Student Media

The St. Joseph Catholic School's nationally recognized, award-winning student media program covers broadcast journalism, sports broadcasting and print journalism. The program is headed by Terry R. Cassreino, a former longtime Mississippi journalist. The Journalism Education Association at Kansas State University named Mr. Cassreino the National Broadcast Adviser of the Year in 2023. The Mississippi Scholastic Press Association named Mr. Cassreino Broadcast Adviser of the Year (2016 and 2017), Yearbook Adviser of the Year (2015) and Newspaper Adviser of the Year (2014). Mr.Cassreino also is a three-time runner-up to the Dow Jones News Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year.

 

St. Joseph students take one of three courses: Foundations in Journalism (a basic introductory course for eighth graders), Print Journalism (in which students produce the school yearbook The Shield), and Broadcast Journalism and Sports Broadcasting (in which students manage a streaming sports radio station and produce a weekly video newscast).

 

This is Saint Joe's school yearbook. Students, led by an editing team appointed by Mr. Cassreino, write, edit, design and produce the school yearbook, The Shield. The book is delivered to students every fall. Pictavo, the online platform and company that publishes our yearbook and others across the nation, named The Shield one of the best yearbooks for 2024.

 

This is St. Joe's sports radio coverage both online through our Bruin News Now YouTube channel and on WJXC-LP Jackson, Mississippi Catholic Radio 107.9. St. Joe webcast and broadcast home-and-away varsity football games live. Students call the plays, provide expert analysis, produce a coach's pre-game show and host a live halftime interview show. The radio station is advertiser supported. 

 

BRUIN NEWS NOW 

This is St. Joe's state, national and international award-winning weekly video newscast weekly video newscast available every Friday on our Bruin News Now YouTube channel. Students anchor the newscast and provide news and sports stories from the St. Joe campus. BNN is now in its 11th season and will mark the 10th anniversary of its first newscast in December 2015. The Mississippi Scholastic Press Association named Bruin News Now the state's best high school newscast in 2025. The 2025 Writing, Visual and Multimedia Contest sponsored by the Quill & Scroll International Honor Society for High School Journalists named BNN the Best News Show in 2025 in a competition that attracted entries from more than 120 high schools across the United States, China and England. Y 

 

This is St. Joe's monthly sports talk show webcast LIVE on our YouTube channel once a month from Sal & Mookie's Madison.