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ICPA awards 103 prizes to IU student media

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:14:22 +0000

IU student media had “a great showing” at the Indiana Collegiate Press Associations awards lunch Saturday, according to IDS editorial adviser Ruth Witmer. IU’s staffers in the advertising department, the Arbutus, the Indiana Daily Student, idsnews.com, INside and Weekend received 103 awards.

Senior Carrie Ritchie won Brook Baker Indiana College Journalist of the Year.
The late David Adams, former student media director, received the Inglehart-Adams Adviser Award, a new honor named for Dave and Ball State’s Louis Ingelhart.
IU students won 97 individual awards for writing, photography, design and online work and four overall awards for Best in Category to Inside, Indiana Daily Student, Arbutus and Advertising.

ICPA’s awards luncheon and conference recognizes the best student work in newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, print ads and online work. This year’s event was at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.

2008 scholarship winners

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:53:34 +0000

At the March 29, 2008, annual Scholarship Awards ceremony, these students won scholarships:

Sara Amato, Society of Professional Journalists’ Bettie Cadou Memorial Scholarship
Kathryn Armson, Richard Gray Scholarship
Natalie Avon, David E. and Ruth (Padget) Albright Writing Scholarship and Trevor R. Brown International Teaching Scholarship
Casey Baksa, John Johnson Wheeler Scholarship
Cory Barker, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship
Joanna Barnett, O’Bannon Journalism Scholarship
Andranise Baxter, Sarah Bence Scholarship and Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Kamilla Benko, School of Journalism Scholarship
Amy Bishop, J. E. O’Brien Scholarship
Hannah Bolter, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
James Brosher, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Lauren Brucker, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Larry Buchanan, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Brian Buckey, Jack Backer Scholarship
Christine Burianek, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship
Biz Carson, School of Journalism Scholarship
Mindy Cimini, School of Journalism Scholarship
Ethan Cirmo, Pat and Diane Siddons Indiana Daily Student Scholarship
Megan Clayton, Ruth (Squibb) Chapman Journalism Scholarship
Jordan Cohen, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship
Chip Cutter, Charles and Nancy Teeple Business Writing Scholarship
Ashley DeRousse, School of Journalism Scholarship
Adryan Dillon, James R. and Susan (Bassett) Hetherington Scholarship
Liz Dilts, Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship
Stephanie Doctrow, School of Journalism Scholarship
Matt Dollinger, Steve Guback Scholarship
Kyle Dugger, William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship and Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Margaret Dunphy, School of Journalism Scholarship
Kaylyn Easton, Marjorie (Smith) Blewett Scholarship/Internship
Tom Edwards, Roy W. Howard Scholarship
Alex Farris, Jack Scott Scholarship
Sarah Frantsi, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Kari Friedlander, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship
Audrie Garrison, John Matthew Jackson Memorial Scholarship
Anna Guanzon, School of Journalism Scholarship
Katie Hagan, Jack Scott Scholarship
Kelly Hagen, Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Maggie Hames, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Meg Hamill, Roy W. Howard Scholarship
Abby Henry, Roy W. Howard Scholarship
Stephen Hicks, Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Kellen Hubert, Steve and Becky (Gunden) Smith Scholarship
Kristina Hunter, Palladium-Item Scholarship
Lee Hurwitz, Roy W. Howard Scholarship
Sarah Hutchins, Richard Gray Scholarship
Emelie Johansson, Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Alex Kenny, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship
Rebecca Kheel, William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship and Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Hillary Kladke, School of Journalism Scholarship
Sara Ko, Dick Yoakam Broadcast Journalism Scholarship
Jackie Kochell, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Clare Krusing, Dick Yoakam Broadcast Journalism Scholarship and Trevor R. Brown International Teaching Scholarship
Zina Kumok, Scripps Howard Internship
Jeffrey Laboon, School of Journalism Scholarship
Kristina Lafree, Louise (Hess) Miller Scholarship
Nadia LaMantia, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Garrett Lawton, G. Cleveland Wilhoit Scholarship
Evan Mannweiler, Jan and Paul Abramowitz Scholarship
Regan McCarthy, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Collin McCollough, John E. and Mary Stempel Memorial Scholarship
Anne McElherne, Joseph A. Berman Scholarship and Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Courtney Miller, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Kyle Mitchell, Bond Smith Sublette and A.J. and Bettie Smith Scholarship
Sam Mooney, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Sean Moore, Robert Williamson Memorial Scholarship
Katie Myrick, Robin Fogel Avni Scholarship for Design and Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Kelsey Nash, Louise (Hess) Miller Scholarship
Rorye O’Connor, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Kristi Oloffson, Timothy A. Franklin Scholarship
Zach Osterman, Jack and Helen Fesko Scholarship
Rachel Pankiw, Carolyn (Lucas) Tufford Journalism Scholarship
Georgia Perry, Counts/Ahlhauser Scholarship
Caitlin Peterkin, Robert R. and Mary (Pence) Cosner Scholarship
Jared Poertner, Eugene C. Pulliam Scholarship
Shabrelle Pollock, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Genevieve Postlethwait, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Kevin Pozzi, Louise (Hess) Miller Scholarship
DeAntae Prince, Charles and Nancy Teeple Soccer Writing Scholarship
Danielle Pritchett, School of Journalism Scholarship
Mary Reisert, Margaret H. Knote Journalism Scholarship and Public Relations Achievement Scholarship
Danielle Rindler, School of Journalism Scholarship
Beth Rosenbarger, Frances G. Wilhoit Research Award for best undergraduate research paper
Megan Samuels, Justin M. Druck Scholarship
Mike Sanserino, Poynter Internship and Scholarship
Zach Schalk, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Rachel Schoumacher, John F. McLeod Scholarship
Wes Scott, David L. Adams Scholarship
Rachel Skybetter, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Joe Slabaugh, Patricia Beach Smith Scholarship
Candace Smith, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Stefanie Smith, Chris Savage Memorial Scholarship
Jordan Snow, School of Journalism Scholarship
Brian Spegele, Ralph L. Holsinger Scholarship
Lizzy Street, Charles F. Hardy Memorial Scholarship
Lauren Switzer, Lola Graham/Theta Sigma Phi Scholarship
Bertrand Teo, Ernie Pyle Scholarship
Lisa Totino, School of Journalism Scholarship
Erica Walker, Jack Scott Scholarship
Samantha Weiss, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Brian Welk, Ferree Freshman Scholarship
Katie Wickham, Philip Ward Burton Advertising Scholarship and Trevor R. Brown International Teaching Scholarship
Ashley Wieckiewicz, Aileen Snoddy Scholarship and Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Lea Wilcox, Louise (Hess) Miller Scholarship
Tessa Wilhelm, John F. McLeod Scholarship
Lorin Williams, Jack Scott Scholarship
Ashley Wilson, Peter Jacobi Scholarship
Meg Woods, Lewis B. Edwards Journalism Scholarship and Linda (Nichols) Mayes Memorial Scholarship
Melanie Woodworth, Gretchen A. Kemp Scholarship
Savannah Worley, Journalism Alumni Scholarship
Erin Wright, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Scholarship
Charli Wyatt, Frances G. Wilhoit Research Award for best graduate research paper

‘Journalism family’ gathers for scholarship awards

Rosemary Pennington — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:41:01 +0000

Photo by Ann Schertz

Dean Brad Hamm, right, greeted journalism scholarship donors and other guests at Saturday’s celebration.

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The “School of Journalism family” gathered under red and white balloons in Alumni Hall Saturday to celebrate this year’s scholarship winners. During his opening remarks, Dean Brad Hamm said Scholarship Day is one of his favorites because it’s a chance to recognize the people who make the school what it is.

“For me this day is about our journalism family,” Hamm said, “people who represent six or seven decades of the School of Journalism.”

Included among them were former Dean Trevor Brown and Professor Emeritus G. Cleveland Wilhoit.

“There are remarkable people here,” Hamm said. “They have great faith in you,” he told the winners and other guests, incuding families, faculty and some donors.

Many scholarships are named for donors, including the Justin M. Druck Scholarship established by the former publisher of The Pharos-Tribune and The Logansport Press. The scholarship is awarded to an incoming freshman and is good all four years he or she studies journalism at IU. This year’s winner was Megan Samuels.

“I still can’t believe it,” Samuels said of winning the award. “It’s surreal.”

“She started crying,” her father, Dale Samuels, said of his daughter’s reaction when she found out. “I’m just real proud of her. This is all I can remember her wanting to do.”

Samuels, who works on her high school newspaper, decided she wanted to be a journalist in the sixth grade. She said she looks forward to starting her studies at the School of Journalism in the fall.

“I’m excited to be coming here,” she said, “to be able to be with all these people who are as interested in doing this as I am. I looked at a lot of different schools and Indiana University was the only one that offered everything I wanted to do.”

The Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship will allow graduating senior Liz Dilts to travel to China.

Photo by Ann Schertz

Nancy Comiskey, interim director of student publications, showed publications that have won many prizes this spring.

“As a newshound, I want to go where the stories are,” Dilts said. “The stories are in China. This scholarship is a way for me to get there and report on them.”

Dilts said she’ll teach English as well as freelance during her stay. She already has a few publications interested her type of reporting. Dilts said her ultimate goal is to work as a foreign correspondent one day. Winning the Hazeltine award is a step in that direction, a step her mother is glad she’s been given.

“I’m excited,” Geneie Dilts said. “It’s scary going to China, but it’s where everything is happening. I’m grateful IU shares her dream.”

Junior Mike Sanserino also won an award with a travel component, although he won’t be going quite as far. Sanserino is this year’s recipient of the Poynter Scholarship and Internship, and part of the award is an internship at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. The internship, Sanserino said, will be invaluable in helping him hone his craft.

“It’s the kind of on the job experience you need to get ahead in this business,” he said. “It’s an amazing opportunity to work with people who are at the top of the profession.”

In addition to the scholarships handed out Saturday, the winners of the Frances G. Wilhoit Research Awards were recognized for their outstanding research papers. The staffs of the Arbutus, the Indiana Daily Student and INside magazine also received recognition for all the awards, including two from the Society of Professional Journalists, they’ve taken home this year.

Pulitzer winner French to keynote SPJ region conference

Emily Wilson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:13:34 +0000

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Pulitzer Prize winner Tom French, B.A. ’81

Pulitzer Prize-winning alumnus Tom French visits the School of Journalism Saturday to give the keynote speech at the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 5 conference.

French, B.A. ’81, will talk about "The Impossibility of the World" at noon in Alumni Hall. Attendees will include student and professional members from Region 5, which includes Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, who will attend several workshops in the morning and afternoon.

French, a 27-year veteran of the St. Petersburg Times, is known for his serial narratives, book-length features that are printed chapter by chapter in the newspaper. The narratives have ranged from stories of teen mothers to small town murders to children of Asian immigrants. In 1998, French won the Pulitzer Prize in the biographical feature category for “Angels and Demons,” a serial narrative chronicling the Tampa Bay murders of three Ohio women and the search for the killer.

Professionals, many of whom also are alumni, will lead workshops that will cover reporting, visual storytelling and tips on getting jobs. French will lead one of those sessions, “Hunting and Gathering: Reporting for Story.”

Registration is $65 for student members, $85 for professional members and student non-members, and $125 for professional non-members. The deadline for registration is Friday.

Students hear from professional alumni at photo seminar

Rosemary Pennington — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:48 +0000

Students in the School of Journalism have heard a lot about the convergence of news media this year from professors and guest speakers alike. They heard more about it Friday.

Photo by James Brosher

Cincinnati Enquirer videographer Amie Dworecki (MA ’06) likes to blend still photos with her videos. "But I don’t always have time."

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About 15 people showed up for the first session of the Spring Photojournalism Seminar. The brainchild of associate professor Jim Kelly, it grew out of the "cheap seminars" students in the school organized in the late 70′s and early 80′s.

"The students would invite hotshot photojournalists from the area to speak," said Kelly, M.A. ’88, Ph.D. ’90. "They were wildly popular."

Kelly said he hopes the Spring Photojournalism Seminar will develop that same popularity and become an annual event. The professionals Kelly brought to campus to kick off the seminar are all IU alumni.

"This is about networking as much as it’s about seeing these journalists’ work," he said. "It’s about alums having the opportunity to give back to their old school. And, hopefully, our students will meet these people and be able to stop by the newspapers these people work for and see how it all works. When I did this back at Southern Illinois University, we had several students who were eventually hired by the people they met at the seminars."

Amie Dworecki, MA ’06, a photojournalist and videographer for the Cincinnati Enquirer, led the first workshop.

"I spend about half my time shooting still photography and about half my time shooting video," Dworecki explained as she prepared to share her work. "It’s usually my call. I can usually decide when I get there whether this is going to be story that will work better with still photos or one that would work better as a video package. I have a lot of freedom in that regard."

Photo by James Brosher

Kathy Anderson, B.A. ’80, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, talked about how journalists have covered the devastation and rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. She chatted with associate professor Jim Kelly, left, who organized the seminar, and IDS photographer Jacob Kriese.

Dworecki shared several short video pieces with seminar attendees, including a story about flooding that melded still images into the video.

"I really like to use still in my video work if I have the time," she said. "But I don’t always have time. That’s the one big difference I’ve discovered between the academic world and the real world. Here you can shoot something and have maybe a week to turn it around. A lot of the stuff I do I get done in about an hour."

But it wasn’t the time aspect of Dworecki’s work that caught senior Megan Baumgartner off guard — it was Dworekci’s talk of video.

"I was surprised at the emphasis on video," Baumgartner said. "I found J210 (Visual Communication) intimidating as it is. I already knew it was going to be competitive to find a photojournalism job, but this makes it seem even tougher."

Working in a converged media climate was one of the points of Dworecki’s talk. In the tough job market, a photojournalist has to be able to do everything: shoot still photos, shoot video and report.

"To find a job, you really need to be able to market yourself as someone who can do multimedia,” Dworecki said, “someone who can do still photography but also videography. I think one of the reasons I got hired was because of my skill set because I can do all of that."

Freelancer Mary Ann Carter, B.A. ’74, picked up that theme in the afternoon.

“Gone are the days when you could say ‘I’m a still photographer. That’s all I do,’” Carter said. “My freelance jobs are drying up; video is where it’s all gone. You have to be able to adapt to convergence. And the bottom line is you’re still going to be a visual storyteller. That’s not going to change, just the medium.”

Junior Ethan Cirmo said he wasn’t bothered by all the talk of convergence. He said what “intimidated” him was the discussion of contracts and copyright that followed Carter’s presentation.

“I don’t know much about business,” Cirmo said. “I took an economics class and didn’t like it. But it’s a side of things you need to understand, so it was good to hear about it. I hate it, but you can’t do the creative work you want to do without money.”

And Carter, who has shot for publications such as Sports Illustrated, The New York Times and Time, said she has found a way to meld the two.

“I love what I do,” she said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”

The daylong seminar capped off with Kathy Anderson, B.A. ’80, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune talking about how journalists have covered the devastation and rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

Saturday, some students attended a morning session where professionals critiqued their photo portfolios.

Raymer exhibit at Trulli through April 22

Gena Asher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:08:08 +0000

Photo by Ben Weller

Associate professor Steve Raymer (left) and alumnus Bill Foley at the opening of Raymer’s photo exhibit at Truilly Flatbread March 26.

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Pulitzer Prize winner and IU graduate Bill Foley (right) was among the faculty, students and friends of associate professor Steve Raymer (left) who gathered March 26 for the opening of an exhibition of Raymer’s recent photographs called "Asia and Beyond."

The exhibit of 22 prints of images from India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East runs through April 22 at Trulli Flatbread near the IU campus in Bloomington.

Raymer, a former National Geographic photographer who teaches visual journalism and international newsgathering, is the author and photographer of recent books about the Muslim world of Southeast Asia, Vietnam and the global Indian diaspora.

Alumni return to talk to PRSSA about careers

Gena Asher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:01:53 +0000

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From left, alumni Dana Robinson, Claire Chappell, Jennifer Hutubise and PRSSA moderator Jill Seigel led a discussion about PR careers March 25.

Five public relations professionals, all IU alumni, returned to Ernie Pyle Hall March 25 for the Public Relations Student Society grad panel workshop.

Dana Robinson, B.A. ’07, now at Fleishman-Hillard; Claire Chappell, B.A. ’06, now at Publicis in Indianapolis; Jennifer Hurtubise, B.A. ’06, now at Finelight; Miranda McCage, B.A. ’07, Finelight; and Daryl Witte, B.A. ’07, now at Batesville Casket Company, formed the panel to answer PRSSA members’ concerns and offer advice.

Editor to talk about transitioning from college to magazines

Gena Asher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:23:56 +0000

Ed2010 founder and alumna Chandra Czape-Turner (B.A.J. ’96), executive editor of CosmoGirl magazine, visits Saturday, April 5, 3:45 p.m. in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium to talk about transitioning from college to a career in magazine journalism.

During her visit to campus, Czape-Turner will critique students’ work. Those interested in this should sign up at the office of Career Services Director Marcia Debnam this week.

The Saturday talk is sponsored by Ed2010, an online community of students interested in pursuing magazine careers. A group of students at the School of Journalism formed a magazine interest group earlier this year with the idea of forming an Ed2010 chapter here.

Read more about Ed2010.
Panel on women in news set for Monday (April 19)
Panel discusses media coverage of LGBT community (April 17)
Lehrer draws on many presidential debates to analyze political process (April 15)

Washburn to address academic publishing

Gena Asher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:19:12 +0000

Patrick Washburn, M.A. ’73, Ph.D. ’84, visits April 7, 2:30 p.m. in the Ernie Pyle Lounge to talk about his work as a journal editor and to provide insight into the world of academic publishing. The professor at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism has been the editor of Journalism History, this country’s oldest mass communication history journal, for the last seven years.

Washburn has written extensively on this area of journalism history, including A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government’s Investigation of the Black Press During World War II and The African American Newspaper: The Voice of Freedom, which last year won the Tankard Award as the top book at the AEJMC annual conference.

Panel on women in news set for Monday (April 19)
Panel discusses media coverage of LGBT community (April 17)
Lehrer draws on many presidential debates to analyze political process (April 15)

Bean to keynote Asian Culture Center celebration

Gena Asher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:15:45 +0000

Courtesy photo, IU News Room

Cathy Bao Bean will talk about diversity and the immigrant experience Friday.

Cathy Bao Bean, educator and author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual, will present the keynote speech for the IU Asian Culture Center’s celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Friday, 5 p.m., Ernie Pyle Auditorium. The School of Journalism is co-sponsoring her talk.

The title of Bao Bean’s talk is "Living and Laughing, The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Course in Diversity," which will focus her own immigrant experience and multiculturalism. In her book, she explains how to raise a child in a respectful context while also choosing the "path less traveled," according to a press release from IU News Room.

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