invites applications for a full-time, renewable, non-tenure track faculty position. Primary teaching responsibilities at the undergraduate level with possibility of teaching … Continue reading

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Nancy Brendlinger Retirement

Photos from Dr. Nancy Brendlinger’s retirement party, April 29, 2016. See story here.

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NFL players learn about journalism on campus at boot camp

Thirteen NFL players participated in the BGSU NFL Journalism and Radio Boot Camp April 14-17. Faculty participants included Jim Foust, Terry Rentner and Kelly Taylor from the Department of Journalism and Public Relations; Lori Liggett and Stephen Merrill from the … Continue reading

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Brendlinger to retire in May after 26 years at BGSU

By Tiffany Jackson Reporting Student During one of the student trips to Paris led by Associate Professors Catherine Cassara and Nancy Brendlinger a student mistakenly put a sharp letter opener that he had bought as a souvenir in his carry-on … Continue reading

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Panelists explore what it means to be a journalist

Lecturer Kelly Taylor was part of a panel discussion March 18 titled “What is a Journalist in the Digital Age,” sponsored by The Press Club of Toledo at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. The panel discussion was part of … Continue reading

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BG News group gains insight on the future of college student media

A contingent of five BG News editors and advisers participated in hands-on workshops and interactive lectures on where college student media might be headed. The group attended “The Future of College Student Media,” a two-day summit hosted by the College … Continue reading

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PR students rally against heroin

Students from the senior capstone public relations campaigns class in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations participated in a rally against heroin sponsored by Team Recovery.  The rally took place on Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Zepf Center in … Continue reading

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Ohio Pulitzer website created to honor winners in the last century

A team of students and three faculty members from the department of journalism and public relations created a website honoring Ohio Pulitzer Prize winners as part of an initiative conceived by the Ohio Newspaper Association in conjunction with the centennial celebration of … Continue reading

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Bradshaw selected for broadcasting exchange in Germany

Kathy Bradshaw has been invited to participate in the Radio-Television Digital News Foundation program in Germany and Belgium in June.
 A group of 12 American journalists spend two weeks in Germany and Belgium. RTDNF partners with the RIAS Berlin Commission … Continue reading

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Toledo PR agency hosts students

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Bradshaw Elected to AJHA Board

Dr. Kathy Bradshaw has been elected to the board of directors of the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA). Bradshaw, associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Public Relations, was elected by AJHA members at the organization’s 34th annual … Continue reading

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High school journalists learn new skills at workshop

High school students from Northwest Ohio converged at Bowling Green State University on Oct. 13 to learn new skills in journalism involving, among other things, social media, TV news and newswriting. Department of Journalism and Public Relations faculty members, along … Continue reading

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Jostens yearbook workshop finds new home at BGSU

Jostens representatives from Northwest Ohio partnered with the department of journalism and public relations this year to host their annual fall yearbook workshop and the response was better than either partner expected. “Attendance at last year’s workshop, which was held … Continue reading

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Saturday Night at NFL 2015 Sports Journalism Boot Camp

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Students visit Pro Football Hall of Fame

Twenty-five students from the School of Media and Communication and Sport Management headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH on Friday, April 10 as part of Richard Maxwell’s “Public Relations Practitioners in the NFL Reunion.”  Students had the opportunity … Continue reading

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