JOCK LAUTERER
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Personal
Senior Lecturer/Teaching Professor Director, the Carolina Community Media Project 212 Carroll Hall cb 3365 School of Journalism and Mass Communication the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3365
Home address: 122 Araya Lane Chapel Hill, N.C. 27516 [email protected] Office (919) 962-6421 Home (919) 968-1797 Mobil (619) 619-1034
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., double major in Journalism and Geography, 1967.
Professional Experience
• Director of Public Information Brevard College, N.C. 1986-1991 Duties included public relations, publications and design, alumni magazine, and running the College’s news bureau; also taught journalism to freshmen and sophomores. Adviser to the twice-monthly student newspaper, the Clarion.
• Director of Special Events WUNC-FM 1985-1986 Produced the program guide and created and coordinated public information for the National Public Radio station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Founding Editor and Publisher The McDowell Express 1980-1983 Founding editor and publisher of weekly newspaper in Marion, N.C.; converted to twice- weekly in 1981; sold in 1983.
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• Founding Co-Editor and Co-Publisher This Week 1969-1980 Along with partners, started and ran a weekly newspaper in Forest City, N.C.; converted to daily (The Daily Courier) in 1978. Served as co-editor until 1980; sold out to partners to launch start-up in Marion, N.C., the McDowell Express.
• Editor The Alleghany News 1968-1969 Ran a one-man weekly newspaper in Sparta, N.C., for a small chain.
• Reporter/photographer The Chapel Hill Weekly 1967-1968 General assignment duties; entry level position.
• Features and Photo Editor; staff photographer The Daily Tar Heel 1963-67 Coordinated features and all photos for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student daily newspaper; began as staff photographer, summer 1963.
Honors
Nominated for the C. Knox Massey Award for public service, spring 2017, by the School of Media and Journalism, UNC-Chapel Hill.
“Leaders in Diversity” award, small company category, for the Durham VOICE, from the Triangle Business Journal, September 2016.
Awarded second place nationally by AEJMC Newspaper Division for the Durham VOICE, in the annual online college online newspaper competition, August 2015.
Recipient, the N.C. Central University award for community service, for the Durham VOICE, in recognition of community engagement, April 2015.
“The Roots Journalism Award,” first-ever award presented by the Community Journalism Interest Group, AEJMC, for service to the industry and academy for creating and sustaining community journalism education nationally and internationally, AEJMC, Washington, DC., August 2013.
Featured in the center spread of the Carolina Center for Public Service annual report, “Engaged Scholarship: Connection Carolina Communities, 2012-2013” for a photograph with VOICE Teen Mentoring Coordinator Carlton Koonce mentoring Durham urban youth in a high school journalism class.
Best of the Web, honorable mention, the Durham VOICE, AEJMC Newspaper Division national competition, 2012.
2 Fulbright grant from the U.S. State Dept. to teach Community Journalism in China, May 2012, at Communication University of China and Renmin University, Beijing.
Nominated by JOMC for the inaugural Edward Kidder Graham award for Public Service at UNC, fall 2010.
"The Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism," second place, awarded by the Scholastic Journalism Division, "in recognition of an outstanding program that promotes interest and training in scholastic journalism at the K-12 level," AEJMC, Denver, Aug. 2010.
"The Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award," awarded to the Carolina Community Media Project "in recognition of outstanding service to the state of North Carolina through the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE," UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2010.
Awarded one of eight Faculty Engaged Scholar Program awards, fall 2007, by the UNC- CH Center for Public Service and the Office for Engagement, for work across the state with community journalism. Completed two-year curriculum, Spring 2010.
Winner of a Bryan Award for Public Service, from the Carolina Center for Public Service, April 2005, for work across the state with the Community Journalism Roadshow.
Winner of the inaugural Edward Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2004.
Awarded the National Geographic magazine faculty fellowship to study at the National Geographic magazine headquarters in Washington, D.C., summer 1998.
Invited visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies’ community/civic journalism seminar, “Reconnecting with Readers,” St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 1997. (First Penn State visual communications professor ever invited to serve as visiting Poynter faculty.)
Invited to participate in a live, radio roundtable discussion about photojournalism ethics relative to Princess Diana's death, WMAJ, State College, Pa., Sept. 3, 1997.
College Faculty Marshal for Summer Commencement:, Penn State, Aug. 1995.
Journalism Program Faculty Marshal, Spring Commencement, Penn State, May 1995.
Awarded a Poynter Teaching Fellowship to study the art of teaching print graphics. Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla., May 1995.
3 Nominated (1992 -'99) for the Penn State School of Communications Excellence in Teaching Award.
Winner of the Paragon Award, first place in the nation for best black and white photograph taken by a two-year college photographer, 1990.
Two Grand Awards, (first place) black and white photography, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III Southeast; also, third place for Most Improved Periodical, 1988.
President of the Journalism Alumni and Friends Association, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism, 1985-1987; vice president, 1983-1985.
Member, Alumni Board of Directors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983- 1985.
Co-winner of 55 press awards from the North Carolina Press Association, for excellence at newspapers founded and co-founded, 1968-1983.
Outstanding Independent Entrepreneur of the Year Award, McDowell Chamber of Commerce, for work founding and running The McDowell Express, Marion, N.C., 1981.
Gold Medal Award winner, North Carolina Arts Council statewide photographic competition, “North Carolina by North Carolinians,” 1973.
Outstanding Male Graduate of the Class of 1967, School of Journalism, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Order of the Old Well, student honorary society, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967.
The Toronto Exchange, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966.
Eagle Scout. Boy Scouts of America, Troop 39, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1961.
Bibliography (books all sole authorship)
Note: According to WorldCat, a database of 10,000 library catalogs, there are 13 works in my name in 32 publications in three languages and 1,800 library holdings, including 436 libraries that own at least one edition of Community Journalism: the Personal Approach, (the first two editions) and 225 libraries that own the 3rd edition. (Source: Park Library)
Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local, in Mandarin, sole author of book for
4 Chinese journalism students, professors and professionals, May 2014, Nan Fang Daily Press, Guangzhou, China.
Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local, 3rd. Ed. 2006, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. Korean translation, 2009; Rumanian translation, 2010.
Community Journalism: the Personal Approach, 2nd Ed., 2000, Iowa State University Press, second printing, summer 2001.
Community Journalism: An Instructor's Guide, 2nd Ed., 2000, Iowa State University Press, a companion volume to accompany the second edition; an eBook.
Community Journalism: An Instructor's Guide, 1996, Iowa State University Press, a companion volume to accompany the first edition of the community journalism textbook.
Community Journalism: the Personal Approach, 1995, 1st ed. Iowa State University Press, a college textbook, Also designed to serve as a handbook, survival manual and field guide for professionals. Second printing, spring 1997.
Hogwild: a Back-to-the-Land Saga, 1993, The Appalachian Consortium Press of Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C. A retrospective on the homesteading movement of the ‘70s. Photos and text follow the trials of a young back-to-the- lander.
Runnin’ on Rims, 1986, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. A second volume of oral history and Appalachian portraits, also received with praise from Southern Living, People and Country Living magazines.
Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ for My Journey Now, 1980, the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. Oral history and black and white photographs of 35 elderly mountain people from the Southern Appalachians. Critically acclaimed by The Washington Post and Southern Living, as well as every major daily newspaper in North Carolina. Nominated for the Mayflower Award and included on the N.C. Historical Society’s book list for 1981.
Only in Chapel Hill, 1968, by the Journalism Foundation of North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A collection of black and white photographs depicting the campus and town in the ‘60s.
Refereed Papers
“Why Community Newspapers are Burgeoning in China: And What Can We Learn from that Explosive Growth,” presented at the Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium XX, sponsored by the Kansas State University Huck Boyd Center for
5 National Center for Community Media, in conjunction with the annual NNA (National Newspaper Association’s 128th Annual Convention and Trade Show) San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 2-5, 2014.
“Toto, I don’t think we’re just in Kansas anymore: how U.S. Community Newspapers are Serving as Models for the Chinese,” at the annual “Community Journalism and Community-Building Symposium, Charleston, S.C., sponsored by the National Newspaper Association and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University, 2012.
“Why Community Weeklies Are Surviving the Recession,” presentation to the National Newspaper Association’s 123rd Annual Convention, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 26, 2009.
“Hold that Obituary! Community Newspapers are Alive and Well,” juried paper presentation for the 12th annual Newspapers and Community Building Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oct. 13, 2006, sponsored by KSU’s Huck Boyd Center for Community Media in conjunction with the annual NNA Convention.
“A Johnny Appleseed Community Journalism Roadshow,” for the annual community journalism symposium, “Newspapers and Community-Building,” sponsored by Kansas State University and the annual NNA convention, Denver, Colo., Sept. 16-17, 2004.
“¿Hablamos Espanol? How Mainstream Community Newspapers Cover Their Latino Communities,” for the annual community journalism symposium, “Newspapers and Community-Building,” sponsored by Kansas State University and the annual NNA convention, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 23-25, 2003.
“The Forum: How a Student-Created Online Newspaper Energized our College,” AEJMC, special creative teaching projects session, Visual Communications Division, New Orleans, August 1999.
Presented papers at the annual national community journalism symposium, "Newspapers and Community Building," sponsored by the National Newspaper Association and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media, Kansas State University: “About that Little Old Lady from Dubuque,” Orlando, Fla., 1994; “Community Photojournalism 101,” St. Paul, Minn., 1995; “ Back to the Future,” Nashville, Tenn., 1996, “Paparazzi in Peoria?” Reno, Nev., 1998 “Accessibility Study” Louisville, Ky.. 1999 “One Toke Over the Line” Portland, Ore., 2002
Refereed Unpublished Oral presentations
6 Conference panelist: the 2nd Sino-US Community Journalism Conference, Lexington, Ky. University of Kentucky, Jan. 8-9, 2015: keynoter at the first such conference in Shanghai, May 2013. UNC has been asked to host the fourth such Sino-US conference in 2017.
“A Most Uncommon Commons,” Juried paper presentation, along with Prof. Andy Bechtel, for 13th annual Newspapers and Community Building Symposium sponsored by NNA/KSU in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 27-28, 2007.
Other publications,
Foreword for How I Started My Community Newspaper, by Luo Gu Chen, of Foshan, China. Fall 2016.
Foreword for Introduction to Community Newspapers in the U.S. by Associate Professor Chen Kai of the Communication University of China, Jan. 2012, Nan Fang Daily Press.
Foreword for Foundations of Community Journalism, by Bill Reader and John Hatcher, Sage Publications, 2012.
Book chapter: “JT: Sweeter Still at 12,” in book, “27 Views of Chapel Hill,” 2012, Hillsborough.
Professional and Creative Works:
Invited to lecture on community journalism and American culture, by Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China, May 2016.
Returned to China, Spring Break 2015, to work with universities and newspapers in Beijing, Wenzhou, Foshan and Guangzhou. Fourth such trip in as many years to China. Skyped back to UNC JOMC to my classes, and blogged for my students’ required reading.
Planning to take urban youth high school interns of the Durham VOICE on a working beach trip, summer 2016, to the Ocracoke Observer, in coordination with the Durham NGO, Partners for Youth Opportunity, and the owners of Ocracoke Observer on the NC Outer Banks.
Organized and carried out twice-yearly orientation bus tour of inner-city Durham, for MEJO 459 UNC students, teamed with journalism students from NCCU, City of Durham guides and high school student interns working for the Durham VOICE, each August and January.
7 Organized and hosted minority youth from the Durham NGO, Partners for Youth Opportunity for campus visits and mentoring with MEJO 459 students, November 2014 and January 2016.
Donated a Christmas tree to the Jackson Center in Northside Community, Chapel Hill Carrboro, December 2014 and 2015.
Helped coordinate and staff the public service photography project, HOMELESS DURHAM, in which photojournalism students donated portraits made on the spot to homeless and low-wealth individuals attending the workshop, Oct. 2014 and 2015. Visual content and “story corps” style narratives of each individual crafted for later publication in the Durham VOICE.
Gave a creative works slide presentation at Frank Gallery, of photographic portfolio, Oct. 7, 2014.
Featured in a documentary video on the Durham VOICE by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, August 2014, on Vimeo located at: https://vimeo.com/99400225
Taught community journalism in China, in university and industry settings: May-June, 2013-2014, Shanghai, Beijing, Hefei, Shenzhen, Foshan, Chongqing, Danyang and Zhengzhou. An ongoing, long-range personal project. Returning in 2016.
Blogger, “Blue Highways Journal,” documenting travels, research, teaching and photography from three summers of work in China, 2012-2015, as well as each summer’s Community Journalism Roadshow across the state.
Established the Jock Lauterer Collection at Wilson Library; donated 6,000 negatives and hundreds of photographs from the ‘60s, particularly civil rights and anti-war demonstrations at Chapel Hill. Spring 2002. Photos figured prominently in 2010 spring exhibit on student activism in the ‘60s; Wilson Library Documents Collection, UNC, and in the Speaker Ban Marker dedication, spring 2011. Collection of material is on-going.
Explored and developed new community partners in Durham: Partners for Youth Opportunity, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and the East Durham Children’s Initiative; participated in professional youth-development programs for at-risk Durham minority teens, summers 2013 to present.
Consulting expert and “talking head” on the documentary film, “The Sun Never Sets,” by Ben Daitz of Albuquerque, N.M., showcasing the fearless independent weekly newspaper, the Espanola Sun of Rio Arriba County, N.M. Film debuted at the NEWSEUM and at AEJMC annual conference, August 2013, Washington, D.C., and was subsequently shown at the NC Newspaper Academy at JOMC, May 2013 and 2014, along with Q and A with visiting Sun editor Bob Trapp Jr.
8 Guest of Dick Gordon on “The Story,” WUNC-FM, spring 2012, relative to the Speaker Ban Protest movement of the ‘60s. Featured also in the Daily Tar Heel, the University Gazette and the Carolina Alumni Review for my role as the lead DTH photographer covering that critical era of campus life in spring 1966 when free speech was in peril.
Weekly photo-commentaries in The Carrboro Citizen, “One Thousand Words,” Sept. 2008 to Oct. 2012.
National Newspaper Association: Appointed NNA’s “Community Journalism Guru” for conventions and writing and blogging regularly for NNA’s house organ, Pub Aux, 2008 to present.
WCOM “News and Views”: Founder and occasional host of weekly radio show featuring faculty and students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication discussing media issues, fall ’07. Also, radio talk show creator and occasional host, centering around the work done by students on the Carrboro Commons, spring 2007.
Occasional commentary on issues surrounding community journalism, N.C. Press, Sept. 2003 to present.
Occasional commentary on issues surrounding community journalism, Publishers’ Auxiliary, October 2003 to present.
Occasional commentary on issues surrounding community journalism, N.C. Press, Sept. 2003 to present.
Weekly columnist, the Chapel Hill Herald, Jan. - Nov. 2006.
Monthly columnist for the Chapel Hill News, 2001 to 2006.
Twice-monthly radio commentator for WNCW-FM, National Public Radio station for western North Carolina and covering portions of four other states, since 1989 to 2002.
Weekly radio commentary, WCHL 1360-AM, Chapel Hill, “A Slice of Life,” May 2003 to Feb. 2004.
“News is Key to ‘Public’ Mission,” the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News, Jan. 2003.
“There’s Music in these Classrooms,” UNC Gazette, July 2001.
“Fake Photo Deserves a Thousand Words,” the Chapel Hill News, Oct, 2001.
“Community Newspapers Must Stay Open,” N.C. PRESS, Nov. 2001.
“Community Newspapers Must Stay Open,” Publisher’s Auxiliary, Dec. 2001.
9 “Learning by Doing Community Journalism, “ N.C. PRESS, March 2001.
“Carolina Community Media Project is Off and Running,” N.C. PRESS, May 2001.
“Endview,” photojournalism featured in endeavors, the magazine on research and creative activities, UNC-CH, spring 2001.
“If the Shu Fits, Wear It,” Visual Communications Quarterly, fall 2000.
“The Canary in the Coal Mine: the Case for Community Journalism Higher Education,” Publisher’s Auxiliary, fall 2000.
Production co-coordinator and academic liaison for a two-year-long service learning project: creation of a 40-page Manual for the Community Safety Net, a local emergency network of 23 non-profit social service agencies in Centre County, Pa. Collaboration between four classes: Graphics (layout), Features (writing) Photojournalism and Editing, fall 1999.
“Inside National Geographic,” Visual Communications Quarterly, fall 1999.
Invited professional. Covered the U.S. Open Golf Championships in Pinehurst, N.C., for the Southern Pines Pilot. Dozens of photographs and a commentary published in the twice-weekly which converted to daily for the event, June 1999 and June 2005. Returned summer 2007 to help again with coverage of the U.S. Women’s Open Golf Championship at Pine Needles.
“Twice Weekly goes daily for U.S. Open; ‘whups’ the competition.” Publishers’ Auxiliary. National Newspaper Association, July 12, 1999.
“Inside National Geographic,” Visual Communications Quarterly, Jan., 1999.
“The State of Community Journalism,” The Press, Pennsylvania Press Association, July 1998.
Cover story, “Wrestling with the Bear: Community Photojournalism and Ethical- Decision Making,” News Photographer magazine, National Press Photographers Association, April 1998.
Cover photograph and 10 interior photographs to illustrate book, Children’s Talk in Communities and Classrooms, by Dr. Lynne Vernon-Feagans, Blackwood Publishers, Oxford, 1997.
Five photographs to accompany “Child’s Talk,” by Nancy Marie Brown, Research/Penn State magazine, Sept. 1997; a book review of Children’s Talk in Communities and Classrooms, by Dr. Lynne Vernon-Feagans.
10 Book chapter, “Who’s on First: A Community Journalist’s Perspective on the Civic Journalism Debate,” written for Moral Reasoning for Journalists, Greenwood Publishers, Inc., by Steven R. Knowlton, Aug. 1997.
Monthly newspaper columnist and commentator for local Knight Ridder daily, the Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa., 1994 – 2000.
Weekly radio commentator for WPSU-FM, University Park, Pa., National Public Radio station for Central Pa., 1998 – 2000.
Twice-monthly columnist for the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News, 1989-1994.
Photographs published in most major Southeastern dailies, as well as in several books; also in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, People, Southern Living, Country Living and The Washington Post, 1967-present.
Teaching Record
(At UNC-CH, 2001 — to present)
Director and founder, the Carolina Community Media Project, and senior lecturer in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Courses Taught at UNC:
MEJO 459 Community Journalism MEJO 102 Exploring the Visual World MEJO 180 Beginning Photojournalism MEJO 153 Newswriting MEJO 491 Independent Studies
• Associate Professor of Journalism, College of Communications, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 1991 - 2001
Introduced the teaching of community journalism at Penn State in 1995. Also, was in charge of creating, developing and supervising the photojournalism component and overseeing the darkroom operations. In addition to teaching basic and advanced photojournalism, also taught newswriting, feature writing, media graphics and online journalism. Also pioneered the expansion of Penn State’s photojournalism and media graphics components into the emerging technology of digital photo-editing, electronic
11 darkroom and pagination. Member of the board of directors of The Daily Collegian. Mentor and founding adviser of the Forum, the College’s student-created online weekly newsmagazine, 1996-2000.
• Instructor of Journalism Brevard College, N.C. 1986-1991 Taught basic journalism to freshmen and sophomores. Adviser to the twice-monthly student newspaper, the Clarion.
• Instructor of Journalism UNC at Chapel Hill 1983-1985 Taught newswriting and introduction to photojournalism, part-time, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Grants
Z. Smith Reynolds grant ($32,000) to fund a Teen Mentoring Coordinator for the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE for three years, Spring 2011-2014. Upon completion of the grant, helped secure similar employment for the Coordinator at a local youth-development non-profit.
Capitol Broadcasting Company, seed grant of $15,000 in support of the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE; principal investigator; 2011-2013.
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, seed grant of $1,500, in support of the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE; principal investigator; 2011.
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, seed grant of $25,000 to help launch the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE; principal investigator; 2009-2011.
Professional Service (to the discipline of Community Journalism and Photojournalism)
Speaker and attendee at the 2nd. Sino-US Community Journalism Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Jan. 8-9, 2015.
Serving on the Board of Directors of the Daily Tar Heel, for the second time, fall 2014 to present.
Began collaborating with McClatchy newspapers in Chapel Hill and Durham to repurpose content created by lab newspapers, the Carrboro Commons and the Durham VOICE, spring 2015.
Presented community journalism research to the annual Mid-Winter Institute of the North Carolina Press Association (done annually) UNC Alumni Center, Feb. 26, 2015 and 2016.
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Presenter, helped to pitch the new MEJO Media Hub to the NCPA Winter Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., Feb. 26, 2014.
Created and led a photo and design workshop for student photographers and page designers at the Daily Tar Heel, Nov. 21, 2014.
Helped secure employment for three graduates of the JOMC 459 Community Journalism class, spring semester, at N.C. community newspapers, spring 2014
Founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project, dedicated to the proposition that strong community media help strengthen, nurture and sustain great communities, and that communities — be they rural or suburban — with a vital civic life and a sense of place are key to high livability in a free democratic society. Through teaching, research and outreach, the Project seeks to support, enhance and empower North Carolina’s community media, beginning with the 190 community newspapers and their online editions. Each summer for the last 15 summers, the director takes the Community Journalism Roadshow to community newspapers “from Murphy to Manteo.”
Summer 2014, the Roadshow went to:
The Ocracoke Observer, The Outer Banks Sentinel The State Port Pilot, Southport The Sanford Herald The Greenville Daily Reflector The Standard Laconic of Snow Hill The Ayden-Grifton News Leader The Bladen Journal The Fayetteville Observer The Mountain Breeze of Lake Lure
Summer 2015
The Eastern Wake Weekly The Garner-Cleveland News The Eastern NC Press Association roundtable, Atlantic Beach The Hendersonville Lightning The Hoke County News Journal The Weaverville Tribune The Sanford Herald The Pilot, Southern Pines
The project is a public service initiative of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Counseling and consulting, confidential and off-the-record hot line work with prospective entrepreneurs seeking to launch new community newspapers and web sites.
Presenter, the North Carolina Press Association Community Newspaper Division meeting, report on community journalism in N.C., Winter Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 27, 2014.
Workshop Leader, Weekly Community Newspaper Division, Pennsylvania Press Association, Harrisburg, Pa., October 2013.
Presenter, the North Carolina Press Association Community Newspaper Division meeting, report on community journalism in N.C., Winter Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 27, 2014.
Founding head of the Community Journalism Interest Group, AEJMC, summer 2003 to 2006. Serving as founding head emeritus at present. In honor of service rendered, presented the first annual “Roots Journalism Award,” AEJMC annual conference, Washington, D.C., August 2013.
Presenter, the North Carolina Press Association Community Newspaper Division meeting, report on community journalism in N.C., Winter Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., Feb. 26, 2015; March 27, 2014.
AEJMC, panel creator, organizer and moderator, “ How U.S. Community Newspapers are Serving as Models for the Chinese,” along with Associate Professors Chen Kai and Ren Li of China, AEJMC annual convention, Washington D.C., August 2013.
AEJMC panel creator, organizer and moderator, “The Sun Never Sets,” screening of new documentary film featuring the Rio Grande Sun of Rio Arriba County, N.M., followed by Q and A with filmmaker and the newspaper’s publisher and editor, AEJMC annual convention, Washington. D.C., Aug. 2013.
Workshop Leader, Weekly Community Newspaper Division, Pennsylvania Press Association, Harrisburg, Pa., October 2013.
Workshop Leader, Arkansas Press Association Annual Conference, Little Rock, June 2012.
Appointed as community journalism “guru” by the National Newspaper Association, 2009 to present.
Invited presenter and workshop leader, Campus Community Compact conference on service learning, the Northeast Central Durham Community VOICE, Elon University, Feb. 8, 2011.
14 AEJMC, panel creator, organizer and moderator, “Into the Mean Streets: Lab Newspapers in the Inner-City,” spotlighting the launch of the Northeast Central Durham VOICE, sponsored by the Community Journalism Interest Group, Denver, Colo. Aug. 2010.
AEJMC, Scholastic Division, program about the Durham VOICE, Denver, Colo., Aug. 2010.
AEJMC, panelist, “Community Newspapers are Surviving: But for How Long?” sponsored by the Community Journalism Interest Group, Denver, Colo., Aug. 2010.
Southern Appalachian Research Conference, “The future of community journalism in the Southern Appalachians, North Georgia State University, Dahlonega, Ga., Spring 2010.
Eastern North Carolina Press Association, keynote speaker. Atlantic Beach, N.C., May 1, 2010. Elected to the Board of Directors.
Reviewer, Community Journalism Interest Group papers, AEJMC, 2004 to present.
Established the Jock Lauterer Collection at Wilson Library; donated 6,000 negatives and hundreds of photographs from the ‘60s, particularly civil rights and anti-war demonstrations at Chapel Hill. Spring 2002. Photos figured prominently in 2007 spring exhibit on student activism in the ‘60s; Wilson Library Documents Collection, UNC.
Judge, NCSMA, (high school newspapers and yearbooks) 2001 to present.
Judge, photo competition, Travel Writers Association, 2009-2010.
Judge, use of photography, Pennsylvania Press Association, 2010.
Workshop leader, “Visual Literacy 101,” for North Carolina middle school teachers, Wilkesboro, Asheville and Suttontown, summers of 2006 to the present.
Slide show presenter on “Roaming the Mountains with Pen and Camera,” April 2006, and “India, through my Lens,” November 2007, for Carol Woods Retirement Community, Chapel Hill.
Workshop leader, “Visual Literacy 101,” for Triangle area middle school teachers, sponsored by NIE, Cary, N.C., Nov. 20, 2003.
Community journalism workshops: Alaska Press Association and Morris Communications, April ’07; North Dakota Press Association, June ’07; Womack Newspapers, Danville, Va., fall ’07; South Carolina Press Association, March ’08.
15 Community Journalism Roundtable, presenter/moderator for session for community newspaper editors and publishers, NCPA annual convention, Charlotte, N.C., July 26, 2007.
Invited guest lecturer, the University of Bologna, Italy, March 2003 and again in February-March 2007. Lecturing Italian journalism students about U.S. Community Journalism.
Workshop leader, North Dakota Press Association, Bismarck, N.D., June 2007.
Workshop leader, Alaska Newspaper Association annual convention, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2007.
Workshop leader, Morris Newspapers, Athens, Ga., May 2007.
Workshop leader, Arkansas Press Association annual convention, June 2006.
Workshop leader, Mississippi Press Association annual convention, Gulfport, Miss., June 2007.
Workshop leader, Missouri Press Association annual convention, Lake of the Woods, Mo., June 2006
Workshop leader, Arizona Press Association annual convention, Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 24- 25, 2004.
Workshop leader, Kentucky Press Association annual convention. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 23-24, 2004.
Workshop leader, Texas Press Association annual convention, Houston, Texas, June 18- 19, 2003.
Workshop leader, “Journalism Ethics 101,”N.C. Scholastic Media Association high school journalism workshop, N.C. A&T, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 30, 2003.
Panel organizer and moderator, “’How Are You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm…?’ Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Community Journalism,” AEJMC, Kansas City, Aug 2, 2003.
Panel creator and moderator, “¿Hablamos Espanol? How Mainstream Community Newspapers Cover Their Latino Communities,” the NCPA annual convention, Wrightsville Beach, July 19, 2003.
Workshop leader and keynote speaker, the Texas Press Association annual convention, Houston, June 24, 2003.
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Workshop leader and speaker, “An Ethics Roundtable” for editors and publishers, the Eastern N.C. Press Association, Southport, N.C., May 2-3, 2003.
Faculty member and co-organizer, the second annual NCPA Newspaper Academy, co- sponsored by the JOMC, May 17, 2003
th Photographer/writer, the Tryon (N.C.) Daily Bulletin; helped cover the 10 annual Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival, June 13-14. 2003.
Workshop leader and speaker on Community Journalism and Journalism Ethics, Kansas Press Association annual convention, Topeka, Kansas, April 10-12, 2003
Speaker and workshop leader, Southern Short Course on News Photography, “How to make the best of working at a small paper.” Greensboro, N.C., March 29, 2003.
Presenter, slide lectures on community journalism to the Southern Shortcourse in News Photography, Durham, N.C., May 26, 2001; Greensboro, N.C., April 26, 2002,; and Greensboro, March 29, 2003.
Keynote speaker, Minnesota Newspaper Association annual convention, Minneapolis, Jan. 31, 2003.
Speaker, Kansas Press Association “Editors’ Day” four lecture/workshops, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Oct. 31, 2002.
Presenter at New York’s Center for Community Journalism seminar on education in the workplace, Columbia University, New York, September 2002.
Presenter, annual community journalism juried paper presentation and symposium, “Newspapers and Community Building,” Portland, Ore., September 2002, “One Toke Over the Line.”
Poster presenter, Great Ideas for Teachers, AEJMC, Miami, Fla., August 2002, about the classroom initiative to produce story/photo packages for local newspapers on local students performing public service at UNC-CH.
Invited speaker, a slide-lecture on community journalism trends to the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, June 26-28, 2002, Joplin, Mo.
Keynote speaker and workshop leader, “Newspaper Days,” South Dakota Newspaper Association, South Dakota State University, Brookings, May 2001; and SDNA annual convention speaker and workshop leader, Sioux Fall, May 2002.
Speaker and program organizer, programs for the NCPA twice-annual meetings: “The Role of the Newspaper in the Community: Observer, Cheerleader, Watchdog?” July
17 2001, Southern Pines; “The Community Journalism Road Show: a Progress Report on the Project,” and “How We Covered 9/11,” January 2001, Chapel Hill.; and “¿Hablamos Espanol?” Community Newspaper and Their Latino Communities, summer 2003, Wilmington.
Panelist, at AEJMC’s” Southeastern Colloquium, “Community Newspapers, All Fluff and No Stuff? Gulfport, Miss., March 2002.
Judge and presenter, the North Carolina Press Photographers Association annual competition and workshop, Randolph Community College, February 2002.
Keynote speaker, Montana Press Association Annual Convention, Big Sky, Mont., June 8, 2000.
Keynote speaker, Oklahoma Press Association Annual Convention, Bartlesville, Okla., Feb. 22, 2000.
Keynote speaker, “Wrestling with the Bear: Ethical Decision-Making for Community Journalists,” presented to the North Carolina Press Association summer meeting, followed by an Editors’ Roundtable, Pinehurst, N.C., July 1998.
Invited workshop leader, “Community Photojournalism,” at the Center for Community Journalism, Oswego State University, N.Y., July 1999.
Invited workshop leader, “Wrestling with the Bear: Ethical Decision-Making for Community Journalists,” for the Texas Press Association, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1999.
Commentary Editor for Visual Communications Quarterly, the national-level journal of the Visual Communication Division of AEJMC, 1999-2002.
Invited keynote speaker, “The State of Community Journalism,” to the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors' annual Pennsylvania Press Conference, University Park, Pa., May 1998.
Invited keynote speaker, “Covering Your Community,” South Carolina Press Association annual convention, Charleston, S.C., Feb. 1998.
Invited panel participant discussing community journalism. the Center for Community Journalism at the State University of New York - Oswego, along with Ken Auletta of the New Yorker , Bernie Stein of the Riverdale Press of New York and Dean Carol Oukrop of Kansas State, April 1998.
18 Invited keynote speaker, annual convention of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, "About That Little Old Lady from Dubuque, the New Yorker We Ain't," Richland, Wash., Sept. 1997.
Invited speaker at authors’ series, Isothermal Community College, Columbus, N.C., titled “Roaming the Mountains: Retrospective of a Newspaperman in the Southern Appalachians," July 1996; and "The Storyteller's Art," July 1997, showed slides, discussed books and the writer’s art.
Invited presenter/speaker/program leader, “Reconnecting with your Readers through Community Photojournalism,” at the annual convention of the National Press Photographers Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 1996. (First Penn State faculty member ever invited to address this national group.)
Invited keynote speaker on community journalism, North Carolina Press Association Community Newspaper workshop, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, May 17, 1996.
Invited keynote speaker on community journalism, spring convention of the New York Publisher’s Association, Albany, N.Y., April 1996.
Invited faculty, judge and presenter, Southern Shortcourse for News Photography, sponsored by the North Carolina Press Photographers Association. Asheville, N.C., May 1995,
Invited keynote speaker, “About That Little Old Lady from Dubuque: the New Yorker We Ain’t,” to the Nebraska Press Association’s annual convention in Omaha, Neb., April 1995.
Invited panel participant, served on the panel for a town-meeting style forum co- sponsored by the College, in conjunction with APME, held at the studios of WPSX. The subject was the role of the community newspaper relative to public service, May 1994.
Invited workshop leader for 30 Pennsylvania photojournalists at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 1994.
Invited workshop leader, North Carolina Press Association, Community Newspaper Division, lecturing on community journalism feature writing, reporting and photojournalism, spring conventions, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985, 1987 and 1993.
Invited workshop leader and advanced photojournalism instructor, the Pa. High School Publications Workshop, Penn State, summer 1993, fall 1996.
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Civic Journalism Interest Group, AEJMC, Anaheim, Cal., Aug. 1996 -2001. Organized and moderated a panel for AEJMC, 1998.
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Elected as Teaching Chair and to the Executive Committee of the Visual Communications Division, AEJMC, Chicago, August 1997. Organized and moderated two panels for AEJMC, 1998.
Invited keynote speaker on graphics and the use of photography, the College News Association of the Carolinas conventions, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990.
Organized and presented a session on ethical decision-making and digital imaging manipulation, Pennsylvania Weekly Community Newspaper Publishers' Association, Penn State, Nov. 1997.
Presenter at AEJMC, Visual Communications Division, special creative projects session, "If the Genie is Out of the Bottle: How Do We Teach the Ethical Decision-Making of Digital Imaging Manipulation in the Post-OJ Age (without sounding like Luddites?)" Chicago, July 1997.
Organizer and moderator, AEJMC, Civic Journalism Interest Group panel, "Project Reconnect; an ASNE Experiment," Chicago, July 1997.
Organizer and moderator, "Comm/Unity," a community journalism panel on the role of the newspaper in the community, Carnegie Cinema, College of Communication, Penn State, Oct. 1996.
Elected to the National Newspaper Association Journalism Education Committee, 1996. Served/participated in the National Newspaper Association’s National Newspaper Foundation Committee on Journalism Education, Washington, D.C., March 1996 to present. The group plans the community journalism national convention held each year in conjunction with the annual NNA convention and chooses the manuscripts selected for presentation at the community journalism symposium on newspapers and community- building.
Organizer and moderator, "Reporter, Booster, Leader or Critic?" a second Carnegie Cinema roundtable on the role of the newspaper in the community, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association and the College of Communications in conjunction with the 9th Annual Workshop of the Weekly Community Newspaper Publishers, Oct. 1996.
Presenter at AEJMC, Civic Journalism Interest Group, “Back to the Future: the Resurgence of Community in America, and Community Journalism in the Industry and Higher Education,” Anaheim, Cal., Aug. 1996.
Participated in the National Press Photographers Association cutting-edge workshop, “Electronic Photojournalism Workshop 6,” Chapel Hill, N.C., Sept. 1994.
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Professional Service (within UNC-Chapel Hill)
Mentoring Chinese Visiting International Scholars sitting in on MEJO 459 and MEJO 180, averaging two per semester, 2009 to present.
Volunteered to advise the MEJO’s new Media Hub with the visual communications (photojournalism) component of their work, Jan. 2015. Select the recipient and coordinate the summer internship (at an N.C. community newspaper) for the Batten Community Journalism Scholarship annually, 2001 to present.
Mentored Adam Saffer in preparation of his leading a team of students to China, Spring semester, 2015 and 2016.
Returned to China, Spring Break 2015, to work with universities and newspapers in Beijing, Foshan and Guangzhou; the fourth such trip. Skyped back to UNC JOMC to classes, and blogging for students’ required reading.
Experiential Learning: MLK weekend activities, (annual) MEJO 459 and MEJO 180 students attend Sunday church service (Antioch Baptist Church, Durham), photograph the annual Chapel Hill MLK Day rally and march, and then attend the community service at First Baptist Church, and finally reflect upon their experience.
Mentoring of high school journalism classes, spring 2015-2016, to Hillside and Northern High Schools, by student in MEJO 459, along with NCCU partners.
Collaborating with UNC-CH instructor Marshele Carter whose JOMC 434 PR Case Studies class is developing strategic development campaigns for the Carrboro Commons and the Durham VOICE, spring semester, 2015.
Collaborating with UNC-CH Associate Professor Andy Bechtal’s advanced editing class to help produce the Carrboro Commons and the Durham VOICE, spring 2015-2016.
Invited by the UNC Asia Center to help write a paper on urbanization in China, for a conference in 2015.
Hosted a table at the Northern High School Career Fair, Nov. 13, 2014, with JOMC students from the Carrboro Commons and Durham VOICE interacting with Durham high school students.
Hosted a delegation of Afghan journalists at JOMC 459 Community Journalism class, Nov. 10, 2014.
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Gave a museum lecture at Ackland Art Museum on the intersection between art and documentary photojournalism, Nov. 23, 2014.
Coordinated and hosted Triangle area minority male middle schoolers during Tar Heel Preview Day, October 2014 and 2015, when my students mentored the visiting youth on campus and in the School.
Presented a slide lecture on the current state of media and pro-democracy student demonstrations in Hong Kong, “Dancing in Shackles,” Oct. 13. 2014, for a School and University-wide audience at the School.
Hosted a delegation of visiting Afghan journalists in JOMC 459 Community Journalism class, Oct. 11, 2014.
Gave a lecture on community journalism to the fall cohort of the Visiting International Scholars, October 2014 and November 2015.
Gave a slide lecture to the Methodist retirement home, Arbor Acres, in Winston-Salem, N.C., on the subject of “Journalism and Literature in the South,” Oct. 19, 2014.
Attended the Halls of Fame banquet, fall 2014, on own dime.
Attended University Day ceremonies in regalia, Oct. 12, 2014 and 2015.
Hosted a cohort of German Muslim scholars at the Campus Y who wanted to learn more about the Durham VOICE, June 6, 2014.
Arranged for two Hearst Visiting Speakers: Editor Bob Trapp of the Rio Grande N.M. Sun, April 2014; and Publisher Mark Jurkowitz of the Outer Banks, N.C. Sentinel, Sept. 2014.
Panel leader and moderator, the Horace Carter Roundtable, April 2014.
Faculty advisor, Blue and White Magazine.
JOMC founder and teacher, the North Carolina Newspaper Academy, every spring from 2001 until 2015.
Skype lecture, 2 a.m., from Stockholm, Sweden, to the Chuck Stone Summer Program, July 2014.
Guest lecturer: for Lois Boynton, Barbara Friedman, Andy Bechtel, and Marshele Carter in JOMC, and Associate Professor Mai Nguyen of the Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Also, guest lectured for Assistant Professor Shelvia Dancy at N.C. Central
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Occasional school tour leader for random drop-in parents and prospective students.
Informal mentoring of new faculty: Valerie Fields, John McCann, Adam Saffer and Joe Cabosky.
Volunteered to take Pat Davison’s photo class while he was away on Fulbright, fall 2014.
Photographed Byars’ retirement party, spring 2014.
Intro remarks and photos at debut of Penny Abernathy’s book, April 2014. . Photographed Bill Cloud’s retirement party, spring 2014.
Photographed Lois Boynton’s “Last Lecture” at commencement, spring 2014.
Hosted and lectured to a group of German visiting media scholars at the campus Y, relative to the Durham VOICE, June 2014.
Coordinated and helped to hang photography exhibits by Jim Wallace and Alicia Stemper — as well as personal China photographs from summer 2013.
Represented the School at Engaged Scholarship campus summits, 2014 through 2016, hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service.
APPLES class participation by JOMC 459 Community Journalism, in its outreach initiative in the low-wealth, high-crime neighborhood of Northeast Central Durham where JOMC students do active mentoring of at-risk high school minority students, every semester, 2013-2016.
Personally bridged the salary for one month of the VOICE Teen Mentoring Coordinator, Carlton Koonce, Sept. 2013, during his UNC background check, and then successfully arranged for his employment in a similar role with a Durham NGO paying him to do essentially the same thing UNC had been paying him to do: working with and mentoring high-risk teens with the Durham VOICE.
Coordinated the acquisition of three professional 35 mm. cameras donated to the School (for the VOICE,) to be used by minority teens attending inner-city Durham high schools.
Secured free printing for the Durham VOICE through the good offices and social capital of the Carolina Community Media Project and our extensive network of social capital throughout the state.
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Founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project, January 2001, which is dedicated to the proposition that strong community media help strengthen communities, and that communities — be they rural or suburban — with a vital civic life and a sense of place are key to high livability in a free democratic society.
Through teaching, research and outreach, the Project seeks to support, enhance and empower North Carolina’s community media, beginning with the 190 community newspapers and their online editions, as well as local-emphasis community-oriented radio, TV and cable outlets.
A public service initiative of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Project is also supported by the Carolina Center for Public Service at UNC-CH.
Project activities to date include:
Launched a community newspaper for inner-city Durham, Fall 2009, the Northeast Central Durham VOICE, by partnering with North Carolina Central University, local urban youth, as well as neighborhood church, civic and governmental leaders. Online editions appear every other week and a print edition appears monthly during the academic year. Secured free printing for the first year from The Daily Tar Heel, and free “newsroom” space in the Golden Belt Building from a local developer.
Taught photo lessons to Durham urban youth, summer 2009 to present: Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club, SeeSaw Studio, SEEDs (Durham’s Inner-City Gardeners) a Baha’i youth group in Eastway Village, a youth group in SE. Durham, and third graders at Union Independent School; also involved students from Community Journalism and Beginning Photojournalism classes in the free, on-site photo lessons. Mounted local public exhibits for each cohort taught.
Led an oral history project at SEEDS (Southeastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces), fall 2009, in which eight urban teens produced video interviews with strong women titled, “It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village.” Aired in the Durham VOICE.
Launched the “Bucket Brigade,” fall 2007, a rapid-response emergency community journalism team from JOMC 459 which provided 19 weeks of content for the weekly Spring Hope Enterprise while veteran editor-publisher Ken Ripley underwent double hip replacement.
Launched a public affairs radio show, “News and Views,” WCOM-FM 102.5 Carrboro, in which faculty and students were interviewed relative to local happenings and media issues, fall 2007-spring 2008.
24 Involved all my classes in experiential and service learning concepts, putting theory into practice in both Newswriting and Community Journalism classes when students wrote stories about UNC-CH students performing public service (Ex: Dance Marathon, spring 2001-‘05, and Habitat for Humanity, Big Buddies, Y activities, fall 2002). We sent out approximately 140 separate story/photo packages to N.C. hometown community newspapers.
Community Journalism Roadshow #15. Summer 2015, leading workshops at several more community newspapers across North Carolina each summer since 2001, totalling approx. 185 to date.
The Annual North Carolina Newspaper Academy; co-sponsored by the MEJO and NCPA each May since 2002; have served on the organizing steering committee since helping launch the Academy, recruiting faculty and teaching multiple sessions.
Helping with recruitment and job placement; collaboration between the industry and the School’s career services director.
Building new bridges and forging new links. Networking with the state’s community press to encourage coverage of UNC-CH public service stories; helping to tell the story of public service at Carolina by using the Project’s social capital and goodwill — especially at the newspapers where we have led free, on-site summer journalism workshops.
Consultant, to local publications seeking advice on start-ups and/or improvements: StreetSpeak, the newspaper for the Chapel Hill homeless community 2001-2003; The Chatham Crossroads; and a newsletter for SHAC, the Student Health Action Coalition, and Talking Sidewalks, 2008-to present (a second-generation newspaper for the local homeless).
Undergraduate Honors Program committee member, Lizzy Hazeltine, academic year 2010-1011.
Undergraduate Honors Program chair, Jacquelyn Huntington, academic year 2010-2011.
Undergraduate Honors Program committee member, Sam Wardle, academic year 2009- 2010.
The Carrboro Commons: launched in Dec. ‘06, then since Spring ’07 a twice-monthly Web-based e-zine with the 15 students of JOMC 459 coordinating copy/photos and multimedia content with Andy Bechtel’s Advanced Editing class and Ryan Thornburg’s Online Newswriting and Editing Class.
The Bucket Brigade, fall ’07: A rapid-response emergency community journalism team from JOMC 459 provided 19 weeks of content for the weekly Spring Hope Enterprise while the veteran editor/publisher underwent double hip replacement.
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Mentoring at Carrboro High School: As a service learning (APPLES) component of JOMC 459, fall ’07 Carrboro Commons staffers regularly mentored the new Carrboro High School newspaper staff, helping them produce their new school newspaper, the Jagwire, as well as a monthly school news page for the Carrboro Citizen.
WUNC-FM, the State of Things, Sept. 29, 2006. Interviewed by Frank Stacio about the photographic presentation that evening at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, “Roaming the Mountains with Pen and Camera.”
Member, the grant selection committee for the Center for Public Service, 2002.
Workshop leader, the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association summer high school journalism workshop, June 2002.
Board of Directors of The Daily Tar Heel, fall 2006- spring 2009.
Faculty advisor to the student magazine, Blue & White, 2001 to present. And faculty adviser to Patchwork magazine, 2010.
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