Media College News

Maxwell Shavers (BSJ, 2020), a current student in the West Virginia University Reed College of Media Digital Marketing Communications master’s program, has been selected for the Carnegie-Knight News21 Program, a nationwide reporting project.

Jai-Leen James is a journalist. She is an ethical, objective and effective storyteller who can craft a beautiful headline followed by a poignant lede. But her most recent role on the digital production team for the USA TODAY Network exposed her to the business side of journalism and opened her eyes to the wealth of information found in multi-channel analytics.

100 Days in Appalachia, a media outlet currently incubated at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media’s Innovation Center, was one of 18 news organizations nationwide selected to participate in the Poynter Table Stakes Program.