From the Dean
We are committed to meeting the demands of an information society through our scholarship, our academic programs and our public engagement. Building on our traditional principles and values of media excellence and social responsibility, we are searching for opportunities to increase our visibility and amplify our voice in the national conversation among our peers. To that end, the college has entered into two broad discussions that could propel us into a leadership position in the media and information realm, as well as within the University of Illinois Without question, there are exciting community. possibilities in areas of information The College of Media and the College gathering, processing and distributing, of Fine and Applied Arts have formed as well as information organizing, a faculty task force to identify areas accessing and archiving that can be of fruitful collaboration between the envisioned in a partnership between two colleges. The natural synergies our celebrated media programs with here are worth developing further. those of the top-rated iSchool in the That is especially compelling as the country. from the dean campus moves to implement its These are not just exciting Visioning Future Excellence initiative, conversations to have at this important The power of media: to inform, to entertain, to inspire, to whose pillars include “Information and time, but they are necessary ones enlighten public policy and to energize commerce. Media — Technology” and “Social Equality and for the College of Media. In order Cultural Understanding.” The synergies whether by way of traditional or emerging delivery systems to remain relevant in a national between CoM and FAA in line with conversation driven by new media — bring us together and connect us to distant events and these pillars may be in the form of and new ideas, we need to broaden curriculum development, joint faculty disparate cultures. Media shrink our planet and broaden our the scope of the conversation we are appointments, cluster hiring, new having on campus. This will be an horizons, with the turn of a page, the flip of a channel, the academic programs, joint-sponsored exhilarating journey as we move to touch of a keypad. research, collaboration in instruction solidify our position as leaders in our and a number of other possibilities fields and subfields. We look forward Media help us see the possibilities and help us break in both expected areas (such as to continued support and input from new media and graphic design) and down the barriers to realizing them. As media scholars and our faculty, students, staff and, of unexpected ones (such as architecture, course, our alumni—the combined practitioners, we must be able to navigate the ever-changing industrial design and urban planning). human source of our power. landscape of this dynamic field. To do so requires — at least College of Media has also entered into in part — that we reach beyond our disciplines in order to conversation with the Graduate School collaborate with other colleges on campus and our peers of Library and Information Science to explore synergies in our programs. Dean across the country in ways that foster our continued growth and innovation, ultimately helping us continue to have impact befitting our tradition of excellence.
2 College of media Year in review 2013 3 students The combination of classroom and experiential learning produce the critical thinkers and problem solvers that business and academia require. Read on to see just some of what our students did this past year.
Four students from the College of Media Daily Illini staff earned recognition in 20 were named to the American Advertising categories at the Illinois College Press Federation (AAF) Most Promising Association Awards, including firsts in Minority Students Class of 2013. One was General Excellence, Graphic Illustration, named to the Honor Roll. Congratulations In-house Promotional Ad, Feature Story, to winners Laura Carrillo, Christina Sports News Story and Sports Page Farrell, Christina Lee, Nathan Hsieh and Design. Honor Roll member Debbie Wong. The University of Illinois had more students The Public Relations Society of America named than any other university in the approved the College of Media’s program. The AAF’s Most Promising application for a student chapter Minority Students program connects the of the organization. The PRSA is a advertising industry with the nation’s 21,000-member organization of public The Illinois chapter of the Public Relations The Charles H. Sandage Department of top minority college seniors. The event relations practitioners and academics, and Student Society of America sponsored Advertising Master’s Student Research provides opportunities to recruit fresh its student affiliate is the Public Relations a networking trip to Chicago. Fourteen Symposium was held in December. The talent, to further prepare advertising’s Student Society of America. The PRSSA PRSSA members visited the public professional project is the culmination of best young prospects and to help the has 10,000 student members in more relations departments of the Chicago Bulls the master’s degree in advertising. The industry’s workforce better reflect the than 300 college and university chapters. and The Museum of Contemporary Art project is designed to allow students to multiculturalism of today’s society. The The PRSSA sponsors regional and national Chicago, as well as Zeno Group, a mid- demonstrate their mastery of advertising, program not only honors the students, conferences for students interested in the sized PR agency. Highlights of the trip focusing on brand, strategy, creative or but enhances their knowledge and practice of public relations and participates included a tour of the United Center and media. It also provides a quality tool to understanding of the advertising industry in the Bateman Case Study Competition, presentations with members of the Bulls assist in gaining industry employment. by offering networking, interviewing and a national contest in which student teams corporate communication and PR staffs, a The final product must reveal competency industry immersion opportunities with create and implement a public relations presentation on nonprofit and in-house PR in whatever medium of expression the industry professionals. plan for a nonprofit client. from the MCA staff and a Q&A with three student chooses. Dr. Michelle Nelson has interns working at the Zeno Group. supervised these projects with assistance The National Association of Black Four Department of Journalism students from other faculty who advised students Journalists Illinois Chapter’s “What’s spent the summer as Dow Jones News A group of College of Media students in method or content areas. Black in the News” event drew a diverse Fund editing interns. Open to juniors, attended a two-day media tour of Chicago crowd from campus and the community. seniors and graduate students, these organized by Associate Professor of Junior Nathaniel Lash was awarded Students moderated a panel discussion paid internships are offered in business Journalism Nancy Benson and Lecturer one of the first-ever Google Journalism on issues surrounding the current reporting, news, digital and sports copy Jean McDonald. Locations included the Fellowships. The program is aimed at presidential election, public participation, editing. Prior to the 10-week internship, Better Government Association, WLS students interested in using technology socially constructed difference and media students attend a week-long training Radio, Tribune Co., Chicago City Hall, to tell stories in new and dynamic ways. responsibility. seminar, and interns who return to college DNAinfo.com and WMAQ-TV. The fellows have the opportunity to spend full time receive a $1,000 scholarship. the summer contributing to a variety of Jungmin Kwon, Ph.D. student in the The students were Emily Siner, a senior, Institute of Communications Research organizations — those that are steeped Institute of Communications Research, who worked on the copy desk at the Los students Molly Niesen, Christina Ceisel, in investigative journalism, those working received a Research in Diversity Travel Angeles Times; Kevin Dollear, a senior, Matt Crain, Ryuta Komaki, Desiree for press freedom around the world and Award. She attended the National who worked on the copy desk at the Yomtoob, Wen Cheng Fu, Salvador those that are helping the industry figure Communication Association’s 98th Annual Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Raymundo Victor, Jianqin Yang, Robert out its future in the digital age. Convention and presented an individual Alyssa Szynal, a junior, who worked on Mejia and Tabe Bergman all defended paper, “Spectacularizing Queers: How the copy desk at the Pioneer Press in St. their dissertations and received their Young Females are Embraced by the Paul, Minn.; and Blake Pon, a junior, who doctorates. Media Industry in South Korea.” worked on the sports copy desk at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
4 College of media Year in review 2013 5 students The College of Media was represented I-Elect was a multimedia election project on the 2012 Homecoming Court by four designed to help students experience students: Rose-Ann Aragon, Emily Siner the excitement of a presidential election and Tolu Taiwo from journalism and BK year while also learning cutting-edge Saunders from advertising. techniques in multimedia journalism. Students used online, mobile, broadcast, ICR student Ergin Bulut was awarded print and social media techniques in a real- a highly competitive Graduate College world project that previewed and covered Dissertation Completion Fellowship. the 2012 general election in a non- Broadcast journalism students won five traditional way. The students produced awards — including three for first place a website, magazine and six 10-minute — in the Region 5 Society of Professional blocks of live election coverage that ran Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for on UI-7 cable on election night. their news, feature and sports reporting, Broadcast journalism students won 13 plus election night coverage. Categories awards (seven for first place and six included Breaking News, TV newscast, for second place) in the Students in TV sports reporting and TV feature Illinois News Broadcasters Association reporting. Awards. The awards were announced and presented at the annual INBA spring Advertising students placed second in conference. First place categories media university the 2012-2013 American Advertising included TV Videography, Hard TV Federation National Student Advertising Program, Radio Sports Reporting, Radio The College of Media hosted Media group learned from marketing and public Competition regionals in Merrillville, Newscast, Radio News Reporting, Radio University on the Illinois campus this relations professionals at the Indianapolis Ind. The competition’s client this year Use Of Sound and Radio Soft Program. summer in order to introduce high Zoo. (Did you know that the first mission was Glidden Brilliance, a line of paint school students to the many facets of of the zoo is not entertainment, but is sold exclusively at Walmart. The project Three students from Nancy Benson’s advertising, media and journalism as conservation?) They also got to visit took eight months to complete — from International Reporting class were viable college major and career choices Fox 59, the Indianapolis Star, Publicis September to April — and it gave over 50 honored with a National Academy of through hands-on learning activities. Indianapolis, and Young & Laramore, an students the experience they will need to Television Arts and Sciences Crystal Diversity scholarships were awarded to independent advertising agency. All of pursue successful careers in advertising. Pillar Award for Long Form-Non-Fiction nearly half of the participants in order these sessions helped the students to journalism for their report “Illinois Travels Two advertising students were named to foster diversity in the classroom and create projects that they got to share with to Turkey.” WTTW, Chicago’s public Stickell Interns for the summer of 2013. eventually in the media. (In order to television station, aired the segment. faculty, parents, clients and the public at John Buysse served his internship with Other reports from the trip were published foster a healthy democracy, diversity the conclusion of the camp. GSD&M in Austin, Texas. Hannah Ryan online by The New York Times and in print in the media industry is a must.) We was at Slingshot in Dallas. This highly in the International Herald Tribune. hope this program will recruit more Final presentations by the 32 high school selective program was established in underrepresented students to college students included a show about the Taste 1989 in honor of Vance L. Stickell (1925- Gunwoo Yoon, Ph.D. student in the majors and careers in various aspects of of Champaign and some news desk clips 1987), former executive vice president, College of Media, was accepted to the media and mass communications. from the Journalism track students and marketing for the Los Angeles Times and Behavioral Science Summer Workshop client presentations from the Advertising a member of the Advertising Hall of Fame. at the Center for Public Leadership at Over the two-week camp, the students track students. The clients that the Students are nominated by their American Harvard Kennedy School. The workshop learned from College of Media and advertising students worked on were Big Advertising Federation chapter advisers was held in August on the Harvard campus faculty about the fundamentals Brothers Big Sisters of Central Illinois, and must be members in good standing. Kennedy School Campus. Application to and key practices of journalism, Eastern Illinois Foodbank, State Farm’s the program is competitive with only a Broadcast journalism students and alumni advertising, media, ethics, brainstorming, Celebrate My Drive and Champaign third of applicants accepted. were recognized in 10 categories at the teamwork, leadership and many other County United Way. Student Silver Dome awards presented topics. They didn’t just learn on campus, by the Illinois Broadcasters Association. though. Visits to Chicago included NBC Media University was funded in part The awards honor the best collegiate 5 Chicago, Crain Communications, through a grant received from the Office broadcasters in Illinois for radio, TV, news, WBBM-AM Sports Radio, OMD, Hall & of Public Engagement, the Marajen sports, sales, marketing, promotion, on-air Partners and others, to learn about the Stevick Foundation and State Farm. personalities and other programming. business firsthand. In Indianapolis, the
6 College of media Year in review 2013 7 faculty Faculty in the College of Media not only teach the skills of media, but they also engage in creative work themselves. They are published widely and recognized consistently for their outstanding work. Take a look at what they have accomplished this past year.
Advertising Assistant Professor John Dr. Brittany Duff, assistant professor of Wirtz was elected to the executive advertising and member of the Institute committee of the advertising division of of Communications Research; Dr. Tiffany Association for Education in Journalism Barnett White, associate professor of and Mass Communication. The executive business administration, Bruce and committee is responsible for running the Anne Strohm Faculty Fellow; and research paper competition (selecting Alejandro Llerasm, associate professor papers, top paper, scheduling sessions), of psychology at the Beckman Institute, scheduling special topics and professional were granted $2,000 from the Provost’s development sessions, and for running Social and Behavioral Sciences Research the advertising educator of the year Committee for their proposal for a Social competition. Wirtz will serve a three-year and Consumer Psychology Research Dean Jan Slater and Acting Head of MACS Professor and department head term. Dr. Sela Sar, also an advertising Brownbag Series. Topics of the series will Advertising Michelle Nelson were invited and Interim Director of ICR Angharad professor in the College of Media, is be draw from many disciplines to take a keynote speakers at the International N. Valdivia served as the general editor currently serving his third year on the consumer-centered approach to research. Advertising Education Conference held of the seven-volume “International executive committee. at Xiamen University, China. Slater talked Encyclopedia of Media Studies” released Peter Sheldon, lecturer in advertising, was about the future of advertising education in April 2013. Professor Emeritus John Media and Cinemas Studies Professor named one of three finalists for the first and Nelson presented a historical Nerone served as editor of Volume 1. ICR Isabel Molina published “Salma Hayek’s Association for Education in Journalism account of advertising education in the alumni Sharon Mazzarella and Kelly Gates celebrity story: Mainstream cultural and Mass Communication Advertising United States and at the University of edited volumes 3 and 6 respectively. production as commodity activism.” In Division Distinguished Teaching Award. Illinois. The conference featured leading Valdivia also published two book the book “Commodity Activism Cultural academics and industry professionals chapters: “Latinas on television and film: Resistance in Neoliberal Times” and MACS Professor C.L. Cole continues from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Exploring the limits and possibilities of “Commodifying Black Latinidad in US Film to serve as the editor of the Journal of Conference attendees celebrated the inclusion” in “The Routledge Companion and Television” in the journal “Popular Sport and Social Issues. Cole published 30th Anniversary of advertising education to Media and Gender” and “Media and Communication.” “Between Street Culture & Global at Xiamen University, which was the Minority Children”, co-authored with M. Sport: Double Dutch’s Turning Points” first advertising program in China. The Rivera (ICR student) in “The Routledge Journalism Professor Brant Houston, in the inaugural issue of “Oppositional advertising and journalism departments Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, Conversations,” and “Embodying at Illinois have joint partnerships with the Media.” was the featured instructor for a American Democracy: Performing School of Journalism and Communication webinar offered by the Knight Center for the Female Sporting Icon” with “The at Xiamen University. MACS Assistant Professor Amanda Journalism in the Americas. The webinar, Blackwell Companion to Sport.” Cole was Ciafone received the John W. Kluge titled “The Elements of Investigative the recipient of an ICubed grant related For his scholarship and teaching in the Fellowship to be in residence at the Journalism: Principles and Practicalities,” to course development for gender and philosophy of technology, ICR Professor Library of Congress 2013-2014. Ciafone offered insights into investigative digital cultures and an IT Teaching Award Emeritus Dr. Clifford Christians, was given will continue researching her book project journalism and its role in today’s digital from Ethnography of the University for the the Media Ecology Association’s Louis on Global Coca Cola. landscape. freshmen discovery course, Documenting Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator Sport/Documenting Social Issues. in the Field of Media Ecology at the Assistant Professor of Advertising, Dr. ICR Professor Emeritus Norman K. MEA’s annual convention. James Carey John Wirtz, was a panelist at a free Denzin’s new book, “Indians on Display: was the previous Illinois faculty member community forum sponsored by the Global Commodification of Native America to receive the award. Center for One Health Illinois at the in Performance, Art, and Museums,” College of Veterinary Medicine. The published in May 2013. Journalism Professor Walt Harrington session titled “Health Risk or Hype: has edited a new book. “Next Wave: Emerging Disease You Should Care America’s New Generation of Literary About” focused on the actual health Journalists” is a collection of work from science related to disease risk. Wirtz today’s finest young writers. presented on how disease risk is communicated through the media.
8 College of media Year in review 2013 9 Assistant Professor Charles “Stretch” Advertising professors Michelle Nelson Ledford was invited by the National and Patrick Vargas had papers published in faculty Press Photographers Association to “The Journal of Advertising,” the premier Assistant Professor of Journalism Assistant Professor of Advertising serve as a coach for the NPPA’s 2013 academic publication covering significant Charles “Stretch” Ledford’s multimedia Dr. Brittany Duff, and a group of co- Multimedia Immersion workshop in intellectual development pertaining to production “Handguns and Humor in the investigators were awarded a Campus Syracuse, NY. The S.I. Newhouse School advertising theories and their relationship Heartland: A Gun Rights Group’s Unlikely Research Board Grant. They will work on of Public Communication co-sponsored with practice. Nelson’s article, “How Activism” was part of the BBC’s coverage a study to determine how parents’ and the intensive, five-day, hands-on training Advergame Content Influences Explicit of the role of firearms in American children’s perceptions of snack products workshop for visual journalists looking and Implicit Brand Attitudes: When culture in the aftermath of the Newtown may be influenced by packaging cues. to expand and grow their multimedia Violence Spills Over,” was co-authored massacre. Ledford’s story focused on skillsets using the latest technology. with Martin K.J. Waiguny of the Aukland the Champaign-based pro-gun group MACS Professor and department head University of Technology, New Zealand, MACS/ICR Assistant Professor Anita Say “GunsSaveLife.com.” To the delight of and Interim Director of ICR Angharad N. and Bernhard Marko of Europa University Chan and MACS affiliate Professor Kevin some and the astonishment of others, Valdivia published and edited a collection, of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany. Hamilton are co-principal investigators — members of the group erect “Burma with Matt Garcia, “Mapping Latina/o Vargas’ article, “Seeing Without Looking: along wth four faculty from other colleges Shave”-style signs along the highways Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader.” The Effects of Hemispheric Functioning — of a highly competitive Graduate of central Illinois, introducing their own Valdivia also published two journal articles on Memory for Brands in Computer College INTERSECT Fellowship 2013- brand of humor into an important national “Latina/os in the Media” in “Politique Games,” was co-authored with Gunwoo 2015. Their project, “Learning to See debate. The Globe and Mail also published Americaine, Paris” and “Amnesia and Yoon, a second year Ph.D. student in the Systems,” is a research and curricular the work on its website. the Myth of Discovery: Lessons from College of Media. transnational and women of color initiative to steward doctoral education MACS Professor James Hay edited and communication scholars” in “Critical/ by providing interdisciplinary funding to MACS Professor and department heard published a series of interviews with the Cultural Studies in Communications.” the humanities. This particular project and Interim Director of ICR Angharad field’s top scholar in the journal “Critical/ addresses the digital humanities. Chan N. Valdivia was an invited speaker at Cultural Studies in Communications.” In Chris Benson, associate professor of was an invited speaker to the University the University of California San Diego’s August 2012 Hay also presented three journalism and associate dean of the of North Carolina, Indiana State University Department of Communications 30th invited lectures in Australia at the Royal College of Media, served as an expert and KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of anniversary. She participated in the panel Melbourne Institute of Technology. He in a New Jersey case of alleged racial MACS collaborations with that university. “Herbert I. Schiller and the Legacy of also presented the keynote address, harassment involving the display of a Chan also received a 2012 iCubed Communication.” Schiller was a faculty “Revisiting the Contradictions of the hangman’s noose in the workplace. Informatics Institute Course Development member at Institute of Communications Birth of TV Studies — and Why Doing Benson produced a memorandum Award. Research in the 1960s. that Matters Now,” at the University of discussing the meaning of a hangman’s Georgia symposium, (Re-)Generations of noose to African-Americans, setting out TV Studies, in April 2013. the historical context of spectacle lynching and the effect of wide media coverage of contemporary incidents at job sites and on college campuses. He also discussed the noose as a narrative text for a history of African-American subordination in the allocation of rank, privilege and power.
Journalism Professor Jay Rosenstein was selected as a University Scholar for 2013. The University Scholars Program was created to honor and reward outstanding faculty and to provide assistance for their research and creative endeavors. Scholar awards are not made for a specific project or proposal but represent recognition of the recipient’s excellence and the university’s commitment to foster outstanding people and their work. The awards are made through nominations, not by application. Six Urbana campus faculty were named to this year’s list of honorees.
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MACS Assistant Professor Julie Turnock MACS Professor Cameron McCarthy received the Junior Faculty Fellowship published five articles including the of the Unit for Interpretive Criticism following two in Spain and England: and Theory and was one of the faculty “Recontrucció de la raça i l’enducació organizers for the national conference, en la conquista de clase de la ciutat Textures of Technology: Film Production i la universitat, en una época de and Technology, held on campus in neoliberalisme i globalització” in September 2013. She published “The “Convencia Intercultural i Educació Screen on the Set: The Problem of Antiracista,” Gerona, Spain and “Neo- Classical Studio Rear Projection” in Marxist Nostalgia and the Vanishing Past: Cinema Journal. She was also invited to Reconsidering the Subject of Class and present the lecture “’That’s an Alien Bruv, Tradition in British Cultural Studies”, in Believe It’: Genre Exportability and the “Conversations in Philosophy,” volume Transnational Visual Effects Business,” II, Cambridge University Press. He also Visions of the Future: Global SF Cinema at finished a book co-edited with doctoral The University of Iowa. students including Alicia Kozma and Karla Palma from ICR titled “Mobilized Assistant Professor of Journalism Charles Identities, Mobilized Subjects: Knowledge “Stretch” Ledford was named a finalist and Cultural Transformations in the New cu-citizenaccess.org in the Moving Images category of the Millennium.” McCarthy continued his A special project on the flourishing and growing More stories and content from the project appear 2012 International Photography Awards collaboration with a transnational group diversity in Central Illinois was published in two on CU-CitizenAccess.org. WILL’s Sean Powers for his entry “The Eye Of Overtown,” of scholars in the multi-million dollar newspaper sections in The News-Gazette in the produced a two-part radio series that aired in and an Honorable Mention for the project “Elite Schools in Globalizing fall of 2012. The project, called the “Midwest September on stations across Illinois and at will. entry “Tuesdays Mean Fish.” The BBC Circumstances,” which explores schooling Chronicles,” was the result of a collaboration illinois.edu. also featured “The Eye of Overtown.” in eight countries. McCarthy heads the Distributed on both BBC Television and between CU-CitizenAccess.org and Hoy Chicago Barbados case and has also participated The project received numerous awards. BBC Online, the short film is part of a that involved journalists from Chicago and in the Australian, Indian, Singaporean and Champaign-Urbana and the journalism department Investigative Reporters and Editors named CU- series of videos Ledford produced in Argentinian cases. As well, he became CitizenAccess a 2012 Award winner in the small Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, one at the College of Media. CU-CitizenAccess.org a consultant for the National Institute of is an online community newsroom based in the multiplatform category. The project received of the most economically marginalized Education in Singapore. journalism department, and Hoy Chicago is the the 2012 Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago communities in the United States. largest Spanish language daily in the Midwest. In Headline Club. The project’s infographic “Seeds of Journalism Lecturer John Paul has been addition, Illinois Public Media contributed to the Change” in the print edition netted an Award of Journalism Professor Jay Rosenstein named chair of the Education Committee project, and there were additional news reports on Excellence from the Society for News Design. has been appointed to the Center for of the National Academy of Television WILL radio. Advanced Study. CAS professors are Arts and Sciences Mid-America Emmys CU-CitizenAccess was also a finalist in IRE’s selected from the faculty on the basis Chapter, headquartered in St. Louis. The project involved journalists, professors student category for its work on stories about the of outstanding scholarship and creative Paul has served on the Emmy Board of and students and focused on the changing way college campuses treat mental health issues. endeavor and are permanent members of Governors for about four years. He earned demographics of a 16-county region in central Those stories were done through the Investigative the center. A CAS appointment is among an Emmy nomination for co-producing a Illinois and the people behind those demographics. Journalism Education Consortium in collaboration with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative the highest forms of campus recognition. 2008 historical documentary, “True Illini The special sections, containing stories in English Journalism and UW-Madison School of Journalism With Rosenstein’s appointment, the Spirit,” that told the story of the effort to and Spanish, received wide distribution throughout and Mass Communication; Ball State Department Journalism Department now has two of build Memorial Stadium. the Chicago area and were delivered for free to the 27 CAS professors; Professor Leon the largely Latino Shadowood neighborhood in of Journalism; School of Journalism and Mass Dash is the center’s director. Champaign. Readers found a wide range of stories, Communications at Southern Illinois University; including those about the Latino population that Chicago Talks and the School of Journalism and has settled in Arcola, the impact of a federal Mass Communications, Columbia College, Chicago. deportation program on the region, and the growing Brant Houston was recognized with a 2013 Campus Filipino community in Champaign. Award for Excellence in Public Engagement for Brant Houston, the Knight Chair in Investigative and his work with CU-CitizenAccess. The awards Enterprise Reporting in the journalism department recognize faculty members, academic professionals who oversees CU-CitizenAccess.org, said, “This and students who have consistently applied their also shows the strength of our efforts in the College knowledge and expertise to issues of societal of Media to increase our public engagement in the importance for the public good. region.”
12 College of media Year in review 2013 13 college guests Following is an incomplete list of the Carla Erdey ’96 JOURN, Illinois School guests who have visited classrooms or District 230, President, Illinois Chapter presented lectures for College of Media of the National School Public Relations students. Thank you for sharing your Association expertise with the next generation of Tanner Flitter, Steph Gray, Stephanie media professionals. Schroeder and Lauren Shield, Red Frog Brian Barnhart, WDWS/WHMS Events Ben Behrman ’09 ADV, Shafer Condon John Foreman ’77 JOURN, The News- Carter Gazette Jon Berlin ’98 JOURN, Chicago Tribune Todd Frankel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Laura Bleill, founder, Chambanamoms.com Judy (Stern) Friedman ’83 ADV, ’84 MS, Matt Bollant, UI women’s basketball coach freelance writer Karlie Elliott Bowman ’09 AGCM, ’10 MS, Jean Garner, Al Jazeera Wyffle’s Hybrid Jon Hansen ’06 JOURN, Chicago radio Chad Broude, DDB traffic reporter Kent Brown ’87 JOURN, ‘89 MS AHS, UI Justin Heckert, freelance magazine sports information director reporter/writer John Malysiak ’06 LAS, Accuen/Omnicom Tracy Schmidt ’07 MS, Crain Media Group Communications Ben Brownback ’99 LAS, DAV Productions Laura Hettiger ’09 JOURN, ’10 MS, KMOV-TV Carol Mayer ’04 JOURN, ESPN Rob Schultz, IllinoisVentures Tom Burrell, Burrell Communications Group Jason Houze ’11 ADV, Energy BBDO Helen McGrath ’77 ADV, ’78 MS, Andrew Selby ’10 JOURN, Leo Burnett Patrick “Pat” M. Burke ’95 ADV, DDB AT&T, Inc. Chicago Gordy Hulten, Champaign county clerk David Selby, Shafer Condon Carter Katie McManus-Faye, WICS-WICD TV Rich Cahan ’75 JOURN, City Files Press Heather Jones, Maytag-Whirlpool Jordyn Siegel ’12 ADV, Leo Burnett Andy Miller ’97 JOURN, WCIA-TV Dave Campbell ’87 JOURN, Cleveland Robin Kaler ’83 JOURN ’92 MS, ’04 MBA, Bryan Smith, Chicago magazine UI associate chancellor of public affairs Plain Dealer Ashley Morgan ’10 JOURN, Q96 Radio Alan Snitow, DDB Brad Karsh, JB Training Solutions Chris Cancilla ’89 ADV, Trisect Ashley Newman ’10 ADV, Leo Burnett Jim Spangler ’85 JOURN, Navistar Jeffrey Katz ’78 JOURN, NPR Carl Carbonell ’12 AVD, Google Danny O’Connor ’09 ADV, Trisect Kate Springer, WICD-TV Yuri Kleban ’11 ADV, Google Gail Carter, Shafer Condon Carter Ed Odyniec ’90 MS, Leo Burnett Terrell Starr ’09 MS, NewsOne Ashlie Kolb ’07 MS, Nashville Weston Carter ’08 JOURN, ’10 MS RST, John Patterson, communications director, Jonathan Stern, MillerCoors Illini Productions entertainment reporter Illinois Senate President John Cullerton Luke Sullivan, Savannah College of Art Natasha Korecki ’96 JOURN ’97 MA, Mike Cation ’99 JOURN, public address Jeff Pearlman, former Sports Illustrated and Design, author of “Hey, Whipple, Chicago Sun-Times for Illini basketball writer, author of five sports books, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to freelance sports journalist Rich Claussen, Bailey Lauerman Howard Lamm ’09 ADV, LinkedIn Creating Great Ads” Rich Pieczynski ’88 ADV, Leo Burnett/Arc Tim Condon, Shafer, Condon Carter Marc Lapides ’91 LAS, TPN Retail Nina Totenberg, NPR Marketing Rosie Powers ’12 JOURN, Wednesday Bob Crawford ’59 JOURN, political reporter Spencer Turkin ’12 JOURN, WSJS/Triad Josh Laskowski, Q96 Radio Journal Sports Network Ken Cunningham ’68 BALAS, SJ Sean Powers, Illinois Public Media Broadcasting Will Leitch ’98 JOURN, founder Deadspin, Jeff Unger, UI News Bureau senior writer for Sports on Earth, Steve Raquel ’92 ADV, ’93 MS, IOV Media Ann Utterback, broadcast news voice Pragna Dave, Leo Burnett contributing editor for New York magazine Sarah Romanek ’10 ADV, Shafer Condon expert Lane DeGregory, Tampa Bay Times Lil Levant ’13 MS GSLIS, Illini Media Carter Patrick Wade ’09 JOURN, The News- Pam Dempsey ’09 MS, CU-CitizenAcess Luke LiManni ’06 ADV, DDB Carol Saller ’74 LAS, University of Gazette Diana Dionisio ’88 ADV, WGN TV Ann Liston, Adelstein-Liston, Obama 2012 Chicago Press Danielle Wilburn ’06 ADV, Leo Burnett Jordan Dziura ’93 JOURN, Chicago Tribune campaign senior strategist Robert Sanchez, Denver’s city Dr. Phyllis Wise, Chancellor, University Jim Edgar, former Illinois governor Dawn Longfellow ’95 ADV, Illini Media magazine, 5280 of Illinois Eric Elk, chief of staff, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk Carrie Lozano, The Weather Underground Jim Schlueter ’80 JOURN, Boeing Kristen Witt, DDB Martin Wodarz ’92 ADV, ARC Worldwide
14 College of media Year in review 2013 15 advancing excellence The goals set forth within the college’s works toward meeting the goals within meaningful careers in the media fields in strategic plan, Building Opportunities for its strategic plan. As endowments are a an increasingly competitive job market. Excellence, include a strong emphasis source of permanent financial support for You can have a direct impact in enhancing on recruiting and retaining the best the college, they assist greatly in allowing student experience by directing your gift and brightest students and faculty and us to recruit and retain the best faculty of the following funds: providing them with the resources and students and provide the resources necessary to be successful in an ever- they will need to be successful. • Media Dean’s Endowment Fund changing, global media landscape. To • Media Scholarship Fund Endowment in Action • Alumni Scholarship Fund reach these goals, we must increasingly Philip Johnson ‘86 BS FIN, created the rely on support from our alumni and Gerald P. Johnson Endowment Fund in friends. Significant decreases in state honor of his father. The fund will support Faculty Excellence support, combined with rising tuition students with both internships and Changes in the media and costs, make private contributions even scholarships. Gerry Johnson graduated communications fields are constant, more critical. Each and every gift to the from the U of I in 1951 with a degree with the continuous adoption of new Jim Schlueter, ’80 BS JOURN, College of Media is a critical investment in in physical education and built a long, technology. In today’s media landscape, and his wife, Amy, are both future generations of media professionals, successful career in sales with WCIA- faculty require ongoing professional grateful for the opportunities scholars and educators. The following TV in Champaign. Gerry had dreamed of development opportunities that are they have received as alumni opportunities represent current needs of being a sports broadcaster, and while this vital in making them better teachers. the College of Media. opportunity never materialized, he was Opportunities such as Faculty Externships from Big Ten universities. involved with WCIA’s broadcasts of Illinois allow faculty to connect theory and With this in mind, they have Endowment: An Investment in men’s basketball games, and for many practice, enhance knowledge of current created the Schlueter Family Excellence years, he traveled with the team, serving technology and methods, and transfer Endowed Fund for Internships up statistics to the color and play-by-play these experiences into the classroom. An endowment is a self-renewing fund in Journalism. Jim and Amy that the university holds in perpetuity announcers. “By helping students seeking Professors of Practice allow the College and is invested. Creating an endowed a career in broadcast journalism to earn of Media to bring top industry shared, “It has always been fund gives you an opportunity to put your their degree or to obtain an internship, professionals in the media fields to important for us to give name — or the name of another person my hope is that The Gerald P. Johnson engage faculty and students and something back to Illinois, and Endowment Fund will help some of them support teaching innovation to further or organization — on the endowment we are thrilled to be able to in memory or tribute. Each year, the to realize their own professional dreams,” enhance a robust learning and research endowed fund’s earned income is used Philip said. environment. The following endowments help in this way by supporting to fund the donor’s specified designation, provide critical funding for Faculty students who are seeking and any remaining funds are directed back Externships, Professors of Practice and internships. Gaining as much Student Experience other opportunities to enhance faculty into the fund so that it grows over time. While students must first have access to real-life experience as possible Endowed funds are permanent and make excellence and the quality of the student an Illinois education through scholarships, experience in the College of Media: can make a big difference for a lasting impact for future generations they also need access to the experiential of students and faculty in the College of learning that can really make a difference • Charles H. Sandage Professorship our students when they enter Media. in their lives. These include summer • James Webb Young Fund our challenging media and An endowment can be created through internships, undergraduate research, • Media Dean’s Endowment Fund communications job market. an outright gift, through a bequest in a study abroad opportunities, domestic Faculty Support in Action We know our students will will or through a life income gift such as experiences in cities across the country, Helen McGrath, ’77 ADV, ’78 MS, has a charitable gift annuity or a charitable career preparedness, innovation labs given back to the college for more than make great contributions in remainder trust. and more. These opportunities allow 30 years and has supported the James their careers, and we are Named Endowed Scholarship $25,000 student learning to take on a whole new Webb Young Fund for 20 years. She was privileged to help them with a Named Graduate Fellowship $250,000 dimension. a James Webb Young Scholar at Illinois. little lift as they get started.” Named Professor of Practice $500,000 The following endowments are “I would not have received my master’s Named Professor $500,000 designated to provide much-needed degree without it,” she said. Helen is Named Chair $2,500,000 financial support to enhance student motivated by her desire to give back and Named Deanship $5,000,000 experiences beyond the classroom. has made her gift dollars stretch further These kinds of experiences make a by taking advantage of matching funds The creation of new endowment funds available through her employer. will be critical as the College of Media real difference in preparing students for
16 College of media Year in review 2013 17 advancing excellence Alumni Engagement population is 16 percent — approximately allows us to respond quickly to these We invite you to consider how you can Take a look at your personal network. Are 175 students — and this scholarship will and other immediate needs that develop make a real difference for students there alumni who should hear about what help us recruit and retain the best and throughout the year. The Annual Fund and faculty in the College of Media. is happening in the college? Are there brightest students from underrepresented provides a foundation of support that If you have interest in learning more internships available in your company? groups. If you are interested in making a allows us to provide students and faculty about establishing an endowment, the Are you interested in hosting an alumni gift to this scholarship, please visit media. the financial resources for unforeseen Chancellor’s Circle, the Annual Fund or event at your home or workplace? illinois.edu/give to make your gift online, needs and opportunities, and it keeps other opportunities to make an impact, Our alumni and friends are critical in or you may mail a check made payable to the college on a trajectory for continued please contact Marlah McDuffie at helping us to establish and strengthen the University of Illinois Foundation to: success. To make a gift to the College of [email protected], the College relationships with other alumni nationally College of Media Media Annual Fund, visit the online giving of Media Office of Advancement at and with companies that can benefit Attention: Mary Susan Britt site at media.illinois.edu/give. 217.244.5466, or email us at media- from our graduates, interns or research 119 Gregory Hall [email protected]. opportunities. Please contact Lesa Brandt 810 S. Wright Street Chancellor’s Circle at [email protected] or 217.300.3908 if Urbana, IL 61801 you would like to assist in these or other The Chancellor’s Circle is a university- areas of alumni engagement. Please include “Scholarship Challenge” wide recognition program, which honors on the memo line. donors who make significant contributions College of Media Scholarship Challenge For additional information, please contact in a given fiscal year. The intent of the Inspired by Dean Slater’s remarks at program is to promote the importance of the dean’s reception in August 2013 Mary Susan Britt at [email protected] or 217.24 4.5466. leadership-level annual outright support — at NPR, attendee and ‘75 journalism whether it be a major gift, payments on graduate Nancy Gravatt has launched a an open pledge, support of an annual fund campaign and a challenge to her fellow Building an Agile College: The College or named fund, or any combination of gifts alumni to create an endowed scholarship of Media Annual Fund to the University of Illinois. for underrepresented students in the The media landscape is constantly College of Media. Nancy will commit The Chancellor’s Circle levels of changing. To keep up with these changes, recognition are: $5,000 toward the goal of $25,000 to the college must be agile, responding to create this much-needed scholarship. opportunities quickly. These may include Platinum $25,000 or more She is seeking other alumni to join her conference attendance to learn new skills, Gold $10,000 - $24,999 in this endeavor. The goal is to establish days in the field to shadow professionals Silver $5,000 - $9,999 the scholarship before fall 2014. The and research requests that reflect current Bronze $2,500 - $4,999 college’s underrepresented undergraduate trends. The College of Media Annual Fund
Alumni Engagement in Action In August, Jeffrey Katz ’78 JOURN, deputy managing editor for digital news at NPR, hosted a reception for local D.C. alumni at the new NPR headquarters. Dean Jan Slater shared her vision and mission for the College of Media and discussed the current state of the college, recent highlights and the college’s new strategic plan, Building Opportunities for Excellence. She also shared the college’s goals for fundraising to support the five-year strategic plan. To hear Dean Slater’s remarks at the DC reception at NPR, please visit: http://go.media.illinois.edu/DC_event.
The College will host future dean’s receptions around the county in the next year. If you’re interested in hosting such an event in your area, please contact Lesa Brandt at [email protected] or 217.300.3908.
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