FOR RELEASE: Nov. 6, 2012
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Stephan Foust, stephan.foust@mtsu.edu or
615-898-2337
MURFREESBORO — Want fresh, unbiased,
no-pundits-allowed live coverage of the 2012 election? You have two new choices
on Election Day: MT10-HD and http://vote2012.mtsusidelines.com.
MTSU
student journalists are teaming up today in the Center for Innovation in Media
for unprecedented live coverage of local, state and national races.
They’ll be
offering on-air updates at the student TV station, online at the student
newspaper, radio simulcasts on WMTS-FM and WMOT-FM and at a special
election-night party in the new Student Union Building’s ballrooms.
It all
starts at 4 p.m. today, when the Center’s election viewing party, co-sponsored
by the College of Liberal Arts, Student Programming and Activities, the
University Honors College and the American Democracy Project, gets under way in
ballrooms A and B (rooms 250A and 250B).
MTSU
students and faculty will be able to eat for free while watching the election
unfold on big-screen televisions.
Beginning
at 5 p.m., MT10 will be reporting live from a special set in the SUB ballroom,
part of a three-hour broadcast that will be anchored in the Center for
Innovation’s Studio 2. MT10 staffers and students from Electronic Media
Production and Electronic Media Journalism classes all will be at the heart of
the action.
Reporters
in the field, including the Student Union, will send updates to the news
anchors, and election results will air in real time on MT10, which broadcasts
locally on Rutherford County Comcast Channel 10 and online at www.mt10tv.com, until 8 p.m.
Coverage
will be simultaneously broadcast during local cutaways on both WMTS-FM 88.3,
the student radio station, and WMOT-FM 89.5, MTSU’s National Public Radio
station. WMTS will follow the simulcast with a live two-hour election news,
analysis and talk show of its own.
“The news
team will utilize the full resources of the Center for Innovation in Media,
including the robotic-green screen studio and the converged newsroom, popularly
known as ‘The Egg,’” said center director Stephan Foust.
Also in
the Center, inside the Bragg Mass Communication Building, Sidelines staffers
will be updating the election website, http://vote2012.mtsusidelines.com,
with similar breaking coverage, and putting together a special 24-page
election edition of the newspaper.
“Sidelines
reporters will be hard at work in the center and out on location, including the
viewing party, keeping the Vote2012 website up-to-date with the latest
information and preparing the comprehensive print version of the paper that
will be on newsstands early tomorrow (Wednesday).”
The
student journalists teamed up earlier this semester for breaking daily coverage
of the Associated Press Media Editors national conference in Nashville,
providing all the multimedia content for the APME blog, a daily video report
and a special tabloid.
The APME
recognized the Center for Innovation in Media this year for its efforts to converge MTSU student media and foster
collaboration across media platforms.
Like the
APME project, MTSU seniors Becca Andrews and Michelle Potts are coordinating
election-night news coverage. Andrews is Sidelines editor-in-chief, and Potts
is MT10 news director.
“All this combined far exceeds anything student media have
attempted in past elections,” Foust said, “and students, advisers and faculty
are excited by the possibilities. We want the entire campus community to be part
of it.”
To watch
the election unfold or for more information, visit http://vote2012.mtsusidelines.com.
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community devoted to learning, growth and service. We hold these values dear,
and there’s a simple phrase that conveys them:
“I am True Blue.” Learn more at www.mtsu.edu/trueblue. For MTSU news
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