Jim Shaw: I’m honored to have known Marv Bossart

It was a pleasure to attend the ceremony at Minnesota State University Moorhead honoring the late Marv Bossart. MSUM and the Marcil Center for Innovative Journalism named its television studio after the legendary WDAY-TV news anchor, who also taught for 40 years at the school. Like so many of those in attendance, I have a personal connection to Marv that […]

Cowden Named CSTAND 2015 Scholar of the Year

The Communication, Speech and Theater Arts Association (CSTAND) awarded Dr. Kim Cowden, a faculty member in the School of Communication and Journalism, its 2015 Scholar of the Year award. Her article entitled A failure of pandemic proportion: Image restoration and metanarration delivered by the CDC during the H2N2 virus release of 2005, will be published in the 28th volume of […]

Holtan Named Director of MSU Moorhead’s Marcil Center for Innovative Journalism

Merrie Sue Holtan, an assistant professor in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s School of Communication and Journalism, has been named director of the university’s Marcil Center for Innovative Journalism. The position is part of a $1 million gift from Forum Communications to the MSUM Alumni Foundation announced in Fall 2013 to create the William C. Marcil, Sr. and Jane B. Marcil […]

AdClub meeting today at 1:30 p.m.

Advertising, Public Relations, Graphic Design, English…We need you! AdClub will be hosting our first meeting of the year this Wednesday at 1:30 in the School of Communication and Journalism Lounge area (McLean 260). Coming to this meeting does not lock you in to being a member. You can simply come check it out, and see what Ad Club is all […]