{"id":19769,"date":"2010-05-06T13:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19769"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:44:29","slug":"student-media-center-emerges-as-digital-news-hub-for-nau-and-flagstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-media-center-emerges-as-digital-news-hub-for-nau-and-flagstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Media Center emerges as digital news hub for NAU and Flagstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19770\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19770\" alt=\"Mayoral debate\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/walker.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/05\/walker.jpg 432w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/05\/walker-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAZ Today news director Patrick Walker co-moderated last week&#8217;s mayoral debate with Jan Petry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naztoday.com\/news\/local-news\/2010\/04\/mayoral-debate-pt-2-airs-tonight-6-p-m\/\">mayoral debate<\/a>\u00a0is a shining example of the success of Northern Arizona University\u2019s Student Media Center at giving real-world experience for students while at the same time providing local news for the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an outstanding production and a tremendous response,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Patrick Walker<\/strong>, news director for NAZ Today, the student-run news station. \u201cIt was a heck of a debate\u2026the gloves went off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designed to mirror the consolidation of the news industry, the Student Media Center made its debut last fall as a\u00a0<a title=\"\u2018The Lumberjack\u2019 becomes a lab model, expanding multimedia possibilities\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/the-lumberjack-becomes-a-lab-model-expanding-multimedia-possibilities\/\">convergence model<\/a>\u00a0that pools resources by collaborating between\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jackcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lumberjack<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0NAU\u2019s weekly student newspaper;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naztoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NAZ Today<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KJACK Radio<\/a>, NAU\u2019s student radio station; and UTV62, a channel devoted to student produced television programming.<\/p>\n<p>Walker said the Student Media Center has created a news outlet that is updated frequently and delivers news through print, web, television and radio to satisfy today\u2019s younger generation\u2019s desire for multimedia news on demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students are looking at being the front runners of this convergence news and new media,\u201d Walker said. \u201cWe consider ourselves Flagstaff\u2019s nightly local news. We work hard to get out there and get what\u2019s going on in the community, both the good and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing the only local television broadcast, NAZ Today also maintains an up-to-date web site,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naztoday.com\/\">naztoday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Student Media Center continues to be a rich source of information for the local community and region as well as the university campus,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Mark Neumann<\/strong>, director and professor school of communication. \u201cThe students are doing terrific work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-media-center-emerges-as-digital-news-hub-for-nau-and-flagstaff\/\">Last week\u2019s\u00a0mayoral debate\u00a0is a shining example of the success of Northern Arizona University\u2019s Student Media Center at giving real-world experience for students while at the same time providing local news for the community. \u201cWe had an outstanding production and a tremendous response,\u201d said\u00a0Patrick Walker, news director for NAZ Today, the student-run news station. \u201cIt was&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}