Student Media

Student Media

Index
The Index is the student- produced newspaper at Truman State University. The newspaper employs a staff of about 50 students. Applications for open positions are accepted at the beginning and end of every semester. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays throughout the school year. The paper won the Apple Award of Excellence at the College Media Advisers' convention in 2003 and 2005 and was a finalist for the Pacemaker awarded by the Associate Collegiate Press in 2005. The Index recently won an Apple Award for Best Non-Daily Newspaper at the 2006 College Media Advisers' convention.

Detours
Detours is a Midwest travel magazine featuring unique faces and places in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Produced by students at Truman State University, Detours is published twice a year in the winter and summer. Each issue highlights colorful characters and one-of-a-kind locales off the beaten path. Detours has won an Apple Award for Best Collegiate General Interest Magazine in 2006 and 2007 from the College Media Advisers organization. But the awards don't stop there. Detours won a Pacemaker award for its Spring 2006 issue, too.

KTRM
KTRM is the University’s student-run campus radio station. KTRM provides broadcast opportunities and educational experiences for students while serving the information and entertainment needs of the University and surrounding communities. KTRM is on the air 24 hours a day serving Truman community and Adair county. In the coming months, the station will begin broadcasting in HD, the new digital standard under adoption by radio stations nationwide. The format is Alternative Rock with specialty shows in the evening. Regular news and sports broadcasts cover world and national news while emphasizing campus news. In addition, campus sporting events are broadcast live. Visit the KTRM Website.

News 36
News 36, KTRM-TV represents the television side of journalism at Truman State University. News36 has live broadcasts air every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during the semester. Truman students can watch the newscast on cable channel 36 with replays on the local cable system. The staff uses the best equipment available, including Avid digital editing equipment and new Cannon XL2 cameras. News 36 producers, reporters, editors, directors and studio crew work hard to get viewers the latest news from Truman to the national level.

Truman Media Network
Truman student media come together in a convergence medium, the Truman Media Network, to determine how to best tell stories, especially "big" stories. Because media consumers access information from various media (TV, radio, print, Internet), TMN is a "real world" learning lab that mirrors industry movement to telling stories on multiple media platforms. In the past two years, KTRM, NEWS 36, and the Index, under the TMN umbrella, have come together to report Missouri elections and the 2008 Iowa caucuses.

Windfall
The Windfall is Truman State University’s campus journal of art, literature, drama, photography and music. All of the work is student-composed and the journal is entirely student-produced. The Windfall publishes once a school year late in the spring semester. If you are interested in joining the staff, feel free to contact them at Windfall@truman.edu. Staff includes an editor in chief, assistant editor, layout editor, art/music editor, poetry editor and a prose editor. General staff members attend weekly meetings to discuss and vote on all submissions. No member of the staff is excluded from any part of the publication process.