I-Comm Student Media

I~Comm Student Media is an organization involving students from all fields of study at Brigham Young University-Idaho. This organization covers major media and communication strategies, such as advertising, public relations, and news review. I~Comm also produces the university newspaper and operates its own in-house design agency, multimedia organization, copy editing team and sales/marketing group.^[1]

I~Comm Agency[edit]

The I~Comm advertising agency is an organization that provides clients with creative cross-media marketing and advertising. I~Comm also offers public relations services.

Graphic Design[edit]

Graphic Design is a team of creative illustrators and photographers that provide graphic design for all clients of I~Comm to enhance editorial design, advertising, and any additional requests by clients such as brochures, posters, photography, web pages, and newsletters.

Scroll[edit]

BYU-Idaho's student paper, Scroll, was founded in 1905 and first published as Student Rays, then The Purple Flash, then Viking Flashes and finally Scroll.^[2] One hundred years later in 2004, Scroll picked up the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award^[3] at a convention in New York City.

Scroll went from a standard newspaper format to a tabloid fold in 2007 and merged with other campus communication organization to become a larger entity called I~Comm.

I~Comm Video Productions[edit]

Multimedia organization that produces special projects for I~Comm such as documentaries, podcasts, and instructional videos.

Scroll TV News[edit]

Students in I~Comm cover breaking news and create features focusing on campus and community events. Each story is posted online. Each semester, a group of students create a community feature that is aired on Local News 8, a local CBS and Fox affiliate.

I~Comm Sales[edit]

Sells ad space through the BYU-Idaho school paper, Scroll.

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