Sports Broadcasting
From Tom Hammond of NBC Sports to Michael Eaves and Annie Dunbar at ESPN, the School of Journalism and Media has friends and graduates who represent the best in sports broadcasting. Lecturer Andrew Dawson, a 2009 graduate of the journalism school, is grooming the next team of successful young sports broadcasters with a special class, JOU 499, Sports Broadcasting. He has high standards for his students, who cover everything from high school basketball and baseball in Lexington and beyond to college sports, including University of Kentucky track and field, women's softball and, yes of course, the Kentucky Wildcats' men's basketball team as March Madness approaches.
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Dunnigan: An Inspiration
A national media buzz that started in fall paused for a stop at the School of Journalism and Media during Black History Month to celebrate the life and hall-of-fame career of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper who pawned her watch to make ends meet on her way to becoming the first African-American woman to receive press credentials to cover the White House and Congress. Students and faculty attended events surrounding a life-sized statue of Dunnigan that was on display for three weeks in the lobby of the W.T. Young Library.
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Midway Messenger
Film and Future
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