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Summer class designs social media campaigns for nonprofits

March 1, 2013 9:58 am

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Posted in: Graduate programs, News, Students | Tagged: campaigns, class, IYLEP, Marcus Messner, nonprofits, organizations, social media, Social Media Institute, summer, vivian medina-messner

Pulitzer winner discusses political fact-checking

November 13, 2012 1:26 pm

Bill Adair, the creator and editor of PolitiFact, spoke to students in the "Social Media and the Presidential Race" honors class.

Posted in: Journalism, News, Students | Tagged: Bill Adair, Campaign, class, Election, Jeff South, Marcus Messner, Politics, Politifact, president, Pulitzer

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor of The Atlantic, speaks to a class studying social media and the presidential race.

Atlantic editor discusses presidential politics and social media

September 20, 2012 12:10 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor of The Atlantic and a writer for the magazine's website, spoke to a Mass Comm Honors class on "Social Media and the Presidential Race."

Posted in: Faculty/staff, Journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: class, lecture, magazine, messner, obama, president, romney, social media, south, Ta-Nehisi Coates, talk, The Atlantic

School wins grant for Social Media Institute this summer

March 14, 2012 1:01 pm

For the third time, the School of Mass Communications has won a major grant by the international nonprofit organization FHI 360 to run a Social…

Posted in: Advertising, Journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: class, IYLEP, journalism, Marcus Messner, social media, State Department, vcu, vcu mass communications, vivian medina-messner