Deepak Sethi, director of the Penn State Hollywood Program and a comedian/writer ("Family Guy," "Brickleberry," "Close Enough") will talk about the challenges TV and film writers face in the age of artificial intelligence. The free event is part of the COMM Career Conversation Series, presented by the Bellisario College's Office of Internships and Career Services.

Opportunity for students to get information about the Penn State Hollywood Program.

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Meredith Clark, author of "We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives," will discuss her work during a free public lecture. Clark, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. She's a former newspaper journalist whose research focuses on the intersections of race, media and power. Clark's award-winning dissertation on Black Twitter landed her on The Root 100, the news website's list of the most influential African Americans in the country, in 2015.

Opportunity for students to get information about the Penn State Hollywood Program.

https://www.bellisario.psu.edu...

Info session for first-year students. Curious about careers in advertising or public relations? Join us for an interactive session with faculty from the Bellisario College. Learn about majors, career paths and get your questions answered!

On-location internship and job fair specifically for Bellisario College students in Washington, D.C.

Brooke Erin Duffy, a social media researcher, author and associate professor at Cornell University, will present a free public lecture titled "The Visibility Bind: Platform Labor, Precarity and Resistance in the Creator Economy." She is the author or co-author of three books and her areas of expertise include platforms and cultural production; gender and feminist media studies; and influencer labor and the creator economy. Duffy earned her bachelor's degree from Penn State, and both her master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Free event. Fall conference for State of State, a student-run organization at Penn State committed to facilitating a dialogue within the university community about important University-related issues.

Free public lecture by Lisa Krantz, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Montana who's research explores the intersection of journalism and trauma, particularly how journalists cover mass shootings. Krantz spent 24 years as a newspaper photographer before pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. She was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for the series “American Icon.” She is also a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography. Krantz was awarded the 2025 Davis Penn State Ethics Award for her dissertation, “Embodying an Ethic of Empathy: Journalism’s Intersection with Victims’ Families, Survivors, and Community Members Impacted by the Mass Shooting in Uvalde, Texas.” Her lecture is sponsored by the Davis Program in Ethical Leadership.

Maria Hinojosa, an award-winning broadcast journalist, podcast producer and media entrepreneur, will present a free public lecture and participate in a question-and-answer session as part of the Foster-Foreman Conference of Distinguished Writers.