Top 10 reasons to choose MACO!
10. You’ll be in the know about what’s happening on campus, locally and nationally.
9. You’ll have a variety of career options when you graduate.
8. You’ll work in state-of-the-art facilities.
7. It’s not just what you know, it’s who you know.
6. You can express yourself creatively…
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How do you get from Thibodaux to the Warner Bros. Television?
Executive Director, Promotions and Product Placement Warner Bros. Television Worldwide.
Emmy winning, senior reporter and talk-show host for WGNO-TV.
Former documentary writer & producer for the History Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E and PBS.
Author and senior editor for Bloomberg Markets magazine.
See what MACO Alumni are accomplishing in their careers!
…MACO Alumni
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What MACO students are doing…
- Ethics panel on “Covering Katrina”
- PRSSA Cinco de Mayo celebation
- Field trip to tour Louisiana Public Broadcasting and The Advocate newspaper
- PRSSA Alumni Round-up
- Published The Word for Katrina refugees housed on campus
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Welcome
Come LEARN. LIVE. LEAD. with the Mass Communication Department! 
Welcome to the Mass Communication (MACO) Department website. We hope your visit here will give you a sense of the excitement the students and faculty of our department share in our unique south Louisiana setting. We invite you to come LEARN, LIVE, LEAD, with us!
LEARN.
Come study in a nationally accredited department which offers an intense and culturally diverse learning environment in which you can dig down deep and discover your full potential.
LIVE.
Come live in a department that is like no other! The Mass Communication department is known on campus for its family-like atmosphere.
LEAD.
Come and be part of an education delivered with gusto where there is a strong emphasis on the application of classroom skills and knowledge to everyday experiences as a professional. Our students can work for the campus television station, radio station, yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine.
Come join us while we crack a few crawfish and we crack a few books on OUR way to building your career! Please feel free to contact me about questions you may have about our department or Nicholls State University.
ALUMNI please update your information by using the following link: Alumni Updates or via our MACO Facebook page
News
March 23rd, 2009
The Department of Mass Communication and the student chapter of Radio
Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) is hosting a Women Working
in Mass Media panel discussion on Wednesday, March 25th from 10:45
am-12:45pm (4M and 5M) in the Bollinger Student Union. Please announce
this to your students.
The panel will include the following members of the local media.
Lucy Bustamante: Anchor/Reporter WWL-TV
Laura Buchtel: Meteorologist, WWL-TV
Keitha Nelson: News Reporter, WAFB
Sandy Breland: General Manager, WAFB
Dee Dee Thurston: Managing Editor, Courier and Daily Comet
Naomi King: Staff Writer, Houma Courier
Kay Gervais: Assistant News Editor, Baton Rouge Advocate
Mandy Hay: Graphic Designer, Baton Rouge Advocate
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March 4th, 2009
PRSSA(Public Relations Student Society of America) is accepting applications and dues through Tuesday, March 10. Dues are $55 a year and applications are availalbe on the organization’s bulletin board. Checks should be made payable to PRSSA and may be given to the department secretary along with the completed application. Faculty advisor is Felicia Harry.
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February 19th, 2009
MACO Scholarships Awarded
Twenty mass communication majors in 2008-09 received Department of Mass Communication scholarships averaging about $850 each. These were departmental funds, over and above federal, state and university awards. In addition, the department usually awards $900 in prizes each year to its outstanding students. The department has endowments totaling almost $350,000. Through the years, it has put almost $340,000 into the pockets of its students.
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