Spectator Captures Awards at State Conference

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Buddy Mason and Lee Johnson, reporters/photographers

“The Spectator is on the verge of exploding into the Web era,” she said, adding the student group recently added an official Web editor to the team to support the technological advances. “By the end of the semester, sound bytes and coverage on the Web will be commonplace.”

The changes are attracting students from the Mass Media department, like Taylor Seay, who serves as Spectator editor-in-chief. Students like Seay can earn an Institutional Cross-training Certificate for Journalism and Mass Media Students. The certificate encourages print journalism students to learn the fundamentals of broadcast journalism and mass media students to learn to succeed in print. Another area of specialization awaiting approval is magazine journalism, which will allow students to publish a magazine titled “OnTap” once a semester.

“All I see is opportunity and I think we are going to fly,” Miller said.

The Spectator staff is certainly gaining recognition on campus and with the state-level organization for newspapers and its new technological advances will only improve its presence as a dynamic voice for the VSU student body. For more information, visit www.valdosta.edu/spec/index/ .