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<\/a>Nicholas Thornon Jackson State University\u2019s School of Journalism and Media Studies gave local high school students a look into the world of the mass communication during the SJMS conference held from April 7-8 in the Mississippi eCenter.<\/p>\n Media professionals from various communication platforms including television news directors and general managers, print and online newspaper editors, public relations, sports media and more shared knowledge with the students at the conference entitled \u201cMultimedia Platforms in the Digital Age.\u201d<\/p>\n A few of the special guest speakers in attendance were award winning cartoonist Marshall Ramsey, Michael Wallace, ESPN NBA reporter, and JSU alum Demarco Morgan, national correspondent with CBS news, was the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n The conference was jammed packed with interesting topics that ranged from news directing, management, social media, sports media, and public relations.<\/p>\n Students from Clinton and Murrah High Schools who work for the school newspapers and yearbooks were invited to participate in the conference and get a look at future career options in the field of media.<\/p>\n \u201cI participated because I am a member of yearbook and journalism project in my senior class.\u201d\u00a0 She added, \u201cIt gave really good aspects of journalism.\u00a0 I learned a lot things regarding journalism that I couldn\u2019t even think of before I came here,\u201d said Courtney Harper, a Clinton High School student.<\/p>\n Clinton High school senior, Anna Tomlinson, said that her highlight of the conference was guest speaker Marshall Ramsey.<\/p>\n \u201cHis discussion was very interesting and humorous.\u00a0 He kept me engaged, and it was oddly inspiring.\u00a0 He is very genuine and a people\u2019s person. It\u2019s nice to see people who are influential in this way.\u00a0 The fact that he started off his career as a janitor, and built himself up inspires me and makes him more relatable,\u201d said Tomlinson.<\/p>\n The students weren\u2019t the only ones who were excited about the event; the speakers that came out where also thrilled about the conference.<\/p>\n Throughout the conference, students asked questions of the speakers that who gave personal details within their professional careers that kept the students listening intently.<\/p>\n Jennifer Sadler, marketing instructor at the University of Mississippi said she is often asked how she made it in the field.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not just an African-American that worked in corporate America, who is now a professor in the south. I am also a single mom on top of all that.\u00a0 So there are a lot of different elements that come with that, which will help people understand my background.\u00a0 If you take a look at my story, then you\u2019ll understand that you can be exactly where I am or further ahead,\u201d said Sadler.<\/p>\n This was SJMS\u2019 first conference since becoming a School of Journalism in November of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicholas Thornon MC Contributor Jackson State University\u2019s School of Journalism and Media Studies gave local high school students a look into the world of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_plus_post_options":"{}","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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