Paralympics Project 2024 • School of Journalism & Media
Paralympics Project 2024 • School of Journalism & Media| jem.utk.edu
Paralympics Project 2024 • School of Journalism & Media| jem.utk.edu
Student journalists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, won several first-place and finalist awards at the annual Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Region 12 Conference last month. Award-winning work included stories covering Hurricane Helene and the 2024 presidential election campaign. Senior journalism and media major and The Daily Beacon Editor-in-Chief Shelby Wright said she is proud of her work on Hurricane Helene, which won in the general news reporting category. She sees...| School of Journalism & Media
Graduating senior Helene Burch knew accepting School of Journalism and Media Assistant Professor Guy Harrison’s invitation to help with his research last year was a good opportunity. But she never predicted the impact it would have on her academic career. Last month, she presented her own research at the International Association for Communication and Sport (IACS) annual summit in Chicago. Burch interviewed female collegiate athletes from different sports disciplines to learn more about how...| School of Journalism & Media
Growing up, Amber Lynn Carroll (‘13) knew she wanted to do something that honored her inner performer. She also loved to write. So, when the School of Journalism and Media alumna discovered there was a career path combining both passions, she wanted in. She joined her high school TV station and started covering sports. It felt completely natural. She then enrolled at Western Kentucky University before transferring to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to pursue a degree in broadcast jo...| School of Journalism & Media
Griffin Hadley and Kate McCarville the Tennessee men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams receiving the Torchbearer award at Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center in Knoxville, TN. (Photo By Kyndall Williams/Tennessee Athletics) School of Journalism and Media Professor Erin Whiteside met graduating senior Griffin Hadley for the first time during an informational session for students selected to cover the 2024 Paralympic Games for the USA TODAY Network in Paris. “But it was not u...| School of Journalism & Media
Senior Carter Moore interviewing Greenville, Tennessee native and woodworker George Wurtzel for the Land Grant Films short documentary “Carving The Creative Vision”. In small-town America, there always seems to be that person everyone knows who perfectly reflects what that community is all about. This phenomenon is what prompted Nick Geidner, School of Journalism and Media professor and Land Grant Films director, in 2023 to pitch to the student documentary production team a series highl...| School of Journalism & Media
Juniors Gracyn Thatcher and Alexa Durben, both journalism and media majors, will represent the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this summer at the 2025 Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellowship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Two School of Journalism and Media students have been selected to participate in a prestigious national reporting initiative this summer. Juniors Gracyn Thatcher and Alexa Durben, both journalism and media majors...| School of Journalism & Media
Students in the School of Journalism and Media earned several awards for their reporting coverage including Best Public Service Journalism for The Election Project and Best TV Station at the 2025 Southeast Journalism Conference The Election Project won “Best in the South” in public service journalism at the 2025 Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC). A collaborative reporting initiative between the School of Journalism and Media and The Media Center at the College of Communication and In...| School of Journalism & Media
School of Journalism and Media alumnus Lukas Vysniauskas’ (‘24) with US Paralympian Carson Clough in Paris. School of Journalism and Media alumnus Lukas Vysniauskas’ (‘24) reporting on US Paralympian Carson Clough at the 2024 Paralympic Games has been recognized by the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Vysniauskas finished ninth in the 2024-25 Hearst Multimedia Narrative Video Storytelling Competition. The Hearst Journalism Awards is a nationally recognized program that honors college...| School of Journalism & Media
When Ashley Sharp (‘18) learned about the 2016 Great Smoky Mountain wildfires, she wanted to help. She knew WBIR Channel 10 News would need assistance covering this tragedy, so she requested to be excused from Professor Sam Swan’s class to join their team. The journalism and media student at the time worked part-time for the television station as an editor and photographer and wanted to contribute her efforts to report on what many locals remember now as the Gatlinburg wildfires. “He lo...| School of Journalism & Media
Journalism and Media senior Pierce Gentry embraces Joy Lambert, a resident of Hampton, Tennessee, who lost her home to flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. ...| jem.utk.edu
