Tag: "communications"

Returning Mass Comm Alums discuss breaking into the workforce

Mass Comm Week 2013

Last week the Department of Mass Communications celebrated their annual Mass Comm Week. This week long series of events and lectures features events and lectures from SIUE alumni, faculty, and outside working media professionals. This years theme “Emerging Media Careers in Collaborative Hubs,” focused on the importance of networking in today’s social media heavy environment.
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Fritz Faerber lecturing at SIUE for Mass Comm Week 2012

Mass Comm Week 2012

April 16, 2012, Fritz Faerber kicked off Mass Comm Week with his lecture, “Journalism Without a Net.”
A ten-year veteran of salaried journalism, Faerber returned to freelancing five years ago. Since then he’s contributed to CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. Faerber shared his experiences starting out, strategies for marketing stories, […]

The cover page for Prophets of the Fourth Estate

Prophets of the Fourth Estate

“Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era,” is now on shelves. The book is co-authored by SIUE Mass Communications Department Chair Gary Hicks and his colleague Amy Reynolds of LSU.
The book features journalism critiques from the progressive era (1890-1920) and places them within a social, economic and historical context.
“You […]

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