I~Comm Student Media is an organization involving students from all fields of study at Brigham Young University-Idaho. This organization covers major media and communication strategies, such as advertising, public relations, and news review. I~Comm also produces the university newspaper and operates its own in-house design agency, multimedia organization, copy editing team and sales/marketing group.[1]
I~Comm Agency
The I~Comm advertising agency is an organization that provides clients with creative cross-media marketing and advertising. I~Comm also offers public relations services.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design is a team of creative illustrators and photographers that provide graphic design for all clients of I~Comm to enhance editorial design, advertising, and any additional requests by clients such as brochures, posters, photography, web pages, and newsletters.
Scroll
BYU-Idaho's student paper, Scroll, was founded in 1905 and first published as Student Rays, then The Purple Flash, then Viking Flashes and finally Scroll.[2] One hundred years later in 2004, Scroll picked up the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award[3] at a convention in New York City.
Scroll went from a standard newspaper format to a tabloid fold in 2007 and merged with other campus communication organization to become a larger entity called I~Comm.
I~Comm Video Productions
Multimedia organization that produces special projects for I~Comm such as documentaries, podcasts, and instructional videos.
Scroll TV News
Students in I~Comm cover breaking news and create features focusing on campus and community events. Each story is posted online. Each semester, a group of students create a community feature that is aired on Local News 8, a local CBS and Fox affiliate.
I~Comm Sales
Sells ad space through the BYU-Idaho school paper, Scroll.
References
- ↑ "New Student Communication Agency is part of 'rethinking' education at BYU-Idaho". Archived from the original on 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
- ↑ Benson, Aaron (2005-10-04). "Spori Gallery celebrates 100 years of the Scroll". Scroll Online. Brigham Young University-Idaho Scroll. Archived from the original on 2008-11-22. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
- ↑ "2004 ACP Newspaper Pacemaker Winners". Associated Collegiare Press. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-18.