Station News & Events

The next edition of the “MTSU On the Record” radio program tackles the alteration of images in order to manipulate the news.

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Chris Harris, professor in the MTSU Department of Electronic Media Communication, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, June 17, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 23, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Harris, a veteran photographer who teaches courses in digital imaging and media ethics, asserts that some journalists are so enthralled with compelling images that verification and context are ignored.

Japan’s continuing struggle to come to grips with its past is the subject of the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. David Schmidt, vice provost for international affairs, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, June 10, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 16, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Hats off to all of the radio stations who shared our contest in their community!  You have some of the smartest kids around!   Our winning school is Aldama Elementary School, a Dual-Immersion School in Los Angeles, California.   Aldama will use the money to transform a classroom into a magical science laboratory where students will design, hypothesize, solve problems, record data and discover how the world works.

A new MTSU course focused on techniques for dispensing information in times of crisis will be the topic on the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.
 

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Cary Greenwood, assistant professor of journalism, will air from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 3, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 9, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Beginning this fall, Greenwood will teach a course in crisis communication from 12:40 to 2:05 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.

Depictions of breastfeeding in the media will be the topic on the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Katie Foss, assistant professor of journalism, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. on Monday, May 27, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).

Foss’s study, titled “That’s not a beer bong! It’s a breast pump! Representations of breastfeeding in prime-time fictional television,” was published in the academic journal “Health Communication.”