28th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression set for Nov. 12-14.
Podcast gets guys to open up about themselves
For her senior thesis, Maddi Thompson took on a tough subject: Guys expressing their feelings.
The dark, the light and the in-between
By Amanda Morgan Fann Change. I have never liked it, but I know I cannot stop the inevitable, only adjust and grow from it. When I first heard the word “coronavirus” in January, I never fathomed that it would outbreak in the United States, much less shape the entire way we live our everyday lives.…
COVID-19: Attention vs. Intention
Two to 14 days. That is all the virus is supposed to live for, but the inability to stop our fast pace capitalist society from going keeps the COVID-19 going. Small businesses hurting, stock market crashing, unemployment rate increasing, people social-distancing, colleges closing. Not just the nation, but the world is having to learn…
UTC communication school achieves an accreditation first
These are good days for the Department of Communication within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In December, UTC students made an unprecedented seventh place showing among competitors from 75 universities across the country when the winners of the prestigious national Hearst Photo One News and Features contest…
Weeks chronicles the world through the lens of a camera
Communication lecturer Billy Weeks has been a photojournalist for more than 25 years.
Feeding the homeless and hungry is a crusade for El Taylor
“Everyone Deserves to Be Fed” https://risingrock.net/2019/10/21/el-everyone-deserves-to-be-fed/ Even in the summer, El Taylor feels like Santa Claus. Every other week or so, she makes about 100 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and then hits the street, handing them out to the homeless. “A lot of times, the majority of people I see are asleep, so it’s kind of like…
UTC student photographers make unprecedented showing at Hearst Photo Competition
The collective work of photojournalism students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has achieved an unprecedented 7th-place ranking among a field of 75 universities throughout the United States in the prestigious Hearst Photo One News and Features national photo competition.
Allison Swinford made a life-changing decision to attend UTC
It was an act of nobility one might not expect out of a high school student. And it came with an “uh-oh” caveat, as in “Uh-oh, what will I do now?” During her freshman year at Dalton (Ga.) High School, Allison Swinford already had her sights set on joining the U.S. Military Academy after graduation.…
Covering comics collective to get a taste of journalism
“This class feels like a full-time job,” says senior Alex Ogle. That’s kind of the point. Ogle, who is majoring in communication, is talking about Rising Rock, the course that introduces students to real-world journalism, opening their eyes to the multiple and sometimes complicated steps it takes to put together a multimedia project that…