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Our mission is to educate producers and consumers of existing and emerging forms of public communication, and to instill in them the value of freedom of expression, intellectual and cultural diversity, critical thinking, creativity, ethics, professional skills, and social responsibility.

Support fellow Sooners recover from the storms

The Help OUr Neighbor Fund has been created to benefit OU faculty, staff and students who lost homes or property in the recent tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area. Any and all donations received in this fund will go directly to those students or employees whose homes and property were lost. All gifts are tax-deductible.

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British Media Study Abroad group visits The Guardian in London

Students from OU's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication spent part of their visit to London learning how The Guardian and other British media covered the Oklahoma tornado.

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100 Years of Journalism at OU

Gaylord College is celebrating 100 years of excellence in journalism education and in empowering storytellers. The celebration includes special projects and events throughout the year culminating in the special alumni celebration and Gaylord Prize during September 2013.

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New business journalism specialization

The Gaylord College has been chosen to receive a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to create a new specialization in business journalism for students.

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THE HORNET'S NEST DOCUMENTARY

Journalism Professor and War Correspondent Mike Boettcher and his son Carlos, were embedded with troops in Afghanistan. While there they reported for ABC News but also worked with OU journalism students. Now they have released a powerful documentary about the war in Afghanistan. The film was shown to an overflow crowd at the recent GI Film Festival in Washington, D.C. The film will also be shown at Oklahoma City's deadCenter Film Festival, June 7, 5:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

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100 Years of Journalism at OU

Gaylord College is celebrating 100 years of excellence in journalism education and in empowering storytellers. The celebration includes special projects and events throughout the year culminating in the special alumni celebration and Gaylord Prize during September 2013.

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TORNADO EMERGENCY: SAVING LIVES
2012 DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF BROADCAST MEDIA BEFORE & AFTER A NATURAL DISASTER

"Tornado Emergency: Saving Lives" was produced for the National Association of Broadcasters by media arts area head Professor Scott Hodgson and several students following the tornadoes in Joplin and Tuscaloosa. The mini-documentary highlights the role the broadcast media play in the time leading up to a storm and in the hours and days afterward. There is nowhere in the U.S. where that role is more evident than in Oklahoma and Hodgson and his students are documenting the contributions of Oklahoma City media following the May 19-20 tornadoes which tore through Moore and Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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Updated 5/23/2013 by Gaylord College: cperkins@ou.edu