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Grad Fair Feb. 22-23

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:22:43 +0000

If you are graduating in May, check out the Grad Fair 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 22-23 at the Indiana Memorial Union, State Rooms East and West.

At the fair, you may order caps, gowns, announcements, invitations and class rings, among other supplies. Photographers will be on hand, as will representatives from IU Alumni Association and the IU Commencement Services.

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See the Grad Fair website.
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Design group meets Feb. 16

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:10:48 +0000

The IU chapter of the Society for News Design meets at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 in Ernie Pyle Hall 214 for a resume workshop. Student Media director Ron Johnson will conduct the workshop to address ways those applying for design jobs and internships can better represent their work. Attendees may bring their resumes for critique.

Questions? Contact chapter president Danielle Rindler.

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American Student Radio launch party Feb. 21

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:41:33 +0000

It doesn’t need a transmitter or number on your radio dial, but American Student Radio will go live with a party at 4 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Walnut Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

The Web-based national student radio station formed last fall, enlisting several IU students and students from audio storytelling classes to work out the details. The station will provide a place for any college student in the nation to contribute work in areas such as reporting and social media campaigns. Listeners can expect a variety of podcasts in four categories: news, arts and life, sports, and music.

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Michael Evans and adjunct lecturer Sarah Neal-Estes developed the idea and hosted a planning session last fall. ASR now has about 50 IU students involved in the project. Non-journalism majors are welcome to join and experience in radio is not required.

For more information, attend the party, follow on Twitter at @ASRVoice or be a fan on Facebook at American Student Radio. The group's website will be live Feb. 21 at http://americanstudentradio.org.

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Brubeck places third in Hearst enterprise reporting division

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:10:55 +0000

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Journalism student Sarah Brubeck, BAJ'11, won third place in the college enterprise reporting division of the 52nd annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. She will receive a $1,500 scholarship prize.

Top prize went to Ellen Hirst of the University of Nebraska and second place was Garth Sears of University of Kansas.

The nationwide contest draws participants from 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities. It consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions, with championship finals in all divisions.

In 2011, IU students won in several of the monthly competitions and finished fourth overall. In the national finals, IU’s Danielle Paquette won first in the writing competition.

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Students gain experience during Super Bowl week

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:08:31 +0000

Journalism students at IUPUI took advantage of the Super Bowl festivities in Indianapolis by working as reporters and social media experts and in communications with other media.

A student news bureau covered the players, Media Day and events surrounding Sunday’s game for the National Sports Journalism Center at the School of Journalism at IUPUI. Graduate student Brian Burnsed covered the game for the Salt Lake Tribune. Josh Weinfuss secured a press credential to cover the game for the Albany (Ga.) Herald.

The week gave students a chance to work as reporters as well as put the NSJC in the spotlight, said Pam Laucella, IUPUI assistant professor and academic director of the NSJC. Student work is featured on the NSJC website, for example, already one of the most-visited sports journalism websites in the country.

Six public relations students worked with Indianapolis-based Raidious to manage social media during the event. Raidious CEO Taulbee Jackson was on the Super Bowl host committee and helped develop a social media strategy. The Super Bowl Social Media Command Center team included 50 people, 16 of whom were area journalism or telecommunications students, fielding requests and answering questions on numerous Twitter feeds and Facebook pages.

IUPUI public relations lecturer Julie Vincent said she and two graduate students provided support for Homeland Security in the Joint Information Center, a one-stop resource for several agencies communicating with media.

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See Weinfuss’ articles: Albany Herald.com, Rockdale Citizen.com, News Alloy.com.
Check out Burnsed’s work in the Salt Lake Tribune:
Read NSJC student news bureau work.
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Kelly wins Lieber award for teaching

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:48:01 +0000

Associate professor Jim Kelly is the recipient of this year's Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Distinguished Teaching Award for Indiana University.

This award is given to a faculty member from any of the eight campuses. IU President Michael McRobbie will honor Kelly and other outstanding faculty and students during the IU Honors Convocation and Founders Day activities in April.

The committee on university distinguished teaching awards was unanimous in its selection of Kelly for the award. His name will be added to a plaque on display in the Indiana Memorial Union. Previous winners of IU distinguished teaching awards from the School of Journalism include associate professor Dave Boeyink, professor Claude Cookman, associate dean and professor Michael Evans and the late journalism lecturer Beth Wood.

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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.

American Student Radio launch party Feb. 21 (Feb. 9)
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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.

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