Masked up, so I don’t infect you, in case you are in a vulnerable group. Feeling healthy. Not afraid. Just being decent to fellow humans.

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Spring 2020 Quarantine Grades Submitted

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Seton Hill graduates its last “New Media Journalism” major this year.

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Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu Logo

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World Press Freedom Day. (Don’t take the free press for granted. Journalists are not the enemy. Unless you are tyrant whose rule depends upon feeding misinformation to the public. In which case, yes, a free press is your enemy.)

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