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Kausalya Saptharishi (MA'03) made her fiction debut in January with The TamBrahm Bride. The novel explores world of arranged marriages among the Tamil Brahmin, a South Indian Brahmin community.
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Weather Watch
SJMC broadcast news sophomore Jimmy Himes gets his feet wet in the world of broadcast with a daily online weather forecast for the Boulder Daily Camera.
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Steve Sander ('74) is putting more than 30 years of marketing experience to work for the City of Denver as its new director of strategic marketing.
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March 2008
Bylines Briefly
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Spring is in the air here at CU: students are making plans for spring break next week, sandals and shorts have returned to campus, and seniors are busy searching for jobs and internships. Thank you to all who helped make Career Day a success last Wednesday. Your tips and advice are bound to launch a few bright new careers. If you haven't yet, be sure to join the Career Network to share your expertise and connect with other SJMC alumni.
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Creative Marketing for a Big Splash 
After years as a writer of TV movies and NPR essays, Susan Arnout Smith ('70) sure knows how to tug at the heartstrings. But it seems that she's also got a knack for marketing.
When Smith's second book, The Timer Game, hit the shelves Jan. 8, like any good suspense thriller it was preceded by a healthy dose of foreshadowing.
Smith wrote 22 short film clips or "webisodes" for the book's Web site to hook readers even before the book was available. "I love reading, and I also love the interactive feel to the Net and I thought it would be great to introduce my characters from the novel in well, a novel way," Smith writes.
In addition to the webisodes, the book Web site also features an interactive game with free copies of the book going to monthly winners.
In today's saturated publishing market, Smith has certainly found a way to stand apart from the crowd. It's no wonder that she managed to land herself a two-book deal with St. Martin's Minotaur. The Timer Game will be published in 12 countries and five languages.
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Through the Lens
Tomas van Houtryve left CU in 1999 and walked right into a perilous and prolific photojournalism career. He got his start behind the lens as a student in Adjunct Instructor Kevin Moloney's ('87) photography classes, capturing the harrowing images surrounding the Columbine High School shootings.
Van Houtryve, who was recently honored with Pictures of the Year International's second place award for Magazine Photographer of the Year, visited the SJMC as a Hearst Professional-in-Residence last week. He inspired reporting and photography students with his presentation of photographs from areas of conflict around the world. Van Houtryve was also recently awarded a year-long Alicia Patterson fellowship for a project on "communism in the 21st century."
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Voices from the Podium
Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of the advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky, spoke March 4 at the first installment of the Innovator Series.
"What we believe in is momentum. You have got to get momentum for the brand and then you have got to keep that momentum."
Photo by Kasia Broussalian
"We wanted to interact, we wanted to play, we wanted to prank," he said of the Volkswagen GTI campaign, which boosted sales 80 percent above the forecast.
Watch next month's Briefly for a link to a podcast of Bogusky's talk. The second Innovator talk will be April 14 with Kevin Roddy, executive creative director for BBH in New York City.
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News & Events
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.
Journalism Historian Lectures
Michael Schudson, a professor of communication at Columbia University and the University of California, San Diego, gave a public lecture Monday, March 17. He is the author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life and Discovering the News, among others.
CU Hires Three Pulitzer Prize Winning SJMC Alumni
Last month we told you about Pulitzer-winning writer Jim Sheeler (MA'07), who will join the J-school faculty as a Scholar in Residence for two years
beginning this fall. But over the past few months, the university has also hired SJMC alumni Dave Curtin ('78) as assistant director of executive communications and Glenn Asakawa ('86) as a staff photographer in University Communications.
Media, Self and Society
Assistant Professor Kendra Gale is currently teaching "Media, Self and Society," which is a civic engagement class for freshmen direct-admit students. One theme the course explores is storytelling for social change. Students are examining their beliefs by writing reflective essays modeled on the NPR format "This I believe" essay, and performing community service with Golden West, Meals on Wheels, the Conference on World Affairs and Circle of Care.
Inside the Gold Frame
A team of National Geographic photojournalists and magazine, Web and video editors will present a daylong seminar at CU on Friday, April 25. Aimed at SJMC students, some of the day's events in the ATLAS building will be open to all. Look for details in next month's Bylines Briefly.
Cox Seminar
Stay up-to-date by attending the next Cox Seminar on computer assisted reporting and media ethics, April 18 at Pueblo Community College. This series of interactive workshops is made possible by a $75,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation in honor George Orbanek (MA '75), longtime publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a Cox Newspapers Inc. publication. Contact Alan Kirkpatrick for more information. |
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Faculty News
Environmental Journalism
Deserai Crow ('97) will return to the SJMC as an assistant professor in the fall. Crow recently finished her doctorate at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Her dissertation focused on the impact of media and politics on Colorado water law. Crow worked as a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver and a promotions writer/producer at KWGN-TV in Denver.
Springtime in Paris
Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi won an all-expenses paid trip to Paris for spring break. He's been invited by the U.S. Embassy to speak at a three-day colloquium on new media and the young urban generation in France. The event will have about 80-100 participants from a wide range of youth media, including TV, radio, print press and blogs. Echchaibi will give a presentation on his current research on blogging, and he will meet "players in the media around Paris."
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Campus Press Update
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Alumni,
It's been a month since the Campus Press posted an inflammatory op-ed piece (about Asians on campus), and I want to bring you up to date on how the Press and the School have responded.
The immediate measures (forming a Student Diversity Advisory Board, arranging cultural awareness training for the paper's staff, holding a campus-wide forum on diversity in journalism, adopting a detailed policy for publishing opinion pieces, training students on opinion editing) have either been accomplished or are well on the way.
Additionally, the faculty has formed a Sounding Board, which will make itself available to Campus Press writers and editors for consultations on upcoming articles. Two faculty members also volunteered to serve as an Editorial Policy Group, to help the students write the opinions policy and revise the Campus Press' code of ethics. But let's be clear: Neither faculty group will engage in any form of prior restraint of the content.
I am in the process of researching what happened: the events leading up to the publication of the offensive pieces. I will deliver that report to the faculty (and eventually to the public) sometime in the next several days.
Most importantly, the faculty has also agreed to address the longer-term issue of whether the Campus Press should be truly independent of the School's curriculum.
I want to apologize again on behalf of the School for the upset that our student publication has created.
Sincerely,
Dean Paul S. Voakes
More from CU on the Campus Press
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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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Thank you for your continued interest in the SJMC. Please let us know what we can do to serve you better, and 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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