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| Photo by Ben Weller |
| The 2007 Roy W. Howard competition winners and Dean Brad Hamm (right) posed at the DMZ (demilitarized zone) between North and South Korea. |
IU School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm and Director of Experiential Learning Jessica Gall will accompany the nine students from universities around the nation to Seoul, South Korea and the Japanese cities of Kyoto, Kobe and Tokyo. The group will visit news organizations in both countries as they explore journalism in other cultures.
School of Journalism is a partner with Scripps Howard Foundation, which sponsors the competition in honor of Roy W. Howard, longtime leader of the Scripps Howard media organization. The Howard archive of papers and correspondence is housed here and draws researchers studying Howard and the decades during which he was an industry leader. Both Hamm and Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver have researched Howard’s life and legacy.
“We have many close ties with Roy Howard,” he said. “This trip illustrates how international he was.”
Howard traveled extensively during his long career, working as a correspondent even while leading the newspaper chain. He interviewed international leaders, including Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco and Joseph Stalin.
This will be the third year Hamm leads the winners to Asia. While no one from IU won this year, the school was represented in 2006 and 2007.
Senior Audrie Garrison was one of the nine winners of the competition in 2006. She said in a phone interview that although she applied to go on the trip, she didn’t expect to actually win. Even now, when she tells her classmates about winning the competition, she said they find it hard to believe her.
“I was very excited,” Garrison said. She said she was grateful to have the opportunity to go on the trip and will take the experience with her as she goes on with her journalism career.
“I’ve never done anything like that before,” she said. “It was one of the most memorable things I’ve ever done. I’ve never seen countries that were so different before.”
Senior and political science major Peter Stevenson was one of the 2007 winners and said he was also surprised when he heard he won. However, he said in a phone interview the trip was an experience that he will never forget.
“It gives you a great perspective,” Stevenson said. “There is so much going on in other places than there is in our own little lives.”
Gall will be sending reports and photos of the group’s activities during the next two weeks. Links to those reports will be available Monday or Tuesday.
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