Awarded NJ's 2020 #1 college newspaper
By Ruben Nieves | Published by September 22, 2020 The Kean Ocean campus located in Toms River has been approved to offer a journalism concentration in their communication major starting in the Spring 2021 semester. Students from the campus will have the opportunity to be involved with Kean’s school newspaper, The Tower. The decision to add the journalism program to […]
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By Craig Epstein | Published by May 8, 2020 I can still remember walking around the Harwood Arena and meeting with the various clubs/organizations during Kean University’s freshman orientation. Going into college, I knew I wanted to be a journalist so I had to find out how I was going to get my start. And, after searching for a bit […]
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The Tower, Kean University’s independent student news organization, has been awarded the top honor for best college newspaper in New Jersey, public or private, by the NJ Collegiate Press Association. It is a first for Kean University. Tower reporters and staff also won individual awards in the categories of news writing, feature writing, and overall website. The NJCPA, whose judges are professional journalists, awarded The Tower […]
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Published by May 9, 2018 | By Sara Ridgway I definitely could have used more sleep, but would I be graduating with this sense of pride and satisfaction if I had gotten more sleep? Probably not. Looking back, as a senior in high school I would have never imagined my journey as an undergraduate student at Kean University would lead […]
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Video by David Long and Rebecca Panico By Rebecca Panico | Published May 9, 2017 I first learned there were different student newspapers before The Tower when I stumbled upon The Nancy Thompson Library’s digital archives over a year ago. The Reflector — Kean’s first student newspaper — was created in the 1920s, The Nancy Thompson Digital Media Collection website […]
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By Rose Marie Kitchen| Published May 6, 2017 The skills are many, but the words are few … “thank you” for a semester that I will never forget. As I sit here and edit this last print edition for this spring 2016-2017 semester, it makes me realize two things. One, graduation is less than weeks away and two, that means […]
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The Tower staff placed second in general excellence from the New Jersey Collegiate Press Association for their work on the November 2016 issue, pictured above, and September 2016 print edition. Published April 23, 2017 The Tower, Kean University’s independent student news organization, has been recognized as a top college newspaper in New Jersey for a competition among four-year public and […]
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Video credit: Rebecca Panico Published Feb. 16, 2017 The Tower — and about 13 other student-run newspapers — attended the Yale Daily News (YDN) Annual Conference on College Newspapers in late January to discuss diversity in journalism. Students from universities including Brown, the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan visited the New Haven, Conn. campus on Jan. 27 for the two-day event. […]
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