Media Day

Mesa State College Mass Communications program hosts an annual Media Day each spring, inviting working professionals for lectures and workshops. Dozens of yearbook and newspaper awards are presented to Western Slope high school students.

The 16th Annual Media Day was held March 8, 2006. A wide variety of professionals and MSC Alumni spoke to MSC students and faculty, as well as area high school students. Topics covered subjects that fall under print journalism, radio and TV broadcasting, and public relations. The 17th Media Day will be held Monday, March 5, 2007.

Ed Otte, executive director of the Colorado Press Association, was the keynote speaker at the 11th annual Media Day on March 1, 2001.

More than 300 high school and college students participate in Media Day each year.