School of Media and Communication
Roy Howard Community Journalism Center
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The , housed at The University of 麻豆传媒, is dedicated to enhancing the media landscape in southeast Mississippi by prioritizing impactful, issue-oriented, and people-centered reporting.
Supported by a grant from the , the center combats disinformation and misinformation, fosters the development and growth of student-journalists, and helps grow newsrooms across our 10-county service region.
The center is based in the School of Media and Communication in College Hall on the Hattiesburg campus. Additional bureaus are located at the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach and at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson.
The center鈥檚 high-quality, original reporting covers southeast Mississippi and specifically these 10 counties: Lamar, Forrest, Perry, Greene, Pearl River, Stone, George, Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson. Additionally, through our bureau in the state鈥檚 capital city, we cover statewide issues and how they affect our service region.
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In addition to providing original reporting, we also aim to improve media literacy efforts among the citizens of southeast Mississippi. To that end, we host free, public media literacy trainings and awareness events. We also operate a 鈥淲hat is True?鈥� service, where the public can submit disinformation and misinformation questions鈥攖hrough a special hotline or an email address鈥攆or us to research, investigate, and answer.
more about these initiatives on our website.
EMAIL%20US your 鈥淲hat is True?鈥� investigation requests. You may also CALL US at 601-266-TRUE.
- Nichole Cyprian, Director 鈥� Nichole.CyprianFREEMississippi
- Whitney Argenbright, Managing Editor 鈥� Whitney.ArgenbrightFREEMississippi
- Joshua Wilson, M.B.A., Community Liaison 鈥� Joshua.WilsonFREEMississippi
- Jada Austin, Administrative Lead 鈥� Jada.AustinFREEMississippi
- Morgan Gill, Reporter/Producer (Hattiesburg) 鈥� Morgan.D.GillFREEMississippi
- Justin Glowacki, Reporter/Producer (Gulf Park) 鈥� Justin.GlowackiFREEMississippi
- Samuel Hughes, Reporter/Producer (Jackson) 鈥� Samuel.D.HughesFREEMississippi
This includes some high school students, who have an opportunity to take the university鈥檚 Introduction to Community Journalism class for both high school and college credit.
The university also is working with area community colleges to offer a new community journalism class.
Students who complete the courses successfully are invited to for paid, part-time positions in the center.
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