Vanderbilt Student Communications Inc. board announced new division heads for several student media organizations and board members-at-large on Monday and Wednesday.

Rising senior Katherine Miller will be the director of InsideVandy.com, rising junior Courtney Rogers will be editor-in-chief of Versus Magazine, rising junior Mikil Taylor will be station manager of WRVU and rising junior Hannah Twillman will be editor-in-chief of The Vanderbilt Hustler.

The board also hired rising junior Frannie Boyle as editor-in-chief of The Vanderbilt Torch, rising senior Jadzia Butler as editor-in-chief of Vanderbilt Political Review, rising sophomore Meryem Dede as editor-in-chief of The Slant, rising senior Erika Hyde as editor-in-chief of Orbis, rising senior Kristina Lyons as VTV station manager, rising senior Erin Martin as editor-in-chief of The Vanderbilt Review and rising senior Janelle Stokes as editor-in-chief of The Talented Tenth.

Rising sophomore Phil Carroll was elected a two-year member-at-large and Brendan Alviani will serve as a one-year proxy. Sydney Wilmer, the current editor-in-chief of The Hustler, will complete the last year of Rogers' two-year term.

A change in the structure of VSC will accompany these staff turnovers. The Hustler and InsideVandy.com will be separated into two divisions, and both will share a single staff along with Versus and WRVU. There will be increased convergence in news content with online multimedia coverage. Outside of these publications, some smaller publications will be part of a revenue-sharing model.

Director of VSC Chris Carroll said the goal of the new model is to have a unified presence, while still allowing each media source to have its own distinct presence.

Rogers, the current features editor for Versus, said she is looking forward to the more unified structure and the opportunities it will present.

"I am exited about the new structure next year because we have a chance to make Vanderbilt media more collaborative, and I am looking forward to really bringing all of the publications together," she said.

Twillman agreed, saying she was also looking forward to collaborating with the other publications.

"I'm especially excited to work together to bring The Hustler and the rest of student media into this new stage of media," she said. "I also want to get even more students involved and make student media more reflective of our students."

According to VSC Board Chair and Professor of Management and Sociology Bruce Barry, the new focus on multimedia matches a national news trend and can help provide students training for later media careers.

"For students who choose to get heavily involved and take this as a career, it is important for the experience on campus to prepare them for the workplace," Barry said, "We want to provide our staff with the right education and the appropriate experience."

"I am really excited because we're going to completely redesign and rethink the online presence of InsideVandy, Versus and the other publications," said Miller, who is the current editor-in-chief of the Torch.

Some of Miller's plans for the upcoming year include creating a Nashville City Guide for college students and creating a history video and audio of the Rites of Spring.

"We are going bring everything together and get us to a Web 2.0 place," she said.