Jule Banville joins full-time faculty, brings print, radio & online talents Jule Banville, the assistant managing editor at Washington City Paper in Wash­ ington, D.C., before becoming an adjunct instructor here at the Journalism School, is joining the full-time journalism faculty this fall as an assistant professor. Banville also served as editor of NewWest. Net, where she was in charge of all editorial duties for the Missoula-based website covering news and culture of the Rocky Mountain West. She also has worked in newsrooms in New York City and Erie, Pa. “Jule has had a highly successful career that reflects the changing news media industry,” said Dean Peggy Ruhr. “She chose New Assistant Professor Jule Banville a career path that many of our students will follow, from one media platform to another lenges I’ve faced,” she said. “I can’t wait to as the industry changed.” join the School of Journalism full-time.” Before moving to D.C., Banville worked as Ruhr pointed out that Banville has estab­ a daily reporter for the Erie Times-News. She lished a strong base of teaching as an adjunct has worked in radio production as associate instructor for the J-School, and she proposes producer at WNYC Public Radio in New an innovative and distinctive research agenda York City and freelanced as an independent looking at alternative news media. As a UM producer for nationally syndicated programs adjunct, Banville taught online news, news Marketplace, Weekend America and Splendid editing and an online class in feature writing. Table. This fall she will teach reporting and news Banville has an MS in Journalism from editing, and will develop the School’s high Columbia University in New York, and a BA school initiatives. in Political Journalism from Mercyhurst She is married to Lee Banville, who College in Erie, Pa. joined the faculty in fall 2009 as an assistant “Having the opportunity to teach professor. Previously, he was in charge of Montanas young, talented journalists as they the Online News Hour in Washington, D.C. try to figure out this constantly changing They have two girls, Rate, 2, and Maggie, 4 profession is one of the most exciting chal- months. Work done working Clem heading for more bike trails and explorations across the globe Volume 56 • 2012 The University of Montana School of Journalism UM /CHOOL OF JOUR-NALl/M ................................................................................................................................................................... ........... ...................... J-NCW5 DRItrS TROM ► After three years of dedicated service ► Brady Moore is part of our J-tech ► The Master’s program, directed at the J-School, our intrepid deans team that keeps the school’s comput­ by Associate Professor Henriette office manager and ers tuned up and our temperamental Lowisch, graduated its first class of do-everything person, server in a good mood. He also makes students since it was relaunched in Emily Bulger, will videos that have inspired collegiate 2010 with a new focus on environ­ be moving on this bloggers to use his work as a how-to mental science and natural resource summer to begin a model for students everywhere. See journalism. master’s program in what they’re saying at: http://colleg- Five grad students completed archives and preser­ emediamatters.com/2012/04/02/10- the four-semester program to earn vation studies at The tips-for-a-great-video-journalism-pro- their M.A. degrees: Ann Fleischli, University of Texas at Austin. She will file-kaiminnews-bradymoore/. M ontana Hodges, Jason Belts be accepting SXSW festival visitors. Kauffman, Breeana Laughlin, and ► Alison M etzger-Jones is the new Kevin Radley. ► Alexandria Valdez, a freshman assistant director of development for Student master’s presentations used from Eaton, Colo., was selected to the J-School. She multiple media platforms to tell a wide participate in this summer’s New York joined us just in array of stories, all dealing with issues Times Student Journalism Institute time to attend the important to Montanans: conservation in New Orleans. During the 16-day Dean Stone Awards efforts on the Rocky Mountain Front, program, 24 students cover events in Lecture and Banquet fossil hunters, predator management the city and are supervised by report­ in late April, and to in Idaho and Montana, coming tribal ers and editors from The New York sit in on all kinds of ownership of Kerr Dam, and the coal Times and The Boston Globe. Alex, who classes during the mining conundrum in Roundup. was a sports reporter for the Kaimin last weeks of the semester. this year, covered sports during the in­ Previously, Alison was program ► Graduate student Apoorva Joshi stitute. Her dream is to be a NASCAR manager for the Montana Meth was selected for a 2012 South Asian reporter. Project. Before moving to Missoula Journalists As­ in 2011, she was assistant athletics sociation student director for ticketing and fan develop­ scholarship. She C o m m uniq ue ment at the University of California just completed Santa Barbara. her first year Volume 56,2012 Alison has experience in donor of the two-year relations, fund development, and Master’s program Published for Alumni and Friends volunteer coordination. She grew in Environmental up surrounded by journalism, as Science and Natu­ Editor/Designer both her parents were alums of ral Resource Journalism. Printer Bowler '63 the Washington State University Apoorva has an “externship” to communication/journalism program. work at The Hindu Business Line this UM School of Journalism © 2012 She received a BA in Sport Manage­ summer. She also is president of the Send news and Class Notes to: ment from WSU in 2003 and an MA South and Southeast Asian Students’ from Gonzaga University in 2007. Association at UM. C om m unique “Alison is a tremendous addition to Apoorva has an undergraduate UM School of Journalism the J-School family and she is joining degree in environmental science from Don Anderson Hall us at such an important time - just as Fergusson College in her hometown Missoula, MT 59812 we begin work toward celebrating our of Pune, located in the state of Maha­ 406.243.4001 Centennial in 2014,” said Dean Peggy rashtra near Bombay. She launched an email: [email protected] Kuhr. “Her aptitude, experience and organization in India called Wild on Visit us a t: www.jour.umt.edu enthusiasm in working with donors Wheels (W.O.W.), which helps under­ Facebook and Twitter (@umjschool) and fund development will help posi­ privileged children connect with the tion the J-School for a new century.” natural world. J-Wotu I New/ IIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIinillllllllM IHIIHIIIIlillllllllllllllllllllllllliHlltHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlM lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM IUIIIIIII^ AROUND TDC WORLD ► Adjunct Instructors John Twiggs ► Political journalists will have their and Alison Perkins completed their work cut out for them as they try to one-hour documentary about Arnold cover the influence of rising populist “Smoke” Elser, a retired wilderness movements sweeping the U.S., noted outfitter. “3 Miles an Hour” takes view­ political journalist Dante Chinni said ers on a back country trip into the during a panel discussion last fall. Bob Marshall Wilderness. The show It remains to be seen how great an premiered last fall on MontanaPBS. impact these movements will have on the nation’s electorate, said Chinni, ► Freelance journalist and 2011 author of Our Patchwork Nation and a Pollner Professor Karen Coates ’93 contributor to 1he Wall Street Journal and her husband, photojournalist and PBS Newshour. “What happens Jerry Redfern ’93, have finished the with the Tea Party and what happens manuscript for their book Eternal Har­ with whatever Occupy (Wall Street) vest: The Legacy of American Bombs in becomes?” he asked. “Does it spread Laos (forthcoming, ThingsAsian Press). to these smaller communities where They were selected last fall as senior people are really hurting?” fellows with the Schuster Institute for The Patchwork Nation project uses ► Thomas Nybo ’95, who has worked Investigative Journalism at Brandeis demographic, political and economic in more than 70 countries and now is University and received a grant from data to develop 12 different types based in Atlanta and Port-au-Prince, the Fund for Investigative Journalism of counties in the country. It is a Haiti, presented the annual Dean to work on the book. resource for reporting on a variety of Stone Lecture on “Danger Lessons: Eternal Harvest is about unexploded issues across the country. Chinni is How Embracing Risk Can Lead to Job ordnance in Laos where the United the director of Patchwork Nation, and Security and Personal Fulfillment.” States dumped 4 billion pounds of Assistant Professor Lee Banville is a “I’m a big fan of risk,” Nybo said. bombs from 1964 to 1973 - a third contributing editor. “Risk is much-maligned and misunder­ of which did not explode. As Pollner Chinni’s advice to students: “Get as stood. The best moments in my career professor, Karen spoke frequently on many skills as possible. I have no idea have all benefited from embracing risk, this issue. Karen and Jerry plan to what journalism is going to look like in whether it was spending a month in spend this summer in Southeast Asia 10 years.” the largest garbage dump in Central and be back in Boulder, Colo., by fall. America, filming a documentary about Next year Jerry will be a Ted Scripps ► Adjunct instructor Anne Medley a fearless girl who lived alone in a Fellow in Environmental Journalism at MA ’08 taught multimedia journalism refrigerator box, navigating Haiti on the University of Colorado. Karen was in Tunisia this spring as part of a a cheap motorcycle or exploring the a Scripps Fellow in 2010-11. citizen journalism training project she Darien Gap in a dugout canoe.” To view her Pollner lecture go to: helped develop called “Speak Out Nybo started his journalism career http://www.jour.umt.edu/2011- Tunisia.” The project aims to help build at the Choteau Acantha.