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.
Ashton Marra, a teaching assistant professor in the West Virginia University Reed
College of Media, is one of 11 journalists named a 2023 Solutions Journalism
Network Complicating the Narratives (CTN) Fellow. She will use the fellowship funding
to award microgrants to journalists who want to investigate addiction in their
communities.
In September 2021, Marra partnered with Jonathan J.K. Stoltman, director of the
Opioid Policy Institute, to launch Reporting on Addiction, a collaboration of addiction
science experts, professional journalists and journalism educators who aim to improve
the way journalists cover news related to substance use.
WVU Reed College of Media alumnus Jeff Geisler returned to campus to host an advertising
and public relations agency simulation that was open to all majors and local high
school students and sponsored by the WVU Chapter of the Public Relations Student
Society of America (PRSSA).
Throughout his career, Geisler (BSJ, 1993) has held various brand and marketing leadership
positions with such companies as McCann Erickson, BBH New York, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation,
Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and Saatchi & Saatchi. Currently, he is working for
Super Serious, a creative studio founded by actor and host Terry Crews, which promotes
brands through entertainment projects, including commercials, television programs
and movies.
Students in Shott Teaching Assistant Professor Chuck Scatterday’s class traveled
to Fayetteville, West Virginia, to cover Bridge Day for their “Mountaineer Playbook”
class. The annual event occurs each October and attracts bridge jumpers and spectators
from around the world.
Scatterday developed and teaches the “Mountaineer Playbook” capstone course for Sports
and Adventure Media (SAM) majors. Throughout the semester, students report, operate
cameras, direct and produce to cover all 17 Division I WVU athletic teams and regional
adventure events. Student reporters Elizabeth Carey and Riley McIlmoyle and videographer
Jake Held covered Bridge Day for the show, and Max Murphy and Adam Cooley, students
in the college’s Video Storytelling course, also attended. Each student was required
to produce a finished package, consisting of action video and audio, as well as
any additional content necessary to accurately and thoroughly tell the story.
