Bi-monthly podcast produced by students in the School of Communication and Journalism (COJO) at South Dakota State University featuring faculty, students, administrators and guest speakers from COJO courses and events.
Episodes
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Our fifth podcast features graduate teaching assistant Alexandra Farber.
Alex is a South Dakota State University honors alumna with a double major in communication studies and advertising, so one of the first truly “COJO” graduates. She served as the communications chair for the SDSU Students Association and won best presenter at the national level in the American Advertising Federation National Student Advertising Competition.
Our next episode will be available on March 13th featuring local photographer Dave Eggen. Be sure to download our talk with Dave on March 13th.
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Our third podcast features one of our graduate students, Rachel Eickhoff. Rachel works as a graduate teaching assistant in our fundamentals of speech course and is also a yoga instructor. She is a South Dakota State University honors college graduate and former division one track and field athlete. Rachel sat down with her fellow classmates Bea and McCade last fall for this conversation.
Our next episode will be available on February14th and feature Dr. Kelli Chromey, a new assistant professor in the school. Be sure to download our talk with Dr. Chromey on February 14th.
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
This episode of "Coffee with COJO" features visual communication instructor Frank Robertson.
Frank joined the SDSU School of Communication and Journalism in the fall of 2017 as an instructor to teach Intro to Digital Media, Basic Photography, Photojournalism, Advanced Photography, and Advance Multiplatform Storytelling — a course he developed while earning his master’s from the department’s online Master of Mass Communication program the same year.
After receiving his B.A. here in 1995, he spent most of the past 22 years in the newspaper industry as a photojournalist and multimedia editor, working at the Aberdeen American News and Sioux Falls Argus Leader here in South Dakota before spending ten years in southern Ohio at the Chillicothe Gazette, first as a staff photojournalist then eight years as its multimedia editor.
Frank was recognized in 2014 as Distinguished Alumni by the department and has earned dozens of awards for his work throughout his career, earning eight in just his final year at the Gazette which included five 1st Place awards and Best Photographer (Ohio APME Newspaper Awards, Div. I).
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
This inaugural episode of "Coffee with COJO" features students who worked for ESPN College GameDay last fall.
ESPN College GameDay is a pregame collegiate football program show on Saturday morning during the football season. The program broadcasts live from various college campuses hosting a featured game. On Saturday, October 26th 2019, GameDay broadcast for the first time on the South Dakota State University campus.
This episode, hosted by McCade Ivarsen, focuses on the experiences of three COJO students who worked with the GameDay crew; Tori Berndt, Alex Eigen and Natalie Hilden.