Archive for 2008

Alumnus Gerould Kern, B.A. ’71, is the new executive editor of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper company announced Monday.Kern had been vice president of editorial since 2003, but had spent most of his career in the newsroom. He was associate editor before assuming the role of vice president, had been associate editor and deputy managing [...]

Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran’s book review of the 2007 book Feminist Interventions in International Communication (Eds. Katherine Sarikakis and Leslie Ragan Shade, Rowman & Littlefield) appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, pp. 196-198.RelatedParameswaran co-authors journal article (July 9)Raymer heads to India to shoot, lecture (July [...]

Rafat Ali, M.A. ’01, just sold his ContentNext media company to The Guardian for what some business analysts estimated was $30 million. Ali said he created the original version of the site in 2002 as a de facto resume, a way to show what he could do as a journalist working online. For details, check [...]

The Jim Murray Memorial Foundation has selected senior Michael Sanserino as one of seven scholarship winners, a prize worth $7,500 toward education expenses.The awards honor Jim Murray, a founder of Sports Illustrated in 1953, sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 1961-68, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and a 14-time winner [...]

Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran and Kavitha Cardoza’s article, "Immortal Comics, Epidermal Politics: Representations of Gender and Colorism in India," has been accepted for publication in Journal of Children and Media (2009, Vol. 3, Issue 1). A portion of this research was completed during her last sabbatical, and a previous version of [...]

Associate professor Steve Raymer left Tuesday for a month-long visit to India where he will continue work on a book project in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and lead lectures at Calcutta University and the American Center in Calcutta.

When 13 journalism honors students signed up for a course in British Media and Culture in London, none expected a Hoosier to show up as one of the international experts. But John Owen is used to showing up in unexpected places.