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Career Cafes Tuesday, Wednesday

Gena Asher — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:53:18 +0000

Career Services Director Marcia Debnam will host two Career Cafes this week, 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, and 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10. Both are in the rear room of the journalism library. Students may drop in at any time with internship and job search questions.

Group heads to PRSA conference (Oct. 23)

Panel to look at PR practices in other countries

Gena Asher — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:49:07 +0000

NSJC hosts Feb. 9 panel on baseball coverage (cancelled) (Jan. 26)
Seniors advise newcomers on internships, opportunities (Aug. 29)
Szymanski to lecture at GLBT conference (Feb. 4)

Lecturer Beth Wood is hosting a panel on international public relations practices for her J321 Principles of Public Relations class at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium.

The event aims to help students understand that PR practices differ by country and region based on many elements, such as religious beliefs, government control of media, the reach of certain media, fundamental beliefs about the power of the individual v. the power of a central government and constitutionally-guaranteed rights.

Panelists include School of Journalism faculty and doctoral students.

Szymanski to serve as panelist on same sex marriage, elections

Gena Asher — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:40:21 +0000

Adjunct lecturer Zakary Szymanski will serve on a panel on same sex marriage and the 2008 elections at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Education 1120 (the auditorium).

The Gender Studies Department is hosting the panel, "Same Sex Marriage and the 2008 Elections." Other panelists include Marlon Bailey, Gender Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies; Maria Bucur, History and Gender Studies; Sara Friedman, Anthropology and Gender Studies; and Mary Gray, Communication and Culture.

Szymanski covered politics many years when he lived in California and can share history of the issue in that state for the panel discussion.

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

Stocking chapter in ethics book

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:37:07 +0000

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

Associate professor Holly Stocking has contributed a chapter to The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics, edited by media ethicists Lee Wilkins and Cliff Christians.

The chapter, "Buddhist Moral Ethics: Intend No Harm, Intend to be of Benefit," lays out a framework for both media decision-making and scholarship based on Buddhist ethics. The chapter offers guidance from a Buddhist ethical perspective for choosing careers in media, for conducting routine work in media and for dealing with ethical dilemmas in media. It offers suggestions for normative and descriptive studies based on this perspective.

The Handbook was undertaken to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and is advertised as "required reading for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in media, mass communication, journalism, ethics, and related areas." The publisher is Routledge (New York and London, 2009).

Sandy Borden, Ph.D. ’97, also contributes a chapter, "Ethical Tensions in News Making: What Journalism has in Common with Other Professions," she co-authored with Peggy Bowers.

Scholarship applications available

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:48:04 +0000

The online application form for 2009-2010 School of Journalism scholarships is available on the forms page. Look for “Scholarship Forms: Current Students” and click on “Undergraduate Scholarship Application.”

Use the “Undergraduate Scholarship Application” to apply for all undergraduate scholarships except for the Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship. Only seniors are eligible to apply for the Hazeltine Travel Scholarship. If you are a senior graduating in December 2008, May 2009 or August 2009 and wish to be considered for the Hazeltine, click that link and complete the application.

Deadline for undergraduate scholarship applications and for the Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship is Jan. 20, 11 p.m.

Scholarship winners are required to attend the annual ceremony at 1 p.m. April 5, 2009, in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. Families of winners are invited. The ceremony is an opportunity for the winners to meet scholarship donors and for the faculty at the school to honor the academic success.

Questions?

If you have questions about scholarships, contact Linda Long.
For technical questions about the online applications, contact Jeff Johnson.

Gunterman earns ‘distinguished adviser’ award

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:40:05 +0000

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s National Teacher of the Year Awards named master’s student and Bloomington High School North publications adviser Ryan Gunterman a Distinguished Adviser during a recognition luncheon Nov. 15 in St. Louis.

Many other awards were handed out during the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association’s convention, an annual gathering.

Gunterman entered the master’s program this fall after several years as BHSN’s journalism teacher and student media adviser.

FTC’s Fair talks on policing advertising

Riya V. Anandwala — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:58:04 +0000

Photo by James Brosher

FTC senior attorney Lesley Fair showed students examples of deceptive advertising during her visit last week.

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)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection’s senior attorney Lesley Fair visited associate professor Anthony Fargo‘s classes last week to talk about deceptive advertising and freedom of commercial speech.

"There is no journalism without advertising," said Fair in J300 Communications Law. She gave students instances of how editorial content is dependent on advertisements. She threw light on commercial speech, its constitutional protection and the regulation of deceptive advertising.

Fair is a distinguished lecturer at Catholic University Law School, where she has been named Outstanding Adjunct Professor by the Student Bar Association. In addition, she is a lecturer at the George Washington University Law School.

Fair narrated various cases of false advertising by brands and the FTC’s fight against them. Students were surprised to hear of cases like ice cream ads that use mashed potatoes displayed as vanilla ice cream.

Fair also stressed how health products have been under the spotlight for false advertising. She showed ads and discussed them with the class. One of them was the KFC ad in which a bucket of fried chicken was portrayed as healthy food, playing up the wrong nutrition details.

In the last part of the class, Fair talked about certain commercial speech cases and asked the students to guess the solutions.

Spegele wins sixth in Hearst contest

Gena Asher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:41:29 +0000

IU’s Brian Spegele won sixth place in college feature writing and a $500 scholarship in the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program awards six writing, three photojournalism, four broadcast news competitions and one multimedia competition monthly. Next June, monthly winners in each category participate in the National Championships. The program awards more than $550,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

A record 138 students from 78 universities and colleges participated in the program’s first competition of this academic year. Samples of winning work can be viewed in the winners section of the Web site.

Marks outlines life of Foreign Service officer

Shannon Ryker — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:32:35 +0000

Photo by Amanda Kolinsky

Foreign Service officer David Marks talked to several classes Monday and Tuesday about the his work as a press attache for the U.S. Embassy in Japan.

Rubbing elbows with United States officials, negotiating with heads of foreign nations and representing his country: Just a typical day in the life of David Marks, press attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

IU alumnus Marks spoke about his career as a Foreign Service officer with several classes during his visit Monday and Tuesday. One class he visited Tuesday was Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Bright’s J428 Public Relations Research and Planning class.

This was Marks’ first visit to IU to speak with journalism students, but was not the first time he had worked with journalism students and faculty. In March, Marks gave IU students visiting Japan a chance to meet with the U.S. ambassador in Japan, and he hopes to do the same when the next group of J460 International Public Relations students travels to Japan over spring break in March 2009.

During his talk, Marks explained the career path from IU grad to press attaché. He has been in the Foreign Service for 25 years and has worked in Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Germany and Washington, D.C. The Foreign Service is a division of the U.S. Department of State and has officers in 265 countries. FSOs, as they are called, implement U.S. policy in their locations.

Marks explained the long process to become a Foreign Service officer. Applicants take oral and written exams and are vetted by the government through background checks. Applicants must pass medical tests as well. Finally, their names are put on waiting lists.

Marks said applicants’ ranks on the waiting lists are determined by exam scores, additional education or skills and foreign language fluency.

“If you can speak the languages the government has listed as ‘critical’ you will have a definite advantage over the competition and will get paid more,” said Marks.

Some of the languages listed “critical” include, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Persian.

Those hired face a four-year probationary period during which they live for two years in two different places. After the four years, they have another assessment and then are considered for permanent posts.

“People who have made it past the four year probationary period are rarely rejected from being hired permanently,” Marks assured.

In hindsight, Marks tells anyone who is trying to prepare for the exam to read The New York Times everyday for one year.

“This will give you an idea of what is really going on domestically and internationally,” he said.

When new hires are waiting to be placed in a country, it is important for them to prepare for the worst location and hope for the best, he said.

“You could get assigned somewhere like Paris or a place like Islamabad,” he said. “You really have to be ready for either one.”

Photo by Amanda Kolinsky

Senior Alex Migyanko (right), one of 16 students who will visit the U.S. Embassy at spring break, presented Marks with a gift.

Once on the job, day-to-day duties may differ. Marks said he could be working on organizing the accommodations of the president one day and negotiating the switching of U.S. aircraft carriers based in Japan with the Japanese government the next.

His main duty, however, is to get the United States government’s message to the U.S., Japanese and international media.

“You have to know your audience and use your judgment when trying to convey the message you want heard,” he said.

Marks said it is important to make fellow Americans curious about foreign policy.

“Almost all foreign countries have a direct interest in the United States, as does the United States in them,” he said. “Americans should really know what is going on abroad.”

National Press Club presents Centennial Forum at IUPUI

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:27 +0000

Learn more about the National Press Club.
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Stocking on board of Open Notebook (Nov. 14)
Martin colloquium Sept. 20 (Sept. 21)

The School of Journalism is teaming up with the National Press Club to look at the future of the news media and how to protect its core values in special forum in Indianapolis Dec. 2.

As part of its 100th anniversary, the National Press Club is presenting “The Centennial Forum on The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism" around the country. The Indianapolis event is at 5 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Lilly Auditorium of the library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 755 W. Michigan St. It is free and open to the public.

School of Journalism Newswire editor Anne Kibbler and others at the school are facilitating the event, which includes a panel discussion. Panelists include Dennis Ryerson, editor and vice president of the Indianapolis Star; Bob Zaltsberg, editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times; Cheryl Jackson, visiting professor of broadcast journalism at IU and a former news reporter at WRTV-6 in Indianapolis; and Emily Metzgar, assistant professor of journalism who specializes in the impact of social media on the political process.

National Press Club president Sylvia Smith, Washington correspondent for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, will moderate.

Schedules and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the club’s Web site at www.press.org.

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