Category: Program News

By Mark Alewine INDIANAPOLIS- Two IUPUI sports journalism alums joined current students in the program for a career panel detailing their stories in navigating the sports industry and building their careers. Kate Guerra and Katie Donnar fielded questions from students as well as panel facilitator, Dr. Pamela Laucella, covering everything from how to deal with …

INDIANAPOLIS — Sports journalism students at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will have a rare opportunity to cover the world’s biggest sporting spectacle, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Frank Gogola and Rebecca Harris, graduate students in the Sports Capital Journalism Program in the School of Liberal Arts’ Department of Journalism and Public Relations, will write …

Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff | @SportsCapJour INDIANAPOLIS – Alaa Abdeldaiem and Emily Kennedy, students in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IUPUI, are covering the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for the Sports Capital Journalism Program website. Abdeldaiem, a first-year student, and Kennedy, a graduate student, are the …

Written by Frank Gogola | @FrankGogola Video by Zach Wagner | @zachwagner22 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – Bill Polian can still draw a crowd in Indianapolis. Even when he’s not speaking about who should be the No. 1 pick in the draft or who the Colts should take. Polian and Mark Dominik, ESPN NFL …

“Full Court Press,” the annual United States Basketball Writers Association sportswriting seminar and scholarship competition, will take place on Friday, April 1 in the football press box at NRG Stadium in Houston. The session will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., and will be followed by the presentation of the Oscar Robertson Trophy …

By Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Sports Capital Journalism Program is covering the College Football Playoff for the second consecutive year, as graduate assistants Frank Gogola and Zach Wagner report on the National Championship between Clemson and Alabama. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has the only sports journalism program to receive credentials …

By Sports Capital Journalism Program Staff DALLAS – A pair of students from the Sports Capital Journalism Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will cover the College Football Playoff Semifinal between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Michigan State Spartans in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year’s Eve. Jessica Wimsatt and Elizabeth Cotter will …