OXFORD, Miss. – Students at the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media have been gaining valuable work experience through partnerships with print and broadcast media outlets across the state. Each year, about 60 students participate in newspaper reporting trips on which they spend a weekend writing stories or shooting photos forRead the story …
Journalism Students Gain Valuable Media Experience
UM partnerships with media help students get their work published, aired
December 29, 2013 by
Media Executives Set to Speak at ACT 4 Experience
UM Magazine Innovation Center to host fourth annual conference
November 5, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi is preparing for its fourth annual Amplify, Clarify & Testify, or ACT, Experience conferment this week at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. This year’s event will focus on digital and print as an integrated force – not either/or, butRead the story …
Overby Panel to Focus on JFK’s Influence on Politics, Media Coverage
Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant and CBS News' Susan Spencer set for 'Hail and Farewell'
October 31, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The late President John F. Kennedy’s role in revolutionizing American politics and press coverage will be the focus of a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 7) at the University of Mississippi’s Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. This semester, Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby and Overby fellow Curtis Wilkie haveRead the story …
Chief Product Officer of Forbes Media to Visit UM
Lewis D'Vorkin plans to discuss digital publishing platform in April 10 lecture
April 10, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – One of Lewis D’Vorkin’s daily habits is to scan the 60 framed magazine covers lining the marble staircase of the Forbes office in New York City. The covers, which date back to October 2010, feature the no-nonsense, people-centric design recognized as the Forbes brand.The brand is clear, simple and unwavering, said D’Vorkin,Read the story …
Overby Center Event to Reflect on Medgar Evers’ Career
Myrlie Evers-Williams headlines panel to commemorate 50th anniversary of husband's death
April 3, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, will join two other prominent Mississippians to discuss her late husband’s life and career at 5 p.m. Friday (April 5) in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi. Evers-Williams rose to fame herself as a civil rightsRead the story …
Overby Center’s Election Year Series Kicks Off with Syndicated Columnist
September 5, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – David Shribman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will be the featured guest in the first of this fall’s election-year programs at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi. A nationally-syndicated columnist and a frequent analyst for BBC Radio, Shribman will join CharlesRead the story …
Spencer Tillman to Speak at Overby Center
April 17, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Spencer Tillman, one of the best-known football analysts in America, will talk Friday (April 20) at the University of Mississippi about a career that has taken him from the playing field to network television. Tillman, who earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism while a star athlete at the University of Oklahoma, willRead the story …
Prominent UM Alumni Lobbyists to Speak at Overby
April 13, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Three of Washington’s most prominent lobbyists will discuss how things get done in the nation’s capital Thursday (April 19) during a program at the University of Mississippi.