The Winona360 web site is primarily a vehicle for publishing journalism content created by Winona State University Mass Communication students.
In Spring Semester 2019, seven students are involved in the senior journalism capstone class, “Publication Practicum,” and will research write and edit journalism articles including text, video, audio and photographs and post them here for public viewing and comment.
Community members in and around Winona, Minnesota, will be able to view a variety of interesting news articles on the newly updated Winona360 web site.
The site is a function of the Winona State University Mass Communication department and is populated with articles, photographs and video stories created primarily by upper division journalism students.
Students in the Spring 2018 semester’s senior journalism capstone class, Publication Practicum, are researching, interviewing, photographing, video recording and editing articles. They will upload their articles to the site and then hope to hear feedback from site viewers.
The site is located at a new web address: https://educate.winona.edu/winona360.
After more than a decade of planning, and more than a year of construction, two pedestrian tunnels under the railroad tracks adjacent to the Winona State University campus are open.
The tunnels opened in time for WSU’s Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017.
WSU received a federal funds grant in 2006 to assist with the cost of construction of two pedestrian tunnels under the Canadian Pacific rail lines that run east-west through the campus, separating the main part of campus from athletic fields.
Students, faculty, staff and community members now can safely cross the tracks by using the tunnels which also include ramps that follow Americans With Disabilities Act guidelines.
The tunnels were built after many years of research and planning, and cooperation between the university, city, county and state agencies and railroad company planners.
WSU Mass Communication Professor Tom Grier used the department’s unnamed aerial vehicle to shoot video of pedestrians using the tunnel while a train passes prior to the WSU Homecoming football game.
This blog-based web site is dedicated to publishing the work of Winona State University journalism students, particularly those involved in the senior journalism capstone course. Articles, video, photographs and audio segments will appear here, all researched, written, photographed, edited and published by students.
Please read the articles and view the images, then feel free to comment on them — good or bad — to help students learn and grow from this experience.
