Special Reports
Nov. 13th, 2024
Off the Beaten Path is an ongoing series created by students taking the study abroad class: Travel Reporting or other approved substitute courses in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media. Students went to England and Scotland for 10 days and created numerous stories about some of the different unique sites around Paris. The students created a multi-media website that included everything that they did while abroad.
March 9th, 2024
This project was created entirely by students at the College of Media and Entertainment under close advisement of Mr. Dan Eschenfelder, Instructor at Middle Tennessee State University. Students earned credit as Practicum, and many were volunteers. Using a pedagogical approach, students from the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, Media Arts, and the Recording Industry all participated in this multimedia effort learning how to produce a high-quality video news story, audio news story, graphic design, print news story, infographics and website design and promote their hard work with story pushes using social media.
Dec. 13th, 2022
Off the Beaten Path is an ongoing series created by students taking the study abroad class: Travel Reporting or other approved substitute courses in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media. In 2022 students went to Paris, France and created numerous stories about some of the different unique sites around Paris. The students created a multi-media website that included everything that they did while abroad.
February 27, 2022
History only happens once, and on a cold February night, it was made at Nissan Stadium. Perhaps there is none bigger than the NHL Stadium Series for the first time ever in Music City. This circumstance allowed for more than one team to make history, however. It opened Pandora's box to the possibility of a clash between two hockey rivals to settle the score in the biggest way possible. All of this came together to create the spectacle that was the Battle of Nashville between MTSU and Vanderbilt Hockey.
February 11, 2022
The historic matched for MTSU Men's Tennis led by Coach Jimmy Borendame, leading them to back-to-back C-USA Men's Tennis Championships.
March 11, 2021
The historic 25 match home win streak for MTSU Men's Tennis led by Coach Jimmy Borendame.
November 2nd, 2020
Students in a special journalism course in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media in the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University tell the stories of Tennessee broadcasters in honor of the 100th anniversary of the first commercial radio broadcast. That broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh took place on November 2, 1920, which was Election Day. 100 years later, broadcasting looks and sounds quite different.
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Journalism students in the class interviewed Tennessee broadcasters about their experiences, researched state broadcast history, and produced a television special as well as a website companion. Some of the interviews were conducted using video conferencing as a COVID-19 precaution.
June 6th, 2019
Multimedia journalism students from Middle Tennessee State University retraced the steps of those who fought for freedom on June 6th 1944 and during the long summer that followed.