Indiana University School of Journalism » 2008 » July

Johnson hosts Profiles

Gena Asher — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:35 +0000

Associate professor Owen V. Johnson hosts two segments of Profiles, WFIU’s radio interview program that airs 7 p.m. Sundays.

Sunday: James and Naomi Collins are featured guests. He is former U.S. ambassador to Russia and currently director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Aug. 10: Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, is the guest (repeat).

WFIU is at 103.7 on the FM dial.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Golf outing raises more than $2,000 for scholarship

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:45 +0000

At July 18’s annual Take It Easy Open, 57 golfers raised more than $2,000 for the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship.

Playing at the Links Golf Club in New Palestine, the winning team included Greg Bardonner, Dan Murphy, Brad Watts and Stan Watts, who shot a 62, which was 10 under par, according to one of the organizers, J.R. Ross (B.A.J. ’96). The event’s other fundraiser includes a raffle of goods and services.

But Ross and participants say the goal of the outing is to keep alive the memory of John Jackson, who died in 1996 of a brain aneurysm. The IU senior had been IDS editor-in-chief the summer before his death. Ross and other friends of Jackson’s started the outing in 2001. It has since raised more than $45,000 for scholarships, including the award of $4,000 this spring.

Weaver attends IAMCR conference

Gena Asher — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:31:26 +0000

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver attended the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) at the University of Stockholm, where he and former IU journalism faculty member Randy Beam presented a paper co-authored with Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Bonnie Brownlee.

The paper is based on the 2007 American Journalist update study, "Professionalism of U.S. Journalists: Have Things Changed in the Turbulent Times of the 21st Century?"

Weaver also participated in a panel session, "Journalism in Democratic Societies: Normative Theories of the Media" and chaired a research paper session, "Journalism Education Across the Media Divides."

Professor emerita Christine Ogan also attended this conference.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Johnson reports for Slovak Spectator

Gena Asher — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:29:27 +0000

Associate professor Owen V. Johnson reported "U.S. National Czech and Slovak Museum Wrecked" for the July 14 edition of The Slovak Spectator, and English-language newspaper in Bratislava. Read the article online.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Parameswaran reviews new book

Gena Asher — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:27:00 +0000

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.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

HSJI wraps up 62nd year

Greg Ruhland — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:56:43 +0000

Photo by Greg Ruhland

Senior Linday Chambliss of Castle High School in Newburgh, Ind., presents her T.I.S. bookstore campaign in Terry McCartin’s business advertising workshop.

Learn more about HSJI
IDS focusing on Web, multimedia (April 26)

Wednesday marks the end of the 62nd High School Journalism Institute student sessions, a series of three five-day sessions that brought more than 468 young journalists from around the nation and one foreign country to Ernie Pyle Hall to improve their skills before working on their own publications this fall.

Workshop sections included newspaper, yearbook, desktop publishing, business/advertising, TV news and photojournalism. And, HSJI is a group effort, according to director Jack Dvorak, who reported that a total of 20 faculty members led the 33 individual sections of the workshops, and eight current and former IU journalism majors handled the counseling duties for high schoolers staying in dorms.

While students finished up a yearbook session this week, teachers reflected on their experiences.

“I always like coming here because I go home renewed,” said yearbook coordinator Susie Coleman of her 20 years in the program. “Someone always teaches me something, or I pick up a trick they’re doing.”

Photo by Greg Ruhland

Kelsey Tanner explains her yearbook theme idea to group members.

By the time she leaves next week, Coleman will have reviewed almost 25 student-planned yearbook themes for next year. On the board, her students read design basics such as how a cover visually conveyed a theme, and how the table of contents followed a title page with pictures and the school name. Then there were section spreads, dividers and end sheets to consider.

But Coleman said the heightened experience of a university setting added an extra dimension to flat chalkboard concepts.

“That all the classes are in Ernie Pyle is a great opportunity for them to see the School of Journalism, what actually goes on here,” Coleman said. “It’s not just going to a workshop, staying in a dorm, and not becoming involved in the university.”

Some of the buttons Stephanie Wright had clicked before, but the Kankakee Valley High School senior listened anyway to an Adobe InDesign workshop outlining the fundamentals of a spread. Wright’s adviser at Kankakee Valley picked up the $295 HSJI tab so that Wright could learn as much as she could. Next year, she takes over as editor of the school’s newspaper and yearbook.

Photo by Greg Ruhland

The yearbook class wrapped up the 62nd session of HSJI.

So far, Wright made four spreads.

“I learned a lot, just getting to learn more buttons, which makes your spread more sophisticated,” she said.

Hannah Stroup of Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne was involved in both newspaper and yearbook sessions.

“We’ve never had a business or advertising manager for the yearbook before,” Stroup said. “So my adviser said I should try to find a camp that would help me figure out what needs to be done. I figured out a lot I can use next year for my position.”

In another classroom, Lindsay Chambliss from Castle High School in Newburgh, Ind., presented a mini advertising campaign for the T.I.S. Bookstore to three HSJI “judges.” She created the work in Terry McCartin’s business advertising workshop.

Besides the campaign, McCartin encouraged his students to create a comprehensive portfolio including a publication theme, critiques of 20 ads and graphics, a rate structure for advertising, and sample prospect letters and business thank-yous.

They had only three days to deliver.

"I told them, ‘this is how businesses really do it,’" McCartin said. "You have to defend your ideas and present them to people."

Photo by Greg Ruhland

Like students, adviser Susie Coleman says she always learns something herself at HSJI.

McCartin said HSJI students usually get a tour of student publications like the Arbutus and IDS during the week. This time, he made sure they could shadow college students doing actual work.

It wasn’t all nose-to-the-grindstone at HSJI. Students shared dinner with roommates and counselors before lights-out at 11:30 p.m. in Teter Quad each night. And an honors assembly was held the last day of each workshop to recognize students’ outstanding work, to be archived on the HSJI Web site. Scholarships were presented to the students most likely to pursue a journalism career.

Advisers also had a chance to say farewell to Dvorak, who is retiring from the directorship of the program this year. Teresa White, most recently adviser at Noblesville (Ind.) High School, takes over as director Aug. 1.

Alumnus Kern to lead Chicago Tribune

Gena Asher — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:43:56 +0000

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 editor/features, and had been associate managing editor for metropolitan news.

While at IU, Kern worked for the Indiana Daily Student. He replaced Ann Marie Lipinski, who resigned.

Read more about Kern at Editor and Publisher.
Law, wine bring St. Louis alumni together (May 15)
Take It Easy Open July 28 (May 9)
Brinkman inducted into Kansas hall of fame (April 25)

Parameswaran review in quarterly

Gena Asher — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:38:48 +0000

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.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Alumnus sells Web company to The Guardian

Gena Asher — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:36:35 +0000

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 out this New York Times article about the sale.

Law, wine bring St. Louis alumni together (May 15)
Take It Easy Open July 28 (May 9)
Brinkman inducted into Kansas hall of fame (April 25)

Sanserino wins Murray scholarship

Gena Asher — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:10:44 +0000

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 of the National Sportswriter of the Year Award, among other achievements and recognitions.

The winners of the scholarship are selected from a national essay competition. Winners travel to California in the fall for a special reception and awards banquet.

Sanserino is the second IU winner, following Nate Bethea’s 2005 win.

Corya wins Counts photojournalism award (May 14)
Students celebrate Hearst achievements (May 3)
Students interested in magazines find several options to learn, network (May 2)

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