Former Eagle editor to be Homecoming DYA Award honoree

Former editor of The Eagle T.J Thomson will receive the Distinguished Young Alumni (DYA)Award Saturday during CSC’s Homecoming on Oct. 1.
The DYA is given to CSC alumni who “distinguished themselves in their chosen career or community or shown exceptional service to the college and are 40 years of age or younger,” a CSC College Relations press release states.
Thomson received his undergraduate from CSC in 2013. While attending, he worked as the graphics editor his freshman year and became editor-in-chief his sophomore year. Following his time at CSC, he earned his master’s degree in 2015 and his doctorate in 2018 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Currently, he is a senior lecturer/ associate professor of visual communication and media in the School of Communication at Queenland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
In 2019, Thomson wrote the book “To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images,” which won the 2020 National Communication Association’s Diane S. Hope Book of the Year.
Thomson will be absent from the ceremony.