A Note from the Chair:
The Fall ’23 semester is well underway, and the JMC department is busy! Having just accomplished our ACEJMC re-accreditation, we now return to the “re-imagining JMC” initiative that started pre-pandemic. Actually, it’s now less about imagining and more about implementation. So, there are a few changes coming about. The most noticeable change is with student […]
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Students enjoy valuable campus visit with alumnus
Murray State alumnus J.T. Waskowski visited Professor Bob Valentine’s Advertising Media Sales class on Sept. 1, 2023, and spoke about his job at advertising agency Starcom in Chicago. As associate director in the agency’s media planning division, Waszkowski leads a team helping clients buy the most effective advertising in a variety of media. He graduated in 2014 […]
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Terracina-Hartman contributes at AEJMC national conference
Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, assistant professor of journalism, also serves as the vice head for the Magazine Media division of The Association for Education in Journalism & MassCommunication. This past August, she planned programming for the annual conference in Washington, D.C. This involved 12 sessions, partnering with Broadcast and Mobile Media Journalism, Critical Cultural Studies, Communicating […]
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Celebrating one of JMC’s unsung heroes
Do you know JMC’s Orville Herndon? Along with a long list of duties, he is the publication manager for The Murray State News. Orville has been involved with The Murray State News since the early 1980s. First as a student and then as a Murray State employee, Orville has seen The News through a lot […]
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Wright lands award in national teaching competition
Leigh Landini Wright, student media adviser and associate professor of journalism, won honorable mention in the Best Practices in Teaching competition at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference in August. Wright’s poster presentation focused on her journalism capstone’s digital project, the 270 Stories. The 270 Stories website tells the story of rebuilding, hope […]
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Alumni can now help support The News
The Murray State News launched a new donation site in August. The News is now revenue-dependent, meaning it relies on donations and advertising sales.Alumni and friends can donate to The Murray State News through this website:isupport.thenews.org. The Murray State News announced changes this semester to move to a digital-first newsorganization. Students will post content regularly […]
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Murray State JMC department receives re-accreditation
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Murray StateUniversity was re-accredited Friday, April 28 during the Accrediting Council on Education inJournalism and Mass Communications’ meeting in Chicago. The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) isthe agency responsible for the evaluation of professional journalism and mass communicationsprograms in colleges and universities, […]
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Student media earns finalist in Pinnacle Awards
The Murray State News is a finalist for the Pinnacle Awards for weekly collegenewspaper through the College Media Association. The News is a finalist in the 3,000 to 9,999 enrollment division for weekly collegenewspaper. The other finalist is Rice University of Houston, Texas. The College Media Association Pinnacle Awards honor the best college mediaorganizations and […]
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High School Media Workshop highlights fall schedule
High school media students and their advisers will attend the fall Murray State University HighSchool Media Workshop on Monday, October 23 in the Curris Center. The JMC department typically hosts a fall workshop, but the recent pandemic altered thoseplans. The department could not offer the workshop in 2020, 2021 or 2022, but the workshopreturned in […]
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Murray State News editors herald changes to student media organization
Change is inevitable in the news business. The students at The Murray State News have embraced changes with the beginning of a new academic year. The Murray State News is now a digital-first publication with monthly thematic printed editions. The first tabloid-sized print edition hit newsstands on Thursday, Aug. 17, the first Thursday of the […]
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