Meet COMM Alumna Margot Susca

Margot Susca has been a full-time professorial lecturer at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. since August 2013. She teaches courses in digital journalism and reporting; code; journalism ethics; children, youth and digital culture; and media writing. In February 2015, Margot began an additional role as Program Director of the School’s Interactive Journalism …

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Forensics Team to hold Nationals Showcase

On Monday, March 30th, the FSU Forensics Team will be holding its annual Nationals Showcase at 8:00 p.m at the Claude Pepper Center (636 W Call St, Tallahassee, Florida 32306). The event is free and open to the public. The event will also be available via live stream, so you can watch online if you can’t make …

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Grad student tackles social media for Zonta Club of Tallahassee

Amarin Cannon spoke to the Zonta Club of Tallahassee on Wednesday evening at the Capital City Country Club. Amarin is a graduate student in the School of Communication in the Media Communication Studies program. After finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Florida Gulf Coast University, she came to Florida State to pursue visual communications. …

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SCSD changes lives on Help Guatemala Hear Mission

On March 7th, a plane of students and faculty from the School of Communication Science and Disorders landed in Atlanta. The plane ride marked the end of a trip to Panajachel, Guatemala, where the group gave the gift of hearing to children and adults. Through Porch de Salomon, an outreach organization, Selena Snowden, her husband, …

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Houck talks Project South on NPR

Davis Houck, professor in the School of Communication, was featured on NPR’s history department blog on March 13. The article is a plea for “historical crowdsourcing” using an archive at Stanford University called Project South. Initiated in summer 1965, eight students spread throughout the South under Stanford’s Institute of American History and KZSU, a campus radio …

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Bruker and Opel work on Co-Parenting Grant

Faculty and students from the Digital Media Production Program have a new project on their plate – developing a toolkit for Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce. Fueled by a $250,000 grant from the Vandermark Foundation, Florida State University is working to create a new online toolkit designed to help create healthy co-parentings in families going through a …

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Democrat announces Top 25 Women, 6 CCI Alumni

Earlier this month, Tallahassee Democrat released it’s list of Top 25 Women You Need to Know for 2015. The list included 16 graduates from Florida State, of which 6 graduates from the College of Communication and Information.   Amanda Clements, BA – General Communication Kelly-Ann Fasano, BA – Media Communication Studies, MA – Media Communication …

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