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Department hosts kickoff event for 2013-2014Posted September 19, 2013 Over 160 students attended the department's first-ever fall kickoff event, held Sept. 18 in the University Union's Cheseapeake Room. Students were able to mingle with professors and learn about the department's student groups. The event was organized by professors Garry Bolan, Carol Norton, Maggie Lears, Jenny Atwater and Catie Micklewitz, the department's event coordinator. Serbian disability advocates to visit MCCSPosted September 18, 2013 With the Hussman Center for Adults with Autism, MCCS will host representatives from the Serbian disability organization, Centre Living Upright, and the Novi Sad Journalism School in Serbia, as part of the U.S. Department of State sponsored Professional Fellows EMPOWER Program, administered by Mobility International USA (MIUSA). The program is being hosted on Towson's campus by Professor Beth Haller. This two-way exchange program aims to expand the capacity of organizations in the U.S. and abroad to promote inclusive communities and advance disability rights around the world. Towson University is working on a long-term project with the Serbian organizations to create and disseminate effective media messages surrounding disability rights. Emphasis will be placed on the use of social media to advocate for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in all sectors of society. During their time in Maryland, representatives will meet with disability rights advocates and journalists, audit journalism training courses and develop a long-term project that will help illuminate disability rights in Serbia. The Towson University-Serbia project will include training Serbians with disabilities in both media advocacy and self-advocacy, educating Novi Sad journalism students on how to report on disability issues, creating a television show by and for Serbians with disabilities and developing a media monitoring scheme. At the conclusion of the program, all overseas participants and their U.S. hosts will gather in Washington, D.C., for a three-day conference facilitated by MIUSA, Oct. 31- Nov. 2. MCCS student selected for ONA '13 newsroomPosted July 31, 2013
Journalism & New Media senior Brandi Bottalico has been chosen to participate in the student newsroom at the annual Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet Oct. 17-20 in Atlanta. Twenty students were selected from over 100 applicants to be mentored by working digital journalists and journalism professors as they cover the conference using a range of formats, including interactive text, graphics, live blogging, slideshows, audio and video. Bottalico currently serves as the News Editor of The Towerlight. In addition to working with Word on the Street, a street newspaper produced homeless volunteers in Baltimore, Bottalico also writes a column for the Indypendent Reader on youth issues in Baltimore. MCCS welcomes new faculty, staffPosted July 31, 2013 MCCS is welcoming several new faculty and staff for the 2013-2014 school year: Stephen Davis has been appointed a Lecturer in Forensics. He graduated in 2005 with a B.A. from Bard College, where he studied studio/performance art and was the founder of an intercollegiate policy debate team that still competes at the highest levels of national and regional competition. Upon graduating from Bard he worked as the Head Debate Coach there until 2008 when he moved to Baltimore to coach Towson to the most competitively successful season in their history. Catie Mickletz is the department's new Academic Program Coordinator. Mickletz has worked in Towson's Theatre Department for the past two years and has experience in scheduling and event planning. Cylor Spaulding has been appointed an Assistant Professor. Spaulding has more than nine years of public relations industry experience, working at agencies such as Rogers & Cowan and Weber Shandwick. He has worked with clients across multiple industries ranging from technology and entertainment to non-profit. As such, he has managed media relations and consumer relations campaigns for multiple clients, including Activision, EA Sports, The Hazelden Foundation, id Software, Microsoft, and Cepia, and has twice been part of an award-winning public relations team. Spaulding comes from the University of Miami, where he taught PR writing and is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Communications. His research focuses on public relations from a historical perspective as it pertains to the LGBT community. He holds an M.A. in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Journalism from Arizona State University. More news
Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies Advising and Program Information: jarmstrong@towson.edu 
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