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As you probably know, Artist-in-Residence and adjunct instructor, Tom Lewis, recently published a book, Brace for Impact: Surviving the Crash of the Industrial Age by Sustainable Living.  Late last semester C-SPAN interviewed him about the book.  Click on the picture below to see the interview. MCOM Alumni News As you probably know Efim (Mike) Shapiro was on Wheel of Fortune January 26, 2010.  While he didn’t win the final round he did walk away with some cash and a cruise to Alaska.  Below is a link to a recent article about his appearance. Congratulations Efim! http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=100519

Video editing equipment will bring university up to speed

Kristin Harty
Cumberland Times-News

August 19, 2009 11:49 pm

— FROSTBURG — Frostburg State University’s department of mass communications is coming more fully into the 21st century, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
The funds — to be matched by $50,000 from FSU — will help purchase the type of non-linear video editing equipment being used by professionals in the field, said John Lombardi, department chair.
Non-linear video editing equipment is to linear video editing equipment what the word processor is to the typewriter.
“A non-linear system allows you to do so much more than just take one shot and put it next to another shot and another shot,” said Lombardi, adding that in the video production field, linear editing is becoming obsolete.

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"[J]ournalism school and other mass communication curricula are not best used when they train students for the first six months of their employment; they should rather prepare their graduates for the years that follow the first six months: not in the skills which enable the young employee to do well at first, but rather in the understandings which enable him to do well throughout his career. There is no reason why he should not learn some skill, too; but, whenever there has to be a choice of time between learning the vocational skills and gaining the broad understanding of society and mass communication's place in it, the time should always be used for the broader and less immediately useful studies. The schools should aim for the long, not the short term; for on his job the new man can much more easily learn the skills of his job than he can learn to understand human beings, social organization, government, economics and science."

--Wilbur Schramm, Early Mass Communication Scholar

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