Indiana University School of Journalism

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.

More:

See the Grad Fair website.
Related
- Science writing course info session April 18 (April 11)
- Fall course, new book offer strategies for reporting on science topics (June 29)
- School partners with SPEA, philanthropy center for new nonprofits course (April 9)

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.

Ireri next colloquium speaker (Feb. 1)
Photojournalists to judge two contests, show work Feb. 10-11 (Jan. 22)
Weaver, Willnat on 'global journalist' (Jan. 18)

Aquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:43:05 +0000

Doctoral student Valerie Aquila will present “Smithsonian 9/11 Conversations: The role of engaged visitors in the creation of individual-level audience frames," at 4 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Ernie Pyle Hall lounge. Her talk is part of the school's Research Colloquium series.

Aquila’s study focuses on how groups within a specific online community maintained by the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History reflected on the ways that 9/11 had affected them, and their roles in memories of the event.

She studied 70 people in five groups engaged in a public discussion about 9/11 over the course of two weeks in fall 2011. The conversations yielded many recollections, ideologies and attitudes about 9/11, but only two frames emerged from the data: 9/11 as a current event and 9/11 as a pivotal moment in U.S. history. In her work, Aquila analyzes two frames, which she will use in follow-up studies to identify whether individual frames are present in media surrounding memorials of tragic events that affect communities.

Ibold guest of Kling Center Speaker Series (Feb. 9)
Ibold to talk on 'Dissent at Distance' (Feb. 9)
Lee's two works set for publication (Feb. 7)

Speaker Series: Counts’ photo inspires Margolick’s new book

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:15:29 +0000

The first of the school's spring Speaker Series guests, David Margolick, uses the late journalism professor Will Counts' iconic photo to explore race relations in America in his new book, Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock.

Margolick will discuss book and his writing life in his talk at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union. All Speaker Series events are free and open to the public.

The photo by then-Arkansas Democrat photographer Will Counts, later a photojournalism professor at the IU School of Journalism, is famous for its depiction of two teens – one black, one white — on the day of a court-ordered mandate to admit black students to Central High School in Little Rock. Counts' photos of this period in late 1957 gained national exposure through wire service distribution, and one was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Several on on display on the first floor of Ernie Pyle Hall near the multimedia lab.

Margolick says in a video on his website that his inspiration for the book was a visit to the visitors’ center at the school, where the Counts photo is exhibited near a late 1990s-era photo of the two women. He wanted to know how they moved from their lives in that moment in 1957 to the congenial, smiling women in the more recent photo. After interviewing and getting to know Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery, Margolick says he saw those women as a metaphor for the country’s racial history.

“I want this book to be an honest acknowledgement of the racial sensitivities that persist in this country and how, when it comes to race relations in America, everything is very complex and there are no simple or happy endings,” he says in the video.

A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Margolick also was legal affairs reporter at The New York Times, where he covered the trials of O.J. Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt and William Kennedy Smith. His work for the Times was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times. His other books include Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink, and Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song.

Photo by Will Counts (IU Archives)

This photo by Will Counts was distributed over the AP wire in 1957. Author David Margolick's new book examines the lives of the two teens in the foreground.

After a career with the Associated Press, Counts taught photojournalism at IU for more than three decades. He died in 2001. During a centennial panel last year, alumni recalled Counts' influence on their careers as professional photojournalists, and his memory is honored each year through the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors' Will Counts Photojournalism Award.

The School of Journalism Speaker Series gives students and area residents the opportunity to meet with some of the top media professionals in the country. Each semester, the series brings guests to Bloomington for free talks open to the public.

Ibold guest of Kling Center Speaker Series

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:22 +0000

Assistant professor Hans Ibold will talk on "New Media in Authoritarian Central Asia: Fuel for What?"at 1:45 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Wells Library L1001. His talk is part of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series.

Aquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium (Feb. 12)
Ibold to talk on 'Dissent at Distance' (Feb. 9)
Lee's two works set for publication (Feb. 7)

Ibold to talk on ‘Dissent at Distance’

SoJ Web Report — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:23:49 +0000

Assistant professor Hans Ibold will talk on "Dissent at a Distance" with telecommunications doctoral student Lindsay Ems at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at Radio-TV 180.

The talk is part of telecom's Media Arts and Sciences Speaker Series. Ibold and Ems will talk about their work with telecom professor Mark Deuze on a book chapter about Twitter and social change.

Aquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium (Feb. 12)
Ibold guest of Kling Center Speaker Series (Feb. 9)
Lee's two works set for publication (Feb. 7)

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, visit the website, attend the party, follow on Twitter at @ASRVoice or be a fan on Facebook at American Student Radio.

Students gain experience during Super Bowl week (Feb. 8)
File now to graduate in May (Feb. 2)
Students tour Pyle's first home as part of 'Footsteps' class (Jan. 25)

Brubeck places third in Hearst enterprise reporting division

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

Three win Dow Jones editing internships (Jan. 17)
Scholarship application deadline Jan. 17 (Jan. 6)
Ammerman to lead IDS in spring (Nov. 15)

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.

More:

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.

More:

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.
Related
- American Student Radio launch party Feb. 21 (Feb. 9)
- File now to graduate in May (Feb. 2)
- Students tour Pyle's first home as part of 'Footsteps' class (Jan. 25)

Students tour Chicago media

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:33:38 +0000

A group of freshman Ernie Pyle Scholars and Journalism Ambassadors traveled to Chicago Feb. 2 to visit different media organizations to get a feel for the daily life of working professionals.

Indiana University School of Journalism

Grad Fair Feb. 22-23

Related

Design group meets Feb. 16

Related

Aquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium

Related

Speaker Series: Counts’ photo inspires Margolick’s new book

Related

Ibold guest of Kling Center Speaker Series

Related

Ibold to talk on ‘Dissent at Distance’

Related

American Student Radio launch party Feb. 21

Related

Brubeck places third in Hearst enterprise reporting division

Related

Students gain experience during Super Bowl week

Related

Students tour Chicago media