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Carr one of 23 Chips Quinn Scholars

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:39:34 +0000

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Keiara Carr is one of 23 Chips Quinn Scholars. She'll intern at the Courier-Journal in Louisville.

Keiara Carr, BAJ’12, is one of 23 students and young journalists from diverse backgrounds have been named Chips Quinn Scholars for summer 2012 by the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute and participating news organizations.

Carr just finished orientation for the program in Nashville, Tenn. Scholars train with veteran journalists before heading off to 12-week internships or to full-time jobs at one of 21 newsrooms around the country. Carr will work at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.

This is the 21st year for the program, named in honor of John C. "Chips" Quinn Jr., who was managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal when he died in an automobile accident in 1990 at the age of 34.

Between her junior and senior years, Carr interned at The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, her home town.

"I am really hoping the summer gives me the 'real world' experience of the newsroom and allows me to strengthen my multimedia skills," Carr said via email from the training session. "The Chips Quinn program has really ignited my interest in combining writing with other forms of media, and I am excited to try out all the new skills I have learned."

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Allbrittin wins broadcasters’ scholarship

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

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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.

Carr one of 23 Chips Quinn Scholars (May 21)
PRSSA team wins Contiki contest (May 14)
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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.

Corya wins Counts photojournalism award (May 14)
Students celebrate Hearst achievements (May 3)
Apply to attend travel writers conference by May 30 (April 30)

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.

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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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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Two groups headed abroad for media experiences

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:43:22 +0000

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Students in London this summer often will have a chance to admire Big Ben at night.

Just as spring semester ends, two groups of students aren't wasting any time getting a jumpstart on their travel plans.

Ernie Pyle Scholars, Class of 2014, are on their way to London, where they will spend eight weeks working as interns, and students in J418 Media in Latin America: Messages and Moguls, Dictators and Democracy, will visit Santiago, Chile, for 10 days as part of their classwork.

Both groups will submit blogs and trip reports to the school website. The London interns will share experiences as they live and work in London, and the Chile group will report on their observations of South American media.

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Hamm to lead Northwestern’s Medill School

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:53:50 +0000

Press release from IU News Room, May 3, 2012

Brad Hamm, dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism, has been selected as the next dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Hamm begins his new role Sept. 1.

Hamm has served as dean of the IU School of Journalism since 2005 and is only the fifth leader of the program in its 100-year history. His last day at IU will be June 30. An interim dean will be named in the near future.

"We are disappointed to lose a visionary educator and administrator of Brad's quality, but the highly ranked Medill School presents a wonderful opportunity and we are very happy for Brad personally," said IU President Michael A. McRobbie. "The Internet is dramatically changing the face of journalism and the media around the world, and Brad has worked hard to steer IU's School of Journalism through a time of unprecedented change.

"Under his leadership, the school broadened the scope of its mission, upgraded its curriculum and experienced a tremendous increase in alumni support, which has resulted in some of the largest gifts in the school's history. He will be greatly missed."

IU Bloomington Interim Provost Lauren Robel praised Hamm's vision and energy.

"Brad is an eloquent advocate for the power of a journalism education in the 21st century," Robel said. "He also has been tireless in his work to keep the IU School of Journalism at the forefront of journalism education and has led the effort to internationalize our program."

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Hamm congratulates scholarship recipients and donors at each spring ceremony. Here, he is with Keiara Carr, left, and scholarship donor Marge Blewett, BA'48.

The School of Journalism now sends nearly 60 percent of its students abroad, triple the rate prior to Hamm’s arrival, with many traveling as part of unique travel courses that send students around the globe for study.

Also during Hamm's tenure, the School of Journalism created the Ernie Pyle Scholars honors program. The school also created what has become a highly regarded annual lecture series that regularly brings national leaders in journalism and communications to the IU Bloomington campus.

Hamm also was the driving force behind the development of the National Sports Journalism Center on the campus of IUPUI, which was the first to offer a master's degree in sports journalism. The center is now the official partner of the Associated Press Sports Editors and the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the nation's two largest professional sports journalism organizations.

Hamm formed other partnerships as well, such as bringing the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame to its new home at Indiana University and developing the school’s ties to the Indiana Coalition for Open Government.

"I believe that we leave the School of Journalism in excellent shape with the new Journalism Experiences programs designed to change the lives of our students, great partnerships with state and national journalism organizations, the important financial growth and gifts in a challenging economic time, many new talented faculty and staff, and a clear record of national success over the past seven years," Hamm said. "Most of all, Hiromi and I are very appreciative of all of the wonderful IU alumni and friends across the nation and many colleagues in Bloomington and Indianapolis who have supported the school and greatly influenced our lives."

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For six years, Hamm, far left, has led the annual trip to Japan for the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

Over the past seven years, IU journalism students have consistently proven to be among the most talented in the nation, building on the school's legacy of success in this area. During Hamm's tenure, the school won national championships in writing in 2010 and 2011 in the Hearst Journalism Awards and an IU student won the individual title for the first time in school history in 2011. The only other Hearst national team championship for IU was in the 1960s.

"Brad helped Indiana re-assert its place among America's elite journalism programs," said Paul Tash, BA'76, chairman and CEO of the Times Publishing Co., which publishes Florida's largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. "With a creative energy, he drew upon the traditions of Hoosier journalism, while keeping a keen eye on the rapid changes shaping the media world. Brad made a big difference at Ernie Pyle Hall, and beyond. I am very sorry to see him go. "

Hamm worked closely with IU journalism alumni to strengthen their ties to the program and to generate more support for the school.

“As someone who worked with Brad very closely, first in fundraising when I was with the IU Foundation and later strictly as an alumnus, I was impressed by his appreciation of the journalism program’s history and his ability to engage and re-involve alumni and others who have had ties to Ernie Pyle Hall and its predecessors,” said Matt Morris, BA’80, major/planned gifts officer of the Kiwanis International Foundation. “He was very good at building relationships with alumni and donors.”

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During a centennial year tailgate party in 2011, Hamm walked with alumnus Mace Broide, BA'47.

The school's two largest individual gifts for scholarships came during Hamm's tenure as dean: $1.75 million from Marty Anderson, BA'57, and a $1 million gift from the estate of Frank Arganbright, BA'49.

"Brad is a principled, visionary leader who recognizes the important role alumni play in distinguishing and supporting their alma mater," said J T. Forbes, executive director and CEO of the IU Alumni Association. "He'll lead the Medill School to great heights as its new dean."

The IU School of Journalism, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011, comprises 35 full-time faculty members and serves approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students on IU campuses in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

For more information, contact Mark Land, associate vice president, public affairs and government relations at IU, 812-856-1172 or mdland@iu.edu; or Beth Moellers, director of communications at the IU School of Journalism, 812-855-6317 or bamoelle@indiana.edu.

Students celebrate Hearst achievements

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:33:14 +0000

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Students gathered to celebrate the recent honors in the Hearst competition. From left are Charlie Scudder, Biz Carson and Sean Morrison, Hearst winners; and front row from left are Stephanie Doctrow, Inside editor; MJ Slaby, IDS editor; Lauren Sedam, recently selected to address her commencement exercises; and former IDS editor Jake Wright.

Carr one of 23 Chips Quinn Scholars (May 21)
Corya wins Counts photojournalism award (May 14)
PRSSA team wins Contiki contest (May 14)

Students at the School of Journalism recently celebrated their awards in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, which contributed to IU's second place overall finish in the program's Intercollegiate Writing Competition.

And one student is looking forward to competing in the national finals in June.

At a dinner last week, students, faculty and staff recounted the steps toward the awards, which included competing in five writing competitions over five months. The school whose students accumulate the most points overall wins first, which went to Pennsylvania State this year. Last year, IU finished fourth overall.

To enter, students submit their best published work in each category, and the top five students in each win scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. IU will receive a $10,000 grant as one of the top three overall winners in the writing competition.

This year, the writing contest drew 535 entries from college journalists.The individual students who earn the most points are invited to compete in the national finals in June, where they are assigned on-the-spot stories to report, write and submit in just a few hours. Last year, IU’s Danielle Paquette won first prize, a first IU.

This summer, senior Biz Carson will take on the challenge. As a result of the final point standings, she qualified as a wild card and was chosen to compete in San Francisco June 4-8. Prizes include scholarship awards ranging from $1,500 to $5,000. She will compete with seven of the nation's top college student journalists.

In addition to the writing division, students around the nation also compete in two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions, with championship finals in all divisions. This summer, the national contest also includes six photojournalism finalists, five radio broadcast finalists, five television broadcast finalists and five multimedia finalists.

Here's a recap of IU winners:

Rachel Stark, BAJ’11, first place in personality/profile for "Runner's High"
Biz Carson, third place in personality/profile for "Lauren Spierer: She's not a poster, she's a person"
Sarah Brubeck, BAJ'11, third place in the college enterprise reporting division for "An Alternative Ending"
Student Stephanie Kuzydym, fifth place in the college sports reporting division for "Married to the Job"
Charlie Scudder, sixth place in breaking news for "One day after deadly Harrisburg, Ill., tornado, town begins to rebuild"
Biz Carson, 11th place in breaking news for "Protests, vigils commemorate 1st anniversary of tsunami, nuclear disaster in Japan"
Sean Morrison, 13th place in the college sports reporting division for "The Diehards"
Caitlin Keating, BAJ’11, 20th place in feature writing for "Love Locked Up"
Sarah Hutchins, BAJ’11, 21st place in college enterprise reporting for "Fighting Back"

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