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The Outlet: MCOM Newsletter 2020 WINTHROP UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 THEOUTLET Professors adapted Winthrop Converts Recognition The all classes to online, to Online Learning Dinner Cancelled Department department activities “What was most The department is Reflects on were cancelled and uncomfortable for me looking forward to the Effects of interns scrambled was the lack of personal, announcing this to finish or work face-to-face interaction.” year’s awardees Coronavirus remotely. - Dr. Guy Reel with online methods. EDITORS COPY GABBY GARDNER - MADELINE MILNE LAYOUT MARIAH JUROW - JOSEPH ROBINSON 1 THE OUTLET Message from the Editors We would like to thank everone who helped us put together this newsletter. Without you The Outlet would not have been a successful refection of the unique events we have experienced this semester. We hope you enjoy these articles and stories of the Department Mass Communication students who worked through adversity and our brief look at life on Winthrop’s campus and beyond. Copy Editor Gabby Gardner ‘21 “I enjoy adventure, emerging myself into different cultures and discovering and traveling to new places. Life is all about looking at things with a different perspective.” Copy Editor Madeline Milne ‘20 “I’m studying for a career in event marketing for wedding venues after graduation in May of 2020.” Layout Editor Mariah Jurow ‘20 “I was first introduced to marketing and advertising in high school and fell in love with it immediately. When applying for college, Winthrop University was the path I wanted to take and I haven’t looked back since.” Layout Editor Joseph Robinson ’20 “I’ve spent my time at Winthrop building experience working in my field. I’ve enjoyed lots of opportunities to do this through coursework, internships and positions with campus departments.” Photos above courtesy of each editor. All other photos courtesy of Corey Nolen (coreynolenphoto.com), unless otherwise noted. VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 2 3 THE OUTLET Page 5 7 10 9 11 14 14 17 14 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 4 Advice for Graduates Page 5 Internship Experience Page 7 SC Journalist of the Year Page 9 Bittner Scholarship Recipient Page 10 Faculty Experience: Fredericks Page 10 Communication Agency Page 11 18 Alumni Experience Page 14 “Trash Talk” Radio Page 15 Video Production Club Page 17 Faculty Experience: Schulte Page 18 Apply for Scholarships Page 18 Studying Abroad Page 19 Winthrop Close Up Page 23 Geek Culture Page 24 COVID-19 Page 25 Online Learning Takes a Toll Page 27 Recognition Dinner Cancelled Page 28 25 19 23 5 THE OUTLET Photos courtesy of Chelsea Brown and Malenia Swinton. Two mass communication alumnae, Chelsea Brown and Malenia Advice for Swinton, hosted a workshop for Department of Mass Communication Graduates, students. The main goal of the workshop was to introduce students to career pathways in the industry sector of nonprofits and philanthropy. From Alums The speakers addressed some of the myths about a career in nonprofit Izzy Schmidt organizations (NPO): nonprofits can’t make a profit, they are volunteer organizations, and employees are less competitive. In the workshop Brown and Swinton discussed their experiences working in nonprofit organizations, talked about what a nonprofit organization would be like for potential employees and identified skill sets needed to work for an NPO. Swinton addressed the pay range of an NPO, addressing the idea that nonprofit employees work as volunteers or that they don’t get paid sufficiently for their contributions. “More than 80% of nonprofit employees are paid and paid well,” Swinton said. When looking for a nonprofit job, Brown suggested students go about the task just as if they were looking for any job. “Don't sell yourself short,” Brown said. Brown said her work for an NPO was very fulfilling. She was challenged with a project to persuade high school seniors to enroll in a study abroad program. She found that by pushing herself and relying on the skills she had learned, she was able to enroll 40 students. At the beginning of the workshop students were given a small workbook that included; the definition of a nonprofit, career opportunities, resources for jobs in the nonprofit sector and an exercise called “passion to actions.” VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 6 Continued/Nonprofits Students were tasked “More than Board Source | boardsource.org: with writing down their 80% of BoardSource and its global network of current skill sets, skills leaders. Provide support to organizations they believed they nonprofit of every size, stage, geography, and would need for their employees programmatic focus. careers, and the skills are paid and they felt they were Idealist | idealist.org: Idealist, a lacking. The activity paid well . .” nonprofit in New York, works in a spirit of gave students a -Malenia deeper understanding generosity and mutual respect, to build a of what nonprofit Swinton world where all people can lead free and sectors they can look dignified lives. into with the skills they have now or hope to Linkedin | Linkedin.com: LinkedIn, the have in the future. world's largest professional network has nearlySidebar 660+ million users in more:) than 200 countriesFirst and& Last territories worldwide. Companies Bridgespan Group | Bridgespan.org/jobs: Bridgespan a global and websites nonprofit, collaborates with leaders, for nonprofits organizations, philanthropists and Izzy Schmidt investors to break cycles of poverty. Nonprofit Times | Classy | classy.org: Classy is a social careermatch.nptimes.com: Nonprofit Times enterprise that creates online supplies breaking news, in-depth fundraising software for nonprofits, reporting and special issue coverage modernizing the giving experience to to help nonprofit executives. accelerate social impact. Foundation List | foundationlist.org: National Council of Nonprofits | Foundation List, a national nonprofit job councilofnonprofits.org: The National board meets the hiring needs of nonprofit Council of Nonprofits is a trusted organizations, foundations, associations resource and proven advocate for and institutions. America’s charitable nonprofits. Young Nonprofit Professional Network | Together SC | togethersc.org: Together ynpn.org: YNPN reaches emerging leaders SC serves South Carolinians dedicated and helps them acquire the skills and to community service, leadership and awareness they need to be effective caring through nonprofit/philanthropic changemakers. organizations. 7 THE OUTLET Internship Experience: Seacrest Studios Lindsey Burrell lands internship with Seacrest Studios at children’s hospital. Photo courtesy of Lindsey Burrell Nicolette Outtrim VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 8 Lindsey Burrell, junior mass communi- “This internship cation major, spends has taught Eight Ways part of her day as a me valuable production intern at to Secure Levine Children’s skills moving Hospital in Charlotte. forward into an Internship With 13 other interns, my future Burrell hosts radio Nicolette Outtrim shows in the Seacrest career . .” Studios at the hospital. -Lindsey Burrell Seacrest Studios Prepare a resume provides fun and 1. Every Thursday and cover letter engaging ways to Burrell highlights a interact with patients Disney character and and helps take their sings the character’s 2. Create a portfolio minds off of treat- most popular song. ments and the difficul- Burrell often dresses Network to identify ties they may be as Disney characters 3. facing. and goes to patients’ internship openings Seacrest Stu- rooms to surprise dios staff takes careful them. “Working with 4. Research internship health precautions Levine has opened opportunities when interacting with my eyes to the patients. Everything day-to-day opera- Set up interviews must be wiped down tions of a children’s 5. and cleaned of bacte- hospital. This intern- ria. Seacrest Studios ship has taught me is a safe space for valuable skills moving 6. Practice interviewing patients. Patients can forward into my future request songs, come career,” Burrell said. down to the studio Being a Seacrest Go on interviews and play games with Studios DJ is just one 7. studio staff and be of the many satisfying featured on the radio and rewarding shows or have shows internships that mass 8. Follow up interviews hosted from their communication and with emails and/ rooms. Bingo, the integrated marketing or phone calls event patients look communication forward to the most, students can happens every complete during Wednesday. Prizes are the school year. delivered to patients’ rooms by one of the studio interns. 9 THE OUTLET Photo courtesy of Anna Sharpe South Carolina Journalist of the Year: Anna Sharpe Madeline Milne The South Carolina Press Association formally announced the winner of the South Carolina Collegiate Journalist of the Year is Anna Sharpe. Sharpe is a mass communication major and was nominated for the award based on her detailed news coverage of Winthrop President Dan Mahony’s exit and the Winthrop Board of Trustees. Sharpe recalls the hard work she put into her journalism and stated she never thought she would win such a prestigious award. “It feels surreal right now . I am extremely honored to be receiving this award and I honestly didn’t think it was going to happen,” Sharpe said. Being named the South Carolina Collegiate Journalist of the Year is the highest individual honor that the South Carolina Press Association can award a student. VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1 10 2020 Recipient Faculty of the Bittner Experience: Scholarship: Nathaniel Regina Cobb Frederick Madeline Milne Aaron Grant The Radio Television Digital News Student interns aren’t the only Association of the Carolinas announced the scholars benefiting from work outside 2020 recipient of the Dr. John R. Bittner the classroom at Winthrop University. scholarship is Winthrop student Regina Cobb. Associate Professor of mass Cobb is a broadcasting major and the produc- communication Nathaniel Frederick tion director and on-air talent for Eagle Air. participated in the Scripps Howard Cobb said she feels grateful that she has been Foundation Visiting Professors in Social recognized for her potential and is thankful for Media Externship, a two-week, the recognition.
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