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Allbrittin wins broadcasters’ scholarship

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:30:14 +0000

Photo by Ann Schertz

Deanna Allbrittin, right, chats with Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes at the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame induction ceremony in April. She is the winner of an IBA scholarship.

Senior Deanna Allbrittin is one of 10 Indiana college students to win an Indiana Broadcasters Association Scholarship worth $2,700.

An Ernie Pyle Scholar, Allbrittin is interested in pursuing a broadcast career and already has been involved with IUSTV, IU’s student-run TV station, and other broadcast activities. She has a fellowship at CBS in New York this summer, where she'll work for 10 weeks as an intern.

The Indiana Broadcasters awarded a total of $30,000 in scholarships to 16 students selected from nearly 150 applications. Six high school students who will attend Indiana colleges and universities as telecommunications, electronic media or broadcast journalism majors won $500 each in addition to the $2,700 to the 10 college students majoring in those fields.

To be eligible, applicants must have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA, live in Indiana, have actively participated in a broadcast facility or worked for or interned at a commercial broadcast facility, and received credit in a telecommunications, electronic media or broadcast journalism program.

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Corya wins Counts photojournalism award

Amie Sites — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:09:43 +0000

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Olivia Corya is the 2012 winner of the Counts award.

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New graduate Olivia Corya, BAJ’12, is the winner of the Will Counts Photojournalism Award for the top young photojournalist, the Indiana Associated Press Media Editors announced at annual awards ceremonies Saturday.

The prize, named in honor of the late Will Counts, a one-time AP photographer who taught at the School of Journalism, honors a college student based on his or her submitted portfolio of work.

Corya said her former internship boss, Mike Fender of The Indianapolis Star, encouraged her to apply for the prize. She enlisted professors, including Steve Raymer and Jim Kelly, colleagues and professionals to help her put together a portfolio.

“Professor Raymer and Professor Kelly have both been absolutely instrumental to my growth as a photojournalist,” Corya said. “Without their relentless support, encouragement and wisdom, I would never have realized my own potential. Anything I have achieved is because of them.”

Corya received the award as a part of the larger awards ceremony for the best Indiana newspaper journalism of the year. She attended a luncheon and was given the Will Counts Photojournalism Award by Vivian Counts, widow of Will Counts.

“Back when Will Counts taught here, IU’s photojournalism program used to be one of the best in the country,” Corya said of Counts, who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of segregation in Arkansas in the 1950s. He later came to IU for his doctorate in education and spent 30 years teaching photojournalism. “I’m fortunate and proud to have been a student here in the past few years because the program is building momentum and working its way to the top once more.”

Photo by Justin Rumbach, The (Jasper, Ind.) Herald

Vivian Counts, left, listens to Olivia Corya accept the Will Counts Photojournalism Award during a ceremony Saturday.

Corya is the second Indiana University student to win this award. James Brosher, BAJ’10, won in 2010.

She is a Zionsville native who said she realized that she wanted to be a photojournalist in a high school history class when she learned about Jacob Riss’ 1890 photo book documenting the housing conditions in New York City. His work spurred legislation to improve safety standards.

“It was an ‘aha’ moment when I realized I could simultaneously make a difference and do something I enjoy,” Corya said. “I’ve been hooked on photojournalism ever since.”

She has worked at the Indiana Daily Student, as a photographer in Cape Coast, Ghana, and was a Pulliam Fellow at The Indianapolis Star. She will intern at The Herald in Jasper this fall.

PRSSA team wins Contiki contest

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:31:17 +0000

The Beth Wood Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America at IU is the winner of the Contiki Vacations campaign contest, a nationwide competition sponsored by PRSSA.

Members of the team were Christine Spasoff, Kaleigh Bacher, Meredith Reffner and Jillian Miers. The four created an awareness campaign for Contiki Vacations to introduce the tour operator to college students. Part of the campaign was an open house this spring featuring refreshments and giveaways.

Second place was Ohio Northern University and third was the team from California State University, Long Beach.

As winners, the four IU students each receive a free Contiki tour and prize packs.

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Former Kenya class partner now KTN broadcaster

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:56:47 +0000

A story about a center that helps street children in Kenya began with a visiting IU student in 2011 and is now featured in a newscast on YouTube.

KTN’s Mercy Kandie reports on the Tumaini Centre in Eldoret, Kenya, in a newscast available on YouTube. She has been on the KTN staff for a year, covering the Rift Valley in Kenya.

Photo by Jim Kelly

From left, Mercy Kandie, Rosebella Apollo and Courtney Cronin work on a reporting project in Eldoret, Kenya, in 2011. Kandie now is a reporter for KTN.

Just before she was hired, however, she was a Moi University student paired with IU’s Courtney Cronin, one of the 12 students in the J418 Reporting HIV/AIDS in Africa class that took students to Eldoret, Kenya, for three weeks in the summer. IU and Moi students teamed up to cover topics ranging from health care to nutrition to orphans.

"She and Courtney Cronin got along famously right from the start—almost like sisters,” associate professor Jim Kelly recalled. “They spent hours and hours together at the Tumaini Centre learning about the various programs for the street children and gaining their trust.

“Before we left Eldoret, Courtney organized a clothing donation where IU journalism students donated six boxes of their clothing to the centre. The boys and girls there traded 'points' earned by attending class and such to 'buy' those clothes. It was an inspiring effort by two young journalists covering an inspiring program."

Once they were assigned as partners, Cronin and Kandie emailed before they when the students arrived in Kenya. Cronin wrote of Kandie’s journalistic skills and her early departure from the program in her blog.

Send internship photo, get a free T-shirt

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:15:24 +0000

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Stephanie Kuzydym interned at the Orlando Sentinel last summer. Send a photo of yourself at your internship and the school will give you a free T-shirt.

Do you have an internship this summer? If so, the School of Journalism would like for you to submit a photo of yourself while you are on the job for our gallery of interns.

Ask a co-worker to shoot you while working or while in your work environment. Submit high resolution photos via email to school creative strategy director Laura Pence for inclusion in the school's photo gallery.

In return, you’ll receive a free School of Journalism T-shirt.

Questions?

Contact Director of Creative Strategy Laura Pence by email.

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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.

More:

For more information, visit the Friends of Ernie Pyle website.
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SoJ Web Report — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:32:07 +0000

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Want to attend the Society of American Travel Writers annual conference in Indianapolis Sept. 9 to 14 with all expenses paid? The School of Journalism will send two students to the event, an excellent venue to meet top travel journalists, learn about the industry in workshops and seminars, and network with freelancers and editors.

An added perk are the SATW mentors, professionals who will support the students during the conference and guide them through the process of selling stories they produce from their experiences there.

To apply for one of the slots, follow these guidelines:

Send a resume and cover letter that explains why you should receive conference support and how the conference complements your career goals to Director of Communications Beth Moellers by 11:59 p.m. May 30.
Include a link to your digital portfolio. Applicants should have significant writing experience in student media or other outlets. At least one of the two attendees should have significant photo/video journalism skills.
Applicants must be returning journalism majors in fall 2012.

Questions?

Contact Director of Communications Beth Moellers.

Panel on women in news set for Monday

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:10:58 +0000

Five women working in news will visit Monday evening for a panel discussion on women's unique challenges and experiences as news professionals.

"Women in News: Personal Stories" will start at 6:10 p.m. April 23 in Psychology 100. The panel is part of the coursework for J261 Women in News, but anyone is welcome to attend the talk. Rows A through F are reserved for members of the class.

The course looks at history of women entering the news field in all media, the legal and social changes that affect gender and minority discrimination, and challenges of covering beats such as sports or foreign correspondence.

The panelists for Monday include:

Ruthanne Gordon, who has been in broadcasting 35 years, 30 of which she’s spent with WISH-TV in Indianapolis. Along the way, she’s earned an Emmy nomination and was a regional award winner for United Press International.

Cheryl Jackson, BA’83, MA’04, a freelance reporter at CNN in Chicago who also has worked as a general assignment reporter at TV station in Indianapolis and South Bend. She is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Journalism and also has taught at DePaul in Chicago.

Ashley Morelock, BAJ’08, who started out in Salisbury, Md., producing an evening broadcast for two years, and then moved home to Indianapolis to produce in a top 25 television market at Fox59. She has produced the popular 7 a.m. local news broadcast since 2010.

Carrie Ritchie, BAJ’08, who has been a reporter for The Indianapolis Star for four years. During her career at the Star, she has covered politics, government, courts and education. She was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student.

Mary Beth Schneider, who has been at The Indianapolis Star since 1979, and has covered the Indiana legislature since 1990 and politics since 1992. She has covered all but one national political convention since then and many caucuses and primaries.

Questions?

Contact adjunct lecturer Gena Asher.

Nigerian journalist once ‘jailed for life’ visits this week

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:46:37 +0000

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The News executive editor Kunle Ajibade visits this week.

Nigerian journalist and author Kunle Ajibade, who once was jailed for life for a story he published, will visit this week to talk to students in classes and give a lecture that is open to the public.

Ajibade, executive editor of The News, a weekly news magazine in Lagos, was jailed in 1995 and released in 1998 only when his jailer, Gen. Sani Abacha, died. He will talk about his experiences and the struggle for freedom and democracy in a public event at 4:30 p.m. April 18 at the Center for Global Change, 201 N. Indiana Ave.

He also will talk to journalism classes at 1 p.m. April 19 on “Pleasure and Pain of Practicing Journalism in a State of Seige.” Students in International News Systems and Foreign News Reporting classes will combine in Ernie Pyle Hall 214 for the session. Associate professor Jim Kelly will introduce Ajibade.

Ajibade also will talk to Wells Scholars while in Bloomington. His visit is co-sponsored by the African Studies Program and the School of Journalism.

The journalist wrote about his prison experience in a memoir, Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes, published in 2003. The book won the first Victor Nwankwo Book of the Year Award from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust. His second book, What a Country, was published in 2008.

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Journalists for Human Rights chapter seeks photos for calendar

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:23:34 +0000

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The IU chapter of the Journalists for Human Rights is looking for photos for its annual human rights-themed calendar.

Photos must be human rights related on a local to international scale. The chapter will select the best photo for the cover, and the runner up will be on the back cover.

Here are the guidelines:

Photos may be sent as jpegs or tiffs (2MB or smaller).
You may submit more than one photo.
Include a one-paragraph caption with each photo submitted.
Send submissions to jhr.indiana@gmail.com.
The subject line of the email must be "Calendar Photo Contest."
Submissions are due by April 27.

Questions?
Contact student member Haley Nelson.

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