The Upstart

Feature in the Field: Feature Coverage students experience the MSU Dairy Store

MIPA 2016: Shoot like a Pro students discuss skills 

“Shoot like a Pro” students talk about their experience in the class and how they are using their newfound knowledge in the real world. The class is run by second […]

Storify: MIPA Volleyball battle on-going

By Arianna Smith     [View the story “MIPA Volleyball Battle On-going” on Storify]

Listen to Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times writer Farah Stockman’s riveting journalistic experiences

MIPA students at Pulitzer Prize winner Farah Stockman’s seminar asked driving questions that she answered with gripping stories from her investigative journalism career. Click on the play button underneath each question to […]

Interactive map: online publications for MIPA schools

Pulitzer Prize winnner Farah Stockman speaks to MIPA students about resilience, experience

By Arianna Smith The term “Pulitzer Prize winner” may conjure the image of a stiff and buttoned up, grizzled veteran reporter. Farah Stockman is indeed a veteran columnist and reporter, […]

Advanced Yearbook Design students learn ‘Good C.R.A.P’

Students in instructor Lydia Cadena’s Advanced Yearbook Design course are working to implement the “C.R.A.P” principles to their designs. C.R.A.P. stands for “contrast,” “alignment,” “repetition” and “proximity,” and, according to […]

Yearbook students work to broaden their theme ideas

In the Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge class, instructor Pam Bunka said students will learn ways to broaden their theme and the unique content within their school’s yearbook. Students […]

News editors implement change through leadership

Dean Hume, a veteran MIPA instructor, is back this year to teach newspaper editors how to guide their staffs to success. Hume spent Monday morning’s session getting the students to […]