Social Media at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

By: Logan McCullough rlm215@txstate.edu SAN MARCOS – Texas State alumna Virginia Alves returned to her alma mater to lead a panel discussing her most recent endeavor as social media editor for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Alves’s Mass Comm week presentation, “International Waters: Social Media at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games,” moderated by Texas State professor of social journalism Dale […]

War Correspondents Share Their Advice for Young Journalists

By Nathalie Cohetero nac75@txstate.edu During Texas State University’s annual Mass Comm Week, an award-winning panel of photojournalists offered insight Monday into the world of combat reporting. Among the experienced combat photojournalists were Brien Aho, Sig Christenson and William Nichols. Nichols, a military photojournalist and retired Air Force colonel, said he believes the photographs a reporter takes can affect the public […]