Jaguar Student Media Network
About Us
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Student media organizations at Texas A&M University-San Antonio provide engaging public forums that connect students, faculty, and staff. Each of our media outlets is a unique and independent student organization providing content for TV, print, online news and social media. Together, we reach thousands of people annually, delivering original reporting, information, entertainment, and advertising.
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Our state-of-the-art communication laboratories were designed to encourage conversation, collaboration, and experimentation among students, faculty and area media partners. Jaguar Student Media formed in 2009 to provide comprehensive advisory and financial support to the university’s student-run media. Staff and organizations are provided guidance by the Student Media Board, an appointed advisory group consisting of A&M-San Antonio staff, faculty, at-large student appointees, and media representatives.
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The primary goal of our media programming is to provide you, the student, with experiential learning opportunities while receiving professional mentorship from area professionals to ensure you and your classmates enter the industry with the multimedia skills necessary to tell stories on diverse platforms. Our second goal is to manage revenue-generating activities – advertising and fundraising – that can be used to grow and support our student media programs and diversify career goals in communication. Jaguar Student Media focuses on the development of students, focusing on critical thinking, collaboration, leadership, ethics and ultimately, degree attainment. We value professionalism, quality, relevance, inclusively and creativity. Sound like a good fit for you? Contact us today at 210-784-1050. |
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OUR MISSION
The mission of Jaguar Student Media Network is to teach and prepare the next generation of Latino media and communication professionals. Our benchmark goal for Jaguar Student Media Network is to serve between 70-80% Latino students, reflecting the overall mission of A&M-San Antonio, a Hispanic Serving Institution. Our Student-driven experiential learning laboratories, news, magazines, and broadcast are an extension of the University's mission to prepare and empower students through innovative and challenging academic and co-curricular programs.
OUR GOALS
Our goals are to train, mentor and prepare students for careers in media and communications. The Jaguar Student Media Network allows students to run their own student-run business operations, including three separate digital media outlets and content production labs. The Media Network is advised by professional track faculty and industry contractors who coach and train program participants to reach specific, measurable goals. Students with paid media fellowship are expected to:
- Achieve demonstrate understanding of the informational needs of the U.S. Latino community.
- Create explanatory journalism and promote civic engagement for the campus community and surrounding region.
- Create an individualized, digital media portfolio marketed to prospective employers.
- Interview and secure one of the Network’s paid semester-long fellowship that can extend up to 2 years (renewable up to two years, based on performance).
- Apply for placement in an off-campus media internship advised by an industry expert and/or mentor.
- Compete annually in local, state and national student media contests.
- Hold active membership with the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, which promotes diversity in newsrooms.
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