Journalism Students and The Daily
Receive 21 Awards from the Oklahoma SPJ
 The staff of The Oklahoma Daily and several Gaylord College students
were recognized as among Oklahoma's top journalists by the Oklahoma
Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Daily
staff competed at the professional level with other state newspapers
with circulations between 7,000 and 24,999 to win 21 awards. See the full list of OU winners.
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War and Media Students Finally Meet
Mike Boettcher Face-to-Face Mike Boettcher, former CNN and NBC journalist and OU alumnus,
returned to OU Thursday to meet for the first time a group of students
he communicated with every week for a semester.
Boettcher communicated with students for "War and Media," a course
offered to journalism and mass communication and international and area
studies students, while working as an embedded journalist in Iraq for
15 months. Read the article from The Daily.
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Advertising Students Travel to Singapore and Hong Kong Over Winter Break
 Advertising professor Jim Avery took 12 students to visit the top advertising
agencies in Asia during the Jan. 2009 intersession. The group was away from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18. The International Advertising class met for a few sessions prior to the
travel portion of the class. While in Hong Kong and Singapore, the
group visited top agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB, Ogilvy,
Grey, Draft/FCB, TBWA, M & C Saatchi and Leo Burnett. Read more about the trip and see photos. |
Two Gaylord College students have received awards in the first round of
the Hearst Journalism Awards in the Editorial Writing category. Hailey
Branson (journalism junior) received sixth place and Lindsey Allgood
(professional writing senior) received seventh place. Both will receive
$500 scholarships from the Hearst Foundation. 
