Rick Reilly in SI

Class Notes: Fall 2019

Featuring a special note from longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly (Jour'81).

Photo by Marshall McKinley for the 鈥淥tterbox X Target鈥 campaign

Courting Success

For Marshall McKinley (StratComm'19), photographing a campaign for Otterbox was a formative opportunity to turn his passion into professional work.

Tessa

Class notes: Fall 2018

Updates on our exceptional alumni, from the 1946 grad who wrote one of journalism鈥檚 most seminal textbooks, to the 2018 grad who is CMCI鈥檚 first-ever Department of Information Science alum.

Students pose for a selfie after attending a theatre outing with Willis.

Willis-in-residence

Assistant Professor Erin Willis is baby直播app in residence for CMCI鈥檚 Communication and Society Residential Academic Program, known as CommRAP, which is based in Buckingham. The unique position allows her to connect with students outside of the classroom or office hours.

Barrett Batson

On the job: Fall 2018

Students discuss their summer internships doing public relations for designer Kendra Scott; producing Denver鈥檚 top 6 p.m. newscast, Next with Kyle Clark, at 9News; and digging through data at the technology company Xilinx.

Vintage political pins

Your attention, please

Fifty years after their seminal study on coverage of the 1968 presidential election, the founding fathers of agenda-setting research and CMCI鈥檚 Chris Vargo discuss how the media continue to shape what we think about.

Emma Kelly

Finding direction in D.C.

When Emma Kelly (StratComm'18) packed two suitcases and a box last January and took a flight to Washington, D.C., she expected to be there for only three months.

Richard Rocklin and Rebekah Sosa (MStratComm鈥18) take a selfie after Richard attended three consecutive workshops.

Generation exchange

When graduate student Matt Isola's family friend, Ted, received an iPad for his 90th birthday, Isola volunteered to show him how to use the tablet. The experience was a revelation for both.

student work

Campaign to combat food waste

For her Strategic Communications Campaigns class, Assistant Professor Jolene Fisher assigned students to pitch graphic and messaging ideas to a committee of representatives for Boulder County's first Food Waste Awareness Week.

Erin at her internship

On the record: Advertising student Erin Baptiste interns with local music label

Junior Erin Baptiste has an eclectic group of interests: media, design, history and music. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Baptiste is the type of person who looks both backward and forward. As a dual major in Strategic Communication (in the Media Design track) and History, she informs her ideas for the...

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