Pace University Media, Communications & Visual Arts

12/04/2025

Kate Fink, Program Director and Associate Professor of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts, writes about why nonprofit news organizations that have been reluctant to pursue advertising may want to reconsider in a piece for The Conversation. The study grew out of a project funded by the Pace University Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/nonprofit-news-outlets-are-often-scared-that-selling-ads-could-jeopardize-their-tax-exempt-status-but-irs-records-show-thats-been-rare-268844a

11/05/2025

Michelle Pulaski Behling, associate professor and assistant chairperson of the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department, shares her insights on the biggest issues facing Major League Baseball today and the effect of fantasy sports on fan enjoyment in the WalletHub article "Best Baseball Cities."

🔗 https://wallethub.com/edu/best-baseball-cities/12864 =Michelle_Pulaski_Behling

10/31/2025

Comment your fav Halloween movie👇👻

Thank you to MCVA lab manager Chris Lengers and student lab assistants Brie Luna and Buggy the Clown 🤡 (Lilah McCormack) for filming!

🎥: Produced and edited by MCVA professor Heather Hayes.

09/03/2025

👩‍💻 Media Makers: An MCVA Blog is the latest addition to the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department’s communication efforts! Created by MCVA professor Heather Hayes and run by her and fellow professor and graduate program director Kate Fink, Media Makers is your source for all things MCVA.

📨 Our students, faculty, staff, and alums will receive a weekly email newsletter every Tuesday featuring a digest of the latest department, faculty, student, and alumni news, event listings, exclusive job and internship opportunities, and podcast episodes posted to the blog.

⚠️ If you did not receive an email newsletter yesterday (9/2), especially if you’re a recent grad, we may not have your personal email address on file. Don’t fret—Subscribe to the blog at the bottom of the homepage to receive the weekly email newsletter!

🔗 mediamakers.blogs.pace.edu

📢 Have news you would like to share with our community? Email Heather Hayes at [email protected].

📸 Homepage photos by MCVA alum Jaden Kealey.

08/30/2025

On Aug. 24, News 12 Westchester aired Sahtrese McQueen's first news story about the Continental Village Fire Department celebrating “Community Day."

Watch it here:

🔗 https://westchester.news12.com/continental-village-fire-department-marks-75th-year-with-community-day

McQueen graduated in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in digital journalism. She began working as a freelance editor and videographer at News12 in July 2024.

McQueen was recently featured in the inaugural edition of Media Makers: An MCVA Magazine.

Read the story here:

https://mediamakers.aflip.in/S25

07/30/2025

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07/29/2025

are ! 👏 Shouting out four alums who took home Sports Emmy Awards this year for their work on the 2024 Summer Olympics through :

🏆 Dev Stafford ‘20: Content Associate; Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event Games of the ###III Olympiad

🏆 Rachel Skopp-Cardillo ‘20: Associate Producer; Outstanding Interactive Experience Games of the ###III Olympiad (Skopp-Cardillo’s second Sports Emmy Award 😎)

🏆 Max Vuolle ‘20: Content Associate; Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event Games of the ###III Olympiad

🏆 Briana Cuttino ‘20: Content Associate; Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event Games of the ###III Olympiad (not pictured)

Congratulations to these digital cinema and filmmaking students of the class of 2020 for bringing Olympic-level excellence to our screens! 🎉

📸 Nitara Ortiz ‘20 /

07/23/2025

The MCVA program is prominently featured!

With the continued development of the film industry in Yonkers, local colleges ramp up their offerings to support future graduates.

07/08/2025

On Thursday, July 10, Lilah McCormack (she/they) will take over the MCVA Instagram story! Follow us to ensure you don’t miss it - .

Lilah McCormack is a communications and digital media graduate student spending her summer as a news intern at Gray Media’s WABI TV5 news station in Bangor, Maine. Tune in to our story on Thursday for a behind-the-scenes look at a broadcast journalism internship and the opportunity to ask questions.

Are you an MCVA undergraduate or graduate student interning this summer? Want to do an Instagram takeover? DM us!

04/26/2025

New research on how local news nonprofits are trying to develop sustainable revenue models.

Newsroom leaders, particularly at the local level, have been interested in nonprofit models due to their perceived alignment with journalism’s public service mission, as well as their potential to ...