Student Media
The student media, located in Wells Hall, includes broadcast, print and online facilities. The studios of KZLX-LP, KXCV/KRNW-FM, and KNWT-TV are located on the second floor of Wells Hall. KZLX-LP is the award-winning campus radio station operated by and for Northwest students. The station offers on-the-air experience necessary for entering a career in radio broadcasting. Included are opportunities to develop skills in sales, production, management, programming, news and sports, and promotions. The station provides music and news for the campus, Maryville and surrounding area.
Additionally, students can further develop skills in announcing, feature production, programming, development and news on KXCV/KRNW-FM. These stations provide the public radio mainstays of in-depth news, and music in a broadcast area ranging from Omaha, Neb., to Kirksville, Mo., and from Des Moines, Iowa, to Kansas City. The stations are members of National Public Radio (NPR) and American Public Radio and produce programming broadcasts on both networks.
KNWT-TV serves both the Northwest campus and the city of Maryville. Students learn the basic use of television equipment, production, direction, and station operations, while producing a wide variety of television programming. Student-produced programming consists of newscasts (produced in conjunction with the student newspaper and converged news website), sports programs, talk shows, and music videos. Students have the opportunity to build skills in front of and behind the cameras.
Student publications is located on the lower level of Wells Hall and includes The Northwest Missourian weekly newspaper, the Tower yearbook and Framework Interactive online magazine. Student publications offer students practical experience for a journalism/communication career. All publications are governed by a student-operated editorial board. Northwest is one of the few universities/colleges in the country to have all three publications recognized as All-American award winners by the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). The Northwest Missourian and Tower yearbooks have been recognized for excellence and awarded Hall of Fame status by ACP.
The Northwest Missourian is a campus and community news forum. Students learn news writing, sports writing, feature writing, editorial writing, photography, advertising, graphic and design skills while working on the newspaper. An electronic version is available at www.nwmissourinews.com. The Northwest Missourian is recognized as a Pacemaker publication (top 1 percent in the nation) by the Associated Collegiate Press. It has been honored as one of the top six newspapers in the country by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The Northwest Missourian was inducted into the ACP Hall of Fame in 2000.
Framework Interactive is an electronic arts and entertainment magazine. This professional magazine can be found online at www.fwinteractive.com.
The Tower yearbook is consistently honored as one of the top six yearbooks in the country. Tower was inducted into ACP’s Hall of Fame in 1994 and is recognized as a Pacemaker publication by ACP and a Gold Crown winner by CSPA. The publication also includes a DVD with each publication. Northwest was the first public university in the country to produce a CD-ROM supplement to the yearbook and now a DVD supplement.