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Law, wine bring St. Louis alumni together

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:20:42 +0000

– By Russell Jackson

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Lou Bubala, BAJ'00

Connections among three alumni, all living in St. Louis and all in the law business, are proof that an IU journalism degree, and perhaps a glass of wine, can bring you together long after you’ve left the school, or even after you’ve left the journalism profession.

Lou Bubala, BAJ’00, contacted Newswire to tell his part of this six-degrees-of-separation story. He spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter before leaving journalism to become an attorney. After earning his law degree at the University of Oregon, he was hired to work for St. Louis-based law firm Armstrong Teasdale in its Reno, Nev., office.

While visiting the St. Louis headquarters, he met Gail Appleson, BA’73, the company’s chief editor/writer. The two became friends and, in the fall, got together over a glass of the chocolate wine Appleson was sampling for her freelance wine column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She mentioned Bubala in her column.

Appleson had been the chief legal correspondent for Reuters in New York City for 20 years, but moved to St. Louis to take care of her ailing mother. She was hired to cover law firms for the business section at the Post-Dispatch.

“I majored in journalism but was more interested in photography than writing at the time,” she wrote in an email to Newswire. “Will Counts was my adviser. One of my classmates was Karen Elshout. Dr. Counts was also her adviser. I didn’t really know her that well, but we had classes together and both worked on the Indiana Daily
Student.”

When she arrived at the Post-Dispatch, she was surprised to discover Elshout, BA’74, was a staff photographer there.

“She hadn’t changed a bit,” Appleson says.

Appleson and Elshout both moved on from the paper and ended up in the law profession — Appleson at Armstrong Teasdale and Elshout as a photographer at Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

“We also both freelance, so coincidentally we ended up working on a piece together for the Washington University business school’s alumni publication,” writes Appleson, who continues to write for the Post-Dispatch as a wine columnist. “The piece didn’t have a thing to do with law. It’s about wine.”

The six-page spread, titled “The Lure of the Wine Business,” ran last fall and credits both women on the first page.

“I thought it was kind of fun that our names are together,” Appleson says.

New graduates celebrate with receptions, ceremonies

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:58:53 +0000

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Several students participated in the graduate session of the 2012 commencement exercises. From left are Manaf Bashir, Professor Emerita Christine Ogan, professor Radhika Parameswaran, Ammina Kothari, Seong Choul Hong and Mohammed Al-Azdee.

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Commencement 2012

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School of Journalism bachelor's, master’s and doctoral degree candidates attended commencement and other events May 4 and 5 as IU celebrated graduation, a weekend that marked their beginning participations as full-fledged alumni.

Some highlights:

At the graduate ceremonies May 4, several students celebrated finishing their master's and doctorates. The Ph.D.s represent years of hard work, said Professor Emerita Christine Ogan, who participated in the ceremony with Manaf Bashir, a student who began his doctoral studies as her advisee.

The school hosted a reception for all 2012 graduates May 4. Soon-to-be-graduates and their friends and family joined journalism dean Brad Hamm, faculty and staff for a big send-off, which included hearing from Aisha Hasnie, BAJ’06. A broadcaster at an Indianapolis TV station, Hasnie talked about how she took her journalism skills to the real world, and she encouraged students to pursue their careers with passion.

About 250 students will receive their bachelor's degrees in journalism in May and August. During afternoon undergraduate ceremonies May 5, journalism student Lauren Sedam addressed the afternoon audience as one of only two students invited to speak during commencement exercises. The other student addressed the morning commencement. In her address, Sedam drew on her journalism training to tell stories about other students as a way to illustrate the shared experiences “that make us Hoosiers.”

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Fundraiser to support Ernie Pyle museum

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:21:15 +0000

Photo by Jessica Williams

Students often visit the museum in small groups. From left, Autumn Scaglione, junior, and Meredith Reffner, senior, look through a display case.

The Friends of Ernie Pyle will host a fundraiser May 19 to support preservation efforts at the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum in Dana, Ind., Pyle’s home town.

The evening will feature a one-man drama followed by a presentation by a Terre Haute–based troop that recreates the Golden Age of radio with musical and theatrical presentations.

The show is at 7 p.m. at the South Vermillion High School auditorium in Clinton, Ind., north of Terre Haute. Tickets are $10 and are available at several Wabash Valley locations or at the door beginning at 6 p.m. May 19.

Pyle was born and raised in Dana, a rural community in Vermillion County about 70 miles west of Indianapolis. Friend of Ernie Pyle took control of the site, the former Ernie Pyle State Historic Site, last year from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Indiana State Museum. The state had closed the site in 2009.

The site includes Pyle’s early home, where he was born in 1900, and a museum dedicated to his World War II years as a correspondent.

IU journalism students often visit the site as part of their coursework studying Pyle's life or as part of their activities as Ernie Pyle Scholars.

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For more information, visit the Friends of Ernie Pyle website.
Read more at the Terre Haute Tribune-Star.
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Morris visits Philippine Luzon see effects of tetanus

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:15:15 +0000

Alumnus Matt Morris, BA’80, joins a Kiwanis International-UNICEF delegation traveling to Philippine Luzon this week to see the effects of maternal/neonatal tetanus.

Morris, major/planned gifts officer for the Kiwanis International Foundation, and Kiwanis members will observe how the partnership between the organizations is eliminating a preventable disease that kills a baby somewhere in the world every nine minutes.

From April 16-20, follow Morris on Twitter @MatthewQuaker. Read his blogs and learn more about The Eliminate Project at theeliminateproject.org.

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Join conversation with young alumni on Cover It Live

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:05:22 +0000

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From left, alumni Michael Sanserino, Mallory Simon and Matt Dollinger will live blog at 2 p.m. (EST) Tuesday, March 13.

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Those curious about the first few years fashioning a journalism career can ask questions and learn from three alumni who are doing just that.

“Lessons from My First Year in Journalism” is a live blog set for Tuesday, March 13, at 2:30 p.m. EST, featuring Matt Dollinger, BAJ’10, associate producer at SI.com; Michael Sanserino, BAJ’09, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; and Mallory Simon, BAJ’07, of This Just In, the breaking news blog for CNN Digital.

The three will “talk” to participants through Cover It Live, a free program that shows the text feed of all the participants. (Sign up below.)

The Poynter Institute, a school of journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla., is hosting the event, and current journalism students will help with the technical side as ask some questions themselves. The Ernie Pyle Scholars class of 2014 will visit the institute during spring break as part of the honors program activities.

Associate professor Jim Kelly, who advises this class of students and will accompany them to Florida, said he and the institute’s Sara Quinn thought the live blog would be fun and educational. While at the school, the students usually meet with alumni as well as attend workshops.

Quinn said students will facilitate the session, providing photos, links to the alumni work and other materials as well as follow the content.

Join the live blog:

Anyone can join the live blog. Sign up below for email reminders.

Columnist, author Cohen of Help Me, Harlan, visits Monday

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:47:59 +0000

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Harlan Cohen, BAJ'95, will talk March 5 in Alumni Hall.

Author and syndicated advice columnist Harlan Cohen, BAJ’95, will give a free talk at 7 p.m. March 5 in Alumni Hall at the Indiana Memorial Union.

The talk is sponsored by the Indiana University Memorial Union Board Campus & Community Engagement Committee and is open to the public.

Cohen is author of The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, The Happiest Kid on Campus, Dad’s Pregnant Too! and Campus Life Exposed: Advice from the Inside.

Cohen’s Help Me, Harlan column is nationally syndicated advice. The former IDS staffer also is a professional speaker who has visited over 400 college campuses.

Read more at the Union Board website.
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Alumna Jewett shares in Polk award

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:38:32 +0000

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Christina Jewett, BAJ'02, is one of a team of reporters to win a George Polk Award. She works at California Watch.

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Alumna Christina Jewett, BAJ’02, is one of a team of reporters to win the George Polk Award for Medical Reporting.

Jewett and colleagues at California Watch, a nonprofit investigative reporting group, produced a yearlong series of articles that demonstrated how a California hospital chain increased its Medicare reimbursements by classifying patients as suffering from rare medical conditions, according to a press release from Long Island University, where the Polk award program is based.

The stories appeared in newspapers across California and offered a glimpse into the broader problem of waste, fraud and abuse within the nation’s $2.5 trillion health care system. Using a computer-assisted data program, the reporters sorted through more than 2,500 pages of legal filings and examined more than 51 million patient records of hospital and emergency room visits.

Jewett said she was especially proud of this piece, which she worked on with colleague Stephen K. Doig, that examined medical chain’s “aggressive” billing for treatment of rare and high-risk illnesses.

Jewett credits many of her School of Journalism experiences in preparing her for her work. From the first day of freshman year, she worked at the Indiana Daily Student, eventually serving as editor-in-chief. She understood the importance of internships, too.

“I interned sophomore year at the Times of Northwest Indiana, after junior year at the St. Petersburg Times and after senior year at The Washington Post,” she said in an email. “I probably would not have had my amazing first job at the Sacramento Bee if not for the great boost that I got working for the IDS and getting those internships.”

When she came to IU, Jewett planned to major in education. Sophomore year, IU student media director Dave Adams encouraged her to pursue journalism, she said of her late mentor who died in 2007. The day the Polk awards were announced, she said she wished she could have picked up the phone and thanked Adams for his part in her success.

The George Polk Awards in Journalism honor investigative and enterprise reporting. The program was established in 1949 by Long Island University in honor of George Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war. The awards will be presented in New York April 5.

Chicago alumni gathering Feb. 2

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:52:59 +0000

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Journalism honors students and Brad Hamm, dean of the IU School of Journalism, invite Chicago-area alumni to attend a reception at 6 p.m. Feb. 2.

Network with old friends and meet current students at an hors d’oeuvres reception at Maggiano’s Antinori Banquet Room, 111 W. Grand Ave., Chicago. Hamm will talk about the future of journalism education at 7 p.m.

To attend, RSVP by Jan. 29 to the IU Alumni Association website.

Photojournalist Ed Reinke dies

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:43:20 +0000

Photo by Mark Cornelison (courtesy NPPA)

AP photographer Ed Reinke, who worked at the IDS as an IU student, died Oct. 18 in Louisville.

See a gallery of Reinke's work at Cincinnati.com.
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(Excerpted from the National News Photosgraphers Association website, with permission)

Louisville Associated Press photojournalist Edward J. "Ed" Reinke, 60, died Oct. 18 night in hospice care after sustaining injuries in an incident earlier this month at the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., that had left him in a coma.

News of Reinke's death was announced by AP global photography director Santiago Lyon.

"It is a very sad day for journalism," Lyon wrote to AP colleagues. "He will be deeply missed by all who ever had the pleasure of meeting him. Ed was a first-rate professional. Over a career spanning nearly 40 years he had an extraordinary knack for consistently being in the right place at the right time. He was also a mentor to numerous photographers starting out, many of whom eventually went on to have long and successful careers of their own."

The photojournalist had been moved this week from St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital to a local hospice center. Reinke had been hospitalized since Oct. 2 when he sustained a head injury at the Kentucky Speedway while preparing to cover the IZOD Kentucky Indy 300 race.

After college at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he worked for the Indiana Daily Student, Reinke was a staff photographer at The Cincinnati Enquirer beginning in 1972. He joined AP in Cincinnati in 1979, then transferred to the AP bureau in Washington, D.C., before returning to the Enquirer in 1983. When AP opened a bureau in Louisville in 1987, Reinke rejoined the AP in the new post.

AP reports that during his more than 25 years with the news organization, Reinke covered Super Bowls, World Series championships, Final Fours, Summer and Winter Olympics, Masters and PGA championships, the Indy 500, President Bill Clinton's first inauguration and Hurricane Andrew. And, starting in 1988, every Kentucky Derby.

His sons are posting information on a Facebook page, and they report that services are pending. They also suggest memorial donations may be made to either the Indiana University School of Journalism or to the St. Elizabeth Hospice Service in Edgewood, Ky.

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See a gallery of Reinke's work at Cincinnati.com.

Take It Easy Open set for July 30

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:40:20 +0000

Work on your golf swing in time for the eleventh annual Take It Easy Open July 30 at Arrowhead Golf Course in Greenfield.

The golf outing benefits the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship established in honor of Jackson, an IU student who died in 1996 of a brain aneurysm. The IU senior had been IDS editor-in-chief the summer before his death.

Alumni, including JR Ross and other friends, started the outing in 2001 to keep Jackson’s memory alive. The outing has since raised more than $50,000 for scholarships.

The details:

Download the info sheet/entry form here (PDF format). Register by July 15.
Can't attend? You also may use this form to make a donation to the scholarship fund.
Contact JR Ross at takeiteasyopen@yahoo.com or (608)669-8418.
Contact School of Journalism Director of Communications Beth Moellers at (812) 855-6317.

Register by July 15.

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)

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