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Journalism students meet NPR’s Audie Cornish

May 3, 2013 10:29 am

Several journalism students from the School of Mass Communications' iPadJournos project were invited to the 25th anniversary celebration of WCVE on Thursday evening and had the…

Media entrepreneur outlines start-up strategies

April 11, 2013 8:31 am

To Thomas Grasty, a start-up company in its beginning stages looks just like an entanglement of yarn. A bunch of yarn that is of different colors and lengths…

New journalism capstone course offered in fall semester

March 18, 2013 10:57 am

The School of Mass Communications is offering a new journalism capstone course this fall semester. Majors in the print-online journalism concentration (formerly called print journalism) can take MASC 496 –…

Posted in: Journalism, News, Students | Tagged: broadcasting, capstone, course, iPadJournos, journalism, Marcus Messner, MASC 496, online, print

Summer class designs social media campaigns for nonprofits

March 1, 2013 9:58 am

Update (March 29): If you encounter a problem registering, please send us an e-mail and we'll issue an override for you. Here is a…

‘VCU votes’ campaign wins Democracy Cup

February 18, 2013 10:55 am

Mass Comm and other VCU students won a statewide award for last fall's get-out-the-vote efforts.

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

Sign up for “iPadJournos” class in the spring

October 18, 2012 11:43 am

Do you want to learn mobile reporting techniques to break news via social media? Use an iPad, your mobile phone and hand-held HD cameras to break news for the website…

Posted in: Journalism, News | Tagged: CBS 6, iPad, iPadJournos, journalism, Marcus Messner, multimedia journalism, reporting

The view of Columbia, SC from the 18th floor of the Capstone Building on the University of South Carolina campus, home for the 2012 Convergence and Society conference. Photo by Tim Bajkiewicz.

Bajkiewicz, Medina-Messner present social media research

September 30, 2012 9:52 am

School of Mass Communications faculty members Dr. Tim Bajkiewicz and Vivian Medina-Messner presented their latest social media research at the Convergence and Society conference in Columbia, SC the last week…

Social Media Institute recruits nonprofit clients

May 31, 2012 5:54 pm

The School of Mass Communications is running its Social Media Institute for the third year this summer. Sponsored by a major grant from the international nonprofit organization Read More…

Posted in: Faculty/staff, Journalism, Multimedia journalism, News, Public relations, Students | Tagged: FHI 360, Iraq, IYLEP, Marcus Messner, nonprofit, social media, vivian medina-messner