Spring 2012 - Indiana University School of Journalism

Dean’s MessageCeremony honors scholarship namesakes, celebrates student achievementsDean Brad HammNo moment captures the history andfuture of the School of Journalism asperfectly as a Saturday in April each yearwhen we award scholarships to outstandingstudents.The campus is beautiful, the academicyear is near an end, and a newclass of seniors and graduate students willattend commencement ceremonies inBloomington and Indianapolis to becomeIU alumni.But the highlight is the ceremony onthat April day that celebrates the achievementsof our current students throughscholarships named for or funded byalumni and friends of the school from the1920s to today. Current students sit withfamilies of the donors who can attend. It isa bridge across generations.Reading the list of scholarships providesan index of the history of the school duringthe past 100 years. The awards offerfunds for financial aid, study abroad,Tyra Robertsonsummer internships, post-graduate travel,research and more.Alumni and friends fund scholarshipsfor two main reasons. One, they want togive financial aid to deserving young peopleto complete a college education withthe remarkable opportunities available ata world-class university. Two, they want tohonor the people — professors, staff members,fellow students, parents, spouses orchildren — in their lives who have made adifference.It is the second point worth considering.When we gather, I remind our studentsthat the names on the scholarships areessential. The names identify people whoexcelled in journalism and other fields, inthe school and university, in their communities,and in the lives of their families,friends and so many others.Scholarships are provided in the hopethat these young people will do their bestto reflect the qualities of the donors andhonoree.A scholarship is an investment in thelives of students for years to come. Gifts toIndiana University are handled by the IUFoundation, which has an excellent record.Income from this investment allows us togive scholarships each year while maintainingthe original gift as endowment.Donors will never know all the studentswho benefit from these funds. Nor canthey realize the many ways this educational“Over the past few years, I have seen the great love of thisjournalism school during our many visits with alumni andfriends. I have heard the stories about professors who remainin your memories decades later, or classmates you workedand studied with during the years in Indiana. I admire thegenerosity that has inspired so many of you to supportestablished funds or create new ones.”experience for our students may influencejournalism, communities and families farinto the future.But it is a gesture of faith that theschool, in matching the scholarships andapplicants, will help to make possiblethe hopes and dreams of both donorsand students.Over the past few years, I have seen thegreat love of this journalism school duringour many visits with alumni and friends.I have heard the stories about professorswho remain in your memories decadeslater, or classmates you worked and studiedwith during the years in Indiana. I admirethe generosity that has inspired so many ofyou to support established funds or createnew ones.My wife, Hiromi Sumiyoshi, and I arenot graduates of Indiana University, butwe believe strongly in the mission of thisschool and its wonderful alumni, studentsand friends. Therefore, we have establisheda scholarship in the School of Journalismto provide funds for a student to studyin Asia, a focus of our lives, with prioritygoing to someone who has never beenabroad. It will be awarded for the first timein April 2013.Like other donors, we will never knowall the people who use this money in thefuture to travel and learn about journalismand culture throughout Asia. But as a witnessto the past seven scholarship ceremonies,I have great faith that our scholarshipand those you support can change the livesof students for years to come.Thank you for your generosity, yourbelief and support of Indiana Universityand the School of Journalism, and yourfaith in the next generation of our students.

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the scoopThe latest news from the IU school of journalismBrooks: Self-promotionhas afflicted political,cultural landscapeA cultural shift from self-effacement toself-promotion has led to a host of societalproblems, including the divisive climate inAmerican politics, New York Times columnistDavid Brooks told a Bloomington audiencein October.Brooks was the first guest in the School ofJournalism’s fall Speaker Series. He spoke atthe Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtownBloomington.“Over the last few decades, we’ve shifteda bit from a culture that emphasized selfeffacement— ‘I’m no better than anybodyelse, but nobody is better than me’ — toa culture that emphasizes self-expansion,”Brooks said.The cultural shift began soon after WorldWar II, Brooks said. By the time the warended, humility and stoicism had becomehallmarks of the national psyche. But by1950, 12 percent of high school seniorspolled by the Gallup organization respondedyes to, “Are you a very important person?”David Brooks, New YorkTimes columnist, andhis son Joshua, a historymajor at IU.That number spiked to 80 percent in 2005.“It’s an important change in the politicallandscape,” Brooks said. Issues connectedto overconfidence, from increased personaldebt to higher CEO salaries to fiercer partisanaggression, heighten tension aroundthe upcoming presidential race, he said.Brooks predicted people will vote in thefall for someone who will bring the country“back to the basics.”“Obama’s the underdog to win reelection,”he said. “But his advantage, obviously,is the Republican party.”Brooks said of the current Republicancandidates, Mitt Romney is the most likelyto win the nod.Brooks was introduced by former U.S.Rep. Lee Hamilton, who now heads the IUCenter on Congress, which was a co-sponsorof the event.This was not Brooks’ first visit to campus.His son, Joshua, is a history major,and Brooks said he’d taken part in at leastone tailgate event while visiting IU.— Danielle PaquetteJeremy HoganAmerican Student Radio debuts onlineYou won’t find its frequency on your radio dial, but you still can tune in to American StudentRadio, a Web-based station launched in the fall by the IU School of Journalism to provide an outletfor the work of college and high school journalists around the country.Stories are aired in the form of podcasts and cover four categories: news, arts and life, sportsand music. Eventually, the radio will stream online 24 hours a day.Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Michael Evans and adjunct lecturer Sarah Neal-Estesdeveloped the project, which they cast as NPR-style radio for a student audience. Neal-Estes is aformer public radio producer and reporter. Her audio broadcast classes in the school have servedas workshops for the foundations of the radio project.Neal-Estes said students will pitch their show ideas, then other students may work as producersor on-air voices. The collaboration allows students to learn many parts of multimedia production,including maintaining the website, which is the home of the station. Students may pitch ideasthrough americanstudentradio@gmail.com.— Dalton MainSpring 2012 / newswire < 3 >

thescoopFour senior faculty retireAfter a collective 121 years of teaching at the IUSchool of Journalism, professors David Boeyink, JackDvorak, David Weaver and David Nord retired at theend of 2011.Dean Brad Hamm said this group of retirees reflectsthe largest number of collective teaching years withinthe school, and follows retirements of other long-timefaculty in the last few years.“Two-thirds of the current journalism faculty willhave retired within a 10-year period, meaning thatan entire generation of professors will be leaving,”Hamm said.But the school also has brought in new faces.From left, professors Dave Boeyink, Dave Nord, Dave Weaver and Jack Dvorak retired atHamm said the school prepared for these retirements the end of 2011. Each had been a faculty member for more than 20 years.and has targeted new faculty hires to come in graduallyas retirees leave, taking with them years of institutional knowledge.While all four of these latest retirees plan to maintain a relationship with the School of Journalism in retirement, each also is looking forwardto spending more time with family, life outside the office and returning to favorite hobbies.— Stories by Lauren KastnerJames D. KellyAnn SchertzDavid BoeyinkDavid Boeyink, who retired after 24years, hoped he left two kinds of legaciesfrom his teaching: the students hetaught and the programs he initiated,including the journalism honors program,which he started in 2006.“All of us benefit from having thesestudents in the building who bringsuch scholarship and varied intereststo the classroom,” Boeyink said ofthe honors students, called Ernie PyleScholars.Before joining the faculty at IU, Boeyink was the editorial editorat the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Ky., winning severalawards for his work. He had taught at Kentucky Wesleyan Collegeand Brescia College, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University,where he was Religious Ethics and Old Testament Teaching Fellow atthe Harvard Divinity School.Boeyink’s research focuses on ethics and ethical decision-makingin journalism. He is co-author with Sandra L. Borden of Making HardChoices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice, published in 2010.He combined his research approach with his teaching, bringinga culture of scholarly undergraduate work to the honors program,dean Brad Hamm said. His teaching also garnered appreciation. Hehas been the recipient of the Frederic Herman Lieber DistinguishedTeaching Award from IU; twice was a Gretchen Kemp Fellow; andwon the Brown Derby Teaching Award from the IU chapter of theSociety of Professional Journalists.While he will continue to provide support to the School ofJournalism, such as advising new honors program director Jim Kelly,Ann SchertzBoeyink said he looks forward to what new faculty will bring.“I think the influx of new ideas is the best thing that can come tothe school because the field is rapidly changing, and that’s what weneed in our faculty,” he said. “If there is something that we’ve donehere that is good, make it better, but also don’t be afraid to changesomething because otherwise we will be left behind.”Boeyink said he is thankful for his career at the school.“IU has been a great place to grow as a faculty member, and togrow a profession and a life,” he said. “I wouldn’t change this foranything.”Jack DvorakBefore his retirement, Jack Dvorak hadspent 44 years in high school and universityclassrooms, 25 of those years atthe School of Journalism.In addition to teaching, Dvorakwas director of the IU High SchoolJournalism Institute, an annual summerworkshop for high school students,from 1987-2008. Journalismdean Brad Hamm said HSJI has hada profound impact on the School ofJournalism.Before joining the IU faculty, Dvorak was the assistant editor atQuill & Scroll magazine. He received his Ph.D. in journalism fromthe University of Missouri.Dvorak measures his success as a professor by the success ofhis students. Looking at nine random copies of the Indiana DailyStudent over a two-month period, Dvorak found 68 bylines of currentor recent students of his J200 Writing, Reporting and Editing class.< 4 > newswire / Spring 2012

thescoopJames Brosher“I’ve had the joy of having a byline, but it was never as gratifyingas having students with their own bylines,” he said. “That is the kindof thing that a teacher has to be proud of.”Dvorak’s research has looked at scholastic, or high school, journalismeducation, and how journalism students perform when comparedwith students in other disciplines.His honors include AEJMC Scholastic Journalism DivisionJournalism Educator of the Year; Outstanding Journalism FacultyMember by Society of Professional Journalists chapter at TheUniversity of Iowa; Pioneer Award of the National Scholastic PressAssociation; Medal of Merit of the Journalism Education Association;and the Gold Key Award of the Columbia Scholastic PressAssociation. He is a member of the National Scholastic JournalismHall of Fame and Iowa High School Press Association Hall of Fame,and a School of Journalism Gretchen Kemp Teaching Fellow recipient.No matter how the field of journalism changes, Dvorak said hehopes the School of Journalism and newer faculty members will continueto emphasize the fundamentals of good writing and reporting,regardless of the medium.“I have a feeling of satisfaction to have given everything of myselfto the best of my ability,” he said. “I hope my colleagues enjoy thesame experience that I had.”David WeaverHaving spent nearly his entirecareer at Indiana University, RoyW. Howard Professor David Weaverretired after nearly 38 years of teachingand research at the IU School ofJournalism.Although he will no longer be ina classroom, Weaver said he plansto continue his research indefinitely,including compiling more data onAmerican journalists, a topic he hasvisited often in the last several decades.“I care about the school and I care what happens, so I want tokeep my hands in it,” Weaver said. “But it’ll be nice not to have allthe other responsibilities.”In 2012, he will collaborate with journalism professor Lars Willnaton another study of journalists’ work and thoughts about theircareers. He also will continue to serve on doctoral committees andadvise a few graduate students.After completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees at IU inthe 1960s, Weaver received his Ph.D. from the University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill in 1974 and returned to the IU journalism programthe same year.His research niche is agenda setting, an exploration of mediaeffects on the public as well as influences on the media agenda.Weaver is author of more than a dozen books, including theAmerican Journalists series in collaboration with various School ofJournalism colleagues over the years. The most recent, The GlobalJournalist in the 21st Century, will be published in April 2012 with coeditorLars Willnat.Nick DemilleWeaver also has served as president of the Midwest Associationfor Public Opinion Research and of the Association for Education inJournalism and Mass Communication.Journalism dean Brad Hamm said Weaver is the first professor atthe School of Journalism to be awarded IU’s Distinguished Professortitle. Hamm said Weaver’s presence at the school and at the universitylevel has been widely felt.“Weaver is known internationally, and he has been a clear leaderfor decades as a top scholar in our field,” Hamm said. “He has anincredible record both in quality and quantity, and he has workedwith scholars and students throughout the world.”David NordDavid Nord’s work as a historianallowed him to serve in two rolesat IU: as a professor of journalismand as an adjunct professor of history.A member of the IU School ofJournalism faculty since 1979, he alsois the editor of History News Serviceand has served as the acting editor,interim editor and associate editor ofthe Journal of American History.Nord’s research interests lie in thehistory of American publishing, especiallyjournalism history, the history of the religious press, and thehistory of readers and reading. He is the author of three books, severalbook chapters and numerous scholarly articles.Nord has been involved with the Center for the History of theBook in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Hehas served on the center’s Board of Overseers and is a volume editoron A History of the Book in America, a multi-volume project of theAmerican Antiquarian Society and the University of North CarolinaUniversity Press.Nord worked as a reporter in the early 1970s, and has edited andwritten for many journals. He has a bachelor’s degree from ValparaisoUniversity, a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota and aPh.D. from the University of Wisconsin.In the late 1980s, Nord was chair of the committee that set up thecurriculum for the bachelor’s in journalism degree to enable the shiftof the program from the College of Arts and Sciences to the newlyindependentSchool of Journalism.Dean Brad Hamm said journalism history always has been essentialto every great journalism school’s curriculum.“Nord is nationally recognized as an excellent historian,” Hammsaid. “The quality of his research is remarkable, and he has made aname for himself and IU with a wide range of expertise.”Nord said he would like to see the school maintain the coreinstruction of writing and reporting, maintain a strong relationshipwith the liberal arts, and expose students to new media. He said hewill miss interacting with students and would like to act as a mentorfor a few students every year.“The School of Journalism has supported me to do research thatis not just about journalism, but also about other areas of publishingand readership,” he said.Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 5 >

thescoopIU vice president Land shares communication tips with NABJ chapterJournalism and public relations might beon opposite sides of the same coin, butboth use the same skill set to get the jobdone, one of IU’s top communicationsprofessionals told students in IU’s chapterof the National Association of BlackJournalists in October.Mark Land, BA’85, associate vice presidentof university communications, toldstudents his diverse background taught himabout the similarities and differences inthe two fields. Before taking on his currentpost, Land was corporate communicationsdirector at Cummins in Columbus, Ind.,and previously had worked as a newspaperreporter and editor. He also is an adjunctinstructor in the School of Journalism.Press releases are the most commonmethod of communication between publicrelations officials and journalists, Landsaid. Public relations professionals need toJessica ContreraMark Landunderstand how the media respond to newsreleases.“With staff cuts happening at most newspapers,reporters today have more to do withless time and attention to invest in doingit,” he said. “If you put together a solid pressrelease that they can run with very minimalreworking, the chances it will run are greater.”Land said he recommends making pressreleases look as much like news stories aspossible.“Give the facts,” Landsaid. “Don’t worry aboutflowery language or beingcreative because at theend of the day, the journalistsjust want the information.”Land said public relationsofficials also shouldbe selective about when tocontact the media.“If you only contact them with trulyimportant things, they are more inclined tolisten when you do,” he said.NABJ chapter vice president Jory Stewartsaid the group appreciated Land’s visit.“He was very passionate about how thethings we learn in class are the tools weneed for the future,” Stewart said. “It wasreally beneficial to hear that.”— Jessica ContreraCentennial auction funds buy multimedia lab equipmentSteve RaymerStudent Zach Hetrick shows associate professor Jim Kelly,right, some features of the new lighting equipment.Thanks to alumni, the School of Journalismhad the funds to purchase new equipmentfor the multimedia lab just in time forspring semester.Just before classes started, associate professorJim Kelly and multimedia lab directorAllen Major brought the new lightingequipment into the multimedia lab inventory.The AlienBees light kits include threestudio flash heads and a camera strobe,each with a stand umbrella or light box.The kits also include grid reflectors, triggersand accessories.The new accessories may enable photo-journalism students to enhancetheir skills or even go on toaward-winning careers, followingmany alumni who madethe funds possible. During lastfall’s centennial celebration,the school staged a silent auction.Photojournalism alumnidonated prints of their bestwork or favorite photos, thenattendees at the CentennialWeekend in September bid onthe photos, with proceeds goingto purchase equipment.“This opportunity enhances the connectionbetween alumni and current students,” saidKelly, who conceived the auction with communicationsdirector Beth Moellers. “Studentsget to see great photographs and throughthem feel connection to photographers whoworked out of Ernie Pyle in the past.”Donors included John Ahlhauser, IUProfessor Emeritus; Pulitzer Prize winnerMichel du Cille, BA’85; and even a couple ofmore recent graduates.Some alumni turned in prints showingpride in Indiana. Joe Young, BA’56, donateda picture of President John F. Kennedy duringthe late president’s visit to the IndianaState Fair, and Angela Gottschalk, BA’86,donated a photograph of former men’sbasketball coach Bobby Knight throwing achair during a basketball game. Copies ofall 33 prints are exhibited on the first floorhallway walls in Ernie Pyle Hall.Student Zach Hetrick has used the brandAlienBees for several years and conducteda tutorial for professor Steve Raymer andKelly shortly after the equipment arrived.He is a student in Words and Pictures, apair of classes taught by Kelly and RileyVisiting Professor Tom French, in which twoclasses combine for one lecture each week.Kelly said the new lighting equipmentenhances the other assets in the multimedialab to support classes such as this one, aswell as students’ individual projects.“We were overwhelmed with the generosityof so many of our journalism alumni,”Kelly said. “Students today now see moreclearly how they can follow in the footsteps of so many of the country’s greatphotographers.”— Amie Sites< 6 > newswire / Spring 2012

thescoopAsk the ProAsk the Pro is a recurring feature in which Newswire asks a professional journalistand a professor from our faculty a provocative question. This issue, we ask:Q : With decreased funding and increased restrictions on graduation requirements,is journalism still a valid subject for high school students?A : A :Sarah Gliemmo NicholsSarah Gliemmo Nichols, BAJ’99, teachesjournalism at Whitney High School in Rocklin,Calif. In 2010, the Journalism EducationAssociation named her national YearbookAdviser of the Year. At IU, her mentor wasJack Dvorak, who retired from theSchool of Journalism in December.From a stack of floppy disks needed to complete even the simplesttasks on a yearbook or newspaper deadline to flash drives,digital drop boxes and high-end smartphone cameras, muchhas changed during the 20 years I’ve been involved in scholasticjournalism. At the core, however, it’s exactly the same.High school journalism provides the only classroom experiencethat combines research, writing and editing with problemsolving and collaboration toward a final product, produced ondeadline and with limited resources, for an authentic audience.Add the technology aspects involved in digital photography anddesktop publishing, as well as new media skills like producinga news website or practicing professional use of social media,and it’s clear that the journalism classroom provides an unparalleledreal-world learning experience.While my own experience on the high school yearbookstaff led me to pursue journalism education, many of my ownstudents follow other pursuits: law, medicine, education, socialwork. Time and time again their emails tell me their highschool journalism experience paved the way because of theirtraining in critical thinking, problem solving, teamworkand emphasis on how to communicate well to a designatedaudience.The current educational landscape presents some challenges.With emphasis on testing, limited funding and competitionwith Advanced Placement or honors-level courses, it’s harder tokeep journalism classes on the master schedule and harder toconvince the best and brightest to enroll.Leaders in scholastic journalism have been addressing thesechallenges for years, but there’s a new way in, and it’s called theCommon Core State Standards Initiative. Currently, 45 stateshave adopted the Common Core, which has language artsstandards focused on writing, research, media/technology andemphasis on presenting complex information. Sounds like thejournalism classroom, doesn’t it?Our job is to push to the forefront of this conversation,showing just how naturally the high school journalism curriculumaligns to these standards. As education decision-makersat all levels focus on this latest initiative, journalism educatorsmust seize the opportunity to be part of the funding, attentionand support for Common Core in order to survive.After all, contemporary high school journalism programsaddressing a broad audience with their publications aren’t justvalid, they’re essential.CourtesyAnn SchertzJack DvorakJack Dvorak retired in December from theSchool of Journalism after 25 years. He isthe former director of the IU High SchoolJournalism Institute and has conducted severalstudies on the value of high school journalism.In many high schools, journalism remains the bastard child ofthe English department. Sad but true — even after decades ofwork by those talented and committed journalism educatorswho have worked so hard to professionalize its instructionand application.In 1966, I started as an English educator on the highschool level, not ever having taken a journalism course.Two years later, I was assigned to teach journalism, largelyby default (as is somewhat typical but not advisable). It camewith advising the school newspaper, supervising a darkroomand helping with the yearbook. Much to my amazement andamusement, students who were not at all enamored with thetraditional English classes were suddenly proud to see theirbylines when each newspaper came out. They cared about theaccuracy of their stories because they had to answer to an audienceof their peers and other school personnel.Such experiences led me to start examining on a systematicbasis why journalism seemed to be such an effective way ofteaching language arts.For sure, journalism has worth on many levels. It oughtto hold a high place within the language arts program. Someresearch done through the years helps to show its relevance.Students with high school newspaper or yearbookexperience:• Earn better overall grades as college freshmen;• Have better grades in their first college English courses(often English Comp);• Score higher on the ACT exams (composite and English),and earn higher grades in high school overall grade pointaverage, English, math, social studies and science;• Write more effectively when participating in ACT’sCollege Outcome Measures Program by earning higherscores in audience consideration, organization andoverall language expertise.While it’s true that many of the above comparisons withstudents who did not have high school journalism experienceshow correlations only, at least four studies of such groupsshow a direct link between formal journalism experiences andacademic achievement.Is journalism a worthy component of a language arts program?Research says it is. Students with that background say itis. And people like me who have taught both know it is.Spring 2012 / newswire < 7 >

thescoopYoung alumni share“Lessons from My FirstYear in Journalism”Working long hours, taking on any assignmentthat comes your way and learningto use new technology are sure-fire waysto succeed in first jobs, recent journalismgraduates advised their audience in a liveblog in early March.Matt Dollinger, BAJ’10, associate producerat SI.com; Michael Sanserino, BAJ’09,of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; and MallorySimon, BAJ’07, of This Just In, the breakingnews blog for CNN Digital, participatedin a live blogging event, “Lessons fromMy First Year in Journalism,” produced byErnie Pyle Scholars spending spring breakat the Poynter Institute in Florida.The panelists and participants discussedstudent media and internships as centralto building a portfolio and experience. Allthree had numerous internships in college,and they worked in student media.Landing the “real” job out of college isbuilt on what you do before you graduatein other ways as well. Building the portfolioof clips, for example, starts early. Then,there’s networking.“I utilized every contact I had,”Dollinger said. “Eventually, someone letme know of an opening and I was able toget an interview.”Once on the job, be ready to work hard.Really hard. And don’t plan on getting rich,at least not right away.Students asked about rewards on thejob, and the panelists shared highlights,such as Simon breaking news of OsamaBin Laden’s death and jumpstarting anational conversation with her coverage ofPersonhood.While learning from the expertise ofthe panelists, student producers at Poyntergained their own experience in producinga live chat. Associate professor and ErniePyle Scholars program director Jim Kellysaid the format could be incorporatedinto classes and events at the School ofJournalism.— Jessica ContreraPhil Rees, a reporter and TV producer based in London, checked in each week via Skype togive students feedback on their work.UPI mentors offer long-distance guidanceA mentor across the pond helped studentsin assistant professor Hans Ibold’s fall J410Media as Social Institutions class improvetheir writing as part of United PressInternational’s UPIU.com program.Phil Rees, a reporter and TV producerbased in London, checked in each week viaSkype to give students feedback on theirwork, which covered topics such as the coverageof missing IU student Lauren Spierer;the trials of Casey Anthony and AmandaKnox; the mob attack on CBS newswomanLara Logan; the debate on the release ofphotos of the body of Osama bin Ladin;and coverage of Steve Jobs’ death.“I’ve really enjoyed going through yourpapers,” Rees told the students. “Not alljournalists touch on these issues, and it’simpressive to see students tackle the subjects.”Some student work was published onthe UPIU website, which posts storiesfrom students in participating universitiesaround the world. Ibold learned about theUPUI program last summer and contactedKrista Kapralos, UPIU’s regional directorfor the Americas, Africa and Europe, to dis-cuss how his class could get involved.In a phone interview, Kapralos saidthe program is designed to create opportunitiesto mentor journalism studentsworldwide as well as give them a websiteto publish their work. Mentors such asRees offer to guide the students in storygeneration as well as review their drafts astheir stories evolve.Rees, a first-time mentor, has createdshows that have appeared on Al Jazeeranetwork as well as the BBC.Senior Lauren Sedam said sheenjoyed the class and Rees’ input. TheIndianapolis native noted that the classis required, but it is also a good capstonefor her journalism education.Although she said was overwhelmed attimes, Sedam valued the experience.“All of the thinking and learning wedid … paid off in the end because ofthe amount of effort we all put in,” saidSedam, whose story was published on theUPIU site. “Getting published was justthe cherry on top.”— Amie SitesNick Demille< 8 > newswire / Spring 2012

thekickerTechnology providesunique alternativesto traditional learningWhile technology has long been a presenceat the School of Journalism, professorsand lecturers are increasing their use ofnew tools to connect students withprofessionals, mentors and one another.Instructor and CNN reporterCheryl Jackson, BA'83, MA'04,teaches Bloomington studentslong distance from Chicago.Visiting professor Marty Pieratt,BA'79, MA'11, uses videoconferencingto teach students at IUPUI and IUBloomington simultaneously.Guest speakersfrequently chatwith studentsvia Skype.Spring 2012 / newswire < 9 >

thescoopNews from IUPUIIUPUI students join Super Bowl and Big Ten media poolsSports journalism students joined professionalsfrom all over the country in coveringthe Big Ten football and basketballchampionships, and the Super Bowl inIndianapolis.During the Big Ten football championshipgame Dec. 3, student news bureaureporters produced previews of the gamebetween Michigan State and Wisconsin,analyses of the rivalry and backstories ofthe teams, as well as coverage of the game.Students Brian Burnsed, Zak Keefer,Stephanie Kuzydym, Jason Bailey and JoshWeinfuss brainstormed coverage strategies,obtained their press passes and got to workproviding coverage that now is posted onthe National Sports Journalism Center’swebsite, sportsjournalism.org. The storieswere available for news organizations topublish with permission.The week of Super Bowl, a student newsbureau covered the players, Media Dayand events surrounding the Feb. 5 game.Graduate student Brian Burnsed coveredthe game for The Salt Lake Tribune. JoshWeinfuss, also a graduate student, secureda press credential to cover the game for theAlbany (Ga.) Herald.“Super Bowl Media Day and the ensuingmedia sessions on Wednesday andThursday gave IU School of Journalism studentsvital real-world experience, exposureand contacts,” said Pam Laucella, IUPUIassistant professor and academic directorof the NSJC. “Students interviewedkey Giants and Patriotsplayers and coaches, andstories were posted on theNSJC site.”Hoosier State PressAssociation picked upsome stories, and stu-dents’ articles also appeared in TheKansas City Star, Orlando Sentinel, TheSalt Lake Tribune and other nationalpapers.Six public relations students workedwith Indianapolis-based Raidious tomanage social media during the event.The Super Bowl Social Media CommandCenter team included 50 people, 16 ofwhom were area journalism or telecommunicationsstudents, fielding requestsand answering questions on numerousTwitter feeds and Facebook pages.IUPUI public relations lecturer JulieVincent said she and two graduate studentsprovided support for HomelandSecurity in the Joint Information Center,a one-stop resource for several agenciescommunicating with media.In March, graduate students formed anews bureau to cover the Big Ten women’sand men’s basketball tournaments.Banker’s Life Fieldhouse hosted theBig Ten women’s tournament March 1 to4 and Big Ten men’s tournament March 8to 11. During those two weeks, the sportsjournalism students interviewed coachesand athletes from throughout the conference,writing both feature stories andgame recaps published on sportsjournalism.organd in various newspapers.The NSJC works with the Big Tenand other sports organizations inIndianapolis to provide student newsbureau teams with opportunities tocover events. In the past, newsbureau teams have covered theNCAA final four basketballgames and the Indianapolis500. Two students coveredthe 2012 Final Four inNew Orleans.< 10 > newswire / Spring 2012

thescoopSpeaker Series features author, publisherThis semester’s School of Journalism Speaker Series brought author David Margolick and WashingtonPost publisher Katharine Weymouth to Bloomington for free lectures open to the public.Katharine WeymouthAuthor David Margolick points to Will Counts’ photo, which led to his book Elizabeth and Hazel.David MargolickWriter David Margolick stumbled upon thestory of Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryanin 1999 while touring Central High Schoolin Little Rock, Ark.Margolick saw late IU professor WillCounts’ photograph of Bryan, then a studentat all-white Central High School, yellingangrily at Eckford, a black student whowas attempting to attend the school after acourt ordered its desegregation. Next to ithung a photo of the same women 40 yearslater, smiling. His curiosity about how theirrelationship evolved from that day led tohis book Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women ofLittle Rock.Speaking at the WhittenbergerAuditorium in the Indiana Memorial UnionFeb. 20, Margolick said his goal in the bookwas to portray the women behind the photoas people, not just symbols of an intensemoment in American history. It took him12 years to finish the book because it tooktime to build enough trust from the women,whose lives had been dramatically affectedby the photo.David MargolickThe women no longer speak to eachother, and Margolick was also worriedabout forcing the women back togetherand altering their stories.“I didn’t want this book to be The Help,”he said. “If they aren’t talking, I don’t wantto stage an Oprah-like reunion.”Margolick is still in touch with bothElizabeth and Hazel.“Their story might not be over yet,”Margolick said. “Maybe someday they’llcome together again.”— Stephanie DoctrowNick DemilleNick DemilleAs publisher of the Washington Post for thelast four years, Katharine Weymouth sharedher experiences transitioning the newspaper’sbusiness model into the 21st century. Underher guidance, the Post combined its separateonline and print divisions in different buildingsinto one newsroom.Weymouth spoke to a packed Ernie PyleAuditorium Feb. 28. “We’re constantly tryingnew things, to figure out how people want toconsume news,” she said.For example, the day before her visit,the Post launched a politics app for iPad.The Post has also had success with theWashington Post Social Reader, which allowsthe audience to share what they’re reading onFacebook.Weymouth said the Post is always balancingits legacy of investigative reportingand local news with the 24-hour newscycle and an international audience online.Though sharing content online is important,Weymouth said the Post also makes investigativejournalism, in the tradition of Woodwardand Bernstein, a priority.“It’s not a hard decision, because that’s ourcore, it’s what we became famous for,” shesaid, “It’s the reporting that has the greatestamount of impact.”— Stephanie DoctrowWashington Post publisherKatharine WeymouthNick DemilleSpring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 11 >

thescoopWeaver among Hall of Fame inducteesDavid WeaverJames BrosherRoy W. Howard Professor David Weaver,BA’68, MA’69, is one of five journalists to beinducted into the Indiana Journalism Hallof Fame this spring.The other inductees are:• Mark Ferree, ‘26, LLD’77, a longtimesenior executive of the Scripps-Howardnewspaper company who was a nationalfree press advocate as president of theAmerican Newspaper Publishers Association,and who established a scholarship forjournalism students;• Skip Hess, who spearheaded numerousprominent investigative projects duringmore than 30 years as a reporter for theIndianapolis News and Indianapolis Star;• Steve Kroft, who has been a correspondentfor CBS’ 60 Minutes for more thantwo decades; and• Kate Milner Rabb, who wrote columnsdevoted to the state’s history for TheIndianapolis Star from 1920 until 1937,a time when few women had suchopportunities.The induction ceremony is April 28 at theIndiana Memorial Union. The hall also willaward its first Distinguished Service Awardto Walt Tabak, who for 25 years providedtechnical support to Indiana newspapersand broadcast stations that receive TheAssociated Press.Other members of the hall of famewho served the school include studentmedia publisher Jack Backer; HSJI directorMary Benedict; retired placement adviserMarge Blewett, BA’48; retired IUPUI journalismassociate dean Jim Brown, MS’70,MBA’75, PhD’77; retired dean Trevor Brown;photojournalism professor Will Counts,MS’54, EdD’67; professor Ralph Holsinger;1900s-era journalism instructor Fred BatesJohnson; HSJI director Gretchen Kemp; studentmedia publisher Pat Siddons, BA’50;department chair John Stempel, BA’23; andbroadcast professor Richard Yoakam.Also among the members are manyalumni, including Nelson Poynter, BA’24,and Ernie Pyle, LHD’44.IU School of Journalism ArchivesErnie Pyle honoredon downtownIndianapolis columnErnie Pyle is one of the first 10 honoreesto be immortalized on a downtownIndianapolis street on columnscelebrating accomplished Hoosiers.Images and biographies of thehonorees are displayed on six-foothighcolumns installed on GeorgiaStreet. They were dedicated duringthe Big Ten basketball tournamentin March.“It’s not easy to pick from so many great Hoosiers who haveleft an indelible mark on our city, state and country,” Indianapolis MayorGreg Ballard said in a statement. “I am sure these names will spark debate;hopefully, they’ll also prompt strong interest in learning more about thehistory of our great state.”The other honorees are former U.S. presidents Benjamin Harrisonand Abraham Lincoln; novelists Booth Tarkington and Lew Wallace, whowas also a Civil War general and U.S. ambassador; jazz guitarist WesMontgomery; Shawnee chief Tecumseh; suffragist May Wright Sewall; entrepreneurMadame C.J. Walker; and the Lilly family, which founded Eli Lillyand Co. as well as the Lilly Endowment.Kelly chosen forLieber teaching awardPhotojournalism professor Jim Kelly,MA’88, PhD’90, is a recipient of theHerman Frederic Lieber MemorialDistinguished Teaching Award for IndianaUniversity. The award is given to a facultymember from any of the eight campuses.President Michael McRobbie will honorKelly and other outstanding faculty at anawards dinner in April. Kelly’s name will beadded to a plaque honoring winners of IUdistinguished teaching awards, includingjournalism faculty Dave Boeyink, ClaudeCookman, Michael Evans and Beth Wood.Jim KellyAnn Schertz< 12 > newswire / Spring 2012

thescoopSo many dreams.Such great potential.So many reasonsto support IU.You can start shaping dreams todayat iufoundation.iu.edu.facebook.com/IUFoundationtwitter@IUFoundationSpring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 13 >

Inside ViewFuture is bright for public relations studentsby Dennis ElliottMuch about the public relations professionwill forever be misunderstood,maligned and misrepresented by some. Ablanket indictment of the profession asfostering propaganda and twisting the truthhas followed practitioners since the earliestrecognition of professionals as reputationmanagement counselors to corporationsand individuals. The profession has beendescribed as “spin-doctoring,” disguisingsituations or presenting only benefits forclients and ignoring the big picture and thepublic’s right to know. This is indeed veryunfortunate.In the eyes of the public, positive contributionsof the profession are frequentlyignored. One need only think about nonprofitswhose work and services are sustainedthrough public relations campaignsthat benefit fundraising. Public relationsprofessionals lead the way in promotingpublic understanding of critical publichealth issues. Campaigns build awarenessof services and provide access to informationdesired by the public, all the whileworking in the background for meaningfuloutcomes.Am I defending a profession that needsdefense or am I simply bringing attentionto societal gains and benefits that gounnoticed? Perhaps both. I cannot defendexamples of irresponsible actions by someand candidly admit that they indeed exist.The downside is that the public’s attentionis frequently directed toward these instances,when the realities of sound public relationspractice are overlooked.Within the School of Journalism, Iam proud to say that our students aretrained in developing rigorous public relationsprinciples and in applying a provenprocess to the communication needs ofcorporations and nonprofit organizations.Whether our students’ career goals are towork for a corporation, nonprofit or a publicrelations agency, they have the opportunityto explore, understand, create andimplement their work in the best traditionof integrated marketing communicationscampaigns.As social media have become increasinglyimportant in the distribution ofinformation and the interaction of competingor complementary audiences, publicrelations departments and agencies havebecome a focal point for developing thisgrowing new component within campaigns.Our students are challenged toexercise both critical and strategic thinkingin their recommendations for employingsocial media toward overall goals andobjectives for clients, and developing waysto start social media conversations andsustain them. The feedback from studentinternship experiences has reinforced theimportance of developing social media“Within the School of Journalism, I am proud tosay that our students are trained in developingrigorous public relations principles and in applyinga proven process to the communication needs ofcorporations and nonprofit organizations.“expertise at atime when technologyis dictatinggrowth ofa tactical directionthat is onlyDennis Elliottin its infancy.The growth in the interest of journalismmajors trending significantly to the field ofpublic relations is not isolated to IndianaUniversity. Other distinguished schoolsecho this trend and thus it has behoovedthe school to gain an even stronger reputationfor its programs to attract the bestfrom this increasing pool of interested students.The school is focused on enhancingits already great reputation.The Beth Wood Chapter of the PublicRelations Student Society of America atIU has grown significantly in the last twoyears in the involvement of its members inchapter activities, participation in nationalcompetitions, and through the recognitionof its achievements by the nationalorganization. As examples, in 2011 thechapter received the Star Chapter Awardfor its overall member programs and it wasspecifically recognized for its outstandingregional conference as the recipient of theDr. Frederick H. Teahan national award.This year, the chapter has the responsibilityfor producing FORUM, the national newspaperdistributed to all university PRSSAchapters, with one of the chapter’s leadersserving as editor-in-chief and member ofthe National Committee for PRSSA.The future is indeed bright for studentswho wish to specialize in public relationsat IU as the School of Journalism is investingin this area of study with faculty, coursesand new opportunities for students withan eye toward their futures and the growthof the program.Dennis Elliott, BA’69, MA’10, is a lecturerin the IU School of Journalism.Ann Schertz< 14 > newswire / Spring 2012

featurestoryExecutivestorytellerNancy Swanson, BA’80, didn’t pursue a journalism career aftergraduation, but the skills she learned in Ernie Pyle Hall still serve herwell in her position as a vice president at Procter & Gamble.by Bryn MoothDetermination to dig deeper, to find hidden meaning.Willingness to ask the smart questions — and sometimesthe not-so-smart ones. Aptitude for crafting engaging stories thatchange minds and prompt action.These consummate qualities of a skilled reporter have led NancySwanson not to a desk in the newsroom, but to a seat in theboardroom.Swanson, BA’80, relocated from Bloomington to Cincinnati aftergraduation to take a brand assistant position at Procter & Gamble.And she never left. Swanson worked her way through the multinationalconsumer brands company, moving from her first entry-leveljob working on Attends adult incontinence products through themanagement ranks and, in 2003, accepting then-CEO AG Lafley’srequest to become vice president, corporate.These days, Swanson nimbly shifts from project to project,leading initiatives that cross business units and influencing teamsthroughout the global organization. And she’s become an investorin her community, serving the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, theCincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum, and representingProcter & Gamble in a public schools improvement initiative.She spoke with Newswire about how the key skills she acquiredat the School of Journalism — critical thinking and communication— come into play in the corporate world.Corrie SchaffeldSpring 2012 / newswire < 15 >

featurestoryNewswire: First, talk about your current role at P&G. What areyour overall responsibilities?Swanson: My title is vice president, corporate, which tells evenP&G people absolutely nothing about what I do. It is a role thatwas created a few years ago by our former CEO, AG Lafley, andit’s designed to take on projects that don’t easily fall under theresponsibilities of other executives — projects that span businessunits and functions and organizations.One of the great examples is when we acquired Gillette andwe needed to integrate the two businesses. There were obviousfits — they had an antiperspirant and deodorant business, anoral-care business, and we had those businesses as well — andit was very clear who was going to integrate those. But themajor business we were acquiring, Gillette’s blade and razorbusiness, along with Duracell batteries and Braun appliances,we had to figure out how they were going to fit with P&G. Andso that was the work they asked me to take on.My work is very interesting but very undefined, and it changesfrequently. I have an ongoing list of opportunity areas that Ithink we might want to tackle. And there are other projects likethe Gillette integration, where they realized they needed someoneon the P&G side to work with the Gillette group, and theycame to me. I flow to the need, flow to the work.Newswire: What initially led you, in 1980, to put your B.A.degree from the School of Journalism to work in a corporateenvironment? How did you land at P&G?Swanson: I was recruited on campus in two ways: One wasthrough Phil Burton, who was a hugely trusted professor, anda coach and champion of mine. Phil had done some consultingwork at P&G and so he knew some of the recruiting team.In a lot of ways, Phil is just the epitome of a lot of the P&Gmanagers I’ve worked with: incredibly demanding, incrediblybright, but always your biggest cheerleader and fan. And theother way was through the School of Business. I had a businessminor, so P&G found me through both schools.Newswire: In an age and an industry where people tend totransition from job to job over the course of a career, it’s noteworthythat you’ve been at P&G since you graduated from IU.And you’ve literally worked your way through the organization.What has that career path taught you? And why have youstayed?Swanson: At P&G, this is more the rule, not the exception.We promote and build from within, so we hire with an eye forgrowing people for their whole career. We take recruiting anddeveloping people very seriously, because they’re the futureleaders of our company.Newswire: Talk about your time at IU and the School ofJournalism. How did your education set you up for this lengthycareer at P&G?Swanson: I look back with such great fondness at the educationI got at the School of Journalism, and I think it’s becauseit was so demanding. And it was demanding in a couple ofways: One was the requirement that you really think hard andwrite clearly about what you believe. That’s incredible trainingfor anyone in any career, but it particularly makes for aneasy transition to business. In the end, when you’ve got toget people moving, you have to get through the reams ofdata and boil it down to what’s really important, then be ableto express that clearly to other people so that we can movequickly. I’ve come back to that rigorous thinking and writingdiscipline many times.And the other thing, which really helps for consumer packagedgoods, is this: When I think about really good reporters,they’re good at not taking the first answer, at getting to thekernel of truth underneath that first statement. They listen ata deeper level. When I think about what it takes to serve consumers,it means, of course, hearing what they say first off —what they say in a survey or their first statement when you’retalking with them. But real insight takes listening at a deeperlevel, probing a little harder, finding different ways to be surethat you really understand.It’s a different twist on the reporter’s skill, but it’s the samemindset: asking if that’s the whole story, understanding notonly what people say but why they say what they say. I findthose skills coming through time and again. We teach peoplethe marketing skills they need, but how to think, how towrite, how to have an inquiring mind — those are harder toteach in a business setting.Newswire: Looking at P&G as an organization and at yourrole, there’s a real emphasis on storytelling: telling the brand’sstory, hearing the customer’s story. That’s very journalistic at itscore, even though you’re not exactly writing for publication.Swanson: And I would add that moving organizationsinvolves storytelling. If you’re going to get a group of peopleto move together, it’s about telling them a story about whatthe opportunity is, creating a really compelling story aboutwhy we want to go there and how it will help us, in a waythat you unleash their power and creativity. They’ll find waysto tackle problems in ways that you never imagined.< 16 > newswire / Spring 2012

“...Every day, there’s at least one thing thatmakes me think, ‘Wow, that’s so cool.’The fundamental skills that I invested in thoseearly parts of my education have paid greatdividends for me.”Corrie SchaffeldNewswire: You talked about how your education at theSchool of Journalism shaped your inquisitiveness and communicationskill, and you brought those talents with you toP&G. But leadership is a skill that you’ve acquired over time.How has that capability evolved throughout your career?Swanson: When I think about the majority of my career,the most important skill is leadership. You can be as smartas you want, you can write as well as you want, you canhave the greatest insights, but if it doesn’t translate toaction that helps grow brands, delight consumers, growindividuals, then it really doesn’t matter. That takes greatcommunication skills, but it also takes a real willingness toset a direction and to demand that things move forward.There’s a difference between figuring out what you needto do and doing it yourself, and being able to set the problem,but not be the one who actually gathers the data andsolves the problem. My job is to recognize good ideas, tohelp other people see them and to bring in the resourceswe need.Newswire: P&G’s diversity metrics show that about 43 percentof the company’s managers are female. What’s it liketo be a woman among the leadership of one of the world’slargest companies? Has that changed over the 20-plus yearsof your career?Swanson: I’ve always been one generation back from thevery forefront. There weren’t a lot of women when I joined,but there were women who were at the first level of supervisingalready: brand managers and associate advertisingmanagers.When I was first promoted to associate advertising manager,Bob Goldstein, who was our chief marketing officerat the time, invited me to lunch. He was one of thosequake-in-your boots kind of guys, and I thought, “Whatam I in for?” And he blew me away. He started talking tome about how he thought that the development of womenwas a source of competitive advantage for our company.And this was 1986, when there were a few of us but itwasn’t really broad scale.I walked away with two things: One, stop assuming thatI knew what these managers were like without talking withthem. And two, I just felt so supported. Knowing that he, asthe head of the marketing function, was thinking that wayabout women gave you a sense that people had your back. Itwasn’t always easy, and women have had to deal with work/life balance and that kind of thing. But there was a broadervision and support for women here.Newswire: How have you stayed connected to the university?Swanson: IU is one of our biggest sources of talent. I recruitedfor P&G at IU, and then I ran the IU recruiting team forseveral years. I’m on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the KelleySchool of Business, and I usually drop in to see Dean Hammand visit the School of Journalism. I have a real heart for both.Newswire: When you were a student in Bloomington, whatdid you envision your career to look like? Would you haveimagined that you’d end up in the upper echelon of a majorcorporation?Swanson: I wrote for the Indiana Daily Student for onesemester, when I realized that as much as I loved the Schoolof Journalism and as much as I loved the training, I probablydidn’t have the temperament to be a reporter, which iswhy I ended up with a business minor: I thought I’d work inthe business side of a journalistic enterprise. And then theP&G opportunity seemed very broad and mind-opening. Ireally had no idea what I was getting into, and I was blessedthat it turned out to be a good fit. Every day, there’s at leastone thing that makes me think, “Wow, that’s so cool.” Thefundamental skills that I invested in in those early parts ofmy education have paid great dividends for me. •Bryn Millholland Mooth, BA’89, is pursuing a secondcareer as an independent journalist and copywriterfocused on food and wellness, following asuccessful 20-year stint in magazine publishing.Find her at http://www.writes4food.com.Spring 2012 / newswire < 17 >

y Carrie RitchieAs the journalism profession continues to wrangle withrapidly changing technology and evolving businessmodels, collegiate media programs are striving todevelop relevant curricula that respond to these changes andprepare their students to weather them.Leading the charge are professors, who are tasked withguiding students to careers in a fast-changing industry whiletrying to help their schools show that a journalism degree isstill valuable.“Journalism is still going strong,” said Deborah Chung,PhD’04, assistant professor in the School of Journalism andTelecommunications at the University of Kentucky. “It’s justthat we have to change our approach.”Professors are taking a variety of approaches to keepup with changes in journalism. Some are integrating complextechnology into old-fashioned storytelling. Others saythe basics — accuracy and credibility — are more importantthan ever because people can get their news from so manysources.“I think we need to be leaders in the profession and tryto help guide students and organizations as they strugglewith where they need to go,” said Dave Boeyink, an associateprofessor who taught at the IU School of Journalism for morethan 24 years before retiring in December.< 18 > newswire / Spring 2012

featurestoryTo be successful, Chung said, professors will have to domore than teach students to use a smartphone to shootvideo or use Twitter to share news. They’ll have to changetheir mindsets.“We need to see this more as an opportunity, as a positivechallenge,” she said, “so we can move journalism forward.”Chung, Boeyink and two other journalism professors withties to the IU School of Journalism offered their ideas onhow to train students to be flexible and innovative so theycan advance the profession in the decades to come.Using new technology is important,but so is sticking to the basicsDeborah Chung spent the fall on sabbatical in South Korea,studying a news website authored by citizen journalists. Shereturned to the University of Kentucky this semester with amessage of hope for her students: Journalists are important,even in an era when anyone can share news and blogs drawreaders’ attention away from traditional news sites.Chung discovered that, even on a site that’s filled withcontent from citizens who aren’t necessarily trained in journalism,content is thoroughly edited, fact-checked and oftenturned away.“It’s not just anything goes,” she said. “They have a highstandard.”Accuracy and credibility are even more important nowbecause there are so many sources for information, Chungsaid, and people want a source they can trust. So in theever-changing field of journalism, the basics are stillimportant. Journalists just need to add technology totheir repertoire.Students and teachers need to learn not only how to usetechnology, but when to use it. Digital extras have to bemeaningful, she said; otherwise, they end up cluttering thestory and the message.The University of Kentucky is trying to hire faculty memberswith multimedia experience, not only to teach the students,but to teach the other faculty members, Chung said.She teaches classes that focus on production, design andvisual communication, and has taken seminars on how to usevarious types of technology. She encourages other teachersto do the same.Students must learn to produce video and online content,Chung said, so classes that teach those skills should berequired. They also need to learn how to do research onlineand how to interact with readers and sources using socialmedia.Chung has studied Twitter and she said it’s a good wayto communicate breaking news. She said she’s still trying todetermine the best way for journalists to use Facebook, butshe thinks it helps them develop relationships with readers.Those sites also help citizens participate in the journalisticprocess by sharing their own photos and updates from newsevents, which Chung said can help improve journalism. Forexample, many news outlets benefitted from people whoshared photos and news from recent protests in Egypt andthe London subway bombings in 2005 because those peoplewere in places that journalists couldn’t reach. Adding contentfrom people who are actually experiencing the news canmake stories seem more authentic, she said.“We need to seethis more as anopportunity, as apositive challenge,so we can movejournalism forward.”Deborah Chung, PhD’04Assistant professor in theSchool of Journalism andTelecommunications at theUniversity of KentuckyCourtesySpring 2012 / newswire < 19 >

“I think we need to beleaders in the professionand try to helpguide students andorganizations as theystruggle with wherethey need to go.”Nick DemilleDave Boeyink,An associate professor whotaught at the IU School ofJournalism for more than24 years before retiring inDecember.“With these interactive tools, we’re able to build thatrelationship with the audience,” Chung said. “I think that isgoing to be the key for newsrooms to survive.”But as the list of skills students should master grows,Chung said students and teachers should remember an oldbut important newsroom principle: collaboration.Mastering video, the Web and social media along withtraditional journalistic skills is a tall order for students. It’ssimply not feasible for students to be experts in everything,Chung said, so they also need to learn how to identifycoworkers who can help them make their work better.“The key, I think, is being able to work together in anewsroom,” Chung said.Ethics must be adaptable, tooThe way journalists disseminate news is changing, but manyof the basic ethical principles they must follow remain thesame. The trick is recognizing and knowing how to dealwith common ethical dilemmas that come up with the useof new journalistic tools, such as social media, said DaveBoeyink, who co-authored the textbook, Making HardChoices in Journalism Ethics.“How we practice journalism is changing so fast that wehave to constantly figure out what is our ethical obligationin this new context,” Boeyink said. “Being able to think criticallyand creatively rather than in terms of formulas is goingto be important.”Perhaps now more than ever, he said, professors mustemphasize the application of ethics to real-world situationsrather than rote memorization of ethical principles. Studentsneed to learn to think for themselves because they likely willhave to make split-second decisions as they race to postcontent before the competition, often without the guidanceof an editor.The Internet and social media sites are a hot bed formany of the same ethical problems that journalists havefaced for decades, Boeyink said.“We’ve just got to be creative about figuring out whatare the ethical parallels from traditional media and how dothey apply to social media,” he said.For example, verifying the authenticity of informationcan be even more complicated now. Countless stories, photosand videos are available at the click of a mouse, but it’soften difficult to tell which are credible.In the rapid-fire world of Twitter, joining the conversationabout a hot topic can put journalists in a tricky situation.Retweeting a comment about a news event before verifyingits accuracy can cause journalists to spread rumors ratherthan report the truth, Boeyink said.< 20 > newswire / Spring 2012

featurestorySocial media sites also bring up questions of fairness andnews judgment. Journalists must use discretion when theypull information from places like Facebook, where sourcesmight have an expectation of privacy, Boeyink said. Thosesites often provide a wealth of personal information aboutsources, so journalists must also be sure sharing such informationis newsworthy, not simply entertaining.Students need to practice that kind of thinking in theclassroom so they can be prepared to make their own ethicaldecisions when they’re tweeting the news and postingstories online without an editor to supervise or edit theirreporting. The more they practice, Boeyink said, the fasterthey’ll be able to make those decisions in the field.“Once you have experience thinking through issues yourself,”he said, “when a new issue comes up that’s similar toit, you’re going to be able to respond quickly and probablyethically.”Teach skills that translate to other careersThe relevance of journalism schools might depend on howwell they can prepare students for a variety of jobs, notjust those in journalism, said Leigh Moscowitz, BAJ’95,MA’04, PhD’08, assistant professor in the Department ofCommunication at the College of Charleston, S.C.Journalism classes should teach students how to write,think critically and use technology, she said, because helpingstudents build that foundation will show them the valueof a journalism education, even if they go into another field.After all, she said, when she polls her students, “very,very few” say they want to go into print journalism.“I think training students to write for a print media worldis doing them a disservice,” Moscowitz said. “Instead of howto write a newspaper story, it’s how to write a story.”If students know how to write well, they can write for anymedium — print or digital, journalism or not, she said. Solidwriting skills benefited Moscowitz, who worked in publicrelations before getting her doctoral degree and becominga professor.Moscowitz uses a traditional reporting textbook whenshe teaches writing classes, but she adds a book aboutblogging by Arianna Huffington, who created the newsblog The Huffington Post. She asks the class to pick a topicand create a classwide blog. Students are expected tocontribute a few stories to it throughout the semester. Theblog teaches them to work together as a “reporting team,”Moscowitz said, but it also teaches them a new way to usetheir writing skills.“They got that experience of what that’s like to take atraditional print piece and turn it into a blog post,” she said.She also encourages students to think critically aboutthe issues facing media outlets today. When she teaches anintroductory media course, she lets students debate criticalquestions, such as whether print journalism is becomingobsolete. Through those debates, she said, they learn thehistory of various media and they better understand thechallenges journalists face in the real world.Some of those challenges include how to keep upwith technology and use social media. At the College ofcontinued on page 24“I think trainingstudents to write fora print media worldis doing them adisservice. Insteadof how to write anewspaper story, it’show to write a story.”CourtesyLeigh Moscowitz, BAJ’95,MA’04, PhD’08Assistant professor in theDepartment of Communicationat the College of Charleston, S.C.Spring 2012 / newswire < 21 >

High School Teachersadapting to new mediaLike their college-level colleagues, high school journalism teachers are facing myriad challenges, and they, too,are making adjustments in the classroom to keep up. Here’s what Amy Hutter, BAJ’95, a journalism teacher atGreendale High School in Greendale, Wis.; Todd Rubin, BAJ’97, a broadcast journalism teacher at GlenbrookNorth High School in Northbrook, Ill.; and Teresa White, BA’85, MS’93, director of the High School JournalismInstitute at the Indiana University School of Journalism, have to say about the evolution of journalism education.Question: What’s the biggest challenge forhigh school journalism teachers today?Amy Hutter: The biggest challenge that I have is recruitingkids to take the class in this age of the dying print media. Somany of my students do not read newspapers or magazinesanymore. They simply log on to sites such as Yahoo.com,TMZ or People.com to get their information. Another challengeI have is competing with all of the other elective andAP classes that are offered to students today, many of whicheither offer college credit while in high school or the abilityto test out of classes at the college level in the future.Todd Rubin: I would say balancing traditional journalist ethicswith the moving target of today’s modern journalismquandaries. I find myself taking a step back from some of thethings I’ve learned along the way at IU or in my professionalbroadcasting career and re-evaluating what I once thoughtwas “the right way.” Teaching digital storytelling is what I do,since my focus is broadcast journalism. I think this has actuallybecome easier at the high school level because the costsof the tools are now reasonable and high school students cando amazing things with these tools. The drawback is allowingthe toys to sully the topic. I have many students who bringlots of flash to their stories, but if you analyze the storytelling,it can be quite weak. This isn’t just a high school mistake.I’m sure many professionals know people in the business whodo the exact same things.Teresa White: While some high school teachers and studentsstill do not have adequate access to up-to-date software andhardware, the greatest challenge lies in convincing administrators,school attorneys and some parents to embrace Web2.0 technologies rather than fear them. Even in schools withaward-winning teachers and student media, it’s difficult forstudent journalists to function with the Internet filters schoolsfeel compelled to use in response to the Children’s InternetProtection Act. For example, many journalism teachers like touse WordPress to manage the student newspaper’s website.WordPress is easy to use and has a variety of templates.However, indiscriminate Internet filters block all websitesdeveloped through WordPress. They interpret these sites asblogs — as if all blogs are indecent. Additionally, while highschool teachers want to teach their students how to usesocial media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube responsiblyand for modern journalistic purposes, these tools alsoare blocked by most schools’ Internet filters.Q: What are you teaching now that youwouldn’t have five or 10 years ago?Hutter: One thing I am constantly teaching students aboutis email and Facebook etiquette. Nowadays, students areso quick to use technology to get an interview rather thanactually talking to a source face to face; therefore, I haveto teach them the proper way to introduce themselves andtheir story topic, as well as how to write effective questionsto be sure they get quotable responses, since they will notbe there to ask follow-up or clarifying questions. I also haveto spend a lot of time talking to students about copyrightinfringement. When I started teaching 15 years ago, all thevisual elements on a page were either pictures that mystudents took or drawings, but now students are alwaysquick to go right to Google images to find pictures for theirpages, which they obviously cannot legally do.Rubin: I have been teaching for seven years now and I havechanged my focus a few times in that time. However, thisis based more on my student population than the industrychanges. Probably the biggest change to what I teach ishow quickly I teach it. There was a time when the introductorycourses to broadcasting and journalism were centeredon a textbook and discussions. That was always partiallybecause the students, often times as young as 14, were notable or trusted to work with expensive cameras or other< 22 > newswire / Spring 2012

CourtesyCourtesyScott MyrickAmy HutterTodd RubinTeresa Whitetechnology. Times have changed, and now I feel very comfortablehanding students equipment at an earlier age. Theyare very prepared and curious to learn new technologiesand often teach me a thing or two. I look at this as part ofthe collaborative learning process.White: Blogging. Many English teachers have told me thatthey have success engaging students in the writing processthrough well-designed blogging assignments. English teachersare learning what journalism teachers have known forawhile: Student writing improves when it has a specific audienceand an authentic purpose. When students make theirwriting public, they’re taking risks. Suddenly, their writingmatters. It has consequences because a real audience canrespond to and challenge their ideas.Q: What should high school journalismteachers teach to make sure their studentsare prepared for a career or furthereducation in journalism?Hutter: I still believe that teaching the basics is important.I always start out the year by teaching writing and researchfirst, and design second. No matter if they are writing forprint or online media, they still need to learn how to effectivelywrite a story that will interest their readers, and onethat is accurate and well written. Although the print mediamay be dying, the Internet is alive and well, and people willalways have a desire to read about the latest news, whetherpolitical, sports or entertainment related.Rubin: Since I look at this question from a broadcast perspective,there is no doubt we should be pumping out studentswho can do it all. Multimedia journalists are the nowand future of the industry. This once was reserved for justthe smallest markets in the country. However, it has nowmade its way to the top markets. Time to swallow the prideand realize that you need to get your hands dirty.White: Media literacy, or how to navigate the media glut;critical thinking skills so they can evaluate the credibility andmotives of media they consume; how to write for multipleplatforms (Web, broadcast, print, social media).— Carrie RitchieSpring 2012/ / newswire < 23 >

Charleston, students are now required to take a computerscience class designed for communications students beforethey’re allowed to take certain writing classes. That classbegan this year, so the school will have to wait until nextyear to see if it benefits students, Moscowitz said.She said she thinks the class will be valuable becausestudents need to understand how to use technologyregardless of their career path.“I think the key in this job market,” she said, “is having awide set of skills you can apply.”Look for innovative ways to engage readerswith digital featuresPaul Lester envisions a future where readers can experiencenews stories the same way they would a museum.Lester, PhD’89, a professor in the Department ofCommunications at California State University–Fullerton,thinks the future of journalism involves a concept called“augmented reality,” which would allow readers to putthemselves inside a story through interactive graphics andother digital features.For example, journalists could create a smartphoneapplication that would pinpoint where certain stories happenedon a map. They also could create a database wherepeople could post personal photos and stories involvingthose locations. That way, tourists and residents could learnmore about the area as they walk or drive through it, hesaid.“So reality, of course, is just walking through the neighborhood,and you really don’t know what happened anywhere,”Lester said. “But an augmented reality feature usinga smartphone would give you all this additional info, fromnews stories to personal stories.”Lester is already teaching his students some of thoseskills and plans to write a book to share his methods withother teachers.He asks his students to record the geographic coordinatesof the locations where they take their photos for hisclass. They use that information to create an interactivemap so people can see where the photos were taken.He also teaches them how to create Quick Response, orQR, codes, the black and white patterned boxes that sometimesappear on signs and advertisements. People scan thecodes with smartphones to learn more about what’s beingadvertised and perhaps get a coupon.Lester said some newspapers, including the studentnewspaper at Fullerton, are beginning to put those codeswith stories so people can scan them to get additionalinformation, such as a video that corresponds with thestory.“The digital world is really thefuture you should be thinkingabout. You can’t just come awaywith the traditional skills thatI came away with 30 years ago.You have toknow a lotmore abouttechnologythan youused to.”Paul Lester, PhD’89Professor in the Departmentof Communications atCalifornia StateUniversity–FullertonCourtesyEven if professors don’t want to get that technical,they should be teaching students the value of digitaljournalism, Lester said. His students must make a blog tomarket their work, a step Lester said is now crucial forjournalists.Lester also asks them to dabble in Second Life, awebsite where people create avatars and interact witheach other in a virtual world. His students create profiles,socialize with other users and find someone from a differentcountry to profile. Some news outlets, including CNN,have experimented with the site, he said.“The digital world is really the future you should bethinking about,” he said. “You can’t just come away withthe traditional skills that I came away with 30 years ago.You have to know a lot more about technology than youused to.” •Carrie Ritchie, BAJ’08, is a reporter at the Indianapolis Star.< 24 > newswire / Spring 2012

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student experiencesInternational journalismexperiences at top ofcampus rankingsBy her fourth year of college, senior Caitlin Peterkin hadspent eight weeks interning at a music magazine inLondon and studied Aboriginal media in the Australianoutback over spring break.“The world of media has evolved so much thatknowledge about international media and foreign relationsis really important for a young journalist,” Peterkin said.“These trips have given me a different view of whatjournalism can be, a view that you can’t get ina classroom.”Peterkin joins more than half her journalism classmatesin having some kind of study abroad experience during their fouryears as undergraduates. According to a recent study from the IUOffice of Overseas Study, 57 percent of journalism students travelabroad, a higher percentage than any other IU unit.This number is up 5 percent from the previous year. Overall,IU Bloomington figures are up 11 percent, and IU ranks eighth inthe nation for universities sending students abroad.Established as part of the school’s Journalism Experiencesprogram, courses that include a travel component began aboutfive years ago. Before, individual professors had included travel aspart of class projects, and individual students had arranged studyabroad through Overseas Study.“We wanted to create a unique model for our students toconsider international study and travel, and we hoped it wouldinspire them to learn more about global media and other cultures,”said journalism dean Brad Hamm. “The response hasbeen amazing.”Since the formal course program, about 500 journalism students,faculty and support staff have traveled to Asia, Europe,Australia, South America and all over North America for study,often during spring break but also in summer.Gaining global perspectiveThe destinations shift as opportunities arise, and the courses takeadvantage of professors’ expertise and professional backgrounds.Students have visited Japan to study public relations and internationalreporting; France and England to retrace World War II correspondentErnie Pyle’s coverage from the frontlines; South Koreato look at technology; Chile and Australia to study particularaspects of media; Kenya to report on the HIV/AIDS epidemic; Italyto study tourism communications; and China to better understandmedia in that culture.“The international journalism experiences here at IU nowmake it possible for students majoring in journalism to have abetter understanding of the global context in which they willStudents in Professor Jim Kelly’s Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Africa joined withtheir Moi University partners for a tour of the AMPATH Center, including thefarms and food distribution center behind the main building. Sean Morrisonand Lauren Kastner photograph a Green World Nursery planter with a passionfruit seedling.work after they graduate,” said Kathleen Sideli, IU associate vicepresident for Overseas Study. “This is essential since all media areinterconnected throughout the world, and local events anywherecan have global implications.”The School of Journalism subsidizes some of the costs, andthe Office of Overseas Study offers support as well to make theseshort-term travel opportunities affordable for many students.They are part of the coursework, integrated with classroom learning,and students report to the school website during their travel,offering their first-hand experiences, photos and videos.Capitalizing on professors’ expertiseProfessor Joe Coleman teaches J460 International Reporting,which travels to Japan at spring break. The class focuses onHiroshima and the legacy of the atomic bomb, and World War II.Coleman said before the trip, students study Japanese history andlook at media coverage from American and Japanese perspectives.In Japan, they meet with foreign correspondents, talk tosurvivors of the bombing and visit memorials.Coleman, who was with The Associated Press 18 years, includinga stint as bureau chief in Tokyo, said students are required tofind and report their own stories, working with translators just asa foreign correspondent would in an unfamiliar country.Some of the travel classes are on their way to becominga School of Journalism tradition. This year, associate professorOwen Johnson led J460 From London to Normandy: In theFootsteps of Ernie Pyle, for the fifth year.“This class has the capability of lasting a long time because it’shistorical in nature,” Johnson says. “It doesn’t need to respond tonew media.”Before the travel, students in the course study Ernie Pyle’s life,career and columns. The trip is meant to give students a senseof what Europe was like during World War II and to bring Pyle’sfamous wartime columns to life, Johnson said. Students go to theJames D. Kelly< 26 > newswire / Spring 2012

Imperial War Museum and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, visitOmaha Beach in Normandy, and take a walking tour of WorldWar II Paris.Senior Jonathan Streetman took the course last year becausehe was interested in history and wanted to visit Europe. Herecalled climbing the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London andlooking at the city below him, and imagining the scene as bombsfell from the sky as written in one of Pyle’s most famous columns.His favorite part of the trip was visiting Omaha Beach, the siteof D-Day.“When I walked on the beach, I was breathless for a fewsteps,” he said.New courses offer new destinationsThe School of Journalism’s newest travel course, J460 Democracyand Media in China, visited Beijing in March. Professor LarsWillnat proposed the course based on his own research on thepolitical and economic climate in China.“I’m amazed when I go back how it’s different every time,”Willnat said. “Many students have misconceptions about it beingrural and impoverished, but they have very high levels of technologyalready.”On the trip, students visited Chinese media outlets and spenttime reporting. They visited cultural sites like the Great Wall ofChina and Tiananmen Square, and also attended classes for a dayat Tsinghua University.Many students, such as sophomore Melinda Elston, travelabroad for the first time through Journalism Experiences. Elstonsaid Willnat’s speech at the information session piqued her interestin China and she was excited to discover how affordable thetrip would be with help from the School of Journalism.She also said she was nervous about not knowing anyChinese. But fears like these are normal, say trip leaders.“I remember my first trip to Asia. Everything is so different,”Coleman said. “The students who have never been abroad, particularly,will have an experience they won’t forget.”Willnat agrees the travel courses add another dimension towhat students learn in the classroom. He showed videos andplayed Chinese music in his class before the trip, but he knowsnothing can compare to interacting with citizens.“It’s hard to get the feeling when you talk about it,” Willnatsays. “You really have to see it.”— Stephanie DoctrowSpring/summer 2012 travel• From London to Paris: In the Footsteps ofErnie Pyle (England and France)• Devices of Wonder: New Media, NewIdentities, New Social Movement (South bySouthwest Interactive Festival, Austin, Texas)• Media in Latin America: Messages and Moguls,Dictators and Democracy (Chile)• International Reporting (Japan)• Media and Culture in China (Beijing, China)• Summer in LondonCourtesyAssociate professor Bonnie Brownlee’s Media in Latin America class visited several news organizations, including CNN, during a trip to Chile in2010. Another group of students will travel to Chile in May.Spring 2012 / newswire < 27 >

onthe recordThe latest news from the IU school of journalism ALUMNI1940s“When I enrolled at IU in early 1946 followingthree-and-a-half years in the U.S. Navy, I didn’t havea clue concerning a major,” writes Carl B. Foster,BA’49, MA’50. He continues, “A professor signedme up for journalism because I told him that I hadenjoyed my experiences on my high school newspaper.On the first day of classes I reported to theStudent — then housed in a Quonset hut. I had yetto have my first journalism class. A very stern lookingwoman took one look at me, crooked her finger,and motioned me to report to her. I found out laterthat she was Marge Smith Blewett, BA’48, theeditor. ‘We aren’t getting enough news about theupcoming mayor’s race, Foster. Go down to city hall,interview the mayor, and don’t come back without astory!’ My trepidation about my very first reportingassignment was about equal to my fear of theeditor. So, I took off, interviewed the mayor, wrotethe story, and got the right-hand lead on the nextissue, including a byline. That’s all it took. I spent thenext four years working in every aspect of the IDS.When I finally became editor, I met, romanced andmarried the campus editor, Jean Buroker, BA’49.We graduated from IU together and celebrated our62nd wedding anniversary last January.” Foster is aformer director of public relations at the Universityof Central Missouri. He retired in 1986 and lives inWarrensburg, Mo.1950sCharles E. Teeple, BA’50, writes, “I retired 19years ago as vice president for investor relations atHumana Inc., Louisville, Ky., where I worked for atotal of 23 years. Previously I was employed for 14years at The Louisville Times, nine as business editorand five as Indiana sports editor.”Jack E. Howey, BA’51, and Mary L. CunninghamHowey, BA’50, were married in August 1951after meeting at the Indiana Daily Student. The twolive in Indianapolis, where they celebrated their 60thwedding anniversary. Howey pursued a career inIndiana small town journalism, finally retiring as thepublisher of the Peru (Ind.) Tribune. A member ofthe Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, Howey was thefirst president of the Journalism Alumni Board.Richard C. MacGill, ’51, writes that he and hiswife, Dorothy (Allen), BA’52, recently celebratedtheir 59th wedding anniversary. MacGill adds, “Weare both long retired, of course, but happy grandparentsof 12 and (at last) great grandparents ofone. Ain’t it interesting what we all brag about thesedays?” MacGill asks “other survivors” from the early’50s to contact him at rmacgill@sbcglobal.net.Reminiscing about his time working for the IndianaDaily Student, Bernard D. Rosenthal, BA’51,writes, “My feature writing, slot and rim times, andreporting reached a peak when the Daily Studentscooped the in-town Herald-Telephone with a breakingstory about a major labor dispute affecting thecommunity. The union membership was meeting atnight at the local high school auditorium for a final‘yes or no’ strike vote. Reporters were to be lockedout. I arrived two hours early, hid in the upstairsmen’s room, just off the balcony door. I had directquotes from the participants. After the meeting, Iwalked the entire auditorium. Someone mistakenlydropped a copy of the strike agreement for announcementno sooner than 24 hours. The IDS headlinedthe story the next morning. The scoop broughta wry grin from John Stempel, BA’23, and a specialsalute from Gretchen Kemp, ’54. After beingpresented the outstanding senior journalism award,I took the trophy to Otto’s, filled it with beer severaltimes, and shared its contents and about a dozenhard-boiled eggs with Daily Student buddies DickGarver, BA’51, MA’54, and Greg Gerdes, BA’52.The Shack was a miserable place to [work], but theprofessional and personal friendships that beganthere still endure.” Rosenthal lives in Louisville, Ky.Joseph B. Young III, BA’56, recently retired fromhis full-time position with Indianapolis NewspapersInc., where his assignments included photographingDemocratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedyand the aftermath of the fatal 1963 explosion at theIndiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum. Young workspart time archiving old Indianapolis News and Starprints and negatives for electronic records. From hisIndianapolis home, he also operates a photo business,Joe Young Photography.1960sNancy A. Dean, BA’61, writes, “IU was nevermy first choice — way too close to home for an Indygirl with aspirations to see the world. [So] I didn’tarrive on campus a happy camper. But that quicklychanged. I loved the J100 course, and of courseChris Savage was a trip. Gretchen Kemp, I alreadyknew from the High School Journalism Institute.The journalism institute changed my life forever. Formany years I wrote for the Houston Chronicle, thatcity’s only daily newspaper. The final three-plus years,I penned a weekly column, ‘Houston InternationalScene.’ It was the highlight of my journalism careerbecause it combined the two things I do best: writingfor publication and encouraging others (in thiscase the inhabitants of the fourth largest city in theU.S.) to embrace the entire world and all it has tooffer. I wouldn’t trade the way my life has unfoldedunder any circumstances. And it all started in ErniePyle Hall.” Dean lives in Houston.Michael H. McCoy, BA’61, retired from theWisconsin Department of Workforce Developmentin November 1997. He writes that he has sincereturned three times to serve as the organization’spublic information director. McCoy adds, “I’mcurrently involved locally in two bands, where I playtrumpet, sing with a barbershop chorus, help leada local Sherlock Holmes society, and am involvedin organizations seeking to advance passengerrail at the state and national levels. I also managefour Twitter accounts, three Yahoo groups, oneorganization’s Facebook and website, and haveserved as the national historian for the Phi KappaPsi Fraternity since 2003.” McCoy returned to theIU Bloomington campus twice the past summer— once for his 50th anniversary class reunion andonce for the School of Journalism’s centennial celebrations.He also planned to return in Novemberfor a national Sherlock Holmes conference. McCoylives in Madison, Wis.Suzann Mitten Owen, BA’61, of Bloomington,served Indiana University for a total of 35 yearsbefore retiring as director of promotions at WTIUeight years ago. During her long career at IU sheworked on the staff of Indiana Alumni Magazine asconstituent society publications coordinator and asassociate editor.Sally Shaw Tanselle, BA’63, of Lebanon, Ind.,writes, “Congratulations on the School of Journalism’s100-year celebration. I have always beenproud to be an IU journalism graduate and forevergrateful to the mentoring I received from GretchenKemp. Tanselle has retired as a teacher at LebanonHigh School.“When my father and I visited the [then] IU Departmentof Journalism in 1960,” writes ThomasA. Bowers, BA’64, MA’69, PhD’71, “I was a highschool senior.” He adds, “Dick Yoakam greetedus and spent a lot of time with us. As a journalismschool dean at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, I emulated Dick’s kind demeanorwhenever I talked to prospective students.” Bowerslives in Ashburn, Va.Donna J. Potocki, BA’ 66, a resident ofWoodbine, Md., states that “having a journalismdegree from John Stempel’s program at IU hasbeen a huge asset on so many fronts!” Potocki wasnight editor for the Indiana Daily Student in 1963.She and her husband live near and remain friendswith former IDS editor-in-chief at the time JoelWhitaker, BS’64, MA’71.< 28 > newswire / Spring 2012

ontherecord thescoop1970sRichard H. Manning, BS/Cert’70, works as theonline production manager of The (Louisville, Ky.)Courier-Journal. The newspaper serves the southernIndiana and greater Louisville area. Manninglives in New Albany, Ind.John S. Fagan, BA’71, is the editor of TheMonitor in McAllen, Texas, a newspaper servingthe Rio Grande Valley. Fagan still has many memories,“some of them fairly coherent,” from his timeat the Indiana Daily Student. He recalls summers atthe IDS, when “Chancellor Herman B Wells wouldsurprise us by showing up with ice-cold watermelonsfor the staff sweating away at Ernie Pyle Hallto get the paper out.” A former managing editor,Fagan recalls gathering at Nick’s with his fellowwriters and allowing Jerry Hicks’ , BA’72, bogusweather report, “Frosty on Tap,” to run on thefront page. On a serious note, Fagan will alwaysremember when “the bells on the AP and the UPIwire machines were going nuts” the nights MartinLuther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.Fagan lives in Mission, Texas.Vicki Massy Palmer, BA’71, writes, “There islife after (or other than) newspaper work. It tookme a few years to change [this] mindset. I recentlyretired from the Pinellas County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office,where I had a wonderful job preparing writtenreports ‘live’ with patrol deputies. My many yearsof editing crime stories for The Columbus [Ohio]Dispatch came in handy, but this job was moreinteresting and more fun. I was told ‘You’re one ofus’ more than once by my deputies. I never heardthat at a newspaper. I retired to spend more timewith our three young granddaughters and my newdog. Life is short — and grandchildren and puppiesare important! A retired deputy is helping me trainmy English mastiff. In turn, my mastiff will help metrain the grandchildren. Life can be joyful at anystage!” Palmer lives in Seminole, Fla.Cheryl Scutt, BA’71 is executive director ofSaddle Up, a nonprofit organization that providestherapeutic horseback riding for disabled youthin Nashville, Tenn. Scutt left Bloomington in the1980s to pursue a career as a country music songwriterin Nashville. Instead, she found her calling inmarketing communications with the United Wayhospital, the Nashville Opera and her own publicrelations firm. Scutt says she loves “music andwords, and the creativity of putting them together,so it’s all good.”Marion Tuerff Edwards, BA’72, is vice presidentin charge of communications for the publicinformation program Operation Lifesaver. Thenationwide nonprofit is dedicated to promotingrailway safety. Edwards won a Telly Award for the“Where’s the Best Man?” public service announcement,which she produced with multiple crews forthe organization. Edwards lives in Alexandria, Va.Stephen A. Smith, BS’73, is a lecturer inbroadcast and digital journalism at the Universityof Georgia in Athens. His wife, Becky (Gunden),BS’70, is a lead teacher for special education forDekalb County School System in Decatur, Ga. Thecouple lives in Doraville, Ga.Cohen writes the book on Pearl JamIf there’s anything you need to know aboutPearl Jam — one of the seminal grungebands that came out of Seattle in the early1990s — just ask Jonathan Cohen, BAJ’98,because he wrote the book on it. Literally.Also an Indiana Daily Student alumnusand now, since 2009, a music booker forLate Night with Jimmy Fallon, the NewYork City-based Cohen wrote PJ20, thebook companion to director CameronCrowe’s film documentary on the EddieVedder-led band, Pearl Jam 20, whichcoincides with the 20th anniversary of thegroup’s gold-record debut disc, Ten.“I’ve been very close with the Pearl Jamorganization since I started at Billboard,and I was honored that they asked me toJonathan Cohen, BAJ’98, with Snoop Dogg.assist with the book,” says Cohen, whoworked at Billboard for almost a decade,primarily on the nascent Billboard.com. “It was originally conceived of as a straight narrative, butwe changed course and reconfigured it as a year-by-year oral history paired with a ton of era-specificart and memorabilia, which I think tells the band’s story much more effectively.”The book, he notes, is more or less in the band members’ own words — although there arechapters about each Pearl Jam album that read more like long magazine articles.“What did I learn from it? That everybody remembers things differently,” Cohen says now. “Tryingto reach a consensus with the band members about key moments in their career was sometimeschallenging.” But as a fan first and foremost, he adds, it was great fun to “put the puzzlepieces together and tell the most accurate story.”It seems like a long way from the hardcore newsroom environment of the IDS to the bookingdesk of a late night talk show.“I got a call from a music industry friend of mine who knew one of the bookers who had alreadybeen hired for Fallon,” Cohen recalls. “This was about a month before the show was launching.They hadn’t found a music booker yet, and my friend thought I might be interested in talking to hisfriend about the job. So, I went in for an interview with Jimmy and we just talked about music andhis vision for wanting a nice, wide variety of performances.”He must have made a good impression. A couple days later, the Fallon folks asked him if hewanted to come on board, even though his only prior experience was setting up a couple of indierock shows at the old Second Story in Bloomington in the late 1990s.“I thought the time was right to take a chance on something new,” he says. “Luckily, it hasbeen a tremendous experience so far.”In the ensuing three years or so, he’s spent a lot of time with some of his musical heroes.“But often the coolest moments are during the morning sound check,” he reports, “whensometimes there are only a handful of people in the studio. To watch and hear artists like ArethaFranklin, Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead and Beyonce running through their songs in that setting is atrue privilege. I sometimes pinch myself that I’m so fortunate.”Well, luck has something to do with it, but so does the skill set he picked up in Bloomington.“Everything goes back to Ernie Pyle and the IDS in some fashion,” he says. “One of the mostimportant things I learned was to not have pre-conceived notions about a given subject or story,and to let your reporting dictate the content, rather than the other way around.”He says he also learned how to build trustworthy relationships with sources and artist representatives— and that, of course, continues to come in handy at Fallon to this day.Indeed, the IU days were good ones all around, Cohen says.“I have many fond memories of working with my friends at the IDS, and just kind of living andbreathing journalism while in that newsroom,” he says.He tries get back to Bloomington every couple years or so; the last trip was in March while Fallontaped shows in Indianapolis before the Super Bowl.“I always love visiting Bloomington because there’s just something in the air that takes me backto my time there,” he says. “I think it would be fun to move back there someday and teach at ErniePyle.”— Russell JacksonCourtesySpring 2009 2012/ // newswire < 29 >

ontherecordthescoopHakanson reaps rewards of ‘green’ writingGretel Hakanson, BA’94Sometimes the key to professional success and happiness is figuring out what you’regood at. And hitching your editorial wagon to a hot topic doesn’t hurt.Gretel Hakanson, BA’94, learned that lesson when she realized she’s more journalistthan creative writer. And putting her skills to work as “The Green Writer,” a freelancerfocusing on sustainability, green building, natural health and environmental issues, hashelped her establish a niche in a growing field.The seeds for The Green Writer were sown when she began doing editorial work fora green building author in 2007. She’s since worked on 13 book projects with authors,publishers, contributors, designers, photographers and editors.“Long-term book projects are my favorite type of work because I am motivatedby the tangible accomplishment of the finished book,” said Hakanson, who lives inTucson, Ariz.She wasn’t always so sure about how she wanted to use her journalism background.“There was a period when I was very unsure of my abilities, skills and career direction,”she explained. “Once I accepted the fact that I am not a creative writer and thatmy strengths lie in my ability to clearly communicate via the written word and to helpothers do the same, I truly began to appreciate my journalism education.”She’s not knocking creative writing, though.“It’s a wonderful skill and I certainly appreciate reading it,” she said. “But being ableto express ideas and information in a way that answers readers’ questions instead ofcreating questions is what I find most interesting.”She’s put that to use many times during her career, and applies it currently to allthree of her freelance positions — as The Green Writer; as a contract editor at SEEInnovation, which focuses on social and environmental issues; and as an editor at YudelsonAssociates, where she assists, start to finish, with book projects.Now, she’s turning her attention to some yoga-related writing and research projectsthat she’s “super excited about.” This may be part of the reason: She’s learned to chill,just enough.“I have come to learn that so many things in life are about tradeoffs,” she says.“Perfection is impossible. Making the right career decision for me has been figuring outthe fine balance of what is important to me and what I can live without.”Being 100 percent freelance is challenging, of course, because of the self-relianceand self-discipline it requires — and the lack of a defined career path.“But the freedom, independence and sense of personal accomplishment that goalong with it absolutely trump the challenges,” Hakanson says.— Russell JacksonCourtesyEdna F. Einsiedel, PhD’75, is a professor ofcommunication and culture at the University ofCalgary in Alberta, Canada.Gail Hinchion Mancini, BA’75, MLibSt’94, hasjoined the staff of the IU School of Medicine–SouthBend as director of public affairs and communication.She oversees fundraising, communicationsand community outreach at the medical school,which offers medical education and is the locus ofcancer and biomedical research for IUSM–SB, theUniversity of Notre Dame and more than 200 areaphysicians. Mancini previously served as director ofinternal communications at the University of NotreDame and director of public relations and marketingat IU South Bend. She lives in South Bend.Craig L. Webb, BA’76, is editor of ProSales,a magazine for executives of building materialcompanies. The publication won two national andthree regional prizes in the 2011 Azbee Awardscompetition run by the American Society of BusinessPress Editors. The magazine took gold andbronze prizes at the national level, as well as aregional gold. This marks the fourth straight yearthat ProSales has won a national award — three ofthe four awards being gold prizes. Webb lives andworks in Washington, D.C.Susan Herzfeld Glazer, BA’77, writes, “I occasionallydo some freelance copy editing, mostlyfor graduate student research proposals. I amalso caring for my infant granddaughter while herparents work.” Glazer lives in Prospect, Ky.“After living in Indianapolis since graduationfrom IU,” writes Katherine Walsh Ryan, BA’77,“we moved in 2003 to a college town, Shepherdstown,in West Virginia. My husband, Philip,MD’76, an endocrinologist and West VirginiaUniversity professor of medicine, started a programfor under-served diabetes patients, and I launchedRyan Film Institute, which developed out of mymaster of science in strategic leadership thesis atMountain State University. Ryan Film Institute isnow in its fifth year of offering teen filmmakers’workshop classes through Shepherd University. Ialso write and direct dinner theater fundraisers tosupport student scholarships and equipment. Ourson, Elliott, is 17 and enjoys adventures on ourthree-acre rural spread, romping with our dog,Zoey. Life is good! My website is www.ryanfilminstitute.org.”Kathleen Harsh Jonas, BA’78, MLibSt’97,is executive director of St. Joseph Valley PHCC,a chapter of the Indiana Association of Plumbing,Heating and Cooling Contractors, located inMishawaka, Ind. In December, she was presentedwith the 2011 Association Executives CouncilSpectrum Award. The AEC Spectrum Award ispresented to an association executive who hasdemonstrated outstanding leadership in associationmanagement, participation in community activitiesand leadership in other professional organizations.She and her husband, Bill, BA’78, JD’81, a partnerin the law firm Hammerschmidt, Amaral, & Jonas,live in South Bend, Ind.Gail Helsel Perry Pranitis, BA’78, has publishedher 30th book, Mint.com for Dummies. ACPA and former tax columnist for the Indianapolis< 30 > newswire / Spring 2012Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 30 >

ontherecord thescoopAlumni authorsBill PlummerIII, BS’73, isthe co-authorof Best ofthe Best…Women’s FastPitch Softball(Clear VisionPublishing Inc., 2011), whichfeatures 19 legends of women’sfast pitch softball from the1970s to the present. Plummerretired in 2009 after morethan 30 years with the AmateurSoftball Association, the nationalgoverning body of softball inthe United States. His co-authoris clinical psychologist StevenClarfield, a former men’s fastpitch player and member of theASA Hall of Fame. Plummer livesin Oklahoma City.MarshaRoushCornelius,BA’74, is theauthor of H10N1, a thrillerabout adeadly flu virusgone awry (Kindle, 2011).With no law and order, lootersare scavenging everythingfrom TVs to canned peas. Twounlikely survivors, thrown intoan unfriendly alliance, picktheir way across the dangerouswasteland of America in searchof a safe haven. As the miles rollby, they discover that the livingshould be feared more than thefestering corpses. Cornelius livesin Woodstock, Ga., and is a fulltimewriter.As the deputydirector of theWhite HouseOffice of PublicLiaison foreight years,TimothyGoegleinserved as President GeorgeW. Bush’s main contact withreligious organizations. WhenGoeglein, BA’86, became involvedin a plagiarism scandal,the president’s compassion forhis plight showed Goegleinthat faith played a major rolenot just in Bush’s decisionsas president, but also in hisday-to-day dealings withthe people around him. InThe Man in the Middle (B &H Books, 2011), Goegleingives an insider’s view of theconsistent influence of faithon Bush’s political philosophyand actions. Goeglein is vicepresident of external relationsfor Focus on the Family. Helives in Alexandria, Va.DanielLerner wasa pioneer inthe developmentofmass mediatheory, andhis 1958book, The Passing of TraditionalSociety, broke newground in its promotion ofAmerican media messages as avehicle for modernizing peoplein post-colonial countries. TheProduction of Modernization:Daniel Lerner, Mass Mediaand The Passing of TraditionalSociety (Temple UniversityPress, 2011) follows Lerner’sthinking about the influenceof mass media in those newlyindependent nations throughan analysis of his writings. AuthorHemant Shah, PhD’87,is a professor of journalismand mass communication atthe University of Wisconsin–Madison.KimLeDuff,PhD’07, isthe co-authorof Raceand News:CriticalPerspectives(Routledge, 2011), an examinationof journalistic representationsof race. The book looksat the decisions that go intocovering a story, both with andwithout relation to race. Also,through a series of case studiessuch as Hurricane Katrina andthe presidential candidacy ofBarack Obama, it explores thecoverage of national stories andhow they affect the dialogue onrace and racism, exposing subtleand overt forms of racism in thenewsroom and in the nationaldialogue. LeDuff is an associateprofessor and associate directorin the School of Mass Communicationand Journalism at theUniversity of Southern Mississippiin Hattiesburg, Miss.From badhairstylesto financialbubbles andcrashes, TheLatest Craze:A ShortHistory ofMass Hysterias (Fall River Press/Sterling, 2011) looks at crazes,trends and fears and their immediateand long-term impact.Author Jeff Fleischer, BAJ’99,describes 63 crazes in seven categories,including moral panics,such as witch hunts and bookcensorship; cultural manias, suchas hit albums and trendy toys;and “beyond-our-control panics,”such as fears about alienlife and catastrophic disasters.Fleischer, an independent writer,editor and consultant, lives inChicago.Kelly Moore,MA’94, isthe author ofthe e-bookSecrets of AnAccidentalYogi: YogaWisdom forBetter Health, Less Stress &Great Sex (BookBaby, 2011). Herblog on dating and relationships,Happily Ever After or Bust, wona 2011 Reader’s Choice Awardfor Best Dating Blog. She alsowrites commentary on politics,foreign policy, sports and otherwhimsical topics on her blog,What the Kel. Her writing hasbeen published by the New YorkTimes, the Huffington Post,U.S. News & World Report andthe Christian Science Monitor.Moore lives in Washington, D.C.Karen Day,BA’84, haspublished herthird book formiddle schoolreaders, A MillionMiles FromBoston (RandomHouse, 2011). In additionto writing, speaking at schoolsand running writing workshopsfor kids, she will be on thefaculty at the Cape Cod WritersCenter Summer Conference inAugust in Hyannis, Mass.Joanne Gordon,BA’91,joined withStarbucksCEO HowardSchultzto chronicleSchultz’srevitalization of the companyafter its downturn during therecent recession. Onward: HowStarbucks Fought For Its LifeWithout Losing Its Soul (RodaleBooks, 2011) was rankedNo. 1 on the New York Timesbestseller list. After graduatingfrom IU, Gordon worked forBurston-Marsteller agency beforeearning a master’s degree atNorthwestern University’s MedillSchool of Journalism. She was areporter and contributing editorfor Forbes in New York City, hasauthored and coauthored severalbooks, and has written fornumerous publications, such asthe Chicago Tribune, Seventeenand The Wall Street Journal. Sheis based in the Pacific Northwest.Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 31 >

ontherecordStar, she currently serves as editor-in-chief of theonline daily news magazine AccountingWEB.Pranitis lives in Brighton, Mich.In May, the Woman’s Press Club of Indiananamed Gena L. Asher, BA’79, MIS/MLS’03, as aprizewinner in its 2011 Communications Contest.She received first place in the category of websitedevelopment/creation, corporate or for-profitsites; second place for website edited by entrant;second place for website development/creation,special interest sites; and honorable mention inthree other categories. Asher is Web editor andadjunct lecturer in the School of Journalism at IUBloomington.Robert K. Johnson, BA’79, JD’83, works asan attorney at his own firm and has returned to acareer in newspaper reporting as a side interest.Editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student inthe fall of 1978, he remembers about 30 Iranianstudents storming the newsroom to demand theIDS drop AP in favor of Reuters, and the peoplehe worked with, who mixed “just enough sillinessto keep it all going.” Even after a career in law,Johnson says, “to this day, there is nothing like therush of creating on a deadline.” Johnson lives inGreenwood, Ind.Mary Shrawder Jungemann, BA’79, MS’82,is a teacher at Southport High School in Indianapolis,where she lives.1980sJulia Dimond Apple, BA’80, is a senioraccount executive with WFYI, the NPR and PBSaffiliate in Indianapolis. Apple says she loves theservices and resources NPR and PBS provide. Shelives in Carmel, Ind.David D. Haynes, BA’80, is editorial page editorof the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, where helives. After graduating with degrees in journalismand history, Haynes wrote for newspapers in Lowell,Mass., and Fort Wayne, Ind., before becomingdeputy business editor at the Sentinel in 1994. Aformer editor of the Indiana Daily Student, Haynesserved as business, metro desk and education editorat the Sentinel.William J. Koenig, BA’80, is deputy teamleader of the U.S. transportation team forBloomberg News. He has been with the newsorganization since 2001, working as a reporter forthe Detroit bureau and at the Bloomberg speeddesk. He reported on Ford Motors from 2001 to2008. He lives in Commerce Township, Mich., onthe outskirts of Detroit.Cynthia Boyer Kane, BA’81, writes, “For eightyears I was the director of development for a localBoys & Girls Club. Last December, I left the positionand have been enjoying some time off.” She livesin Newton, Mass.Susan Polakoff Shaw, BA’81, is celebratingthe 20th anniversary of Polakoff Communications,the business she started after working in newspapersand public relations for 10 years. She lives andworks in Cleveland.J. Frazier Smith, BA’82, is production deskand team leader for Cox Media Group in Dayton,Ohio. He began his career at the CincinnatiAttorney Sarah Jenkins winspro bono awardSarah C. Jenkins, Cert/BAJ’03 and Kathy L. Osborn,BA/BS’87, JD’99thescoopSarah C. Jenkins, BAJ’03, JD’06,and Kathy L. Osborn, BA/BS’87,JD’99, who both work in theIndianapolis office of the lawfirm Baker & Daniels, have beennamed recipients of the 2011 ProBono Award for Attorney AidingIndividuals by the Indianapolis BarAssociation. Osborn, a partnerin the firm’s antitrust, appellateand business litigation practices,and Jenkins, a business litigationassociate, were recognized forproviding access to justice to underservedindividuals. Jenkins andOsborn worked on a guardianshipcase on behalf of a man witha mental health disability whowas living in a homeless shelter.In 2007, the man’s guardian caused his home and personal belongings to be demolishedagainst his wishes, without his consent, and without notice. He came to Baker& Daniels seeking legal assistance, and Osborn agreed to represent him on a probono basis. In the past four years, Jenkins and Osborn have spent almost 700 hoursadvocating for his rights through legal advocacy briefings, meetings and social servicecontacts. They litigated the client’s case with a successful result from the Indiana Courtof Appeals. They were honored at the IBA’s annual recognition luncheon Nov. 29 atthe Conrad Indianapolis. Jenkins and Osborn both live in Indianapolis.CourtesyEnquirer and says he owes his start in the business,in part, to former journalism law professor RalphHolsinger. “I continue to have a wonderful andfulfilling career,” says Smith, a former Indiana DailyStudent staffer. “I owe it all to IU Bloomington.”Smith lives in Cincinnati.In 2011, at age 49, Wendy A. Chioji, BA’83,donned a bathing suit and posed for a calendarto help raise money and awareness for researchand the treatment of cancer. Breast cancer survivorChioji also recently joined the television seriesGrowing Bolder as a reporter during the show’ssecond season, which aired in the spring on PBSstations. Growing Bolder, a 30-minute weeklyseries, features stories about older Americans wholead extraordinary lives — athletes, cancer survivors,entertainers, authors and musicians. A formernews anchor for Orlando, Fla., television stationWESH, Chioji now works as a fitness professionalin Park City, Utah. To learn about Chioji and theCalendar for Conquering Cancer, visit calendarforconqueringcancer.com.Renee A. Olson, BA’84, edits the Drew Universitymagazine in Madison, N.J. Previously, she editedtrade and association magazines, a parentingmagazine in Manhattan, N.Y., and a publication atRutgers University. She lives in Metuchen, N.J.Rebecca Friedberg Sullivan, BA’84, of Albuquerque,N.M., writes, “In my career I’ve tried somany things, from five years in media relations toobtaining an MBA and partnering in managing anaerospace consulting firm for 17 years; writing asan at-large-editor for an international auto publication;serving as an employee-benefits columnistfor a company newsletter; organizing fundraisingevents; sitting on many boards of directors; andnow assisting the chairman of a large industrialdevelopment company.”Russell P. Petcoff, BA’85, retired from the U.S.Air Force in 2010 after a 21-year career in publicaffairs. His fondest memories at the School ofJournalism involve his first journalism class, withinstructor Pat Washburn, MA’73, PhD’84. Washburnstressed proper spelling, and Petcoff recallsthat “he would subtract a point for each error.”Petcoff also was in the Air Force ROTC and wrotea feature story about the detachment commander.“For the story, I interviewed one of the cadets,” hesays. “Her name was Dian Bushey. With a nameso unconventionally spelled, it begged doublechecking.When I received feedback for my story,Washburn had circled her name. He wrote, ‘Good, Ichecked.’” Petcoff lives in Lorton, Va.Vanessa V. Clohessy, BA’86, JD’90, is a lawyerwith Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & KohnLLP in Arlington Heights, Ill. She says, “The two< 32 > newswire / Spring 2012Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 32 >

ontherecord thescoopmost relevant skills I learned in journalism at IUwere to be succinct in my writing and to proofreadvery carefully. That has served me very well as alawyer, in a profession that is notoriously wordy.”Clohessy lives in Elmhurst, lll.David R. Gibbs, BA’86, is director of operationsfor Qtrac Software in Indianapolis. The companyprovides software solutions for clinical care. Gibbslives in Carmel, Ind.Marcy A. Watson, BA’86, has joined MattisonCorp., an association management firm thatspecializes in managing not-for-profit associationsin Indianapolis. She is the association manager forthe Metro Indianapolis Coalition for ConstructionSafety. Watson lives in Zionsville, Ind.James M. Joseph, MA’87, was named managerof Ashland.com in July 2010 and operatesthe chemical company’s website in Dublin, Ohio.He asks, “How on earth did my career go fromtypewriters, carbon paper and hot type to rebuildingand running a website? Must be old, I guess.”Joseph lives in Columbus, Ohio.In May the directors of the Student Press LawCenter announced that Kevin M. Corcoran, BA’88,MBA’07, had joined its 15-member board. Programdirector of Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundationfor Education, Corcoran leads a team that isfocused on increasing gains in higher education.He directs a portfolio of grants related to Lumina’scommunications and state and federal policy advocacyoutreach. Corcoran worked as a newspaperreporter for almost 20 years and has received dozensof local, state and national awards. The StudentPress Law Center is a Washington, D.C.-area notfor-profitorganization founded in 1974 to advocatefor free-press rights for high school and collegejournalists. Corcoran lives in Indianapolis.James M. Roche, PhD’88, is associate provostfor enrollment management at the University ofMassachusetts. He is responsible for recruitment,admission and financial aid for undergraduatestudents. Roche previously worked as director ofinstitutional research at Washington State Universitybefore becoming associate vice provost for enrollmentmanagement there.1990sSusanna Chappell Coleman, BA’90, of Greenfield,Ind., is assistant principal of Greenfield CentralHigh School.Jennifer L. Ciminillo, BA’92, is creative servicesmanager for the Chicago Tribune. She lives inChicago.Linda S. Jackson, BAJ’92, is senior accountdirector at Borshoff, a public relations and advertisingagency based in Indianapolis. Jackson lives inCarmel, Ind.Daniel L. Joseph, BA’92, works as the Africadesk editor at Voice of America in Washington,D.C. He writes and edits news stories for theorganization’s eight African language services andrecently celebrated his 10th anniversary with theorganization. Joseph and his wife, Yoni, have twokindergarten-age sons. They live in Lorton, Va.Amy Burkhead Wolverton, BA’92, has beennamed executive director of public policy andgovernment affairs for HTC Americas Inc., a leadingsmartphone manufacturer. She is establishing andheading the company’s Washington, D.C., office,where she will oversee HTC’s legislative and regulatoryinteractions with the federal government.Wolverton lives in Washington, D.C.Nancy R. Mitchell, BAJ’94, is global collaborationexecutive for Web conferencing company PGi.She lives and works in Indianapolis.Kelly C. Moore, MA’94, runs a dating blog,Happily Ever After or Bust, which was awarded the2011 Reader’s Choice Award for Best Dating Blog.About.com awarded Moore the honor from a fieldof 59 nominees. Moore also works at the Washington,D.C., company, Harmonia Health. She lives inNew Fairfield, Conn.Law, wine bring St. Louis alumni togetherConnections among three alumni, all living inSt. Louis and all in the law business, are proof thatan IU journalism degree — and perhaps a glass ofwine — can bring you together long after you’ve leftthe school, or even after you’ve left the journalismprofession.Lou Bubala, BAJ’00, contacted Newswire to tell hispart of this six-degrees-of-separation story. He spent10 years as a newspaper reporter before leaving journalismto become an attorney. After earning his lawdegree at the University of Oregon, he was hired towork for St. Louis-based law firm Armstrong Teasdalein its Reno, Nev., office.While visiting the St. Louis headquarters, he metGail Appleson, BA’73, the company’s chief editor/Lou Bubala, BAJ’00writer. The two became friends and, in the fall, gottogether over a glass of the chocolate wine Applesonwas sampling for her freelance wine column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Shementioned Bubala in her column.Appleson had been the chief legal correspondent for Reuters in New York City for20 years, but moved to St. Louis to take care of her ailing mother. She was hired tocover law firms for the business section at the Post-Dispatch.“I majored in journalism but was more interested in photography than writing atthe time,” she wrote in an email to Newswire. “Will Counts was my adviser. One ofmy classmates was Karen Elshout. Dr. Counts was also her adviser. I didn’t really knowher that well, but we had classes together and both worked on the Indiana DailyStudent.”When she arrived at the Post-Dispatch, she was surprised to discover Elshout,BA’74, was a staff photographer there.“She hadn’t changed a bit,” Appleson says.Appleson and Elshout both moved on from the paper and ended up in the lawprofession — Appleson at Armstrong Teasdale, and Elshout as a photographer at MissouriLawyers Weekly.“We also both freelance, so coincidentally we ended up working on a piecetogether for the Washington University business school’s alumni publication,” writesAppleson, who continues to write for the Post-Dispatch as a wine columnist. “Thepiece didn’t have a thing to do with law. It’s about wine.”The six-page spread, titled “The Lure of the Wine Business,” ran last fall and creditsboth women on the first page.“I thought it was kind of fun that our names are together,” Appleson says.— Russell JacksonCourtesyJeni Williams, BAJ’94, is the associate managingeditor for HFM, a publication of the HealthcareFinancial Management Association. In 2011 shewon HFM’s Helen Yerger/L. Vann Seawell BestArticle Award for her story, “A Road Map forHealthcare Business Success.” Williams lives inMunster, Ind.“I graduated with honors from the U.S. NavalWar College in Newport, R.I., in June, earning anM.A. in national security and strategic studies,”writes Christopher D. Compton, BAJ’95. “Additionally,I was promoted to lieutenant colonel onAug. 1 and selected to command 2nd Battalion,2nd Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Sill, Okla.”Jennifer Bucko Lamplough, BAJ’96, is deanof integrated learning at Robert Morris University –Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 33 >

ontherecordthescoopIllinois in Chicago, overseeing a new division calledthe ICenter, an innovation lab that allows studentsto consult with clients on real projects. Lamplough,also a culinary instructor at the university, is theauthor of two cookbooks, Healthy CalendarDiabetic Cooking and The Healthy Carb DiabetesCookbook, both published by the American DiabetesAssociation. In March she appeared on theFood Network’s show Fat Chef, about chefs whoare working with athletic trainers to lose weight.She lives in Batavia, Ill.Thomas S. Steffus, BAJ’96, is a freelancedocumentary producer, writer and broadcastproducer. He lives in Palatine, Ill., with his wife,Jennifer Gallas Steffus, BS’96, vice president of annualprograms and events at Children’s MemorialHospital in Chicago. The couple has two daughters,Lainey and Holly.Brittany D. Friesner, BAJ’98, MA’11, is programmanager for Phi Delta Kappa International,a professional association of educators basedin Bloomington, Ind. She recently completed amaster’s degree in arts administration from the IUSchool of Public and Environmental Affairs, focusingher studies, in film festival management, civicengagement and public policy. Friesner serves asa film programmer and consultant for the IndianapolisInternational Film Festival and, in January,will celebrate her fifth year as a volunteer with theSundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A formermember of the Indiana Alumni Magazine’s editorialstaff, she lives in Bloomington.Richard T. Ham, BAJ’98, MBA’10, is presidentof Fine Tune Business Consultants in Chicago, Ill.He recently completed U.S. Navy basic training atRecruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Theeight-week program involved classroom study andpractical instruction, placing a focus on physicalfitness and naval customs. Ham lives in Chicago.For the past three years, Sharna R. Marcus,BA’98, has been the director of education atShorashim, an organization devoted to educationaltravel to Israel and Israeli cultural programming inChicago, where she lives.Rachael K. Bosley, MA’99, is senior editor atAmerican Cinematographer, the American Societyof Cinematographers Magazine in Los Angeles.She won two 2011 Folio “Eddie” awards for editorialexcellence: a silver for Best Online Communityfor American Cinematographer’s Facebook page,which Bosley administers, and a bronze for BestFeature Article for her March 2011 cover story,“The Adjustment Bureau.”In June, founding member of Straight No ChaserDaniel F. Ponce, BS’99, was married to AmyLevell, BA’00, at the First Presbyterian Church inBloomington, Ind. Members of the award-winninga cappella singing group performed Franz Biebl’sAve Maria during the wedding ceremony. Ponce,who is a reporter for television station WGN inChicago, proposed to his wife at an SNC concert.He majored in music and journalism at IU.Lauren Temmler, BAJ’99, of Palo Alto, Calif.,is director of marketing with Home Care Assistancein Palo Alto.Elizabeth A. Wyant, BAJ’99, is vice president,account services at marketing agency Meyer &< 34 > newswire / Spring 2012Wallis in Indianapolis, where she lives. She previouslywas an account director at the firm for morethan four years.2000sCourtney K. Chazen, MA’01, is director ofcommunications and public relations at St. LouisArc, a United Way agency. She lives in Ballwin, Mo.Elise A. Hasbrook, BAJ’01, is senior communicationsmanager for Academy Sports + Outdoors,a sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer providinghunting, fishing and camping equipment as well assports and leisure products, footwear and apparelin Katy, Texas. She lives in Houston.Karen Schultz Alter, MA’04, was recentlynamed a principal at Borshoff, an Indianapolisbasedadvertising and public relations agency. Sheoversees creative services and has been with theagency since 1997. Alter lives in Indianapolis.Jacqueline D. Lamb, BAJ’04, is senior communicationsspecialist at Redcats USA in Indianapolis.The group of commercial companies focuses oninternational fashion and furnishing distribution,all online. Lamb lives in Indianapolis.Eric C. Lewis, BA’04, JD’08, recently establishedthe Indianapolis-based law firm LewisLegal Services PC, which specializes in consumerbankruptcy, estate planning, and probate andmediation. Lewis lives in the Indianapolis area andis licensed to practice law in Indiana and Illinois.Emily E. Ungar, BAJ’04, oversees contentdevelopment as project manager of The CollegeNetwork Inc., an educational service company inIndianapolis. After six years with the company,Ungar has worked her way up from copy editorto assisting in the management of daily editorialprojects for the company. She was married in June2011 and lives in Carmel, Ind.Hannah B. Carroll, BAJ’05, is a Web contentspecialist for the Advance IU Marketing team inBloomington, Ind. Carroll returned to Indiana fromSouth Carolina to pursue work in social media,blogging and Web writing.Larra B. Overton, BAJ’05, MS’06, is the Webeditor at the National Sports Journalism Center inIndianapolis, where she lives.Elisha R. Sauers, BAJ’05, MA’06, reports forThe Annapolis Capital, a newspaper serving theAnnapolis, Md., area,where she lives.Allison StolperHearne, BAJ’06,married Mike Hearne,BS’06, in June. Allisonis a senior interactivemarketing planner atGeneral Mills in Minneapolisand manages thewebsite www.eatbetteramerica.com.Mikeis completing work onan MBA from HarvardBusiness School andplans to graduate inMay. The couple lives inMinneapolis.Send your books homeJacqueline E. Lowe, BAJ’06, writes, “I was anundergraduate education major when I decidedto take a journalism course and utilize my love ofwriting in a career of some sort. As my passion forjournalism grew, I met Beth Wood, BA’73, JD’77,a public relations professor. Over the next threeyears, Beth mentored me from an education majorto a journalism major with a focus on not-for-profitpublic relations. Beth helped me find my passion inlife, and to make a career out of it, while encouragingme to keep going. While Beth may no longerbe with us [Wood died in 2009], her wisdom,humor and passion for life live on through herstudents and those she taught at IU. For that I ameternally grateful.” Lowe is development managerfor Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva, Ill.Kacie (Foster) Axsom, BA/AC’07, lives inIndianapolis. Axsom received a B.A. in communicationand culture and a certificate in journalism. Shewas editor of the Indiana Daily Student.James F. Cervantes, BAJ’07, is studyingfull-time in the master’s degree program in healthsystems administration at Georgetown University inWashington, D.C. Recently, he was one of two studentsto receive the Student Achievement Awardfrom the Georgetown University Medical Centerfor his work in interdisciplinary learning and quality,and patient safety. In 2012 he will begin a two-yearadministrative fellowship program at NorthwesternMemorial Hospital in Chicago.Ashley Ginascol, BAJ’07, is an account supervisorfor Fleishman-Hillard Inc., a public relationsand integrated marketing firm in Chicago. Ginascolsays a fond memory of the School of Journalisminvolves her public relations course with instructorJim Parham. She recalls, “Class was held at the Hirons& Co. office, and as we’d have class he wouldsit there with an unlit cigar in his mouth each day.We all thought it was kind of funny, kind of weird,but it was actually a great class that gave us reallifeexperience.” Ginascol lives in Chicago.In July, Hashim R. Hathaway, BAJ’07, joinedSage Communications, an international marketingfirm that provides advertising, public relations andstrategic marketing services in the Washington,D.C., metro area. As an account executive, hehandles clients including Motorola and AmericanSystems. Hathaway lives in Alexandria, Va.Nina Mehta, BAJ’07, MS’11, is a designerIn the late 1950s, students who receivedErnie Pyle Scholarships also got to pick outa book from Ernie Pyle’s personal library,which was shelved in the back of thejournalism library behind the newsroom.Now those alumni are downsizing theirlibraries and some wonder what to dowith that book. Suggestion: Write a noteabout it and mail the book to Dean Brad Hamm at theSchool of Journalism, 940 E. Seventh St., Bloomington, IN47405. That will put it back “home.”Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 34 >

Gina FerazziCourtesyCourtesyObituariesLeo Melzer, BA’40, a former editor of theIndiana Daily Student, died Nov. 27 in SantaMonica, Calif. He was 96. Melzer servedin the U.S. Air Force during World War II.Although his IU degree was in business, hespent his career in news. He worked for theCity News Bureau in Chicago, United PressInternational and the Los Angeles Mirror.He then joined the foreign service of the U.S. InformationAgency and served as information officer in Seoul, Korea, andDusseldorf, Germany. Later in life, he volunteered as a docentat the Will Rogers State Historic Park in California, where heentertained visitors with stories about the cowboy-turned-actorturned-reporterwho was a household name in first three decadesof the 20th century. Melzer, then a Civilian ConservationCorps volunteer, met Rogers at a tree planting ceremony nearLake Tahoe in the early 1930s. Melzer established three giftsto the School of Journalism in honor of his friend, Tom Miller,BA’40, who was sportswriter and sports information director atIU; his mentor, Tom Buck, BA’39, who was an editor-in-chief ofthe IDS, a reporter, a press agent for the mayor of Chicago anda teacher of journalism; and his brother, Joseph L. Melzer.Betty Firth Lewis, BA’41, a former executiveassistant and spokesperson for mediaanalyst Marshall McLuhan, died Jan. 26in Middleton, Wis. She was 92. At IU,Lewis was a member of Theta Sigma Phijournalism honor society and worked onthe Indiana Daily Student. There she mether husband, Carl, ’39, who served as thepaper’s editor. When Carl Lewis was sent overseas with theU.S. Army during World War II, Betty briefly took his job at theIndianapolis Star. Carl Lewis eventually joined a New York publicrelations firm, and Betty became executive assistant to theMayor of New Rochelle and then assistant to McLuhan while hewas on the faculty of Fordham University. In 1969, the Lewisesmoved to Manhattan, and Betty became a freelance magazineand newspaper writer. The couple eventually retired to Wisconsinand Texas. Lewis continued to write throughout her life andwas working on a novel before she died.John Mahan, BA’63, a career newspaperreporter and editor, died Oct. 12 inAnderson, Ind. He was 71. He held severalpositions at the Indiana Daily Student andalso worked at WFIU radio. As a student,he worked at the Bloomington (Ind.)Herald-Telephone and at Bloomington’sweekly Star-Courier. In 1963, a scholarshipfrom the Inter American Press Association,through the William Randolph Hearst Corp., took him to theUniversidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, where he workedfor the Associated Press and U.S. News & World Report. From1965–67, Mahan served in the U.S. Navy as a Journalist ThirdMark CornelisonCourtesyontherecord thescoopClass with the public affairs office on the USS Forrestal. Afterreturning from duty, he spent two years as a reporter and editor atthe Courier-Tribune in Bloomington before moving to the Anderson(Ind.) Herald, where he eventually became assistant managing editor.He finished his career at Anderson’s Herald Bulletin, retiring in2004 as a copy editor and page designer.Edward “Ed” Reinke, BS’96, an AssociatedPress photographer based in Louisville, diedOct. 18 in Edgewood, Ky., after being injuredon the job in early October. Reinke, 60, wascovering the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta,Ky., when he suffered a head injury that lefthim in a coma. Reinke attended IU in thelate 1960s and early 1970s and was a staffmember at the Indiana Daily Student. He left IU in 1972 beforegraduation and became a staff photographer at The CincinnatiEnquirer before joining the Associated Press in Cincinnati in 1979.He transferred to the AP bureau in Washington, D.C., returned tothe Enquirer in 1983 and transferred to Louisville in 1987. Duringmore than 25 years with AP, Reinke covered Super Bowls, OlympicGames, the Indy 500, the inauguration of President Bill Clinton,Hurricane Andrew and every Kentucky Derby from 1988. He completedhis IU degree in 1996. His friends and family established theEdward Reinke Scholarship in Photojournalism at IU in his memory.Zeki Mohammad Al-Jabir, of Basra, Iraq,MSc’60, PhD’78, died Jan. 29 in Corpus Christi,Texas. He was 80. After obtaining his first IUdegree, in education, Al-Jabir began his careeras an educator, working as an instructor andprincipal in Iraq’s teacher-training institutes.In 1963, he served as director of programmingand then director general of BaghdadRadio and Television. Returning to academia in 1964, he taught atthe Academy of Fine Arts and then at the Journalism Department,Baghdad University, holding the post of department chairman from1968 to 1969. After a two-year stint as his country’s vice minister ofinformation, Al-Jabir resumed his post as chairman of the JournalismDepartment until 1972, when he returned to Bloomington topursue his doctorate.In 1978, he returned to the Journalism Department at BaghdadUniversity as an assistant professor. In 1980, Al-Jabir became directorof communications of the Arab League Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organization in Tunis, Tunisia, a post he held until1986. He then served as professor of journalism and mass communicationsat King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and theInstitut Supérieur de Journalisme, Rabat, Morocco.Al-Jabir authored numerous papers and studies in both Arabicand English, and his writing regularly appeared in newspapersthroughout the Arab world. He also served as editor-in-chief of theArab Communication Journal from 1981 to 1986. Al-Jabir also wasa renowned poet in the Arab world, and some of his poetry waspublished in two anthologies, Standing at Stations Left by the Trainand I Know Basra in Her Rain-Soaked Garments.Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 35 >

ontherecordthescoopfor Twilio, a San Francisco company that buildssoftware for cloud or multidevice communication.Mehta lives in San Francisco and is “open andinterested to network with students and alumni.”Lori A. Snow, BAJ’07, is an account managerat Hirons & Co. in Indianapolis, where she lives.Marsha Dawes Lovejoy, BAJ’08, was recentlyaccepted to the College of Medicine at the Universityof Illinois in Chicago to pursue a graduatecertificate in patient safety, error science and fulldisclosure, and a master’s degree in patient safetyleadership. While working in public relations atCook Medical, Lovejoy became passionate aboutmaking health care safer for patients and less expensivefor society. A self-proclaimed patient safetyadvocate, she has connected with organizationsglobally that share her passion. She lives and worksin Bloomington, while pursuing her degrees online.Ashley J. Morelock, BAJ’08, is a producer atWXIN-TV in Indianapolis. She says, “My time at IUpaved the way for my career in broadcast television.I never thought of producing until Lee Gilesasked me to give it a try. Now, I produce one ofFox59’s best shows in a top 25 television market atthe age of 25 — of my major goals!” She says sheowes her success to Indiana University for teachingher the ropes and sending her in the right direction.She lives in Zionsville, Ind.Kimberly N. Cullman, BAJ’09, is a second-yearlaw student at the University of Dayton in Ohio.She lives in Kettering, Ohio.Audrie A. Garrison, BAJ’09, is a graduatestudent at the IU School of Journalism. She waseditor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student. Shelives in Bloomington.Cayla R. McLeland, BAJ’09, recently becamethe new on-air personality at Hit Country WMDH-FM 102.5 in Indianapolis. McLeland is on the airweekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The formerSchool of Journalism Druck Scholar lives in Indianapolis.Rachel A. Skybetter, BAJ’09, works for theUniversity of Chicago as a writer and project manager.She lives in Chicago.Kathryn L. Middleton, BAJ’09, left IndianaRep. Dan Burton’s office as deputy press secretaryto work for Arizona Rep. Trent Franks. Middleton,who is from Bloomington, moved to Washington,D.C., in June 2010 after working on Burton’sprimary campaign in Indiana’s 5th district. Shestarted in Franks’ office in May as press assistantunder communications director Ben Carnes. Beforeshe began her political work, Middleton graduatedwith a double degree in journalism and sociologyfrom IU in December 2009.Jewett, BAJ’02, wins George Polk AwardChristina Jewett, BAJ’02, is oneof a team of reporters to win theGeorge Polk Award for MedicalReporting.Jewett and colleagues at CaliforniaWatch, a nonprofit investigativereporting group, produceda yearlong series of articles thatdemonstrated how a Californiahospital chain increased its Medicarereimbursements by classifyingpatients as suffering from raremedical conditions, according toa press release from Long IslandUniversity, where the Polk awardChristina Jewett, BAJ’02program is based.The stories appeared in newspapers across California and offered a glimpseinto the broader problem of waste, fraud and abuse within the nation’s $2.5 trillionhealth care system. Using a computer-assisted data program, the reporterssorted through more than 2,500 pages of legal filings and examined more than51 million patient records of hospital and emergency room visits.Jewett said she was especially proud of a piece, cowritten with colleague StephenK. Doig, that examined a medical chain’s “aggressive” billing for treatmentof rare and high-risk illnesses.The George Polk Awards in Journalism honor investigative and enterprise reporting.The program was established in 1949 by Long Island University in honorof George Polk, a CBS correspondent murdered in 1948 while covering the Greekcivil war. The awards will be presented in New York April 5.CourtesyDianne M. Ragland, BAJ’09, writes that sheis working in the field of interactive health caremedia in Chicago, where she lives.Joanna M. Barnett, BAJ’10, is a corporatecommunications associate for ExactTarget Inc., anemail marketing and interactive marketing providerbased in Indianapolis, where she lives.Anna M. Berg, BAJ’10, has started a new positionat J.T. Mega, a marketing agency specializingin foods and food services in Minneapolis. She is anassistant account executive working for the GeneralMills Convenience account. She has relocatedto Osseo in her home state of Minnesota.“I started The Odyssey, a Greek newspaper forfraternities and sororities, with a fellow student atIU in 2009,” writes Adrian L. France, BAJ’10. Sheadds, “It is now published on 46 campuses acrossthe country and the parent company, OlympiaMedia Group, has grown into a multimillion dollarbusiness. As chief creative officer, I work with thecreative team in Indianapolis as well as all of ourcreative teams across the country.” France lives inIndianapolis.Vivian H. Huang, BAJ’10, is a research assistantat the Princeton (N.J.) Center for LeadershipTraining. She lives in Princeton.“Starting in October 2011, I will be participatingin a seven-month teaching program in France,”writes Joseph P. Jasinski, BAJ’10, of Boxford,Mass.Rachel T. LeSage, BAJ’10, is an account specialistin the Chicago office of iProspect, a digitalmarketing company. She lives in Chicago.Jaymi D. Light, BAJ’10, is a legislative correspondentin the office of Indiana Rep. Todd Young.She lives and works in Washington, D.C.Katheryn P. Wickham, BAJ’10, writes, “I hada wonderful experience in the School of Journalismstarting my junior year of high school when I visitedIU for the High School Journalism Institute. Thisexperience helped me choose IU as my college destination.All of my professors and instructors werepassionate about teaching, which always motivatedme to go to class and learn. I was a part of the firstgroup of journalism students to visit London forthe Summer in London program in 2008. I had anamazing experience! Other memories include someof the amazing speakers the School of JournalismAmbassadors program, and discussing Ernie Pyleand the unique history at IU while giving tours toprospective students.” Wickham recently took aposition as account manager for Fat Atom InternetMarketing in Carmel, Ind. She lives in Indianapolis.James E. Brown Jr., BAJ’11, is a senior accountexecutive at Slingshot SEO Inc., a search engineoptimization consulting and Internet marketingservice in Indianapolis. He lives in Fishers, Ind.Celia A. McCormack, BAJ’11, is an accountcoordinator at Schawk, a brand marketing firm, inChicago. She lives in Downers Grove, Ill.< 36 > newswire / Spring 2012Spring 2009 2012/ / newswire < 36 >

Reminisce with MargeFrom the Stempels’ porch to the present, centennial celebration was the bestAlumni involvement in our journalism program grew graduallyin the first of its 100 years. After all, there weren’t manyalumni.Then in 1938, John Stempel, a 1923 graduate who had beeneditor of the Daily Student, came back from newspapering andgraduate study in the East to head the program. He knew manyalumni and they knew him.In the 1940s and 1950s, IU’s commencement Sunday was combinedwith alumni five-year reunions in one big weekend. Stempelput out a simple mimeographed newsletter (on copy paper) withsome class notes and an invitation.Alumni were invited to help put out a commencement issueof the paper. Then they could adjourn to the Stempels’ home onAtwater Avenue, swing or rock on its wide front porch overlookingcampus, have a drink and reminisce.Really big journalism alumni events began in the late 1960s.In 1967 it was the centennial of the Indiana Daily Student, whichdrew hundreds of alumni. In 1968 it was the Stempel retirementparty filling Alumni Hall.Later came another retirement party, for professors RichardYoakam and Ralph Holsinger, along with Pat Siddons, publisherof the IDS. We “retired” Will Counts at a dinner in the rotunda ofthe beautiful Monroe County Courthouse.In 2000, alumni of the 1930s and 1940s had a “last hurrah”with the Linotype Generation Reunion.But the best of all journalism reunions was last fall on a lovelySeptember weekend as we celebrated the school’s 100th birthday.It all began when Brad Hamm became our dean in 2005.He spoke of the program’s history and how its centennial wasapproaching in 2011. (That milestone had escaped my notice.)He had this idea — a centennial wall. Each decade would havea large plaque about its story.And by 2011, there it was, a permanent historical exhibit acrossfrom our auditorium, our centennial wall. It was funded by two1953 alumni, Jim and Susan Bassett Hetherington.With that background, the year-long celebration evolved andgradually became a model for such observances. Early on, studentsin a couple of public relations classes focused on the school’scentennial plans. They worked in teams of four and really felt theywere part of it.Throughout the year, the highly successful IU JournalismSpeakers Series had alumni themes and participants. There was aphotography panel, a look at newspapering with two alumni leaders,and a panel on magazines drawn from our young graduates. Astory about these panelists was in the last issue of Newswire.Four road shows drew alumni to early celebrations in St.Petersburg, Fla. Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and New York City.Faculty and students traveled to participate in receptions in thesecities. Videos from the school were shown with plenty of time forsocialization. There was enthusiastic feedback from these events.The history of our school was well-covered in three publications:two issues of the Newswire and a book highlighting thedecades. Contributions from alumni were special parts of these.The changes of 100 years were dramaticas social media played a large role in the celebration.Facebook was a wonderful way foralumni to renew old friendships and plan tomeet at a road show or on campus. A creativeidea was a 100-day countdown on the school’sFacebook page, which featured pictures andhistorical items leading up to the September Marjorie (Smith)party.Blewett, BA’48Well into the planning, IU unexpectedlylined up a football game in the “No game — open weekend”we had picked for our party. Two main events were moved fromSaturday back to Friday. That left Saturday for an enthusiasticbreakfast in the IDS and Arbutus offices, a football game (IU’sonly win of the season), and smaller niche-group reunions.Doctoral students from over the years huddled with their professorsCleve Wilhoit and Dave Weaver; the photographers were ontheir best creative behavior with John Ahlhauser in the room;alumni Dan Niles BS’72, MS’76, and Tony Willis, BA’79, MSEd’82pulled together alumni and staffers of the High School JournalismInstitute to tell tall tales and look over T-shirts of summers past.An ad hoc group from the 1960s laughed as they read an oldSwing In Swing Out Party script, and then ordered in pizzas. Atthat Saturday IDS party, a big group crammed into a corner for apicture of “Anyone who was on the IDS in 1979.”So what happened on Friday? We had lunch in the beautifulFoyer of the IU Auditorium. Former faculty mingled with alumni,and retired Dean Trevor Brown gave an outstanding overview ofour history and achievements. Since his retirement, Dean Brownhas traveled all over the world as a consultant on accreditation forjournalism programs. With this perspective, he seemed even moreproud of what we have done and are doing in journalism education.Friday night was the big dinner in the downtown ConventionCenter. Lights, balloons, flowers and music set the festive mood.Hundreds of people partied and cheered as the first 15 initiatesof the school’s Distinguished Alumni Awards were honored onvideo, in words and on plaques.Ernie Pyle was the first, of course. Five of the 15 were even stillalive — including me! There I was in my pink jacket, surroundedby four men in dark suits, all of them past Pulitzer Prize honorees.It was a joyful occasion.On Sunday the crowd was a bit smaller but still in a partymood for brunch in the Frangipani Room. Dean Hamm led us ona look at the bright future of our school.We could all bask in the glow of fellowship and goodwill asalumni gathered with faculty and today’s students to celebrate anoutstanding past.Take it from someone who has been involved in most of ourcelebrations over the years — and that includes sitting on theStempel front porch and looking over at a beautiful campus. Thecentennial celebration was the best ever.Tyra RobertsonSpring 2012 / newswire < 37 >

940 E. 7th St.Bloomington, IN 47405-7108Nonprofit OrganizationU.S. PostagePAIDIndiana UniversitySchool of JournalismThe BIG PictureOlivia CoryaSenior Olivia Corya took this photograph of a student in Ghana eavesdropping as fellow pupils learned about sanitation, nutritionand HIV/AIDS from an aid worker. Corya, who is majoring in journalism, international studies and Spanish, spent thesummer of 2010 in Ghana as a photographer and media intern for ProWorld, a nongovernmental organization. Last summer,she was an intern with the Indianapolis Star. In February, the Indiana News Photographers Association named her CollegePhotographer of the Year. Senior Thomas Miller was the runner up.