Fall 2007 - SCOOP Magazine

Editors’ LetterMilestones are always an exciting point, and this holdstrue as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Schoolof Journalism and Electronic Media at the University ofTennessee. Therefore, we welcome you to the fifth editionof Scoop magazine.Our society is faster with the advance of the Internetand as journalists, we need to respond by providing quicknews. Most major newspapers and networks have Websites that are constantly updated. With the public’s desirefor convenience, online networks have been popping upto help people keep in touch.Only five years ago — even though the Internet wasalready thriving —we wouldn’t have been able toimagine an online network like the one in “Creating aCommunity.” This story talks about a family faced withtragedy that was able to keep in touch with friends andfamily through a Web site.In addition to the Internet, the way we report and our technology has changed as well. In “Then and Now,” we see howtechnology has changed to help the way we bring news to the public.And with all this change in the media, our school has inceased as well. We are no longer the School of Journalsim, butthe School of Journalism and Electronic Media. As students in this generation, we have a vast amount of information at ourfingertips and we need to constantly absorb more information to compete with the media market.In “Retrospect,” Jake Wright reminds us just how far the School of Journalism has come since he was in one of the firstjournalism classes in 1946. His class was composed of only 12 journalism students. A number far less than the 425 studentscurrently enrolled in journalism and electronic media.Mollie Robinson and Sarah Euler are seniors injournalism and electronic media. After graduation,they both hope to work toward a future in themagazine industry.We hope you enjoy this issue of Scoop and will join the school in celebrating its 60th anniversary.