Media Innovation Day
Every year in late September, hundreds of high school students from across Colorado gather in the studios and student media spaces at CMU. Join us for a day of immersion in the world of professional media—practice your craft, build your network, and see the possibilities that await you as a Mass Communication student at Colorado Mesa.
Workshop your sports reporting, yearbook, social media, TV and video production, news writing, photojournalism, radio, public relations, and podcasting with media professionals. Tour the mass comm corners of campus and meet the students behind The Criterion, CMU TV, KMSA, Horizon Magazine, Photo Club, and our Society of Professional Journalists chapter. Ask about AI and ethics, the day-to-day life of a journalist, and the exciting opportunities of media careers. Meet a panel of student journalists as they explain their approach to the toughest reporting trial they faced in the last year.
Contact Professor Laurena Davis at [email protected] and see the Media Innovation Day tab for more information.
Student Media
Do vigorous writing, compelling photography, meaningful broadcasting, and vital networking in the student newspaper, magazine, radio, television, photo club, and Society of Professional Journalists chapter. Get published and get paid—leaders in student media organizations are paid stipends funded by student fees.
See the Student Media tab for more information.
Internships
Mass Communication students must complete an internship to graduate. Gain hands-on experience and a meaningful way to build your portfolio in the concentration area of your choice. Bring your skills from the classroom to the real world at companies and nonprofits from around Colorado and across the United States.
See the Internship tab for places where CMU Mass Communication majors have successfully completed recent Internships. Contact Professor James Perez at 248-1072 for more information.