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By: Lizzy Lankford Today is our anchor clinic from

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The School of Journalism and Strategic Media at any time to get some help
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the University of Arkansas is celebrating its 90th year as an institution.
next semester.

The School was founded in the basement of Old Main in 1930 by Anchor auditions and Senior Staff
Walter J. Lemke, the department would move to various buildings on applications are due a week from
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today. The application for staff is:
campus until it found its home at Kimpel Hall.
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The School of Journalism and Strategic Media has grown from a tiny
department to a multi-million dollar institution with many esteemed Senior Staff …
alumni like TJ Holmes, James “Skip” Rutherford and Taylor McGregor.  docs.google.…

The School of Journalism completed the Student Media Center in 2018

and consists of a newsroom for all forms of journalism to come Dec 4, 2020
together and collaborate.
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Professor Larry Foley, the department chair for the School of @uatvnews

Journalism and Strategic Media, and has been with the School of UATV News Live on Twitter
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Journalism for over 20 years.

Foley said that his heart and soul are with the university and the
school of journalism and has been his life for over 40 years.

“I got to campus, and I read in the catalog that they not only had a
journalism department” Foley said, “but a brand new broadcast
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journalism degree and a campus radio station.”
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Foley said he’s loved teaching and getting to mentor students and
watch where students go within the industry and turn into friends.
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“What I hold most dear, are the relationships with the students down
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Alum and former visiting professor to the U of A, Skip Rutherford, was
the editor of the Arkansas Traveler newspaper in the 1970s and went
on to work for former president Bill Clinton

Rutherford said he had always enjoyed journalism and that how on

the Traveler sta , everyone came from all diverse backgrounds.
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“I’ve always been a newspaper junkie” Rutherford said, “I remember in UATV News Live on Twitter
college, on Sunday mornings, I would go down to, what was then pscp.tv

Palace Drug by the old train station, and they carried all these
di erent newspapers… I would spend Sunday afternoons, reading the Nov 19, 2020

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Professor Rick Stockdell started teaching at the University of Arkansas
in 1980; he has taught the longest at the School of Journalism out of
any other professor.

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Professor Stockdell said he’s enjoyed being able to watch the growth
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“Back then [in 1980] there wasn’t any media to speak of, the Traveler
was around and the Razorback yearbook, KUAF was a 10 watt radio
station” Stockdell said, “now we have UATV, KUAF is a 100 thousand
watt, professional NPR station and a 500 watt student run station.”

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Professor Stockdell said the most rewarding part of being a

journalism professor is getting to work with students.

“I’ve always felt lucky to teach the rst broadcast course that
broadcast students take” Stockdell said, “even thought it’s a required
course, it’s not one they have to take like a math course, or history
course, they want to be there.”

Alum Taylor McGregor, grew from a reporter in Casper, Wyoming to a

sideline reporter for the Chicago Cubs and ESPN College Football.

McGregor said that adaptability and kindness are some of the most
valuable skills she’s learned from being a sideline reporter.

“Enjoy the journey, enjoy the people around you and just be nice”
McGregor said, “there’s always going to be somebody that’s more
talented than you are, but if you are kind and you work hard, that’s
going to win every time.”

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McGregor talked about how she learned a lot of valuable information

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media and that she was able to take her experiences and use them in
her profession.

Another alum, Ginny Monk was the Arkansas Traveler Newspaper

editor in 2016 and 2017, Monk went on to be a reporter for the
Arkansas Democratic Gazette covering Juvenile Justice.

Monk said that being the editor for the 2016 presidential election was
a transformative experience for her.

“I think it was wild for a lot of journalists, not just student media”
Monk said, “we actually had the paper designed and ready to go and it
was 11 [p.m.] when we had to change it to the Donald Trump paper
we had sketched out.”

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