JMS gets boost with $300K donation

Platinum Equity Group, former owner of The San Diego Union-Tribune, has donated $300,000 to San Diego State University’s School of Journalism & Media Studies. The gift will create the Platinum Project in Digital News Literacy and will help support instruction in digital and social media for undergraduate SDSU students and for professionals in the community.

The Platinum Project will help address the critical need to enhance digital media literacy among media professionals, audiences and students. Read more.

Fund-raising begins for Broom Center

The School of Journalism & Media Studies and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts have begun a campaign to raise funds for the Glen M. Broom Student Center for Professional Development in Public Relations at San Diego State University. Read more.

Journal publishes Arceneaux article

The scholarly Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media has published an article by JMS faculty member Noah Arceneaux in its September 2011 issue (Volume 55, Number 3).

The article, “Radio Facsimile Newspapers of the 1930s and ‘40s,” documents a form of media that has been almost entirely forgotten. In the years before and after World War II, dozens of radio stations and newspapers collaborated to produce “radio-faxpapers.” Read more.

JMS alums, faculty win Press Club awards

The San Diego Press Club announced the winners in its 38^th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards competition, including several recent alumni as well as current students and faculty from the School of Journalism & Media Studies. Read more.