Career Services’ Role in Preparing Students for Post-Grad

How does college prepare students who want to go into the creative industries for life after graduation?  Your first thought may be to look at schools’ career services offerings. At Wheaton College (MA), the Career Services office aims “to inspire and empower students in identifying and developing career opportunities through strategic exploration of their personal, […]

Evelyn Innovates: Innovating Beyond the Podcast Industry

The rise of podcasting as an audio storytelling medium has brought an expansive amount of different kinds of podcasts, different levels of professional production, and a diverse range of topics and storytelling approaches to the podcast industry. In terms of production, podcasts range from professional, produced with larger budgets and professional equipment, to amateur, produced […]

Post-Production Workers’ Rights during a Pandemic

How do unions ensure the health, safety, and security of their members during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Motion Picture Editors’ Guild (MPEG) is a union under IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Pictures Technicians and Allied Crafts of the United States) whose members include people who work in post-production, including but not limited […]

The Cultural Shift in Television Consumption

Television consumption originally began as a family activity in which the entire family gathered to watch television at regular times each night. Television consumption today is quite the opposite. Today, people watch television via online streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu on their own time, usually individually rather than in a family setting. How did […]