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Students from Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received three (3) Platinum Awards, four (4) Gold Awards and three (3) Honorable Mention Awards in the MarCom Creative Awards 2015 Competition. The MarCom Creative Awards contest is an international competition that recognizes achievement by marketing and communication practitioners.

Students from Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received two finalist awards in the 2015 College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) National Student Radio Production Awards Ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, Oct. 24. Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of Radio-Television Production and Management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and

WMUL-FM 88.1 MHz, Marshall University’s student-run radio station, will feature Red Dawson on Sportsview Wednesday, Nov. 11. Dawson was the only returning coach to the 1971 Marshall football team after the 1970 plane crash, which took the lives of 75 people. Sportsview is a weekly sports talk show in which the FM88 Sports Team speaks

Beginning in the spring of 2017, Marshall University’s College of Arts and Media will award the C. Bosworth “Bos” Johnson Memorial Scholarship in honor of the late journalist, Marshall alumnus and professor. “Whatever my Dad was doing—as news director or journalism professor or public relations executive—he was always teaching,” Dr. Beth Johnson Paulsen, Johnson’s daughter

Identifying, establishing and maintaining mutually-beneficial relationships with the strongest of ethics, between an organization and its publics on whom its success or failure depends, is the focus of public relations. Two Marshall University public relations classes scored big on those efforts this week for their work on campaigns for two area nonprofit organizations.

The W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University will offer an online graduate program in New Media Studies beginning this fall.

High school students from West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland spent several days at Marshall University this week learning about journalism. Students arrived on Marshall’s campus Sunday, June 22, and ended the workshop on Wednesday, spending time learning about print, radio, television and online journalism.

Advertising majors from the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University won big during the District 5 American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition last month in Louisville. The 10-student team won first place and won “Best Presentation” in the contest, which took place on April 5. The challenge was

Marshall University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications will host an evening with Glynn Washington, host and executive producer of the popular public radio program “Snap Judgment,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4. “Snap Judgment” is a themed, weekly NPR storytelling show sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and distributed through NPR and Public

Marshall University has entered into an agreement that allows journalism majors who have successfully earned associate degrees from Mountwest Community and Technical College to seamlessly transfer those credits to Marshall in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree, according to Donald Van Horn, dean of MU’s College of Arts and Media.