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Robert Rogers, left, of the San Bernadino County Sun receives the 2007 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting from Joe Fuentes, representing the award committee. The award is sponsored annually by the SJMC, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Press Club

Faculty and staff sing, badly, to Pat Meyers, left, at her retirement party in June. Meyers served the School for 19 years as assistant to the dean for budget and finance.

New numbers reflect growing presence of Campus Press

The Campus Press (www.thecampuspress.com) went all digital in August 2006. At this time last year, the Web site got about 20,000 hits a month; one year later that number has jumped to 55,000 a month.

"It's been growing steadily since the beginning of the semester," said The Campus Press manager Amy Herdy.

Content is updated several times throughout the day and night as new information on breaking stories and sporting events becomes available.

The Campus Press was the first to report several campus stories, including the stabbing of a student on the first day of classes and reinstatement of a federal lawsuit against CU alleging that the school was responsible for alleged sexual assaults by football players at a December 2001 off-campus party. And, it was the only news outlet allowed in the classroom when ousted professor Ward Churchill returned to teach an unsanctioned class.

"They have a nice mixture of hard news and soft news," Herdy said. "They did an excellent job of covering Ward Churchill." And in November those tireless reporters broke the story of a diesel fuel spill that flowed into Boulder Creek. A few weeks earlier they were first to report about the early morning Gold Run fire, posting the news at 4 a.m. on Oct. 26. A TV station in Denver later called and asked permission to use the photos.

CU Foundation honored

Under Chris Bittman's ('85) management, the CU Foundation's endowment portfolio performed better than 99 percent of its peers, earning a 22.79 percent return in the last fiscal year. This prompted Foundation and Endowment Money Management magazine to name the foundation "Large Foundation of the Year" at its 2007 Nonprofit Awards.

Centers get Web makeovers

Check out the new Web sites for the Center for Environmental Journalism at www.colorado.edu/journalism/cej/ and Center for Media, Religion and Culture at www.colorado.edu/journalism/cmrc.

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