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Nichole Campuzano ('06) sang the National Anthem at
the January 7th Denver Nuggets game. She has recently entered USA WEEKEND's "Oh say
can you sing?" contest. The winner will be invited to sing at the
National Museum of American History and before a Baltimore Orioles
Baseball game on Flag Day, June 14. Help Campunzano realize her dream by watching and rating the video on YouTube. |
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Bob Dorr ('58) became fascinated with journalism watching his father, editor of a twice-weekly newspaper in Brighton, Colo., deal with Denver reporters.
Dorr turned that fascination into a 40-year career as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald. The Omaha Press Club will honor Dorr with the 2009 Career Achievement Award on Friday, April 24.
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Students and faculty tackled the future of journalism education on March 11 during a round-table entitled "The Future of Journalism."
Assistant Professor Rick Stevens said, "We keep seeing this frame about 'technology is killing journalism.' More and more journalists are starting to realize no one's killing journalism. We're killing ourselves. We've done this."
 Associate Professor Tom Yulsman sees significant potential for new journalists. He said, "We tend to lose sight of the fact that there is more journalism happening right now in a greater diversity of forms and with a bigger audience than ever." Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi, pictured, agreed. "Network journalism is the future. It's where the community is brought into that process of the newsmaking," he said.
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March 2009
Bylines Briefly
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With the recent, extremely sad demise of the Rocky Mountain News, a few of our more skeptical friends were wondering about the future not only of journalism but of journalism schools like ours. Ironically, on the day of the Rocky's last edition, we got word that applications to the School numbered 305, a higher number than we've seen in several semesters. And the largest increase? Apps for News-Editorial -- the sequence most closely associated with newspapers.
So what's going on? I think the students may be looking to a future for journalism that we old fogeys sometimes strain to discern: A media world in which creative, savvy entrepreneurs -- using a rich and constantly refreshed set of tools -- will be meeting the news and information needs of citizens here and around the world. As long as we can continue to underscore journalism's enduring values (and as long as we can keep up with the technologies students are using!), I think we'll be an important part of higher education for generations to come.
Dean Paul S. Voakes
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Rocky Closes its Doors
Several SJMC alumni wrote final columns on Friday, Feb. 27, when the E.W. Scripps Company closed the Rocky Mountain News just 55 days short of its 150th birthday. Mark Wolf ('70) said his good byes and on March 16 joined a group of former reporters and editors to announce the start of InDenverTimes.com, a Web-based breaking-news and feature site they call "a vision based on a 150 year tradition."
George Tanner ('87) and Michael Mehle ('89) were among the CU graduates at the paper when it closed. More than two dozen SJMC graduates worked at the paper over its lifetime.
Business editor Rob Reuteman (MA '78) said Coloradoans will miss the Rocky. "Hey, look, I didn't get into journalism to chase Octomom around the block. Neither did any of my colleagues here. This has been serious business, and there necessarily will be less of it done in Denver."
Dusty Saunders ('53) said, "I spent more than 54 full-time, enthusiastic years writing columns and news stories for the Rocky. Tack on another 21 months as a freelance contributor, and I can proudly report I've written more words than any other journalist for the notable paper that, unfortunately, won't get to celebrate its 150th anniversary in April." And Saunders hasn't had enough yet. On Monday March 16, he reappeared in The Denver Post writing a column about radio and TV.
Jim Sheeler (MA '07), former Rocky Mountain News reporter, wrote a tribute that said of the Rocky, "We could make people stop."
Once a Rocky intern, Michael Cote ('89), now editor of Colorado Biz magazine, wrote about the aftermath.
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Career Day
 More than 50 recruiters talked to recent alums and several hundred journalism and pre-journalism students March 11, at the UMC. SJMC Advisory Board member Gary Burandt (right) and Sue Deans (MA '75), Matt Sebastian ('96) and Steve Barry ('98) spent several hours helping students improve their resumes.
 Several alumni participated as recruiters for their employers including Alanna Rizzo (MA '03) of Fox Sports Network, Fairlight Baer ('03) of Examiner.com, Michael Flueck ('98) of High Noon Entertainment, Kristina Washington ('07) of People Productions, Beth DeFalco ('99) of the AP (left), Brad Turner ('02) of Longmont's Times-Call, Andrew Villegas ('06) of the Greeley Tribune, and Dave Mason ('06) of CodeBaby. Kim Christensen ('84) shared her expertise by speaking on a broadcast news panel. |
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Alumni Update
Another Great Salute
Jim Sheeler (MA '07) has done it again. His already-decorated book Final Salute will receive a Christopher Award in the Books for
Adults category at the 60th annual Christopher Awards this year. Sheeler's book was selected over
approximately 300 entries in the Books for Adults category.
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Voices from the Podium
 Warren Berger, author of the soon to be released book Glimmer, interviewed Lee Clow for the 2009 Innovator Series, March 11 in the Atlas Building. Clow is the global director of media arts for TWBA/Worldwide. He has worked on the Apple account since the Macintosh was introduced with the iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial. Here's what Clow had to say about advertising today:
"The challenge in terms of creativity is you better do something good and honest and artful and likeable because you're going to know in 15 minutes whether people think what you're doing sucks."
"It's a different world in the fact that you have to do advertising at the speed of culture. It has to keep up with the fact that culture is moving pretty fast and that it's very responsive."
 Clients and the Internet:
"They all talk the talk, but they don't have a clue what they're talking about. They don't know what they want to do and they don't know how to do it."
Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, delivered the 47th annual Crosman Lecture on March 19. Zelizer discussed journalistic images published in times of crisis and war in her talk "How News Images Work: When Engagement Comes at the Expense of Understanding."
"Images require viewers to imagine what they do not see...But what happens when the act of imagining works contrary to the context in which it occurs?"
"[An image depicting] the moment at which an individual faces death is both troubling and uncomfortable," Zelizer said. However, the world the imagination creates from the scene can be vastly different from reality.
"When imagination creates a certain kind of engagement with the image, that comes at the expense of understanding."
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News & Events
Hearst Professional-in-Residence
Adelle Banks, a senior correspondent for Religion News Service, will visit the School as a Hearst Professional-in-Residence on April 6 and 7. Banks worked for The Orlando Sentinel, the Providence Journal, and newspapers in Syracuse and Binghamton, N.Y.
CNN's John Roberts to speak at graduation
CNN Anchor John Roberts will give the graduation speech at 2 p.m., Thursday, May 7, in Macky Auditorium. Roberts is a former CBS White House correspondent.
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Adding your name is an easy way to give back to the School by sharing
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Regards,
Beth Gaeddert
Director of Career Services and External Affairs
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Felicia Russell
Newsletter Editor
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