Featured Alum
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Christopher Hawley ('97) lives in Venice, Calif., but is most at home on the road touring with the band, Christopher Hawley Rollers. The band is releasing a new batch of songs following the success of the first record, "Red Lights Green." Songs from the first album were featured in a recent documentary about competitive skiing. Listen to the "Red Lights Green" title track.
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Donald Heider (Ph.D. '97) came to the SJMC
to teach and stayed to earn a doctorate. After prestigious careers in
broadcast journalism and academia, Heider has been appointed as the
first dean of the School of Communication at
Loyola University Chicago.
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Chryss Cada's ('90) essay, "A Choice, but First a Promise," about her choice to become a single mother was recently published in the new book A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers. Cada writes for Parents, Ladies Home Journal and several Colorado trade magazines. She teaches newswriting at CSU.
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Pitching in the Big Leagues
Jared Levy ('04) has helped take coursework to another level for SJMC advertising students by giving them real clients. Levy handles music talents for the Union Entertainment Group.
Last fall Associate Professor Brett Robbs' advanced campaigns class developed an off-the-wall viral campaign for musician Keaton Simons, which included tea bags, CD covers and interactive Flash banners for the Internet.
This spring the students worked on a marketing campaign for "Fields of Fuel," a documentary about biodiesel that won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Levy plans to use five or six of the student ideas once he gets approval from the client. |
Alumni Updates
Distinguished Alumnus
John E. "Jack" Holden ('48) was presented with the first Distinguished Alumni Award at the spring 2008 graduation ceremony. The award was established by Mary Ann and Doug Looney ('63) to recognize alumni for extraordinary achievement and ongoing support for the School. Holden is the retired publisher of the Loveland Reporter-Herald and has served on the School's Advisory Board for nine years. He has also underwritten numerous special programs at the School.
Nonie Lann Recognized
The SJMC welcomed Nonie Lann ('48), who visited Boulder this month to attend her 60th class reunion and the commencement ceremonies for the School and the campus. Nonie also visited with student editors in the newsroom of The Campus Press, whose transformation to a multimedia online publication she has generously supported.
'Final Salute'
Jim Sheeler's ('07) journey into the lives of families who've lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers to combat has come full-circle with the release of his latest book, Final Salute, May 1. More than one reviewer said that the heart-rending story "should be required reading for all Americans." Sheeler, who will join the SJMC faculty full-time in August, recently spoke with NPR about his book and will be doing book signings around the country.
Inside India with Melissa Phee
Melissa Phee ('02), associate
art director for Crain's Chicago Business, earned a Lisagor Award from
the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for "The Teachings of India," a series that explores doing business in India. |
Training Wheels
This Friday, a caravan of shiny new Volkswagen Tiguans driven by SJMC students will make their way to Fort Collins and back. Road & Track magazine will choose and publish one student review of the small SUV in the magazine.
Students will also assist the VW public relations people and event team by serving as "media shepherds" during the two-day launch event which will be attended by dozens of automotive journalists. Read more. |
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Five Fine Fellows
The Center for Environmental Journalism announces its 2008-09 class of Ted Scripps Fellows:
- Jad (Jonathan) Davenport (MA '98) is a Denver-based freelance photojournalist. He has written and photographed stories for a variety of magazines, including ISLANDS, Men's Journal, and Outside. Davenport won a 2007 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award.
- Deborah J. Fryer is a producer, writer, director and founder of Boulder's Lila Films, Inc., an independent production company for educational videos and documentary films. Her first documentary, SHAKEN: Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson's Patient, won multiple awards.
- Joanna Kakissis is a freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece. Kakissis has been published by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, World Hum, and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where she was previously a staff writer. She has received awards from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the North Carolina Press Association.
- Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Kloor has been a senior editor at Audubon magazine until recently, and has freelanced for Audubon as well as Science, Archaeology and Smithsonian, among others.
- Chris Welsch is a senior reporter and photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He has won several Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards and a 2004 Society for News Design Award of Excellence for photography.
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Graduation Day
 Voices from the Podium
John Temple, editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, gave this spring's graduates and their parents a message of opportunity at the SJMC commencement ceremony last week.
"If there was only one thing I could tell you today it would be that you yourself are the most important brand. We've moved from an era of great companies and corporations dominating the landscape to an era where power is shifting to the creative and talented individual... Today's media companies need you more than you may need them."
"A mistake I've seen many make is that they always worry about the next job. They do their current job with one eye fixed on the next. That's not a way to live life-or to get ahead. The way to advance and to enjoy your work is to fully immerse yourself wherever you are, to commit to make something of what's in front of you."
Graduation Awards
Student Awards
- Outstanding Graduate and William W. White Award: Emily Anne Bassett
- Outstanding Senior and William W. White Award: Emilie Sarah Johnson
- Christopher Kyle McKillop Memorial Awards: David John Billingslea and Phillip Nader Milani
Faculty Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Member (students' choice): Paul Daugherty
- Wiliam Payden Award for Faculty Excellence: Elizabeth Skewes
- Ernie Pyle Award for Teaching: Lee Hood
- Edward R. Murrow Award for Teaching: Brett Robbs
Graduation photos by Kasia Broussalian
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News & Events
Ad Students Win Gold Pencil at the One Show
Elliot Nordstrom ('08) and senior Phil VanBuren won a Gold Pencil at the 2008 One Show College Competition last Friday. While CU has won a number of Pencils in past competitions, this is the School's first Gold Pencil. Three other CU teams were selected as Merit Finalists. This year's competition assignment was to develop a three-part ad for Doritos. VanBuren went to the awards ceremony in New York City where he accepted the Gold Pencil while his teammate, Nordstrom, attended graduation. Pencil winners and Merit Finalists' work will be published in the "2008 One Show Annual," which also features work by the winning professionals. The Gold Pencil-winning and Merit Finalist ads are on display in the SJMC lobby.
School Co-Hosts Conference
Scholars will explore the intersection of media and religion at the "Media, Spiritualities, and Social Change" Conference, June 4-7, on the CU-Boulder campus. The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Media, Religion and Culture. Contact Professor Stewart Hoover with questions or visit the center's Web site to register.
Chicago Shindig
The
School will host its first-ever alumni reception in downtown Chicago in
July. Join us from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, July 22, at South Water Kitchen, 225 N. Wabash. Chicago-area alumni
are invited to contact Beth Gaeddert for more details.
Recently Published Faculty Books
The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, by Associate Professor Janice Peck
Idea Industry: How to Crack the Advertising Career Code, by Associate Professor Brett Robbs
 
Campus Press Update
The SJMC faculty has begun a process of building The Campus Press into a more broadly based organization that more directly serves the campus community. The first step is that beginning Spring Semester 2009, any student on campus may work for The Campus Press and doing so will no longer earn course credit from the School. The student online news source will continue to publish several times a day from its newsroom in the Armory, and the School will continue to fund a full-time professional adviser and supply a modest operating budget. |
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Pay it Forward
They're
out there! Budding journalists, advertising execs, communications gurus
and more have just hit the ground running and they could use your
expertise. Help these greenhorns get their
start, and connect with other alumni by joining the Career Network.
- 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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