Faculty/Staff
Dr. Debbie Owens Retires After 22 Years with Murray State JMC Department
Dr. Debbie Owens’ career in higher education spans 38 years, 22 of which have been at MurrayState University. She joined the faculty in 2002 as an associate professor with the Department ofJournalism and Mass Communications, in The Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business. Whileat MSU, Professor Owens has held numerous leadership positions, including electronic mediasequence […]
Read More
A Note from the Chair
JMC was busy in SP ’24. Our updated curriculum is nearly ready for primetime. The Murray State News has a new vitality, both in-print and online. And several JMC faculty members have been recognized for their significant contributions. Leigh Wright and Dr. Marcie Hinton were inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The Murray […]
Read More
Presidential Fellow and Her Mentor Present Findings on Female Representation in The Media
A Murray State University undergraduate student presented research at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) conference in Chicago, Illinois this spring. Ania Boutin, a junior presidential fellow, has been developing her research with mentor Dr. Marcie Hinton for more than three years. “Ania and I have been working together since her freshman year to help find […]
Read More
Ads Club Takes Third Place in ACS Independent Division
Pictured here are members of the MSU Ads Club performing “Heard It Through the Grapevine” at the 66th Annual All Campus Sing on April 17, 2024. Club members sang advertising jingles and other songs featured in television commercials. The Club won third place in the Independent Division of the ACS competition, earning an award for […]
Read More
Professor Emeritus Publishes First of Four New Textbooks
Professor Emeritus Roger Haney, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication, has published the first of four textbooks dealing with the effects of the mass media entitled “An Introduction to The Effects of The Mass Media.” The textbook covers the basics of media research, through which the reader will learn the advantages of scientific research over […]
Read More
JMC Professors Receive Kentucky Communication Association Awards
Public Relations Alumna Krista Kimmel (PR 2002) awarded Dr. Melony Shemberger and Dr. MarcieHinton top prizes at the 2023 Kentucky Communication Association (KCA) Annual Conference.In her capacity as First Vice-President of KCA, Kimmel presented the awards on behalf of theorganization to Hinton at a different state meeting, who accepted on behalf of Shemberger andherself. Shemberger […]
Read More
Tarracina-Hartman Accepts First Amendment Award
Dr. Carol Terracina-Hartman, assistant professor in journalism and mass communications, was honored with the Louis E. Ingelhart First Amendment Award by the College Media Association on Oct. 31, 2023, at the organization’s fall national convention in Atlanta, Georgia. College Media Association President Chris Whitley said this award is not one that is presented everyyear, but […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
JMC faculty to teach one-credit residential college classes
How would you like to take a class about Star Trek? What about movies in journalism? Or social justice? Those are the themes of three one-hour elective classes that will be taught in the residential colleges during the second-half semester. These courses are listed as IDC 199 in MyGate. Dr. Debbie Owens will teach “Let’s […]
Read More