{"id":4127,"date":"2023-03-02T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmhub.aus.edu\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:53","slug":"journalism-club-brings-alumni-professionals-back-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/journalism-club-brings-alumni-professionals-back-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism club brings alumni professionals back to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nadine Sayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Journalism Club recently collaborated with the Mass Communication Department to bring in alumni to share with MCM students their experiences of working in the journalism\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCM alumni recounted experiences\u00a0at news organizations including The National, CNN, Arab News, Gulf News, Gulf Today, Seven Days and Khaleej Times, and in some cases\u00a0discussed\u00a0moving from journalism into public relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Club President Hala Nasar said starting the club was an important initiative for the department because it helps raise awareness and encourages students to stay connected to the world by keeping up with the latest news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it currently has about 45 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStudents are excited about joining the club. They want to know more about journalism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nasar said the club will host a movie night soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students wishing to join can contact Nasar at <a>g00088225@aus.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nadine Sayed UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah\u2019s Journalism Club recently collaborated with the Mass Communication Department to bring in alumni to share with MCM students their experiences of working in the journalism\u00a0industry. MCM alumni recounted experiences\u00a0at news organizations including The National, CNN, Arab News, Gulf News, Gulf Today, Seven Days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,33,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-4127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-alumni","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-clubs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}