The Campus newspaper and its web partner, MediaOCU.com, recently were honored in the Best of Collegiate Design 2011 contest. MediaOCU.com won third place for main page presentation. The student media website was redesigned and renamed in Fall 2010 to better distinguish it from the student newspaper and create a more up-to-date, multimedia approach to delivering campus news. The Campus newspaper received an honorable mention in photo page design for the 2010 Homecoming page. Layout editor Nathan Hatcher designed the page. College Media Association released the winners of the national competition earlier this month. In its 19th year, the Best of Collegiate Design honors student designers in 23 categories. More than 1,100 entries were received from 74 schools for this year’s contest.
Karlie Harmon, director of International Mass Communication programs for OCU, hosted a seminar titled “Mass Communications In A New Media World.” Read a brief about it in The Oklahoman at the link:
http://blog.newsok.com/partiesextra/2011/11/13/karlie-harmon-and-oklahoma-city-university-host-academic-seminar-in-singapore/South Central Broadcasting Society conference and competition in Austin, TX. Friday and Saturday, November 11 - 12.
Nearly 100 entries from 12 universities.
Congratulations to ur winners:
First Place, Sports Video Package, *Caleb Howard
*Caleb Howard now qualifies for the National Broadcasting Society competition in New York City, to be held in the spring.
Second Place, Music Video, Sonya Barrett
Third Place, Sports Program, Allison Gappa
To see their picture check out this link http://www.facebook.com/#!/petreecollegeofartsandsciences .
Two Oklahoma City University mass communications students are completing paid summer internships through a state journalism association. Amanda Alfanos, senior, and Carmen Bourlon, junior, are spending their summer working with state newspapers through the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation. The non-profit foundation works to improve newspaper journalism education. The internship program is funded through the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Alfanos, who also serves as OCU’s Student Publications editor-in-chief, is working with the Shawnee News Star. Bourlon, who serves as the Student Publications copy editor, is working with The Ringling Eagle. The OCU students are two of 19 students from 11 schools chosen for the internship program. The program provided student resumes and clips to 20 daily, weekly and semi-weekly state newspapers that applied to interview potential interns. Officials at each of the publications then chose which applicant to hire.
Mass communications senior Lizzy Valles was named producer of a newscast on the state’s only Spanish-language news station. Valles is a producer for Telemundo’s 10 p.m. newscast. The station is part of the second-largest Spanish network in the United States. Valles also is completing a summer internship for OklaVision, an Internet travel network. OklaVision broadcasts live on weekdays from the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in downtown Oklahoma City. Valles, who serves as OCU’s Student Publications associate editor, came to the university as a Clara Luper Scholar.
Seven Oklahoma City University student editors recently attended the 2009 national Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers annual conference.
Student Publications editors Corbin Hosler, Armand McCoy, Clancey Cleveland, Lizzy Valles, Donald Ashwood, Marianne Pickens and Amanda Alfanos attended the conference in Austin, Texas. The students are mass communications majors.Kenna Griffin, assistant professor of mass communications and director of student publications, accompanied the editors on the trip.
The group was among 2,200 college journalists and advisers who attended the conference. The group attended a variety of sessions focused on educating student journalists.
For more information about OCU’s Student Publications call ext. 6068 or visit ocustupub.com.
