I-Comm Student Media

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 Scroll, the university newspaper; Scroll TV News; and operates its own in-house design agency, multimedia organization, copy editing team and sales/marketing group. I~Comm's goal is to provide real-life experience to students and quality products to customers.[1]

I~Comm Agency

The I~Comm advertising agency is an organization that provides clients with creative cross-media marketing and advertising strategies to achieve client's overall goals. 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 was awarded the prestigious 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 at Scroll TV News. Each semester, a group of students create Upper Valley Idaho 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

  1. ↑ http://www.byui.edu/News/NewsReleases/sca.html
  2. ↑ Benson, Aaron (2005-10-04). "Spori Gallery celebrates 100 years of the Scroll". Scroll Online. Brigham Young University-Idaho Scroll. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  3. ↑ "2004 ACP Newspaper Pacemaker Winners". Associated Collegiare Press. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
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