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MSLCE Media Markets Class Gives Students Unique Perspective of Digital Media


By Chip Potter

The unprecedented growth of the digital media marketplace may seem daunting to many entrepreneurs trying to break into the world of the creative industries, but as we learned in Professor James Webster’s class, Understanding Media Markets, it actually provides tremendous opportunity.

Understanding “Big Data” is absolutely crucial to sustained success in marketing, as it provides target user data to a point never before seen. Professor Webster’s class focused on the history of media, how marketers use it today, and how we can utilize it in the creative industries to better understand our target, and how our target perceives our message. (more…)

MSLCE Students Learn About Film, TV Industries on Trek to Los Angeles



By Leslie Zhu

During spring break, half of the MSLCE cohort went on a journey to Los Angeles, the center of the nation’s film and television industry.

The expansiveness of both the city and its industry are so real and mind-blowing. If New York is a machine for finance, commerce and art, Los Angeles, is a high-speed and smoothly operated machine for the film and television industry. (more…)

MSLCE Students Learn the Scope of Business Models for Creative Industries


By Lauren Vernea

This winter quarter in the MSLCE elective class “Business Models for Creative Enterprises,” students immersed themselves into how the world’s most creative companies operate.

Prof. Daniel Gruber’s authentic enthusiasm for the class and the MSLCE program was evident from the beginning. The class structure was a diverse mix of lectures, case study presentations, insightful guest lectures from Chicago industry professionals, a consistent online discussion board called Yellowdig, and in-class activities. (more…)

MSLCE Students Visit Full Service Media Agency


By Lauren Vernea

MSLCE students recently participated in a site visit to the world renowned full-service media agency, Mediavest Spark at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. The company’s newly formed content department provides all forms of media from short films to mobile apps driven to connect clients with their brands. (more…)

MSLCE Students Pitch Creative Projects in Digital TV Course


By Leslie Zhu

The television industry has expanded with myriads of platforms and evolved from network to cable and internet distribution. New players like Amazon, Netflix and Hulu, and YouTube have made it easier for television show creators to get their material produced and are also gradually reshaping the entire television market and culture. We are now living in an exciting era where everyone has a chance to make his or her own production. The whole television market and culture is gradually reshaping itself.

To respond to this trend, the MSLCE students in the digital television course created their own shows. (more…)

MSLCE Professor ‘Flips’ the Classroom in Finance Course


By Joe Giovannetti

Finance is the language of business.

This is the phrase MSLCE Professor Cory Sandrock championed over his 9-week winter class, Introduction to the Creative Enterprises. In this short time, Sandrock aimed to teach students the principles of economics, accounting, and corporate finance to aid them in their creative careers. (more…)

TransCultural Exchange Director Has Built a Career In and Out of the Studio


By Jacob Nelson

Mary Sherman does not like the word “no.” The artist, teacher, writer, and director of the TransCultural Exchange has made a career out of pursuing opportunities out of curiosity, only to learn new skills in the process.

“People say, ‘No, you can’t do that,’ and it makes me want to do it more,” Sherman said. She will be speaking at the upcoming MSLCE Speaker Series event on April 6 at 5:15 p.m. (more…)

IM Global SVP Describes His Hollywood Career at Northwestern


By Jacob Nelson

When Glendon Palmer graduated from Northwestern, he knew he wanted to work behind the scenes of either television or film. “Whichever took me first,” he explained. “Nowadays, the wall has fallen between those fields.”

Palmer discussed his career, and his current role as the Senior Vice President of Development & Production at the renowned entertainment company IM Global, during MSLCE’s most recent speaker series event. The talk took the form of a conversation between Palmer and Northwestern Assistant Professor Aymar Jean Christian, who asked Palmer about his trajectory since graduating from Northwestern and what he has learned during his time working in Hollywood. (more…)