January 29, 2025

Graduate program offers update

The JMC graduate program continues to provide learning opportunities to our students and prepare them for the workforce and higher degrees.

Our recent graduates are excelling in various positions and gaining admissions to doctoral programs. Four recent graduates are pursuing their doctorates: Jennifer Duck Brown (Clemson University), Yahya Alzahrany (Virginia Commonwealth University), Suraiya Shammi (George Mason University), and Shuai Guo (University of Kentucky).

Also, our 2019-2020 top graduate student is Cierra Laird. Laird is the executive coordinator and social media specialist at LLT Group in Chicago and manages her own company, the Clairdy creations.

Leigh Wright

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 […]

Alumni News & Notes

Tab Brockman, JMC/RTV ’81, is currently working as a consultant after several decades in management and public relations for a variety of well-known municipalities and organizations. He currently resides in Paducah, Kentucky. Chrissy (Stubblefield) Driver, PR ’01, is currently working as a Territory Manager for Zoll Medical. She lives in Benton, Kentucky. Curt Hart, TV […]

Featured JMC Dept. News & Notes

WKMS: Connecting Local Students to National Opportunities

December 10, 2024

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 […]