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File now to graduate in May

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:03:39 +0000

Graduation To-Do List:

File to for degree completion
Attend Grad Fair
Talk to adviser
Order cap and gown

If you plan to graduate in May, file for Undergraduate Degree Completion now. The deadline is March 9 for those graduating in May who wish to be listed in the commencement booklet.

Anyone graduating in May, August, December or May 2013 also may apply now to start the process. The forms to apply are online.

If you plan to graduate in August or December, you must file for degree completion before you register for classes. Summer registration is March 21-28 and early fall registration is April 2-26.

Those graduating in May also may wish to attend the Spring Grad Fair 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 22-23 in the State Rooms East and West in the Indiana Memorial Union. Students may arrange cap and gown rental, purchase announcements and get other info about commencement exercises.

School of Journalism recorder Jean Person said journalism majors should file for graduation a year in advance to ensure that they have proper guidance from advisers to meet their course requirements and deadlines.

To set up an appointment, contact Linda Long at 855-9248 or sign up in academic adviser Lauren Kinzer’s book on Long’s counter in EP 200. Walk-ins are welcome, too.

For more information, check out the School of Journalism graduation page and the Indiana University commencement Web site.

Other info:

The IU Bookstore offers cap and gown rental. All graduates must wear caps and gowns to take part in commencement. You also may purchase announcements and diploma frames at the bookstore at the IMU.
Find out all about IU Commencement at IU at this link.

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Cohen advises keeping ‘open mind’ about career fields

Belle Kim — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:15:27 +0000

Photo by Nick Demille

Jonathan Cohen, BAJ'98, was in Indiana this week with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which is broadcasting from Indianapolis. Cohen talked to several groups of students Tuesday.

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Journalism alumnus Jonathan Cohen, now in his second year as music booker for the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, told students to keep an open mind about their career fields.

“I was so tunnel-vision focused on writing and reporting that I didn’t imagine I’d have to know other skills,” Cohen, BAJ’98, told a group of about 25 students over an informal lunch in the Ernie Pyle Hall lounge Tuesday. “Looking back, I wish I had taken some classes on multimedia and TV.”

Cohen was in Indiana with Fallon’s show, which is broadcasting from Indianapolis this week as part of the lead up to Sunday’s Super Bowl game. Fallon’s network, NBC, will broadcast the game live from Indy.

He said he relies on his journalism skills every day. He spent countless hours at the Indiana Daily Student as reporter, writer and editor. The experience taught him how to cultivate sources, cover events and view things from multiple perspectives, as well as helped launch his career.

“It’s really important to get as much experience as you can. Blogging and writing locally helps you build a nice repertoire of clips,” he said.

After graduating, Cohen moved to New York for an internship and ended up working as a music journalist at Billboard for nine years. Out of curiosity, he applied to Jimmy Fallon’s show after a friend told him about an open position.

He never thought he would get it.

“I had never worked in TV before,” he said. “There was a ton of learning experience on the job.”

Cohen learned to scout for musicians for the show by attending music festivals and following prominent music blogs and magazines. He learned to set his personal tastes in music aside in order to recruit musicians whom he wouldn’t necessarily listen to in his spare time.
He also learned to work closely with public relations representatives of musicians he was interested in recruiting.

Photo by Nick Demille

Cohen spoke to two classes and to a group over lunch. Here, he wraps up a talk in EP 157.

“Staying in touch with PR representatives that I worked with for Billboard made it easier,” he said. “Keeping up good relationships like that is really important in this field.”

He became proficient in utilizing multimedia, such as videos and podcasts, to generate input from the audience.

“When people see bands on our website that they like, good conversation will get started that might be important to the artist and good for the show, too,” he said. “It hits the younger demographic who are very active in Web, so it can be used as a stick to determine whether our idea was worthwhile.”

Cohen said he enjoys working for Fallon’s show because it provides him with special opportunities, such as traveling. He attends a couple of music festivals a year for scouting. This year, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was nominated for an Emmy, so he attended the awards ceremony. He will attend the Grammy awards as well.

He also used his writing skills to write a book about his favorite band. Pearl Jam 20 took over a year to write, he said. Although it started out as just a biography, it turned into a year-by-year account of the band’s journey through obscurity, fame and comeback.

“It was an awesome experience. I had to take the fan part out of it, which was really hard,” he said. “I would totally do it again.”

While in Bloomington for the day, Cohen also spoke to two classes. When he realized he would be in Indiana this week, he contacted School of Journalism Career Services director Marcia Debnam.

“He said he wanted to reach out and talk to journalism students,” Debnam said. “There was a great turnout. I thought it was wonderful to learn about his work.”

Listening to Cohen’s accomplishments was inspiring to senior Carly Bassen.

“I liked that you get to hear about someone who has a great career that we’re all striving to achieve,” she said after the lunch. “It’s interesting to see what we could potentially become with the right hard work, dedication and passion. It shows me I can do it. It was very motivational.”

Branigan Lecturer to address war photojournalism

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:26 +0000

Scholar and multimedia producer David Campbell will speak on "From Robert Capa to the iPhone: How the Photojournalism of War Has (and Has Not) Changed," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center A201. The talk is free and open to the public.

The talk is part of the IU Institute for Advanced Study’s Branigan Lectures. Campbell will address what does and does not count as legitimate reportage in an age when The New York Times and others publish photography produced on iPhones and edited with smartphone apps. He’ll draw on the work of Capa to discuss war photography and the photojournalism of conflict.

Campbell is a former professor of Cultural and Political Geography at the Department of Geography, Durham University, U.K., and was a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He was associate director of the Durham Center for Advanced Photographic Studies and served also as director for the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He is author of several books and more than 50 book chapters and essays. He has also produced exhibitions and multimedia projects.

Ritchie describes social networking as reporting tools

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:05:08 +0000

Photo by Jeremy Hogan

Carrie Ritchie, BAJ'08, has visited the school often, including talking to classes and moderating a panel on newspapers (above). She talked to a class this week about social media.

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By Gillian Wilson

Social media now is a respected go-to tool in the newsroom, says one alumna who uses it on the job daily.

Carrie Ritchie, reporter for The Indianapolis Star, spoke to students in lecturer Nancy Comiskey’s J200 Reporting, Writing and Editing class Monday about the significance of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, on reporting.

“It really is the new tool to break news,” she said.

Ritchie, BAJ’08, was one of the first reporters at the Star to sign up for a Twitter account. Now most Star reporters, who were recently given iPhones, have Twitter accounts.

Ritchie said she frequently uses Twitter to report live from press conferences and court hearings. She also uses Twitter to find sources for stories.

“We’re tweeting about everything now,” she said. “It’s just fun to see how readers use the news that you give them.”

Reporters at the Star are required to post three stories on Facebook per day. However, Ritchie said Twitter users are more engaged in the sharing of news. She encouraged students to begin tweeting right away, even if they have few followers.

Ritchie drew on some of her own college experiences. She served as editor-in-chief of the IDS and was named Indiana Collegiate Journalist of the Year. She has been with the Star since graduating, and said she has seen social media evolve from a quirky pastime to a media tool.

Carmen Huff, a freshman journalism major, said she found Ritchie’s speech insightful.

“It was neat to hear Carrie talk about how social networks are such a big part of journalism today,” she said. “When social networks first came out, there was a big scare that journalism was dying, but instead of working against it, journalists are using it to expand their coverage, which I think is really awesome.”

Ritchie said social networks are powerful tools to share news and interact with readers.

“You really do start to think in 140 characters or less,” she said.

Enter SPJ T-shirt design contest by Feb. 1

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:56:48 +0000

Turn your great design into a T-shirt by entering the IU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ contest.

SPJ chapter president Mary Kenney said the design should be journalism related, such as lists of journalism words, using just one color printed on a different color shirt.

The deadline is Feb. 1 to submit your design to Kenney’s mailbox at the Indiana Daily Student. The winner gets a free shirt. The SPJ chapter plans to sell the shirts in February as a fundraiser.

Read about last year's T-shirts.
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Photojournalists to judge two contests, show work Feb. 10-11

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:53:18 +0000

Photo by Lisa Krantz

Photographers Lisa Krantz, Marshall Gorby and Fred Zwicky will show photos from their portfolios, such as this shot by Krantz, at 6 p.m. Feb. 10. They are on campus to judge two photo contests.

Three professional photojournalists will spend a day at the School of Journalism to judge two contests and talk about their work with students.

Marshall Gorby of the Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun, Fred Zwicky of the Peoria Journal Star and Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio Express-News will visit Feb. 10-11. They’ll judge the Indiana News Photographers Association’s Student Photojournalist of the Year contest at 1 p.m., then will present their work and answer questions during a forum at 6 pm. Both events are in the Ernie Pyle Hall Auditorium.

The following day, the three begin judging for the INPA Photographer of the Year contest at 9 a.m. in the auditorium. Anyone may observe the judging process. Associate professor Jim Kelly, who arranged the event, said observers should enter through the back door of the auditorium to avoid disturbing the judges.

More:

Learn about the judges, the contest and the INPA at the website.
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Apply for Howard competition by Feb. 29

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:35:38 +0000

Read more and download application materials.
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The deadline is Feb. 29 to apply for the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition, which takes winners to Japan for a study tour of cultural sites and media organizations.

Nine winners from universities around the country will receive the all-expenses paid trip, which is set for June 15-23 this year.

During the trip, the group meets with journalists in print, broadcast, online journalism to talk about and see the latest in new media technology.

The competition, established in 1984 in cooperation with the Indiana University School of Journalism, honors the memory of Roy W. Howard, who led Scripps Howard Newspapers from 1922-1953 and United Press International from 1912-1920. Asia was an area of special interest to Howard, who traveled and reported on the area extensively, even while leading major news organizations.

School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm, a Howard scholar and frequent traveler to Asia, leads the trip. The school has several ties to Howard, including housing his archives at Ernie Pyle Hall.

The Scripps Howard Foundation administers the contest. Winners will be announced in March.

More:

Download information brochure and application here .
Learn more about Roy W. Howard.
For information about the program, contact Sue Porter, vice president/programs, Scripps Howard Foundation, (800)888-3000 ext. 3030, or sue.porter@scripps.com.

Three win Dow Jones editing internships

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:21:17 +0000

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Three IU students are set to learn about newspaper editing at some of the country’s top newspapers this summer as part of the Dow Jones News Fund Editing Intern Program.

Lauren Sedam will work at The New York Times, Sean Blue will head to The Cape Cod Times and Erin Boland is set for The Middletown New York Times Herald-Record.

To qualify, students took an editing test, administered last fall at the school. Lecturer Nancy Comiskey conducted a pre-test review session and was impressed that four students were selected. One had other commitments and cannot accept the award.

The Dow Jones News Fund awards up to 100 summer internships to college journalism students to work as multimedia, sports and news copy editors at news organizations.

The interns attend pre-internship training and are paid regular wages by the media where they work. Interns returning to school receive $1,000 scholarships.

Ed on Campus sponsors internship panel

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:52:13 +0000

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Students gain experience during Super Bowl week (Feb. 8)
File now to graduate in May (Feb. 2)

Ed on Campus, a group for students who want to enter the magazine industry, will present a panel discussion on magazine internships at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 25 in Ernie Pyle Hall 214.

Panelists will be Kim Hannel, managing editor at Indianapolis Monthly; Cassandra Orton, assistant editor at Indianapolis Woman; and journalism seniors Alyssa Goldman and Danielle Paquette, who will talk about their internship experiences. Journalism student Laura Sibley will moderate.

Ed on Campus is the collegiate arm of Ed2010, a national organization that helps magazine writers and editors network. It was founded by IU journalism alumna Chandra Czape Turner, BAJ'96, who now is editor of Parents magazine. The IU group formed last fall.

JHR presents panel on Bosnian genocide

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:15:17 +0000

American Student Radio launch party Feb. 21 (Feb. 9)
Students gain experience during Super Bowl week (Feb. 8)
File now to graduate in May (Feb. 2)

The IU chapter of Journalists for Human Rights will present a panel discussion, “A Genocide Revisited,” about the Bosnian genocide, at 7 p.m. Jan. 12 in Ernie Pyle Hall 220.

The panel will feature IU alumnus and former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Victor Jackovich, who also will receive an award from the chapter for his efforts to stabilize the Balkan region. Attendees may join Jackovich and JHR members at a reception at 6 p.m. in the journalism library.

For more info, contact JHR by email.

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