The future is in storytelling. Whether it’s through legacy journalistic and sports broadcasts, online content such as podcasts, marketing communications, or your personal brand, storytellers create meaning and perspective in our lives, our culture, and our society.
St. Ambrose University’s Department of Communication and Digital Media has built the HIVE to ensure our media/production, content, public relations and communications majors are skilled storytellers and editors.
You are the explorers who witness the world and share those stories to affect change. At SAU, you’ll learn the art of balancing facts, perspective, and personal stories, along with editorial skills and content creation to tell stories — job skills in high demand.
We expect students to build journalistic integrity, explore creative boundaries and hone your skills to inform, educate and entertain readers and viewers in thought-provoking ways.
SAUtv, KALA-FM, and The Buzz give you hands-on opportunities to build your communications skills. Here, under the watchful eye of advisors with real-world experience , you will find your voice and share your stories.
Be inquisitive. Ask questions. Collect answers. Then share your dedication to the truth with the world.
Welcome to The Hive. Let’s get things buzzing.
The Buzz is the official, student-run newspaper of St. Ambrose University governed by the SAU Publications Board. Stories reside on “The Hive,” a collection of student-generated stories encompassing all media from the SAU Department of Communication & Digital Media.
The monthly editions of The Buzz are sent via email to faculty, staff, students as well as alumni and friends of SAU who choose to subscribe.
The e-newspaper covers a variety of topics including campus news and events, sports, and feature stories.
There are several opportunities for all students – regardless of major – to gain experience in writing, layout, editing, and photography.
The Buzz fulfills the COMM 332 Print News Practicum course requirement for multimedia journalism majors and minors and would also satisfy non-major electives for all students. You can take up to six credits total while working on the Buzz.
Editor in Chief of The Hive Student Media Hub
Assistant editor of The Hive Student Media Hub
Assistant Editor of The Buzz student e-newspaper and social media manager
Editor in Chief of The Buzz student e-newspaper and photographer
Staff Advisor
The Buzz is an online production by the students at St. Ambrose University for the campus community.
The Buzz student newspaper and HIVE student media hub is governed by professors and instructors of the SAU Department of Communication and Digital Media serving as the SAU Publications Board.
Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters become the property of The Buzz and are subject to editing. Unsigned letters will not be posted. Views expressed in The Buzz are not those of the faculty, staff or administration of St. Ambrose University.
You can send your letter to The Buzz editorial staff by completing the online comment form.
SAUtv is the television studio of St. Ambrose University, located in the basement of the Galvin Fine Arts & Communication Center.
SAUtv is the home of the award-winning and student-produced news program SAU Weekly. Focused on campus news and feature stories involving faculty, staff and other students, SAU Weekly is posted on the SAUtv YouTube page every Friday during the academic year.
Other shows include:
Produced by students in our COMM 234: Intro to Sports Media class, Inside SAU Athletics features coach and player interviews, as well as game highlights from the latest Fighting Bee action at St. Ambrose University.
Produced by students in COMM 224: Intro to Digital Media Production, Stingerz features discussions with SAU bees over everyone’s favorite energy drink: Stingers! Produced on location in our popular “Beehive,” you’ll hear from faculty, staff, coaches and fellow students about what inspires them in and out of the classroom.
KALA-FM is the award-winning radio station from St. Ambrose University. The mission of KALA-FM is to provide a broadcast quality learning lab for St. Ambrose University’s communication students and to serve the Quad Cities community with diverse music, news, and information.
KALA broadcasts diverse programming from jazz, blues, world, urban adult contemporary, new rock, Hispanic, Latin jazz, and gospel to public service programming (syndicated and locally-produced) to local, state, and national news. Occasional live music, features, news, podcasts, and live coverage of St. Ambrose University sports events can also be heard on 88.5FM and KALA-FM HD2 106.1FM. You can also hear our podcasts on SoundCloud.
Program underwriting and production rates are available upon request.
KALA is located on the second floor of St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts and Communication Center in Davenport, Iowa.
KALA has three state-of-the-art radio production studios and two podcast studios. Our working music archive includes a digital library, some 8,000 vinyl albums, more than 40,000 CDs, and a licensed commercial music library.
KALA-FM awards five $3,000 scholarships each academic year to St. Ambrose students in good academic standing. Three of the five scholarships are awarded to returning students. The remaining two scholarships are awarded to first-year and/or transfer students. Scholarship recipients work in the radio station throughout the academic year gaining invaluable real-world experience in broadcasting, marketing, communications, and production. Students do not need to be a Communication major to apply.
Learn more about the scholarships below:
