The Reed College of Media and College of Creative Arts will merge to form the new WVU College of Creative Arts and Media as of July 1, 2024. Get details.
We emphasize a shared responsibility for fostering a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for individuals of all races, genders, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, socioeconomic status, geographical origin and physical abilities, and to express their culture, experience and perspectives through the art and science of journalistic storytelling.
View our full DEI PlanThe Reed College of Media believes in and takes action to further the University’s commitment to excellence in equity, inclusion and diversity in recruitment and retention of students, faculty and staff. As members of a land-grant institution that seeks to extend knowledge and to serve the people of West Virginia, we in the Reed College of Media actively embrace and propound inclusive excellence to strengthen and diversify our teaching, scholarship, and community engagement.
Through its curriculum, service, faculty and student scholarship and media, the College is committed to presenting diverse viewpoints to a general audience and to seeking and maintaining ties to a range of diverse sources. In public relations and advertising, the college considers excellence in campaigns to representing and communicating with diverse clients and audiences. In news storytelling, excellence is equated with the ability to produce stories for and about a wide range of communities and audiences, and exploring new forms of media technology that empower and drive inclusion and equity for under-represented groups.
This 4+1 program allows you to earn a B.S. in Journalism or Advertising and Public Relations from with an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications in five years.
More on the IMC 4+1This 4+1 program allows you to earn a B.S. in Journalism or Advertising and Public
Relations with an M.S. in Journalism in five years.
This 3+3 program allows you to earn a B.S. in Journalism or Advertising and Public Relations with a Juris Doctorate law degree in six years.
More on the JD 3+3More than 3,800 miles separate two sets of musicians. Although an ocean divides them, students in the College of Media and the University of Seville create a virtual performance of them playing together with the help of augmented reality (AR) technology.
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The Bodice Project is an immersive walking tour of an exhibit of handcrafted
sculptures that represent breast cancer survivors’ stories.
This
pod
cast by Kayla Starcher explores the ways religious organizations continued services
after being deemed “non-essential” by state officials.
College of Media faculty member Emily Corio and student journalist Douglas Soule are co-authors on a Washington Post story that tracks the state’s nearly 20-year history of lawsuits against drug companies and exposes the opioid epidemic’s effect on children in West Virginia.
Read MoreCollege of Media journalism professor Joel Beeson brings forgotten stories to a worldwide audience through new technology.
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Professor Joel Beeson created the an online gallery that chronicles the stories of
African Americans who migrated to McDowell County in the early 1900s to work in
the coal mines and then went on to serve in the U.S. military.
College of Media seniors Lana Aboushaar and Jordan Stosic were among 10 scholarship recipients from across the country to attend the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations 2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Summit in Chicago.
Read MoreMartin Hall Agency hosted a Reentry Simulation that drew students from nearly a dozen units on campus. During this interactive event, attendees had to navigate different post-incarceration scenarios to better understand the struggles people face upon release from prison.
Read MoreMaxwell Shavers (BSJ, 2020), a current student in the Digital Marketing Communications master’s program, was selected for the Carnegie-Knight News21 Program, a nationwide reporting project headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Through the program, he and other fellows from across the country will explore the topic of “Poverty and the Pandemic.”
Read MoreWith an overdose death rate 10 times the national average, news about the Mountain State has been bleak, but a West Virginia filmmaker chose to tell a story of resilience and hope.
Read MoreChelsea Fuller (BSJ, 2011) was twelve years old when she met civil rights icon John Lewis at Paschal’s restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, the unofficial headquarters of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Since then, she has been sharing the stories of Black America and advocating for marginalized populations
Read MoreAccording to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five Americans live with a mental health condition, and with the current global crisis, they face additional challenges, making communicating about mental health more important than ever. Chuck Harman (BSJ, 1981; MSJ, 1984) leads NAMI’s Strategic Alliances & Development team, and when the COVID-19 virus outbreak occurred, he and his team, including Director of External Relations Jessica Edwards (BSJ, 2011), had to quickly analyze their outreach efforts and adapt their strategy.
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