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From
Cornfields to Battlefields
BY
KATE BRASER
UI journalism alumna Kirsten Scharnberg covers the war in Iraq for the
Chicago Tribune.
From
Iowa City to London
BY
SANDRA GREEN
J-MC Alumnus, Steve Holland is making his mark on students abroad.
Jon
Van: A call to be curious
BY
KAREN HEINSELMAN
UI alum moved from political science to computer science
Writing
from the Right
BY
MARIA NAZOS
Some of the Journalism and Mass Communication faculty and students are
crossing over. To the creative, right-side of the brain, that is.
Professional-in-Residence
History
BY SANDRA
GREEN
A quarter century ago, The Daily Iowan Publisher Bill Casey started bringing
one professional journalist to The University of Iowa campus each semester
for the benefit of his newspaper staff.
Professional
in Residence Sam Roe
BY
KATE BRASER
Roe is a Chicago Tribune projects reporter. In April he visited the School
of Journalism and Mass Comm-unication to share insights gained from an
industry where he started at $250 a week.
Professional
in Residence Joe Drape
BY
SHAWNA MCDONALD
An English major from Southern Methodist University, Drape started as
a night cops reporter at The Dallas Morning News, then became a national
correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and now covers national
college football, basketball and horseracing for The Times.
Professional
in Residence Judi Villa
BY
COURTNEY HOWARD
Villa, 34, spent a week in March talking with various journalism classes
and offering her professional advice to students about the delicate nature
of crime reporting.
Documentary
Photography
BY
AMANDA MAY
Every Wednesday night this semester, Associate Profes-sor John Kimmich-Javier’s
Documentary Photography class has laughed and cried, shouted and whispered,
edited and suggested. In short-critiqued each other’s documentary
projects.
Visiting
Scholars Jonghyuk Lee, Korea
BY
AMANDA HUERTA
Visiting Scholar Jong-hyuk Lee has been contributing his knowledge and
binational perspective to the J-MC School since July of last year. Lee
has the unique ability to combine his decade of experience with his knowledge
of the Korean and American media, and government experience.
Visiting
Scholars Dr. Mai Al-Khaja, United Arab Emirates
BY
AMANDA HUERTA
Dr. Mai Abdul Wahed Al-Khaja, known as Dr. Mai by her American associates,
has been visiting the School of Journalism and Mass Communication from
the United Arab Emirates since January.
Class
Profile: Public Relations Workshop
BY
COURTNEY HOWARD
“Learning to work with other people and problem solve is essential
for success,” said Public Relations Workshop Professor Ann Haugland.
Haugland is an advocate of group projects.
A
break in the chain
BY
SANDRA GREEN
A look at UI J-MC School Adjunct Professor Richard Johns and his journalism
teaching commitments.
UI
alumna retires after 45 years with Gazette
BY
ALEXIS GRUND
A great deal of history walked out of the door of The Gazette on Dec.
31, 2002.Veteran reporter and editor Phyllis Fleming hung up her hat after
more than four and a half decades at the daily newspaper.
Mathis
Harvests an Inc 500 Firm in Iowa
BY
KATE BRASER
Mathis, Earnest, and Vandeventer win national recognition.