Archive for September, 2007

Associate professor Claude Cookman’s ability to turn his professional experience into education led to his being named the 2007 Gretchen Kemp Teaching Fellow, an honor created through a gift from former journalism professor Gretchen Kemp to reward outstanding teaching in the school.

Journalism students frequently hear professors talking about ethics in the abstract, but Friday morning, they got the chance to hear about ethics as they’re applied in the real world. About 30 students piled into Ernie Pyle Auditorium to discuss ethics with a panel of professionals.

As the winner of the Kate Comiskey Memorial Scholarship, freshman Kolby Harrell is honoring the memory of one of his favorite teachers. Not only did he choose to attend at her alma mater, but he is studying in the program where Comiskey’s mother is guiding her own students.

Broadcast journalist Lisa Ling, host of National Geographic’s award-winning series, Explorer, visits Wednesday, 7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Her talk is the second of the School of Journalism’s Fall Speaker Series.

A good piece of video storytelling has the pace of a roller coaster, WTHR-TV photographer Steve Rhodes told School of Journalism students Wednesday. “There’s anticipation, like you’re going up a hill,” he said to assistant professor Mike Conway’s J520 Video Storytelling class. “Then there’s the surprise and the rush of adrenaline as it develops, and then a slowing down at the end.”

The multimedia lab will have new hours beginning Oct. 1. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays, 1-10 p.m. Closed Saturdays.  

Want to earn money and prizes for your photos and videos? Two contests are offering some of each: Nikon’s 28th Annual College Photo Contest is worth a $1,000 grand prize and entry to Nikon’s Emerging Photographers Hall of Fame. Enter online at www.pfmagazine.com. Closer to home, IU Office of [...]