The University of Rhode Island (URI)
recently highlighted the experiences and perspectives of URI graduate and IBM
Global Business Services Director of Communications Steve Malkiewicz, who
serves on the board of the university’s Harrington School of Communication and
Media.
“The lessons I learned studying journalism
and communications have served me extremely well not only in my newspaper
career but in corporate communications at IBM,” Malkiewicz said. “The core skills remain
the same -- writing with clarity and impact, building a persuasive argument,
telling a compelling story. The online communications and collaborative tools
available today provide instantaneous global reach, new ways to amplify a
message and the ability to combine different forms of visual media to tell
those stories with even greater impact.”
Malkiewicz, who began his journalistic
career with URI’s student newspaper, also spoke to the utility of the
university’s new $6.5 million Harrington Hub for Global Leadership in
Communication and Media, which will allow media students to learn and engage through
personal and technological connections.
“The interdisciplinary program advanced by
the Harrington School -- a holistic approach combining core communications,
writing and rhetoric, public relations, film studies, journalism, library
science studies -- enables students to emerge in the marketplace with the
combination of skills that reflect the way communications is practiced today,” Malkiewicz said. “The Hub will be the manifestation of all the defining
attributes of the Harrington School: a multimillion-dollar destination where
people will come to work, learn and innovate together.”
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