You're back, and you've arrived! Here's info you should know

Welcome to the start of a great year at the J-School. We have a lot happening already.

First, I want to introduce our two new visiting professionals: Sue Burzynksi Bullard and Robert Gould.

Burzynski Bullard is a J-School alumna and, until the beginning of August, the managing editor of The Detroit News. Sue comes to us with absolutely up to date experience in the newsroom, the direction newspaper are going and the future. She is teaching the Media Management course and JRN 300 in the Fall.

Also new to the roster is Robert Gould, an MSU Telecomm alumnus and former photo/video chief at WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids. Bob will be teaching out Broadcast News advanced courses and be executive producer to Focal Point, the award winning TV news magazine produced by students both inside and outside the broadcast classes. He will also be team teaching the new Reporting for Online News class

Also new this year is our Reporting for Online News course (JRN 492--one credit). Open to seniors, this class will ensure J-School students are cross-trained in the tools needed to produce stories for the web—shooting video, creating text, photo galleries and interactive elements. It’s still about the journalism, but these tools are as important as typewriters once were. This new offering will be team taught by Gould with the J-School's veteran web guru, Bonnie Bucqueroux.

The J-School spent the past year gearing up for our accreditation review October 14-17 by a four-person team sent by the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The J-School at MSU has been continuously accredited since the process began back in 1949. Students will be involved in the interviews with team members, as well.

Keep checking this web site for updated information on contest and scholarship opportunities, guest lecturers and other news.

Welcome, Spartans! Go Green! Go White!