Middle Tennessee State University School of Journalism and Strategic Media

Degrees offered

The school offers two degrees across ten concentrations within the Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment.

Programs and emphasis

Students gain experience through Middle Tennessee News and MTN Sports, the two divisions of the school's student-run broadcast news organization; Ever Blue Branding, a student-run advertising agency; and the Center for Innovation in Media, which houses WMOT (an NPR affiliate) and WMTS, the student-run campus radio station.

History

The program was approved in 1972, when Ed Kimbrell founded the Department of Mass Communications with sequences in advertising and public relations, news-editorial, graphics and photography, and broadcasting. It became the College of Mass Communications in 1989, was renamed the College of Media and Entertainment in 2015, and the School of Journalism was renamed the School of Journalism and Strategic Media on July 1, 2018. The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022.

Key faculty and leadership

Katie Foss: Director of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media.
Ed Kimbrell: Founder of the original Department of Mass Communications in 1972.

Student-run media

Sidelines is MTSU's student-run, editorially independent news organization.

Location and contact info

Address
John Bragg Media and Entertainment Building
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Phone
(615) 898-2814
Website
https://journalism.mtsu.edu