Season 2 of JMC Jams! Who'd have believed it? What started off as an impromptu way to keep our JMCers informed of things that were going on in the School has become a regular weekly cast where we chat to students, faculty, staff and guests about projects and workshops and, well, stuff that's going on! Join us as we navigate the Spring semester 2025 in the School of JMC at SJSU.
Rocket Jammin': Our Graduating Students Take-Off From The Launch Pad
Well folks, it's the end of the Spring Semester and our intrepid explorers are setting off on their next life mission. Joining me on this episode are Madison Wilber, Broadcast Journalism '25, and Octavio Franklin, Advertising '25. We talk about highlights, inspirations, next steps and interesting stuff that they've been up to. This is also the Season Finale for Season 2 .... wow. There'll be a special in the summer, maybe, and then Season 3 in September. Have a fun summer!
7 May 2025
Showcasing Our Jams: A Call To Action For Our Graduating Students' Showcase
It's the end of the academic year and time to wave off our latest batch of graduating students. But we won't let them go without celebrating their successes. Belen Moreno joins me to talk about our Graduating Students' Showcase. Let's call it "Reach For The Stars #1". We chat about what we are planning to do, what we want to celebrate and why it matters thgat students show up. This year we have the inaugural Superstar and Rising Star Awards as the focal point of the event.
1 May 2025
Weathering the Jams: Broadcast Meteorology Minor, the Weather Report and Climate Science in JMC
Did you know we have a Broadcast Meteorology Minor in SJSU? And that our Journalism students take it? And that they apply that to their broadcast program? Update News, our weekly broadcast news show includes a weather feature and this is the result of a collaboration between JMC and the world renowned Department of Meteorology and Climate Science. In this episode we chat with Rob Mayeda. Rob is a meteorologist with NBC News Bay Area as well as a part time lecturer in SJSU. We chat about the minor, the weather, the importance of visual prompts and the performative aspects of relaying weather science across broadcast platforms. While you're at it, check out the minor, it may lead to a brand new and unexpected career!
I love how our students are so active in so many extracurricular activities that broaden their perspectives and their skill sets. Join me as I chat to Sendy Tapia, one of our PR Majors with amazing stories to tell. Stories about her work in magazines, and how her writing is featured in an anthology of women Xicana writers/poets/storytellers and the book tour coming to campus THIS WEEK!
25 Mar 2025
Sporty Jams: Rodney Knox and the Sports Connection in JMC
Sports are a big deal on college campuses. From high flying athletics programs down to club sports, our athletes are critical in our campus identity. JMC has its fair share of student athletes and we also cover campus sports in The Spear magazine, in the Daily and on Update news. We have a Sports Journalism minor and some of our athletes go on to hit the big time. Others use their experiences in sports to help them in their off-pitch careers. Our student athletes have gone on to have fulfilling careers as sports journalists, as PR professionals and also gold medal winners.
Prof. Rodney Knox is a lecturer in JMC with an amazing career spanning our Bay Area pro teams - notably the 49ers - as a PR professional and as an instructor on The Spear as well eas having involvement on other on-campus sports related activities. We chat to Rodney in this episode about the social impact of sports and how we cover this discipline in JMC.
18 Mar 2025
Creative Jammin': A Pan-Pacific Creative Jam with Tina Korani
Sometime in the previous Jams Season we chatted to Rowena Ulbrick from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia about an upcoming Creative Jam between our two institutions. Well, the time has come and we are preparing ourselves for the Jam!
Associate Professor Tina Korani is our SJSU Jammer on the ground and we talk about the event, Adobe, and all things AI. Tina is a veteran of Creative Jams and Design Sprints, together we've worked on a number of these over the years, always fun, always engaging, always rewarding work. Tune in and hear what this one entails and how we are addressing responsible and ethical use of AI with our creative students.
Students, this is the Jam blurb:
Join our Creative Jam on March 24!
Sign up now to join our Creative Jam Challenge! Students will team up across universities to design an AI transparency campaign using Adobe tools. No prior design or Adobe experience needed—just creativity and curiosity!
Sign Up for the Challenge: Google Form (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYLkXVv6mwRD2mnANzijYzhaoVNF6BJw2lNDRNDYnDAEGNmA/viewform?usp%3Dheader&source=gmail-imap&ust=1742787690000000&usg=AOvVaw1e0tNPCfLJkVwkylqytT-6) (Deadline March 22)
You'll have until March 28 to submit your work! The event kicks off on March 24 with a 1-hour session featuring Adobe and expert speakers, followed by team announcements for the challenge.
Event Kickoff & Speaker Session: Monday, March 24
Time: 2:30–4:30 PM PT (Virtual)
Register to Attend: Zoom Link (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/K98TpgHwSyyubqwwLC1q-g&source=gmail-imap&ust=1742787690000000&usg=AOvVaw2sxr1D23j9a11ZoR73_F54)
Event Details: Event Page (https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/c0FdOCm8HWr5q)
11 Mar 2025
Record Jams: Tower Tunes, Vincent and Simon
Sometimes I students take an interest and a class project and elevate it to new heights. Our Advertising Portfolio class always includes a Passion Project as one of the key assignments. Student Simon Haupt took his passion for music and turned it into a review site on Instagram. He talks about his favorite albums and offers insights behins the music. With the help of friends and fellow advertising students like Vinson Thai they have kept the initiative going and grown their audience.
In this episode we talk to Simon and Vinson about the project, about music, and how the wider SJSU community can get involved. Their Insta handle is https://www.instagram.com/towertunes/ so go give them a follow!
11 Mar 2025
Big Apple Jams: Belen and Nicole are Back from New York
It's an annual extravaganza! Every Spring Semester the Spartan Ad Club goes to NYC. This year, led by Faculty Advisor Belen Moreno, our students visited six agencies across Manhattan and Brooklyn. They are back - inspired, invigorated and defrosted from the February East Coast temps! Packing so many industry visits into a three day week is exhausting but very rewarding. In this episode we hear from Belen Moreno and one of our advertising students, Nicole Cailles, about their experiences and their highlights of this year's trip.
10 Mar 2025
Spotlight on the Jam: Collaborating with San Jose Spotlight and Other SJ Media Outlets
It really takes a village ... in order to give our students a head start, we develop collaborations and build relationships with our related industries. The J-program is working on a series of collaborative efforts with, primarily, San Jose Spotlight, SJ's leading not-for-profit independent news outlet. In this episode I chat with Ramona Giwargis (https://sanjosespotlight.com/profile/ramona-giwargis/) co-founder of San Jose Spotlight and alum of our program. We talk about a fellowship scheme we have in development, Knight Foundation funding and pipelines into the media industries.
10 Mar 2025
Hold the Jams: Richard and Mike and the Spartan Daily
The Spartan Daily is one of the most awarded campus newspapers in the workld ever. Well, most likely. It's certainly award winning, always bringing home prizes from the various student media competitions in California and beyond. Our students win big for their stories, photos, editorials, and design.
Of course, their talent ultimately bring these accolades to campus, but it's the hard work of Professor Richard Craig and Mike Corpos that lies behind their efforts. These two are relentless and in this episode we talk about the importance of a publication like the Daily for the future of journalism. And we also find out how to become a part of this award winning piece of student media legend.
10 Feb 2025
Speakin' About Jams: LinkdUp Speaker Series
Episode two is a call to action, an advance notice of a new speaker series that launches this week. Our advertising program never sits still. Always eager to embrace emerging technologies into the creative workflow. A new weekly series of speakers from the worlds of both advertising and tech will present how AI and other technologies are impacting on creative practice and the creative industries. Joining me in the studio are Sumeet Syal and Aaron Freitas.
Aaron comes to us a seasoned brand creative director, having recently driven Fox Factory's creative direction and comms. He now does a bit of teaching - running our Portfolio courses and co-running our DBH Agency class. Sumeet spent a long time leading Intel's marketing efforts globally. Now he and Aaron have clubbed together to create this exciting new series of speakers from across Silicon Valley and beyond. Also watch out, Sumeet will be joining our roster of lecturers soon.
7 Feb 2025
Roll Out The Jam: A Season 2 Preview With Juan and Ernie
We're back! New semester, new season of JMC Jams. This episode invites Juan and Ernie into the studio to chat about the last season and to talk about some of the fab things we have planned for this semester. Ease yourselves in, there's episodes every week this season.
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