Indiana University School of Journalism

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.

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.

PRSSA team wins Contiki contest (May 14)
Students celebrate Hearst achievements (May 3)
Students interested in magazines find several options to learn, network (May 2)

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 9 (April 30)

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:55:28 +0000

A new book edited by Professor Emeritus David Weaver and professor Lars Willnat, The Global Journalist in the 21st Century, has just been published by Routledge Press. This 585-page book includes studies of journalists in more than 30 countries in 38 chapters written by 80 authors. It's a follow-up to the 1998 Global Journalist book edited by Weaver that included studies of journalists from 21 countries.

School research group launches survey (May 10)
Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation (May 10)
Hamm to lead Northwestern's Medill School (May 4)

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.

School research group launches survey

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:29:31 +0000

The school’s Communications Research Group has officially launched its survey, “Social Media and News Use.”

Assistant professor Jae Kook Lee reports that after the team is finished with data collection, six project groups will begin research work. The CRG has already come up with six research projects led by participating faculty members, and most projects aim for International Communications Association conference as first venue of publication.

Formed in 2011, the IU School of Journalism Communications Research Group promotes collaborative research among faculty and students. Six faculty and about 20 graduate students discuss their work weekly and, divided into five project groups, conduct research on specific projects.

Faculty, student work set for AEJMC presentation

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:19:46 +0000

Each August, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference invites researchers and scholars from all over the world to share their work. IU School of Journalism faculty and students often present their work or serve on panels.

Below, find an evolving list of those who will participate at the next AEJMC conference in Chicago in Aug. 9-12.

Lesa Hatley Major is lead author of “Beyond Getting Your Bell Rung: Framing of Sport-Related Concussion Coverage Between 2007 and 2012,” which has been accepted for presentation by the Sports Communication Interest Group and has been honored with the Top Faculty Paper Award. Her co-authors are HPER doctoral students Matthew Zimmerman and Lauren Burch.
Mohammed Al-Azdee, PhD’12, is the author of "Survey Data Analysis with Continuous Moderator Variables in Multiple Regression Modeling," which has been accepted by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division for either a presentation or a poster at this summer’s annual AEJMC conference in Chicago. Only 45 out of 95 papers were accepted by the division.
Doctoral student Jihyang Choi is the author of "Who (or what) sets J-bloggers’ agenda? A comparison between the political J-blogs of newspapers and television networks,” which has been accepted by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division.
Doctoral student Claudia Kozman’s paper, “The Tiger Woods Scandal in the Media: Measuring Attribute Effects on the Public,” has been accepted for presentation as part of the Scholar-to-Scholar Poster Session Aug. 11.

Routledge publishes The Global Journalist (May 13)
School research group launches survey (May 10)
Hamm to lead Northwestern's Medill School (May 4)

Take It Easy Open July 28

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:19:27 +0000

Work on your golf swing in time for the 12th annual Take It Easy Open July 28 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 as a way to support a scholarship in Jackson's memory. The outing has since raised more than $50,000 for scholarships.

In addition to golf, the day includes raffle prizes, including signed balls by IU coaches Tom Crean, Kevin WIlson and Todd Yeagley, and tickets to the BMW Championship Sept. 6-9 at Crooked Stick Golf Course in Indianapolis. The lunch is open to family and non-golfers as well.

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)
Students interested in magazines find several options to learn, network (May 2)
Brinkman inducted into Kansas hall of fame (April 25)

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

Luncheon kicks off three-day centennial celebration (Sept. 17)
Science writing course info session April 18 (April 11)
Fall course, new book offer strategies for reporting on science topics (June 29)

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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