HBCUGameday draws attention to community

By Rebecca Cole   SAN MARCOS-Dedicated to fairness, accuracy and sports, Steven J. Gaither saw a need for coverage. Making the right plays led him to create HBCUGameday. After graduating from Winston Salem State in 2009, Gaither created the HBCUGameday website in 2012 to highlight culture and athletics at Historically Black Colleges. Gaither targets community which has helped increase follower […]

Virtual reality workshop prepares students for first full-course class in spring semester

By Katie Burrell Mass communication students at Texas State signed up for one of two virtual reality workshops held during Mass Comm Week days before the university’s first full-credit virtual reality course will be offered. Texas State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has offered a virtual reality course in the past, but it did not last an entire semester, […]

Alumni share tips for working in mass communications

Texas State University’s Mass Comm Week kicked off Monday with events featuring tech opportunities for recent graduates and a fair highlighting different organizations within the mass communications department. The panel “So you want to be a Mass Comm Professional…” was mostly made up of  Texas State University alumni. Among the alumni included advertising, journalism and digital media professionals. Every speaker was seated […]

Telling the Untold Stories

Picture an Italian American. Now, picture a Texan Italian American. Documentary filmmaker Sergio Carvajal-Leoni said he wants to give Texans, and everyone, a picture of the Italian American culture in Central Texas. “We’re not telling our own stories,” he said, adding that people come from other places, like California, to tell the “Texas” story. Carvajal-Leoni’s stories focus on hyperlocalized and […]

Samantha Grant talks ‘A Fragile Trust’ and Jayson Blair

Samantha Grant starts a conversation on ethics in journalism with ‘A Fragile Trust’ By James Palmer In 2013, Samantha Grant, filmmaker and CEO of GUSH Productions, created a documentary based around the actions of a reporter, Jayson Blair, during his employment at the New York Times. However, Grant’s focus was not in the scandal surrounding a supposed sociopath, but in […]

Mass Communication Career Fair Coverage

Delissa Atkinson, recruiter at Time Warner Cable, offered advice to students with a smile Lisa Adams, public coordinator at Central Texas Medical Center, and Larissa Benninghoff, volunteer, talk about their company with students Students were provided with a name tag, raffle ticket and map of where certain companies were located in the ballroom Brant Newman chats with a broadcasting company […]