Media College News

Students –

Have you made a picture you like in the past year? Let’s get together, review your work and pick some of your best photos, videos or multimedia projects to enter into competition.

The photographer who captured the images comprising an upcoming exhibit in West Virginia University’sDowntown Campus Library hopes the viewers will feel a bond with the people in her pictures.

“These photographs are visual narratives, split-second windows opening up to someone else’s world. Individually, they introduce strangers. Collectively, I hope they allow viewers to recognize some piece of themselves within that human story,” said Lois Raimondo, the Shott Chair of Journalism at WVU’s Reed College of Media.

Week 4 and you’ll notice that some of these postings are for SUMMER 2016. While opportunities still exist on campus for this fall and spring, it’s not too early to start thinking BIG for this summer. There are also some cool networking opportunities in some major media markets. Give these a serious look RIGHT NOW ! Contact Eric Minor at 304.293.6117 or Eric.Minor@mail.wvu.edu for more information.

·The New York Times offers 10-week summer internships to students dedicated to a career in journalism. The program provides a summer of demanding work and high journalistic standards, 
with individual internships in reporting, in visual and interactive journalism and in video. There are also copy-editing internships with placement by the Dow Jones News Fund and the reporting internship in Washington. 
The program begins June 6, with three days of orientation. Interns receive a weekly salary of $1,000. The deadline for all programs is October 31. For more information, click here: http://www.nytco.com/careers/Newsroom-Summer-Internships/

Applications for Mr. & Ms. Mountaineer are now being accepted. This prestigious award honors one male and one female student who has record of academic achievement and extracurricular involvement. 
All applicants must complete the 2015 Mr. & Ms. Mountaineer online form, submit (1) recommendation letter from a WVU faculty or staff member and submit a $20 entry fee.

APPLICATION INFORMATION  DEADLINE

West Virginia University is collaborating with the West Virginia Department of Education to give parents, teachers and students a voice in the standards for K-12 education in the state—and they will have an opportunity to have that voice heard today (Sept. 1) at 6:30 p.m. at the WVU Erickson Alumni Center at the first of a series of seven town hall meetings.

The West Virginia Next Generation Standards evaluation website was launched July 8 as part of the West Virginia Academic Spotlight, which is an effort to review nearly 900 English and math benchmarks that outline what knowledge students should possess at different points of their educational progression.

The Reed College of Media’s Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) online graduate program is currently accepting applications for the spring 2016 semester which begins on Monday, January 11.

For more information about the IMC program please contact Joey VanDevender, Enrollment Specialist, at gvandeve@mail.wvu.edu .

Take your summer job to the next level with Adventure WV! Working for Adventure WV is an exciting and rewarding summer experience and you get paid to do it! Adventure WV is looking for interested students to serve as trip leaders and logistics specialists. Each year we invite 15-20 new staff to join our leadership training program and summer leadership team.

For more information visit one of the AWOT Student Staff Informational Sessions, Wednesday September 2 at 7pm in the Mountaineer Room on the second floor of the Mountainlair or Tuesday September 29 at 7pm in the Student Rec Center room 102.

Fractured Spaces is a three-part show that brings together work focused on communities disrupted and dislocated by political and cultural conflict.

“Today, in post-9/11 America, when the country has undergone a cataclysmic shift in polarizing perspectives, and sectarian violence is on the rise throughout the world, it is more critical than ever that we engage globally to understand why. Introducing strangers, even enemies, through unguarded moments of other—the stillness of the frozen photographic moment— creates a safe space where mindfulness, curiosity, and even compassion may grow. My hope is that the bold viewer finds means to enter the frame and recognize some piece of her or himself within. Emotional honesty requires vulnerability, a condition with power to disarm prejudicial distancing.Real understanding is possible in the dissolve.”—Lois Raimondo

For generations, journalists and professional communicators have learned to brush aside race and other societal constructs to focus on the hard facts of the story. But what happens when race is the story?