McKinney helps Kent State 

storytelling win award 

The International Storytelling course of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University, taught by Prof. Gary Hanson and assistant Prof. Mitch McKenney, a former BJ editor, is the Global Partnership division winner in the 2014 Best Practices in International Higher Education Awards of the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) International Education Knowledge Community.

Students enroll in a 15-week course, learn about another country, plan and research stories they will cover in multimedia reporting teams, spend two weeks in their destination country reporting stories in partnership with students from that country, and return to produce their stories for a multimedia website available to the public.

The first offering was in March 2011, when Kent State partnered with Shanghai International Studies University. Next came Brazil. In March the students will go to Estonia.

McKenney joined the BJ in 1998 as a deputy metro editor and worked in Metro, as Features editor and as online editor. Before the BJ he worked at the Palm Beach (Florida) Post and the late Rochester (New York) Times-Union.Mitch lives in Hartville with his wife, Kim, and three children.

To read the entire Kent State release, go to http://www.kent.edu/news/news-detail.cfm?newsitem=06B5416F-D709-35CC-22C14D8CA3112A6E