Managing Texas State’s social media accounts

By Amanda Forbes Social media coordinator for Texas State Jon-Stephen Stansel spoke to students Thursday about social media in higher education. Stansel single-handedly runs the school’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat accounts. Stansel said he never anticipated operating social media accounts for his job, but times are changing. “Social media is the most interesting and challenging part of my day,” […]

Bobcats Present Public Relations Cases

By Monica Grice, mjg134@txstate.edu Public Relations Student Society of America hosted an event during Texas State University’s Mass Comm Week where four guest speakers handed out case studies to students, and explained each characteristic of those studies. The interactive event was different than a traditional panel. Students sat at four tables in Old Main building room 320 and the guest […]

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 […]

Mass Comm Week: Meet and Greet

By Kristen Smith San Marcos River by Kristen Smith Mass Communications week at Texas State spans 4 days every year to focus on professionals, students and professors of the mass communications realm. This year, there were an array of seminars and sessions available for students to go to, all focusing on different aspects of mass communications. The final event took […]