Exposé Behind Michel Du Cille’S Pulitzer-Winning Photos

A publication of the Indiana University School of Journalism

Vol. 34, Issue 21 Fall 2008

Exposé Behind Michel du Cille’s Pulitzer-winning photos

Elections and the Web | Politics from the inside Dean’s Message HSJI students share energy, passion for journalism

It is easy to see the link between com- pers, yearbooks, radio and television munity and communications. But in daily stations and new media outlets — but practice, as any journalist knows, the task choose a different career after graduation. is far more challenging. For 62 years, And some will love high school journal- since 1947, HSJI has provided an edu- ism so much they will train as advisers cational home for students and teachers and spend their lives helping to inspire determined to inform their communities young people. in a better way. You might be one of the nearly Three directors — Gretchen Kemp, 27,500 graduates of our High School Mary Benedict and Dvorak — have led Journalism Institute. You might remem- Dean Brad Hamm the institute. Jack retired this year after ber the first time on campus, a high 22 years as director. He will remain on school student living — if only for a ach fall, we welcome thousands of the journalism faculty. It’s important week — at a world-class university. Enew students to Indiana University. to acknowledge Jack’s leadership and ser- To be accredited nationally, the They come from every county in Indiana, vice, his graciousness, and his sincere and School of Journalism must show proof every state in the USA, and many coun- deep commitment to young people and that it provides significant service in tries throughout the world. their teachers. scholastic journalism or related areas. About 250 each year will major in Teresa White, an IU journalism gradu- We were approved unanimously in May journalism. They come today for many of ate and a veteran teacher and scholastic 2008 for accreditation for the next six the same reasons that our 8,000 School media adviser, was selected by a search years and we get credit for an excellent of Journalism alumni first arrived in committee and the faculty to lead HSJI scholastic journalism program. The cen- Bloomington five years or 50 years ago. in the future. Her job is made easier by tral purpose of HSJI, though, has never But many of our freshmen, unlike the tremendous support offered by Linda been about getting credit for a service. most other new students, have lived in IU Johnson, who has served as the adminis- In the slow July days at IU, when the residence halls before. They’ve worked in trative services coordinator for the insti- university’s 40,000 students are scattered our classrooms, explored the campus and tute for 21 years. throughout the world, Ernie Pyle Hall Kirkwood, and met other talented stu- Students have attended from 41 states comes alive. We enjoy working with the dents who share a passion for journalism. and six countries in the past decade HSJI students and seeing their energy That’s because every July we turn over alone. They come to HSJI for many rea- and passion for journalism. We like the classrooms of Ernie Pyle Hall to about sons. In the short term, they learn how to hear them talk about ways to reach 500 high school students enrolled in the to improve their school’s media and young people with news and informa- High School Journalism Institute. become leaders. tion through print, photographs, audio, We’re not sure how many of these Some HSJI students will talk about video and the Web. They remind us of students will become professional jour- their dreams of being great journalists. our own passion for journalism and who nalists. We are convinced, though, of one They plan to major in journalism in col- taught and inspired us. thing: “Journalism Kids Do Better,” as lege, often at IU, and work in student I invite you back to campus in July HSJI director Jack Dvorak’s book says. media and summer internships. They each year to meet these students and tell His updated study this year again know exactly what they want now. them about your experiences and give proves the point. Journalism students Some will work on college newspa- advice. Perhaps they will inspire you, too. learn to write. They learn about deadlines, accuracy and ethics. They perform “Journalism students learn to write. They learn about better in high school and college class- deadlines, accuracy and ethics. They perform better in high rooms and on standardized tests. More important, they learn about their commu- school and college classrooms and on standardized tests. nities and how journalists hold a More important, they learn about their communities and community together. how journalists hold a community together.” Tyra Robertson Tyra Page 14 CONTENTS

02 Calendar of Events

03 The Scoop Ask the Pro

14 Election Coverage and the Web by Anne Kibbler

20 Life as a Political Insider by Ryan Piurek Alumni cover elections online.

Page 24 Page 30 24 Shooting for Change Photos by Michel du Cille

30 New Horizons by Anne Kibbler

32 On the Record Obituaries Alumni Bookshelf In remembrance of Bill Pittman

Michel du Cille documents Walter Reed 41 Honor Roll mistreatment of vets. Students head overseas. 49 Reminisce with Marge The State Fair Edition Newswire is published by the Indiana University School of Copy Editors Journalism with support from the Journalism Alumni Board. Marjorie (Smith) Blewett, BA’48 It is mailed twice each year to alumni, faculty, staff and Elizabeth Wallis Winkler, BA’52 50 The Big Picture friends of the school. Staff Writers Please send questions, comments and story ideas to Sara Amato Anne Kibbler, Editor, IU School of Journalism, 940 E. Marsha Dawes Seventh St., Bloomington, IN 47405 or e-mail her at akib- Jonathan Hiskes [email protected]. Sarah Hutchins Tian Ming Rosemary Pennington Dean Greg Ruhland Brad Hamm Abby Tonsing COVER PHOTO: Michel du Cille Emily Wilson Editor Army Spc. Jeremy Duncan was treated at Savannah Worley Anne Kibbler, MA’88 Walter Reed Army Medical Center after Design being injured in Iraq. Consulting Editors Mediaworks Gena Asher, BA’79, MLS’03, MIS’03 Bonnie J. Brownlee, BA’72, MA’75 The Kicker graphic Beth (Spangle) Moellers, BAJ’99, MA’05 Stewart Moon (top) Andrea Melendez, DesMoines Register, (bottom left) Michel du Cille, right) Tim Street Melendez, DesMoines Register, (top) Andrea Calendar of Events

MONDAY, SEPT. 8 known for her regular reports on legal TUESDAY, OCT. 28 Elizabeth Gilbert affairs and the Supreme Court. She is a Leonard Downie Jr. regular contributor to All Things Consi- Elizabeth Gilbert has Leonard Downie dered, Morning Edition and Weekend enjoyed success as Jr., former execu- Edition. She is also a panelist on Inside both a magazine arti- tive editor of The Washington, a weekly syndicated public cle writer and a book Washington Post, affairs television program. author, but it was her continues the fall Anchored by Totenberg, NPR’s cover- most recent book, series at 7 p.m., age of the controversy surrounding Judge Eat, Pray, Love, that Oct. 28, in the Clarence Thomas’s confirmation as a propelled her to fame. With more than 4.7 Buskirk-Chumley Supreme Court Justice won numerous million copies in print in 30-plus languages, Theater on Kirkwood Avenue. honors, including a 1991 Peabody Award. the book chronicles her travels around the Downie began his Washington Post Totenberg also has been honored eight world after a difficult divorce. Gilbert begins career in 1964 as a summer intern. He times by the American Bar Association for the School of Journalism Fall Speaker Series was an award-winning investigative excellence in legal reporting. at 7 p.m., Sept. 8 in the IU Auditorium. reporter covering crime, courts, housing In print, Totenberg has published Gilbert’s work has been published in and urban affairs in Washington, then articles in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times became assistant managing editor for the Harvard Law Review and the Christian Magazine, Spin Magazine and Gentleman’s metropolitan news. He was the Post’s Science Monitor. Before joining NPR in Quarterly. Her first article for GQ, “The London correspondent from 1979 to 1975, she had been Washington editor of Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon” — a first- 1982 and national editor from 1982 to New Times Magazine and the legal affairs hand account of her stint as a waitress in 1984, when he became managing editor. correspondent for the National Observer. that establishment — was the basis for the In 1991 Downie was named executive 2000 motion picture Coyote Ugly. editor. He stepped down from that posi- FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 Her four books have garnered several tion in September and is now a vice presi- IU Student Publication Alumni awards. Pilgrims, a collection of short stories dent at large of Post Co. The Post won 25 Association reunion published in 1998, was a New York Times Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. Most Notable Book and a finalist for the IDS and Arbutus alumni are invited to Downie is the author of four books: PEN-Hemingway Award. Gilbert also wrote a the first IU Student Publication Alumni Justice Denied (1971), Mortgage on novel, Stern Men, in 2000, and the critically Association reunion. There will be America (1974), The New Muckrakers acclaimed The Last American Man (2002), three events: (1976), a study of investigative reporting; a nonfiction account of the back-to-basics Friday, Sept. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., recep- and (with Robert G. Kaiser) The News woodsman Eustace Conway. That book was tion at the School of Journalism About the News: American Journalism nominated for the National Book Award and Saturday, Sept. 27, two hours before in Peril (2002). The last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award. kickoff, tailgate party at Hoosier Village the Goldsmith Award from the Joan behind the DeVault Alumni Center, Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s MONDAY, SEPT. 16 1000 E. 17th St. John F. Kennedy School of Government. Nina Totenberg Sunday, Sept. 28, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Downie also contributed to Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the National Public Radio brunch in the Tudor Room, Indiana Washington Riots of 1968. legal correspondent Memorial Union See http://journalism.indiana.edu for Nina Totenberg will For more information, contact Jennifer further announcements about the Fall speak at 7:30 p.m., Gentry, director of alumni programs, Speaker Series. Sept. 16, at the IU at (812) 855-4822, (800) 824-3044, Auditorium. or [email protected]. Totenberg is best (top left) Deborah Lopez, (bottom left, top right) Courtesy photos

<< 22 >> newswirenewswire // FallFall 20082008 the scoop THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE IU SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

Working journalists visit campus

ozens of students heard words of and fine arts dur- Dwisdom from professionals in the ing a February visit. field recently as working journalists visited She documented the Ernie Pyle Hall to share their experiences. Nicaraguan revolu- Freelance photographer Gary Bogdon, tion for The New York BA’86, told students that if they wanted to Times Magazine and be photojournalists, they should start out other publications, and at a newspaper. Bogdon, in town to shoot eventually published a the Dec. 9 IU basketball game against book, Nicaragua, June Kentucky for ESPN, has worked at the 1978-July 1979. Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel and the Journalists must Louisville Courier-Journal. be more than “hunter- Cathy Bao Bean, the author of The gatherers” of informa- Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and tion, Philip Meyer talks to students in assistant professor Joann Wong’s Quantita- Manual, was the keynote speaker for Asian told students in tive Research and Methods for Journalists class. Pacific American Heritage Month at IU in assistant professor April. The lecture was sponsored by the Joann Wong’s quantitative research After 16 jobs over 18 years at Ford Asian Culture Center and the School of methods class last November. They also Motor Co. and 20 years at Toyota Motor Journalism. Bean talked about the myth of must be able to sort and present large North America, Jim Olson knows a thing the American melting pot and said global amounts of data effectively, getting or two about auto industry public rela- society makes it difficult for immigrants to information into readers’ heads as well tions. “If you’re lucky enough to work maintain their identities. as their hands. Meyer, author of Precision with smart people and you watch, you’ll Chandra Czape Turner, BAJ’96, execu- Journalism, is the Knight Chair in learn,” said Olson, former Toyota Motor tive editor of CosmoGirl, told students Journalism at the University of North North America senior vice president of she had an epiphany when she realized Carolina’s School of Journalism and External Affairs and Public Policy. He vis- she hated writing. Instead, she found Mass Communication and a leader in ited Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim her niche as an editor after working for social science research methods. Bright’s international public relations class a series of magazines including Good Steve Lavin has been on both sides of in February. Housekeeping and Glamour. Turner also the college sports fence, as a coach and as Bruce Hetrick, BA’82, founder of founded Ed2010, a networking and men- a journalist. Lavin was fired from UCLA Hetrick Communications, gave public toring program for aspiring magazine edi- in 2003 after seven years as head coach. relations students feedback on their team tors. Her April talk was sponsored by the He’s now a sports analyst for ABC and projects for Bloomington Worldwide newly-formed IU chapter of Ed2010. ESPN. He encouraged students to be fair Friendship, a community-based volunteer Magnum photojournalist and and balanced as journalists. “I’m more organization that matches international MacArthur Fellow Susan Meiselas pre- sensitive as a broadcaster because of what students with local families. sented her anthropological approach to I went through,” he told students during a photography to students in journalism visit in February. Ben Weller

Fall 2008 / newswire < 3 > thescoop Visiting Asian journalists learn how to cover HIV/AIDS

wenty-five years ago, journalists in Gosh spent his internship week at Tthe United States were coming to Bloomington Hospital. Other group grips with the truth about HIV/AIDS members interned at the Indianapolis Star, as they struggled to separate fact from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Herald- myth. During a visit to India, associate Times in Bloomington. professor Jim Kelly, MA’88, PhD’90, and Kelly encouraged the journalists once a former colleague at Southern Illinois they return home to go to grassroots University at Carbondale discovered nongovernmental organizations to gather reporters in South Asia face that same information, rather than relying on offi- battle today. cial government sources. Through a three-year, $275,000 grant “The NGO has local information,” from the State Department Bureau of Kelly said. “They actually know people Educational and Cultural Affairs, they who are living with HIV. They know how recently brought six South Asian jour- they are surviving, or failing to survive.” nalists and educators to the United And getting out the word is crucial to States to learn how to better report HIV/ stopping the spread of the disease. AIDS. The group, from India, Pakistan “Without proper education, aware- and Sri Lanka, spent three weeks in ness and simple recognition that HIV is Bloomington, attending workshops in a problem, the incident rate can explode the School of Journalism and complet- and just overwhelm a society,” Kelly said. ing weeklong job-shadowing internships “… Journalists can help with that educa- with local organizations tion. They can dispel myths.” Surya Kanta Gosh, who works at a Jonathan Hiskes Kolkata (Calcutta) organization that provides HIV prevention, care and advocacy, “Without proper educa- said the staff at his organization works to dispel myths about how the virus spreads tion, awareness and simple simply by sharing things such as drinking recognition that HIV is a glasses. During his visit to Bloomington, problem, the incident rate Associate professor Jim Kelly (seated) Gosh looked for ways to persuade Indian can explode and just with South Asian journalists on their journalists to cover discrimination first day at Ernie Pyle Hall. against people with HIV. overwhelm a society.”

Campus chapter wins top SPJ award

The Society of Professional Journalists ence,” said Neil Ralston, Vice President has demonstrated outstanding service has named the IU Bloomington chap- for Campus Chapter Affairs. to the First Amendment through the ter of SPJ the National Outstanding Ralston cited chapter members’ field of journalism. Campus Chapter of the Year. contributions to the drafting of “Dave’s Malagon refused to leave a speech The chapter was selected from 12 Law,” in honor of late Indiana Daily in Whittenberger Auditorium by for- regional winners. IU was Region 5 Student adviser Dave Adams. If the pro- mer deputy national security adviser Chapter of the Year. posal becomes law, it will increase legal Meghan O’Sullivan after being told “In a year when we had several protections for high school and college the speech was off the record. campus chapters that had great years, media advisers in Indiana. The awards were presented during members of the Indiana University Also, journalism student Elvia a luncheon Sept. 5 at the 2008 SPJ chapter did it all. They provided solid Malagon will receive the Robert D.G. Convention and National Journalism programming, increased membership Lewis First Amendment Award, pre- Conference in Atlanta. and hosted a successful spring confer- sented to a student SPJ member who Jonathan Hiskes

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Camera equipment donation Faculty bookshelf enhances multimedia lab IUPUI Executive reating multimedia projects is a rou- “All of these are professional Associate Dean and Director of Ctine exercise for journalism students quality lenses that had been these days. At the School of Journalism, a Journalism James recent donation of lenses and other camera used by CPS as loaners to W. Brown is coed- equipment to the multimedia lab will help working professionals while itor with IUPUI adjunct journal- give their work a professional edge. their own equipment was The equipment — valued at about ism professor Rita $15,000 — came from Canon Professional being repaired. They are all T. Kohn of Long Services, courtesy of marketing rep Brian in good working shape. It Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Matsumoto, with a nod to associate pro- is a select and small group fessor Jim Kelly, MA’88, PhD’90. The two Indians (Indiana University Press, 2008). know each other from Kelly’s previous of universities that get this Brown added telling photographs of position at Southern Illinois University, level of support.” the Delaware to the book, which also where Matsumoto was a student. includes oral histories of Delaware The lenses include two extreme tele- The equipment adds to a growing Indians. The work won the Indiana photo lenses, one designed for football inventory of video and still cameras, Society of Professional Journalists’ 2008 and basketball photography and the other audio recorders and lighting kits avail- award for best nonfiction book. for soccer photography. able to students in the Scripps Howard IU journalism “All of these are professional quality Foundation Digital Imaging Lab, as the professor Michael lenses that had been used by CPS as loan- multimedia lab is formally known. The Robert Evans ers to working professionals while their lab, which also offers computers with has two new own equipment was being repaired. They multimedia software, is run by director books in print. are all in good working shape,” Kelly said. Scott Myrick with the help of several The first, Isuma: “It is a select and small group of universi- student employees. Inuit Video Art ties that get this level of support.” Abby Tonsing (McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 2008), explores the culture and politics of Isuma, the Inuit video organization that created The Fast Runner. The Fast Runner won the Camera d’Or Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and a host of other honors. Evans conducted field work for the book in Igloolik, a small Inuit village north of mainland Canada. The second book, 68 Knots, (Tanglewood Press, 2007) is a young adult book about eight teenagers coping with the suicide of their leader during sailing camp and learning to fend for themselves.

Scott Myrick, right, director of the multimedia lab, helps lab assistant Jeremy Lacey put a new Canon 300 millimeter lens on a Canon body. James Brosher James Brosher

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School welcomes new faculty, staff

Metzgar is a former foreign service officer to China. She has worked as a freelance reporter, English teacher in Japan and program officer for the U.S. Institute of Peace. She has a master’s degree in international politics and a doctorate from Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication. Her research focuses on the disruptive impact of interactive technology on established media and politi- Ron Johnson Teresa White Shannon E. Martin cal institutions. The spring semester will bring two more faculty to the school: Hans Ibold and Lars Willnat, MA’91, PhD’92. Ibold is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His teaching interests include news writing and reporting, qualitative research methods and international reporting. His research covers media and cultural convergence, Internet usage in Central Asia and internationalization of journalism education. Ibold has worked as a news- Emily Metzgar Hans Ibold Lars Willnat paper reporter at the Los Angeles Business Journal, editor at the Idaho Mountain he arrival in July of Director of path to that taken by Jack Backer, first Express in Ketchum, Idaho, and Web site TStudent Media Ron Johnson marked full-time publisher of the Daily Student, editor for the J. Paul Getty Trust. the beginning of a series of new hires who died in 1976. Willnat is an associate professor in moving to Bloomington during the next White is a former high school journal- the School of Media and Public Affairs several months. In addition to Johnson, ism and English teacher. She taught at and Elliott School of International four new faculty and another key staff Noblesville High School in Indiana and Affairs at George Washington University. member, new High School Journalism also at HSJI. Previously, he was an assistant profes- Institute director Teresa White, BS’85, Joining the faculty this semester are sor in the Department of Journalism MS’93, will join the school. Shannon E. Martin, BA’74, MA’87, and and Communication at the Chinese Johnson, formerly an assistant pro- Emily Metzgar. Martin comes to IU from University of Hong Kong. He teaches fessor at Kansas State University’s A.Q. the University of Maine, where she was a international communication, media the- Miller School of Journalism, succeeds professor of communication and journal- ory, media research and methods, public Dave Adams, who died in June 2007. ism and director of the Maine Center for opinion and political communication. Johnson also was student publications Student Journalism. She earned a Ph.D. His research interests include interna- director and adviser to the Kansas State in mass communication at the University tional media effects, cross-national sur- Collegian newspaper. He was Adams’ of North Carolina and has worked as vey research, theoretical aspects of public former student and has followed a path a reporter, editor and news librarian opinion formation and media effects on similar to his mentor’s. Both Adams and at The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, public opinion and elections. He was Johnson were assistant professors and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger, and The a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia and a publications advisers at Fort Hays State in (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer. She senior fellow at Nanyang Technological Hays, Kan., before serving on the faculty teaches and studies in the area of media University in Singapore. and as newspaper adviser at Kansas State. law and news reporting as well as media Coincidentally, this was a similar career and technology. (top, from left) Courtesy photo, Scott Myrick, (bottom), photos (top, from

< 6 > newswire / Fall 2008 thescoop Ask the Pro

Ask the Pro is a recurring feature in which Newswire asks a professional journalist : and a professor from our faculty a provocative question. This issue, we ask: QHow has the advent of new media changed voter behavior? W. Joann Wong Brian Howey Assistant professor Joann Wong, who Brian Howey, BA’78, is publisher of Howey joined the faculty last fall, studies and Politics Indiana at www.howeypolitics. teaches about broadcast media. She is com. His father, Jack E. Howey, BA’51, was conducting survey research on the 2008 editor of the Indiana Daily Student and presidential election. was founder and first president of the School of Journalism’s alumni board. His mother, Mary Cunningham Howey, graduated from the school in 1950.

Thanks to new media, voters today are more engaged and informed On stage at an October 2007 Howey Politics Indiana Forum were the than perhaps ever before. Most political candidates now create and bloggers: Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, Thomas Cook of Blue strongly: promote Web sites as cornerstones of their campaigns. Hillary Indiana: and Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana. Throughout their talk, the Clinton and Barack Obama even chose to announce their candidacy on phrase “blogging universe” kept coming up. Finally, Jack E. Howey, a Athe Internet. Aformer Indiana Daily Student editor and adviser (as well as my father) Increasingly, voters are using the Internet as a major political source, asked the bloggers, “How big is the blogging universe?” getting information directly and instantly from candidates through the No one had an answer. Internet. The communication between candidates and voters has become There is no question that Internet redoubts like Facebook and You- two-way, rather than one-way communication in the traditional media. Tube attract millions of viewers and readers. Online audio and video Candidates can respond to voters’ comments and questions directly and news as well as podcasting have grown signifi cantly, affecting the way quickly. This nature of communication in the new media has prompted Americans think. voters to be more engaged through electoral campaigns. The publication eMarketer predicts that people creating blogs in the Many voters become more involved in political participation through U.S. will reach 35 million in 2012. And Gary Kim, who writes on the blogs and online political groups. According to Nielsen Online, Barack Web site IP Carrier, noted that by 2012, 67 percent of the U.S. Internet Obama’s Web site attracted more than two million unique visitors in May population will be reading blogs at least once a month, up from 50 this year. The Web site also demonstrated the effectiveness of online fund- percent in 2007. raising. With the emergence of new media, voters learn more about can- Cook said on an average day, his Blue Indiana blog might attract didates and campaigns; thus, they express their political opinions more 1,000 to 1,500 readers, but during April in the midst of the Barack (potentially influencing others) and donate more money to campaigns. Obama-Hillary Clinton Indiana presidential primary, his hits exploded Although voters’ strong political involvement via new media may to more than 8,000. not by itself translate into electoral success, the change of voter behavior As newspapers and TV and radio outlets cut back on editorial through new media technology helps increase voter turnout, especially resources, blogs are fi lling the void and driving news content. In the 2007 among young voters. New media technologies have opened up possibili- Fort Wayne, Ind., mayoral race, for instance, Republican Matt Kelty not ties for convenient communication channels for political participation only lost, but ended up with a nine-count campaign fi nance and perjury and encourage young and passive citizens to vote. The Internet helps cam- indictment. The race “was about how to perceive the Republican nominee paigns create and manage bigger, stronger groups of active supporters who as he dealt with these unfolding legal troubles,” Cook said. “These local in turn drive more people to register and vote. blogs took the story and ran with it.” Campaign organizers can no longer ignore the power of new media Welsh, JD’93, calls the medium the “common people’s answer to the technology. When I advise young journalists preparing to work in a multi- big money machine that drives our political system today.” He believes dimensional climate for political reporting, I recommend that they: blogs helped little-known Republican Greg Ballard upset Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson in last fall’s election. • Keep up with new media technology development. But nothing will top the moment in August 2006 when S.R. Sidarth • Monitor all Web sites related to candidates and campaigns. pointed his video camera at U.S. Sen. George Allen, who called the • Follow several large online political groups and forums. 20-year-old shooter “macaca.” That moment, which might have been • Read regularly important political blogs. quickly forgotten a decade ago, received millions of hits on YouTube, while • Be acquainted with influential bloggers. blogs like Daily Kos help drive it toward mainstream media critical mass. Allen was defeated, control of the U.S. Senate switch from Republican to Democrat, and Allen’s 2008 presidential candidacy was destroyed. (from left) Ann Schertz, Courtesy photo (from

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Ogan, Polsgrove retire

The end of the spring semester also saw the end of an era at the School of Journalism. Two longtime faculty members, Christine Ogan and Carol Polsgrove, retired after almost 50 years of combined service to the school. Dean Brad Hamm said Ogan and Polsgrove leave big shoes to fill. “You don’t replace someone with a perfect match; that’s never really possible, especially for people who have accomplished so much,” he said. “You try to find people who excel in teaching and scholarship and service. It’s not as if you’re losing an accoun- Christine Ogan Carol Polsgrove tant and can fill that position with another accountant. Usually, people “Lots of people came here and stayed. You don’t have who are professors have broad and that at many other universities. I’m really glad that specialized areas.” happened. I have a group of colleagues I respect. Where Christine Ogan joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1981. In 1984, else could you work near so many smart people?” she became only the second woman in the school, after Gretchen Kemp, to at the Catholic University of Leuven in publishing history and the interaction achieve the rank of full professor. In Belgium. And she will continue her own between magazines and politics fact, she worked throughout her career work on Turkish migrants, using data she and culture. to improve the status of women in gathered in Amsterdam. Polsgrove has been involved in several higher education, particularly in the Ogan said she would miss working book projects over the years. She edited field of communications. with graduate students at IU, as well as Reporting Civil Rights and wrote Divided As a researcher, Ogan has focused her colleagues. Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights on communication technology and “So many of them go back to the Movement and It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But international communication. She has 1970s,” she said. “Lots of people came Didn’t We Have Fun? Esquire in the Sixties. served as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer here and stayed. You don’t have that at IU, Polsgrove said, gave her the freedom and Researcher at the Middle East many other universities. I’m really glad that to work on those projects and it’s one of University in Ankara, Turkey, and as a happened. I have a group of colleagues I the things she appreciates most about the visiting professor at the University of respect. Where else could you work near so school. North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at many smart people?” “IU has been very supportive of me Hong Kong Baptist University. Carol Polsgrove maintained her iden- as a writer. I’ve finished three books and At IU, she has held the positions of tity as a writer after coming to IU in 1989, have been able to take time off to work director of graduate studies and direc- and she has no plans to give up writing on them,” said Polsgrove, who early in tor of the Bureau of Media Research in in retirement. She’s busy with her fourth her career was the editor of Mother Jones the School of Journalism, and associate book, Ending British Rule in Africa: Writing magazine. “It’s just been really important dean for graduate studies and research in a Common Cause, which has been to me to have that support.” in the School of Informatics. In 2002, accepted by Manchester University Press for Polsgrove said she’d like to travel now the IU Office of Women’s Affairs gave publication next year. that she’s paid off her mortgage and has her its Distinguished Scholar Award. In the classroom, Polsgrove has taught put her daughter through college. “But, Ogan will stay busy even in retire- literary journalism; magazine reporting, you know, I’ve been a writer for years,” ment. In the fall she will study migrant writing and editing; media and society; she said. “I’m sure I’ll be doing some of and media issues with a researcher and ethics. As a researcher, she has studied that, but on my own time.”

Rosemary Pennington Ann Schertz

< 8 > newswire / Fall 2008 thescoop Documentary photos bring opportunities, accolades to IUPUI student

uring his years as a journalism Dundergraduate at IUPUI, Marcos Dominguez had an opportunity many professional photographers would envy. Along with James Brown, executive associate dean of the IUPUI program, Dominguez traveled to Nicaragua, Guatemala and Cuba to document the work of surgeons participating in Operation Walk, a nonprofit volunteer organization that provides free surgical treatment to orthopedic patients in devel- oping countries. His photographs helped win him the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ award for top student journalist of 2007. Dominguez’s work as a photojournalist and editor has won him other accolades. Last fall, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., chose Dominguez to represent Indiana at the first Latino Youth Summit in Washington, D.C. And in the spring, the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded him a first place in the professional division of the contest for his five-part story, “Driving Without A License,” about changes in the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and their impact on the public, particularly minorities. Brown, MSEd’70, MBA’75, PhD’77, Physical therapist Karen Brown’s involvement with Operation also recently finished a nine-year project Cravotta walks with a patient who had her right knee Walk contributed to his selection for the with the Delaware Indians from eastern replaced by the Operation IUPUI Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Oklahoma called Long Journey Home: Oral Walk surgeons. Civic Engagement, presented at the 2008 Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians IUPUI Chancellor’s Honors Convention. (see faculty bookshelf on page 5).

Honors students converge on Florida

Sixteen Ernie Pyle Scholars spent their At the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, execu- Krusing said visiting with Florida spring break in Florida learning about tive editor Mike Connolly told students journalists significantly changed her convergence at print and broadcast the fundamentals remain the same: perception of the profession. media outlets. There’s still a need for people who can “Not only are recent graduates The students, with honors program ask tough questions, and there’s still a expected to be talented reporters, but director Dave Boeyink, visited the role for print journalism, reported soph- they’re also expected to be video pro- Poynter Center, the St. Petersburg Times, omore Clare Krusing in a blog ducers, photographers and editors,” The Tampa Tribune, Bay News 9 and the from Florida. she wrote.

Marcos Dominguez Marcos Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

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Dvorak retires from High School Journalism Institute

More than 13,000 high school students leged to teach up-and-coming writers. It’s and 1,000 teachers have passed through a big part of my life.” the High School Journalism Institute since In addition to running the institute professor Jack Dvorak became director with longtime assistant Linda Johnson, 22 years ago. This summer, the last crop Dvorak has authored several studies of participants under Dvorak’s leadership that look at how high school students passed through the program. involved in journalism fare as college stu- Dvorak is retiring from the HSJI direc- dents. As a professor, he prepares college tor’s position, handing over the reins to students who are headed into careers as Teresa White, BS’85, MS’93. He was only high school publications advisers. the third director in the school’s 62-year Dvorak directed high school institutes history, after Gretchen Kemp and Mary before he came to IU, including one at Benedict. Dvorak will remain a professor Northeast Missouri State University, now in the School of Journalism. White will be Truman State University. He also taught a lecturer in the school. and directed the institute at the University HSJI offers intensive workshops for for Iowa for five years. journalism teachers who want to learn New director White isn’t new to HSJI, to be better publication advisers as well Jack Dvorak as she’s been teaching at the institute for as for high school students working in 21 years. Until recently, she taught jour- school media. Students and teachers come “They want to make a difference,” nalism and English at Noblesville High from all over the country to attend the Dvorak said of the participants he has School in Noblesville, Ind. workshops, held over several weeks in worked with over the years. “I feel they are Savannah Worley June and July. so important to society, and I feel privi-

Students learn from alumni at photojournalism seminar

hotojournalism professor Jim Kelly time shooting still photos and the rest Previved a tradition from his graduate shooting video. student days at IU in the form of a Spring “To find a job, you really need to be Photojournalism Seminar, which he hopes able to market yourself as someone who will become an annual event. can do multimedia,” she said. “I think Kelly, MA’88, PhD’90, said students one of the reasons I got hired was because in the late ’70s and early ’80s organized of my skill set.” “cheap seminars,” in which they invited Carter agreed. hotshot photojournalists from the “Gone are the days when you could Bloomington area to speak at the school. say ‘I’m a still photographer. That’s all I For the first formal seminar in March, do,’” Carter said. “My freelance jobs are Kelly invited Amie Dworecki, MA’06, a drying up; video is where it’s all gone. You photojournalist and videographer for the have to be able to adapt to convergence. Cincinnati Enquirer; freelancer Mary Ann And the bottom line is you’re still going Carter, BA’74; and Kathy Anderson, BA’80, to be a visual storyteller. That’s not going of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, who to change, just the medium.” talked about coverage of rebuilding the Kelly said the seminar gave students a Cincinnati Enquirer videographer Amie city after Hurricane Katrina. chance to network with alumni — and it Dworecki, MA‘06, was one of three Dworecki told students at the daylong gave alumni the opportunity to give back alumni who spoke at a photojournalism seminar that she spends about half her to their school. seminar in the spring. (top) Ann Schertz, (bottom) James Brosher

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arrie Ritchie, BAJ’08, recently was Cnamed Brook Baker Collegiate Journalist of the Year by the Indiana Collegiate Press Association. Ritchie was also one of three IU journalism students to appear on the list of UWIRE’s Top 100 Student Journalists, along with junior Michael Sanserino and senior Mark Koenig. Ritchie was the Indiana Daily Student spring 2008 editor-in-chief and made headlines for protesting a request by former deputy national security adviser Meghan O’Sullivan to keep O’Sullivan’s January speech in Whittenberger Auditor- Trevor Brown (left) and Carrie Ritchie collected the Mark of Excellence award for the IDS. The newspaper won first place in the Best All-Around Daily Student ium off the record. Organizers canceled Newspaper category at the SPJ Region 5 awards. the event when Ritchie and IDS staff refused the request. Ritchie is an education reporter for the Indianapolis Star. Michael Sanserino also was selected by the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation as one of seven national winners of a $7,500 scholarship. The award honors the late Jim Murray, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Sanserino will travel to California in the fall to receive his award. He is the second Murray winner from IU. Nate Bethea won in 2005. IU senior Chip Cutter was one of eight business journalism students to win the national Reynolds Business Scholarship. The award is sponsored by the Donald Michael Sanserino and Dean Brad Hamm W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. The center strives to support journalists through workshops and seminars. Winners receive $4,000 for the 2008-2009 school year. Cutter also landed an internship at the Indianapolis Business Journal during the summer. The Arbutus as well as the Feb. 14, 2008, issue of the Indiana Daily Student won the David L. Adams Apple Award for Best of Show at the College Media Advisers (CMA) national convention in New York City. The award was named for IDS publisher Dave Adams, who died in 2007. Chip Cutter From top, James Brosher, Ann Schertz, James Brosher top, James Brosher, From

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Speakers share insight, advice

The Spring Speaker Series brought William Safire audiences expert insight into this year’s True to his trademarks, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator William presidential elections, as well as words of Safire mixed insider politics with wisdom on international reporting. Now a dash of linguistic wit during his in its second year, the series introduces speech at Alumni Hall in March. Safire writes a column on language students to nationally known journal- for The New York Times Magazine and ists each semester. Past speakers include for more than 30 years authored a political column for the Anna Quindlen, Bob Woodward, David opinion pages of The New York Times. Safire titled his speech “What’s Going to Happen in Halberstam and Michele Norris. Washington and the World?” He called the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election “the most fascinating political moment in many of our lifetimes.” Andrea Koppel Andrea Koppel was determined “This is a moment in history that we not to follow in her father’s foot- are all living through. Lap it up. Read steps — but her heritage got the better of her. Koppel, the daughter all about it. Compare the nutty blogs of former Nightline anchor and with the responsible blogs.” broadcaster Ted Koppel, has been in the business for 20 years. After plans to join the Peace Corps fell through, Koppel Michael Beschloss found herself in China, where she made friends with Michael Beschloss is the author of journalists and realized she wanted to join their ranks. a half-dozen best-selling books on Returning stateside, she took a job at a small radio the history of U.S. presidents. He is station in Columbia, S.C., and worked her way up to the presidential historian for NBC become CNN bureau chief in Beijing. News and a regular commentator on Earlier this year Koppel became head of the PBS’ The News Hour With Jim Lehrer. communications division of M + R Strategic Services, He also writes a column about his- a public relations firm that works primarily with tory for Newsweek called “Traveling through History with nonprofit organizations. Michael Beschloss.” His latest book is Presidential Courage: She shared anecdotes of her years in China and Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. reminded students how their work could adversely affect the lives of people they report on. “When a candidate says or does some- “Never say never. And learn a foreign thing that negatively impacts the cam- language and learn to speak it well. It paign, people say ‘how stupid’ and will open up doors for you that would tend to wonder why the candidate otherwise have been closed.” didn’t just say something to get elected. I think Americans hunger for a political leader who doesn’t do that.” Jeremy Hogan Jeremy

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6 The School of Journalism was the setting for the 9 ‘ J A 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Region

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om French took center stage during a “I believe we waste too much Tlunch in the Indiana Memorial Union’s time covering Britney Spears, Alumni Hall. He shared these words of wisdom about storytelling. Tom Cruise, Brad and Angelina. I believe we should cover more people who aren’t famous, “Even if print journalism does who have no title and almost die, the human hunger for no power, the marginalized, stories is eternal. We’ll still be the invisible, the forgotten.” chronicling news long after newspapers are gone, after paper disappears, after the Internet fades into whatever comes next. We’ll always long for the sacred and profane.”

TOM “If we don’t chronicle these FRENCH, BA’81 stories, who will? The task is humbling. It requires all our skills and our art. It requires openness, strength, empathy, IDS wins awards courage, faith, stillness and “We swim in an ocean of Indiana Daily Student staff picked cunning. It requires that we stories. We breathe them. The pay attention. It requires up several awards at the conference, real challenge is choosing, including: that each of us surrender to deciding among all the • Indiana Daily Student, fi rst place the hypnotic, transforming possibilities what to cover for Best All-Around Daily Student impossibility of the world Newspaper published at least four inside the limited time each of times per week around us.“ us is allotted.” • Ashley Wilkerson, Jay Seawell, Geoffrey Miller and Aaron Bernstein, fi rst place for Best “I believe in the semi-colon, the kick-ass verb, the well-chosen Sports Photography section break. I believe in getting the name of the dog, getting • Allie Townsend, fi rst place for the brand of the beer, fi nding the title of the song that was Feature Writing playing when the car began to spin on the interstate.” • Kristi Oloffson, third place for In-depth Reporting (top) James Brosher, (bottom) Courtesy photo, (main) James Brosher (top) James Brosher,

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Digital media have changed the way journalists deliver their stories.

With the 2008 presidential election around the corner, three alumni with a close-up view of national politics talk about the impact of the Internet on their coverage of political issues.

Fall Fall2008Fall 20082008 / newswire / newswire < 15 <> 15 > Lessons from the Web Carolyn Washburn, The Des Moines Register Web. During the Republican presidential debate, she asked for a yes-or-no show of hands in response to a In the thick of caucus season, Des Moines Register editor question about climate change. Republican candidate Carolyn Washburn began to understand fully for the Fred Thompson, clearly annoyed, refused the request. first time the potential of online news coverage. When the debate was over, Washburn’s performance Candidate video interviews, searchable calendars, an and even her physical appearance came under attack in issues database, even partnerships with Google and blogs and on YouTube, where a clip of the exchange with YouTube all contributed to the paper’s interactive pool Thompson generated tens of thousands of hits. of information. Readers took notice, and the Register Washburn said she was shocked and hurt initially by realized it had created a successful stable of methods the nasty tone of some of the comments and by the fact from which it could draw during the remainder of the that people were paying attention to the moderator rather election cycle. than the issues. In retrospect, she sees the online assault “There was a light-bulb moment when we realized as a healthy experience that allowed her to stand in the what was possible online. So did our readers,” said shoes of sources. And it strengthened her stance on open Washburn, BA’84. “We took a creative, aggressive approach communication online: She can more easily defend it, that applied to print as well as online. It was just more having herself been a victim of negative comments. apparent online.” “You take the bad with the good and manage it as A searchable map and calendar of candidate appear- best you can, but I’m not going to shut down the good to ances maintained a high number of hits throughout avoid the bad folks,” she said. caucus season. The videos generated steady traffic, too. And she wouldn’t want the incident to overshadow The paper videotaped editorial board meetings with the her staff’s accomplishments during caucus season. candidates and created a database that included their “It was such a small piece of what was an incredible views on key issues. The Google partnership resulted body of work,” she said. in a searchable debate video database, and YouTube The Register was named an Online News Association allowed the paper to post user-generated videos related Awards finalist for three components of its online cover- to the elections. age. The staff is figuring out which tools to use again dur- One episode during the caucuses gave Washburn first- ing the remainder of the election season. Live videos of hand experience of some of the negative aspects of the

Des Moines Register editor Carolyn Washburn, BA’84, addresses a TV studio audience during the Republican

presidential debate in Iowa. Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News featurestory

“There was a light-bulb moment From print to online to TV when we realized what was possible Laura Litvan, Bloomberg News online. So did our readers. We took When Sen. Elizabeth a creative, aggressive approach that Dole, R-N.C., applied to print as well as online. It appeared to be strug- was just more apparent online.” gling in her campaign for re-election against Democratic candidate appearances, searchable databases, blogs and opponent Kay live chats all are on the list. Hagan earlier in the Washburn said reporters are learning to use media summer, Bloomberg appropriate to the stories they tell. News reporter Laura “It needs to add to their work and their reporting, not Litvan traveled to take away from it,” she said. “You use the same judgment North Carolina for as ever. You have to be smart about it because whether a close-up look at it’s for the Web or print, your job is to get information the contest. At one and learn how to package it. Not everybody is doing all point, she stopped these things every day.” Laura Litvan, BA’87, chief by a Wilmington The power of the Web to deliver comprehensive news congressional correspondent gas station, where coverage, first evident during the caucuses, solidified dur- for Bloomberg News Hagan was chatting ing devastating floods in Iowa last spring. When it looked with constituents. Litvan filed a story that included a as if water might engulf Des Moines, the Register set up a customer’s opinion about Dole’s re-election chances and live chat with staff in the emergency control center. The an audio recording of an impromptu stand-up interview chat lasted four hours. with Hagan. The online version of the story ran with the “We created access for ordinary people with experts audio interview attached. who had the answers,” Washburn said. “That was power- Litvan, BA’87, chief congressional correspondent for ful. We found out what people care about, and it helped Bloomberg, is primarily a print reporter, but like the rest inform our print edition the next day.” of the Bloomberg news staff, she’s able to switch gears to other media when the situation calls for it. Bloomberg’s television and radio stations, print product and online coverage give reporters the ability to produce comprehensive stories in almost any medium they choose. When she arrived at Bloomberg 10 years ago, Litvan was given multimedia training, including lessons on how to conduct TV studio interviews on camera. She doesn’t do too many of those, but some of her colleagues rou- tinely record stand-up interviews for television. And when House speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was interviewed on Bloomberg TV earlier this year, Litvan helped write the questions, including one about whether the votes of delegates from Michigan and Florida would be

“I think all journalists are doing what we do. Everyone is filing quickly. There’s not just one deadline at 6 p.m. — there’s more instantaneous communication, then expanded analysis later. I think that’s adding value for our readers.” (bottom left) Andrea Melendez/Des Moines Register, (top right) Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News Melendez/Des Moines Register, (bottom left) Andrea Sam Riche, Indianapolis Star

FallFall 20082008 / newswire < 17 > Targeting aniche market a-day coverage thattakesfulladvantage oftheInternet. a nichemarketthroughlively, up-to-the-minute, 24-hour- what ithopeswillbethejournalismoffuture:serving layoffs andbuyouts, politics. While news organizationsnationwide experience publication launchedin2007 anddevoted tonational aging editorof izes onhispoliticalreportingexperience. He’s now man- correspondent. spent hislastyears atthepaperasaseniorWashington White HouseandthentotheStateDepartment,he political conventions. Hewas assignedtothe Clinton a half-dozenpresidentialracesandtwicethatmany In his20-plus years at Bill Nichols, lished property. I’mnotbeingcritical,butifyou’re has beenenormouslyhelpful.It’s hardtodoatanestab- again. Thestart-upmentalityofbeingabletotrythings to actonit,”hesaid.“Ifitdoesn’twork, we don’tdoit of Washington correspondentshasshrunksignificantly, said, arethecutbacksinnews industry. Thenumber adding value forourreaders.” munication, thenexpandedanalysis later. Ithinkthat’s deadline at6p.m.—there’s moreinstantaneouscom- said. “Everyone isfilingquickly. There’s notjustone made majornews onTVandinprint,Litvan said. — thatthedelegatesshouldn’tbeallowed tovote — counted attheDemocraticconvention. Pelosi’s response Nichols calls Nichols, BA’80, leftthatpositionforajobcapital- “If someonecomesupwithagreatideahere, we try What counteractstheadvances inmultimedia,Litvan “I thinkalljournalistsaredoingwhatwe do,”Litvan Bill Nichols,BA’80, managingeditorof Politico Politico Politico Politico , aVirginia-basedWeb andprint USA Today “a guerillaorganization.” hastakenaleapoffaithinto , BillNicholscovered Politico The affection forthepaper. But of Web work at tion, anditproducesoriginalmaterial.Nicholsdidplenty ates onanontraditionalnews cycle, it’s anichepublica- sites thatsucceed.” competitive, scrappy, who-can-get-it-firstmentalityinWeb world reminds himofthenewspaper wars of days goneby. you shouldn’t.” Washington Post received atipandhadreporteronthesceneinminutes. trian indowntown Washington, D.C.,inJuly, diagnosed withamalignantbraintumor—hitpedes- when it’s news.’” the wholewe have embracedtheideathat‘news isnews have aprintcomponentthathastraditionaldeadlines, on hourly, minute-by-minute news cycle. Even thoughwe Nichols said.“Herethenews cycle iscontinuous. It’s an ing ontheoldnews cycle, oramodifiedoldnews cycle,” for mepersonally, butnotsogoodforthenews.” while reportersfocusontheObama-McCaincontest. races intheHouseandSenatearegettingshortshrift — whichisnotal presidential campaign,exclusives areeasiertocomeby weren’t exclusive. harder forexclusive stories. In fact,herstoriesoften be, shesaid.Inthepast,hadtocompete and campaignbusesareemptierthantheyusedto Several factors contributeto “It’s ahugeamount offun,”hesaid.“There’s avery Nichols saidthemaverick mentalityintheonlinenews When conservative commentatorBobNovak —later “At “I usuallyown astorymyself,” Litvan said.“It’s good But withshrinkingreportingresourcesdrawn tothe USA Today , it’s notsomethingyou doovernight, and USA Today andothers, they’re stillprimarilyoperat- ways a a ways good thing,Litvan said.Historic , andhehasalotofrespect Politico Politico’s isdifferent. success. Itoper- Politico ✪

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“A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand,” reads that day’s story, which Election year brings unexpected gifts also included an on-the-spot interview with Novak. “It wasn’t a huge story, but in a world where eyeballs by Carrie Ritchie are important, (immediacy) drives a lot of traffic,” Nichols said. Three days a week when Congress is in session, Politico Every four years, journalists receive what they consider to be a great gift: prints 25,000 copies for free distribution in the capital. But a presidential election. Presidential elections mean 52 weeks of guaran- tapping into people’s thirst for political news by distilling teed hard-hitting news and opportunities for political analysis and satirical information they care about in one online location is inte- cartoons. Elections underscore newspapers’ ability to provide a public ser- gral to the publication’s success. vice, and they always bring blunders that keep consumers — even the less “What helps the appeal of niche information is that politically savvy — reading and clicking. there’s so much information out there,” Nichols said. “If I didn’t think I would benefit much from this “gift” when I began you’re interested in baseball, the stock market or sewing, my term as spring editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student, but I was how do you wade through all that to find your passion? wrong. Indiana’s May primary, which is usually one of the most insig- If you like politics, come here. We’ll do it in an entertain- nificant because of its late date, became a hard-fought battle for the ing way on different platforms. It’s a one-stop situation for Democratic candidates (an oddity in a traditionally Republican state). everything you need to know on one topic. It’s a lot easier And IU became a major stomping ground for Hillary Clinton and Barack than trying to be everything to everybody.” Obama, who were eager to win young minds in a relatively liberal And that’s where original journalism — sadly lacking college town. on the Web, Nichols says — comes into play. Some media outlets described the Democrats’ Indiana takeover as “If you tell people something they don’t already know, an overnight ambush. In one weekend, Obama added 11 new offices they will come to your site and read it,” he said. “We have throughout the state, including one in Bloomington. No one could escape. a staff with a lot of savvy and expertise in presenting mate- Even the local Urban Outfitters sold shirts touting Clinton and Obama. rial in a new medium with a lot of experience doing qual- It’s not every day that a national election story falls into the Indiana ity journalism.” Daily Student’s lap, so when the candidates invaded, we came out in full Politico’s coverage isn’t limited to quick-turnaround force. Former editor-in-chief Michael Zennie was the lead reporter on our stories. For instance, the Web site recently ran a 15,000 primary coverage. He traveled around the state and became close with to 20,000-word narrative analyzing key moments in the staffers on both sides. It was Zennie’s aggressive and thorough reporting Democratic primary. that helped us stay on top of the candidates’ daily activities and break the “I love the balance,” Nichols said of the mix of breaking news that Obama probably would make a Little 500 appearance. news, enterprise and revelatory reporting. But perhaps the most impressive aspect of our coverage was how The Politico formula appears to be having an impact. In many people stepped up to ensure we were competitive on every story. its first year, staff members made about 3,000 appearances Some days, I feared we were going to run out of reporters, photographers on radio and television as the go-to guys for political com- and videographers, but we always pulled through. Editors became report- mentary and analysis. Nichols says the organization is still ers and photographers, videographers stayed up all night to put together a work in progress, but in a time of general turmoil in the special packages, and reporters and photographers learned how to post industry, he’s optimistic about what Politico might achieve. to the Web so we could get updates online as quickly as possible. “We are very aware of the noble mission of journalism, We were there when every member of the Clinton family (except and we are delighted we are in a place where maybe we Socks) spoke on campus, and we covered visits from actors Jeremy Piven can see that reborn, recast and strengthened,” he said. “We and Sean Astin. When Dave Matthews announced he would give a free have a lot of great young people here. I hope we are one concert at Assembly Hall to support Obama, we covered the line of stu- small dot of light. There will always be journalism — there dents that stood outside Obama’s Bloomington headquarters for days — can’t be a functioning democracy without quality journal- even at 2:30 a.m. We chased Obama across Indiana during Little 500 so ism, and we take that very seriously. On the other hand, we we didn’t miss his afternoon stop at the race. We formed a quick phone have a lot of fun.” ✪ network to make sure we had photographers and reporters placed strate- gically, and we were ready when Obama’s entourage headed for Nick’s. “We are very aware of the noble It was wonderful to be part of a team so dedicated to producing such mission of journalism, and we are high quality journalism every day. In the end, that was the best gift I delighted we are in a place where received as editor-in-chief, and I hope I always get to work in that kind of environment, election year or not. maybe we can see that reborn, Ritchie, BAJ’08, is an education reporter at the Indianapolis Star. recast and strengthened.”

Fall Fall2008Fall 200820072008 / newswire / newswire < 19 <> 19 > featurestory Life as a Political Insider

By Ryan Piurek

en Chitester, BA’85, was there when, on Oct. 3, Chitester. “But there are a lot of truly dedicated, humble K1991, in downtown Little Rock, Ark., a little-known political servants who care very deeply about the country Southern governor announced his candidacy for president and want to make tomorrow better than today.” of the United States. Chitester, an Indianapolis native, had Added Rebecca Neale, BAJ’04, who serves as an associ- been working for a year and a half as a copy editor for the ate director of communications for President George W. Arkansas Gazette. He had seen Bill Clinton up close and Bush, “Of course there are misperceptions [about those had voted for him for governor in 1990. He even thought who work in government], but, from my experience, I he would make a good presidential candidate, though he don’t know if I will ever be able to replicate the work figured the hometown boy didn’t have much of a chance environment I have now. I work with a group of some of against popular incumbent George H.W. Bush. the most dedicated, driven, bright and talented individu- On that warm Thursday afternoon at the Old State als that I’ve ever run across. To learn from them and to be House, Chitester had a front-row seat to history-in-the- guided by them is an honor and something that will carry making. That day began both Clinton’s march to the me through for the rest of my career.” White House and Chitester’s journey into the world of the Not The West Wing political insider, a world in which a number of Indiana University School of Journalism alumni Just 15 days after Bill Clinton launched his presidential are operating. campaign in Little Rock, the Arkansas Gazette — then the In recent years, IU journalism graduates have served oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi — went top decision-makers at the state and federal levels, includ- out of business. Suddenly unemployed, Chitester, who ing U.S. presidents, members of Congress, governors and had an interest in politics and media sparked by his lieutenant governors. Whether serving as communications days as an IU journalism undergraduate, decided to visit directors, news analysts, legislative assistants or speech- Clinton campaign headquarters in Little Rock, where he writers, for Democrats or Republicans, or at the White had a brief, yet friendly, chat with press secretary Dee House or the statehouse, they are connected by their Dee Myers. A couple of weeks later, he heard from Matt commitment to public service, willingness to endure long Smith, an official with the press department, who was and stressful days, and strong desire to make the world a looking for someone to help him monitor news coverage better place. of the campaign. Chitester met with Smith on a Friday. “I think there might be an assumption that people The following Monday, he was the newest member of who work for elected officials are somehow inherently the Clinton team. cynical and play the game as if it were just a game,” said In his book Aboard Air Force One: 200,000 Miles With

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a White House Aide, Chitester, now 45, recalled his first Hard work, long hours experience working for Bill Clinton as one of about 60 In her role as associate director of communications for people in Clinton’s national headquarters. “We started President Bush, Rebecca Neale manages daily media and in a windowless room that previously had been a storage public outreach efforts for the White House Office of shed for gas cans and a snow blower and quickly began Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and USA Freedom covering the brick walls with goofy newspaper photos Corps. Like Chitester, she moved quickly on the road to and clippings,” he wrote. “We had a file cabinet, a desk, the White House. A year before graduating from IU, she a table, a pair of scissors, a ruler and a roll of tape. With interned for First Lady Laura Bush’s press office. After those meager supplies and a tiny copier, we produced working in public affairs for the departments of Energy morning and afternoon editions of news clips.” By the and Education, she returned to the White House and time Clinton was set to declare victory in November 1992, assumed her current position last fall. the staff had grown to about 450. Neale said there are highs and lows in the Bush White Ken Chitester, BA’85 From the time he walked into Clinton campaign head- House, too, which are accompanied by “hard work, long quarters that fall day in 1991, Chitester went on to spend hours and the pressure to do things right the first time two whirlwind years serving the Clinton White House as and to have the answers when you’re asked for them.” director of news analysis. Along with one full-time staff Neale enjoys the intensity of working in the White House, member and about three dozen interns, he was charged though, and describes the challenge of helping to articu- with the responsibility of keeping the president and his late the president’s vision and accomplishments as both a senior staff abreast of breaking news. The office produced “privilege and honor.” an estimated 5.7 million pages of news reports annually, Earlier this year, Neale traveled with the president to summarizing newspaper, television, magazine and wire Rwanda and Zambia on a trip promoting the Bush admin- service stories. Chitester was also given a permanent seat istration’s efforts to battle AIDS and malaria in Africa. The on Air Force One and asked to be the president’s eyes trip, she said, was one of the highlights of her career and and ears to what was being written and said on the illustrated how powerful and meaningful an impact she ground below. and her colleagues can have on people’s lives. For Chitester, 12-hour days were the norm, and often “When I saw the ways the president’s vision is taking Rebecca Neale, BAJ’04 those days were spent on red-eye flights on Air Force One. root on the ground and saving lives, that’s when what I do Armed only with a laptop, during the years 1993-94 B. came most alive to me. That’s really when my career came G. (Before Google), he monitored news related to the to a crossroads and I realized, ‘my goodness, I’m seeing Clinton administration as he traveled to 22 countries, 36 my work in action.’” states and 137 cities with the president. The people he met — now-famous political authorities such as George ‘Something that you believe in’ Stephanapoulos, James Carville, Paul Begala and Dee Dee Kara Seward, BAJ’06, describes her work as a legislative Myers — and the many places he visited inspired Aboard assistant on Capitol Hill, to Indiana Rep. Baron Hill, Air Force One. as “exhilarating,” but not exactly glamorous. As a legisla- “[Working in the White House] isn’t exactly what you tive assistant, she accepts that she will either be on the see on The West Wing, but there are a lot of similarities,” campaign trail 24/7 or fighting on the Hill to pass her Chitester said. “The White House is a world of extremes. boss’ legislative priorities. She is also faced with the daunt- The highs are never higher, and the lows are never lower. ing task of following legislative developments in about 10 Kara Seward, BAJ’06 There’s no in-between, and it’s important as a staffer to different issue areas, including telecommunications, deal with those extremes and know, going in, that they agriculture, transportation and natural resources; fol- exist. But no matter what, whether you’re representing lowing bills through committee hearings to the floor of your country on another country’s soil and hearing “The the House of Representatives; responding to constituent Star Spangled Banner” as you walk off Air Force One, concerns; and drafting legislation requested by her boss. or whether you’re home working on policy matters and Seward works in a fast-moving environment, in which exhibiting the courage of your convictions, what you’re challenges and issues develop and change by the hour. Courtesy photos doing matters.”

“The White House is a world of extremes. The highs are never higher, and the lows are never lower. There’s no in-between, and it’s important as a staffer to deal with those extremes and know, going in, that they exist.”

Fall 2008FallFall / newswire 20082008 / newswire < 21 > < 21 > Inside attraction Being asked to go outside their normal duties is not at all uncommon for political insiders, say the IU alumni interviewed for this article. On a daily basis, it can be exhausting, though, and there is high turnover within the halls of government. After serving two years and traveling 200,000 miles with the Clinton administration, Ken Chitester found himself worn down by the constant motion, lack of Rachel Ziemba Sorvig, BAJ’07, sleep and the sheer burnout factor that may overcome with Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman even the most energetic political insider. Even the game of politics — with its emphasis on “winning” over Despite the pace and constant changes, she said her work actually “governing” — began to grate on him. Today, can be extremely satisfying. In the end, she added, “the he is enjoying running his own consulting firm in Chica- results are something that you believe in.” go, Chitester Communications, where he works primarily for corporate clients. Starting from the bottom “When I left,” he explained, “I was simply tired of To get to her current position, Seward spent one day a being tired.” week during her last semester at IU working the phones Rebecca Neale said she is focused on sprinting to for Rep. Hill. Rachel Ziemba Sorvig, BAJ’07, recently ad- the finish line with President Bush as he prepares to vanced to the position of speechwriter for Indiana Lt. Gov. conclude his final term in office. She loves what she is Becky Skillman after starting out last November answering doing now and looks forward to continued political phones and serving as a front office greeter. communications work. Though she takes pride in writing for Indiana’s second- Kara Seward said she would like to continue her career in-command, Sorvig said working for state government in politics — whether in campaigning or fundraising — might be considered slightly less glamorous than working but wonders whether she has the stamina to keep up. on the Hill or for the White House. The lieutenant gover- Despite the day-to-day stresses, the long hours and nor has a small staff (14 people, including a four-member the constant movement, political jobs remain attractive. communications team), she said, and her office is Chitester laughed as he recalled one Clinton campaign equipped with the basics. Only the governor and lieuten- volunteer in 1991 actually sneaking on to the press plane ant governor have private offices; the rest of the staff work after an event in hopes of permanently latching on to in cubicles. Moreover, she added, salaries are lower, on the campaign. average, than in the private sector. “Hey, it’s exciting being on the inside knowing what Though she said her job doesn’t allow for many is happening before the rest of the world,” Chitester said. “thrills,” there are moments when it can transcend the “Knowledge is very empowering.” ✪ normal day-to-day operations of state government. The recent flooding that devastated the Hoosier state took Ryan Piurek, MA’02, is assistant director of University Sorvig and her colleagues away from their usual activities Communications at Indiana University Bloomington. and into communities in desperate need of support and In 1994, he worked as an intern in the Office of compassion from their political leaders. Sorvig was among Presidential Speechwriting at the Clinton White House, those who worked to quickly set up centers around the conducting research for remarks and speeches delivered state for Hoosiers to seek aid. In addition, during the week by President Clinton. when the flooding was at its worst, she attended each of the governor’s daily press conferences and assisted on a conference call, hosted by Lt. Gov. Skillman, where local leaders could ask questions and get the help they needed.

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“Hey, it’s exciting being on the inside knowing what is happening before the rest of the world. Knowledge is very empowering.”

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Stories and photos of poor treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other facilities led to major improvements in the government’s care of injured members of the military.

Michel du Cille has won three Pulitzer Prizes for photography, but none was more meaningful than the last — the 2008 Pulitzer for Public Service. He shared the award, which he received in April, with Washington Post writers Anne Hull and Dana Priest for their exposé of the mistreatment of wounded military (see www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/ walter-reed/index.html). The series resulted in congressional hearings and reforms in the care of injured soldiers. Du Cille, BA’85, won his previous Pulitzer Prizes in 1986 and 1988. The first, shared with photographer Carol Guzy, was for spot news, awarded for coverage of the eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. The second, in feature photography, was for du Cille’s photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in Miami. Du Cille is assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1988. In a phone conversation with Newswire editor Anne Kibbler, he shared some behind-the-scenes insight into the Walter Reed series

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Newswire: How long did the Walter Reed project take? 1. Michelle Turner has cared for Michel du Cille: I started shooting in October of ’06, and the first her husband, Troy, since he came home from Iraq with post-trau- group of stories ran in February of ’07. We kept updating and doing matic stress disorder. different stories, running occasional short series throughout the year. 2. Army 1st Lt. Elizabeth White- The last stories ran in the fall of ’07. side, a medic, had a psychiatric breakdown in Iraq, leading to a court martial and criminal charges Newswire: Did you have problems with access to the hospital? of attempted suicide and assault. Michel du Cille: I offered my driver’s license to access Walter Reed, A few weeks after a Washington which is a military base that requires a personal ID. I did not show a Post article and photos documented Whiteside’s story, Whiteside press pass. If I had shown a press pass, they would have referred me attempted suicide again. Charges to the PR office … and they would have known what we were doing. against her were dismissed after the Post wrote a follow-up story I couldn’t walk around with my cameras flashing everywhere. At one about her plight. point my bag was searched, but the guy didn’t find my camera. I had to walk this really fine line to capture photos without being detected, 3. Army Spc. Jeremy Duncan (also on the cover) shows the mold on which would have blown it for all of us. the wall of his room in Building 18. Here’s an example. Dana Priest called me and said Jeremy Duncan (on Duncan suffered a broken neck and lost his left ear in combat in the cover and below right) had agreed to help me get into Building 18, Iraq. He testified about the condi- which was in a state of disrepair. I put my cameras in a gym bag and tions at Walter Reed before the followed him into Building 18 as if I was a normal visitor. I got to show National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Govern- ment Reform Committee. Continued on page 26 Caption information from Michel du Cille and The Washington Post Michel du Cille and The Washington Caption information from

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4. Wendell McLeod, here with his that this guy’s room is falling apart. The wallpaper was peeling off the wife, Annette, suffered a mas- walls, and there was mold growing under the wallpaper. It was a critical sive head injury in Iraq when high winds blew the cargo door of an picture because it was evidence that the conditions that wounded 18-wheel truck against his head. veterans lived in were poor. McLeod, Army National Guards- man from the C Battery/ 1178 Field Newswire: How easy was it to gain the cooperation of those Artillery Unit in Manning, S.C., was treated at Walter Reed for more whom you photographed? than a year. Michel du Cille: The intimacy of the pictures was excellent because the writers, Anne Hull and Dana Priest, had done a lot of work (before- 5. Army Staff Sgt. John Daniel Shannon, a sniper in the 2nd Infan- hand). Unlike my previous work where (I) had to go out and find the try Division’s Ghost Recon Platoon subjects, build a relationship with the subjects and get them to interact in Iraq, lost an eye in battle. with me, the writers had already interviewed the subjects. That made it 6. Army Pfc. Joshua Calloway, a lot easier for me. They allowed us to share their lives. 101st Airborne, was evacuated to Walter Reed for combat stress af- Newswire: You described once before the lighting in some of the ter watching one of his sergeants die. He spent eight months there, photographs — the one of Elizabeth Whiteside standing in the hallway mostly in the hospital’s residential (see p.25) and the one we are using on our cover — and the fact those facility, the Mologne House. Here pictures were taken under bare light bulbs. Why was that? he wipes his eyes after a day of video games. Michel du Cille: The lighting was absolutely the toughest part to deal with because so many of the subjects were photographed while I was trying to avoid being detected by the authorities, so they had to be in hallways or dark rooms where (the authorities) wouldn’t see the camera.

Newswire: What was it like hearing their stories? Is it difficult to keep your personal feelings separate from your work? Michel du Cille: Some people talk about how they use the camera as a block between themselves and the subject. I disagree. I feel empathy with my subjects. I try to portray people’s emotions accurately. I have not become cynical or callous. My job has a greater calling, so my feelings and emotions have to be secondary.

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7. Spc. Denver Rearick, right, at home in Kentucky, served two tours in Iraq with the 101st Air- borne. He met Army Pfc. Joshua Calloway, left, during his second tour. The two became closer after Calloway saw his sergeant killed by a bomb, and Rearick saw how deeply his friend was affected by the experience.

8. Maria Mendez wheels her nephew, Spc. Roberto Reyes Jr., into the chapel at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. Reyes is partially blind, paralyzed and brain damaged as a result of a bomb explosion.

9. Spc. Jeans Cruz, an Army scout with the 4th Infantry Division, was part of the special operations force that captured Saddam Hussein. Cruz has chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. “Sometimes I look at my son and, like, I’ve killed a kid his age,” said Cruz, here with son Jeans Jr., 4.

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IU violinist Bell subject of Pulitzer- winning feature

There were other IU connections among The Washington Post’s half-dozen Pulitzer Prize winners last spring. Staff writer Gene Weingarten won the feature writing 9 prize for his story about virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell’s stealth performance in the Washington, D.C., Newswire: What about outside of the job, when you get home? subway. Bell, a 1989 graduate of Do you feel differently? the Jacobs School of Music, played Michel du Cille: My personal feelings are that when young men and six classical pieces during rush hour women go to war and they return wounded mentally and physically, one winter morning at the L’Enfant they deserve the best treatment possible. However, in this story I tried Plaza metro station. to be as objective as I could. The Post asked Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Newswire: A lot of us may have had an impact on a small scale with Symphony Orchestra, what he the stories we have written and photographs we have taken. What was thought would happen if a great it like to be part of a team whose stories led to significant change? violinist performed unannounced in Michel du Cille: In this case the change was amazing, and far front of a rush-hour audience. He beyond our expectations. It felt great. The other time I experienced this guessed up to 100 people would was during my crack story in 1987. It changed something as well. That’s stop and listen, and the violinist why we’re in journalism, to make people see and understand. When would make about $150. Slatkin, there’s a good story that will help promote change, you can only see it who also is Metz Foundation Conductor at the Jacobs School as a blessing. • of Music, was way off target. After 43 minutes, Bell had $32.17 in his open violin case — plus $20 from the one person out of more than 1,000 who actually recognized him. Weingarten didn’t count that $20.

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By Anne Kibbler

n the Walls of the Missing at ONormandy American Memorial, 1,557 inscriptions catalog the names of U.S. military who died on and after the D-Day landings on the beaches of France. At associate professor Owen Johnson’s urging, journalism students visiting the memorial and neighboring cemetery during spring break scrutinized the lists, looking for lost soldiers from their home states. The students recorded their thoughts in journals. Reading them later, Johnson said the experience touched the students more deeply than he had anticipated. “The students could identify with individual soldiers and sailors who were just about the same ages as the students and had given their lives for the liberation of Europe,” he said. Making history real, providing a taste of another culture, opening students’ eyes to the possibilities of journalism in an international environment — these are some of the goals of the overseas programs in which students participated during the spring and summer. Johnson’s spring semester class, From London to Paris: In the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle, took the 30 students to places where Pyle plied his trade during World War II. That same week, Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Bright took the 16 seniors in his international public relations class to Tokyo, where they visited the Asahi Shimbun, the second-largest circulation newspaper in the world; the U.S. Embassy; and Bloomberg. And for eight weeks this Audrie Garrison watches as Beka Mech writes her grandfather’s name in the Tim Street sand at Omaha Beach. New Horizons

Tim Solon helped Euronews launch Jaymie Ocker takes notes at the its new look while working as an Normandy American Memorial. intern this summer.

summer, 13 honors students lived in Goetz and Siegel also shared some London, working for a range of British career advice from Shuri Fukunaga, manag- media and public relations outlets, including director at Burson-Marsteller in Tokyo. ing the China-Britain Business Council, the Fukunaga told the students if they wanted Crimestoppers Trust and Euronews. to work in international public relations, The students discovered much about the they would need to become sensitive to the world and about themselves. Tim Solon, ways in which people from different cul- who worked at EuroNews, found out what tures speak and listen. it takes for a company to reinvent its image. Sometimes, understanding cultural dif- “It’s not often companies go through ferences means taking your mind back to such major overhauls,” he wrote in a blog. a different time, not just a different place. “After experiencing it firsthand, it is easy Graduate student Rosemary Pennington to see why. The amount of detail that goes said the visit to Normandy would forever into such projects is both tedious and be imprinted on her mind. remarkable. Literally everything, except for “I walked down onto the beach, as did the personnel, has changed, right down to all of us, and saw it full of men,” she wrote the color of paint on our office doors. But in a blog from France, “young men with Jill Siegel (left) and Amy Goetz in the this attention to detail is something that dreams and hopes. The tide was low but Bloomberg News TV studio in Tokyo. will no doubt pay off for the company in was beginning to move forward. Then, as the near future. I am certainly glad I got to now, my mind went empty. Not of feel- experience it.” ing but of thought. I think it was the only Natalie Avon summed up her experi- way my mind could make sense of the ence like this: “Morris Visitor Publications awfulness of what happened on June 6, “The students could gave me the assurance I needed to carry on 1944, and the simple serenity the beach identify with individual in any internship or job. I know that I can claims now.” write for any audience in any medium if As the week came to an end, Drew soldiers and sailors who I put my pen to it. I will never forget my Kincius summed up his week-long experi- were just about the same summer in London or the opportunities I ence in Europe. received because of it.” “Life will commence as normal on ages as the students and In Tokyo, the students soaked up advice Monday, or get closer to it,” he wrote. had given their lives for from U.S. Ambassador Tom Schieffer. “I speak for my peers when I say we will “He said that young people have a ten- begin again wiser and humbled. This jour- the liberation of Europe.” dency to try and flip to the last chapter of ney brought Ernie Pyle and World War II our book. Instead, he said we should focus to life more than any descriptive writings on the now as the last chapter has yet to be from the events could ever have. Now it is written,” reported Amy Goetz and Jill Siegel time to soak it in, and try to give others a in a joint blog post from Japan. glimpse of our fantastic voyage.” • (top left) Tim (top right) Courtesy photo, (bottom Matt Beuoy Street,

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Before 1960 1960s I was associate dean, senior associate dean and interim dean. My wife, Mary Ellen, and I are liv- Henry “Hank” Weber, BA’48, has retired David G. Krider, BA’61, is the author of ing in Chapel Hill and enjoying grandchildren. I from a public relations career. He records books Dave Krider, High School Sports Pioneer: Hall of am researching and writing a history of the UNC for the blind and visually handicapped in a Fame Writer Follows God’s Path, published by journalism programs, starting in 1909.” Library of Congress program, volunteers at the AuthorHouse. He writes that the book traces University of Connecticut Medical Center and the history of how high school sports transi- Rex Kirts, BA’64, was named 2007 sports- Hospital and plays golf when he can. He and tioned from obscurity to national prominence writer of the year for Indiana by the National his wife, Florrie, winter in New Smyrna Beach, during his career and how he became the only Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. Fla., near a daughter. They spend the rest of the high school sports writer to be inducted into Kirts, who retired from the Bloomington Herald- year in West Hartford, Conn., near their two two national halls of fame. All proceeds from Times in December, is a member of the Indiana other children. the book are donated to the Indiana Basketball Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. In August 2007, Guido H. Stempel III, Hall of Fame. The book can be purchased Roger A. Yockey, MA’65, is education BA’49, MA’51, received the Paul J. Deutschmann through AuthorHouse’s Web site, www.author- political action director for United Food and Award for excellence in research at the conven- house.com. An I-Man in baseball and football, Commercial Workers Local 1105 in Seattle. tion of the Association for Education in Journal- Krider lives in LaPorte, Ind. He recently wrote the book I Never Stopped ism and Mass Communication in Washington, “I retired in 2006 after 35 years on the Believing — The Life of Walter Hubbard. Yockey D.C. Stempel, a distinguished professor emeritus faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass lives in Lynnwood, Wash. of journalism at Ohio University, previously Communication, University of North Carolina John Sherman, BA’66, has written a libretto received the association’s Eleanor Blum Award at Chapel Hill,” writes Thomas A. Bowers, for a three-act opera, Biafra, based, in part, on for distinguished service to research. He writes BA’64, MA’69, PhD’71. “In addition to teaching, his 2002 book War Stories: A Memoir of Nigeria that he is the first person to receive both of the top research awards from the AEJMC. Stempel lives in Athens, Ohio. Janet Leihenseder Wilson, BA’53, lives State Fair Daily Student staff in Corvallis, Ore., where she volunteers for the humane society and raises funds for a children’s hospital. She spent 40 years in the Bay area, raising two daughters and working as an office manager and bookkeeper. Stephen A. Jacobson, BA’55, is the author of Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball — and America, published by Lawrence Hill Books. He lives in Long Beach, N.Y. Robert S. Corya, BA’56, retired in 1987, having served as public relations director of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was business editor of the Indianapolis News from 1965 to 1982 and served as president of the Society of American Business and Economics Writers. Corya writes that he continues to be physically active: He has won 20 National Standard Race ski-racing medals and has participated in 21 Hilly Hundred events, an annual bicycle challenge ride in Southern Indiana. He lives in Indianapolis. Making plans for the 1939 Indiana State Fair Daily Student were these staffers. Seated at center is the editor, David Richardson, BA’40. The man leaning over his shoulder (looking important) is not identified. Seated from left, Wendell Phillippi, BA’40; Mary Holsinger, BA’40, MSEd’58; Richardson; Richard Beavans, BS ’40; and Tom Miller, BA’40. Standing, Philip Jackson; W.L. Reeves, business manager; Prof. John Stempel, head of the journalism department; and Carl Lewis, ‘39. Helen Wallin D’Amico, BA’42, MSEd’69, was not there for the picture. IU Archives < 32 > Fall 2008 / newswire ontherecord

and Biafra. The opera should be completed in 1980s three years and then offered to professional Chicago Tribune names Sue (Weber) Spence and Shawn Spence, companies to perform. both BA’81, celebrate milestones in 2008. Sue Kern executive editor Kenneth R. Hall, BA’69, was recently enters her fifth year as an independent writer named a managing director of Huron Consulting and editor. Sue’s work includes corporate publi- Group in Chicago. Huron provides financial cations and communications, Web writing and and operational consulting services. Hall previ- magazine articles, with a focus on higher educa- ously was director of business development for tion and health care. Shawn enters his 15th year PriceWaterhouseCoopers. as an independent photographer. He travels to more than 25 states and internationally each year working for corporate publications, annual 1970s reports and magazines. Before heading out on their own, both worked for Gannett, including Carla O’Connell, BA’70, is publications four years in the Washington, D.C., area. Sue and communications director for the U.S. Anti- held various reporting and editing positions, and Gerould Kern’s first job out of journal- Doping Agency in Colorado Springs, Colo. Shawn worked for Gannett News Service for ism school was at a weekly newspaper Jean Widdis Reeve, BA’71, is market- nine years, where his work included covering group in Indianapolis, writing stories, ing coordinator at Arthur Air Conditioning in the White House and Capitol Hill and a variety Oldsmar, Fla. She lives in Dunedin, Fla. Reeve of international assignments including four taking photos and composing pages. He’s was a newspaper reporter in Pennsylvania for 12 Olympics. They reside in Carmel, Ind., with their come a long way since then. In July, Kern, years until she decided “no more snow, ever.” “I two teenage children. You can catch up with BA’71, was named executive editor of the them at www.suespence.com and www.shawns- use what I learned at IU journalism every single Chicago Tribune, where he has spent the day, and you can quote me on that,” she writes. pence.com. past 17 years of his career. IU Southeast professors James E. St. Clair, Christie A. Bleck, BA’82, has been elected After working in Indianapolis, Kern, a BA’72, MA’90, and Linda Gugin have finished a president of the mid-Michigan chapter of three-year writing and editing project that cul- the Society of Professional Journalists. She former Indiana Daily Student columnist, minated with The Governors of Indiana, a book recently attended the Scripps Leadership Training moved to The Daily Herald, the fastest- Institute for SPJ leaders. Bleck, of Lansing, Mich., published by the Indiana Historical Society Press growing suburban newspaper in Chicago. in 2006. St. Clair, a professor of journalism, was writes for Lansing Community Newspapers and responsible for covering the 19th-century gov- the Lansing State Journal. He eventually became its executive editor. ernors. Many of the chapters of the book were Tom Brew, BA’82, writes: “It only took In 1991, Kern joined the Chicago written by IU Southeast professors. 28 years, but I finally have a job working at Tribune. He became associate managing Dana Heupel, BA’73, is executive edi- an Indiana newspaper. After nine years at the editor for metropolitan news in 1993, then St. Petersburg Times and seven at the Tampa tor of Illinois Issues magazine and director of Tribune, I was named an assistant sports editor moved through the ranks to the position publications for the Center for State Policy and at the Indianapolis Star in May. It’s good to be of associate editor and, ultimately, vice Leadership at the University of Springfield, Ill. home! It’s also a pleasure to be working with Heupel previously was a reporter and statehouse president of editorial. According to Editor several former IDS colleagues, including Bob editor for GateHouse NewsService/Copley News Kravitz, BA’82, my partner covering IU basket- and Publisher, Kern was responsible for Service. He had worked in newsroom manage- ball way back in 1980.” linking Tribune Publishing’s 13 newspapers ment at The State Journal-Register; The Fresno Bee in Fresno, California; the Indianapolis Star; Andy Hall, BA’82, won first place for beat and enabling them to share content. and the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. reporting for publications under 100,000 cir- As executive editor, Kern said the Tri- culation from the National Education Writers bune is looking at niche markets and new James L. Adams, BA’75, is an associate in Association. Hall, a former editor of the Indiana the litigation department of Dinsmore & Shohl. Daily Student, has been a reporter at the Web brands. He works in the law firm’s Louisville, Ky., office. Wisconsin State Journal for 17 years. He previ- “Audiences are so fragmented now, so Adams lives in Louisville. ously was a reporter for The Arizona Republic. we have to re-aggregate these audiences “After 30 years of mostly PR for the banking Mary L. Lauria, MA’82, is an assistant prin- through many different channels,” he said. industry, I have returned to community journal- cipal with the School District of Hillsborough in “That’s the way we’re going to collect ism as an ex-pat in a beach community in Costa Tampa, Fla. Rica, focusing on environmental protection vs. audiences in the future. It may be through Mathias (Matt) Mogekwu, PhD’82, is the development for the monthly Voice of Nosara,” multiple newspapers, Web sites and mo- new chairman of the journalism department at writes Friedrich “Fritz” Elmendorf, BA’76. “As the Roy H. Park School of Communications at bile news operations.” the pay is even less than my first newspaper job Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. Mogekwu is origi- in the ’70s, I supplement my income with vaca- The Tribune is set to launch a new look nally from Nigeria. He taught at the University of tion rental homes here.” reflecting content changes and a slimmer Jos and also worked in Sierra Leone and South Nelson Price, BA’78, is the host of Hoosier Africa before coming back to the United States staff under the leadership of real estate bil- History Live! airing Saturday mornings on WICR- in 2005 to teach at Bowie State and Morgan lionaire Sam Zell, who bought the Tribune FM public radio at the University of Indianapolis. State universities in Maryland. Co. last year. Kern said there are opportu- The program is a talk show focusing on Indiana Char Simons, BA’82, MA’83, an adjunct history, with in-studio guests, listener call-ins, nities in the media industry for those who professor at the Evergreen State College in are adaptable, creative and able to work in trivia questions and reports about events related Olympia, Wash., led an eight-week field study to Hoosier heritage. Price is a former reporter course to Egypt and Jordan. Students explored a variety of media. and columnist for the Indianapolis Star. Middle East issues through art, photography Greg Ruhland

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M. Elizabeth Joss, BA’83, is director of strategy and message at Hetrick National Press Photographers Communications in Indianapolis. She joined the company at the same time as Karen R. Grant, Association honors Sweitzer BA’87, who works as the agency’s director of project management. Both Joss and Grant live Steve Sweitzer, MA’87, an adjunct in Indianapolis. faculty member at IUPUI and a member of Lisa Belcher Hamilton, MA’83, MA’87, is the School of Journalism Alumni Board, an Episcopal priest and a writer for the national Episcopal church. Her newest book, Wisdom recently received the Joseph A. Sprague from the Middle Ages for Middle-Aged Women, Memorial Award, the highest honor given was released by Morehouse Publishing in by the National Press Photographers September. Last fall Hamilton married James Lee Grubbs, a retired managing director of Citigroup Association. The award is given to an “in- and a consultant to the global shipping industry. dividual who advances, elevates or attains They live in the Berkshires and in Venice, Fla. unusual recognition for the profession of Hamilton’s son, Edward “Ted” Lane Hamilton, is editor of his school newspaper and participated photojournalism by conduct, initiative, in the IU High School Journalism Institute last leadership, skill and devotion to duty.” summer. Sharon Levy Freed, a freelance video edit- Karen Stewart, BA’83, has been promoted ing instructor, also won the award. to vice president of marketing at Atlantic Coast Sweitzer is the news operations man- of the National Press Photographers As- Bank, a regional bank in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Stewart and her husband, ager and chief photographer for WISH-TV sociation. He currently chairs the organi- Mark Reasoner, BSEd’77, live in Neptune Beach, in Indianapolis. He has worked as a televi- zation’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop Fla., and enjoy beachside living with no snow. sion news photographer in Indianapolis and the National Press Photographers Susan Morris, BA’84, has recently joined and Louisville, and he is a past president Foundation’s Airborne TV Seminar. the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists in Chicago as the director of marketing and communications. She previously served as the vice president, communications and public policy for the governing body of the Capitol Hill press Sheri L. Jacobs, BA’89, is managing direc- Delta Dental Plans Association. corps. She is the chief congressional correspon- tor and chief consultant of the Chicago office of Vanessa Alexander Clohessy, BA’86, lives dent for Bloomberg News. McKinley Marketing. In October 2007 she completed the Chicago marathon. It was her ninth in Elmhurst, Ill. Her family has a long history Glenn G. Augustine, BA’88, is vice presi- and most challenging marathon due to the heat with IU: Both her father, Donald Z. Alexander, dent of communications for the Indiana Youth in Chicago at the time, she writes. Jacobs lives in BS’58, and her grandfather, Alexander Louis Institute, an organization that provides informa- Deerfield, Ill., with her husband, Matt Getter, and Zivic, BA’24, attended IU Bloomington. tion and practical tools for not-for-profit youth their daughter, Jillian. Ned Hoskin, MA’86, is manager of content workers, educators and policymakers. Augustine and design for New York State United Teachers lives and works in Indianapolis. Deborah Milas Ungar, BA’89, lives in Zionsville, Ind., with her husband, Kenneth, in Schenectady, N.Y. Garrett Ewald, BA’88, MBA’01, writes: “In BA’85, president of Ungar Strategies, a strategic May (2007), we welcomed Eames and McKenna Gordon Jackson, PhD’83, is a professor of business consulting firm in Carmel, Ind. communication studies at Whitworth University into our lives. Sadly, McKenna only lived three in Spokane, Wash. He recently facilitated the days, but Eames has been very good at keeping 1990s establishment of a new ethics code at the us going. Having experienced a parent’s worst Alex F. Yovanovich, BAJ’90, is a group Spokane Spokesman-Review. nightmare, I’m working on a project to connect parents with photographers to give them a bet- account director for the advertising agency MARC Jeni (Brown) O’Malley, BA’88, is in her ter record of a short life. Still very early in the USA. He is responsible for public relations and fourth year as news editor for the Associated process, but I’m doing this through www.pho- advertising for the Society of Manufacturing Press in Indiana. She writes, “My husband, toalums.com. I’m still with IBM since completing Engineers in Dearborn, Mich., and was a member Chris, and I adopted our third daughter from my MBA at IU in 2001, but I find daily use for of the steering committee for SME Motorsports. China in September; our biggest challenge my journalism skills.” Previously, Yovanovich served as director of has been switching from man-to-man to zone public relations for the DGS Group. He lives in defense as we navigate life with two 4-year-olds Kenneth Giffin, BA’89, has joined online McCordsville, Ind., with his wife, Andrea, and and a 15-month-old. Life is never dull! I’m best business solutions provider Verio in Centennial, their son. reached via e-mail at [email protected].” Colo., as director of marketing. He previously served as vice president of marketing for Quark Susan Province Phillips, BA’91, is a stay- Rebecca R. Bibbs, BA’87, a former Arthur and held several marketing leadership positions at-home mother of three. In May 2007 she F. Burns Fellow through the International Center in General Electric’s Access Distribution division. received a For God and Youth Award from the for Journalists, is the new managing editor of Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) Office of Youth Indianapolis Woman magazine, the largest- The Indiana chapter of the Society of Ministry for her work coordinating a program at circulation magazine in the state. She is the Professional Journalists recognized free- her church. The program encouraged teens to single parent of two boys, and she also is raising lance writer Angela Herrmann, BA’89, of “adopt a grandparent” at a local nursing home two nephews. Indianapolis, with a second place award for Best and visit that person monthly. Phillips lives in Coverage of the Environment in publications Olney, Md. 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In 2007 three staff members at IUPUI 26 consecutive weeks on the list. I was also Michael A. Johnson, MA’97, takes complex received an Excellence Award in the Society a publicist for the New York Times bestseller financial cases through trial and appeal as a for Technical Communications’ International Don’t Bet Against Me!, a memoir by Deanna partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. Technical Publications, Art and Online Commun- Favre, wife of former Green Bay Packers quar- He also maintains an active pro bono practice ication Competition. Angie A. Antonopoulos, terback Brett Favre. Away from my full-time repatriating internationally abducted children. BAJ’92, John A. Herrin, BA’91, MA’03, and job I work as a game-day statistician for the Johnson enjoys bicycling and wine — though Michael E. Jasiak, BA/Cert’85, won the award Chicago Bulls.” usually not together — and relishes spending for their video, Indiana University Global time with his wife, Ada, and their two children, Amy Dashiell Simonini, BAJ’94, is a Research Network Operations Center. Arthur and Theo. Contact him at michael. part-time office assistant in Bryant University’s [email protected]. Ashraf Khalil, BA’93, is a reporter with Executive Development Center in Smithfield, the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles R.I. Her husband, John, is a business instructor James T. Ryan, BAJ’97, is an attorney for Times. Khalil formerly was a contract reporter at MetLife. The couple’s daughter, Abby, was the Feldhake Law Firm in Costa Mesa, Calif. His for the Times in Iraq and spent 18 months as born in February 2007. The family lives areas of practice are business litigation, class- a general assignment reporter on the paper’s in Warwick, R.I., and can be contacted at action litigation and copyright infringement. metro desk in Los Angeles. He also has worked [email protected]. Ryan lives in Newport Coast, Calif. as a freelance reporter in Egypt for the San Capt. Amber Hirsch, BA/BAJ’98, JD’02, Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun and Kanye West and White Stripes made is a senior trial counsel at Yokota Air Base in other publications. their editorial debuts on the cover of Fader, a 100,000-circulation emerging music maga- Japan, where she assists the junior counsel in Robert Niles, MA’93, runs three Web zine headed by Andy Cohn, BAJ’96. Cohn is the prosecution of federal criminal cases. In June sites: SensibleTalk.com, ThemeParkInsider. vice president and group publisher of Fader 2007, she returned from a four-month tour in com, and, with his wife, Laurie, Violinist. Baghdad, Iraq. While deployed, Hirsch assisted Media, a multimedia brand that includes a com. Until June Niles was editor of the Online the Iraqi government in prosecuting more than music label; film and TV divisions; and Thefader. Journalism Review, based at the University of 300 terrorists and insurgents in the Central com. Cohn also has worked for Spin and The Southern California’s Annenberg School for Criminal Court of Iraq. She writes that her Source magazines. Communication. The school decided to suspend efforts have resulted in five terrorists receiving publication of the review. Robyn M. Holtzman, BAJ’96, JD’01, is the maximum penalty allowed by Iraqi law. director of recruiting for Kimball Professional “My wife, Beth Bauer, DME’03, and I live In 2007, Christopher P. Ryan, BAJ’98, Management, a boutique legal recruiting and in the Chicago suburbs and I am beginning became a senior copywriter at Coles Marketing consulting firm representing candidates and my fourth year at Tyndale House Publishers,” Communications in Indianapolis. Previously, he law firms in Chicago and Washington, D.C. She writes Todd Starowitz, BA’93. “This past sum- was a senior associate editor at Angie’s List. counsels attorneys at all stages of their careers mer I had the pleasure to work as a publicist Ryan has also worked at Paramount Pictures’ for Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy’s and writes that she especially welcomes calls Domestic Television Division in Los Angeles, memoir Quiet Strength. We spent 10 days mak- from IU alumni. Previously, Holtzman was a where in his free time he performed stand-up, ing all of the key PR stops: Letterman, Leno, litigation associate for the law firm Arnold & improv and sketch comedy. He lives in Carmel, Good Morning America, and even the ESPYs. Porter in Washington, D.C. She lives in Chicago Ind., with his wife, Abby J. Nunley, BS’01. Quiet Strength reached No. 1 on the New York and can be contacted at robyn@kimballprofes- Times hardcover, nonfiction list and has spent sional.com. Matt Saltanovitz, BAJ ‘98, and his wife, Karin, welcomed their first child, Pablo Joseph (PJ), on Oct. 10, 2007. Saltanovitz is also a 2009 MBA candidate at Indiana University Northwest IU alumni gang gathers at IBJ in Gary. He is assistant business editor at the Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster. Andi Ward, BAJ’98, is a freelance TV producer in Los Angeles. She recently worked on the NBC reality series The Baby Borrowers, which followed a group of teenagers as they experienced raising children from toddlers to teens. “I loved learning to edit on a computer at IU and how you can tell stories through editing,” she told the Louisville Courier-Journal. Ward also has worked on The Amazing Race and on a new show for CW called Thirteen. Caroline Wise, BAJ’98, writes: “After a short stint as associate editor at Pearson Education with the Custom group, I embarked on the most exciting journey of my career so far: I am managing editor of publications at Tawn Parent, BA’86, writes: “Here is a photo of our IU alumni crew Solution Tree in Bloomington. It’s great to be at IBJ Media Corp., which publishes Indianapolis Business Journal and back in town, within walking distance of our other publications. IBJ won the gold award last year in the Alliance beautiful IU campus ... and the job is absolutely of Area Business Publications’ large-market division.” From left, Della amazing. Jack Dvorak is still my hero!” Pacheco, BA’81; Peter Schnitzler, BAJ’99; Jo Kelsey Hohlbein, BFA’81; Don Wood, MA’98, is director of communications for the Potomac Conference of Seventh Greg Andrews, BA’87; David Vrabel, BAJ’00; Marc Arnold, BFA’99; Tom Day Adventists in Staunton, Va. Courtesy photo Harton, BA’84; Tawn Parent, BA’86; and Mallory Kaster, BAJ’07.

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Jeff Fleischer, BAJ‘99, is based in Welling- Christina Jewett, BAJ’02, is a reporter Meg McKinzie Roth, BAJ’03, is an on-air ton, New Zealand, where — on a grant from at ProPublica, a New York City nonprofit orga- personality for Radio Now 100.9 in Indianapolis. the Washington-based Alicia Patterson Founda- nization dedicated to investigative reporting in She is also featured in TV commercials for tion — he is researching a book about climate the public interest. Jewett previously worked at Andy Mohr Automotive, an Indianapolis car change and splitting his time between New The Sacramento Bee for more than five years, dealership. Roth is a former emcee for the Zealand and the South Pacific. He has previ- where she wrote stories on medical mistreat- Indiana Pacers and past host of the Hoosier ously worked at Mother Jones and The Sydney ment and excessive force at the local jail and Shopping program. on maintenance overbilling in the Sacramento Morning Herald, and has written for publica- Deborah Chung, PhD’04, and Eunseong library system. tions including The New Republic, Mental Floss Kim, MA’02, PhD’06, co-authored an article and Chicago Magazine. He can be reached at Megan Glaros Bruggeman, BAJ’02, has in the spring 2008 issue of Journalism and Mass [email protected] joined CBS 2 in New York City as the weekend Communication Quarterly titled “Credibility Katie M. Morgan, BAJ’99, is a senior pub- morning meteorologist and entertainment and the Use of Blogs among Professionals in licist for Cartoon Network in Atlanta. She mar- reporter. She previously worked as a meteo- the Communication Industry.” Chung is an ried Jonathan Gordon on March 18, 2006. The rologist at WPLG-TV in Miami. While in Miami, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, couple lives in Atlanta. she hosted a weekly feature segment titled and Kim is an assistant professor at Eastern Megan on the Move and filled in frequently on Illinois University. 2000s Good Morning America. Bruggeman started Stephanie Dodge, BAJ’04, is media rela- her career in Parkersburg, W.Va., at WTAP-TV. Nabil Echchaibi, MA’00, PhD’00, is an tions director for a new Chicago theater She earned a double major in journalism and assistant professor of journalism and mass company called Purple Bench Productions. The atmospheric sciences at IU. communication at the of University Colorado – company was started in 2007 by a group of IU Boulder. Echchaibi, a native of Morocco, is the Marina Goldblatt Mayer, BAJ’02, is theater alumni. Dodge had an outside focus in author of an upcoming book on young North an editorial quality control manager for theater and drama at IU. Africans’ use of radio to express their cultural Manufacturers’ News Inc. in Evanston, Ill. She Amber Holeman Forhan, BAJ’04, identity in France and Germany. was married in April 2007. Mayer lives Vernon works for NCW Media Inc. in Leavenworth, Hills, Ill. Kara Kenney Kelly, BAJ’01, is a reporter Wash. Previously, she worked in creative for television station NBC2 in Naples, Fla. Dec. Lisa Schubert, BAJ’02, was ordained in services for Prairie Media Inc. Forhan lives in 16, 2006, she married Chris Kelly, a fellow jour- the Methodist Church in June. She is pastor of Wenatchee, Wash. nalist. Kelly lives in Fort Myers, Fla. discipleship and formation at the North United Emily Hendricks, BAJ’04, will marry Justin Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Katherine (Kate) Lewis, BAJ’01, will Turnier, a financial software consultant, in her marry David Albers Aug. 30 in Naples, Fla. In November 2007, eight IU alumni became hometown of Terre Haute, Ind., in October. Lewis is the education reporter for the Naples associates at the law firm Baker & Daniels in Hendricks is an associate editor at All You, Daily News and Albers is a photographer at the Indianapolis, including Sarah C. Jenkins, Cert/ a Time Inc. women’s service magazine. She same paper. BAJ’03, JD’06. assigns, writes and edits all of the relationship content in the magazine. She lives in Astoria, N.Y., and can be reached at emilylhendricks@ gmail.com. Hetherington receives first Andrea C. Hoehne, BAJ’04, is a public- affairs specialist for State Farm Insurance in Indy PR Legend Award Florence, Ky. She lives in Cincinnati. James R. Hetherington, BA’53, received the Indy PR Legend Award Quill magazine’s May 2007 issue included an article by Sheila B. Lalwani, BAJ’04, called from the Indianapolis Public Relations Society during a luncheon June 18. “Reporting Abroad.” Lalwani described her six- Hetherington was the first recipient of the award, which recognized his week experience writing for the Vienna newspaper Die Presse as part of an exchange program long-time commitment to journalism and public relations. run by The International Center for Journalists, Hetherington’s journalism career lasted 19 years. During that time, he a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. was the Indiana editor for The Louisville Times, an assistant city editor for Lalwani is studying for a master’s in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of the Indianapolis Times, and an editorial and documentary editor for WFBM Government. radio and television (now WRTV). His TV work won him national Peabody, Maryellen R. May, MA’04, is the founder of duPont and Sloan Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. In 1974 May Videography in Bloomington, Ind. She can Hetherington moved to public relations, serving as public relations director be contacted at [email protected]. May lives in Bloomington. and vice president for corporate communications for American United Life Insurance Co. He worked for the company for 21 years, retiring in 1995. Justin C. Nolan, BAJ’04, works in human resources and strategic staffing for Hetherington also was president of five different organizations, includ- Security Technologies in Carmel, Ind. He lives ing the Hoosier chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, the in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Public Relations Society, the Sigma Delta Chi chapter of the Sarah Schwimmer, BAJ’04, is regional Society of Professional Journalists, the Indianapolis Press Club and the director, mid-Atlantic, for the World Wildlife Fund. She lives in Washington, D.C. Indianapolis Press Club Foundation. He is a member of the Public Relations Christopher Stake, BAJ’04, is an associate Society of America. His wife, Susan Bassett Hetherington, BA’53, is retired attorney with DeLaney and DeLaney law firm from Prevent Blindness Indiana, where she was executive director. in Indianapolis. He graduated from Vanderbilt

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Jeff Hartenfeld, MA’69, is a full- originated as a Christmas reader-interaction story, Watkins is time market grower specializing in busy raising her 11-year-old son, Griffin, to be a Hoosier fan. ornamental and culinary herbs. He Stephen H. Baker, BA’84, is the author of The Great and his wife, Jennifer M. Robinson, Indiana State Fair at 150, published by Emmis Publishing in PhD’01, director of campus instruc- 2006. He also was photographer and graphic designer for tional consulting and a lecturer in the the book. Baker lives in Indianapolis. Department of Communication and Culture at IU Bloomington, are the Karen L. Day, BA’84, used her native authors of The Farmers’ Market Book: northern Indiana as the setting for Growing Food, Cultivating Community, published by one of her recent books for middle Indiana University Press. Longtime vendors at the farmers’ school students. Tall Tales (Wendy market in Bloomington, they write that the book explores Lamb Books, 2007), is about a girl the links between the social, ecological and economic who makes up stories about her life power of farmers’ markets in general. The couple lives in so she will be accepted in a new town. Solsberry, Ind. A second novel, No Cream Puffs, published this summer by Wendy Lamb Books, tells the Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 story of the first girl in Michigan to play baseball on an Indiana Primary (Indiana University all-boys’ little league team in the 1970s. Day lives in Press, 2008) is the latest book by Ray Newton, Mass., with her husband and three children. E. Boomhower, BA’82. Boomhower Her Web site is at www.klday.com. tells about the speech Kennedy made on April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis Lucy A. Snyder, MA’95, has written a after he heard of the assassination of collection of short stories and poetry, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Sparks and Shadows, published by HW Jr. The book marks the 40th anniver- Press. She lives in Columbus, Ohio. sary of the speech. Boomhower is the senior editor of the International Media Studies (Wiley- Indiana Historical Society’s journal, Traces of Indiana and Blackwell, 2007), by Divya McMillin, Midwestern History. He lives in Indianapolis. PhD’98, explores media studies in an Nancy Watkins, BA’82, has her international context and shows media first book coming out this fall. patterns within a variety of countries. Written with Chicago Tribune col- McMillin is an associate professor league Denise Joyce, Scared of Santa of international communication and (HarperCollins) showcases photos of cultural studies at the University of kids who are, well, scared of Santa. Washington, Tacoma. Aside from working on the Tribune Q section, where the Santa idea

University Law School in 2007 and served as a nies across the state, helping to teach Spanish First Lady Cheri Daniels to become director law clerk for judges Frances Hill, Teresa Harper or English as it applies to the workplace. She of advancement for the Indiana Health Care and Michael Hoff in the Monroe County Circuit lives in Cromwell, Ind. Association. Court in Bloomington. Caitlin Boyle, MA’05, will begin study- In May 2007, Kama M. Korvela, BAJ’05, Anne Tyrrell, BA’04, is the spokesperson ing for a doctorate in American studies at the became a proofreader and project manager for for Blackwater Worldwide, the company that University of Texas–Austin in the fall. She has the advertising and public relations firm Doe provides protective and other services for U.S. worked as a documentary film researcher and Anderson in Louisville, Ky. She handles editorial government agencies in Iraq and elsewhere. was on staff at WNET-TV in New York from assignments for the agency’s creative and public 2005 to 2006. She recently married Curtis Ellis relations departments. Previously, Korvela was Christa S. Williams, BAJ’04, is program at a ceremony in Guildford, Conn. an editorial assistant at Semiotica Publications in coordinator of reality Spanish/reality English Bloomington, Ind. She lives in Prospect, Ky. at the Health Care Foundation of Kosciusko Jill Brooks Burleson, BAJ’05, has left her County in Warsaw, Ind. She works with compa- post as chief of staff for the office of Indiana

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Obituaries

Dan Holthouse, BA’42, died Dec. 7 in Louisville. He retired began working as a reporter while still in high school and from Prudential Insurance Co. Holthouse served in the U.S. later worked for the Toledo Blade, The New York Times and Navy during World War II. He was an accomplished painter Newsday, where she spent 24 years of her career. She most and participated in numerous performances with recently was a news editor for Newsday’s Viewpoints section. the Louisville Opera. Finucane began teaching part time at Hofstra in the early Richard S. Simons, BA’42, a former managing editor of the 1990s. She joined the faculty full time in 2001. Indiana Daily Student and reporter for the Indianapolis Star, J.D. Schwalm, BA’79, a photographer at The Clarion-Ledger died Feb. 12 in Marion, Ind. in Jackson, Miss., for 24 years, died July 10. Schwalm previ- Simons served as editor of the Winchester News and ously had worked at The Register-Mail in Galesburg, Ill., and of the Tipton Daily Tribune before moving in 1948 to the at The Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Ky., where he was Indianapolis Star as a feature writer for the Sunday maga- chief photographer. He assisted in the redesign of Newswire zine. His stories took him to Egypt, Korea and Germany. He in 2006. continued to write regularly for the magazine until the early Schwalm’s work appeared in several national publications, 1980s. One series of stories resulted in a book, The Rivers including Newsweek, People, U.S. News & World Report, of Indiana, published by the IU Press in 1985. He also coau- the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and thored another IU Press book, Railroads of Indiana. He was The Washington Post. His photographs also were published the official Grant County Historian in a program adminis- in several books, including America 24/7, Mississippi 24/7, tered by the Indiana Historical Society. Mississippi Quilts and Threading the Generations. In 1954, Simons returned to Marion to manage his Schwalm won numerous regional and national awards, family’s business, Richard Clothing Co., retiring in 1988. including the Best of Gannett in 1986 for his black-and- Simons won the College of Arts and Sciences Distin- white photography. guished Alumni Award in 1984. Mark Brattain, BA’81, died Nov. 11. He was a deputy day Richard P. Smith, BA’54, of Lafayette, Ind., died Sept. 16. editor for the Merrillville Post-Tribune, where he worked He spent 33 years at the Purdue News Service and the for 23 years. Purdue Office of Public Information. Previously, he had been Brandi Borr, BA’91, of Chicago, died Jan. 4 of complica- managing editor at Hudson Valley Newspapers in Milton, tions from breast cancer. Borr was a stand-up comedian who N.Y. and a reporter and editor at the Fort Wayne made her illness an integral part of her act. Borr had worked News Sentinel. for the South Bend Tribune and for Tribune Media Services Margaret “Peg” Finucane, BA’72, a journalism profes- in Chicago. sor at Hofstra University in New York, died Nov. 18. She

Kara Lavengood, BAJ’05, is a producer for Amanda S. Robert, MA’06, is a staff writer Kirk D. Butts, BAJ’07, is a Web producer the Christian Broadcasting Network’s The 700 for the Illinois Times. She lives and works in and news reporter for television station WBKO Club in Virginia Beach, Va. Springfield, Ill. in Bowling Green, Ky. He joins fellow IU School of Journalism alumnus Samuel T. Provenzano, Kathleen Quilligan, BAJ’06, covers the Catelyn Bergstedt, BAJ’06, works in Chicago BAJ’07, who is a reporter and Internet producer City of Crown Point for The Times of North- as the editorial producer for apartments.com. for the station. “[We] used to share classes in west Indiana. Deanna Fry, BAJ’06, is a producer for WSJV the J-School and now share a newsroom at Fox 28 in Elkhart. Jackie Walker, BAJ’06, is a marketing and WBKO,” Butts writes. “It sure is small in the communications writer and editor with the world of broadcast journalism.” Butts and “I recently moved to Dallas, my hometown, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Provenzano both live in Bowling Green. Butts to take over as managing editor of American Rehabilitation in Chicago. can be contacted at [email protected]. Driver Magazine, a 130-page bimonthly automotive/lifestyle magazine,” writes Andrew J. Ganz, Michael H. Wilson, BAJ’06, works for Molly Erman, BAJ’07, works for Vanity Fair BAJ’06. “With a small staff — I’m responsible for Schurz Communications Inc. in South Bend, in New York, where she continues to freelance. writing, assigning and coordinating all editorial Ind. He writes,“It’s a convergence position, “I enjoy what I do, so the 55 hours a week — it has been a challenging but extraordinarily writing any breaking news that happens don’t seem so bad.” between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. for all [of the educational experience.” Ashley Ginascol, BAJ’07, is one of many company’s] South Bend media Web sites, mak- recent alumni at Fleishman-Hillard in Chicago. Katie M. Grenda, BAJ’06, is corporate mar- ing multimedia packages for them, dispatching She interned there last summer and joined keting manager for the Staten Island Yankees, the camera crews and potentially shooting video for the company full time as an assistant account Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees. She the sites at night.” Wilson lives in South Bend. lives in Manhattan and writes that she still cheers executive in the consumer marketing group for the Indianapolis Colts. for accounts such as Gatorade, Propel, and

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Converse. “I love agency life,” Ginascol says. rapher for The Morning Journal newspaper in among other things, he works on the company’s “It’s fast paced and ever-changing.” Lorain, Ohio. She lives in Elyria, Ohio. newsletter. The company is a leading manufac- turer of metal and hardwood burial caskets. Kelly Ginty, BAJ’07, continues to enjoy Sarah Parkman, BAJ’07, works in the her job in marketing communications at Indianapolis office of Hirons and Co. She had Rachel Ziemba Sorvig, BAJ’07, has joined WellPoint’s Cincinnati office, where she works worked for the “Sen. Chris Dodd for President” the communications department of Indiana Lt. in pharmacy benefits. ”I’m learning more about campaign in Iowa. Gov. Becky Skillman. the pharmaceutical and insurance industries Katie Tasker, BAJ’07, is a marketing intern Maria Karapetyan, MA’08, has joined Hill every day, and I’m continually taking on new at MABIS DMI, a health care corporation in & Knowlton’s Chicago office public affairs team responsibilities,” Ginty says. ”Lots of good north Chicago. Among other things, Tasker as an intern. “I’ve met with a few IU alumni writing projects!” Ginty lives minutes away from supports the company’s graphics activities using here, all of whom have been very nice and help- Danielle Mendelson, BAJ’07, of the University Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark. Also, she ful,” Karapetyan says. “I can’t wait until I meet of Cincinnati’s Admissions Office. does a lot of editing of instruction manuals more of them.” Jackie Gutmann, BAJ’07, has been and product stickers. New Media and Society recently accepted a working with Raytheon’s math and science Lanetta J. Williams, MA’07, of Grand paper by Lori DesRochers, MA’08, titled “The education program in Massachusetts as part Rapids, Mich., writes that she was one of 30 Radical Act of Mommy Blogging: Redefining of the Raytheon Leadership Development college graduates from across the country to be Motherhood Through the Blogosphere.” Program. Her team has launched an interactive selected into the Gannett Talent Development DesRochers says the initial version of the paper Web site for middle school students, www. Program. She works as an associate producer was written for the graduate Gender and Media mathmovesu.com. and editor for television station WZZM in Grand seminar taught by associate professor Radhika Brittany L. Hite, BAJ’07, is a financial Rapids. Williams served as editorial intern for Parameswaran. DesRochers also was accepted reporter with Credit Investment News, a weekly the Indiana Alumni Magazine from January as an Annenberg Fellow at the University of business publication in New York City. She lives 2006 to April 2007. Southern California’s Annenberg School for in Astoria, N.Y. Communication. In the fall she moves to Los Daryl Witte, BAJ’07, enjoys his job at the Angeles to pursue a Ph.D. in communication Mandy Johnson, BAJ’07, continues Batesville Casket Co. in Batesville, Ind., where, with an emphasis on ethnic and cultural studies. to enjoy her new job at the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association in California. She is in charge of the SIMA member newsletter and writes press releases and fact sheets. She also coordinates media relations at major surf industry events, including the Waterman’s Ball charity Levin documentary examines event and the weeklong Surf Summit. roots of modern photojournalism Phil Johnson, BAJ’07, is a media relations specialist with the Indiana Economic Development Corp. He had worked for two documentary was featured in the April years for the Indiana Department of Workforce issue of News Photographer magazine. Development and for The Daily Telegram in The film assembles interviews, foot- Adrian, Mich., where he covered education. age and photographs from the Great Ben Weller, MA’07, was one of 12 students to win a $2,000 scholarship from the Depression to show Stryker’s work and Overseas Press Club Foundation. Weller was to prove how he redefined photojour- also one of five students selected for an intern- nalism. Levin, a former Arbutus editor ship with Reuters news agency in Seoul, South and Indiana Daily Student photogra- Korea. The Overseas Press Club Foundation started the scholarship essay competition in pher, said although photography has 1992 and works to encourage young journal- The U.S Department of Agriculture become more technology-based, the ists to work overseas. Weller previously went to charged Roy Emerson Stryker with basics taught remain the same. Seoul in 2002 to teach English. He enjoys freelance photography. documenting the successes of the Farm “Photographers still have to do Security Administration during the research,” he said. “There are still men- Katie Ly, BAJ’07, has joined the New York- based Association of American Publishers. Ly Great Depression. What Stryker ended tors and people in the background.” had worked in the music industry before mov- up with was a visual chronicle of the Levin said he is grateful to the expe- ing to the AAP. hardships suffered across the country rience he gained at the Arbutus and Bethany J. Meadows, BAJ’07, is an as the economy hit rock bottom. IDS. The School of Journalism, he said, assistant account executive in health care for the GCI Group. She lives and works in New Stryker’s America, a documentary by is “a wonderful institution that helped York City. Laurence Levin, BS’82, tells the story me move forward in my career.” Amy E. Mills, BAJ’07, of Midland, Mich., is of Stryker’s mission. It shows the work Levin is the project manager at The a graphic artist at the Martha’s Vineyard Times of the photographers whom Stryker Assignment Desk in Washington, D.C., in Edgartown, Mass. She writes that she has hired and Stryker’s dedication to show- which matches freelance writers, editors been living in Edgartown since May 2007. ing evidence of the suffering experi- and photographers with clients. Anna R. Norris, BAJ’07, is a staff photog- enced during the Depression era. The Savannah Worley Courtesy photo

Fall Fallnewswire 20082008 // newswire / Fall 2008 < < 3939 39 > > In remembrance of my friend Bill Pittman

by Bernard Clayton

William Lewis Pittman, 82, former Bloomington bureau chief for the Indianapolis News and a long-time instructor in the School of Journalism, died April 6. He covered the Indianapolis 500 for many years, maintaining and editing the News’ annual race record book. Pittman also was interim publisher of the Indiana Daily Student in 1977.

ill Pittman and I came to Bloom- friend — compassionate, humorous, only for her famous sons (Indianapolis Bington at about the same time in the considerate, understanding. Bill was ever 500 winners Al and Bobby) but also for the ’60s. He came to open a bureau for the the gentleman. chili she made for race car drivers and crew Indianapolis News, a newspaper where I I knew him, too, as a newspaper- members. It grew in intensity during the had begun an editorial career eons before. man. He was a fine writer, an excellent time Bill covered the Indianapolis 500 race, Our relationship began on a profes- reporter, a topflight editor, accurate and as “Mom” each year added more jalapeno sional level. He covered the School of one with knowledge of the affairs of the peppers and tequila. She gave Bill the reci- Business, where I was an editor/writer. I university beyond almost all others. pe, and he brought it back to my kitchen. watched him through the hectic period of Bill loved to cook. He was good at There was always cheer in my day when the late 1960s campus unrest, including it, and many times when I was writing I had talked with Bill. the changing of presidents, and every day my cookbooks I would go to Bill for his I will miss him. my respect for him grew. Bill was ever the judgment of a dish. Bernard Clayton, ’38, LHD’97, is a for- professional doing an outstanding job Our best collaborative effort was mer reporter, photographer, Time-Life war under difficult and trying conditions. “Mom” Unser’s chili. She was a legend correspondent and IU writer and editor, as IU Archives Bill became a warm and trusted at every racetrack in the country, not well as a noted cookbook author. He lives in Bloomington.

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Reminisce with Marge All the fun of the fair edition

hen we look at Indiana University history, We still had a flatbed press in the old regular microphone Wone of its greatest public relations proj- Power Plant office and the papers were trucked like those used for ects started way back in 1922. The Indiana Daily to Indianapolis during the night. My memories radio sound. Ike Student became the first college newspaper to be are of a very hot week in a room opening was an iconoscope published on a state fairgrounds, and it was an onto the dirt race track. The thick dust was a to transmit the instant success. constant problem. visual portion. Students went to Indianapolis, wrote stories John Wilson was back on campus for our fall At the psychology about fair activities on their manual typewrit- 2007 alumni reunion, and he remembered cover- department’s exhibit, ers, and the copy was sent by auto down to ing the harness races on that dirt track. That expe- it was found that the Bloomington. There it was set in metal type rience boosted him into a job on the Indianapolis most emotion-stirring with hand-set headlines, and the old flatbed Times, where he covered harness racing. words among fairgo- Marjorie (Smith) press rolled. The papers went to Indianapolis Most of us roomed in big old houses across ers were “Hitler” Blewett, BA’48 that night, and when fairgoers entered the gates 38th Street from the fairgrounds. We covered and “kiss.” the next morning, there were stacks of the Daily livestock shows, canning and cake judging, and Using pictures in 1939 was not clicking Student all over the grounds. It happened every human interest stories from all over the grounds. a digital camera or cell phone. Plans were day for a week. There were stories about cattle, As I researched the history of the state fair made well in advance. Metal engraving plates horse races and homemaking awards mixed in edition, I pored over the bound volume of the were made with an acid etching process, then with stories about IU — students, faculty and 1938-39 Daily Student. The yellowed pages of mounted on wooden blocks in Bloomington. notable events. Talk about great P.R.! the 1939 fair were a most interesting outlook These included head and shoulders pictures The 1923 Arbutus brags that the state fair on the world as well as the fairgrounds. of professors to go with stories, or of Governor edition was the outstanding innovation of the Monday, Sept. 4 had a streamer headline, Clifford Townsend for his fair visit. A picture year for the Daily Student. “Under the editorship “1914 Re-enacted for Europe.” World War II of the student staff had been taken ahead and of Ernest T. Pyle, summer student editor, five was under way and Hoosiers were worried. The used in one issue. daily six- to eight-page editions were issued.” liner Athens, with 1,400 refugees from Europe, Bob Corya, BA’56, and Stu Huffman, BA’56, There was a press run of 10,000 each day. It had been torpedoed and sunk, according to the remember working in the 1950s on another was such a hit that it became the official state Associated Press. “It is 1914 all over again; in outreach project, the Lake County Fair Daily fair newspaper. most of Europe the guns must roar again.” The Student. Bob said it was at Crown Point and That’s right, Ernie Pyle was the first editor staff did a very informal poll of 100 fairgoers Stu said it was at Lowell. Well, it was in the of the State Fair Daily Student. He started a long and found 90 said, “The U.S. should not enter Region in northwest Indiana. tradition of a student-written newspaper at a the war at this time.” Funny about our selective memories. fairgrounds. It was a great fit for the farm boy News of the war was on page one every day, Stu remembers the seductive, sweet odor of the from Dana, Ind. but the fair went on. David Richardson, BA’40, caramel corn stand next to the office. Helen My involvement in this annual project was was editor. (He went on to the Army’s Stars and Wallin D’Amico, BA’42, MS’69, recalls the fun in August 1947, when I was editor-in-chief and Stripes and a distinguished career as a foreign of the nightly expeditions to the midway bright went to Indianapolis. There were five of us with correspondent and an editor of U.S. News and lights after the day’s work was done. Prof. John Stempel in charge (and I do mean in World Report.) How many years did the State Fair Edition charge). Names I remember on the staff were Every day the paper had a map of the fair- publish? With a pause during World War II, it John Wilson, BA’48; Bob Thompson, BA’49; Bill grounds and a half-page listing of what was going ran until 1955. When Stu Huffman came back Dyer, BA’49; and Muriel McSweeney, BA’48. on in the IU Building. There were exhibits from from service in 1956, he learned, to his dismay, In Bloomington, Charles Vaughan, BA’48, nursing, dentistry, medicine, safety and occupa- the project had folded. was sitting in the slot of Daily Student copy tional therapy. Indiana University has not played such desk as managing editor. He monitored the Every day there was a free stage program that a prominent role in the Indiana State Fair in Associated Press wire and laid out pages ran all day “in a mechanically-ventilated auditori- more recent years. The last three years there amongan army of ads from Indianapolis um with 800 seats. Come as you are, stay as long was an Indiana University Day at the fair. But and Bloomington merchants. as you wish.” That was “air conditioning,” folks, it couldn’t begin to have the impact of bundles Technology had changed a lot since 1922, and the shows drew sweaty crowds on muggy of the Daily Student, still inky from the press, and we had an AP Teletype operator who September days. found at crucial spots around the vast fair- brought his machine to our office in the IU One story reported television was “not just grounds. People were sitting on benches, riding Building at the fairgrounds. He sent our articles around the corner any more. It’s right here at the the trolley, or leaning against a building in the over the wire to Bloomington where Chuck fairgrounds.” That drew 9,000 a day to the IU shade, reading that day’s news of their state fair.

Tyra Robertson Tyra wrote headlines and “put the paper to bed.” building for the Mike and Ike Show. Mike was a It really was great public relations.

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Journalism student Hilary Robinson walks through the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France. Robinson traveled to Europe with other students in Owen Johnson’s spring semester class, From London to Paris; In the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle. Photo by Tim Street

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