Penn State College of Communications comMedia

The face of Penn State University mechanical engineering graduate student Benedict Samuel is reflected onto a semiconductor wafer in the Nanofab Lab at Innovation Park in State College on May 3, 2009.
—Mike Felletter
Senior
Journalism/Visual

Tuesday's election saw the selection of a new Centre County district attorney and a new State College mayor. What is didn't produce was the bumper crop of voters that appeared last November during a presidential election year. While the pace at the polls was slower, College of Communications students still found an abundance of interesting characters. View their stories in a multimedia-driven election blog.

Recent Highlights -- Students have been involved in covering major news stories in Centre County and abroad:

  • A fire has burned in the coal seams beneath Centralia, Pa., for nearly half a century. Aubrey Whelan writes that the only trace of the tiny mining town may be three cemeteries, a few miles of cracked sidewalks and freshly bulldozed land. The story may be downloaded in .pdf format from Print Feature Stories.
  • Record-setting early snowfall and a determined young horseback rider are the subjects of stories produced for the Centre County Report that have been excerpted from recent broadcasts and may be found the in the television stories gallery.
  • The second Keystone Multimedia Workshop moved to the center of the state for its summer 2009 edition. Stories are being indexed here.
  • Immigration, garbage and the cultural significance of Barbie dolls are just some of the topics tackled by students who traveled to Mexico City for the inaugural College of Communications international reporting class: Reporting from Mexico City.

Regular reports -- View weekly broadcasts of the Centre County Report. There's also an archive of daily radio reports by Comm 360 students.

 

Broadcast Television

Broadcast television students get hands-on experience at Penn State, learning the skills needed to tell stories from the field and in the studio. Top students produce programming for the Centre County Report and the Big Ten Network.

Broadcast Radio

Broadcast radio students gain practical experience recording in the field and in the studio. More than 200 students staff Internet-based ComRadio, the official radio station of the College of Communications.

Photojournalism

Penn State photojournalism courses are designed to promote critical thinking and develop visual story telling skills in the context of a rapidly changing technological environment.