AlumKnights Magazine
May 2019
The Show Must Go On!
Pavlik said. Bennett agrees, and adds that in the realm of video, it’s important to learn concepts related to storytelling so that content isn’t just ethical and informative, but also entertaining and created professionally.
A brave young woman experiences a life-altering incident but continues to put her career goals ahead of her struggles. By Elizabeth Perchun
“I think it’s becoming very clear that journalism is as important if not more important than it has ever been…” But as much as JMS students try to stay knowledgeable and hopeful about their future careers, it can sometimes be hard to avoid concerns about the current state of journalism in our country. “We’re in a moment where I think it’s becoming very clear that journalism is as important if not more important than it has ever been. However, we’re also living in a moment when it’s become very difficult for the market to support the kind of press that we need for our democracy. We don’t know if it’s viable, but we know that it’s vital for our democracy,” Petre said.
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Emily Graves on the set of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.
Professor John Pavlik wears augmented reality glasses. Credit: John Pavlik
Even though the future of journalism may sometimes be uncertain, Pavlik believes that the JMS department at Rutgers will still prepare students with the tools that they need to succeed in the real world. So, despite the issue of the unstable market, students will be able to have value in the workplace. “We have a curriculum that continues to evolve. We have students learning about media across platforms. We’re not just teaching skills. We’re teaching technical skills, journalistic skills that are so fundamental,” Pavlik said. “With preparedness for lifelong learning, I think students can do extremely well.”
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uesday, March 6th, 2018, was the day everything changed for Rutgers University junior Emily Graves. It was around 40 degrees and sunny, but with a slight, brisk breeze. The buses were packed in the midst of midterm season and the line at Starbucks was still out the door. Girls were walking around the College Avenue campus with their sorority jackets on, while athletes in their grey Rutgers track suits joked around. Graves crossed the street, just as she always did, to get to her Specialty Camera Studio class on Livingston campus. “I was almost all the way across the street when the car hit me,” Graves recalls. Graves laid on the ground, stiff from all the pain, as she waited for an ambulance to arrive to bring her to Robert Wood Johnson hospital. A student named Eve waited by Graves’s side. She dialed Graves’s mom and told her nothing more than, “Emily got hit by a car.” Terrified and worried, Graves’s parents drove 45 minutes to meet her at the hospital. An examination at RWJ revealed Graves had a broken humerus and clavicle. The doctors patched up her open wounds and told her that the rest would heal on its own. They sent her off with no pain medication for her broken bones, no home remedies to heal her scars--- nothing. Graves returned home in an immense amount of pain. “I spent four days not being able to stand up or sit down on my own,” she said. “Eventually I could not take it anymore so my parents took
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