alumni
Alumni Tales: From Murray State to Hollywood’s WGA Picket Lines
When I graduated from Murray State University with a public relations degree in 2019, the last place I expected to be in June 2023 was on a picket line outside of Disney’s gates. Surrounded by thousands of television and film writers, we held our signs high. We marched and we cried and we sang and […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
Alumni Accomplishments
Jim Burress, ‘07, is a senior producer and host for “All Things Considered” at WABE-FM, an NPR affiliate in Atlanta. Burress and WABE placed first in the Nielson rankings for afternoons in Atlanta recently. He is celebrating his 15th year with WABE * Tab Brockman, ‘82, was honored as the state’s Employee of the Year […]
Read More
Cartoonist discusses ‘value of dissent’ during McGaughey Lecture
By Katie Coleman JMC student Political cartoonist Marc Murphy believes there’s a fine line between informing and inflaming. Murphy, editorial cartoonist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, spoke at the inaugural McGaughey Lecture on Press Freedom and Responsibility on Tuesday, Feb. 14 in the newly renovated Lovett Auditorium at Murray State University. The lecture benefitted the Robert […]
Read More
Meet the Pros returns as campus event
More than 25 alumni and professionals spoke with graduating seniors during our annual Meet the Pros event on Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Curris Center. This year’s event marked a return to an in-person event after two years of virtual Meet the Pros during the pandemic. Students met with professionals during a one-hour session and […]
Read More
Alumni accomplishments
Col. Robert Whitton, ‘66 Business, is retired from the U.S. Army * Dr. Nancy Strow Sheley, ‘68 English, is retired from California State University. Sheley received two Fulbright Awards: 2004 to study genocide in Rwanda and 2008 to teach university students in Cyprus. * Callie Smith, ‘20 Public Relations, is the director of community relations […]
Read MoreMcKeel’s photos spotlighted in Wrather exhibit
The new Centennial Exhibit at Wrather Museum features photography from alumnus Jeremy McKeel, ’98 & ’02, Digital Media Services Manager at Murray State. The campus scenes curated by Dr. Jeff McLaughlin and others will be on display until Dec. 9, 2022.
Read More
Mazzone: My Doc Story
It was actually an MSU English teacher who sent me to Dr. McGaughey. In my second year of English literature, my essay professor asked me if I would consider English as a major, and I wasn’t really interested in that. “Well, then you need to go talk to Dr. McGaughey and consider journalism,” was her […]
Read More