Recent Graduate Logan Gay's Job experience:

Logan Gay is very excited to start her broadcasting career here at Lakeland Public Television as our newest reporter. Logan is originally from Indianapolis, Ind. She is very excited for the opportunity to explore the great state of Minnesota. Logan began her career as a news intern for WMFD-TV in Ontario, Ohio. While she was there she was responsible for going out and covering stories and putting them together into packages for the midday news. Logan recently graduated from Ashland University, in May of 2015. While she was a student there, she was a reporter and anchor for the weekly university television station AUTV20. She also produced and hosted her own entertainment show called “ApplAUse”.

In her spare time Logan enjoys traveling, staying active and working out, being involved in the community, reading, going to the movies, and spending time with family and friends. Logan is very excited to join the Lakeland Public Television family. You can reach her at lgay@lptv.org.

JDM Graduate Now Morning TV Anchor

Rebecca Ribley, a May 2014 Journalism and Digital Media graduate, is now the new morning anchor for Wake Up Wisconsin at WAOW Newsline 9.  Ribley started at the station shortly after her AU graduation as a multimedia journalist.  She was quickly promoted to weekend anchor.

Ribley served as a reporter, anchor and executive producer of the Eagle News Updates on AUTV 20.  She also produced and hosted the AUTV 20's CAS Spotlight series.  A true converged media major, Rebecca wrote articles for The Collegian and provided new updates for WRDL radio.

Dr. David McCoy Interviewed on PBS Program  

Dr. David McCoy, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Digital Media, was interviewed for the Western Reserve Public Media (PBS Channels 45/49) program "90-Second Stories."  McCoy discussed the significance of historical documentaries as models for raising cultural awareness in local and regional communities.  He described the power of documentary storytelling as a "living and breathing entity" that improves our understanding of the world.

Dr. McCoy's segment will air on "90-Second Stories" during the month of May.

JDM Professor publishes "Ghosts I Run With" on SB Nation.com

Matt Tullis mugs during the 2014 Akron Marathon

"After about a year and a half of running, the ghosts appeared."

With those powerful words, JDM Associate Professor Matt Tullis, takes readers on a personal journey in his new #Longread article currently on SB Nation.com, entitled, "The Ghosts I Run With: Surviving Childhood Cancer is a Race That Never Ends."

For Tullis, JDM's Newspaper Advisor and resident Reporter, "Ghosts" was a mini-memoir eight months in the making.

"I've been formulating the idea for a long time but wrote it over spring break." said Tullis.

It's been a busy couple days since his article published on April 15th. On April 16th he received an invitation to appear on the NPR program, Only a Game.

"That was awesome!" said Tullis.

You can read "Ghosts I Run With," on SB Nation.com and hear his OAG segment on 90.3FM, WCPN in Cleveland on Saturday, April 18th at 7am.

Here's a Blog Converged hint before reading "Ghosts," keep the Kleenex handy!

Collegian is a finalist in ONA college newspaper competition

The Collegian is a five-time finalist in four categories in the Ohio Newspaper Association’s annual Collegiate Newspaper and Website Competition.

The Collegian has two of the three finalists in the In-Depth Reporting category. The stories selected as finalists were written by Chris Bils and Zack Lemon. Bils, who graduated in May and is now a reporter at the St. Joseph News Press in Missouri, wrote a story that looked at the cutting of the men’s soccer team. Lemon, a junior and now the managing editor of the newspaper, wrote a story controversial recommendations former President Frederick Finks made to the university's Board of Trustees.

The Collegian is also a finalist in News Coverage, Sports Coverage and Best Website. 

The 1,500-circulation, weekly newspaper has won numerous awards in the ONA contest over the last few years, and has also been named the Best Non-Daily College Newspaper in Ohio by the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. 

AUTV20 rebroadcasts documentary 9/11 Remembered on 13th anniversary

On the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, AUTV20 is rebroadcasting the documentary, 9/11 Remembered.

Produced by Journalism and Digital Media in September of 2011, in association with the Ashland Film Group, 9/11 Remembered looks back on that fateful day from the perspective of the Ashland University community.

You can watch 9/11 Remembered at 10:30am, 3pm, 5:30pm and 11pm on AUTV20. You can watch the documentary any time on the JDM YouTube Channel.

JDM Streaming AU home football games this fall

JDM's hard working remote production crew will again stream all five AU home football games live this fall. Games will also rebroadcast on AUTV20.

"Because we lost several seniors who were regulars on our remote production crew, like a sports team, we had to reload with incoming freshman." AUTV20 Advisor Tim McCarty said. "The new folks all did great!"

As most live remote productions go, JDM's first broadcast was not without a few glitches.

"Beside some first game jitters by our inexperienced crew, our biggest problem for the first game was a technical problem that kept our stream from showing up on the JDM Streaming web page. But we've fixed that and are ready to go Saturday night!" McCarty said.

For those who missed Game 1, you can see a rebroadcast on AUTV20, or at a direct link to the feed.

Game 2 will stream live on the JDM's Streaming page starting on Saturday, September 13th at 7pm.