Reception held for de Castro, Mody
The School hosted a reception Dec. 2 at the CU Museum of Natural History for Professor Bella Mody, the School's de Castro chair in Global Media Studies. A $1.5 million donation from 1974 CU business graduate James de Castro established the position, the School's first endowed chair. Pictured from left are Anne de Castro; Mody; Dean Paul Voakes and James de Castro.

Mackey visits

Kobe Bryant's attorney Pamela Mackey ('81) discusses press coverage of the Bryant assault allegations during a visit to CU in the fall.

CU at Mammoth game

Adjunct instructor Chad Wachs ('95), left, helps broadcast student Owen Clark during production of a Colorado Mammoth indoor lacrosse game this spring. The Mammoth allowed Wachs' students to do their own production of a game at the Pepsi Center. (Photo by Kasia Pandyra)

Keesling, Gray in Hall of Excellence

Inductees to the CU Hall of Excellence on Nov. 15 included Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project founder Ruth Keesling ('53), left, and ESPN sports reporter Jim Gray ('81), right, shown to the right of former Chancellor Richard Byyny.

Ad program featured in Creativity

Creativity, an advertising trade magazine, named the School's advertising program among the top 20 in the nation in its March feature: "Guide to Ad and Design Schools." The SJMC was one of only five university programs on the list published in March.

Hamelink delivers Crosman lecture

Cees J. Hamelink, a professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam, and professor of Media, Religion and Culture at the Free University in Amsterdam, delivered the Ralph L. Crosman Memorial Lecture in April 1 in Old Main Chapel. "Communication Rights and Global Democracy" was the title of Hamelink's lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Keller First Amendment Center.

School is a co-sponsor of Parity meeting

The School co-sponsored a December town meeting with the Boulder Daily Camera and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as part of the Parity Project to open a conversation with the Hispanic community in Boulder County.

Career Series panels cover magazines, Web

Students got advice on careers in magazines and online at Career Series panels this spring.

"Get an internship," Rebecca Landwehr ('95), senior editor of 5280 Magazine, told students at a January panel on magazine careers. "That's the only way you're going to get any attention."

Landwehr got her start in journalism as an intern at the Denver Business Journal while a student at CU. She worked for the newspaper after she graduated until she joined the staff of 5280, a Denver city magazine.

"Be willing to start at the bottom and be willing to do anything," Landwehr said. More than 100 students attended the panel of magazine writers and editors.

Other panelists were Andy Bigford, former editor of SKI Magazine; Jeff Mason ('88), owner of a publishing and sports marketing company; Alex Markels, a former staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and New York Times Co. magazine editor, and free-lancer Paul Tolme. Markels and Tolme were fellows in the Ted Scripps Fellowship program administered by the School's Center for Environmental Journalism.

Online Careers: What's Next, was the title of a panel on a key aspect of the future of journalism in February. Panelists were Michael Noe ('93), head of the Rocky Mountain News Web site; Dan Pacheco ('94), president of FutureForecast Consulting and senior product manager for "New Products" at The Bakersfield Californian; and Michael Ross ('79), a news editor and reporter for MSNBC.com, and master's student Scott Cunningham, new media development for USA TODAY, who works out of KUSA-Channel 9 in Denver.

Outsourcing issues discussed by Mosco

The outsourcing of high-technology jobs to lower-paid workers overseas is real and, to many, worrisome, Greg Avery ('94), a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera, wrote in an April story about a talk by Vincent Mosco, a researcher in the sociology of information technology at Queen's University in Canada, sponsored by the School.

But the trend is not as big as the noisy debates in the media about it suggest and the phenomenon is largely misunderstood, said Mosco, the first James de Castro visiting lecturer. In a talk focusing on outsourcing of white-collar information and technology jobs, Mosco said the average worker should be worried about the trend in the long run, but simply bashing companies that do it misses a lot of what's happening.

"Lou Dobbs likes to rail against them on CNN, but, in fact, this is a complex process," Mosco said. "Jobs move for a wide variety of reasons."

An estimate of outsourcing from Forrester Research, a high-tech analysis firm, said 400,000 jobs already have been lost and predicts that as many as 3.3 million information industry jobs — mainly in IT services — will migrate overseas in the next decade.

Other research has suggested that about 4 percent of outsourced jobs in all industries, not just information-related ones, are shifted to another country. The rest are farmed out to domestic companies, Mosco said.

Alumni win awards in photojournalism

CU SJMC photojournalism alumnus Brennan Linsley (whose 1992 CU degree is in anthropology) has won his second Pulitzer Prize for news photography with the AP this year for coverage of the Iraq war.

His first was with the AP for the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1999. That makes three photo Pulitzers for CU photojournalism graduates in the last six years.

In addition, Krisanne Johnson ('00) recently won two major photo awards. She won Second Place for "Afternoon Game" in the World Press Photo Awards in the Daily Life Singles category.

In the Picture of the Year International Competition, she also won First Place for "Afternoon Game" in the Magazine Division-Feature Picture. And she won an Award of Excellence for "Country Field." Johnson is on a sixth-month White House photo internship. She just finished an internship at US News & World Report.