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INTERESTED IN THE EAST TENNESSEAN & STUDENT MEDIA CENTER?Students gain experience in journalism, advertising, and photography through this student-run newspaper. Apply Here Deadline for Spring 2025 is December 1. |
The Creative Arts Scholarship Program is for first-time, out-of-state graduate and undergraduate students, including international and transfer students. Applicants must be accepted to ETSU before they will be considered for a Creative Arts Scholarship.
Students gain experience in journalism, advertising and photography through the student-run newspaper. The Student Media Center also offers other media experiential opportunities such as operating and facilitating usage of the One Button Studio and potentially other special media projects.
The East Tennessean — the student-run newspaper of East Tennessee State University
— serves the ETSU community by acting as the watchdog of the campus and covering occurrences
on and around campus with fairness and objectivity. Printed by the Elizabethton Star,
the East Tennessean produces 34 issues during the academic year and is distributed
to most university buildings. It can be obtained for free from one of the publication’s
many racks and also has a full online and social media presence, including a complete
digital edition of each issue. The paper gives students the power to share campus
news, sports, and entertainment while building experiences in journalism, photography,
and advertising.
Every semester, we aim to hire staff writers and editors with diverse interests and footholds in organizations and departments around campus. These writers and editors act as the newspaper’s experts on their particular topics of interest, allowing the newspaper to more adequately cover as much of university life as possible.
The East Tennessean is your source for everything ETSU.
The East Tennessean is part of the state-of-the-art Student Media Center. The center also houses The Edge 89.5 HD4, the student-run radio station of ETSU; the One Button Studio; and other specialized media areas.
Recipients of the Creative Arts Scholarship under the umbrella of the East Tennessean student newspaper/Student Media Center must adhere to the following criteria.
Maintain a 2.5 GPA average each semester.
Successfully complete 12 credit hours each semester.
Up to 70 hours per each Fall and Spring semester working for the East Tennessean/Student Media Center.
The 70 hours may be met by any combination of the following duties associated with the East Tennessean/Student Media, under the guidance of the East Tennessean adviser, the East Tennessean office supervisor and the East Tennessean student executive editor: writing for print and/or online; photography; videography; graphic design; advertising sales; circulation; multimedia production; editing both for print and online; and social media production. Various duties are also available through the Student Media Center from assisting with projects to working at the front desk.
The adviser (Don Armstrong) and/or the office supervisor (Vanessa Canter) will be responsible for ensuring adherence to the 70-hour requirement.