June 16, 2015 – College Media Review

… it just might take three years

By Steven Chappell
Director of Student Publications
Northwest Missouri State University

We have spent the past three years working hard to converge our student media operations, which include a yearbook, newspaper, radio station and TV station.

NWMU_Minions — Make the newspaper’s printing a cause for celebration for the whole media family in a Student Media Day.

Part of that process has been convincing the students that it is in their best interests to work together and cross media to better position themselves for employment post-graduation.

We’ve worked on several initiatives in that time, but the most effective has been our Student Media Day, which coincides with the weekly printing of our student newspaper, The Missourian.

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