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Category Board Blogs
26 Sep
Board Blog: Meet more than 50 pros at #CBISeattle
If you want to meet professionals in the media industry, we’ve got you more than covered at this year’s NSEMC. We’ve got TV anchors, radio station program directors, engineers, podcasters, attorneys, record label representatives and more. A complete list is on our website, and you can also view speakers inside the app, but let’s take […]
READ MORE19 Sep
Board Blog: Introducing the CBI Visual Media Festival!
If you haven’t heard the news, CBI has something new to offer this year…the first-ever CBI Visual Media Festival! And as TV and film guy, I am excited about this new venture for CBI. The purpose of the festival is to provide new opportunities for those CBI member stations (and non-members) that produce film, video […]
READ MORE5 Sep
Board Blog: See you in Seattle
It’s hard to believe, since most of us are just getting settled into the school year, but it’s time to start planning your trip to the National Student Electronic Media Convention, which will be held Oct. 25-27 in Seattle. CBI-Seattle has all of the great features you’ve come to expect from CBI’s conventions: expert-led sessions, […]
READ MORE25 Jul
Second Annual Summer Workshop a Success
CBI co-hosted the College Media Mega Workshop July 12-15 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Minneapolis. CBI partnered with the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP), College Media Association (CMA), and College Media Business and Advertising Managers (CMBAM) organizations for the second annual summer event. Eleven tracks of focus were offered for participants to choose […]
READ MORE31 May
Board Blog: Are You Accessible?
Your media outlet’s web presence is your window to the world. It’s how potential students and audience members connect with you. But are you accidentally excluding an entire population of individuals from using your website due to issues with web accessibility? Web accessawhatnow? The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative explains “Web accessibility means that websites, […]
READ MORE16 May
Board Blog: Time to Reset
Ever have one of those years in life that you wish you could redo? 2017 was one of those years for me personally, but the 2017-18 academic year was one of those years for my staff and my first as a student media adviser. From multiple student deaths on a campus where everyone knows each […]
READ MORE2 May
Board Blog: The New CBI Year Starts Now
It’s a great time for college students, finals are wrapping up, summer plans have been made, and now its time for a break. However, now is the time to be thinking about what you will be doing with CBI through the end of the calendar year, and some of those things need to be done […]
READ MORE18 Apr
Board Blog: Is your org chart out of touch with time?
I’ve been telling my students for years that WPTS is not just a radio station, but a multi-platform content provider. As much as my students use that phrase to make jokes at my expense, they know that I’m right — more today than ever. It’s not exactly breaking news that the barriers between different media […]
READ MORE21 Mar
Board Blog: Time to Start Thinking about the 2108 CBI National Student Electronic Media Convention
The 2018 convention will be in glorious Seattle, October 25-27, 2018 at the Renaissance Seattle, located at 515 Madison Street. If you have not already financially planned for this convention, now is the time to do so. Registration fees remain at $100 per person. This fee has not gone up since CBI started doing its […]
READ MORE8 Mar
Board Blog: Kids These Days
I live and work in the New York market, where we just had two major “nor’easters” in less than a week. The first one was a rain and wind event, which downed trees, knocked out power, and caused flooding. A few days later, the second storm dropped a foot of heavy wet snow on our […]
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