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Indiana University School of Journalism

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School sets Speaker Series

IU School of Journalism
907 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405		      Contact: Beth Moellers
Director of Communications
812-855-6317   Email




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 21, 2011

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The School of Journalism is launching its spring Speaker Series, but with a twist.

In observance of the school’s 100th anniversary and year-long centennial celebration, the series will feature panels of notable alumni, among them Pulitzer Prize winners and media organization leaders. These panels are among the  many events scheduled throughout 2011, with the school's main event a celebration Sept. 16-18.

"As we commemorate 100 years journalism education at IU, we're thrilled to celebrate our alumni and their contributions to the profession,” said Beth Moellers, School of Journalism director of communications. “We are eager to hear their insights about journalism and connect them to our students and our community."

The two events are the Will Counts Memorial Lecture in Photojournalism featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists and the Roy W. Howard Lecture on Media Leadership featuring leaders in the newspaper industry.

Speaker Series events are free and open to the public.

The Will Counts Memorial Lecture on Photojournalism
7 p.m. March 2
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

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Michel du Cille, BA’85, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and director of  photography at The Washington Post. He shared his first Pulitzer in the 1986 Spot News Photography category with coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano. In 1988, du Cille received a second Pulitzer, this time in the Feature Photography category, for his photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project. He shared in his third Pulitzer in 2008 with two Post reporters on a series they produced on Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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Melissa Farlow, BA’74, is a freelancer whose work has appeared in National Geographic magazine, among others. She was a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Press, the (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of desegregation in the Louisville public schools. She worked in three African countries for Women in the Material World, a book comparing women’s roles in different cultures.

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Bill Foley, '77, BA’07, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for spot news of victims and survivors of a massacre in Beirut. For 30 years and in 47 countries, he has worked in news, creative editorial and corporate photography, as well as with a number of nonprofit organizations. Foley is a professor at Marian University in Indianapolis.


The late Will Counts was known for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographs of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation in 1957. After a career shooting for Associated Press, Counts taught for 32 years at the IU School of Journalism.


The Roy W. Howard Lecture on Media Leadership
7:30 p.m. March 31
Ernie Pyle Hall auditorium (EP220)

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Gerould Kern, BA’71, was named senior vice-president and editor of the Chicago Tribune in July 2008. He joined the newspaper in 1991 and has held a number of senior editing roles. Since becoming editor, Kern has directed a strategic reorganization of the news operation, including expansion of local, investigative and digital staffing.




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Paul Tash, BA’76, is CEO of the St. Petersburg Times and Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which offers training for professional journalists and which owns Times Publishing. He has served on boards of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Associated Press and the Newspaper Association of America. In 2008, his newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes.




Leading Scripps Howard Newspapers for four decades, Roy W. Howard also traveled widely to bring global news to his audience. The school houses his vast archives and co-sponsors the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

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