Media College News

On Friday, December 18, graduates from the WVU Reed College of Media will celebrate the culmination of their college careers. The University will hold it’s December Commencement Ceremony at 1:30 p.m. in the WVU Coliseum. More than 3,000 August and December WVU graduates are expected to cross the stage. Darko Velichkovski, director of the Music Industry program at WVU’s College of Creative Arts, will speak at Commencement.

Before the main event at the Coliseum, the College of Media will hold an Open House at Martin Hall from 10-11:30 p.m. The event is an opportunity for students to show their family and friends around Martin Hall and mingle with faculty, staff and mentors.

Nearly 90 percent of the site’s volunteer editors are male, and editors also tend to be mostly white and college educated. As a result, users are likely to find more information about men and male-related topics than they are about women and minority topics.

As part of her introductory to photojournalism course, the College of Media’s Ogden Newspapers Visiting Professor in Media Innovation Nancy Andrews challenged her students to select a notable female or minority photographer to research and either create a Wikipedia page or improve on an existing one. The group discussed the site’s content gaps and related gender and discrimination issues before starting their work.

The Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media has been named a finalist in the PRWeek US Awards 2016 “Education Program of the Year” category.

PRWeek is the leading trade publication for the public relations and communications industry, and the Awards are considered the communications industry’s highest accolade, celebrating the best of the best in corporate, agency, nonprofit and public relations education.

WVU Portal is new gateway to services, offers more than MIX.

The WVU Portal, a new mobile-friendly application at portal.wvu.edu, will give current students and newly admitted students a single gateway to a variety of critical services and applications, from logging into eCampus, Gmail and STAR to checking the status of the PRT. The app went live December 7.