In The News: Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies
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In its 14th year, the Vegas Valley Book Festival is loaded with so many interesting writers and educators that whittling down your options will be excruciating. Here’s a look at five of the free talks taking place October 17 at Downtown’s Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth Street.
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If you're part of the rapidly expanding group that plays daily fantasy sports, you could be getting cheated out of your money.
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Beer, wine or perhaps a spirit? No, UNLV isn't offering you a drink — not really — but a course that specializes in the specific beverages. The three separate courses are only a few of the university's more unique course offerings.
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UNLV is offering its first class on sports broadcasting. Students had the opportunity Tuesday to learn the basics from some local experts, including 8 News NOW's Chris Maathuis.
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Men in this morning's attack on a TV crew post a video of this crime on social media and tweeted some cryptic messages leading up to the attack. Professor Burroughs joins us. He's with UNLV's Hank Greenspun School of Journalism.
"This is just craziness, this kind of stuff, where it's just out of the blue and all of a sudden shots ring out." That was one of the comments shared in Professor Gary Larson’s journalism class at UNLV today.
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If you turned on 91.5 KUNV-FM at 10:20 a.m. on July 27, you heard a cover of Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” by saxophonist Dave Koz—a tune indicative of the smooth jazz typically broadcast on UNLV’s radio station at that time. If you tuned in exactly 12 hours later, however, you heard “Brill Bruisers” by indie stalwarts The New Pornographers, which is neither smooth jazz nor the station’s traditional weeknight fare.
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That UNLV students were selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon against teams from elite private institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology was an accomplishment by itself.
Then UNLV went and beat them all.