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James Wins Frye Scholaship

January 16, 2012, 8:40 am
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SPJ treasurer and graduating senior Amber James won a $2,000 Florida Capitol Press CorpsBarbara L. Frye Scholarship recently -congratulations to Amber for receiving this honor based on merit and dedication to a journalism career!

Barbara L. Frye was the Tallahassee bureau chief for United Press International for 38 years, and the first woman to work full time in the Florida Capitol Press Corps. She was also a member of the inaugural 1990 class of the Florida Press Association Hall of Fame.



Graduating seniors who intend to pursue a career in journalism are eligible to apply for the Barbara L. Frye Scholarship.
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Mission: Media, Take Three (The Alligator Farm Edition)

April 27, 2012, 11:09 am
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Kirsten Wilder, 11, learning photojournalism from SPJ vice-president Eliza Jordan at the Alligator Farm.
On February 11, SPJ invited children from the Boys and Girls Club of St. Augustine to Flagler College and to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm to experience journalism for a day -the third annual Mission: Media event was fun and beneficial to both groups.
Alphonso McCall, 12, left, and Curtis Manning, 13, reporting at the Alligator Farm.

One of the interviewees!
Leajawana Rollins, 13, learning to use a recorder. 
After a beautiful morning at the Alligator Farm, it was time to start writing the articles.
Toni Marie Foxx, 12, writes about the king Cobra. 
SPJ's Tiffanie Reynolds helps Curtis and Alphonso write journalistically.
After four hours, the children's articles were posted under Mission: Media, which is hosted by the Flagler College newspaper, the Gargoyle. We will add to the Gargoyle with every new Mission: Media event.
A big thank you to Professor Tracey Eaton who shot and edited a short video of Mission: Media -what a great way to capture the spirit of the day!
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Mark of Excellence Success -Again

April 27, 2012, 11:48 am
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Flagler College students were again successful in SPJ Region 3 Mark of Excellence Awards -not only did the college newspaper, the Gargoyle, win for Best Independent Online Student Publication, but Flagler College students placed in the top three in five different categories, winning both the Online Opinion and Commentary and Online Sports Reporting categories. SPJ vice-president Eliza Jordan won second place in the Online Opinion and Commentary category.
Eliza Jordan

Alex Bonus
Alex Bonus's article  "A Clerical Error: Homeless Health Care Difficult for Patients, Caregivers" won second place in the Online Feature Reporting category. This is the fourth year in a row that an article from COM 451 (Advanced Print Reporting) has placed in the top three at the Mark of Excellence Awards. 

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D.C. Bound

April 27, 2012, 12:03 pm
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Two SPJers, Tiffanie Reynolds and Danielle Ruckert, will soon leave for the Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, D.C. for the summer. Tiffanie will be interning with WTOPradio, and Danielle will be interning with K-Global -they will both also take courses at Georgetown University, and participate in multiple special events such as site briefings at the White House, the State Department and the World Bank.
Good luck Tiffanie and Danielle -looking forward to hearing about your experiences at the SPJ Internship Panel in the fall!
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Annual Internship Panel Draws Largest Audience to Date

September 28, 2012, 7:32 am
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From left, Margaret Wallis, Jessie Box, Danielle Ruckert, Tiffanie Reynolds, Samantha Ayres and Jaime Greco discuss their internship experiences.
The fourth annual internship panel last night was a success, with around 40 attendees. The panel speakers spoke about how to find and apply for an internship, how an internship can confirm or change career plans and what they wish they would have known as underclassmen, before they had any internship experience.
The audience had a chance to ask questions from the panelists following their talks.
From left, Adriana Danzilo Cabanas and Marne Burghoffer.


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Annual Resume Workshop a Much Needed Service

May 7, 2013, 11:07 am
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Huelsbeck edits senior Megan Rohlfing's resume.
The November 2012 Resume Workshop drew around 30 students who had the choice of having their resumes critiqued by professors Tracey Eaton, Mark Huelsbeck, Jim Pickett, Kristine Warrenburg and/or Matthew Wysocki. Many of the attendees found the critiques extremely useful and planned on redoing their resumes completely.
Pickett reads senior Kara Duffy's resume.

Eaton discusses junior Adriana Danzilo's resume with her.

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Instead of Mission: Media, Love Your Planet 2013

May 10, 2013, 7:17 am
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Outgoing SPJ president Danielle Ruckert.
Instead of Mission: Media, in February SPJ partnered with Flagler College's annual Love Your Planet event for its community service project. LYP2013 drew more than 30 environmentally conscious vendors, including SPJ's Sustainability Soapbox, which invited Flagler College students, faculty and staff to give short, impromptu speeches about sustainability. In case the passersby couldn't think of topics to speak about, SPJ members created cards with suggested speech topics and later in the day held a raffle among all the speakers for a $50 gift card to The Floridian restaurant -which was also one of the LYP vendors.
Warrenburg-Rome's enthusiasm for LYP is contagious.






While SPJ had a very small part in LYP2013, it was mostly organized by Kristine Warrenburg-Rome, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication, who is the chair of the Flagler College Sustainability Committee.

Quillian is the first speaker of the day.
Incoming SPJ president Kathleen Quillian didn't need a suggestion card to speak about sustainability, and she, together with Catherine Pinyot, created the beautiful cards and the SPJ signs for LYP2013.
A big thank you to Quillian and Pinyot for the speech topic cards!


Love Your Planet 2013 concluded with the screening of "Slow Food Sundays," a documentary by Nadia Ramoutar, Ph.D., digital film and video production instructor, at the Art Institute of Jacksonville.
Ramoutar works closely with Slow Food First Coast.
Love Your Planet 2013 also gave incoming SPJ treasurer Darq Neimark the opportunity to report and write about the event for Sustainable North Florida, which further lead to her becoming a St. Augustine correspondent for SNF's online magazine -great professional opportunities abound!
Some LYP2013 vendors showcased their beautiful fruit and vegetables.
In addition to thanking Quillian and Pinyot, a special thank you also to Taylor Bush, Jaime Greco, Darq Neimark and Danielle Ruckert for running the Sustainability Soapbox! Promoting SPJ and working for a good cause -what could be better?
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New Slate of Officers

May 10, 2013, 7:17 am
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From left, Alexa Epitropoulos, Kathleen Quillian, Darq Neimark and Adriana Danzilo.
Congratulations to our 2013-14 officers!
  • President: Kathleen Quillian
  • Vice President: Alexa Epitropoulos
  • Secretary: Adriana Danzilo 
  • Treasurer: Darq Neimark
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Unprecedented MOE Success for Flagler

May 10, 2013, 7:26 am
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Flagler College's student journalists have outdone themselves again in SPJ's Mark of Excellence awards, winning a national award for the first time in the college's history, and having two national finalists, also a first for Flagler.

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Senior Phil Grech is the 2012 Online Opinion and Commentary category winner, while both alumnus Lauren Ely and senior Sarah Williamson are 2012 national finalists in the Online Feature Reporting and Feature Photography categories, respectively. All three awards came in the small school division and the works were published in the Gargoyle. Additionally, Lauren Ely's article A Difference Between Faiths: Politically Irrelevant, was the result of her semester-long reporting project in Dr. Sarkio's Advanced Reporting course in spring 2012.

In March, Flagler's student journalists won 17 Region 3 MOE awards, including seven first place finishes. All seven winners advanced to the national MOE competition, which received more than 4,600 entries this year, with Grech, Ely and Williamson making Flagler College history. The Gargoyle also finished second in the Best Independent Online Student Publication category in Region 3.

Region 3 covers all colleges and universities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. 

First Place
  • General News Reporting: Ryan Buffa
  • Feature Photography: Sarah Willamson**
  • Online News Reporting: Sarah Willamson
  • Online Feature Reporting: Lauren Ely**
  • Online In-Depth Reporting: Ryan Buffa
  • Online Sports Reporting: Eric Albury
  • Online Opinion and Commentary: Phil Grech*
Second Place
  • Feature Writing: Emily Hoover
  • Television Breaking News Reporting: Ryan Buffa and Joshua Santos
  • Online News Reporting: Ryan Buffa and Joshua Santos
  • Online Feature Reporting: Tiffanie Reynolds
  • Online In-Depth Reporting: Michael Newberger
  • Online Sports Reporting: Jaycob Ammerman
Third Place
  • Feature Writing: Tiffanie Reynolds
  • Online Feature Reporting: Adam Hunt
  • Online Sports Reporting: Eric Albury
* (denotes national winner)
** (denotes national finalist)

While the Region 3 winners were recognized at the Region 3 Conference in Atlanta, Ga., in March, the national winners will be recognized at the national SPJ Excellence in Journalism 2013 Conference in Anaheim, Calif., in August. 
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Reynolds Wins Inaugural SPJ Anthology Award

May 10, 2013, 7:36 am
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Reynolds at the Gargoyle Anthology reception.
In April, senior Tiffanie Reynolds won the inaugural SPJ Social Issues Reporting Award for the 2013 Gargoyle Anthology with her article Bible Study Group Bridges Religion and Sexual Orientation. The award is the result of SPJ's efforts to strengthen its ties with the Gargoyle -outgoing SPJ president Danielle Ruckert and vice president Jaime Greco worked closely with Gargoyle adviser Brian Thompson to coordinate the process.

The award gives Reynolds a one-year membership to the national SPJ organization, which includes subscriptions to SPJ's Quill magazine and SPJ Leads, a weekly e-newsletter about SPJ and its members, as well as access to various professional programs, reference guides and SPJ's listing of job openings. The national SPJ organization also organizes regional and national conferences and works tirelessly to defend journalists' First Amendment rights.

A few days after graduation in April, Reynolds started working as a general assignment reporter for the Osceola News Gazette in Kissimmee, Fla. Congratulations to Reynolds on both the SPJ Social Issues Reporting Award and her first job!
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Quillian Tackles Hard News at CNN

May 10, 2013, 8:38 am
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Incoming SPJ president Kathleen Quillian will start as The Row intern at CNN in Atlanta, Ga., this month.

The Row is the editorial quality control of CNN's original reporting where The Row researchers fact check each script in a high pressure environment. The Row internships are extremely competitive and give the interns a hands-on, up-close experience of CNN's daily editorial process.

Congratulations to Quillian for qualifying for such a prestigious opportunity -looking forward to hearing all about it at the 2013 SPJ Internship Panel in the fall!
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Flagler Communication Majors Take on D.C.

May 10, 2013, 9:49 am
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From left, Alexa Epitropoulos, Abby Meyers, Darq Neimar, Alexis Mortenson and Lois Goh.
Two incoming SPJ officers, vice president Alexa Epitropoulos and treasurer Darq Neimark, have been accepted into the Fund for American Studies 2013 Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, D.C.

Next month, Epitropoulos and Neimark will be joined by Flagler communication majors Lois Goh, Abby Meyers and Alexis Mortenson in the program that has them interning at various news outlets and public relations agencies in the nation's capital during the day, and taking courses at George Mason University at night. While living in the heart of D.C., Epitropoulos, Goh, Meyers, Mortenson and Neimark will also experience guest lectures and panel discussions by leading media professionals, site briefings at D.C. institutions and social events with the other 80 students from around the country and the world accepted into the program this summer. The IPJ interns also have access to professional development seminars, networking events and a mentor program.

After a rigorous application process, Epitropoulos, Goh, Meyers, Mortenson and Neimark were awarded over $14,000 in scholarship money to attend IPJ and received the following internship placements:
Congratulations to all five on both being accepted and receiving scholarships to IPJ -this calls for a special IPJ Internship Panel for the fall, as this is the largest Flagler contingency in the program's history!  
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Have a lovely summer!

May 10, 2013, 10:34 am
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Some SPJ members are already in summer classes, others are getting ready for their internships... Those of you with summer internships, please e-mail the details, with your professional photo, to Dr. Sarkio so that they can be included on this blog! (Ashley, please send a photo!)

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing this summer, hope it is a lovely one so you can return to campus in the fall refreshed and ready to pursue both your academic and professional goals!
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Goodman's Way West

May 20, 2013, 11:39 am
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Senior SPJ member Ashley Goodman will spend the summer in Seaside, Cali., as a reporter intern for Monterey County Weekly.

What makes the rest of us so envious? As most Californians, the Weekly is much hipper than many of its counterparts -a newspaper with solar panels on the roof of its offices? Yes, that's the Weekly, providing local, independent journalism to such beautiful places as Big Sur, Pebble Beach and Carmel, Cali.

Looking forward to Goodman sharing her California dreams on the 2013 SPJ Internship Panel in the fall!

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Pinyot's Summer of Social Change

May 20, 2013, 12:37 pm
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Junior SPJ member Catherine Pinyot is the summer 2013 public relations and graphic design intern for the Crealdè School of Art in beautiful Winter Park, Fla.

Crealdè's mission is to use visual arts to provide outreach, foster cultural diversity and preserve cultural history and understanding through summer art camps for children, Neighborhood Pride mural projects and a fellowship program for emerging young artists, just to name a few. In 2007, Crealdè, in partnership with the Hannibal Square community and the City of Winter Park, established the Hannibal Square Heritage Center as a tribute to this historic Winter Park African-American community.

How wonderful to have one of our SPJ members to devote her summer to such important social programs -looking forward to hearing about Pinyot's experiences in the non-profit sector on the 2013 SPJ Internship Panel in the fall!

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Becoming Professionals and Looking the Part

July 1, 2013, 8:08 am
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From left, Lois Goh, Darq Neimark, Daniel Arbelaez, Abby Meyers and Alexis Mortenson in Washington, D.C.
Newsflash from Washington, D.C.!

Lois Goh and Alexis Mortenson are working hard and love interning at k-global on projects that for example include the Jordan D.C. embassy and Bitcoin, an open source P2P digital currency. They report being well prepared for their internship duties by the Flagler College Communication Department, and have also been able to contribute more lighthearted fare for the k-global blog on topics as varied as interning in D.C. on a budget and on deciding how much information to share online.

Abby Meyers, who is interning at CRC Public Relations, is a part of a team that works with the Media Research Center, a conservative organization whose mission is to uncover liberal bias in the media, among other things. Meyers reports that interning at CRC is truly teaching her what it means to represent a client, and she is also enjoying being part of the IPJ mentor program.

In addition to their internship duties and classes at George Mason University, Goh, Mortenson, Meyers and Darq Neimark, who is also interning at CRC, had time a few weeks ago for a photo with Daniel Arbelaez, another Flagler student interning in D.C. through The Fund for American Studies as well. The Communication Department couldn't be prouder of this group of ambitious, professional young women!
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Flagler's IPJ Interns in the News

August 24, 2013, 3:02 pm
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Fifth Annual Internship Panel Provides Encouragement

October 5, 2013, 12:07 pm
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The 2013 Internship Panel drew an audience of around 40 Communication students on Friday, Sept. 27, to the Ringhaver Student Center.
From left, Quillian, Epitropoulos, Lutz, Mortenson and Goh.
The five panelists spoke about how they found their internships and what the application processes were like, as well as about what they learned during their internships and how their experiences either confirmed or changed their career plans. Last summer, Journalism and Media Production students Alexa Epitropoulos and Kathleen Quillian interned at WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., and at CNN in Atlanta, Ga., respectively. Public Relations students Lois Goh and Alexis Mortenson completed The Fund for American StudiesInstitute on Political Journalism in Washington, D.C., a part of which had them interning at kglobal. Katie Lutz, who has concentrations in both Journalism and Public Relations, interned at Merlin Media in Chicago, Ill.
















The lively discussion had both the panelists and the audience in smiles, and judging by the feedback, Epitropoulos, Goh, Lutz, Mortenson and Quillian gave many Communications students the encouragement they need to apply for prestigious internships.















The annual internship panels, which started in 2009, are now an important part of promoting professionalism in the Communication Department -it is considered an honor to be invited to one of the panels.
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2013 Resume Workshop Changes Format

August 31, 2014, 8:39 pm
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The 2013 Resume Workshop was ran by SPJ members instead of Communication Department faculty, as in previous years.










SPJ vice president, Alexa Epitropoulos, edits junior Kelly Goddard's resume.

SPJ members edited over 30 resumes during the workshop.
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SPJ Works on Flagler College's First-Ever Newscast, Takes a Break from Other Activities

August 31, 2014, 9:06 pm
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SPJ produced Flagler College's first-ever newscast during the spring 2014 semester -thank you to the studio crew and to everyone who worked on the FCTV Newscenter pilot episode. A special thank you also to executive producer Kathleen Quillian, whose vision, determination and unwavering work ethic made the project possible.

















Please support SPJ by viewing the FCTV Newscenter pilot episode!
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