Board of Advisors

The Advisory Board of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism includes many of the school’s most successful alumni. The board meets twice each year to advise the school on the media world that MCJ students will face upon graduation.

 

Member

Affiliation

Ronnie Agnew

Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Jim Allen

Mississippi Power

Rebecca Baldwin

Zap2it.com

Miranda Beard

WDAM-TV

Rick BiceBice Advertising

Kurt Brautigam

South Mississippi Electric Power Association

Layne Bruce

Mississippi Press Association

Jim Cameron

WDAM-TV

Donald Carson

Communications Consultant

Rick Cleveland

The Clarion-Ledger

Teresa Collier

Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Kevin Cooper

Natchez Democrat/Boone Newspapers

Dan Davis Hattiesburg American

Lisa Easterling

Kean Miller Hawthorne D’Armond McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P.

Karen Gamble

Vicksburg Post

Ted Jackson

The Times-Picayune

Nan Kelley

Great American Country Television

Rex Kelly Mississippi Power—Retired

Charles Kershner

Courier Enterprises Inc./Clinton Courier

Kathleen Koch

Freelance Broadcast Journalist

Monte Kraus

Krauscape Films

Kate Magandy

The Sun Herald 

Mart Martin

Jackson Spalding

Allan Nation Mississippi Valley Publishing Corporation 

Jennifer Ogden-Combs

Film Producer

Nina Parikh

Mississippi Film Office

Jeff Pedigo

Godwin Group

Bill Phalen

Cities West Publishing, Inc.

Hank Price

WXII-TV

Donna Ritchey Godwin Group 

David Sheffield

Screenwriter

Dub Shoemaker Retired Journalist 

Patsy Speights

The Prentiss Headlight

Ted Spruill

Avid Technology

Stan Tiner

The Sun Herald

Leonard Van Slyke Jr.

Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A.

Dave Vincent

WLOX-ABC 13

Kim Willis

USA Today

Gary Wolverton

WHNS-TV Fox Carolina