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James Amos ('91) is an editor at the Pueblo Chieftain, but last month he joined eight other Coloradoans in a pseudo-reality show put on by the state Office of Emergency Preparedness.
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Alumni Bookshelf
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Living Your
Unlived Life
by Jerry Ruhl ('75)
Curveball
by Liz Holzemer (MA'95)
Navajo Women
by Betty Reid ('85)
Obit
by Jim Sheeler
(MA '07)
News Reporting
and Writing
by Melvin Mencher ('47) |
Homecoming Celebration!
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Dean Paul S. Voakes with former Campus Press adviser Don Ridgway, who was celebrating his 80th birthday at the School's homecoming
celebration, Sept. 29.
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October 2007
Bylines Briefly
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 Greetings!
We're happy to announce the creation an e-newsletter for CU J-School alumni and friends, which is funded by private support of the Chris Bittman and Kenda Noble Endowment. We've developed it to keep you in the loop about news and events related to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Dean Paul S. Voakes
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John E. Holden Lecture
 NBC News Correspondent Kevin Corke ('88, MA'02) will deliver the 2007 Holden Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.
He has covered events on Capitol Hill since he moved from ESPN to NBC in August 2004. And while the Emmys are notable, Corke has the notoriety of turning President Bush's head with a snappy, well-tailored suit.
Corke's return to his alma mater is made possible by an endowment from John E. "Jack" Holden ('48) and his wife, Marguerite "Peggy" Holden. The J-School has previously welcomed Tom Costello ('87), James B. Steele and Chuck Porter as Holden Lecturers.
Corke also holds a master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Campus Press Success
Campus Press went all digital in August 2006. At this time last year, the Web site got about 5,000 hits a week; one year later that number has jumped to 19,000 a week.
"It's been growing steadily since the beginning of the semester," said Campus Press adviser Amy Herdy.
Content is updated several times throughout the day and night as new information on breaking stories and sporting events becomes available.
Campus Press was the first to report several campus stories including the stabbing of a student on the first day of classes and reinstatement of a federal lawsuit against CU claiming the school was responsible for alleged sexual assaults by football players at a December 2001 off-campus party. And, it was the only news outlet allowed in the classroom when Ward Churchill returned to teach an unsanctioned class.
"They have a nice mixture of hard news and soft news," Herdy said. "They did an excellent job of covering Ward Churchill."
The students' hard work seems to be paying off. When Herdy approached former colleagues at 9News about partnering with Campus Press, the response was positive and the folks at 9News agreed to direct Web traffic to Campus Press site.
"It will be an amazing opportunity for Campus Press," Herdy said. The 9News Web site gets 800,000 to 1 million hits a day, some of which is sure to trickle down to CU's news source.
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Cox Outreach in Steamboat
A three-year outreach program to Colorado communities continues with a Nov. 2-3
workshop on computer assisted reporting in Steamboat Springs.
The SJMC received a $75,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation in April to launch the traveling program designed to empower journalists and other citizens in communities throughout Colorado with professional newsgathering techniques a nd hard-nosed tips for negotiating the "invisible Web."
Foundation trustees approved the grant in late April for a program
named in honor of George Orbanek (MA '75), longtime
publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a Cox Newspapers Inc.
publication.
The George Orbanek Journalism Workshop: An Outreach Program for
Negotiating the Invisible Web and Interactively Engaging Residents of
Colorado Communities will take place five times annually in towns and cities in every corner of the state and across the Denver metropolitan area.
The first workshop was in late July in Grand Junction with on- and off-site, interactive seminars led by CU-Boulder journalism and mass communication professors, staff and graduate students.
Read more...
For more information about the Steamboat Springs workshop, e-mail Alan Kirkpatrick.
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Events
- Surviving the Assignment: 21st Century War Reporting and the Age of Blackwater
5 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23, Eaton
Humanities 150
- Tim Crockett, executive director, AKE Ltd.,
the leading world-wide company
providing war-zone security for CNN, the
Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Fox
News, and others
- Mariwan Hama-Saeed, reporter and editor
for the Institute for War and Peace
Reporting, Baghdad
- Alex Quade, CNN correspondent, Iraq and
Afghanistan
- John McWethy, former ABC News defense
department and international
correspondent
- Media Mixer: Make a Date with Your Future
6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24, UMC 235
Meet Denver and
Boulder-area professionals from USA Today, Rocky Mountain News, 7News and more to find out about careers in advertising,
public relations, print and broadcast journalism. Alumni are welcome.
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Centers Get Web Makeovers
The Center for Environmental Journalism and Center for Media, Religion and Culture are presenting a fresh new face online that are sure to attract top students. |
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There you have it. Please, keep in touch and don't hesitate to let us know what's going on in your neck of the woods. If you've got news or views, we want to hear about it.
Beth Gaeddert
Director of Career Services and External Affairs
Felicia Russell
Newsletter Editor
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