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Someday soon, while watching your favorite sitcom, Brad Bond ('02) could climb onto your TV screen. Bond is featured in a Chase Bank commercial, which shows him and another rock climber high above the ground in Eldorado Canyon.
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Did You Know?
It's amazing how quickly information is created, spread and made obsolete these days. In case you haven't seen it, check out this YouTube video to get an idea of just how fast.
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Nakkula Winner
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Jonathan Schuppe, police reporter for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., has won the 2008 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. The Nakkula award is named for the late Al Nakkula, who was a 46-year veteran for the Rocky Mountain News. The contest is sponsored by the SJMC, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Press Club. Schuppe will visit the J-school in April to talk to students.
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February 2008
Bylines Briefly
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You heard it here first! Pulitzer-winning writer Jim Sheeler (MA'07) will join the J-school faculty as a Scholar in Residence for two years beginning this fall.
 Sheeler will teach news and feature writing. He first taught at CU in Fall 2007, while he was converting his Pulitzer-winning "Final Salute" series into a book for Penguin Press. The Rocky Mountain News series told about the military officers who inform Colorado families that their loved ones have died in Iraq. The series was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Reporting in 2006.
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Before Sheeler was a teacher at CU, he was a student. He enrolled in the SJMC master's program in the early 1990s but went to work at the Boulder Daily Camera in 1992 before finishing his thesis project. He returned to the J-school in Spring 2007 and received his master's in May 2007.
The funding for this position was made possible in part by private donations from two members of the School's Advisory Board.
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Letters to the President
"Dear Bush,
Happy birthday. I wish you many more. Continue to be a good president and work on your skills to be a better president. I wish you many more. Have a safe birthday.
Love, Chanice
Brooklyn, May 27, 2006
On Feb. 26, Sheryl Oring's ('87) book I Wish to Say (The Birthday Project) hits bookstores. Oring is not so much the author of this book as the orchestrator, because the thoughts and words are not her own.
Since 2004, Oring has traveled the country collecting the words of America, as dictated to her by veterans, children, mothers, immigrants, students and more. Fashionably dressed in a 1960s-style frock and armed with a manual typewriter, Oring sets up office in parks and town squares, on college campuses and at flea markets. Then she invites people to sit down and speak their minds.
I Wish to Say (The Birthday Project) features carbon copies of cards and letters addressed to President George W. Bush on his 60th birthday. Some cards are encouraging, some angry, some hopeful, but what the birthday wishers have in common is a desire to be heard.
Oring plans to continue her unique blend of performance art and civic activism this year, asking people what they'd like to say to the next Chief of State.
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Innovator Series
The Innovators Series debuts Tuesday, March 4 with Alex Bogusky and Warren Berger. The series was established to bring to campus people who are pushing the advertising industry forward through their work and innovation. Even the format of the evening is a bit unusual. Berger, a journalist who writes about advertising, will interview Bogusky, creative director for the Miami-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
Bogusky started at what was then called Crispin and Porter Advertising in 1989 as an art director. He became creative director five years later, was named a partner in 1997 and became Co-Chairman in January 2008. Under his direction, the agency has grown to more than 700 employees and has become the world’s most awarded over the last few years.
Warren writes for the One club magazine. He wrote Hoopla with CP+B, and is working on a Penguin Press book on the power of design, titled Glimmer.
You can catch the action online. The logistics are still being worked out, but check the SJMC Web site for details in March.
The second installment of the Innovator Series is on April 14 with Kevin Roddy, creative director or BBH in NYC. |
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Voices from the Podium
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Skewes discussed the 2008 election and campaign coverage as part of CU's Super Tuesday events on Feb. 5.
 "One of the ways that the campaigns really try to stay on top of how their message is getting out and how they want it to be framed is by spending very little time answering questions from the national press corps, but focusing on local media markets and softer venues like Jay Leno and Oprah, and those kinds of programs that are not politically focused."
Photo by Mara Auster
"A big thing that's driving the news on this one is that you've got, really for the first time, a viable woman candidate and a viable African American."
Listen as Skewes answers questions from the audience.
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News & Events
Recent Graduates!
Make a smart career move and come to the SJMC Career Day Wednesday, March 12, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the UMC. Meet recruiters from media outlets and companies including The Denver Post, Warren Miller Entertainment, Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, KUSA-9News, and more. Details will be posted online.
Reps from War College to Visit
Six officers from the U.S. Army War College will tackle tough topics including national security and public policy during a public forum on Thursday, March 13, 5:15 to 7 p.m in Eaton Humanities 150. The program director notes that the officers "address current government policies, but they are not bound to champion those policies. They often prefer to share personal views based on their own experience, research, and reflection." Contact Meg Moritz for more details.
Journalism Historian Lectures
Michael Schudson, a professor of communication at Columbia University and the University of California, San Deigo, will give a public lecture Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities 1B50. He is the author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life and Discovering the News, among others.
When the Press Fails
Professor Lance Bennett, a media/politics scholar from the University of Washington, will deliver this year's Ralph Crosman Lecture Wednesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities 250. The lecture is titled "When the Press Fails." Reception to follow.
Scholarly Excellence
Associate Professor Mike McDevitt won a grant from CU-Boulder's Center to Advance Research & Teaching
in the Social Sciences (CARTSS), to support his ongoing research
project "Deviant in Our Midst: Anti-Intellectualism in the Parochial
Press and the Spectacle of Ward Churchill."
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Late Breaking News
from Dean Paul Voakes
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Alumni,
As you may know, this week The Campus Press published an inflammatory op-ed piece (about Asians on campus) that was intended as satire but instead outraged many, many readers with its offensive racial overtones. This morning I met for 90 minutes with five editors of the Campus Press and their advisor, Amy Herdy. We worked out a number of measures for the Campus Press that I hope will preclude such editing lapses in the future.
- Beginning immediately, the Campus Press will provide enhanced coverage on the campus controversy the paper has sparked, which will include an open forum for commentary on the issue, for as many days as are warranted by ongoing reader interest.The Campus Press will work with SJMC Diversity Coordinator Dave Martinez to establish a Student Diversity Advisory Board composed of non-journalism majors who represent a broad swath of interests on the campus. The board's purpose will be to provide editors with regular feedback from students with a diversity of backgrounds.The Campus Press will invite a number of student organizations to meet face-to-face with the editors, to discuss any specific concerns.The Campus Press will adopt an Opinions Policy, with standards and procedures for determining the acceptability of opinion columns or other reader-generated content.The Campus Press will schedule a series of diversity awareness workshops for the entire staff, in concert with the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, and with participation of professional journalists of color.
- The Campus Press will schedule a series of workshops for opinion writing and editing, to be presented by experienced professional opinion editors.
I'm confident that the current crop of editors has begun
to develop a new, more nuanced understanding of the delicate balance between absolute free speech and journalistic social responsibility.
I also want to apologize on behalf of the School for the upset that our student publication has created.
Sincerely,
Dean Paul S. Voakes
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Pay it Forward
Sharing your experiences in the trenches:
- Join the Career Network.
You'll become a contact for other SJMC graduates looking for jobs in your area of the country or field of work. Our Career Network has hundreds of alumni contacts. Adding your name is an easy way to give back to the School by sharing your expertise with other SJMC alums.
- Tell us what's new!
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It's been great to hear all of your positive feedback about Bylines Briefly and the print version of Bylines. Please keep those comments coming!
Regards,
Beth Gaeddert
Director of Career Services and External Affairs
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Felicia Russell
Newsletter Editor
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