By: Ishmael Johnson Texas State senior lecturer Larry Carlson introduces the panel of speakers. For Texas State Mass Comm Week, a sports media panel consisting of Kirk Bohls, David Chancellor, Tim Griffin and Jeff Howe spoke Thursday in Old Main 234. Headlined by award-winningAustin-American Statesman columnist, Kirk Bohls, the panel discussed the ever-changing world of sports news coverage in every […]
Today we’re hearing from some Texas State alums on their career decisions and some advice about working in the advertising industry. Watch below! Live streaming video by Ustream
Sergio Carvajal-Leoni discusses how he got started in the visual storytelling industry and the hardest part about going back to school for his Masters degree. Alex Castillo is a senior at Texas State University majoring in journalism with a minor in media studies. To contact: ac1824@txstate.edu
Denise Malan, INN/IRE data director, spoke to students Thursday morning about the importance of data journalism in the newsroom for Mass Communication Week. Malan, who was previously the data/investigative editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times for three years, discussed how data journalism can help students find good jobs and credit stories by providing factual information. “Basically, with data journalism, […]
By: Spencer McAdams Through the Community Cinema outlet, speaker Sergio Carvajal-Leoni explains how and why technology can easily be acquired to serve the needs of the user. During the course of the speech, given to an auditorium full of students in accordance with Mass Comm Week, Mr. Carvajal explains the “whats” and “whys” of his journey through many careers in […]
By: Christina Bernhard Associate Director of Digital Strategy at Rockfish, Alyssa Robinson presents to students Thursday about the digital world and how to land a job in the industry during Texas State’s Mass Communication Week. Robinson began with educating the audience on the digital industry with shocking facts about its growth. Eighty-one iPads are sold, 600 new YouTube videos […]
Texas State University Hip Hop Congress pumps up prospective Laredo High School students By Jon Wilcox Select representatives from the Texas State University student organization, the Hip Hop Congress, met with prospective seniors from Laredo, Texas’s Lyndon B. Johnson High School in an anything but a normal information session. More than forty high school seniors gathered on Wednesday at noon […]
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By Garrett Flores Denise Malan, INN/IRE director of data services, briefed students about investigative data journalism, Wednesday, for Texas State’s Mass Communication Week. Malan discussed the benefits of data journalism and talked about how it helps reporters tell a story that’s backed up by factual information. “You’re finding things even the people who made the data may not have known […]
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication is hosting its annual Mass Comm Week, Oct. 2-6, 2023. This year, we have some amazing events both in person and online! Don’t miss out on the chance to look to the future and hear professionals discuss issues, trends and careers in mass media. Visit our Schedule page to learn more about each event and panel.