State of the Department Chair’s Note

Greetings, friends of the Baylor JPR&NM Family!

I bring you the 2024 Chair’s updates with great pleasure I have much to share, as our faculty, staff and students have been busy doing extraordinary things Baylor JPR&NM has over 250 majors and 80 minors, making it the eighth most popular major in the College of Arts and Sciences. All sequences include internships, a capstone portfolio critiqued by professionals, and other hands-on experiences. Students complete two to three internships before graduating.

I am incredibly grateful to work alongside a dedicated and engaged team in our department Their dedication and hard work have contributed to our high recruitment and retention numbers. We are blessed to have faculty like Dr Liz Bates, undergraduate program director, and Dr Cassy Burleson, internship coordinator, who play crucial roles in our recruitment and retention efforts In addition, our full- and part-time faculty members consistently teach courses that prepare our students for the job market I am thankful for the way they contribute to our students' success It truly takes an engaged village to achieve our goals as a department.

With Baylor Love, Mia Moody, Ph.D.

Baylor Journalism, Public Relations & New Media Professor & Chair

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Claire St. Amant Named 2024-25 Radford Scholar

In April, alumna Claire St Amant visited our department as a Radford Scholar to offer a preview of a podcasting course she will teach this fall. St. Amant hosts a true-crime podcast titled Final Days on Earth and wrote the upcoming memoir Killer Story, released in 2025 by BenBella Books St Amant developed and produced stories for CBS News and is credited with over 20 episodes of 48 Hours. She has covered an assassination attempt on a judge in Austin, a serial killer in South Carolina and a murder-for-hire sting on two doctors in Houston She was part of the breaking news team nominated for an Emmy in 2016 for “Bringing a Nation Together,” a special report on the Dallas Police shooting

2023-24 Baylor Student Media Awards Abound

Baylor students earned 156 awards under the direction of Douglas Pils, representing all Student Media platforms, including 52 first-place honors Notable awards garnered were Associated Collegiate Press Pacemakers in Broadcast for Lariat TV News and Yearbook for Roundup, the ACP Best of Show in Digital Newsletter, Yearbook, Broadcast News Program, and the College Media Association Pinnacle Award for Yearbook of the Year

TIPA Back at Baylor

JPR&NM is excited to welcome the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) back to Baylor under the direction of Julie Reed, Baylor's assistant Student Media adviser. With its first meeting at Baylor in 1909, TIPA became the nation's oldest state collegiate press association and has grown into one of the country's largest collegiate groups Reed, who has been a part of the organization for almost two decades, previously served as TIPA president, vice president, and secretary FULL STORY