2008 Woodie Awards
Communications reaching Salina public
Scott Moore
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: News
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and theatre arts department began weekly broadcasts on Education Access Cable Channel 19 this week. The programming, which starts at 6 p.m. every Sunday, is created and crewed by communications students.
"All Access" is a half-hour program
focusing on arts and humanities in the Salina area, said Production Manager Paul Green. "The Advance" and "Campus Calendar" present news and features about KWU.
The communications program is developing a multimedia approach to news and features, said Dr. Jack Morris, second-year professor of communication studies. Already improving on last year, there are 20 new computers
in the lab where last year there were only 10. These are no ordinary at PCs, either.
These computers have the latest software, including audio and video capability. The programs on the computers also are used for art and music, but communications students use Word, Photoshop, In-design, Movie Maker and Firefox to research, write, edit and produce news reports and photos.
Even field video can be downloaded from mini-DV cameras with Movie Maker to be broadcast in The Advance TV news magazine and compressed for The Advance Web site at www.kwuadvance.com. The Advance is the name of the deparment's biweekly newspaper.
Michael Tate is the editor. Advance reporters now write and photograph
for the newspaper, its Web site and the new cable-TV news and features shows. Green and his video/media production students add a host and longer pieces to complete the TV programs.
Green, in his third year at KWU, thinks this is great for the department. Morris and he stress a lot about the convergence of media in their classes.
Morris has been in the business of communications for nearly 30 years. A Chicago area native, he received his bachelor's degree. in journalism from the University of Kansas and his master's from Kansas State in English. He has a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri.
Morris spent 10 years writing for Kansas and Colorado newspapers. He has been teaching for 20 years, more than half at Adam State College in Colorado.
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