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Department of
Mass Communication (MACO)

Broadcast Journalism / Print Journalism / Public Relations • ACEJMC Nationally Accredited


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?

Jill Allemand HeadshotExecutive Director, Promotions and Product Placement Warner Bros. Television Worldwide.
Boyd.jpgEmmy winning, senior reporter and talk-show host for WGNO-TV.

Mabile.jpgFormer documentary writer & producer for the History Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E and PBS.
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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.

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News

MACO RTNDA students on a field trip to WWL-TV in New Orleans.

November 16th, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

Who’s Who for the 2009-2010

November 5th, 2009

William Heck, Broadcast Journalism, Margaret Jones, Public Relations, and Jennifer Smith, Public Relations were three of thirteen students from the College of Arts & Sciences elected into the Who’s Who 2009 – 2010 edition.

MACO alum wins Missouri Press Association award.

November 5th, 2009

STEPHANIE DETILLIER, spring 2006, who holds a teaching assistantship at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, won first place in the Missouri Press Association feature writing category for a feature  she wrote for the Columbia Missourian.