Nakia Interview – Music and Social Media
Nakia Interview – Music and Social Media; featuring TXST student and rapper Zeale Nakia Reynoso, Musician and finalist on NBC’s The Voice; Zeale (Valin Zamarron)
Diversity, Experience and Skills-Obtaining a Job in the Media
By Jeana’ Jacobsen When you look up Texas mass communication colleges on Google, Texas State University is listed in the top five. With an award-winning campus based radio station and collegiate newspaper, this should come as no surprise. Texas State alumni participated in a panel during Mass Comm week Wednesday, October 19, discussing how the knowledge and experience gained at […]
ZEALE and Social Media
By Jeana’ Jacobsen Texas State Mass Comm Week welcomed Austin based artist Nakia and local rapper ZEALE to participate in an open discussion regarding musicians and how social media has played a part in their musical careers. ZEALE had much to say about how social media has helped expand his audience and allows him to reach multiple people all at […]
Sammis & Ochoa
Tanya Sammis and Mario Ochoa from Sammis & Ochoa: A Public Relations Agency sit down to discuss a few of the elements that go into make someone a successful entrepreneur in the PR world. (My apologies about the blurriness of the content)
The Elements of Entrepreneurship
By: Lyanna Fuentes Local entrepreneurs, Tonya Sammis and Mario Ochoa, spoke to students Wednesday, October 19, about successfully starting a new business using any and every resource now available with the expansion of technology. The duo began Sammis and Ochoa, a full-service public relations firm based out of San Antonio, on January 19, 2010 after working together at another firm. […]
Careers in online media: Newspapers in the virtual world
By Aleyda Londono Recent Texas State graduates Maira Garcia and Tina Phan spoke about their unconventional jobs at the Austin American-Statesman. Garcia is the paper’s social media editor and Phan is the multimedia producer. Their session covered the emerging importance of social media and multimedia in covering breaking news. The first major event they covered was the recent Central Texas […]
Laura Prather – Reporter's Priviledge and Anti-SLAPP in Texas
Laura Prather, Partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran and Arnold LLP
Interview with Hugh Forrest, Director of SXSW Interactive
Interview with Hugh Forrest, Director of SXSW Interactive
Print Is Not Dead
By Shaina Alizadeh John Garrett, founder and publisher of Community Impact Newspaper, told students that employers are looking for “LIARs.” Garrett was one of the featured speakers during Mass Communication Week at Texas State. He talked to students about media entrepreneurship and how to succeed in the journalism industry. Garrett said that hard work always pays off and the LIAR […]