Archive for October, 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and Bloomington native Joel Pett will visit Ernie Pyle Hall this week as the School of Journalism Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence.

ESPN anchor and IU alumna Sage Steele visited the School of Journalism Friday as part of the J492 Media Internships class. During her talk, she emphasized the importance of internships.

Every few months, the Knight Center brings about 30 journalists to the University of Maryland campus in College Park for a weeklong fellowship. The reporters and editors spend that time immersed in a particular issue. The idea is to help journalists covering a particular beat develop a better expertise.

Note: Graduate student and Web reporter Rosemary Pennington attended the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism as a Fellow in February and attended the follow up session Oct. 17-19. While there, she caught up with Riddhi Trivedi-St. Clair, M.A.’01.As a graduate student in the School of Journalism, Riddhi Trivedi-St. Clair thought she’d be covering social issues [...]

Veteran India scholars and former foreign correspondents gathered to discuss journalism and the world’s largest democracy at the “Reporting India” conference Monday and Tuesday at the Indiana Memorial Union and at the India Studies house.

Professor David Nord visits the Missouri School of Journalism  today as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. He’ll give a lecture at noon on "What Should a Newspaper Do? Editors, reporters and readers argue about journalism in early 20th century New York."Nord’s interest areas include journalism history and history of the religious press. He’s author of several [...]

Monday night, ESPN anchor Dana Jacobson talked to a crowd at Woodburn Hall about “What It Takes to Get to ESPN and Stay There.” Assistant professor Mike Conway, who worked with Jacobson several years ago in Traverse City, Mich., invited her to talk to his broadcast classes and share her story with a general audience during the evening talk.