Indiana University School of Journalism » 2008 » August

IUSTV sets organizational meeting

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:15:54 +0000

IUSTV, the student-run television station seen on campus cable, will host a callout meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at R-TV 245. For more info, e-mail Kaylyn Easton or visit the Web site.

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IDS hosts open house

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:12:26 +0000

The Indiana Daily Student will host an open house at 2 p.m. Friday in the newsroom, EP 120, for all students interested in working on its publications, including the newspaper, INside magazine and Weekend sections.

PRSSA team wins Contiki contest (May 14)
Journalists for Human Rights chapter seeks photos for calendar (April 15)
Yahoo's global design director visits Monday (March 29)

Cookman curating Kinsey exhibit

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:06:22 +0000

Associate professor Claude Cookman is curating an exhibit at the Kinsey Institute gallery, “Infinitely variable: Nude and Erotic Photographs by Herbert Ascherman Jr.”

Cookman selected from more than 400 original prints in the permanent collection of works by Ascherman, who has been working as a fine art photographer for more than 40 years.

The exhibit continues through Oct. 17. For more, check out the Kinsey Web site.

Read more at the Kinsey Web site.
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Elliott column addresses PR profession, McClellan book

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:50:08 +0000

Riley Visiting Professor Dennis Elliott’s column on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book appeared in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in June.

Elliott said he felt compelled to defend the public relations profession after McClellan’s book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, provoked commentary and misunderstandings about how PR works.

Read a PDF version of the article.

Read the column (posted with permission).
Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Lanosga work nominated for national Emmy

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:25:29 +0000

Doctoral student Gerry Lanosga and his former WTHR-TV colleagues have been nominated for a national Emmy award for investigative reporting based on their series, Cause for Alarm, that spotlighted the emergency broadcast system in the central Indiana.

Read more about this project.
Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)

Panelists counsel new majors to ‘be proactive’

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:07:05 +0000

Photo by Gena Asher

Senior Mike Sanserino (right) describes his summer internships during a panel discussion for new journalism majors Thursday. From left are assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major and IUSTV executive director Kaylyn Easton.

New journalism majors heard from juniors and seniors about careers and internships, campus media jobs and strategies for making the most of their time at the school during a seminar Thursday afternoon in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium.

More than 150 freshman and new students listened as senior Kaylyn Easton of IUSTV, senior Mike Sanserino of the IDS, and juniors Lindsey Alexander and Natalie Avon, both of whom attended the Summer in London program, shared their experiences.

Their advice: Don’t wait to make the most of your opportunities. For example, it’s never too early to think about internships.

“You can’t wait to start looking for internships,” said Sanserino, who has interned at the South Bend Tribune, Fort Wayne News Sentinel and, as a Poynter Scholar, the St. Petersburg Times. He now is an IDS managing editor. “You have to be proactive and work quickly.”

Kaylyn Easton, who spent her internship at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis this summer, told students that their first internship may not include experiences in all phases of television, for example. But their second ones should.

“You may not have a tape or anything to show that you can do the work for that first one, but you’ll have to have that if you expect to get an internships in TV that will give you the chance to do standups, reports or editing,” said the executive director of IUSTV.

And how to get those tapes, that experience? The four students pointed to media organizations around campus, including the IDS, IUSTV, WIUX radio and other print and Web publications. Their advice: Don’t wait to take advantage of those, either.

“I’ve done all the jobs at IUSTV and this gave me an edge in getting internships,” said Easton, who started working at the student-run TV station as a freshman. “Student media is key. Everyone will get a degree but not everyone will put in the extra effort which gives them an edge.”

Sanserino recounted his experience when he sat in the auditorium as a freshman three years ago. He already had applied to the IDS while visiting campus that summer for freshman orientation, and, on the first day of classes, he was working on his first IDS piece.

Avon worked for a London publisher and Alexander was an intern at a London newspaper. They counseled students to be prepared to work hard during internships, to be able to complete many tasks, from “writing a Web spot to taking photos,” Avon said.

“When I started at the IDS, I worked as a designer, but then I got interested in reporting and photography,” she said. “It’s a great way to get that experience so that you can do all the things expected of you during an internship.”

Photo by Gena Asher

From left, Kaylyn Easton, Mike Sanserino, Lindsey Alexander and Natalie Avon formed a panel to share their journalism experiences with new journalism majors.

Assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major, also a panelist, and the four students told freshmen to network with one another, with their instructors, advisers and people such as Career Services Director Marcia Debnam to find out about jobs, internships and post-graduate career opportunities.

Also on hand were student leaders of media groups. Ashlee Green described efforts to raise a chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and Erin Riley invited students to check out the IU student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Student Media Director Ron Johnson and IDS adviser Ruth Witmer answered questions about applying to the IDS, INside magazine, Arbutus and other publications.

New semester organizational meetings already are set for some groups.

The IDS will host an open house Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. in the IDS newsroom, EP 120.
IUSTV meets 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at RTV-245.
The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) meets 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at a location to be determined.
Both SPJ and NABJ organizers say their groups will announce callout meetings soon.

New Ernie Pyle Scholars begin studies

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:52:34 +0000

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Lecturer Beth Wood (right) chats with new Ernie Pyle Scholars at a reception Thursday. Eighteen freshmen make up the third class of honors students.

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This year’s class of Ernie Pyle Scholars includes those with predictable skills for would-be journalism professionals: editors of high school publications, veterans of IU’s High School Journalism Institute and those who have scored high enough on entrance exams to earn prestigious scholarships.

But the third class of students in the School of Journalism’s honors program also includes a four-year member of the American Civil Liberties Union, a student whose DVD based on his volunteer work is used as a tool by a social service agency, a student with a black belt in karate, a playwright and a two-time 4-H tin punch champion.

The varied experiences of these students, both individually and as a group, create diversity among these members of the class of 2012. One of the aims of the program, created three years ago, is to provide journalism experiences to the program’s high achievers.

“These 18 new students were chosen from a pool of applicants twice as large as in previous years,” professor Dave Boeyink told the audience at a reception for Ernie Pyle Scholars Thursday in the Weil Journalism Library. “The average SAT score among the 18 new scholars is 1356, ACT is 30.3 and GPA is 3.88.”

As he introduced the students, those statistics bore out. Among the group are a Wells Scholar, a Cox Scholar, two IU Hutton Honors College scholars and several with state scholarships. Many also had attended HSJI during high school and picked up an array of awards and honors there.

Armed with talent, students will be challenged to make the most of the opportunities ahead. School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm recounted the summer’s experiences of the first group of scholars who spent eight weeks working in London this summer.

“As important as classes are, we’d like to encourage you to spend time outside class in programs that take you abroad,” he said, describing the Summer in London program and two semester-long courses, In the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle and International Public Relations. The Ernie Pyle class spent spring break in England and France while the PR class toured Japan’s media organizations.

Photo by Gena Asher

New scholar Ashley DeRousse and Riley Visiting Professor Dennis Elliott talked about classes and life at Ernie Pyle Hall.

After the introductions, students chatted with professors and staff members about programs and offerings at the school. Mary Jane Slaby explained the art of tin punch to several people (“It’s punching holes in tin and then painting it”) and a few others tried to remember if they’d attended HSJI together.

About a dozen of the students, however, already knew one another.

“Over the summer, I created a Facebook group and about 12 people found it,” said Elizabeth Carson. “Of those, about five of us have been talking regularly.”

Now that they’re face-to-face, scholars will attend some classes and special programs as a group. The two previous classes have traveled to network with alumni or attend special programs or workshops or have been invited to special events at the school.

Pulitzer winner French to join faculty in 2009

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:15:55 +0000

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom French, B.A. ’81, will join the School of Journalism faculty in fall of 2009.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French has accepted an offer to serve on the faculty in the Indiana University School of Journalism beginning in fall 2009.

French, B.A. ’81, is the 1998 Pulitzer winner in feature writing and has worked at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times since he graduated from IU.

“Tom clearly is one of the best writers and teachers of writing in the world today,” said Bradley J. Hamm, dean of the School of Journalism.

French’s work has set the standard for a generation of reporters, according to Washington Post reporter Anne Hull, whose work helped the Post earn the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

“He wrote a seminal piece of journalism called ‘A Cry In The Night’ that dominated our craft for a long time and made a model for the rest of us to follow,” Hull said. “He’s been my teacher since the day I met him. IU will soon get a glimpse of his passion and ferocious belief that journalism should be fair and truthful but also raucous, subversive, emotional and daring."

French will serve as the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism, named for J. Stewart Riley, former owner and publisher of the (Bloomington, Ind.) Herald-Telephone (now the Herald-Times) and Bedford Times Mail. Riley also was an IU trustee.

In an announcement to the newspaper staff, St. Petersburg Times executive editor Neil Brown said French is “in the small group of writers who led the renaissance in newspaper narratives in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and he is known around the world for his evangelism on the subject — which is why IU came calling.”

French was awarded the Pulitzer for “Angels & Demons,” a series that chronicled the murder of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters. Two of his other serials, “A Cry in the Night” and “South of Heaven,” were later published as books. His most recent project, “Zoo Story,” explored the inner world of Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo (to be published in 2009).

In addition to his reporting, French has led workshops across the U.S. and around the world, from the Nieman conference at Harvard to newsrooms in Dubai, Singapore and Johannesburg. French is a Writing Fellow at the Poynter Institute and teaches in a nonfiction masters program at Goucher College outside Baltimore.

David Finkel, who won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006, said French has the ability to inspire both students and veteran journalists alike.

“Tom has so many strengths. One is that he knows how to do journalism. He has a body of work that students can study and learn from, which I think is the best way for a student to learn,” Finkel said. “Second, he knows how to explain journalism. I’ve heard him teach many times and every time I’ve walked away excited by the possibilities of what we do.”

As a teacher, French draws on his reporting experiences but doesn’t rely solely on “war stories,” said Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists, future journalists and teachers of journalism where French also is an adjunct faculty member.

French’s participation at the institute started when, as an undergraduate, he won a Poynter scholarship. While at IU, he also was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student.

French recently visited campus as keynote speaker for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 5 conference in April.

Parameswaran attends symposium

Gena Asher — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:57:30 +0000

Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran participated in an invited international and interdisciplinary symposium, "Media, Religion, and Culture," in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 14-18. She presented a paper, "Erotic Love and Fanatic Violence in the Film Mr & Mrs. Iyer." Participants in the conference included scholars from Germany, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, India, United States and Brazil.

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

Speaker Series kicks off Sept. 8

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:36:04 +0000

The School of Journalism will host a radio journalist, a book author and a longtime newspaper editor this fall as part of its Speaker Series program that brings nationally-known media professionals to the area.

National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg, who covers the Supreme Court and legal affairs; book and magazine author Elizabeth Gilbert; and Leonard Downie, formerly executive editor at The Washington Post, are featured speakers this semester.

All lectures, at various locations, are free and open to the public. Below is the schedule:

Elizabeth Gilbert, Sept. 8

7 p.m., Indiana University Auditorium

Courtesy photo, Deborah Lopez

Author Elizabeth Gilbert

Time magazine called journalist and book author Elizabeth Gilbert one of the "100 most influential people in the world."

She’s the author of Eat, Pray, Love, the story of the year she spent traveling around the world in search of personal restoration after a difficult divorce. She also wrote The Last American Man, which explores America’s long-standing intrigue with a luxury-free, pioneer lifestyle and was nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Gilbert has written for GQ, Spin, Harpers Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine.

Read more about Gilbert at her Web site.

Nina Totenberg, Sept. 16

7:30 p.m., Indiana University Auditorium

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Nina Totenberg

Broadcaster Nina Totenberg has been with National Public Radio since 1975 and appears regularly on its three newsmagazines, "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition." Her NPR coverage of the Supreme Court has brought her widespread recognition, and she also appears on Inside Washington, a syndicated public affairs program produced in the nation’s capitol.

She has been Broadcaster of the Year and in 1998 became the first radio journalist to receive the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the National Press Foundation. She is the recipient of the American Judicature Society’s first-ever award honoring a career body of work in the field of journalism and the law.

Read more about Totenberg at NPR.org.

Leonard Downie, Oct. 28

7 p.m., Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

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Leonard Downie

Most recently executive editor of The Washington Post, Leonard Downie spent nearly his entire journalism career at newspaper, which he joined as a summer intern in 1964. Early in his career, Downie became a well-known local investigative reporter, specializing in crime, courts, housing and urban affairs.

He worked on the paper’s metropolitan staff as a reporter and editor for 15 years and ran the staff as assistant managing editor for metropolitan news from 1974 until 1979, supervising the Post’s Watergate coverage. He moved up to managing editor, then executive editor in 1991.

As of Sept. 8, he is stepping down as executive editor but will remain a vice president at large for The Washington Post Co. He is the author of four books.

Read more about Downie at The Washington Post.

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