BATON ROUGE - Researchers from the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication have released the first report of the 2023 Louisiana Survey. Findings show residents remain pessimistic about the direction of the state, and confidence in state government remains low.

BATON ROUGE--Three LSU Manship School of Mass Communication students, Jessica Jefferson, Mea Morrell and Kyle Stanley, were among the 88 recipients of The LAGRANT Foundation's (TLF) 2023 Scholarship Program, which recognizes ethnically diverse students from colleges and universities across the nation for their academic achievement, mass communication career goals and community involvement.

BATON ROUGE--The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) voted this month for the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication's undergraduate and graduate programs to receive full reaccreditation. ACEJMC concurred with the recommendations for reaccreditation made by the Accrediting Committee and the site team in November 2022.

BATON ROUGE–LSU has named Kimberly Bissell the Dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication, effective July 24, pending approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors.

The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Graduate Program is excited to announce this year's recipients of two prestigious research grants awarded to students receiving their Master of Mass Communication or Ph.D. in Media & Public Affairs.Third-year doctoral students Hope Hickerson and Soheil Kafiliveyjuyeh are the recipients of the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research.

BATON ROUGE--LSU Manship School of Mass Communication broadcast journalism senior Aria Pons placed sixth in the Television Features II News Competition of the 2022 -- 2023 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. The competition received 77 entries from 47 schools. Pons' win ties for the highest Manship School student's placement in the competition since 2013.

BATON ROUGE--The Louisiana Association of Broadcasters (LAB) recognized LSU Manship School of Mass Communication senior Birdie O'Connell, a Tiger TV sports journalist and Manship Ambassador, with the LAB Broadcast Scholarship at the 2023 LAB Prestige Awards. O'Connell was one of two students in the state to earn the $4,000 scholarship.

BATON ROUGE--Nine students from LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center have won a national investigative reporting prize for stories re-examining the shooting deaths of two Southern students by a sheriff's deputy in 1972.