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.
SOJ alumna Elaine McMillion will be featured at the 2013 West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival later this month. McMillion (BSJ, 2009) will show a video preview of her interactive documentary “Hollow” on Saturday, March 16 from 5:30-6:30 pm in the Falbo Theater, WVU Crative Arts Center. “Hollow” is an interactive documentary which combines personal documentary video portraits, photography, soundscapes and grassroots mapping on a website designed to discuss the many stereotypes associated with the area, population and potential for the future She will also take part in a Roundtable Discussion: “New Voices: Changing Approaches to Identity in Emerging Appalachian Filmmaking” Hosted by Patrick Felton
The 2013 West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival will showcase more than 100 films from across the country and around the world. Many known directors will be presenting their works during the festival. Admission into the festival is free, and food and drinks will be provided during the opening on March 15. The schedule for the festival is: Friday 5 pm-11 pm and Saturday/ Sunday 10 am–11pm.
The BEA Festival of Media Arts is an international refereed exhibition of faculty creative activities and a national showcase for student works and is sponsored by the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation, Avid and Sony. Winners will be honored at BEA’s annual convention in April. Read more about the competition and find all the winners listed on the BEA website.
As you’ve gone about your daily life, there have been people behind the scenes who have made the future better than the past.
Take Kyung Won Lee, a 1953 School of Journalism graduate. He sought out the “unseen and unheard” people around the country, told their stories and took their woes to the public.
Rich’s Farms is looking for a marketing/advertising intern (paid) to help develop marketing plans, ads, brochures, etc. This position is open immediately and the intern can work from Morgantown most of the time.
Nature Park is a new venture at Rich’s Farm, that provides a variety of activities for children, such as barn yard animals, nature trails, pond, playground, educational stations, and many more. This marketing intern will help promote these new activities.
Adventure WV is looking for two full-time summer interns to market their summer excursions. The interns will produce video for Adventure WV websites and YouTube, shoot photos, write copy and manage social media. Interns will be given a lot of creative freedom.
This internship must be taken for 3 hours of class credit. Students will travel with Adventure WV free of charge and have the opportunity to use brand new, state-of-the art equipment.
Last year, Nickle was a founding member of the Martin-Hall Agency, WVU’s student-led integrated marketing communications agency. She currently serves as co-president of the Martin-Hall Agency, as well as a research leader on the AAF competition team, communications leader for the Solar-Decathlon Project (a multi-college initiative, and multi-university competition with the Department of Energy), and a teaching assistant in the School of Journalism. She is also a student ambassador for the School of Journalism.
Biddle spent 13 years at the Washington Post as a staff photographer, and she currently freelances for the Washington Post and other publications and organizations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. After five years at the Denver Post, Biddle left to become a White House photographer documenting the Presidency for the last year of the Reagan administration and all four years of the George H.W. Bush administration. This included coverage of the President’s official duties as well as private activities in the U.S. and abroad. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Life, National Geographic and other publications worldwide. Biddle also has participated in various book projects including Day in the Life of America, Day in the Life of Thailand, Hong Kong – Here Be Dragons, Day in the Life of the American Woman and America at Home. She has earned awards with the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association.