Want to earn one credit?

• Be a deejay
• Announce sporting events
• Anchor TV news
• Write for the newspaper
• Write for the magazine
• Make a movie
• Work on the yearbook
• Be a talkshow host
• Produce a TV show
• Create a Web site

Our Partnership with GPR

Piedmont College is associated with WPPR, 88.3 FM. WPPR is part of the Georgia Public Radio Network (GPR). This 14-station network covers all of Georgia as well as parts of five other states.

Each semester, students submit works for consideration to the producers of Georgia Gazette. The students whose works are selected for airing on Georgia Gazette use the state-of-the-art production facilities at GPR in order to make their final edits before having their story air on the 14 station radio network.

Producers at GPR, including St. John Flynn and Susanna Capeluto, have been instrumental in providing on-going advice to the mass comm program regarding everything from technology choices to story ideas and host our students on a regular basis at GPR in Atlanta.

Newest Addition to Piedmont College

M.J. Kneiser is the newest addition to the Swanson Center at Piedmont. Georgia Public Radio hired Neiser as bureau chief for Northeast Georgia. She will be operationg out of a station in Swanson.

"I'm very excited to be here," says Kneiser

She gathers local stories from Habersham and surrounding counties to be aired on GPR. She set up her production studio, and reporta local stories.

"There is a lot of history and diversity in this region," says Neiser. "It's an underreported area unless there is a major story."

GPR has set up bureau cheifs in each area where there is an affiliate station. WPPR radio in the northeast is only one of the 16 affiliate stations in Georgia.

Neiser say this is a new concept for GPR in order to have better news and story coverage statewide. Before coming to Piedmont, Neiser worked with WNEG radio in Toccoa for five years.

"This is a new opportunity for me," says Kneiser. "I really look forward to working with the students."