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Todd Lamb ('98) was once described as "elegant and subversive at the same time." This ad-man's TV and viral films will make you laugh out loud and scratch your head.
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Miles McKenna ('05) is an international man of broadcasting. After studying in South Africa and living in Taiwan, he's become the go-to guy at International Channel Shanghai, one of two English-language television channels in China. McKenna's primary job is to edit scripts for news features. Read about his impressions from inside the new China on his blog, Miles from Home.
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July 2008
Bylines Briefly
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We know it's a busy time of year, so we're keeping true to our name and being brief this month. That way you can still catch up with your alma mater before heading out to throw some fresh corn on the grill.
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On the Borderline Beat
 Brady McCombs ('01) has found success telling the untold stories of immigration. One judge for the Arizona Press Club's 2007 awards said, "In the hands of Brady McCombs...It means tough, nuanced and even brave reporting that never loses sight of the human element. In my book Brady McCombs wins this competition hands-down."
McCombs became the first Arizona Daily Star reporter to win the Press Club's highest honor, the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year award, since the early '80s.
McCombs has worked for the Star since February 2006. Before that he covered immigration for the Greeley Tribune.
"Being the border reporter in the busiest stretch of southwest border for illegal immigration, drug smuggling and border deaths has been a tremendous experience for me and given me an opportunity to write many important stories," he said.
Last summer, he was also named Arizona journalist of the year in the 2007 Better Newspapers Contest of the Arizona Newspapers Association, and received first place for beat reporting in the 2007 Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors News Writing and Photo Contest. Nationally, he has been recognized by the Unity Awards in Media, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Best in Business and Best of the West.
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Swatting for the Smithsonian
 Toolik Field Station is just off the Dalton Highway on the way to Prudhoe Bay, past where the last trees give way to the Brooks Range and the tundra tussocks take over. It is a place that few will visit, but one that is integral to our understanding of climate change.
This month, Christine Dell'Amore (MA'05) spent two weeks at Toolik on a Marine Biological Laboratory Science Journalism Fellowship along with nine other journalists. This is the first year that the MBL has sent journalists to Toolik. The new program was developed as part of the International Polar Year.
Dell'Amore captured part of her experience in dispatches for the Smithsonian Magazine and on the fellowship blog. "There's a really awesome video I posted of the mosquitos here," she wrote from the field. "They are positively vicious! I had the bizarre experience a few days ago of clambering on an ice shelf while swatting hordes of bugs."
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Alumni Updates
Style-Saavy Centenarian
Delores Plested ('31) celebrates her 100th birthday this month. As Rocky Mountain News reporter Mary Winter wrote, "Del had a front-row seat to so much of history." Plested worked for The New York Times in 1940-1 before moving back to the Denver area where she covered presidential and celebrity visits to the state. She even gave President Eisenhower the red pajamas made famous on the cover of Life magazine.
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Opening the Vault
Dave Plati ('82), CU-Boulder Associate Athletic Director, drew on 30 years of experience to write his latest book, University of Colorado Football Vault. In addition to a written history of the football program, the book features reproductions of historic tickets, photographs, stats sheets, telegrams and more tucked into sleeves in the book. "I refused to do a book that would overly dwell on negatives; that's not what our fans want," Plati said. "I make brief mention of a few things, but by and large, this was a celebration of our football program.
Picture Perfect
Last December we featured photographer Kathryn Cook ('01) because she'd recently won the Aftermath Project grant for her work on the Armenian genocide in Turkey. She's done it again. Cook has won the 2008 Inge Morath Award. The $5,000 award goes to a female photographer under 30 to support an ongoing project.
Passing of the Torch
Monica Emerich (Ph.D.'06) was the post-doctoral fellow with the Center for Media, Religion and Culture for two years. Her crowning achievement was the coordination of the center's June conference on "Media, Spiritualities and Social Change." She has turned over the post to a new post-doc fellow, Curtis Coats (Ph.D.'08), and is starting a consulting business in Boulder.
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News & Events
Alumni Reception in Chicago
Chicago-area alumni, head down to the South Water Kitchen, 225 N. Wabash, on Tuesday, July 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. to Tuesday, July 22 to meet Dean Paul Voakes and find out what's new at CU. E-mail Beth Gaeddert, Elizabeth.Gaeddert@Colorado.edu to RSVP.
On the Campaign Trail
Assistant Professor Liz Skewes was awarded a $5,000 research grant from AEJMC's Mass Communication and Society Division. Skewes is also the first faculty member to qualify for faculty research match program, which will provide her with an additional $5,000. These grants allow her to continue fieldwork on the presidential campaign trail--which she's been able to follow since the Gore-Bush race. This project is titled "Gender in the 2008 Presidential Campaign."
Making International News
Interest continues in Associate Professor Janice Peck's book "The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era." Over the past few weeks she was interviewed by journalists in Australia, France and Sweden. She also did radio interviews with Bruce Dixon on the program "Just Peace" on Atlanta station WRFG, and with Dr. Jared Ball on the program "Mid-Day Jazz and Justice Mondays" on Washington, D.C., station WPFW. Closer to home, Peck was also interviewed for a story for the CU alumni magazine, Coloradan, which will appear in the September back-to-school issue.
Bright Young Faces
Students at the SJMC are looking a bit young these days. That's because they're high school students from CU's Pre-Collegiate and Upward Bound programs. These residential summer programs for high school juniors are getting a taste of journalism in courses taught by Michelle Miles, and recent graduates Thomas Hendrick and Jessica Bralish.
Students Network at UNITY
Later this month five students and four recent graduates will attend the UNITY conference in Chicago. If you see them there, be sure to say "Hello!"
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