Andrew Oppmann

Andrew Oppmann, a former media executive for news organizations in seven states, leads MTSU’s efforts to tell our unique stories on multiple platforms. His team shapes and implements organic and paid advertising and communications strategies that serve the needs and priorities of the university’s colleges and units. As the university’s chief spokesman, Oppmann also works with the President and Provost to shape executive-level outreach.

As executive producer of MTSU True Blue TV, Oppmann is also responsible for the university’s premier video platform and public access channel for live broadcasts and campus original programming. He is host and executive producer of “Out of the Blue,” MTSU’s award-winning public service program that airs on NewsChannel 5+ and channels in 17 states. The program’s web-only series during the height of the COVID-19 crisis, “Stay on Course,” was honored with a 2020 Silver Telly Award.

And he leads special initiatives, such as bolstering MTSU’s ties to Peru, Kenya, China and The Bahamas; launching the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center; and establishing partnerships with major brands, including The Grammys; the Academy of Country Music; Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival; EAA AirVenture; Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Air Force volunteer civilian auxiliary; the Grand Ole Opry; Nashville Predators; Nashville Sounds; Music City Grand Prix; Tennessee Air National Guard; Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America; and Nashville Film Festival.

Before joining MTSU, Oppmann was a vice president at The Tennessean in Nashville and president and publisher of Gannett Tennessee’s media groups in Murfreesboro (The Daily News Journal) and Clarksville (The Leaf-Chronicle). He was an executive, editor or reporter for news organizations in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. He earned his master’s degree from MTSU in strategic leadership and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky in journalism.

Oppmann is a lieutenant colonel in Civil Air Patrol; an Army Reserve Ambassador on behalf of MTSU’s Army ROTC program; and a volunteer Boy Scout leader. An adjunct professor of journalism in MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment since 2011, he was conferred lifetime membership and regent status by the Associated Press Media Editors (now the News Leader Association) for his work on behalf of the journalism industry.