No longer just training students for careers in traditional media, West Virginia University’s P.I. Reed School of Journalism is preparing students to be leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs in a constantly changing and increasingly young industry.
To inspire students to become the next generation of game-changers and decision makers, the School’s Journalism Week 2011: Game Changers Under 40 will bring to campus young professionals who are helping to redefine journalism and strategic communications in the digital age.
Monongahela Valley Association of Health Centers, Inc. (MVA), is a private, non-profit West Virginia Corporation that has been providing quality health care to the residents of Marion, Monongalia, Harrison, Taylor, and Wetzel counties since 1958. MVAowns and operates Fairmont Clinic, Shinnston Medical Center, the East Fairmont and North Marion High School Wellness Centers, and a Medicare-certified Home Health Agency. The mission of MVA is to provide quality health care, at a reasonable cost, to all residents of its service area. The vision of MVA is to be the area’s top quality provider of comprehensive primary health care services. MVA strives to provide the highest quality patient care possible, provide services to meet all the health care needs of the service area residents, and redesign the delivery of health care to provide quality health care in the most timely and cost-effective manner possible.
The West Virginia University Sports Communications Office is now accepting applications to fill student assistant positions for the 2011-2012 school year.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: public relations coverage of assigned WVU varsity sports, feature writing, press release writing, acting as a liaison between WVU athletics and media, working closely with the Big East conference office, working closely with assigned sport’s head coach, sport game day operations, pre and post even operations, Internet writing and assisting with Mountaineer football and men’s basketball game-day operations.
Each spring, the SOJ also offers a limited number of Student Enhancement Awards, cash awards to students who have secured major-market journalism internships or have been accepted in a journalism study-abroad programs. Awards typically range from $500 to $1,000.
Don’t tell that to the students at West Virginia University’s P.I. Reed School of Journalism or the Parsons Advocate, which is the beneficiary of a new mobile application that represents much more than a technological advance or a chance to boost advertising sales.
In piloting the app with the Advocate, a weekly newspaper that serves the area, WVU hopes to create an economic opportunity for an entire community that may also serve as a model to help bolster the flagging newspaper industry.
“At first I thought, ‘Why are these people reaching out to me?’ I thought it was too good to be true,” said Bailey. “But then I talked to one of the owners on the phone?and they hired me.”
Argentinean author Mempo Giardinelli will read from his book “Luna Caliente” (Sultry Moon) and other works on Friday April 1, beginning at 12:00 p.m. in 130 Colson Hall. The reading will be in English. A lecture and discussion of his presented work will follow in Spanish at 3:30 p.m. in 107 Oglebay Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
Mempo Giardinelli was born in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina in 1947. He studied law at Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Argentina. From 1976 to 1983, he lived in exile in Mexico. He returned to make his home in Resistencia in 1985.
The graduate assistant-public relations position is open to full-time on-campus graduate students in English, journalism, or a related field. It is a 20-hour-per-week graduate assistantship.
The Bridgestone Americas Safety Scholars Video Contest is a great way to have fun, be creative and win money for college, all at the same time. It’s easy to enter. Just make a short video (25 or 55 seconds in length) about auto safety . Students who produce videos that most creatively and effectively address safety auto topics will win a $5,000 college scholarship and a set of Bridgestone tires. Want a chance to win a scholarship? Grab your camera and get going! The Safety Scholars video contest is open to young drivers ages 16 to 21.