• The renovated and restored McKinley Building will include a media innovation lab, 150-seat theater, and other public spaces and sustainable features that earn it a LEED Silver certification.

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    Commencement 2013

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    Lynh Bui Wins Merriman

    Journalism graduate student and Washington Post fellow Lynh Bui was selected as the 2013 winner of the Merriman Award, an honor named in memory of the CBS news writer John Merriman who was president of the Writers Guild-East.

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    The Center For Environmental FIlmmaking's
    Center Scholar program supports the next generation
    of environmental and wildlife filmmakers.

  • When Lagan Sebert (left) began to document his sister Ke$ha’s rise to fame in 2010, he had no idea it would become a series on MTV.

    When Lagan Sebert (left) began to document his sister Ke$ha’s rise to fame in 2010, he had no idea it would become a series on MTV.

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Discover the World of Communication

Discover the world of Communication director Sarah Menke-Fish works with a student

SOC’s Discover the World of Communication program teaches students to build a digital portfolio, script, shoot and edit a film, write a news story like a pro, speak with confidence, persuade, inform, educate and entertain. The professional, hands-on workshops- open to students entering grades 9 through 12- are taught by American University School of Communication faculty and communication professionals.

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Community Voice Project

SOC CVP Digital Storytelling Freedom Summer

Help document stories from "Freedom Summer" of 1964. In collaboration with Smithsonian's Museum of American History, Professor Nina Shapiro-Perl's Community Documentary students will learn digital storytelling by capturing experiences of civil right activists - then and now.

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Current's new website is both beautiful and functional, highlighting more of Current's news coverage and analysis of the evolving world of public media.

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