Mass Communications senior Nicole Lowery is the new editor-in-chief of SSU’s student online and print newspaper Tiger’s Roar. She takes office with the start of classes in Fall 2013. Also joining the paper’s core staff will be Mass Comm majors Brinson Livingston, managing editor, production; Ronald T. Shields II, managing editor, content; and Maurice Pierce, photography editor.
Lowery, 21 and from Atlanta, says she hopes to involve more underclassmen and non-Mass Comm majors in Tiger’s Roar. “I hope to put flyers up in the freshman dorms next fall,” she said. “I’d like to get some freshmen involved so we can mentor them.”
Lowery’s Mass Comm concentration is audio and video, and she’d like a career as a meteorologist after graduate school. She was a member of the SSU Women’s Softball Team during the ’10, ’11 and ’12 spring seasons. She volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Coastal Empire and mentors a girl in 5th grade. “I tell her I’m average and I made it to college – she can, too,” Lowery says.
Livingston, 21 of Miami, joined Tiger’s Roar as layout editor in Fall ’12. His Mass Comm concentration is online journalism. Livingston can be found at least four times a week in a pick-up basketball game on campus or watching TV comedies such as “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.” After college, Livingston’s bucket list includes playing professional basketball overseas and creating his own publication perhaps about basketball or music.
Shields, 21, is a blogger about his hometown’s professional football team, the Atlanta Falcons. His blog, “Views from the Nest” (afbirdsnest.blogspot.com), has about 600 Twitter followers, he says. Shields’ Mass Comm concentration is online journalism, and he began writing for Tiger’s Roar in Spring ’13. Shields says he blogs about the Falcons because, “I don’t think they get adequate coverage locally or from the national media. It’s the same thing over and over again.”
Maurice Pierce of Savannah first got behind a camera for serious photography in a photojournalism class. His picture stories began appearing in Tiger’s Roar last fall. The 21-year-old Mass Comm major has a concentration in public relations and advertising. In his spare time, Pierce is an independent runner particularly in the 100- and 200-meter events.
Photography interests him, he says, because, “What we all see, we all see something different. Photography also allows you to capture a moment in time.” Other Tiger’s Roar staff, including beat reporters, sports reporters, feature writers, photographers and managers for both marketing-public relations and business-advertising will be recruited in the fall.
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