THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY Year in Review FALL 2013 ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH YEAR
Alumni flock to Thornburg named visiting lecturer Chronicle events in New York City Journalist will help Chronicle transition to new digital model Thanks to generous gifts from transition into a digital model,” two donors, Ryan Thornburg, said Danielle Muoio, editor of a professional journalist with Volume 109. “We will be providing expertise in digital journalism, will around-the-clock coverage through take up residence in 301 Flowers our website and blogs. We will also this year. be focusing on how we package this content, stressing the importance Gifts from the Jean T. and of photos and video as important Heyward G. Pelham Foundation, mediums for relaying campus news, made at the direction of Ann arts coverage and local/national Pelham ’74, and from Richard Karen Blumenthal '81 politics. We have some lofty goals Melcher ’74 have established the this year, so a visiting lecturer is addresses a crowd at the Visiting Lectureship in Digital Huffington Post in May. extremely important for helping us Ryan Thornburg Journalism. During the 2013-2014 with this transition.” Visiting Lecturer academic year, Thornburg, an associate professor of journalism at Thornburg will provide “Now that we've completed a the University of North Carolina at expert, on-site advice as the staff yearlong strategic planning process, Chapel Hill, will help the editorial implements a new operating we are ready to make staff accelerate The Chronicle’s model adopted in June by the thoughtful changes to our transition from a great newspaper Board of Directors of Duke organization in the coming years,” with a website to a multimedia Student Publishing Company, Beck said. “The bulk of those news organization whose products the independent nonprofit changes will fall to our editorial include a great newspaper. organization that publishes The students, who are already managing Chronicle, said general manager so much more than we could have Eric Friedman '97 (L) “The Chronicle is making Chrissy Beck. imagined even 10 years ago.” talking with Harsha some major strides this year as we See LECTURESHIP on page 11 Murthy '81 and Jimmy Soni '07, who co-hosted the Huffington Post event. Chronicle 2.0: Report from the General Manager and Board Chair
The year 2012-13 has been an incredible story of cooperation and teamwork among our staff, students, board members and alums—it is amazing what we’ve accomplished in the past 12 months to ensure that The Chronicle and the Duke Student Publishing Company stay strong and relevant. We start this letter by offering our gratitude for your commitment to The Chronicle, Elizabeth Morgan Chrissy Beck demonstrated in so many ways by so many people. Board Chair General Manager An audience member poses a question to the panel You will read in this Year in Review about our perspectives as DSPC’s general manager and at the October event “All excellent editorial coverage, the recoding of our board chair, here are our top headlines from the President’s Tweets: Old web site and integration of more digital tools Volume 108. Politics, New Media and and products, the strategic planning process and See REPORT on page 3 Campaign 2012.” our successful annual fund campaign. From our
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Editorial Office Space Resolved There was some bad news: Subscription sales and national Duke’s renovation projects in Page and West Union buildings advertising both took a nosedive. Since neither category is a threatened to displace our editorial staff from their hallowed (and large percentage of our annual revenue target, however, it was humble) home – 301 Flowers. After years of talks that stressed the easily replaced by an outstanding year in new digital ad sales. We importance of safety and convenience for our students who work finished the year at a whopping $90,000 in digital sales, compared so late into the night, we got the news we wanted to hear – we’re to $47,000 last year. not moving. Now, to be fair, the university ran out of money for the repairs to Page that could have caused our relocation, but Staffing changes drove our success in digital sales. We were we’re happy with the end result. fortunate to hire Megan McGinity, who came with seven years of experience as ad director at The Daily Tar Heel. Megan has We are grateful to have friends at Duke who appreciate the created systems and procedures, along with training programs, importance of The Chronicle to the university and who are willing that set us up for continued success in digital ad sales. to support us in these matters. Rebecca Dickenson finished up a productive first year as ad The Chronicle advertising, business and production staff director. Rebecca has been on staff for the last five years but relocated in early May to the old International House location flourished in this new leadership role. We had the best sales year at the corner of Anderson and Campus Drives. The West Union ever for our advertising student staff. Our new housing site—www. building renovation, though delayed (you can find excellent nearduke.com—is up and we are working on a dining companion coverage of this on www.dukechronicle.com), is moving forward piece to launch in early September. and all offices in that building are moving out never to return. We are working hard to make this a temporary move and hope Alhough we had a better-than-expected year, we understand the to unite all offices in Flowers in the near future. “Temporary” need to work hard and constantly innovate to stay competitive. in Duke terms seems to be approximately three years, so we are We simply could not survive without our print ad revenue, so we settling in very nicely in the meantime. are continuing to focus on promoting our content and optimizing distribution. New Strategic Plan Adopted in June 2013 Good-Bye to Two Board Veterans, Reluctantly This was the year we bit the bullet and did the difficult and detailed work necessary to envision what it means for a student After many years, Karen Blumenthal ’81 and David Ingram newspaper to become a “digital first” multimedia company. Why ’03 retired from the DSPC board in June. Karen and Dave led us is this so important? Because our readers now expect to get news through the difficult days of the 2008 crash and ensured that The when it happens, online. Without this shift, we would risk losing Chronicle stayed healthy while many of our peers struggled. We readership. Why was it so difficult? Because it requires vision cannot be grateful enough for their stalwart service and dogged and change, especially from students who rely on a century- commitment to student journalism and fiscal discipline. Like many old print workflow to get the paper out while still making it to before and after them, The Chronicle has a permanent place in class. Tremendous thanks to the staffs of Volume 108 and 109, their hearts, and when challenged to navigate in turbulent waters, including Andrew Beaton, Daniel Carp, Lauren Carroll, Raisa they did not fail. They are tough acts to follow. Chowdhury, Sophia Durand, Yeshwanth Kandimalla, Nicole Kyle, Danielle Muoio, Jim Posen and Julian Spector for the With thanks, remarkable commitment of extra time and imagination they put into designing the new plane while still flying the old one. Board Chrissy Beck Elizabeth Morgan ’90 member Peggy Krendl ’94 led the overall planning effort and General Manager Board Chair made sure we finished what we started. P.S. This was my first year as general manager, and in some ways, Finances Hold Steady – Big Boost from Digital Sales it feels like the whole year was only a matter of days. I want to thank the editorial staff of Volume 108 in We had a better revenue year than expected. Although we particular for their patience in breaking in the new experienced a small loss from last year, we did 4 percent better in GM and, more importantly, for welcoming me into local sales than budgeted. The first few issues of 2013-14 actually that part of our organization. There are tough days in beat last year’s numbers. this business, but the thing I enjoy the most is working with all of our students at The Chronicle. They are smart, talented and passionate about what we are here to do. – Chrissy Beck 3 Ripped from the Headlines Notable stories from 2012-13 Making Bank: Duke to launch multibillion dollar campaign By Nicole Kyle | July 1, 2012
This September, the University will publicly announce the start of the largest capital campaign in Duke’s history. The campaign will conclude in Fall 2017 and will focus on the University’s core strategic values, particularly supporting and expanding the faculty, growing the University’s financial aid resources and developing innovative academic programming, President Richard Brodhead said. The goal for the campaign has not been officially set, though fundraising is expected to exceed the $2.3 billion raised by the Campaign for Duke—the University’s last capital campaign, which concluded in 2003, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The campaign will officially launch the weekend of Sept. 28, at which time the Board of Trustees will approve the fundraising goal, Brodhead said.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2012/07/02/making-bank-duke-launch-multibillion-dollar-campaign ACC files lawsuit against Maryland Monday By Andrew Beaton | November 27, 2012 The Big Ten/ACC Challenge got a little of the $52 million required spicier this week. The ACC filed a lawsuit against to leave the ACC. The exit Maryland in North Carolina state court after the fee was raised to that figure Terrapins announced last week their intentions Sept. 11, 2012 prior to the to join the Big Ten conference. The case was addition of Notre Dame to filed in the Greensboro courthouse Monday, the conference as a partial according to a copy of the complaint obtained by member. Maryland and Florida State were the only The Chronicle. The lawsuit concerns the payment two schools to vote against the increase.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2012/11/27/acc-files-lawsuit-against-maryland-monday
Duke Kunshan University delayed again, following communication and funding problems
By Lauren Carroll | February 8, 2013 the campus’ six buildings are Poor management and insufficient funding near completion. Ripped from the Headlines Ripped from contributed to major construction problems that have Duke caused the fifth significant delay of Duke Kunshan administrators University’s opening in three years. now expect The campus’ opening has been delayed another that Kunshan semester to Fall 2014. Construction slowed to almost developers will a full stop in 2012 despite promises of development finish two of from the Kunshan government, which manages and the campus’ six buildings by Spring 2014. Yet as of funds the campus’ construction. Currently, none of September 2012, Kunshan maintained that five of the six buildings would be ready by July 2013. 4 http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/02/08/duke-kunshan-university-delayed-again-following-communication-and-funding-problems Duke Kappa Sigma party ignites firestorm of criticism Fraternity operations suspended by nationals
By Georgia Parke | February 5, 2013
A theme party held Friday by Kappa Sigma fraternity has drawn major backlash from the Asian community and others at the University and online. At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, several students, including seniors Ashley Tsai, Tong Xiang and Ting-Ting Zhou Ideal DukeEngage posted fliers across campus protesting a Kappa Sigma party that took place Feb. 1. The fliers included emails experience elusive for some containing racially insensitive language sent out to party invitees and photographs from Facebook of costumed Assessing DukeEngage: Part 1 students at the party with their faces obscured. The actions precipitated criticism both of the party and Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series of the fliering, and resulted in an official apology evaluating DukeEngage since its inception in 2007. Today’s from Kappa Sigma. “This is not just about Asians, one article focuses on the DukeEngage experience for students. party or one frat,” Tsai said. “This is a consistent thing In Part 2, The Chronicle will analyze the relationship happening. We want serious things to be done by the between DukeEngage and the Duke brand. In Part 3, The student body and the University so that this never Chronicle will illustrate critiques of the program and discuss happens again.” DukeEngage’s responsive strategic plan.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/02/05/duke-kappa-sigma- By Anna Koelsch | April 18, 2013 party-ignites-firestorm-criticism As DukeEngage enters its sixth summer, the University’s signature civic engagement program is still encountering challenges as it attempts to bring its ambitious mission to fruition. Donations insufficient
Since its creation, the heralded program has Ripped from the Headlines sent almost 2,000 students around the world for remodel and gives a summer experience to roughly 5 By Emma Baccellieri | May 23, 2013 percent of the Duke student body every year. One of the foremost challenges for the program, Even after receiving the largest donation in Duke’s which has an annual budget of more than $4 history, the University is struggling to carry out a million, is striking a balance between service to major renovation project. the community and ensuring that students have a In March 2011, the Charlotte-based Duke meaningful and positive experience. Endowment announced the single biggest gift that the University had ever received—an $80 million http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/04/18/ideal- contribution designed to be paid over several dukeengage-experience-elusive-some years, which would fund renovations for Baldwin Auditorium, West Union Building and Page Auditorium. But as the planning process advanced, technical and budgetary concerns have forced Duke to re-evaluate its project. Although the renovations to Baldwin are nearly complete, the Board of Trustees recently rejected the plan for the West Union for the full stories, remodel, prompting a redesign, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Furthermore, it is unknown visit when the full $80 million will be delivered to Duke, dukechronicle.com and Page will be too expensive to fully renovate with the available funds. http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/05/23/donations- insufficient-remodel 5 News & Notes Awards, Honors and Transitions
Danielle Muoio elected Chronicle editor
In February, the staff of The Chronicle elected sophomore Danielle Muoio to serve as editor-in-chief of its 109th volume. Muoio was appointed editor of The Chronicle and president of Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., which publishes the independent student- run daily newspaper. She succeeded junior Yeshwanth Kandimalla for a one-year term beginning in May. Danielle Muoio As editor, Muoio is responsible for determining the content of the newspaper and serving as the public face they’re achieving their goals to reach their audience in the of The Chronicle. She leads a staff of approximately 200 best way,” Muoio said. student reporters, editors, photographers, layout designers, web developers and additional contributors. Muoio, an English and history major from Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., began her career at The Chronicle at the In her platform, Muoio emphasized the need to balance start of her freshman year, writing chiefly for the Health a high quality of content with a strong online presence— and Science department. She became a staff writer for the working both on producing more investigative, analytical section that December, and Kandimalla promoted her to its content and on making the news available in the most editor last March. effective manner possible. Adapted from a story by Emma Baccellieri that originally “I’ll be working with all of the sections to make sure that appeared on February 18, 2013.
Internships held by Chronicle staffers, Summer 2013 Paid internship at the Raleigh News & Observer (supported by gifts to the Chronicle Experience Fund) Julian Spector, news editor, Volume 108
The Roger Madoff Scholarship, which honors the late Chronicle staffer Roger Madoff ’95 and supports an internship at Bloomberg News Andrew Beaton, sports editor, Volume 108
Julian Spector’s assignments at the News & Observer reflected the richness of topics the metro desk covers: obits, train collisions, vehicle tax policy, bills going through the legislature, Moral Monday protests and small town heroes in Wake Forest. He commented on his experience in an email. “I didn't know control, which let what they would me pursue more have for a brand he exposure to the lifestyle nuanced journalistic new intern at the Tand routines of daily skills, like how to News & Notes N&O newsroom, newspaper journalism got me approach sensitive hooked... but they put me crime stories or find to work right compelling local — Julian Spector away and my hooks for national first article was news items. The published online exposure to the before I got home lifestyle and routines from my first day. Thanks to my Chronicle of daily newspaper journalism got me experience with writing,‘ editing‘ and fact- hooked, and I'm looking forward to applying 6 checking, I came in with all the basics under to such jobs for next year.” Beaton receives Sclafani Award
Andrew Beaton, a current senior and sports editor in recipient this year,” Beaton said. 2012-13, is the 21st student to receive the Matthew A. Sclafani “Honoring Matthew Sclafani's Award for journalistic excellence and service to The Chronicle. memory is a tremendous Chronicle He was honored April 20 at the annual Sclafani Memorial tradition.” Banquet. The committee that selected Beaton Andrew Beaton “We chose Andrew despite tough competition for the award also included Leigh Dyer ’92, a friend because we felt that he had a transformative impact on The of Sclafani’s; Jay Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Chronicle in an age of significant change for newspapers Center for Media & Democracy at Duke’s Sanford School of and for journalism,” Public Policy; former said Will Robinson Chronicle editor ’11, who chaired Sclafani winner Andrew Beaton describes a Lindsey Rupp ’12; and the committee that year of innovation in the sports department Volume 108 editor selected Beaton. Yeshwanth Kandimalla. “One of his peers who In an email interview, Andrew Beaton described how The Chronicle’s sports recommended him department employed blogs, social media and The Chronicle’s website to Two other students for the award said, provide the Duke community with round-the-clock breaking news. were recognized for ‘Andrew has led the their contributions to “The sports staff this year made a major push to develop a more transformation of the comprehensive online presence. We were able to do this through our The Chronicle. sports department blog (The Blue Zone), The Chronicle's website and social media. On the from a print-focused, blog, we aimed to keep readers engaged regularly with content that Senior Jim Posen, semi-competitive could be presented more casually than typical AP-Style newspaper director of online section to forward- articles. This meant both keeping the blog updated daily and doing so operations, received thinking 21st in ways we weren't always used to. It also meant further use of video the Editor’s Award century journalistic and social media. Our Twitter handles continued their exceptional from Kandimalla. enterprise.” growth (@dukebasketball surpassed 60,000 followers this year) as we continued to provide up-to-the-second updates and precise content “The Chronicle is In his application while also using Twitter to interact with our readers, which we could among a small group then turn into unique content for The Blue Zone. for the award, Beaton of campus publications wrote that he was “On dukechronicle.com, we aimed to compete with national news whose website's inspired by Matt outlets in terms of producing our stories in a timely manner rather than technical aspects are Sclafani’s well-known functioning on a once-a-day print news cycle. During football season, managed in-house by ability to excite and we made sure to post stories on Saturdays even though we didn't have student programmers,” motivate his staff to issues on Sundays. During basketball season, we furthered that to post Kandimalla said. pursue challenging a story immediately as games ended. That story would then be updated “Maintaining this stories, Robinson throughout the night with more quotes and information. These were system requires a noted. just the first of many steps The Chronicle needs to take to develop a talented, highly more comprehensive online presence, and I was thrilled with the efforts committed group of of this year's sports staff to begin turning those goals into a reality.”
“We found that students. I am very News & Notes evident in the sports grateful to Jim for department’s work heading up online under his leadership development in a and we were equally very critical period of impressed by the growth and change for many enterprising The Chronicle. His job stories with Andrew’s wasn't easy, but he's byline, including his scoop that the Atlantic Coast Conference very sharp and a great team player as well.” would sue Maryland for leaving the conference, he said” Nicole Kyle ’13 won the Rolly C. Miller Award, established The Sclafani Memorial Award was established in 1992 by in honor of a longtime employee of The Chronicle to the family and friends of Matt Sclafani ’91. Sclafani, The recognize a staff member who displays “extraordinary Chronicle’s editor in 1990-91, was diagnosed with leukemia in positive qualities, including humor, generosity of spirit and November 1990. He died in February 1992. passion for The Chronicle and shares that passion with others; who exhibits a warmth and collegiality that brings “I was incredibly humbled to be selected as the Sclafani the staff closer together.” 7 The Chronicle Experience Fund: Third Time is a Charm
The Board of Directors of Duke Student Publishing Company, the professional staff and the student staff are grateful to everyone who made a gift between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013 in support of our mission: To be the first and best source of independent news and analysis about the Duke community and to develop outstanding leaders through journalism. In its third year, the Chronicle Experience Fund totaled ķ LEADERSHIP DONORS ($1,000 AND ABOVE) ĸ 167 gifts Karen Blumenthal '81 and Scott Frederick Klein '76 and Jill Klein Russell Robinson '81 for $61,085, McCartney '82 (matching gift applied for) Margaret E. “Peggy” Krendl '94 Craig Saperstein '02 an increase of Wallace E. Boston '76 Mark Kuhn '72 Laura L. Sessums '81 and Blake Biles 16 percent Andrew Burness '73 Vinay Kumar P'00 Kathleen E. Sullivan '89 and Adrian Dollard '92 Richard Liebeskind '80 Daniel M. Berger '89 over 2011-12. Nelson Ford '69 Elizabeth A. Morgan '90 Judy Woodruff '68 Thanks to all of Paul B. Gaffney '86 Jessica C. Moulton '99 One Anonymous Donor the alumni and Nina S. Gordon '80 Harsha Murthy '81 friends who gave so generously! ķ SUSTAINERS ($500 TO $999) ĸ
Mary Carmichael '01 and Robert Douglas '73, on behalf of Armando Gomez '90 Gary Nelson '64 Tim Millington Courtney Douglas '12,Laura Douglas Mark Jaffe '92 Steven Petrow '78 Ann Hardison Davison '08 and Candace Chandler '72, and in Peter Kenney '74 Stephen Veres '07 Deborah Douglas '73 memory of Robert Cochrane '31 Elizabeth “Betsy” McIntyre '93
ķ CONTRIBUTORS ($250 TO $499) ĸ We are especially GIFTS IN KIND grateful to the Eric Bramley ’03 and David Logan ’03 donated Philip Bennett Anne Newman '76 Jon Scher '84 and a copy of their book of cartoons, “Goodbye, anonymous donor Jonas Blank ‘01 David Pace '71 Charles Scher '87 Farewell, and Quiet, You!” The first five sections who made a gift Ann Heimberger '92 David Redlawsk '80 and Lesley Seymor '78 of $15,000 to Amanda Davis Lister '87 Aletia H. Morgan Lynda Klemm of the book originally appeared in The match first-time and Thomas H. Lister '86 Sang Foon Rhee '84 Stadtmueller '79 Chronicle from August 2000 through 2002. and increased gifts to the Chronicle Experience Fund. ķ SUPPORTERS ($1 TO $249) ĸ The matching Chelsea Allison '10 Richard Dixon '62 Meredith Jewitt '12 Tessa Oconnor '01 Clayton Steinman '71, in Peter Aman '88 Taylor Doherty '12 Elizabeth “Libbie” Jones '66 Barton Pachino '81 honor of Della Adkins challenge resulted Matthew Atwood '03 Ambika Doran '02 and Emma “Meg” Marcie Pachino '83 Thomas Sternberg '02 in nearly $16,500 in Michael Barranco '82 Paul Doran '03 Kedrowski '07 Robert Peltz '73 Joshua Stillman '12 new or larger gifts! Gregory Beaton '08 Denise Dunning '98 Laura Keeley '11 Jamie Pessin '01 and Erin Stone '76 New gifts (doubled Marc Bernstein '77 Preston “Beau” Dure '91 Naureen Khan '10 Gregory Pessin '01 Daniel Sullivan '95 David Bowser '84 Charles Ebel '78 Lorraine and Gary Mark Pinsky '70, in memory Deborah Swain '72 by the match) are Norman Bradley '01 Dana Fields '78 Klein P'02 of Richard K. Jeffrey Talmadge '75 highlighted in red Barry Bryant '78 Gordon Forbes '55 Margaret “Maggie” Smurthwaite '71 Sanette Tanaka '13 in our honor roll of Elizabeth Buchanan '79 Eric Friedman '97 Lawson '67 James Poles '75 Gilbert Thelen '60 Katherine Burkett '85 Alex Garinger '04 Kevin Lee '03, in honor of Philip Poley '91 W. Dean Thrasher '97 donors. Increased John Bush '03 Peter Gebhard '07 Rolly Miller Ilene Reid '81 Qinzheng Tian '06 gifts are highlighted Robert Califf '73 Robert Gilbreath '94 Kristy Lee '64 Michael Robbins '93 Zachary Tracer '11 in blue. Thomas Carroll '89 Judy Goffman '56 Joseph Levy '12, in honor William Robinson '11 Cheney Tsai '11, in honor Luther Carter '51 David Graham '09 of Chronline Jennifer Robinson '02 of Chronline Dean Chen '12 Jason Greenwald '93 Amy Linsky '01 Richard Rubin '02 John “Ed” Turlington '79 Lee Clay '79 Leslie Griffith '09 Julia Love '11 Lindsey Rupp '12 Jeffrey Vamos '84 Benjamin Cohen '10 Maxine Grossman '90 Jay Marlin '77 Robert Satloff '82 Eugene Wang '10 Rachel Cohen '00 Miles Gullingsrud '63, in Thomas Maroon '81 Michael Saul '94 Craig Whitlock '92 and Michael Corey '05 honor of Robert Windeler '62 James Mazur '79 and Chris Scheck '76 Jennifer Toth Richard Cowperthwait '72 Kendall Guthrie '85 Davia Mazur '80 Gillian Schiller '11 A. Morris Williams, Sr. '62 Malcolm Crawford '52 Alan Heil '57 and Jennifer McGovern '80 Norbert Schurer '01 Kelly Woo '01 Carroll “Shelly” Cryer '89 Dorothy Heil '58 Michael Moore '08 and John Seelke '96 Brendan Daly '84 Les Hoffman '71 Sarah Ball '08 Tejen Shah '13 Townsend Davis '86 David Ingram '03 Thomas Morgan Kenneth Shapiro '78 George “Dick” Denny '53 Joel Israel '99 Shannon Mullen '87 William Shew '86
We appreciate every gift of any amount, and make every effort to be accurate in our donor recognition. If we have omitted or failed to spell your name correctly, please let us know and we will correct the error in our records and in future publications. 8 Names in bold represent board members of the Duke Student Publishing Company. Events Bring Alumni Together in New York, D.C. and 301 Flowers
A presidential election, the rebirth of Duke football, Reunion Weekend and the chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones provided a series of great excuses for Chronicle alumni to get together in 2012-13. Here are some highlights:
October 1, 2012: The night before the first presidential debate, 150 Duke alumni, including 75 former Chronicle staffers, gathered at the New York Times building in New York for “All the President's Tweets: Old Politics, New Media and Campaign 2012." This so-called “fast and furious appraisal of money, media and presidential politics" featured Adam Chodikoff ’93, John Harwood ’78, Rich Oppel ’90 and Greg Veis ’03 and was moderated by Peter Applebome ’71.
April 13, 2013: “Chronicle ReTweet III” brought 50 alumni to 301 Flowers for a Reunion Weekend gathering hosted by David Ingram ’03.
May May 1, 2013: “A Conversation 30, 2013: with the Coach: David Cutcliffe on Harsha Resurrecting Duke Football” Murthy brought 85 alumni, '81 hosted including 45 former “Food, Chronicle staffers, to the Drink and D.C. offices of Hogan Lovells News,” an LLC for a highly entertaining intimate discussion between Coach gathering Cut and Ben Cohen ’10 of of current The Wall Street Journal. Like and former our fall election preview, this Chronicle event was co-sponsored by staffers, The Chronicle and the Duke many of Alumni Association. whom work in or cover the financial services industry. Jimmy Soni ’07 made space available at Huffington Post headquarters and Karen Blumenthal ’81 described the strategic plan The Chronicle has adopted to keep the organization financially solid and relevant in the digital age. Over the past three years, many Chronicle alumni have given generously of their time and resources to plan and host alumni gatherings large and small. A short list includes Chelsea Allison ’10, Peter Applebome ’71, Sarah Ball ’08, Anne Newman ’76, Lindsey Rupp ’12 and Jon Scher ’84 in New York; and Bob Douglas ’73, Ann Davison ’86, David Graham ’09, David Ingram ’03, Fred Klein ’76, Elizabeth Morgan ’90, Harsha Murthy ’81, and Ann Pelham '74 in Washington, D.C. Thanks to everyone who helps make these great events possible! 9 After the Masthead 1970s 2000s Lynda (Klemm) Stadtmueller '79 After five years in London, Emily Cronin lives in Bernardsville, N.J., and is market '07 recently moved to New York, where she is analyst/program director for cloud a Contributing Editor to ELLE UK. She also services at Frost & Sullivan. contributes fashion and cultural coverage to publications including Harper's Bazaar, the Guardian, the Telegraph Magazine, Style.com and After the Masthead 1980s Fashionista.com. See more at www.emilycronin.me. provides an Meg Lawson '03 graduated from the University opportunity for alumni Chris Smith '83 is a contributing editor of Tennesse College of Veterinary Medicine in Chronicle staffers at New York magazine. May 2012, and works as an associate veterinarian at to keep classmates Heartland Veterinary Hospital of Elizabethtown, Ky. and the greater Chronicle community 1990s informed of significant 2010s accomplishments. Mark Mazzetti '96 is the author of “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Chelsea Allison '10 is Silicon Valley reporter at Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of The Recorder, a legal affairs publication based in the Earth,” published by Penguin Press San Francisco. HC in April 2013. Ben Cohen '10 is a full-time reporter based in New York for the sports bureau of The Wall Street Craig Whitlock '90 was part of a team Journal. There are four ways to submit of Washington Post reporters nominated notes for publication: for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in National Nicholas Schwartz '12 is social news editor at USA Reporting for their fresh exploration TODAY Sports. Fax: of how American drones moved from a 919.668.1247 temporary means to kill terrorists to a Eugene Wang '10 is a software engineer at The Email: permanent weapon of war, raising issues New York Times' new digital products group. The [email protected] of legality and accountability. group designs, builds and markets new applications across various distribution platforms for the Times. Write: Director of External Relations, The Chronicle, Box 90858, Durham, NC 27708-0858 In Memoriam Online: Fill out the form at the Bob Kolin Times, staff writer for the Theater’s production of “The “Send Us Your News” site on the '78 died in Raleigh, N.C., News and Normal Heart” in Durham. Chronicle Alumni Portal, April 2013 of Observer, director of media While volunteering for the North www.dukechroniclealumni.com complications relations for the North Carolina Human Rights Fund he from multiple Carolina Democratic Party, wrote numerous articles about strokes. His Wake County Public School gay issues for North Carolina partner of 21 System public information newspapers. Bob Kolin was born years, Keith Miller, was by his director and director of August 19, 1956, in Houston, side. During his undergraduate marketing and communications Texas where he graduated first in years he served at various times for The North Carolina Center his class of 600 from Lamar High as managing editor, contributing for Independent Colleges. Until School. He graduated cum laude editor, production editor and his illness prevented him from with a degree in political science staff writer for The Chronicle. practicing, he was a therapeutic from Duke. A celebration of his His career in journalism and massage therapist. Bob was life was held on May 18 at Pullen media relations included working proud of his participation as Baptist Church on Hillsborough 10 as a stringer for The New York an actor in the Man Bites Dog Street in Raleigh. LECTURESHIP from page 1
To put the new model in place, this year’s top editors will need to reorganize the staff and redistribute the work flow to deliver new Ann Pelham Richard Melcher products and services in multiple digital formats. They will train recruits in multiple media, from print to blog to video. They will also explore new process by which The Chronicle reports the news,” Pelham said. “That is technology, products and partnerships to keep The Chronicle fresh and really hard to do while you are putting out a daily newspaper.” relevant, all while producing an award-winning print publication four days “The goal of the visiting lectureship is to help The Chronicle provide a week. another century of opportunity for students to learn how to become Thornburg will speed the transition to a 24-hour news cycle by advising working journalists,” she continued. “We are impressed with the work the students on current best practices in the field and helping train them on Board of Directors has done to make sure The Chronicle’s financial base multiple reporting platforms, Beck noted, complementing and amplifying is strong, and we are happy to support this excellent idea.” many of the duties now performed by DSPC’s Board of Directors and The visiting lectureship is a joint position between the DeWitt Wallace the working journalist alumni who visit Center for Media & Democracy at Duke campus twice a year to staff the Tifft University’s Sanford School of Public Policy Training Conferences. He will not manage and The Chronicle. Thornburg will devote the editorial content or the staff—as his is an exciting, the majority of his time to advising Chronicle always, editorial content will be the sole Ttransformative time for staffers, and he will also be a resource for the responsibility of the student staff. media organizations – and DeWitt Wallace Center. Gifts to the visiting for their readers. The new visiting lectureship, made through Sanford, count “This entire region is becoming lecturer can help provide Chronicle increasingly known for its digital media toward the University’s $3.25 billion Duke reporters and editors with the tools Forward capital campaign. innovation,” Thornburg said. “This and insights that will make the opportunity is not only going to build publication as impactful, important Muoio recognized the generosity of the stronger stories for another segment and relevant going forward as it has Pelham Foundation and Richard Melcher, and of the news audience here, but it’s also been throughout its history.” the support of the DeWitt Wallace Center, led going to be yet another media research ‘ by Phil Bennett, former member of the DSPC and development that shows how our ‘ ---Rick Melcher Board of Directors. universities are leading the industry.” “We are very grateful to the Pelham The Pelham Foundation is excited about Foundation and Richard Melcher, who have providing the staff of Volume 109 with provided the financial support to make this on-site support during a critical period in possible, and to the DeWitt Wallace Center for collaborating on a project The Chronicle’s history, said Pelham, editor of the paper in 1973-74 and that will benefit The Chronicle’s staff,” Muoio said. “Ryan will be very emeritus chair of DSPC. important for realizing our goals, and we greatly appreciate the financial “The strategic plan is about helping the student staff remake the and programmatic support that is making it possible.” In Memoriam Jay Carl photos being published Stamp Club. He enjoyed Anderson '78 around the world. He was gardening and was member of the of St. Petersburg, also a sports photographer Gulfport Garden Club. He was Fla., died Friday, and photographed many also a member of the Museum February 8, 2013. of the Duke basketball of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Born in Utica, teams. Prior to moving to He graduated cum laude with a N.Y., he moved St. Petersburg, he was also bachelor’s degree in history from to Florida in 2010 from Durham, projectionist for the Carolina Duke. He is survived by many N.C. He was employed by the Theater in Durham, N.C. He relatives, including his wife of 23 American Dance Festival for 15 was an avid stamp collector and years, Saundra P. Anderson of St. years, with many of his dance a member of the St. Petersburg Petersburg. 11 Enter Title Here THE INDEPENDEN Box 90858 D D urham, uke U niversity N C 27708-0858 T
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