New York Times Deputy Standards Editor Mike Abrams, who served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian in 1993-94, talked about the potential and the pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism with two dozen Collegian students and alumni in a Zoom roundtable hosted by current editor-in-chief Nick Stonesifer. Abrams is Read more…
The Penn State Alumni Association has granted Collegian AIG Treasurer Megan Hennigan the Martin R. Cepeda Jr. Award for Alumni Career Advancement and Development. This award recognizes Megan’s work to launch, develop, coordinate, and promote the Zoom Roundtable programs that she and former AIG President Jordan Hyman created to introduce Read more…
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables for Collegian staff members, including one with Erica Beshears Perel, the former student newspaper general manager who turned around The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The other Zoom Roundtable star was Collegian alum Sara Cudemo, who Read more…
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables with experts early in September and more are scheduled for later this fall. The first was held Sept. 6 with digital marketing expert Krystle Kopacz, CEO at Revmade, an award-winning marketing strategy company. That roundtable can be viewed here. The second, held Sept. 13 Read more…
In the board election in August, Collegian alumni elected two new members and re-elected two sitting AIG board members. In addition, another board member was named to replace one who resigned. The returning members are Robyn Radomski, President of the Board, and Karen Pallotta, who created and oversees the AIG Read more…
Balloting to fill the four vacancies on The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) begins Aug. 31. Anyone who worked for The Collegian automatically is a member of The Collegian AIG and is eligible to vote. The ballot can be found here. Although the election does not officially begin until Aug. Read more…
The Daily Collegian needs your help. Please click this link to quickly and easily send a letter to University President Neeli Bendapudi asking her not to cut the university’s support for our beloved Collegian by more than half. In September, the Penn State Board of Trustees approved a fiscal year Read more…
Seventeen Collegian Alums and Collegian students handed out hundreds of Collegian 135th anniversary commemorative editions and 1,000 pens stamped with the Collegian 135th anniversary logo as they marched in the 2022 PSU Homecoming parade behind Collegian and Collegian AIG banners. Two days later, 39 students and Collegian alums attended a Read more…
The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) launched a fundraiser last spring in honor of the 135th anniversary of The Daily Collegian. All of the money raised will go to a project to be chosen by The Collegian students. The fundraising effort ends Nov. 1. Below is a list of the Read more…
In the most recent Zoom roundtable sponsored by The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG), three experts on digital media and publishing talked about their careers and how their experiences at Penn State, particularly at The Daily Collegian, aided them. Leen Obeidat, director of Business Development at flytedesk, a technology firm Read more…