Month: December 2024
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 a busy Fall semester in JMC. Already we have had the McGaughey Lecture, our annual High School Media Workshop, and a student-organized cookout on the quad. Still ahead we have “Meet the Pros,” Leigh Wright and students from The News will travel to a college media conference, and Ed Rode will travel with students […]
Read MoreMcGaughey 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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Department hosts 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 […]
Read MoreAlumni Update: David Barton Snow (JMC ’93)
Since last June, Snow has been staff writer for the Office of University Relations at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Prior to that he was a reporter with The Paducah Sun for nearly six years. Last January, Snow published the Governor’s Cup Region 1 Record Book, a compendium of records and statistics for high […]
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