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Just for Laughs
Former Ted Scripps Fellow Paul Tolme never imagined that his work might become central to a steamy plagiarism scandal. A line from an article Tolme wrote in 2005 about black-footed ferrets wound up unattributed in a romance novel by Cassie Edwards.
"First I was angry. Then I had to laugh. To see my textbook descriptions of ferrets in a bodice-ripper, as dialogue between a hunky American Indian and a lustful pioneer woman who several pages later have sex on a mossy riverbank, is the height of absurdity," Tolme writes. |
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Bill Spencer, a longtime SJMC advisory board member, has stepped down as editor of the Fort Morgan Times after more than 41 years at the helm of the paper his grandfather bought in 1907. A Rocky Mountain News story details Spencer's reputation as "someone who doesn't try to make a story more than it is, who focuses on issues, not personalities." |
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January 2008
Bylines Briefly
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 Happy 2008! There's still time to nominate a candidate for the School's first Distinguished Alumni Award. This annual honor will recognize alumni for extraordinary achievement (especially in the communication professions) or for ongoing support for the School, or for both. Please send us two to three sentences about your nominee by Feb. 1.
Dean Paul S. Voakes
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Students Honored in Hearst Contest
Broadcast news senior Thomas Hendrick placed first in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program for broadcast features. There were 65 student entries from 38 accredited journalism programs in the United States. Hendrick is now eligible to compete for a spot in program's national broadcast news championships in San Francisco in April.
The Hearst Journalism Awards program awards students for excellence in 14 categories including writing, photojournalism, broadcast and multimedia. Competitions run October through April. Student ranking among the top 10 contestants in each competition earn scholarships and grants for their schools.
Broadcast news student Erin Mahrer and senior news-editorial student Kasia Broussalian also placed among the top 20 in the broadcast and photojournalism contest, respectively. |
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Football on the Brain
 Terry Frei's third book, '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age, was published in December. Part memoir, it touches on Frei's ('76) journalism school days at CU in setting the stage for the panoramic look at the year 1977, when Terry was a rookie fresh-out-of-school reporter at The Denver Post.
His award-winning previous book, Third Down and A War to Go, recently was reissued in trade paperback with a foreword by David Maraniss, and Terry is nearing completion of the screenplay adaptation.
He also delivered the John Paul Hammerschmidt lecture at North Arkansas College in December, honoring the former Congressman and highly decorated World War II pilot who was one of the figures in Frei's Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming. In his day jobs, he writes for the The Post and ESPN.com.
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Voices from the Podium
Patti Dennis, Vice President/News Director at Denver's Channel 9, delivered the graduation speech at the winter commencement ceremony on Dec. 20 in Macky Auditorium:
 "Despite many changes in television, newspapers, radio and now the Internet, journalism is as strong and as important as ever."
"There are great journalists out there. But the great ones never really know it. They are too busy listening, learning and writing the world's story."
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Zack Martin Gallery
Student photographers shine in the Zack Martin Photo Gallery on the second floor of the Armory building thanks to generous donations from Zack's friends and family.
Zack Martin ('03) died in a car accident on Thanksgiving Day 2002, days before he would have celebrated his 26th birthday and a semester away from graduating. He was a gifted photographer and an avid mountaineer. He was awarded a degree from the SJMC posthumously.
The gallery displays the current work of photojournalism students.
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New Graduate Lands MTV Gig
Trevor Martin ('07) landed a job with MTV to cover the 2008 election.
Martin expects to be MTV's "one-man band," broadcasting, blogging, vlogging (video blogging) around the state and the Democratic National Convention.
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News & Events
Super Tuesday
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Skewes will hold a "public TV-watching event" on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, at the UMC. She invites students and others to join her in evaluating the caucuses and to talk about her book "Message Control: How News Is Made on the Presidential Campaign Trail." The event is open to the press and public 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Humanities 250.
Racial Stereotyping and Katrina Coverage
Professor Meg Moritz and Michelle Miles Ph.D. looked at the ways in which media coverage of hurricane Katrina played out and reinforced long standing racial stereotypes on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The presentation was one part of CU-Boulder's annual symposium celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Faculty Searches Heat Up
Searches for two faculty positions are under way with eight candidates visiting in January and February for two positions in public communication of environmental issues and digital communication and new media.
One-Credit Courses
Campus Press adviser Amy Herdy is teaching a one-hour class called Journalism and Trauma this spring. Students learning how to cover trauma and disasters will participate in a mock disaster during which they will interview "victims" and "witnesses" played by actors. A victim of the Platte Canyon High School shooting and her mother are also scheduled to visit the class.
Richard Ortner (MA '93) from Channel 7 in Denver will also teach Weather Reporting this spring. And in the fall, Assistant Professor Lee Hood will teach a popular class:
Broadcasting for Non-majors.
Alumnus Fires Away at Frothy Numbers
Most journalists readily admit that they're better with words than numbers, but overestimating the value of newspaper companies by several hundred million dollars seems a bit hard to swallow. Read a recent Bloomberg.com column by Jonathan Weil ('91).
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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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Happy 2008,
Beth Gaeddert
Director of Career Services and External Affairs
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Felicia Russell
Newsletter Editor
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