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Brad Woznicki spoke as a commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony on Saturday. Click here for the local media coverage of the event

Media Falcon Center video produced by a group of students in 4700 practicum class this year (Jason Baker, Brittany Moran, Meredith Goodrich and Jason DiMarco) was presented at the Tcom production award ceremony. It featured all the TV video organizations including BG24 News, the Falcon Sports Center show, BG on TV and WBGU-TV PBS. Click [...]

 12 students were presented with awards in the 2nd Annual TCOM student media production award ceremony organized by the BGSU TCOM Student Association: Ashley Mullins, Jason Baker and crew members Meredith Goodrich, Brittany Moran, Daniel Smith, Brad Woczniki, Josh Clay and Jun Yang.  The categories include video, radio and web.  Ryan Fowler, a BGSU and WBGU-TV alum, who is the [...]

Michael McIntyre ’87 visited with TCOM4620 via Skype on April 4, 2012. Michael is the host of WCPN’s Sound of Ideas a daily public affairs program that airs on the NPR affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.  He is also a featured columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer notably writing The Tipoff for the PD. He shared [...]

Karen Schaefer visited Stephen Merrill’s TCOM4620 Radio Programming class and talked with students about opportunities in non-commercial media, fielded student questions and provided students with valuable industry insights. Karen Schaefer Bio Karen Schaefer is a veteran public radio journalist based in Northeast Ohio with more than 65 national, regional and local awards for her in-depth [...]

Dr. Sung-Yeon Park,  Ph.D. alumnus Kyle Holody and doctoral student Xiaoqun Zhang’s article studying the Virgina Tech shooting news coverage, “Race in Media Coverage of School Shootings: A Parallel Application of Framing Theory and Attribute Agenda-Setting,” has been accepted by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and will be published later in the year.

Dr. Melkote published his new book chapter , “Toward social justice in directed social change: Rethinking the role of development and health communication,”  in Obregon, R., & S. Waisbord, (Editors). The Handbook of Global Health Communication. New York: Wiley.

  First BGSU TCOM Career Day, March 19 Monday Bowen-Thompson Student Union (organized by the Telecommunications Student Association, Department of Telecommunications, and the BGSU Career Center) TCOM 1030 Alumni Guest Lecture 9:30-10:20 (WH121) : Dave Dobson (Producer, ESPN), Ryan Zangrilli (Vice-President Mid-West, blip.TV), Bill Forthofer (Station Manager, WKFM/ WLKR Radio) Alumni Career Panel 10:30-11:20 (BTSU201) [...]

The BG News ran a feature story on the WBGU-FM / WFAL DJ training course that is offered each semester to students and community volunteers. Read the full article here!

WFAL is the featured station of the week for CBI! Read more about Falcon Radio on the CBI blog and listen to WFAL on falconradio.org.