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Theater students get creative in a pandemic
May 14, 2021It’s been a year since Fresno State theater students took on the challenge of producing shows in a pandemic. The lack of in-person audiences proved difficult for performers, such as Alexis Macedo, who were looking for...
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Food delivery app now accepting EBT funds as payment
May 5, 2021Students receiving EBT funds can now use them to get groceries delivered right to their door. Select retailers are now accepting the funds as a form of payment through the grocery delivery app Instacart.
Retailers currently accepting...
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Fresno’s CMAC provides media opportunities in a pandemic
Apr 28, 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has made many tasks difficult to accomplish this past year. For the Community Media Access Collaborative, television broadcasting was one of them.
Despite some initial fears, CMAC has managed to program its three tv...
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Institute for Media and Public Trust moves forward with Journalists of Color Program
Apr 21, 2021The Institute for Media and Public Trust is continuing its effort to transform Central Valley newsrooms. Its central goal is to improve the trust people have in their media.
The latest way it hopes to do that...
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Save the Tower Theatre movement marches forward
Apr 14, 2021A court recently denied a request by the Sequoia Brewing Company to halt the sale of the Tower Theatre. The escrow for that sale has now expired.
When a property is in escrow, the buyer and seller...
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Fresno State Focus wins 2021 WAVE award
Mar 24, 2021Fresno State Focus was honored with the 2021 WAVE award for the category of News Coverage.
The winning entry was the April 22, 2020 broadcast by the Spring 2020 MCJ 128 class.
A student in the class, Gio...
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Can social media “save” the Tower Theatre?
Mar 17, 2021Over the past year, many of us have relied on the internet to work from home and attend school. For the Save the Tower Theatre movement, it has been used to launch a nationally-recognized grassroots effort.
Local...
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A look at the GameStop Stock phenomenon
Mar 3, 2021Some social media users made thousands of dollars recently by collectively investing in GameStop stock. It wasn’t just online strangers across the world who got involved, either.
Eric Shaw, a student at Fresno State, managed to buy...
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LGBTQ Voters React to the 2020 U.S. Election
Nov 24, 2020As the results of the 2020 presidential election continue to be sorted out, one group has already begun thinking about what lies ahead: members of the LGBTQ community.
“I believe it’s gonna take a lot of hard...
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Performing During a Pandemic
Nov 3, 2020As the nation continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department has adapted its productions to stream exclusively online. Some student actors have found this to be a difficult transition.
“It definitely sucks...