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Murray State News Wins National Awards
The Murray State News won five national awards at the recent AssociatedCollegiate Press/College Media Association fall national conference in New Orleans.The News won ninth place in the ACP Best of Show contest for newspapers andnews magazines at schools with less than 15,000 enrollment. This award is given as partof an on-site competition. The News won […]
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Terracina-Hartman Heads Magazine Media for Journalism Education Organization
A JMC FirstGen faculty member was elected to serve as head of magazine media in a national journalism and education organization in 2024. Assistant Professor Carol Terracina-Hartman was tasked with developing education and research panels for a national conference held in Philadelphia in August. She also helped expand outreach on a national student magazine contest, which […]
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WKMS: Connecting Local Students to National Opportunities
By Isabella Shevetz WKMS, Murray State’s local NPR station affiliate, won a prestigious Murrow Award, and the station continues to provide opportunities for student reporters to connect to the larger world of broadcast news. Mason Galemore (‘23), a former student reporter at WKMS, authored and researched the piece that won. WKMS won the Murrow Award […]
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A Note from the Chair
It’s been a busy Fall semester in JMC. Already we have had the McGaughey Lecture, our annual High School Media Workshop, a student-organized cookout on the quad and “Meet the Pros.” Leigh Wright and students from The News have traveled to a college media conference, and Ed Rode traveled with students to the Atlanta Photojournalism […]
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McGaughey Lecture Series Features KET’s Shaw
By Lindsey Gipson Renee Shaw, Kentucky Educational Television (KET) Director of Public Affairs and Moderatorwas the guest speaker for the McGaughey Lecture series on Press Freedom and Responsibilityheld September 19, 2024, on the Murray State campus. Shaw, who has more than 30 years of journalistic experience, spoke about journalistic integrity,representation in media, connecting with audiences […]
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JMC Hosts Regional High School Media Workshop
By Kelsey Brewer Nearly 100 regional students and their teachers attended the Journalism and Mass CommunicationsDepartment’s High School Media Workshop this fall. The workshop included breakout sessions withJMC professors, students and media professionals. It also featured special guest Renee Shaw of KET. Current Murray State students discussed hot topics in journalism, strategic communications and media […]
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Student Organizations Host JMC Cookout
By Josh Clinton The JMC department hosted a free cookout for JMC students and friends. The event was a joint effort between PRSSA, TV Club, The News and Ads Club. Club volunteers cooked and served hamburgers and hotdogs (donated by “Off the Hoof” in Murray, Kentucky) chips and banana pudding. Murray State student Joe Reeves, […]
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PRSSA Kicks Off New Lecture Series
By Madison Harrigan Alumna Tiffany Blazina (’98, ’21) visited Wilson Hall this past semester to help kick off the MSU Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) first-ever lecture series, held on a series of Thursday evenings. Murray State PRSSA hosted the fall lecture series to bring in business professionals to educateundergraduate […]
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Public Relations Alum Accepts Position Managing all North America Communications for Amazon Logistics
We recently caught up with Murray State JMC Alumnus, Heather Mix (PR 2017), to discuss the journey that took her from the classrooms of Wilson HALL to Internal Communication Specialist for Amazon. Q: What did your professional path after college look like?A: I like to think of my professional path as more of a winding […]
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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 […]
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