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Information on media and groups associated with the department of communication at Indiana State University.

Student Media

Indiana Statesman 
The Indiana Statesman student newspaper has been in existence since 1879. It provides the campus community with its number one source for news, sports coverage and commentary and public opinion. The newspaper is published three days a week during the fall and spring semesters and twice during the summer. Between 4,000 and 6,000 copies are distributed.​

Sycamore Video 
Sycamore Video, ISU’s original student video organization, is associated with the Department of Communication and is open to any ISU major. Fifteen to twenty-five students are typically involved each semester. Half of the students are enrolled in Communication 200/300 and receive 1 hour of credit for the semester. Most of the other students volunteer simply for professional experience.

WZIS 90.7 FM 
WZIS-FM broadcasts at 90.7 megahertz from the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute. WZIS broadcasts 24 hours a day and offers a wide variety of music from classic hits to today’s best rock, pop, and hip-hop, sports, and news and public affairs programming. The station operates primarily to present programming that is consistent with the educational and cultural mission of Indiana State and to provide a laboratory for students interested in broadcasting and other fields related to WISU programming.

Indiana State Sports Network
The Indiana State Sports Network provides live video coverage of intercollegiate athletics at ISU. Programs are provided to ESPN3 under an agreement with the Missouri Valley Conference. Students work in all capacities, including camera operator, announcer, graphics and replay operators, audio engineers and technical director. ​

Syc Creations 

The Syc Creations team is Indiana State University's creative digital multimedia and marketing team. The Syc Creations team provides clients with precise, clean, skillful, and creative digital products in a timely manner. The team consists of Indiana State students with a variety of skills related to digital multimedia. These skills include but not limited to video production, motion graphics, graphic design/branding, web design and development, and mobile application development.

https://www.isustudentmedia.com/ 

Student Organizations with Chapters in the Department

Lambda Pi Eta (LPH) has over 400 active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide. LPH is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), whose mission is to build a visibly cohesive community of national and international honor societies, individually and collaboratively exhibiting excellence in scholarship, service, programs, and governance.

The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) is the foremost organization for students interested in public relations and communications. PRSSA seeks to advance the public relations profession by nurturing generations of future professionals. PRSSA advocates rigorous academic standards for public relations education, the highest ethical principles and diversity in the profession.

The Society of Professional Journalists began in 1908 at DePauw University as Sigma Delta Chi. Over the past century, it has become a leading advocate for First Amendment rights of free speech and free press, journalism ethics, newsroom diversity and professional development. SPJ provides an online database of media-related job openings, internships and fellowships is updated regularly. SPJ promotes excellence in journalism through its Sigma Delta Chi awards for professional journalists and The Mark of Excellence awards for collegiate journalists. SPJ, nationally and locally, is working hard to ensure a free flow of information that is vital to a free society. We fight and win battles for freedom of information and First Amendment rights. We work to ensure that journalists perform their work while adhering to the highest standards of behavior and decision-making found in our Code of Ethics. And we encourage journalists to expand their source base to better reflect their communities.

Professional Organizations - Regional

Central States Communication Association (CSCA) is a professional, academic organization of primary and secondary school teachers, students, college and university professors, and communication professionals. CSCA was founded in 1931 to promote the communication discipline in educational, scholarly, and professional endeavors. The association hosts a yearly convention within the 13 states, maintains a website, publishes a newsletter three times yearly, and publishes the journal Communication Studies on a quarterly basis.

As a distinguished service-oriented organization with a history of achievement in research, criticism, communication theory, and excellence in teaching, the association welcomes members who share the goals and objectives of a membership dedicated to participation in state, regional, and national activity.

The Southern States Communication Association's purpose is to promote the study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication. SSCA, a not-for-profit organization, exists for educational, scientific, and literary purposes only.

The Western States Communication Association (WSCA) is a non-profit 501 c (3) organization. The Association's purpose is to unite people in the Western States who have an academic, lay or professional interest in communication and who want to promote their mutual educational interests. WSCA welcomes anyone with an interest in communication, academic or applied.

Professional Organizations - National

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to cultivate the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice and a better informed public.

The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry. The NCA serves the scholars, teachers, and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching.

Professional Organizations - International

The ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA began more than 50 years ago as a small association of U.S. researchers and is now a truly international association with more than 4,800 members in 77 countries. Since 2003, ICA has been officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental association (NGO).

ISHR promotes the study of both the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and the relationship of rhetoric to poetics, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, politics, religion, law and other aspects of the cultural context.

The WCA is dedicated to the improvement of communication worldwide by linking those people who hold common professional and personal interests.