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The Daily Egyptian Newsroom

The Daily Egyptian campus newspaper is published when the University is in session Mondays through Fridays, spring and fall semesters and Tuesday through Friday during the summer session, and serves as a morning daily newspaper for the University community. The Daily Egyptian is produced under professional supervision, using student editors and staff. The circulation is approximately 23,000. The newspaper is published and printed in a plant equipped with electronic facilities to produce a 30-page daily newspaper on a web offset press.

Radio News Room

The Radio Newsroom features four Mac G3 workstations equipped with digital editing. Field sound is recorded on a variety of equipment, ranging from Mini-Disk recorders to stereo cassette recorders and Marantz PMD222s. The main production room has ISDN capability. The newsroom subscribes to Associated Press, the Illinois Radio Network, and the Illinois Public Radio Network. WSIU/WUSI-FM contributes stories to all three news services as well as to National Public Radio on a limited basis. The newsroom creates 13 local newscasts daily and on Saturday mornings. News production includes spot news and in-depth reporting, from live coverage to documentaries. The WSIU/WUSI-FM news production facilities support the largest radio news staff in the region, and recipients of numerous awards for radio news and documentaries.

Evening Edition TV Newsroom

Students at SIUC can gain real-world, hands-on experience in MCMAís TV Newsroom. The facility, located in room 1015 in the Communication Building, features a PC-based news authoring system, complete with access to regional, national, and international wires from the Associated Press. In addition to the PC workstations for writing stories, the newsroom features several iMac-based video editing stations, where student journalists prepare video and sound for air using Adobe© Final Cut Pro. Each editing station is self-contained, allowing students to capture, edit, and deliver video seamlessly to WSIUís master control room via a dedicated Ethernet backbone. Students also have the option of archiving their own work a portable hard drive or DVD. A partnership with CNN allows students to access national and international news on-demand using a Pathfire video server. The facility is operated in partnership between the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, the Department of Radio-Television, and WSIU-TV.