Breaking Aggie TV News for March 28, 2012
Friday, March 30th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Breaking Aggie TV News for March 28, 2012LOGAN—Thursday’s top stories from Aggie TV News. (Click here.) • USU fires a well-known employee while an investigation continues. • Student fees could be going up. • Reaction about the Sardine Canyon crash. • Logan honors Logan’s Heroes. • Texting while triking. • Engineering overcomes disability. • ...
TV news professor pushes student journalists to real-world standards
Sunday, March 25th, 2012 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on TV news professor pushes student journalists to real-world standardsBy Allie Jeppson LOGAN—As a police scanner quietly fizzes and mutters in the background, students roll in and the Aggie TV News class begins. But the discussion lasts only a moment as the instructor suddenly stops in mid-sentence to listen ...
USU alumni, professionals on campus for 3-day regional PR conference
Sunday, March 18th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Allie Jeppson LOGAN—Students are rarely encouraged to spend time and effort on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but public relations professionals at the Fourth Annual Mountain West PR conference emphasized that social media have become and important tool. The three-day ...
Hundreds attend dedication for new $43 million Ag College building
Sunday, March 18th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Hundreds attend dedication for new $43 million Ag College buildingStory & Photos by Allie Jeppson LOGAN—Utah State University President Stan Albrecht put on his best boots for the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of the new $43 million Agricultural Sciences Building on the USU Quad. An overflow audience gathered inside the new, ...
USU hosts 4th annual regional public relations conference
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on USU hosts 4th annual regional public relations conferenceBy Allie Jeppson LOGAN—Public relations students and professionals will discuss “Putting the PR in Professional” this week during the 4th annual Mountain West PR Conference, sponsored by Vivint Inc. and the USU JCOM Department, as students, faculty, professionals and sponsors come ...
‘Out of Iraq’ to witness those affected by war on conflict’s anniversary
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on ‘Out of Iraq’ to witness those affected by war on conflict’s anniversaryLOGAN—The nine-year anniversary of the start of combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, will be the focus of a day-long series of panels and programs on March 19 at Utah State University. Spearheaded by Army Maj. Matthew ...
USU president meets the press, touts USU growth, buildings and future
Friday, February 17th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »By Kristi Ottley LOGAN—Utah State University is undergoing a makeover, with many new additions to its campus and landscape—a new veterinary school, multiple new buildings, and a luxurious new Aggie Rec Center in its near future. USU President Stan Albrecht discussed his ...
JCOM students launch new online magazine ‘Aggie BluePrint’
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on JCOM students launch new online magazine ‘Aggie BluePrint’By Kristen Munson Reprinted from Utah State Today LOGAN—Your campus. Your community. Your magazine. That’s the tagline for Aggie BluePrint, a new student-produced magazine launched in January by JCOM students at Utah State University. The monthly online magazine is the brainchild of Kate ...
LaPlante: Doing ‘missionary journalism,’ from classroom to war zone
Saturday, January 21st, 2012 Posted in Arts and Life | 1 Comment »By Kristen Munson Liberalis Editor LOGAN—Framed on one wall of Matthew LaPlante’s office are stories of dying veterans, sick because they had the audacity to breathe on their military bases as open-air pit fires spewed chemicals into the sky. Photographs of a ...
JCOM’s Communicators Guild hosts students, alumni in first event
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on JCOM’s Communicators Guild hosts students, alumni in first eventBy Max Parker Dahl LOGAN—TV news anchor-turned-PR executive Amanda Butterfield spoke to students, staff and alumni Wednesday night for the premier event for the Communicators Guild, the new student association of the Journalism & Communication Department. Despite poor weather and many campus ...
New student Communicators Guild invites JCOM alumni back to campus
Friday, November 18th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on New student Communicators Guild invites JCOM alumni back to campusBy Rhett Wilkinson LOGAN—Former KSL-TV broadcaster and 2001 USU alumna Amanda Butterfield will be on campus Nov. 30 to speak to USU JCOM students, alumni and members of the community in a reunion and networking event for the newly created Journalism ...
Opinion: Game over, man. Game over
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »By Barry Kort For the past few years, the Utah State University Information Technology (IT) Security Group has pushed hard to transfer all departmental Web servers to their exclusive operational control in central IT. Among the holdouts against this trend were a ...
New reporting prof brings real-world standards to the classroom
Sunday, September 11th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »Story & Photos by Cassidee J. Cline LOGAN—Some see him as a loud, in-your-face, reporter. In fact, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly called him “an ideologue who’s out to hurt you.” To Matthew LaPlante, this review from the conservative commentator is nothing ...
JCOM prof is no-nonsense, respected, loved, sometimes ‘dreaded’
Saturday, April 30th, 2011 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on JCOM prof is no-nonsense, respected, loved, sometimes ‘dreaded’Story & Photos by Shirrel Cooper LOGAN—They either love her or hate her. That seems to be the consensus among Penny Byrne’s journalism students. Byrne has the reputation of being the “dreaded” mass media law professor whose class has a rumored fail ...
Course gets students in touch with their statistical side
Monday, April 25th, 2011 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on Course gets students in touch with their statistical sideBy Cathy Morgan LOGAN—With the spring semester coming to a close, so is the first semester of the new JCOM premajor requirement, JCOM 2020—Communication Research Methods. The course marks a change in JCOM requirements—a major change for those JCOM students who are ...
Media professionals take aim at ‘moving target’ at JCOM Career Day
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Media professionals take aim at ‘moving target’ at JCOM Career DayBy Heidi Hansen LOGAN—With flashes of humor and the sharing of personal stories, the message that journalists must be flexible and have diverse skills to survive in today’s changing media market was repeated and reinforced by a panel of media professionals ...
USU senior named Utah’s best PR student in Richter7 competition
Saturday, April 16th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on USU senior named Utah’s best PR student in Richter7 competitionSALT LAKE CITY—A Utah State University public relations senior has won the title of 2011 Utah PR Student of the Year in the annual competition sponsored by Richter7, a Salt Lake-based advertising and public relations agency. The competition among Utah college ...
Aggie journalists compete, win in the real world, awards demonstrate
Saturday, April 16th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Aggie journalists compete, win in the real world, awards demonstrateStudents Recognized for Online Reporting, Radio News and Photo by Society of Professional Journalists By Kristen Munson LOGAN—Utah State University journalism students returned from the annual Society of Professional Journalists regional conference with 12 Mark of Excellence Awards, including four first-place honors ...
Rising on the Quad, new Ag building brings smiles to JCOM
Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Arts and Life | Comments Off on Rising on the Quad, new Ag building brings smiles to JCOMLOGAN—It is impossible to miss the rising frame of a 4-plus-story office, classroom and lab building on the east end of the USU Quad—a new $43 million home for the College of Agriculture. The massive construction project broke ground last May ...
KUDOS! USU journalism students win 12 Mark of Excellence Awards
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on KUDOS! USU journalism students win 12 Mark of Excellence AwardsLOGAN—The national Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has announced that Utah State University journalism students have combined to win 12 Mark of Excellence Awards for their 2010 work on the Hard News Café, Utah Public Radio, and ATV News. The awards, ...