This week on Fresno State Focus, a public affairs program produced by students in the Department of Media, Communication and Journalism, anchors Courtney Rodgers of Clovis and Jerry Gomez of Hanford will speak with the Fresno State Career Development Center to find out about job opportunities available to students after graduation. The show will also feature an inside look […]
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Fresno State Focus will host the fourth annual Global News Relay on Wednesday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The student-run newscast will feature an interactive six-hour production with 17 universities around the world. This year’s theme is “Solutions Journalism” – ways in which journalists can not only report on significant issues, but help make […]
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This week on Fresno State Focus, a public affairs program produced by Media Communication and Journalism students, anchors Mary Kate Paquette of Bakersfield and Juan Avila of Porterville will speak with the a Fresno State student involved in the upcoming Peach Blossom Festival, which hosts elementary students from around the Valley. The Peach Blossom Festival is presented […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series and Fresno Filmworks present two screenings of the Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 10, at the Tower Theatre (815 E. Olive Ave.). “I Am Not Your Negro” is a powerful reinvention of civil rights activist James Baldwin’s unfinished book “Remember This […]
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Tyler Bartlam, a Media, Communications and Journalism major who graduated from Fresno State in December, won first place in the Radio Feature Reporting Category from the Broadcast Education Association‘s Festival of Media Arts. Bartlam’s feature talks to Kat Nijmeddin, a Muslim Fresno State student who is a senior in Art and Design. Nijmeddin has encountered hate and […]
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~ Reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com The Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series begins its spring semester line-up at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, with a panel discussion on “Journalism, Fake News and The First Amendment” in the Alice Peters Auditorium (Peters Business building). The panel will feature Jim Boren, executive editor and senior vice president of […]
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Faith Sidlow, an assistant professor in the Media, Communications and Journalism Department, won an award for Best News Special for her Central Valley Honor Flight documentary that aired on KFSR. The Radio & Television News Association of Southern California bestowed the award during its Golden Mike Awards Jan. 28 in Hollywood. Sidlow traveled to Washington, D.C., […]
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Fresno State Media, Communications and Journalism student Audrianna Ferri received the Rosebud Award for First Place Television News at the CSU Media Arts Festival in November for her segment on “Brian Cade, Local Artist.” Two other MCJ students were finalists: Natalie Nigg’s Global News Relay Glitch Promo won fourth place in the promotional category. Fabiola […]
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Two Media, Communications and Journalism students are finalists in the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System’s Golden Microphone awards. Edmer Archila, of Mendota, and Brittany Sosa, of Fresno, are finalists for Best Public Affairs Program for the Fresno State Focus Radio Edition newscast they co-hosted. Fresno State Focus Radio Edition is a public affairs program produced by Mass Communication and Journalism students as […]
Read MoreThis week on Fresno State Focus, anchor July Cruz of Clovis will talk to Lt. James Watson of the Fresno State Police Department about campus safety when the student-produced TV show airs at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, on Comcast Channel 94 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. Anchor Tiera Richardson of Los Angeles will speak with […]
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Jeanine Michelle Fiser, who graduated in spring 2016 with a degree from the MCJ Department, won The Newspaper Guild‘s prestigious David S. Barr Award, a nationwide honor given to student journalists who focus on social justice issues. The package of investigative articles that Fiser, of Hanford, wrote for the Sanger Herald – looking into the […]
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~ Video by Carl Licuanan and Justus Neves/Edited by Manual Martinez ~ Reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com Presented by the Fresno Advertising Federation (FAF) and coordinated by students in the Public Relations Campaign class of the Media, Communications and Journalism Department, TASTE (Take A Student To Eat) pairs MCJ students with professionals from various Fresno and Clovis media […]
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Dozens of students in the Media, Communications and Journalism Department were honored at the annual scholarship reception on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Vintage Room at Fresno State. ABC 30 Scholarship Recipient: Judith Saldivar The ABC 30 Journalism Scholarship was created in January 2010 and has become the department’s largest scholarship. It is given to […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “If Only Everyone” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. Directed by Nataliya Belyauskene, “If Only Everyone” is about Sasha, half-Armenian, half-Russian, who is the daughter of a freedom fighter killed in the Artsakh liberation war. Twenty years later, Sasha comes to Armenia in search of […]
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This week’s Fresno State Focus airs at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19. Anchor Liz Juarez from Orange Cove will speak with a student who worked on the Fresno State Tiny House Project. Anchor Grecia Sanchez from Avenal will interview a student who will host Dress for Success. The show will also feature a story from National […]
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Tyler Bartlam, a Media, Communications and Journalism major at Fresno State, gets to spend this week diving into her specialty area, producing content for radio, digital and social media platforms, at Capital Public Radio‘s Next Gen Radio Training Week in Sacramento. “I’m really looking forward to working with all the different professionals that’ll be there. […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “The Merchant of Venice” at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. In the late 16th century the greatest playwright of the Western world, William Shakespeare, wrote a play that still shocks the world today – “The Merchant of Venice.” This exciting story is one […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series and Filmworks present two screenings of the documentary “Miss Sharon Jones!” at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Tower Theatre (815 E. Olive Ave.). Two-time Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple follows Grammy-nominated R&B dynamo Sharon Jones, often compared to James Brown, during the most courageous year of her […]
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This week’s Fresno State Focus airs at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12. Student anchors Kaile Hunt and Alexis Govea will speak with a member of the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band about their performance at Sunday’s Raiders game in the O.co Coliseum. The show will also take us through a day in the life of […]
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This week’s CineCulture presentation is something quite unusual. Nari is a global, multi-generational, multimedia live performance conceived by Gingger Shankar (ginggershankar.com/). Shankar has made a name for herself in U.S. music scenes by scoring the Oscar-nominated “The Passion of the Christ” and performing with rock bands such as the Smashing Pumpkins. But her musical heritage ties […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents the film “The Violin Teacher (Tudo Que Aprendemos Juntos)” as part of this month’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The screening will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at the Peter’s Education Center Auditorium in the Student Recreation Center at Fresno State (west of Save Mart Center). Director Sergio Machado Ribeiro dos Santos […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture (fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/upcoming-events/cineculture.html) film series presents two events related to the film “The Law (La Loi, le combat d’une femme pour toutes les femmes)” Sept. 22 and 23. Presentation – “The Jews of France from the French Revolution to the Present,” 3:30-4:45 p.m. Sept. 22, Fresno State’s Agricultural Science Building, Room 109. Speaker Aron Rodrigue is a professor […]
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Nicole DiBuduo Linder, class of 1998, was recently named the new executive director for the Marjaree Mason Center (mmcenter.org/), a shelter for victims of domestic violence in the Fresno area. While she was a student at Fresno State, Linder studied public relations in the Mass Communications and Journalism Department (fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/) and was a member of the Barking […]
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Two mass communication and journalism students will travel to Washington, D.C. Sept. 12 to 14 with the Central Valley Honor Flight to cover the 65 World War II and Korean War veterans who are visiting national war memorials. The stories by July Cruz, a broadcast journalism student from Clovis, and Natalie Nigg, a multimedia production […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture (fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/upcoming-events/cineculture.html) film series presents three events related to the film “In Our Son’s Name” Sept. 15 and 16. Lecture – “Conversations with Gayla Jamison and Nancy Meyer,” 3:30 p.m. Sept. 15, Fresno State’s McLane Hall Room 121. Jamison is director of “In Our Son’s Name.” Meyer is a member of September 11 – Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (peacefultomorrows.org). Lecture […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series and Filmworks present two screenings of the Palestinian drama “The Idol” at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the Tower Theatre (815 E. Olive Ave.). “The Idol” was inspired by the true story of a Gaza refugee who won the hearts of an entire region in 2013 […]
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A radio documentary about a recent Central Valley Honor Flight (facebook.com/CentralValleyHonorFlight/) trip to Washington, D.C., won second place in the Broadcast Education Association (beaweb.org/wp/) faculty audio competition. Faith Sidlow, an assistant professor with Fresno State’s Mass Communication and Journalism Department (fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/), traveled to Washington, D.C., with 65 World War II and Korean War veterans from the Central Valley earlier this […]
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UPDATE: The Central Valley Honor Flight documentary is now available online as a podcast. Click here to listen. ORIGINAL POST: A radio documentary on the Central Valley Honor Flight will air on KFSR 90.7 at noon on Sunday, Sept. 21. Faith Sidlow, an assistant professor with the Mass Communication and Journalism Department, traveled to Washington, D.C., with 65 World War II […]
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Pictured above: Will Nelson talks to village boys during a service-learning trip to Fiji. ~ By Lisa Maria Boyles A documentary entitled “Fresno to Fiji,” produced by MCJ Professor Jes Therkelsen and four MCJ students who traveled to Fiji in 2015, aired on Valley PBS, Channel 18, in August. Through this service-learning project, students helped aid development in […]
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Jillian Bertolucci, a 2015 Fresno State MCJ graduate, covered an exhibition game that the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team held at University of Southern California late last month, just ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio. Bertolucci earned her degree in in Broadcast Journalism and Public Relations and was the Dean’s Medalist candidate for Mass Communications in […]
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UPDATE: In a July 13 column he wrote for The Fresno Bee, Dr. Bradley Hart, a professor in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department, expanded upon his views on the United Kingdom’s recent “Brexit” vote. You can read Hart’s Fresno Bee column here: Fresno State students learn lessons from Brexit Here is our original article, from […]
Read MoreProfessor Betsy Tucker Hays is seeking input from pros in various specialty areas of Mass Communications and Journalism for a lecture she is preparing on “The Future of MCJ.” If your specialty is public relations, advertising, multimedia, broadcast or print journalist, Betsy would love your input. Email her at bhays@csufresno.edu.
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 