Here’s a selection of student-run groups open to students in the SOJC media studies major. Joining a student organization is a great way to get professional development, add professional-level work to your portfolio, engage in hands-on learning, and network with leaders in your field. You can find more information on the groups’ websites and social media channels or by contacting faculty advisors.
Align Magazine
Align is an arts and culture platform with an emphasis on lifestyle and fashion. This platform fosters creativity with three issues per academic year, consistent blog posts, rockin’ playlists, and developing mediums. Creative risks and experimental processes are encouraged in order to achieve original content. Align continues to grow and conceptualize as a platform that aims to highlight many forms of art and experiment with new ideas.
Website: alignmaguo.com
Instagram: @align_mag
The Daily Emerald
The Daily Emerald is an award-winning newsroom that publishes a weekly newspaper and DailyEmerald.com, a real-time, 24/7 news website. With a focus on investigative reporting, campus news coverage, and community features, the Daily Emerald staff works hard to keep the university community informed about the day’s happenings and the issues that affect students every day. The newsroom—part of Emerald Media Group, an independent, student-run media business in Eugene—employs about 100 student reporters, editors, designers, photographers, and web developers. To apply, go to the Daily Emerald website.
Website: dailyemerald.com
Facebook: dailyemerald
YouTube: dailyemerald
Twitter: @dailyemerald
Instagram: @dailyemerald
DuckTV
DuckTV is the UO’s premier student-run television network, comprised of more than 100 students. We produce creative entertainment television and cover local news and sports. The students are in charge of editing, filming, writing, acting, directing, producing, advertising, social media, and more. DuckTV is a great place to gain valuable portfolio work while receiving hands-on training in a cooperative environment. Students must audition for entry.
Website. uoducktv.com
Twitter: @UODuckTV
Instagram: @UODuckTV
Faculty Advisor: Joey McMurry (joeymac@uoregon.edu)
Emerald Advertising & Marketing
Emerald Advertising & Marketing produces more than $600,000 in sales through print and digital advertising and other marketing services for Emerald Media Group, an independent, student-run media business in Eugene. Student account executive assistants work with EMG Account Executives learn sales, build media plans, and do account planning.
Website: dailyemerald.com/emg
Emerald Essentials
Emerald Essentials is a lifestyle publishing group run out of the business offices of Emerald Media Group, an independent, student-run media business in Eugene. Essentials staff creates original content, native content, and sponsored content that is published online and in a variety of business-focused special sections.
Website: dailyemerald.com/emg
Twitter: @EMGessentials
Emerald Photo Booth
Emerald Photo Booth is an event photography service run through Emerald Media Group, an independent, student-run media business in Eugene. It shoots photos for Greek houses, student groups, and UO departments. Photographers and students interested in gaining management, entrepreneurial, and business experience should inquire.
Website: emeraldphotobooth.com
Facebook: EMGphotobooth
Twitter: @EMGphotobooth
Instagram: @EMGphotobooth
Emerald Studios
Emerald Studios is Emerald Media Group’s advertising and marketing video production department. Emerald Studios creates promotional videos, mini-docs, and custom video projects for UO departments, student groups, and small local businesses.
Website: dailyemerald.com/emg
Envision Magazine
Envision is a student-run environmental publication. The magazine aims to educate students on environmental issues and inspire them to live more sustainably. Envision publishes several print editions each year as well as online content.
Twitter: @EnvisionUO
Instagram: @envision_uo
Ethos Magazine
Ethos magazine is a nationally recognized, award-winning, independent, student-run publication. Since its inception as Korean Ducks Magazine in 2005, Ethos has worked hard to share a campus cultural spirit with its readership throughout the UO and the Eugene community. The publication joined Emerald Media Group in 2016 and continues to expand its offerings. SOJC students are encouraged to apply for employment.
Website: ethosmagonline.com
Twitter: @EthosMag
Instagram: @EthosMag
Flux Magazine
Flux is the SOJC’s award-winning flagship publication. The annual magazine covers a different theme each year and features stories about people and places in the Pacific Northwest. The staff typically includes 25–30 students, who perform such roles as editor, feature writer, designer, photographer, and videographer. Students gain hands-on experience reporting and producing multimedia feature stories in the field and add an award-winning print publication to their portfolio. Students must apply, and if accepted, they must register for J575 Flux Production for 1–5 credits in winter and spring term.
Website: fluxoregon.com
Twitter: @fluxoregon
Instagram: @fluxoregon
Faculty Advisor: Charlie Butler (cbutler3@uoregon.edu)
IR Futures
IR Futures is a student organization focused on business and financial communications. The group investigates emerging trends in corporate and financial public relations, investor relations, issues management, and public affairs. Members attend monthly meetings, sponsor workshops, and volunteer their time to broaden student understanding of the capital markets and personal finance issues that impact the community. We invite distinguished speakers from the financial sector to campus to facilitate an exchange of ideas and foster professional development among members. IR Futures is one of a small number of student investor relations organizations in the nation.
Website: irfutures.wordpress.com
Twitter: @IRFutures
Instagram: @IRFutures
Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Kuttis (kuttis@uoregon.edu)
KWVA 88.1 FM
The KWVA student-run radio station is a voice for students and a place to gain broadcast, production, and operation experience in a hands-on broadcast facility. Volunteer student and community on-air personalities program their own shows over FM radio and streamed on the internet, including music, sports, news, and talk programming.
Website: kwva.uoregon.edu
Twitter: @kwva
Instagram: @kwva881
Oregon Women in Sports Communication
Oregon Women in Sports Communication is a club dedicated to promoting and supporting women in the sports communications industry. Their mission is to foster an inclusive and empowering environment for networking, professional growth, and collaboration. They strive to create opportunities so that our members feel prepared to make a meaningful impact in sports.
Instagram: @uo_wsc
Faculty Advisor: Kelli Matthews (kmatthew@uoregon.edu)
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is an organization of journalists, students, and media professionals that provides quality programs and services to, and advocates on behalf of, black journalists worldwide. It is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation.
Website: nabj.org
Twitter: @uo_nabj
Instagram: @uo_nabj
Faculty Advisor: Troy Elias (telias@uoregon.edu)
OR Magazine
OR Magazine is an innovative, interactive, student-produced digital magazine designed for the web and mobile devices. The award-winning annual publication features stories about Oregon’s intriguing people and eclectic culture. The staff typically includes 20 students who serve as co-editors, writers, photographers, designers, and videographers. All students gain hands-on experience reporting and producing multimedia feature stories in the field. OR Magazine is offered every spring term and requires instructor consent. Students register for J469 for 4 credits.
Website: ormagazine.net
Twitter: @ORMagazine
Instagram: @ormagazinesojc
Faculty Advisor: Ed Madison (madison2@uoregon.edu)
SOJC Audio Club
The SOJC Audio Club is a collaborative space where students can learn and gain hands-on experience in audio production.
Instagram: @SOJC_Amplify
Faculty Advisor: Charlie Deitz (cdeitz@uoregon.edu)
Taking Up Space
Taking Up Space is a community-driven social alliance centered around the achievement, uplifting, and professional development of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in the SOJC. Through workshops, discussions and events, Taking Up Space prepares members for the industry while supporting a crucial space of resistance and celebration for and by people of color.
Instagram: @takingupspaceuo
Faculty Advisor: Chris Chávez (cchavez4@uoregon.edu)
The Rising Project
The Rising Project is a student-run club in the SOJC working to merge creativity with science communication. They create campaigns and media content around topics like practical sustainability to help raise awareness on campus about broader issues of environmental justice.
Instagram: @uorising
Faculty Advisors: Deb Morrison (debmor@uoregon.edu) and Dave Koranda (dkoranda@uoregon.edu)
Unidos @ UO
Unidos @ UO, the UO Chapter of the Hispanic Public Relations Association, exists to provide a space for Hispanic and Latine communities who share an interest in strategic communication to come together, network, and develop professional communication skills. You only need to have an interest in communication to join.
Website: blogs.uoregon.edu/unidosatuo
Instagram: @unidosatuo
Advisor: Briselda Molina Ortega (briselda@uoregon.edu)
UO Media Studies Club
The goals of the UO Media Studies Club are to create community among SOJC media studies majors, provide a fun and safe place to share and discuss media, and inspire the next generation of media professionals.
Instagram: @UO_Media
Twitter: @UO_Media
Faculty Advisor: Gretchen Soderlund (gsoderlu@uoregon.edu)