Durham discusses spa trend (The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, May 22). University of Iowa journalism professor Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, a book about the sexualization of young girls in the media, is interviewed during a segment about moms taking their 4- and 10-year-old daughters to spas. Durham said young girls often feel pressure to act older than their developmental age, and while occasional trips to the spa could be a fun bonding experience and stress-reliever for women and their daughters, too many trips could contribute to girls feeling anxious about their appearance. She recommends that moms mix up activities with their daughters -- riding bikes, reading books, playing board games -- to reflect the fact that women are multidimensional and to avoid placing too much emphasis on beauty. "The Morning show with Mike and Juliet" airs on FOX stations in Minneapolis, Chicago and other major markets. View video at http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/pint-size-pampering/
UI broadcast journalism students display awards they won at the Iowa Broadcast News Association Spring Convention May 3, 2008 in Waterloo, Iowa. The students won the awards for their work on the nightly student-produced newscast, Daily Iowan TV. Pictured (from left) are Ashleigh Coran (reporter), Erica Patterson (anchor) , Charles Munro (journalism instructor/TV coach), Whitney Givens (anchor/executive producer), Jay Knoll (anchor/news director), A.J. Ellingson (sports reporter), and Forrest Saunders (reporter). UI students won 26 awards in the IBNA student market division.
Journalism Major, Shajia Ahmad, Receives Dean’s Achievement Award
Each year Opportunity at Iowa recognizes the leadership and academic achievements of graduating seniors and professional students at its Multicultural Graduation and Recognition Banquet. The College is pleased to announce that Manish Aggarwal and Shajia Ahmad were selected from among the nominees as this year's recipients of the Dean's Achievement Award.
Shajia Ahmad will graduate in May with a double major in Journalism and International Studies. Her honors project in Journalism consists of a series of essays exploring her personal experiences of immigration and identity conflict as a young Muslim woman in a post-9/11 America. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism honors society, Shajia has received numerous University scholarships and awards. Her dedication to improving the world around her is reflected in her work as liaison to the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, campus representative for Amnesty International, and member of the UI Human Rights Charter Committee. As a Writing Fellow, she tutors undergraduates in courses across the university curriculum.
Associate Professor Meenakshi Gigi Durham will read from her forthcoming book, The Lolita Effect, at Prairie Lights Bookstore, 12 S. Dubuque Street, at 7 p.m. on May 8. The reading will be simulcast on Iowa Public Radio as part of WSUI’s “Live From Prairie Lights” series. The Lolita Effect is a critique of representations of girls’ sexuality in contemporary media, written from a feminist standpoint; Publishers Weekly described it as “well-written and well-researched,” while Booklist called it “erudite and provocative.” The book is published by Overlook Press, New York.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the eight undergraduate college journalism students from around the country who will compete in the 48th annual National Writing Championships of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program this June in San Francisco.
The finalists include six winners in monthly writing competitions and two who had the highest scores from among approximately 600 entries submitted. They will participate in various assignments – competing for additional awards ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 in the Program's National Championships, held in San Francisco, June 2 - 6, 2008.
Also competing in the National Championships will be six photo, five radio and five television broadcast news finalists, selected from more than 350 student entrants in those categories.
The 2008 National Writing Championship finalists:
MATTHEW BAKER, Northwestern University
NICHOLAS JAMES COMPTON, University of Iowa
JOHN W. COX, University of Florida
TIARA ETHERIDGE, University of Oklahoma
ANGELA S. HAUPT, Pennsylvania State University
ANDREW R. McGILL, Pennsylvania State University
EPHRAIM PAYNE, University of Oregon
JENNIFER J. TRAMM, University of Arizona
Judging the writing competition this year are: Arthur S. Brisbane, Former Senior Vice President, Knight Ridder, Inc., Monte Sereno, CA; Stephen Buckley, Managing Editor, The St. Petersburg Times, FL; and Jeff Cohen, Executive Vice President and Editor, Houston Chronicle, TX.
Presently, 108 colleges and universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools participate in the program, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism. Funded and administered for 48 years by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Journalism Program awards more than $500,000 a year in scholarships, grants and stipends annually.
The Visual Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) presented an award to Kay Amert in recognition of her distinguished achievements and contributions in teaching and visual communications."
The first three pioneers for our Iowa Olympic Volunteers Project: Mike Stout, Nathan Cooper and Marcus Schulz preparing for Beijing Olympics "test event" at the Olympic wrestling venue ... they landed in Beijing on August 16, 2007, will be covering a junior world wrestling championship as part of the Olympic News Service's trial run, and will be back the second day of fall semester. Emily Doolittle and Beth Tuttle will do similarly for a tennis test event in October.
UI broadcast journalism students share the anchor desk with KCRG/TV9 early news anchor Liz Mathis (seated). The students visited the Cedar Rapids ABC-affiliate in late April to complete requirements for their TV News Workshop class. Mathis, a UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication grad, encourages these visits. Under her guidance students see how a TV newsroom operates from the inside by watching live newscasts from the control room and the news set. They then complete class reports on what they saw. UI instructor Charles Munro calls it "a perfect end-of-term exercise."
Whitney Givens, Jay Knoll, Katherine L. Martin, Randal M. Satovitz. Shelby Cloke, Becky Bereiter and Sara Overbeeke will recieve awards at the upcoming Iowa Broadcast News Association convention on May 5, 2007. Details to follow.
PhD student Li Xiao has been awarded a $3,000 summer doctoral research fellowship from the Graduate College. This competitive award will support her ethnographic study of rural Chinese girls' negotiations of media.
Josh Grimm and Joe Schwartz have been named "Outstanding Teaching Assistants" by the University Council on Teaching. They will be honored Thursday, May 3, 2007 from 3:30 to 4:30 in the Richey Ballroom of the IMU.
Rhodes Dunlap Phi Eta Sigma scholarships were awared to Journalism majors Megan Carney, Ashley Haugo, Sarah Raaiii and Zhi Xiong. These $1,000 awards, based on academic merit, are awarded by The University of Iowa Honors Program.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the twelve college photojournalism students who have been selected as semi-finalists in the 47th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program. They were selected from three competitions and qualify for the National Championship Finals this June. University of Iowa's Matt Ryerson took 4th place award and $750, but as a graduating senior will not go on to the semi-finals.
The photojournalism judges are: Senior Judge Leslie A. White, Director of Photography, The Dallas Morning News, TX; Pim Van Hemmen, Assistant Managing Editor/Photo, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ; and Janet Reeves, Director of Photography, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO.
There are more than 100 colleges and universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools that participate in the program, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism. Funded and administered for 47 years by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Program awards more than $450,000 a year in scholarships, grants and stipends, under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) at Columbia University presented Richard Johns, executive director of Quill and Scroll Society, the Joseph M. Murphy Award which is its highest honor at the 83rd annual CSPA convention during a special luncheon on Friday, March 16 in the Low Memorial Library Rotunda.
The Joseph M. Murphy Award is named for the CSPA's founding director and honors his 45 years of distinguished service to the student press and to Columbia University.
This award recognizes outstanding service to the Association over many years. It is intended as the ultimate distinction offered by the Association for service by a person.
In presenting the award Edmund J. Sullivan, executive director of the CSPA, said, “Never one to seek the spotlight for himself, yet always ready to help others with his deep knowledge of journalism and education, Dick Johns has been a beacon of integrity in a distinguished career of teaching and leadership spanning nearly a half a century.”
“Since 1972 his stewardship of Quill and Scroll, the international honorary society for high school journalists, has set the gold standard for managing one of the oldest and most respected school-college partnerships in the United States.”
Johns will retire on July 31 after serving as the Quill and Scroll executive director for 35 years.
Iowa graduate student papers accepted for AEJMCMohamad Elmasry – International Communication Division – Death in the Middle East: An analysis of how the New York Times and Chicago Tribune frame violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Lee Farquhar – Entertainment Studies Interest Group – Playing online: Motivations for fantasy sports use (with Robert Meeds, Kansas State University)
Yeon Kim – International Communication Division – Axis of evil?: News framing of North Korea before and after the 2002 State of the Union address
Yeon Kim – Minorities and Communication Division – Framing Katrina in black and white: News and discussion boards in the Chicago Defender and the Minneapolis Star Tribune
Anup Kumar – Communication Theory & Methodology Division – Abu Ghraib follow-up stories: A legitimate controversy frame
Katherine LaVail – Mass Communication and Society Division – Health information and Hurricane Katrina: A mental models approach to health-related articles
Marina Vujnovic – International Communication Division – Juggling the blame: News framing of the Srebrenica crisis (1993-2005)
After
less than a year in production (October 2005 to May 2006), entries
from DITV and the University of Iowa’s journalism department dominated
the May, 2006 Iowa Broadcast News Association
awards competition in
Des Moines. Our students won 12 awards, including five
first place awards and a sweep of the photography division. All but one of the winning entries
aired on DITV. (The public affairs winner aired on UITV.)
Adjunct instructor Cliff Brockman is IBNA president. Internship coordinator Jennifer Hemmingsen and adjunct instructor Charles Munro also attended.
Jake Carpenter swept the photo category, Tina Stein collected an honorable mention. Becky Bereiter, Shelby Cloke, Liz Pierce, Mike Wolan, and Kendra Clawson all won their categories.
The NABJ "The Word" show pulled an honorable mention. The winners had snippets shown to the crowd.
Spot news: 1st, Kendra Clawson/Jake Carpenter
Photography: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Jake Carpenter
Feature: 1st, Liz Pearce/Jake Carpenter, Honorable mention, Tina Stein
In-Depth Reporting: 1st, Shelby Cloke, 3rd, Tina Stein
General reporting: 1st, Becky Bereiter/Jake Carpenter
Public Affairs: Honorable mention, Janine Brown, Jocelyn Jones
Sportscast: 2nd, Michael Wolan, Sports Director
Newscast: 3rd, Becky Bereiter, News Director
I should also mention that Jake Carpenter took third place in the hard news
category at the Radio and Television News Directors Association meeting in
Las Vegas in April.
The Leslie G. Moeller chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor society, is proud to welcome 18 undergraduate and graduate students as new members. The initiation ceremony will be held Friday, May 5, 2006 in the Brownell Board Room (E254) of the Adler Journalism Building; all friends, family members, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.
The May 2006 KTA Top Scholar is Kelli Walsh, a senior from Johnsburg, Illinois. This award goes to the graduating senior inductee with the highest overall GPA.
Congratulations also go to our other May 2006 initiates:
They join master's alumna Lois Gray, who was inducted in December 2005, and seniors Kelly Anderson and Jessica Reese, who were inducted in May 2005.
Kappa Tau Alpha, founded in 1910, is the only national honor society recognizing the academic achievements of students in journalism and mass communication. Inductees must be in the top 10 percent of their class academically and have completed at least three professional skills courses, among other criteria. The society has approximately 100 chapters around the country.
The Leslie G. Moeller chapter, named for a former director of the School, was founded in 1936.
In addition, six undergraduates are being inducted this year into Phi Beta Kappa, the national liberal arts and sciences honor society. Kelly Anderson and Molly Robinson are spring 2006 inductees; Samuel Edsill, Jessica Reese, JoAnn Seeman and Kelli Walsh joined in fall 2005. All new 2005-2006 members of PBK will be formally initiated at a public ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in the Richey Ballroom of the IMU.
Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the liberal arts and sciences honor societies.
Congratulations to our JMC academic stars!
Associate Professor Meenakshi Gigi Durham has joined the POROI Board of Directors for 2005-06. The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) is an interdisciplinary program at the University of Iowa that explores how scholarship and professional discourse are conducted through argument, how paradigms of knowledge are sensitive to social-political contexts, and how the presentation of scholarly and professional findings is an audience-oriented process. POROI's activities include seminars, workshops, national conferences, a variety of classes, the Graduate Certificate Program in Rhetorics of Inquiry, and a peer-reviewed online journal.
A strong finish put the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the
University of Iowa in seventh place overall in the writing competitions of
the 2004-2005 The Hearst Journalism Awards program. Alex
Lang won first place
in the Spot News category, while Annie Shuppy won seventh. Often considered
the Pulitzers of collegiate journalism, the awards are presented annually
under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication
(ASJMC) with full-funding by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
The program's mission is to encourage and support excellence in journalism
and journalism education in America's colleges and universities. This is
the 43rd year of competitions, in which more than $400,000 in scholarships
and grants will be awarded to students and schools. This is the third consecutive
Top Ten finish for the program!
Three cheers for Brenda! Please join me in congratulating Brenda Gritsch as a recipient of a Mary Louise Kelley Staff Excellence Award for 200-2005. I know we all appreciate how much she has done for the School this year. She will receive her award on Tuesday, March 22 at 2:30-4 p.m. in 104 Iowa Advanced Technologies Laboratories (the building next to the IMU on the same side of the street). Dean Maxson will present the awards at 2:45 p.m.
Kudos to Associate Professor Venise Berry, whose interview on the University
of Maryland TV program, “The Writer's Tale” is being recognized
as a finalist in the Telly Awards.
As a Telly Awards Finalist, the show will receive a bronze statuette. The
annual Telly Awards competition receives over 10,000 entries from five continents
and 50 countries from the finest ad agencies, production companies, TV stations,
cable companies, and corporations all over the world.
The Telly Awards were founded in 1978 by David E. Carter, a past Emmy and
Clio® winner, to honor excellence in local, regional and cable TV commercials.
Non-broadcast video and TV program categories were soon added. Today, the
Telly is one of the most sought-after awards by industry leaders.
Iowa JMC has been recommended for full re-accreditation by the site team of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The site team report will be presented to the Accrediting Council in Chicago on April 2, then to the Accrediting Committee in San Francisco May 6-7. Official notification of re-accreditation will follow the meeting in San Francisco. For further information on accreditation, please see: http://www.ku.edu/~acejmc/
Iowa JMC is currently in seventh place in the Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition, often considered the Pulitzers of collegiate journalism. Iowa JMC placed fifth and sixth in the past two years in this national competition among accredited journalism programs.
The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication (J-MC School) welcomed students to their new home, the Philip D. Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building, on January 18, 2005, for the first day of the spring semester.
The building also is home to the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature and The Daily Iowan, which will move into its offices at the end of the semester.
The start of spring term classes was a milestone day for J-MC faculty who spent more than seven years in their temporary Seashore Hall (formerly East Hall) quarters. The 65,500 square foot building is receiving high marks from faculty, staff, and students. One of the most noticeable early benefits is the space in the Adler J-MC Building allows the J-MC School to be almost self contained, which means students and faculty will spend most of their workdays in one building rather than hop-scotching around campus to find an open classroom or computer laboratory.
There are still a few spaces that are not ready for use, such as the broadcast journalism laboratory and the rotunda, which will house a cyber cafe and a large video display featuring news programming and J-MC School information. Those spaces should be finished in the coming weeks.
Although the building is open, the fund raising campaign to support the J-MC School will run through December 31, 2005. In fact, this may be the most important year of the campaign as the School looks to provide for its long-term financial future that will allow it to continually upgrade and replace technology and equipment in the Adler J-MC Building.
The UI Foundation is updating the campaign web site as final fund raising figures for 2004 are available. The website also contains a list of naming opportunities and named spaces, floor plans, and a "live" overhead webcam look at the building. Soon, there will also be pictures of the inside of the building taken by UI Foundation photographer Tom Langdon.
A new edition of the J-MC Newswire will announce when the web site is
updated. In the meantime, alumni and friends can go to
www.goodbetterbestiowa.org/journalism for more information.
The University of Iowa student chapter
of the National Association of Black Journalists has been cited as one of the three top student
chapters in the nation.
The chapter, established in 1993, was among three finalists selected for the NABJ Student Chapter of the Year Award. Finalists were announced Thursday, Aug. 5, during the NABJ Awards Banquet in Washington D.C., held in conjunction with the Unity Journalists of Color Convention.
Chapters are considered for the award based on student membership participation, accomplishments and activities.
India Morrow Wins Internship Scholarship
Broadcast intern India Morrow is one of two University of Iowa students chosen to receive a $1,500 Keith Benson/Sam Goody Entertainment Internship Scholarship.
Morrow, a junior in journalism and mass communication and Spanish, is from Libertyville, Ill. She is a summer intern at KSDK-TV in St. Louis, where her duties include working on the assignment desk, assisting reporters, doing research and completing special projects.
Earlier, she was a metro reporter for The Daily Iowan, an intern at KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, an announcer/board operator for WSUI Radio, and an anchor/reporter for KRUI Radio.
"KSDK is a wonderful station to learn from since it is the highest rated NBC station in the nation. I am so thankful to have been granted this opportunity," Morrow said.
Ryan Roemerman, a junior communications studies major from Des Moines, was also a recipient of the scholarship. He is a summer intern with Viacom/MTV Networks in New York City.
The scholarships help offset travel, housing and other
expenses associated with summer internships.
They are funded by a donation from the Sam Goody organization in the
name of Keith Benson, a UI alumnus and retired chief financial officer
at Sam
Goody.
Ted Polumbaum's (1924-2001) news photo collection of more than 25,000 images has been acquired by the Newseum. Professor Judy Polumbaum is Ted's daughter. The full text of the press release can be read at http://www.newseum.org/newseum/pressroom/releases/photo_acquisitions.htm
Brian Triplett attended the Jim Murray Memorial Sports Journalism Workshop at the Los Angeles Times as one of 27 invited students from around the U.S. While there, students attended an Anaheim Angles press conference. The story Brian wrote resulted in his being chosen as one of three outstandanding participants. He will be a paid freelance writer for the LA Times this summer.
Brian was also selected for a summer internship at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut where he will do research and some writing.
J-School students and faculty can get a first peek at the Adler Building Saturday,
24 April, 1-3 pm.
Students in PR Workshop have arranged these hard hat tours with the architects and construction teams, who say allowing access to a construction site at this stage is "unprecedented." Hard-soled shoes, long sleeve shirts, and pants are required.
Journalism students who attend will be entered in a drawing for 3 $50 gift certificates for the IMU Bookstore; seniors are eligible for a special drawing for 2004 homecoming tickets and a gift certificate for Givannis.
Drum roll, please! We have the results of the 2004 JCI Board Election!
It was a close vote, and everyone who ran had strong support, but this is how
the vote count came out:
MAT representative: Amy Hoover
PhD representatives: Li Xiao, Mervat Youssef
Faculty representatives: Dan Berkowitz, Frank Durham
Again, thanks to everyone who participated in this election either as a candidate, or as a voter, or both. And congratulations to the new board members! Yu Shi, Amani and I look forward to working with you all in the year ahead. Best wishes, Gigi
The J-School really cleaned up at the Mark of Excellence awards dinner last night at the Region 7 conference in Kansas City! Here is a list of winners, so you can give them a pat on the back when you see them!
The first place winners will be competing at the National Convention in September. --Merrisa Brown
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John Kimmich's photo "Moment of Truth" received an award in the Magazine Division / Sports Category (it was a rare second place tie with a Sports Illustrated photographer) in the 61st Annual Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition. The competition sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, is considered one of the world's most prestigious. A panel of 14 judged nearly 26,000 photographs and more than 1,300 newspaper and magazine pages before handing out awards in 46 categories.
A portfolio of Danny Frazier's work was also recognized by the Pictures of The Year International photojournalism contest. Danny said "the portfolio consisted of images taken in 2003 for my master's project entitled, Through a Lens Darkly: Photographs from Iowa." The work, which David Rees, the director of the contest, described as a "tone poem explaining the transistion of Iowa farms" from prosperous to distressed, received the Community Awareness Award. Danny's portfolio of 29 photographs can be viewed at http://www.poyi.org/61/caa/index.php
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Meenakshi Gigi Durham has been awarded an Obermann Summer Research Fellowship. This competitive fellowship includes a grant award and invited participation in the in the Summer 2004 Research Seminar, "Images of Justice: Cinema, Law and the State in Comparative Perspective." |
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Dan Berkowitz: "This is the first class of master's students in Behavioural Change Communication at the University of the West Indies in the Caribbean Institute for Media and Communication (CARIMAC).
I was there for three weeks in February 2004 and plan
to return to work with these students in mid-June.
In the front left (red floral skirt) is Iowa Ph.D. graduate Nancy Muturi, who serves as CARIMAC's graduate director. She is also the instructor for this class in Theory for Behavioural Change Communication, and designed the course curriculum for the one year program.
Students come from Jamaica, Belize, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Antigua, Dominica, and Trinidad. Many of them have work experience in health communication programs, especially related to HIV/AIDS programs."
Skorton, Jones To Discuss Diversity On Student Talk Show Feb. 24 On UITV
The Word, a student-run talk show produced by members of the University of Iowa chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), will kick off its second season with a program featuring University of Iowa President David Skorton and UI Dean of Students Phillip Jones at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, on UITV. More . . . http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/february/021904diversity-talk.html
PhD student Yu Shi has been named the 2004-05 editor of the Journal
of Communication Inquiry. Her goals for the journal include emphasizing research from international
scholars and continuing to seek cutting-edge theoretical contributions. JCI is a student-run academic journal focusing on critical and cultural approaches
to communication research. It has been edited by graduate students at the University
of Iowa since 1974 and has won acclaim by publishing groundbreaking, early
work by such eminent scholars as Stuart Hall, Angela McRobbie, and Larry Grossberg.
Iowa J-MC in 2nd place in the Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition
Thanks to our strong showing in the In-Depth Writing competition, Iowa J-MC is currently second among accredited schools in the Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition! Northwestern is first and Mizzou is third!
Ryan J. Foley, who graduated in May and now works for the AP in Des Moines, won second place and a $1,500 scholarship. Foley, former DI editor, won for his story on American World University, a bogus university that claimed to be located in Iowa City. The "University" awarded degrees, including Ph.D.'s, for $1,650 in tuition fees. And, UI senior Grant Schulte, metro editor at the DI won 17th place in the in-depth competition. Amanda May earned 16th place in the Picture Story/Series Photo-J category.
Congrats to Ryan, Grant, and Amanda as well as Bill Casey and the DI staff. And special thanks to Kate Corcoran for coordinating our entries.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly names Andsager Associate Editor
Associate Professor Julie Andsager has been named Associate Editor of Journalism & Mass
Communication Quarterly, which strives to be the flagship journal of the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and to be a premier journal
in the field. The journal provides leadership in developing theory and introducing
new concepts to its readership. Because communications is a diverse field,
articles address questions using a variety of methods and theoretical perspectives.
J-MCQ challenges the boundaries of communication research, guiding its readers
to new questions, new evidence, and new conclusions.
Hennick wins 9th place in Hearst editorial-writing competition
Journalism major Calvin R. Hennick won ninth place in the editorial/columns of opinion writing competition of the 44th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation journalism awards program for undergraduates.
Hennick's entry was an editorial headlined, "Boycott men's B-ball," published in The Daily Iowan on Nov. 20, 2002.
He will receive $500 from the Hearst Foundation, and the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication will receive a matching grant.
A senior from Maxwell, Iowa, Hennick is a journalism and English major. Last year, he was assistant Opinions editor of The Daily Iowan; this year, he's that section's editor. Following graduation in May
2004, he'll be a
reporting intern at the Q-C Times in Davenport, Iowa, and afterward, will
do two-year stint as an English instructor in the
Teach for
America program.
The Hearst editorial/columns of opinion competition drew entries
from 92 students from 55 universities and colleges around the country.
Hennick's win moved the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication into third place overall in this year's Hearst intercollegiate writing competition.
Talbot & Singer's Class Follows Campaign - Article in the Chonicle of Higher Education for December 8, 2003
As he enters Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Grant Schulte surveys the scene of one of the year's largest Democratic Party fund-raising events in this crucial caucus state. The floor of the arena is set with 215 tables bearing salad plates and flickering candles. The stands above are filled with thousands of people waving posters and shouting their support for Gov. Howard Dean, Sen. John F. Kerry, and other candidates. The aroma of breaded chicken hangs in the air, as does a small blimp carrying a banner for Sen. John Edwards. With a reporter's notebook in hand, Mr. Schulte, a junior at the University of Iowa, is covering the Saturday-night dinner for his journalism class, "Presidential Politics." By virtue of simple geography, Mr. Schulte and 21 of his classmates have covered events like this one throughout the semester. They have attended political rallies not only on the campus but also in towns all over Iowa. They have pushed their way through crowds to question Senator Kerry, of Massachusetts, and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, of Missouri, among others. Students in the class who also write for The Daily Iowan, the university's student newspaper, have participated in editorial-board meetings with Governor Dean and with Representative Kucinich, of Ohio. And one student in the class has flown with Mr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont who is the Democratic front-runner, on his campaign plane. Basil Talbot, a professor of journalism and a former political reporter and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, teaches the class with Jane Singer, an assistant professor of journalism.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i16/16a03501.htm
Please join me in congratulating senior Sterling Bacher on his selection as a recipient of a $1,000 Presidential Scholarship for Study Abroad! In the letter from President Skorton, he states "all applicants in this year's competition displayed exceptional qualities of scholarship, maturity and motivation. Your selection, therefore, represents a significant accomplishment."
Sterling has been a key contributor to the NABJ student chapter and the NURU staff. He plans to use the scholarship to help fund a semester in China. In addition to journalism, he is an Asian Languages and Literature major. In the upcoming issue of NURU, look for his interesting Perspectives article on African American cultural influences in Japan, South Korea and China, based on his observations while visiting those countries. --Vanessa Shelton
Accelerated admission for Honors students declaring major
The School of Journalism has established an enhanced initiative for admitting selected first-year students directly to our program.
Criteria for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honors admission is as follows:
Journalism major Lauren Smiley has won first place
in the feature writing competition of this year's William
Randolph Hearst Foundation journalism awards program
for undergraduates.
Her award-winning article, "Isaac Mizrahi at the fair," was published in The Des Moines Register on August 12, 2003.
In it, she described the visit of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi to the Iowa State Fair, and the "makeovers" he did for several Iowa women. She wrote the story as part of a feature writing internship at The Register last summer.
Lauren beat out 112 other student entrants from 63 journalism schools around the country to take top honors in the first Hearst writing competition of this academic year.
A junior from Marion, Iowa, Lauren is a journalism and mass communication and Spanish major. She was a Daily Iowan Scholar her first two years at the UI; she currently is a DI staff writer. She has a four-year UI Presidential Scholarship and will spend the spring semester studying at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
She will receive $2,000 from the Hearst Foundation, and the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication will receive a matching grant. Her score also qualified her to compete in the Hearst National Writing Championship, which will be held June 2-6, 2004 in San Francisco. Last year, she won 15th place in the Hearst feature competition and 17th place in the personality profile competition.
Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Dan Berkowitz on his selection as a Fulbright
Senior Specialist. Dan will be working with the Caribbean Institute of Media
and Communication at the University of the West Indies (Mona campus) in Kingston,
Jamaica. Specifically, he will be helping the institute develop a new masters
program in Communication for Social and Behavior change. The program will
focus on health communication, social change and development communication.
Dan will visit Jamaica several times during spring semester 2004.
--Pam Creedon
The peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Media Studies, has accepted Shayla Thiel's article, "Shifting Identities, Creating New Paradigms: Analyzing the Narratives of Women Online Journalists," for publication in the March 2004 issue. The article investigates the experiences of women in online journalism as analyzed through their narratives and examines the various patterns that have emerged from their stories; it ultimately suggests that identity negotiation as a gendered process may shape and color the emerging field of online journalism in profound ways. It arises from a paper presented at the 2002 AEJMC annual conference in the Critical-Cultural Studies division.
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