Featured Alum
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Yvette Rebik ('06) is the new on-air personality on the Dom and Jane Morning Show on MIX 100 (KIMN-FM) in Denver, part of CBS Radio. She started working with the station doing promotions and jumped at the chance to be "Tizzy" on-air. Rebik is also an improv and sketch comedian with regular performances at the Bovine Metropolis Theater and The Avenue Theater.
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November 2008
Bylines Briefly
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 Here in the United States, fair and balanced reporting is upheld as an important journalistic value. But for American journalists covering environmental issues this can lead to 'false balance,' in which opposing viewpoints are given equal weight, regardless of scientific evidence. To what degree has this been a problem in U.S. coverage of controversial issues such as climate change? On the other side of the Atlantic, journalists may not be under such pressure to be scrupulously balanced. Has this led to quicker policy action on climate change and other issues?
These are among the questions that 18 American and European journalists will tackle on Thursday, Nov. 13, as part of the first-ever International Environmental Journalism Summit, co-sponsored by the Center for Environmental Journalism, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the British Consulate General in Denver. Please join us in the Aspen room of the University Memorial Center at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. for public discussions.
Tom Yulsman
Associate Professor
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We're Taking Names
Nominate an accomplished alumnus for the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. This annual award recognizes alumni for extraordinary achievement and ongoing support for the School.
Send nominations to Bylines@Colorado.edu before Jan. 15 with "Distinguished Alumni" in the subject line, and tell us in 2-3 sentences why your nominee deserves this recognition. Last year we realized that there are so many wonderful alumni to honor that we decided to keep a running list of nominees. So, don't fret if your nominee isn't honored this year. He or she will stay on our list and be considered for the award in future years.
John E. "Jack" Holden ('48) was presented with the first Distinguished Alumni Award at the spring 2008 graduation ceremony (pictured above). The award was established by Mary Ann and Doug Looney ('63). 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.
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Lost and Found
 Pete Baumgartner ('90) was understandably bummed when he lost his CU class ring while swimming with his new wife off the coast of the Greek island of Santorini (right). He spent the rest of the day diving in the shallows, hoping to find the ring. When he couldn't find it in the black sand, he assumed the currents had carried it deeper. He went home to the Czech Republic without it.
Then, a few weeks later, Dean Paul Voakes received an odd email. "I am trying to find mr. Peter Baumgartner in a internet but couldnt find him. I hope that you could help me a litle bit. He is propobly been a student there in a journalism and graduted year 1990. I just found something that belongs to him, so I am trying to find and contact him," Antti Kekalainen wrote.
 This Finnish fireman's son, Alex, had discovered the ring two weeks later while snorkeling at the same beach (right). Once they tracked Baumgartner down through the SJMC, they handed the ring off to Tiia (below), a college student who was traveling to Prague on holiday. Baumgartner met Tiia at the Prague airport to be reunited with his "beloved" CU class ring.
 "It's amazing that he went to such lengths to find me and that [Beth Gaeddert] and Dean Voakes also followed through, even having to contact my Mom," Baumgartner said. He wrote that this adventure "shows that the ocean is not too deep, the world not too big, and that CU is the greatest university on Earth (I mean, could this have happened to a Nebraska alum? Never!)."
Baumgartner is the senior online media editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague.
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Alumni Update
Buff Business
Boulder-based public relations and marketing firm Pivot Communication is bursting with Buffs, including three J-school alums, Maura O'Neal (MA '07), Michaela Bouck ('07), and company co-founder Patrick Hyde ('87, MBA '94). |
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News & Events
College Voters Leaned Toward Obama
SJMC Instructor Sandra Fish and Assistant Professor Deserai Crow helped conduct a CBS News survey of 25,000 students at colleges and universities in four battleground states, including Colorado. It showed that six in 10 favored Obama. And, about half of the students questioned were paying "a lot" of attention to the campaigns. CBS News, the Chronicle of Higher Education and UWIRE, a news service powered by student journalists, conducted the survey published Nov.3, in the Boulder Daily Camera.
Youth Voters Don't Always Follow Parents
It's more likely for a young liberal to be from a conservative family than for a young conservative to come from a liberal family, said Mike McDevitt, SJMC associate professor. McDevitt's research, featured Nov. 1, in The New York Times, found that young people who identify themselves as Democrats or as liberals are programmed differently from their conservative counterparts. They are more likely to vote for a different candidate than their parents.
Alumnus Donates Digital Cameras
This month CU alumnus Howard Schultz gave the School two professional-grade, nearly new digital video cameras, along with a bevy of accessories. Schultz heads Lighthearted Entertainment, a TV production house that creates reality-TV programs, including "The Moment of Truth" and "Extreme Makeover." He also donated the beautiful Boulder backdrop for the ATLAS broadcast studio set.
2008 Holden Lecture
This fall's John E. Holden Lecture will be delivered by Shailagh Murray, national political correspondent for The Washington Post (lead reporter on the Obama campaign). The public lecture will be a retrospective on the presidential campaign one month after the vote. It begins at 5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 4, in Humanities 1B50.
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Pay it Forward
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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Happy Thanksgiving! We'd love to know what you're up to!
Regards,
Beth Gaeddert
Director of Career Services and External Affairs
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Felicia Russell
Newsletter Editor
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