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Steve Sander ('74), the City of Denver's director of strategic marketing, received the 2009 AAF Silver Medal at a lunch meeting of the New Denver Ad Federation (NDAF). The American Advertising Federation award is a lifetime achievement award. Sander said his career success is the result of relationships built on "friendship and trust." He was introduced by Kathy Hagan Brown, co-president, of Karsh\Hagan. |
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 Lillian Dunlap, one of nation's leading trainers of diversity in communication education, was on campus for two days, guest-teaching journalism classes, talking with student journalists from NewsTeam and CU-Independent, and holding a workshop for faculty on Friday, Sept. 11. Dunlap is on the affiliate faculty of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and is CEO of Communication Research Enterprises Inc. She's a former broadcast journalist and former professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She co-authored The Authentic Voice Web site.
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August/September 2009
Bylines Briefly
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I want to share with you some news that holds the promise of a unique and exciting transformation of our school. Interim Provost Stein Sture has appointed a task force this fall to study the "potential, feasibility and broader benefits of a new school of information" (which he indicated is a working title only). Provost Sture wants to include at the outset our school, the ATLAS Institute, the Integrated Telecommunication Program (ITP) and the Department of Computer Science, and other schools, institutes, departments and programs may be considered as well.
This broadly based task force, which I will co-chair with ATLAS Director John Bennett, will be asked to make a set of recommendations by April 15, 2010. The report will then be reviewed by the deans before the chancellor and provost make a final decision.
As you know, rapid advances in technology (together with a bear economy) have basically exploded the model by which journalism and the other communication professions thrived for more than a century. Mostly, we see media organizations and journalism schools watching anxiously for any new tech developments that might help salvage journalism/mass communication as we know it. I don't want us to be among the hand wringers; we now have an opportunity to be proactive, to become leaders in a new kind of media education.
It's going to take a new approach, one that crosses traditional academic boundaries as never before. And the idea fits well with the campus's Flagship 2030 strategic plan, which states, "We believe the most successful universities in 2030 will be those that excel at spanning academic boundaries to address the complex and difficult issues facing society." If the future of journalism isn't a complex societal issue I don't know what is.
Twentieth-century forms of mass communication may be fading away, but the quantity of news and information has never been greater, and the media through which they travel have never been more varied. I'm eager to embark on this exploration, and I'll keep you posted along the way.
Dean Paul S. Voakes
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Surviving Hard Times
If you're facing the daunting task of finding employment in this unstable environment, we'd like to help. Give your job search a boost by networking with other SJMC alumni through the SJMC LinkedIn group, attend the panel on "How we got here: practicing journalism in difficult times" on Thursday, Sept. 17, and the J-Board's Media Mixer on Thursday, Oct. 8. Check into CU's Career Services. The alumni fee has been eliminated.
In addition, Beth Gaeddert is happy to help connect you to other alumni in the SJMC Career Network. Email her to get contacts in a specific area of the country or field of work.
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Alumni Updates
CU Alumnus exhibited at Visa pour l'Image
Adjunct Photojournalism Instructor Kevin Maloney ('87) was thrilled to hear that one of his students, Brennan Linsley (a 1989 CU graduate), was selected to be an exhibitor at the 21st International Festival of Photojournalism, Visa pour l'Image, in Perpignan, France. Linsley is a photographer for the Associated Press in the Caribbean. Much of his recent work has focused on the conditions for prisoners at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
 Inside North Korea
Another Kevin Maloney ('87) protege, Tomas Van Houtryve, is making waves internationally. In 2007 and 2008 Van Houtryve assumed a new identity toinfiltrate North Korea. His experiences are documented in a three-part online series for Time magazine that includes a collection of his images, text and audio stories of his entry and experience in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Part I, Part II, Part III.)
Gossip Girl
Rachael Shapiro (MA '04), a longtime copy editor for the New York Post's Page Six, has made her writing debut at the Post. She dropped in on the wrap up party for "Guiding Light," the longest running TV show in history.
Premier Success
Documentary producer and director Marcia Jarmel (MA '87) recently premiered her new documentary film, Speaking in Tongues, to four sold out screenings. The film, which looks at the debate surrounding bilingual education in the U.S., was given the Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Screenings continue to be held around the country, but you will also be able to catch it on public television in 2010.
Alumnus Honored by ISWNE
Garrett Ray ('59) was presented this June with the Eugene Cervi Award at the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors' (ISWNE) annual conference. The group's most prestigious award recognizes newspaper editors who have consistently acted in the conviction that "good journalism begets good government." Ray edited and published the Littleton Independent in Colorado from 1966 to 1981, before joining the journalism faculty at Colorado State University.
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News & Events
Colorado Press Association Editors Visit CU
A team of Colorado Press Association editors visits the school each fall. This year they talked to three classes and had lunch with students. Right: Greeley Tribune Editor Randy Bangert, Dean Paul S. Voakes and Laura Frank, a former Rocky Mountain News reporter and now a Ted Scripps Fellow at the SJMC chat in the student lounge.
Scholarship Banquet
Scholarships totaling $191,550, $80,000 higher than any previo us year, were awarded to SJMC students Sunday night, Sept. 13. These include the first Hemingway Scholarships that went t o seven juniors and seniors who each received $10,000 for the 2009-10 school year. Another gift from the estate of former Denver Post copy editor William S. Hemingway recently brought the donation up to $1 million. Right: Dean Voakes congratulates broadcast news major Joey Maestes and his parents. Maestes won an Alvin G. Flanagan & Walker Family Scholarship and the Columbine Unity Scholarship. Photo by Paula Cuevas.
iPhone Apps
Don't miss that bus! SJMC sophomore Zack Shapiro has created an iPhone application that delivers bus schedules to users traveling from Boulder to Denver. Next, he plans to create an application with local routes.
You're Invited!
- How We Got Here: Practicing journalism in difficult times.
Thursday, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
Continuing Education room 140, west of the Armory
Seth Masia (MA'07), editor of SOLAR TODAY; Laura Snider (MA '07), reporter, Boulder Daily Camera; Ryan Van D uzer ('03), Travel Channel correspondent, and Kirk Siegler ('00), KUNC reporter, will talk about succe ss in journalism in times of uncertainty.
Contact: Sandra.Fish@Colorado.edu
- Media Mixer: The career event of the fall!
Thursday, Oct. 8, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., UMC 235
Mark your calendar. Meet SJMC alums and other new media, advertising, public relations, sports and news professionals who will answer your career questions at an informal networking event.
Brush Up on Multimedia at Homecoming
Come back to school on Saturday, Oct. 31, and take a class. Try Intro to Social Networking or Intermediate Social Networking (if you're already in the game), or maybe you'd prefer The Invisible Web and Intro to Video Shooting and Editing. SJMC Instructors Sandra Fish and Paul Daugherty and Denver Post staffer Burt Hubbard will bring you up to speed on the latest multimedia techniques. Reception and class times will be determined by the football game time to be set by mid-October. Watch for an invitation. RSVP to Beth Gaeddert.
Surviving Climate Change
Dianne Dumanoski, a member of theTed Scripps Fellowships Advisory Board, has written a timely, sobering account of our climate change dilemma: The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth. Dumanoski began working on this book when she was a Journalist in Residence at the CEJ and Schoolof Journalism and Mass Communication in spring 1993.
Holden Lecturer Named
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Pay it Forward
- 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.
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Give Now. CU and the SJMC need your help to continue providing students with a top education and exceptional opportunities. The CU Foundation offers several safe and easy ways to support your alma mater.
- Tell us what's new!
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It's the start of a new school year, and campus is bustling once again. We're busy and we know you are too, but make sure to let us 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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