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Vol. 35, Issue 2 Fall 2009 Classrooms without walls

Tim Franklin comes full circle | One alumna’s global experience Dean’s Message Journalism Hall of Fame finds new home at IU

We share those goals, so I met with Ray editor of the (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Journal and later with Larry and was impressed Gazette, and Jane Pauley, BA’72, former by their commitment. I talked with our co-host of the NBC Today show and national alumni board and faculty about Dateline NBC. the possibility of bringing the Hall of The relocation of the Hall of Fame to Fame to the School of Journalism in Indiana University will not change the Bloomington. process for selecting future members. The SPJ board of directors asked us to School of Journalism graduates will have prepare a formal presentation for April. no more, or less, of an advantage. The

Tyra Robertson Tyra After the presentation and questions, the board of directors will continue to make Dean Brad Hamm directors voted to partner with the IU the final decisions each year. Starting in School of Journalism for the future. April 2010, the annual induction ceremo- orty-three years ago, the Indiana chapter The hall includes 220 members, with ny will be in Bloomington. Fof the Society of Professional Journalists about five new inductees selected each Together, we hope to build a stronger decided to create a Journalism Hall of Fame year. In addition to Pyle, other notable Hall of Fame with future space to recog- for the state. members include: nize the best journalists in the history of Schools were asked to submit propos- the state of Indiana. • Kent Cooper, IU student and als to house the hall. DePauw University, A partnership with the Hall of Fame longtime executive director of the in Greencastle, was selected as the winner. fits well within the School of Journalism’s Associated Press; One hundred years ago, DePauw was the mission. We are committed to strengthen- • Roy Howard, longtime leader of site of the founding of Sigma Delta Chi, ing journalism and democracy in Indiana the United Press and Scripps now the Society of Professional Journalists. and beyond with a focus on the First Howard’s newspaper and broadcast Ernie Pyle was inducted in the first class. Amendment, academic and professional organization (the Howard archives The Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame training for high school and university are in Ernie Pyle Hall); is now moving to Indiana University and students, workshops for journalism • DePauw graduate Bernie Kilgore, Ernie Pyle Hall. professionals, and special programs and who became president of Dow In making the announcement, Hall of quality research. Jones and led The Wall Street Journal’s Fame president Ray Moscowitz said: “The Preserving and celebrating Indiana’s rise in America; Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame board is journalism history at its highest level • Brian Lamb, founder of C-SPAN; and excited about the hall being housed at one is essential. I see an important role for • IU graduate Nelson Poynter, of the truly outstanding journalism schools Indiana University’s School of Journalism founder of the Poynter Institute in in the nation. With its great journalism as a partner in the future of the Hall St. Petersburg, Fla. heritage, IU is an ideal place for the hall to of Fame. relocate.” You might recognize former teachers In Ernie Pyle Hall, we work with We agree. And we hope our partnership and staff from the School of Journalism today’s journalists and prepare tomor- lasts for a long time. who are members of the Hall of Fame, row’s, but we always teach and celebrate A simple story about the move: Hall of including: Mary Benedict; Marjorie Smith journalism history. And we’re proud that Fame leaders, led by Moscowitz and execu- Blewett, BA’48; James Brown, MS’70; the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame tive director Larry Taylor, were considering MBA’75, PhD’77; Trevor Brown; Wilmer has found a new home with the Indiana their options over the past few years. They Counts; Ralph Holsinger; Gretchen Kemp, University School of Journalism. were interested in ways to tell more people ‘54; Patrick Siddons; John Stempel and about the great journalism, and great jour- Richard Yoakam. nalists, in Indiana history. They wanted to Many other Indiana University alumni acknowledge the tremendous contribution have been inducted over the past four by journalists to communities throughout decades. The 2009 class, for example, the state. included alumni Craig Klugman, BA’67, Page 16 CONTENTS

03 The Scoop Ask the Pro

15 Inside View Foreign correspondence changing with the times by Joe Coleman

16 A Dream Job by Aline Mendelsohn, BAJ’01

20 World View Tim Franklin comes back to Indiana. by Ben Weller, MA’07

Page 20 Page 15 22 Classrooms Without Walls The Journalism Experiences Program by Anne Kibbler, MA’88

28 On the Record Class Notes Obituaries Alumni Bookshelf

45 Reminisce with Marge Women editors break through ‘iron ceiling’ Rosemarie Overstreet takes a global view. Joe Coleman advises would-be foreign correspondents. 46 The Big Picture Jay Seawell, BAJ’09

Newswire is published by the Indiana University School of Copy Editors Journalism with support from the Journalism Alumni Board. Marjorie Smith Blewett, BA’48 It is mailed twice each year to alumni, faculty, staff and Doris Lare Brineman, BA’48 friends of the school. Elizabeth Wallis Winkler, BA’52 Please send questions, comments and story ideas to Staff Writers Anne Kibbler, Editor, IU School of Journalism, 940 E. Riya Anandwala Seventh St., Bloomington, IN 47405 or e-mail her at Sarah Hutchins [email protected]. Jessica Birthisel Dean Zachary Osterman Brad Hamm Ariel Tung Mickey Woods Editor Anne Kibbler, MA’88 COVER: Clockwise, from left: Design Consulting Editors Mediaworks Anne Kibbler; Anne Kibbler; Gena Asher, BA’79, MLS’03, MIS’03 Scott Myrick; Scott Myrick; The Kicker graphic Kurtis Beavers, BA’03 Courtesy; Jesse Darland Illustration by Nina Mehta, BAJ’07 Bonnie J. Brownlee, BA’72, MA’75 Kurtis Beavers Beth (Spangle) Moellers, BAJ’99, MA’05 (top) Zach Dobson, (bottom left) Volker Droege, (bottom right) David Guttenfelder Droege, (top) Zach Dobson, (bottom left) Volker << 22 >> newswire newswirenewswire / /Fall/ FallFall 20092008 20092009 the scoop THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE IU SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

Memories enrich White’s first year as HSJI director

class in a lab filled with rows of typewriters. Linda Johnson with teaching her a lot of She kept her T-shirt from the experience, a what she knows, citing her “knowledge, 30-year-old, retro-style cream and crimson experience and the ability to know what’s shirt that she drapes on the back of a chair next” as inspiration. in her office. The same support structure that upheld “When I was there, I thought to myself, White as a student went into her first-year why would anyone do this unless it was initiatives as director of HSJI. She takes a fully enjoyable and rewarding?” she says, collaborative approach to her work with recalling how she and her fellow students the HSJI faculty. And she relishes the shared common ground. opportunity to help students. The faculty’s support for students encour- “I want to continue to get bright aged White, BSEd’85, MSEd’93, to become a young minds together, asking each other high school English and journalism teacher questions and laying the groundwork for and then an instructor at the institute. discussions to help people grow,” she says. White is enthusiastic about her new posi- Mickey Woods tion. She credits longtime HSJI assistant Scott Myrick Teresa White

n 1979, Teresa White was a first-year Istudent at IU Bloomington’s High School Journalism Institute. That experience made a lasting impression. White not only continued to attend the institute as a student, she spent 21 years in the program as an instructor, and this year she completed her first summer as director, taking over from longtime director Jack Dvorak. Since its inception in 1947, the institute has provided summer workshops for high school students interested in pursuing a facet of journalism, promoting the value of ethics and leadership skills while giving them a taste of college life.

While staying in Read Quad dormitory Jessica Haney Teresa White, center, at an awards ceremony for students at the 2009 High School three decades ago, White took a reporting Journalism Institute.

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Sanserino named Visitors’ Book

Indiana’s top Several media professionals visited student journalist the School of Journalism in the spring. • Kevin Caldwell, BAJ’08, Tim ichael Sanserino, BAJ’09, received Hamilton Design, New York two statewide honors last spring. M • Peter Eichstaedt, Africa editor for The Indiana Collegiate Press Association the Institute for War and Peace gave him its Brook Baker Journalist Reporting in London of the Year Award in March, and the IndyPro chapter of the Society for • Howard French, associate professor Professional Journalists named him SPJ of journalism at Columbia University Student Journalist of the Year. Sanserino and former New York Times Shanghai was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily bureau chief Student last spring and recently was hired • Freelance photojournalist Ashley by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (See related Gilbertson, author of Whiskey Tango story, page 24.) Connor Wollensak Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle Michael Sanserino of the Iraq War

• Tom Kennedy, former managing Publications advisory board seeks members editor for multimedia at The Washington Post The IU Student Publications Alumni Association is looking for new advisory • Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times board members. If you served at least one semester on the staff of the Arbutus metro reporter or the Indiana Daily Student, you’re eligible to nominate yourself for a position on the nine-member board. Interested? Send your name and a brief statement • John P. “Pat” Philbin, former of why you want to be on the advisory board to Olivia Silver at o_clarke@ Federal Emergency Management hotmail.com. Administration external affairs executive

• Steve Rhodes, photojournalist for NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis

Friending, tweeting connect school • Keith Robinson, Associated Press with social networks bureau chief in Indiana • David Rocks, senior editor for Students in Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Bright’s J429 Public global news at BusinessWeek in Relations Campaign course took on the School of Journalism as a client in New York City the spring, proposing strategies for marketing the 100th anniversary of the school in 2011.The winning team made suggestions about using social media • Cindy Royal, onthatnote.com to connect with alumni, and the school plans to do just that. founder and assistant professor at In fact, the journalism school already has two Facebook pages — one for Texas State University the school and one for the centennial — and a Twitter account. At press time, • Emily Hendricks Turnier, BAJ’04, the IU School of Journalism Facebook page had 560 fans and the IU School associate editor of All You magazine of Journalism 100th Anniversary page had close to 600. On Twitter, the in New York City school has about 130 followers. • Jim Turpin, news director at Look for IU School of Journalism on Facebook WPTY-TV in Memphis and iusoj on Twitter. • Simon Warr, global director of communications for Jaguar Land Rover

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Fargo, Parameswaran win spring semester teaching awards

maintaining high levels of both student engagement and academic rigor. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, gender and media globalization, South Asia and postcolonial studies.

Cream and Crimson

As part of the IU Alumni Association’s annual Cream and Crimson weekend in June, journalism alumni, students and staff gathered for breakfast in Ernie Pyle Hall. The morning included several tales of times past, including Ann Schertz Ann Schertz Martie Dietz’s recollection of her stint at The Anthony Fargo Radhika Parameswaran Crimson Bull humor magazine. Dietz, BA’52, ssociate professors Anthony Fargo Journalism Institute. Fargo, chosen by an arranged for a plane to drop promotional Aand Radhika Parameswaran both internal committee, was selected for his pamphlets over the IU football stadium — a received teaching awards at the end of the course-work on legal and ethical issues strategy that resulted in a delayed kickoff and spring semester. Fargo was the 2008-2009 affecting the media. a penalty for the Hoosiers. winner of the Gretchen A. Kemp Teaching The IU Board of Trustees established Also at the breakfast were David, BA’58, Fellow award, and Parameswaran won the the Trustees’ Teaching Award in 2000 MA’61, and Ruth Albright, who retired to Trustees’ Teaching Award. to honor excellence in teaching. Each Bloomington after 35 years away. The Kemp fellowship is named in academic unit gives the award each year, “It’s been a good life as a journalist,” said honor of Gretchen A. Kemp ’54, a long- based on recommendations of their Ruth, BA’59, who spent much of her career in time faculty member in journalism and policy committees. scholastic magazines. the former director of the High School Parameswaran was honored for

School boasts three Big Ten scholar-athletes New class takes

hree School of Journalism students students to Chile were among 40 IU student-athletes T Fifteen students from the School of Journalism com- on the inaugural Big Ten Distinguished pared notes with their counterparts at Pontific’a Scholar list issued this summer. Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile, in May, as part Sophomore Myriam Sopel, of Longnes, of J460 Media in Latin America: Messages and Moguls, France, and senior Sigrid Fischer, of Dictators and Democracy. Eisenberg, Germany, both play for the The 10-day trip to Chile also included a visit to El women’s tennis team. Lucy Ireland, a Mercurio, the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in junior from Chapel Hill, N.C., is a mem- Santiago; a CNN media outlet; and one of the resi- ber of the field hockey team. dences of late Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda. The Big Ten Conference recognized The new eight-week course, taught by associate 498 student-athletes who had earned professor Bonnie Brownlee, emphasized the media a minimum grade point average of 3.7 environment in Latin America, including the historical, or higher during the previous academic economic, political, legal and societal aspects. Students year. The new award supplements the completed research projects in Bloomington before Academic All-Big Ten program, which rec- leaving for Latin America. ognizes students with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher for their academic careers. Nicole Hamilton, BAJ’09, reads up on the news during a visit to El Mercurio newspaper. < > Scott Myrick SpringFall Fall 2009 20092009 / /newswire newswire 5 thescoop

Weaver gives IUB Communication, civics, service part Distinguished of Iraqi Young Leaders Program Faculty Lecture James Brosher or the past 35 years, Roy W. Howard FProfessor David H. Weaver, BA’68, MA’69, has researched trends in journalism and mass media in the United States and beyond. In April, Weaver delivered the Distin- guished Faculty Lecture, discussing his find- Anne Kibbler Students in the Iraqi Young Leaders Program help a staff member at IU’s Hilltop Garden ings and considering the future of print and and Nature Center carry mulch to the pumpkin patch as part of a service project. online journalism. The Distinguished Faculty Lecture is an annual award that honors the or a second consecutive summer, the studying leadership concepts with Lead career highlights and accomplishments of FSchool of Journalism hosted a group IU, a campus-based student leader- one IU Bloomington faculty member. of students from Iraq as part of the Iraqi ship program. They also took classes in Weaver’s lecture, Journalists, Journalism and Young Leaders Program, sponsored by communication and civic participation, Research: What Do We Know and Why Should the U.S. Department of State and the learning about U.S. media, the First We Care? was based on his findings in the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. IU, Colorado State Amendment and local, state and national landmark American Journalist studies with University and the University of Arizona government. Extracurricular activities colleagues Cleve Wilhoit, Bonnie Brownlee were the three schools chosen from included field trips to Bloomington City and Randy Beam, and on research into among six who participated in last year’s Hall, the Indiana Statehouse and the U.S. media agenda-setting. program to host students again this year. Supreme Court. His most recent research draws atten- The three universities worked with World The students also completed a service tion to mounting concerns for the future of Learning, a Washington, D.C.-based project at IU’s Hilltop Garden and Nature newspapers and online-only reporting. As agency that administered the government Center and spent a day at the university’s advertisers switch from expensive print ads grant. Bradford Woods outdoor leadership and to cheaper online ones, reporters’ jobs are The 20 students arrived in early July recreation center. on the decline, his studies found. Although and spent a month in Bloomington public service journalism remains important to many journalists, fewer reporters are able to produce investigative stories because of Trevor Brown takes interim Columbia appointment decreasing resources. And despite growing public interest in Former dean Trevor Brown will serve as a visit- online media, Weaver expressed concern that ing assistant dean for curriculum development new media could take on adequately the role for the 2009-10 year at Columbia University’s of traditional reporting. Graduate School of Journalism. Brown will “I doubt that the Internet has the capa- work on the school’s assessment of learning bilities to challenge the powerful people in outcomes plan and on curriculum enrichment our society without the help of more tradi- of the Carnegie-Knight Journalism Initiative. tional media,” he said. “This could change, of course, but right now it’s difficult to imagine.”

School of Journalism Sarah Hutchins

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Ask the Pro is a recurring feature in which Newswire asks a professional journalist and a professor from our faculty a provocative question. This issue, we ask: Q“How: important is it for today’s journalism students to become part of the global community?” Emily Metzgar Aralynn Abare McMane Emily Metzgar is an assistant Aralynn Abare McMane, PhD’89, is professor in the School of director of young readership for the Journalism and a former World Association of Newspapers in U.S. diplomat. Paris, France. Courtesy Ann Schertz

Today’s journalism students are faced with a simple reality: Journalism students are a lot smarter than I was about going There: is no choice about whether to become part of the global abroad.: I didn’t budge until age 32 (Canada, a few miles from community. As citizens of an interconnected world, they already home in northern New York, didn’t count). I’ve made up for it Aare members of the global community. The more important Asince, working on newspaper development in 70 countries. Still, question is what will students do as members of that communi- why so late? ty? Will they embrace that interconnectedness? Will they exploit Once you leave, you learn pretty quickly that navigating another the opportunities? Will they exercise entrepreneurship and forge culture changes how you think. Lots of pundits write about this, their own careers in the global community? but my favorite source is a movie, Where in the World is Osama It’s not easy to promote the kind of creative, outward-looking bin Laden? Soon-to-be dad Morgan Spurlock goes looking for the thinking required to be an effective member of the global com- terrorism czar in hope of making his newborn son safe. Spurlock munity. Alas, when solicited for details about current events, doesn’t fi nd bin Laden but learns that people in dangerous places students are more inclined to offer the latest Hollywood gos- are a lot like himself: hospitable, caring about their families, won- sip or “man-bites-dog” story from cable news. Asking them to dering what the powerful are up to. match names of global leaders with the countries or organiza- U.S. parents are doing their part. The number of young people tions they represent can elicit groans of “Why is this relevant?” going abroad reached nearly 250,000 in 2007, according to the But students asking those questions have neither recognized latest report from the Institute of International Education. IU also nor embraced the fact that they are already members of the is doing its part with wonderful international journalism programs, global community. such as eight-week internships in London and shorter programs in In his book The World is Flat, New York Times columnist Europe, Asia and Latin America. Thomas Friedman offers evidence of the interconnectedness of I saw the change in just six weeks when my students in a joint the world and of the direct impact such proximity (both physi- IU-University of South Carolina-University of North Carolina pro- cal and virtual) is having — regardless of whether that impact is gram lived with French families, studied French and worked with explicitly acknowledged by political leaders, by educators or by English-speaking French journalism students. They learned that citizens themselves. Friedman praises the technologies enabling different was OK, not somehow defi cient, and that limited language this interconnectedness but cautions, “These are just technolo- skills hide who you really are. gies. Using them does not make you modern, smart, moral, Now, it’s a joy to see young people come through our offi ce, wise, fair or decent. It just makes you able to communicate, working most often with our press freedom or editor divisions. The compete and collaborate farther and faster.” most successful already have had an international experience: study Similar caution about the limitations of basic skills and tech- abroad, plus perhaps a volunteer experience or, if lucky, a job. nologies is appropriately directed at today’s journalism students. We alumni need to help the widest possible range of young To function in the global community, students must be armed journalism graduates get the most authentic experience possible. with more than the basic skills associated with journalism. Of We should: course, they must be able to interview, analyze, write, design, • prevent abuse by pushing for paid internships and for unpaid film, edit and produce. But they must also nurture a philosophy ones that are not exploitative; and of curiosity about the world, develop specific areas of passion • help students prepare strong resumes and cover letters. and expertise, and understand that — more than ever — every- For my part, I’m working with a sister organization to set up thing is local. After all, those are the characteristics of respon- an English-language youth journalism camp in Prague. sible membership in the global community. After all, it’s never too early to get moving.

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Calendar of Events

FALL SPEAKER SERIES

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Jeffrey Zaslow Vivian Schiller Joe Buck 7 p.m., Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 7 p.m., Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 7 p.m., Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington Bloomington Bloomington Jeffrey Zaslow is a Vivian Schiller made Broadcaster Joe Buck, columnist for The the switch from print ’91, is a six-time Emmy Wall Street Journal to broadcast earlier Award-winner who who co-authored the this year when she handles lead play-by- bestseller The Last moved from her job play duties for Fox Lecture, the story of as senior vice president Sports’ Emmy Award- the late professor and general manager winning coverage of Courtesy Courtesy Randy Pausch’s last Courtesy of The New York Major League Baseball talk to Carnegie Mellon students about Times to National Public Radio, where and the National Football League. In 1994, celebrating life and living it to its fullest. she is CEO. In this position, she oversees he was the youngest announcer to call a It has been translated into 44 languages all NPR operations, including the organiza- full slate of NFL games on network televi- and has spent weeks as No. 1 on the tion’s partnerships with more than 800 sion. He started his broadcast career as an New York Times bestseller lists. member stations. IU student in telecommunications.

The brain, the news business, good reporting topics of speaker series The spring Speaker Series brought three very different communicators to Bloomington: a scientist and TV producer; a veteran news broadcaster; and a nonfiction author. Read full reports at www.journalism.indiana.edu.

“The business model is changing. It’s up to journalists to make content and corporate to make money — they just haven’t figured out how Jeremy Hogan Jeremy Jeremy Hogan Jeremy

James Burke, science historian and to make money in this new Sylvia Nasar, economist, professor producer of the Connections TV series; media world. There’s always and author of A Beautiful Mind, founder of the Knowledge Web, a soft- going to be a place for a biography of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, who ware program for high school students good content.” that, like the brain, draws connections recovered from schizophrenia between seemingly unrelated topics “A zillion people knew “The place where the innova- the facts of Nash’s story, including some reporters. tive revolution starts may no To most, it seemed like a longer be great city centers scandalous or depressing or industrial laboratories or or obscure kind of story. universities. It may start in Hogan Jeremy But that’s not what this the massively complex engine 60 Minutes correspondent and Emmy winner Steve Kroft story is about. This is the between people’s ears.” story of an ugly duckling.”

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Hazeltine scholarships take winners to Italy, UK

wo new journalism graduates, Jay Faculty bookshelf TSeawell, BAJ’09, and Nadia LaMantia, Associate professor Amy Reynolds BAJ’09, headed to Europe this sum- and Brooke Barnett, MA’91, mer as winners of Ross Hazeltine Travel PhD’01, are Scholarships. co-authors Seawell studied the American Civil War of Terrorism in the United Kingdom, traveling to re- and the Press: enactments and collecting photos, videos An Uneasy and other information. (See the Big Picture Relationship,

on the back cover.) Jay Seawell published by Based in Florence, LaMantia used mul- Jay Seawell at the site of an American Civil Peter Lang War reenactment in Leicestershire, England. timedia to investigate how the shift of Publishing. responsibility in caretaking from family The book members to Eastern European immigrants examines is affecting Italian families and the larger how terrorism acts are reported makeup of the culture. based on location, circum- The scholarship began in 1978 on stance and medium, and focuses behalf of the estate of Ross Hazeltine, on attacks in London, India, BS’38, and has taken alumni to all conti- Madrid, Oklahoma City and nents to write about and photograph life New York City. in other countries. Barnett is an associate professor To follow Seawell’s and LaMantia’s in the School of Communications travels, go to jseawell.com/pages/

Courtesy at Elon University and direc- ACWUKhomepage.html and journalism. Nadia LaMantia, left, and Raffaella Sarti, a tor of the Elon Program for indiana.edu/journalism-experiences/blog/ professor at the Università di Bologna and Documentary Production. hazeltine-scholar-reports-from-italy/. Università degli Studi di Urbino. LaMantia interviewed Sarti about immigrants and domestic service in Italy.

Jae Kook Lee joins journalism faculty

The School of Journalism this fall welcomed new faculty member Jae Kook Lee, who came to Bloomington from the University of Texas at Austin. Lee received both his master’s and doctoral degrees at Texas, and he earned his bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University in South Korea. Lee spent 10 years with Joongang Ilbo, a Korean daily newspaper with a circulation of more than 2 million. He started out as a news reporter before becoming a correspondent in the paper’s Chicago bureau. In 2003-04 he was managing editor of the bureau. At IU, Lee will teach J200 Reporting, Writing and Editing, and J410 Media as Social Institutions. His research includes a study of the effect of the Internet on media agendas; comparisons of news coverage in the blogosphere and the mainstream media; and an assessment of how elite opinion in Congress affects news coverage of the war in Iraq. Kurtis Beavers

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Panelists kick off first event at National Sports Journalism Center Zach Dobson From left, panelists Steve Lavin, Sage Steele, Gene Wojciechowski and Bob Kravitz discuss sports coverage at the National Sports Journalism Center’s inaugural event at IUPUI.

ports journalists may sometimes be ESPN SportsCenter anchor; and Steele said it’s been challenging to Sguilty of hype, but it’s important to Bob Kravitz, sports columnist at the balance breaking news with accurate remember that big-time sports these days Indianapolis Star and EPSN Radio cohost. information. constitutes entertainment, according to Center director Tim Franklin moderated “There were even people at ESPN who Gene Wojciechowski, senior writer for the talk, which was based on the topic said, ‘Why are we doing this?’” Steele said. ESPN.com Heroes, Hype and the Truth: Separating Fact “The reason is, if there’s breaking news, Wojciechowski was one of four panel- From Fiction in Today’s Sports World. then we are there and we are ready to go.” ists who participated in the inaugural The discussion covered a range of Wojciechowski said the hype in sports event of the IU School of Journalism’s issues, including evolving multimedia, comes down to the athletes. new National Sports Journalism Center in blogging and the influence of athletes’ “Sports is about people,” he said. “And Indianapolis in March. (See related story, star power. Panelists offered mixed views sometimes, those people are odd, bizarre, page 18.) The center opened in January. on the effectiveness and quality of new very human, very fragile.” The other panelists were Steve Lavin of media. A case in point was the addition of Zachary Osterman ABC-TV and ESPN; Sage Steele, BS’95, ESPN’s second SportsDaily broadcast.

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Ricchiardi wins second National Press Club media critique award

UPUI journalism professor Sherry by a coalition of West Coast news outlets IRicchiardi has won the National Press to investigate the murder of Oakland Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press journalist Chauncey Bailey,” says a report Criticism for a second time. The award on the AJR Web site. recognizes excellence in the critique of Ricchiardi won her first Rowse Award media coverage. in 2003 and received an honorable men- Ricchiardi, a senior contributing writer tion in 2006. At the School of Journalism for the American Journalism Review, is the at IUPUI, Ricchiardi teaches news writ- 2009 winner in the category of articles ing and reporting; international com- published in newspapers, magazines, munication; media ethics; magazine/ newsletters and online. The award hon- feature writing; literary journalism; and ors articles she wrote in 2008 about “the race, gender and media. The professor media’s lack of coverage of the war in Iraq; also developed a course titled Foreign how well the media scrutinized the Bush Studies in Journalism: Following the Path of administration’s allegations against Iran; the Pulitzer, which includes two weeks of coverage of the war in Afghanistan; and fieldwork in former war zones of Croatia the Chauncey Bailey Project, a joint effort and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Courtesy

AP Sports Editors Brown receives educator award from organization establishes National Press Photographers Association headquarters at IUPUI

he nation’s largest professional Tsports journalism organization, the Associated Press Sports Editors, is moving to the School of Journalism’s new National Sports Journalism Center at IUPUI. The organization features 550 official members in print and online sports news nationwide. The incoming president of the 35-year- old organization, Garry D. Howard, says the move will bridge the gap between college sports journalists and APSE.

APSE recently announced it will hold Brian Drumm its 2011 winter conference on the cam- James W. Brown, executive associate dean of the IU School of Journalism at pus, bringing as many as 100 top sports IUPUI, photographs Delaware Indians at Conner Prairie Interactive History Park for his book Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware journalism executives to Indianapolis and Indians, published by IU Press and co-edited with Rita Kohn. opening up opportunities for interaction with sports journalism students. James W. Brown, MS’70, MBA’75, PhD’77, executive associate dean of the Thanks to the affiliation of IUPUI and Indiana University School of Journalism at IUPUI, received the Robin F. APSE, the campus is planning a new Hall Garland Educator Award from the National Press Photographers Association at of Fame for lifetime achievement in sports its national convention in Las Vegas in June. The award is given for outstand- journalism. The hall will be in the Student ing service as a photojournalism educator. Media Center. Brown has been a photojournalism educator since 1973. He continues to teach core curriculum classes in photography at IUPUI.

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Owen spends week as Kelly leads HIV/AIDS visiting professional reporting projects ndiana native John Owen, MA’72, spent Ia week at the School of Journalism in April as professional-in-residence, discussing international media and the future of the newspaper industry. He is a journalism professor at the City University in London. Owen was the long-time head of TV news at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. then became founding director of the European Centre of the Freedom Forum. Among his many talking points were the importance of the media’s role in reporting international affairs, as well Noor Kamis Jim Kelly traveled to Kenya to prepare for a travel course on HIV/AIDS reporting. as the survival of the media in a time of shrinking resources. He said the role of journalism depends ssociate professor Jim Kelly is Ramaprasad plan to take two more trips to on the power of truth: getting information involved in two projects related to complete the project by 2010. A from witnesses, talking to people you can the reporting of HIV/AIDS. Kelly traveled This summer, Kelly traveled to Eldoret trust and confirming facts. to India during winter break to educate and Nairobi, Kenya, to lay the groundwork During his stay, Owen also talked to Indian and Sri Lankan journalists about for an undergraduate/graduate HIV/AIDS students who were preparing to leave covering the HIV/AIDS epidemic. With reporting course he has proposed for next for the school’s eight-week Summer in University of Miami professor Jyotika summer. Students would travel to Eldoret London internship program. The group Ramaprasad, he codirects a three-year proj- and stay at the IU House, the university- met up again in London, where Owen ect that connects nongovernmental orga- sponsored residential compound that is taught a weekly class on international nizations and local journalists and gives part of the IU-Kenya Partnership, a 20-year reporting. them the facts about HIV/AIDS. relationship between Indiana University Riya V. Anandwala This year, the project had four two-day and Kenya’s Moi University. The partner- workshops designed to teach participants ship’s mission is to develop leaders in what is done locally to deter the spread health care for the United States and of the disease and how to connect with Africa, to foster the values of the medical nongovernmental organizations to pro- profession and to promote health for the duce informed, effective news. Kelly and human family.

Spegele wins Howard reporting competition, travels to Korea, Japan

Senior Brian Spegele is one of nine winners of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition, a program that takes winners from around the nation on an all- expenses-paid, 14-day trip to South Korea and Japan to study culture and media. The competition is sponsored each year by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Roy W. Howard led Scripps Howard Newspapers from 1922 Riya V. Anandwala Riya V. to 1953. John Owen James Brosher

< 12 > newswire newswire / /Fall Fall 2009 2009 thekicker summerschool When the students have left and the campus is quiet for the summer, there’s still plenty of learning in the School of Journalism. Here’s how we stayed busy:

Teaching Fellows Workshop The School of Journalism’s 32nd annual Teaching Fellows Workshop brought 11 new college-level teachers to IU to learn from some of the school’s veteran faculty members. The workshop is designed for people transitioning to teaching from professional journalism or other disciplines.

Mini University Also in June, IU’s Mini University drew 500 attendees, many of whom are IU alumni, for a week of learning. Journalism professors Mike Conway, Claude Cookman, Lesa Hatley Major, Peter Jacobi, Hans Ibold, Jim Kelly and Steve Raymer talked about topics ranging from the history of television news to media in South Asia.

High School Journalism Institute More than 500 high school teachers and students descended on Ernie Pyle Hall in June and July for the 63rd annual High School Journalism Institute. In week-long workshops, teachers reﬁned their strategies and young journalists learned new skills to take back to their high schools around the nation.

Iraqi Young Leaders Program For the second year, the school hosted a group of aspiring leaders from Iraq in July and August through a grant from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. The students spent their mornings in leadership workshops run by Lead IU and their afternoons learning about U.S. language, communication, culture and civic participation. ^ƚƵĚĞŶƚƐǀŝƐŝƚĞĚŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ͕ƐƉĞŶƚƟŵĞ ǁŝƚŚůŽĐĂůĨĂŵŝůŝĞƐ͕ĂŶĚƚŽŽŬĮĞůĚƚƌŝƉƐƚŽ/ŶĚŝĂŶĂƉŽůŝƐĂŶĚŝŶĐŝŶŶĂƟ͘

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IU’s updated master plan includes new Ernie Pyle Hall Steve Raymer

n February, architectural company journalism schools. The High School and now it is time to move forward and ISmithGroup/JJR of Washington, D.C., Journalism Institute and student career ensure the future for many new genera- proposed to the IU Board of Trustees a and advising services also have very little tions of students,” he says. new plan that will address space and facil- space. Ariel Tung ity issues on campus. The proposed plans The new journalism school would be would make Ernie Pyle Hall an extension about 75,000 square feet — twice the size Johnson named of the Indiana Memorial Union. School of of the current building. The estimated Fulbright chair Journalism Dean Brad Hamm previously cost to construct and equip the building had announced preliminary plans for a new is $25 million. Hamm says the School Associate professor Owen Johnson has building for the school because of space of Journalism is working with the IU been appointed Fulbright Distinguished constraints in Ernie Pyle. Foundation to figure out the best solution Chair in Eastern European Studies at the Journalism’s home for 54 years, the cur- to go forward, though there is no official University of Warsaw for the fall 2009 rent building lacks space for student club timetable as of now. semester. Johnson will teach courses cov- offices and multimedia editing, which “The journalism school has spent the ering the history of communist media and Hamm says are prominent features of most equivalent of a lifetime in one building, the history of journalism in Europe.

Weaver, Parameswaran, Moscowitz win research awards

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver of Beauty in India at the International Activism and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, received the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Communication Association confer- explored media portrayal and treatment Excellence in Research at the Association ence in May. And one of Parameswaran’s of same-sex marriage through multiple for Education in Journalism and Mass former doctoral students, Leigh research methods. Communication convention in Boston Moscowitz, PhD’08, won the Association Moscowitz is an assistant professor this summer. He is the first IU professor to for Education in Journalism and Mass in the Department of Communication receive the award. Communication’s Nafziger-White-Salwen at College of Charleston, S.C., where Associate professor Radhika Dissertation Award, its top award for dis- students voted her the department’s best Parameswaran won the Top Faculty sertation resarch. undergraduate teacher for 2008-2009. It’s Research Paper award for E-Raceing Color: Moscowitz’s dissertation, For Better the first time a new teacher has received Gender and Transnational Visual Economies or For Worse: News Discourse, Gay Rights the honor.

< 14 > newswire newswire / /Fall Fall 2009 2009 Inside View Foreign correspondence changing with the times

By Joe Coleman can still win that ticket to the revolution. ter. Don’t try First, get some sports, business and to anticipate here’s more than enough gloom to go entertainment writing under your belt. The what will be a Taround these days in America’s news- audience for each is growing and insatia- story three years rooms. The grimmest predictions yet are ble. All are thriving in the age of Internet down the road; for what was once considered journalism’s just follow your news, and major organizations are scram- James Brosher most glamorous character: the foreign cor- bling to fill those needs. The recession is passion, learn Joe Coleman respondent. But “death of the foreign cor- only slowing down a trend that will pick to love a for- respondent” talk — which has been going up as soon as the economy does. And even eign place, speak the language so fluently strong for years — doesn’t mean today’s if you don’t get a job as a sports or busi- you dream in it. You might get lucky and would-be globe-trotting reporters have no ness reporter, employers will appreciate your chosen country could become a hot future. International news is still in great — and make use of — the versatility that story. That happened for me in Colombia demand, and up-and-comers can get to experience in those areas will bring. in the 1980s. Regardless, great stories can cover it if they have the right mix of versa- Second, you need multimedia skills. be found anywhere, and this passion and tility, passion and business skills. Long gone are the days when a print knowledge will equip you to tell them. Foreign correspondents once had it reporter could just wander into the field Finally, today’s young journalists have all — expatriate packages, generous travel with a notebook and a pen. Today’s jour- to be entrepreneurs. Many top foreign cor- budgets, years spent far from the editors nalist needs to know how to do it all. respondents started out as freelancers, and and execs at the main office. And the Writers should be able to shoot photos the difference between those who make it stories? The stuff of history: War, famine, and video, take audio and put it all togeth- and those who don’t often comes down to revolution. The reality, of course, can be er with audio editing and slideshow soft- business skills. In some ways, freelancing is more grunt work than glory. In 14 years ware. These are basic skills these days, and the future. Media organizations are closing as a foreign correspondent, I spent more the results — when done well — can be their full-time bureaus overseas, meaning bleary-eyed nights grinding out copy than spectacular. Take a look at mediastorm.org they increasingly rely on stringers and free- I care to remember. But the job is still one to find out how powerfully still images, lancers to cover news when it hits. This can of the best around. video and audio can tell a story. And learn mean opportunity for young reporters. Now the bad news: Foreign coverage social media. Today’s reporters are both Despite the hardships, the life of a for- as we know it is fading away. Keeping far- finding and telling stories on media such eign correspondent is still worth the chal- flung correspondents fed, housed and pro- as Twitter. Old media need the tech-savvy lenge — just as it always has been. tected is increasingly beyond the budgets to keep them fresh. Joe Coleman, former Tokyo bureau chief of today’s struggling news companies. And Third, develop a passion for a part of for the Associated Press, is the Roy W. Howard the old bias that “Americans don’t care the world. Immerse yourself in a region Professional-in-Residence at the School of about the outside world” hasn’t helped, or particular country — West Africa or Journalism. even if I don’t believe it’s true. America’s Cambodia or Venezuela. It doesn’t mat- top newspapers are pulling correspondents home in mounting numbers, leaving only The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times (just barely) and The Wall Street Journal with substantial foreign operations. It’s now largely up to the wires — the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse — to cover the world. So what can we tell journalism students eager to start collecting stamps in their passports? True, making a living as a for- Joe Coleman attends a news eign correspondent is much more difficult conference in Japan.

than before, but there are some ways you David Guttenfelder

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a dream job by Aline Mendelsohn

Tim Franklin outside the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, home to the Indianapolis Colts football team.

< > Zach Dobson 16 newswire newswire / /Fall Fall 2009 2009 s a sports writer, Tim Franklin’s includes the Bloomington campus. The cen- Reagan was shot. And IU won the national uring his years at the Indiana the school and gave a keynote speech brother got to go to games for ter, which kicked off in March with a speaker championship. Daily Student, Tom French covered last spring at a Society of Professional free, watch from the sidelines, series, will offer a concentration in sports jour- After graduating, Franklin headed to the Aa tuition hike, a coal strike, the Journalists conference at IU, said he is Dinterview coaches and players, write stories nalism and training for everyone from high Chicago Tribune. He stayed on the news side IU administration and the Bloomington thrilled to be returning to his alma mater. — and actually be paid to do this. It almost school rookies to veteran professionals; it also for more than a decade until 1995, when Faculty Council. “I’ve always loved IU, always felt that I seemed too good to be true. will facilitate research on sports journalism. he was named the paper’s associate manag- But the most important story he wrote owe so much of what I’ve learned to my So one day Tim, all of 14 years old, Franklin’s new role combines three of his ing editor for sports. was about a pig. professors and friends at the IDS,” French came up with a brilliant idea. He brazenly passions: journalism, sports and IU. It was an exciting time for sports in Junior weighed a staggering 1,150 said. “The idea of going back is just approached the editor of the Mooresville “It seemed like an opportunity of a Chicago, with the unstoppable Bulls and pounds and reigned as the largest pig at the really exciting.” (Ind.) Times and asked if he could write a lifetime,” Franklin says, “to be able to go back the unflappable Michael Jordan. The excite- Indiana State Fair. French wondered why sports column. to an institution that you love and care about ment surrounding the team electrified the anyone would raise an animal to be Rookie reporter The editor gently suggested that and build a new program from scratch.” city. That said, Franklin had to maintain a so heavy. Franklin might want to try reporting first. Early on, French knew he wanted to be professional distance. Even when he would His peers were skeptical. Don’t write But he must have seen promise in the Earlya writer. days As a fifth-graderat the IDS growing up in go to games for fun, without press creden- the story, they told him. After all, they rea- teenager, because he let him cover a high Indianapolis, he wrote short stories about tials, he remained dispassionate, abiding soned, they were “serious” journalists, and Franklin, always a sports fan, grew up fol- school wrestling match. a flood and a bank robbery. Just like a by that old phrase, “No cheering in the serious journalists didn’t write about an lowing the Hoosiers, but he never covered IU More than 30 years later, Franklin, journalist, he jotted down his thoughts in a press box.” obese pig (unless, of course, said pig played sports. At the Indiana Daily Student, he focused BA’83, doesn’t remember the particulars of notebook tucked into his back pocket. In 1996, Franklin led the Tribune a role in a news event. Junior did not. He on campus issues and city hall. By his senior the assignment. Liect you to The St. Petersburg Times’ Web Co.’s Olympic coverage in Atlanta. After a was just a really big pig). year, he was editor-in-chief. “God help me, what I wrote in that site and suggest you find out for yourself. 16-hour day, an editor called him about The IDS staffers had a good laugh about “Even back then, I thought I was going to story,” he says, “because I’m sure it was reports of a bombing in Centennial it, and French laughed along with them. workBack for tohim,” Bloomington says Tim Nickens, BA’82, now pathetic.” Olympic Park. Franklin and his colleague Then he pursued the story anyway. The editor of editorials at the St. Petersburg Times. But that one story launched a career In the years after he graduated, French jumped into their car and flew downtown. result, a feature headlined “Hog Wild,” “He was such a prominent fixture in the IDS.” that has included nearly a decade at the became a legend in Ernie Pyle Hall. Wilhoit At one point, officers attempted to quell earned French a Hearst award and helped So prominent, he barely left the news- helm of three major newspapers, and would regale his students with anecdotes the scene with pepper gas. Franklin still him land his first job at The St. Petersburg room. Franklin and Nickens were roommates Franklin’s enthusiastic start in journalism about French’s pig story. IDS editors would managed to file a story at 5 a.m. Times. Even the doubters had to admit that their senior year, not that they spent much set the tone for years to come. e-mail reporters French’s writing tips A few years later, Franklin moved on it was a great read. time at their apartment near 10th Street. They As it turned out, he didn’t become a (among them: “It is unethical to be bor- to edit The Indianapolis Star. Before long, But the pig story was more than just were either working hard in the newsroom sports writer or columnist. Instead, he has ing.”) he found himself in the throes of another that. It was also an indicator of the inde- or kicking back at Nick’s, where conversation spent most of his career on the news side, So there you have it. Thirty years later, massive sports story. pendent path French would blaze through- revolved around journalism and sports “since earning a reputation as a watchdog jour- French is still writing about pigs. And he’s out his career. He saw stories where others we generally didn’t have dates,” Nickens says. nalist known for chasing big stories and, as as enthusiastic about it as ever. • Knight and NASCAR didn’t. He followed his instincts. And in The most memorable sports event of their The New York Times put it, “making news in Aline Mendelsohn, BAJ’01, is a freelance writer. the process, he bucked the conventions of days at IU was the 1981 basketball Final Four. Only a few months into Franklin’s term the process of publishing it.” She was an intern at The St. Petersburg newspaper journalism. Franklin, Nickens and another friend piled at the Star, CNN aired a tape that showed After 27 years with newspapers, in Next fall, French, BA’81, will return to into Franklin’s Plymouth Duster and headed Bob Knight with his hands on player Neil January Franklin returned to Indiana to Ernie Pyle Hall as a Riley Endowed Chair east to Philadelphia, driving straight through Reed’s neck. direct the new National Sports Journalism at IU, bringing with him 27 years of experi- the night. They couldn’t wait to be part of the At the time, Franklin was attend- Center at IUPUI, a project of the School of ence and a Pulitzer Prize. The position is historic moment. And not just to watch the ing an American Society of Newspaper Journalism that is based at IUPUI but also named for J. Stewart Riley, former owner game. They wanted to be there early to watch Editors conference in Washington, D.C. and publisher of the (Bloomington, Ind.) IU practice. Immediately, he put in a conference call to Herald-Telephone (now The Herald-Times) “That’s how sick we were,” Franklin recalls his editors. Within days, says Franklin, “It and (Bedford, Ind.) Times-Mail and an IU with a laugh. got a little intense.” trustee. Announcing French’s hiring, jour- It was indeed a historic weekend: President After the paper ran a series of stories nalism dean Brad Hamm called him “one probing the Knight controversy, a reader of the best writers and teachers of writing in mailed a copy of the section to Franklin the world today.” with an inscription: “‘I hope you Star “It seemedFrench, who likehas kept an in touch opportunity with people burn in hell for leading the crusade of a lifetime, to be able to go back to against my hero,’” Franklin told American Journalism Review in 2000. an institution that you love and care about and build a new program from scratch.”

Fall 2009Fall / newswire 2009 / newswire < 17 > < 17 > Franklin and his staff charged on. They to talk about the watchdog role that sports Now, Franklin has other things to worry knew it was a big story, and not just locally: journalists can play and have played about. Namely, building a program from Knight even merited the cover of Sports in history.” the ground up — quite literally. For now, Illustrated. Sage Steele, BS’95, a member of the cen- the program is based at the School of Several months later, Franklin was ter’s national advisory board, says the center Journalism at IUPUI. Ultimately, the school named editor of the Orlando Sentinel. will do wonders for budding sports journal- hopes to have a sports journalism building Immediately, he was tackling another huge ists. Steele, a sports anchor at ESPN, looks in Indianapolis. — and controversial — story. forward to seeing how Franklin will develop “I’m now in an entirely new world where Before Franklin arrived at the Sentinel, the program. I’m in some ways figuring this out as I go the sports staff had been investigating the “He just gets it,” Steele says. “He has and reinventing myself, which can be daunt- death of three NASCAR drivers. The series been in the trenches very recently.” ing, but is also a lot of fun,” Franklin says. found that the drivers all died of skull Very recently. Throughout his career, “I wake up in the morning thinking about fractures caused by head whip, in which Franklin has faced many challenges, but how I’m going to build something. It’s the head whips violently forward causing nothing — not the boycotts, the pepper gas invigorating, it’s a challenge, and I have a lot massive head injuries. A restraining device or even the death threats — was as difficult to learn.” could prevent the injury, yet NASCAR, as his last year at the Baltimore Sun. Aline Mendelsohn, BAJ’01, is a freelance unlike other racing leagues, did not require writer, once hired by Tim Franklin as a reporter head or neck restraints. A new challenge at the Orlando Sentinel. The Sunday after the series ran, legend- 2008 was an extraordinarily difficult year ary driver Dale Earnhardt was killed at the for newspapers, as publications across the Daytona 500. The immediate question was country endured massive staff cuts. Last how Earnhardt had died, so the paper filed summer, the Sun went through a major vol- a Freedom of Information Act request for untary buyout, as well as some Journalism School the autopsy photos. layoffs. Franklin says it was his “worst launches National Sports Franklin never intended to publish the day in journalism.” Journalism Center pictures; instead, he intended to ask an “It’s a time of wrenching change in The School of Journalism launched its independent neurologist to review them newspaper business and really for all National Sports Journalism Center in and determine the cause of death. After fil- traditional media,” he says. “That’s been January on the IUPUI campus, with ing the FOIA request, the Sentinel assured a very, very painful process. You’re not Tim Franklin at the helm. The center Earnhardt’s widow in writing that the news- just reorganizing and reinventing, you’re began offering classes at IUPUI and IU paper would not publish the photos. But also tearing.” Bloomington this semester. then Earnhardt’s widow held a press confer- Despite the uncertain future of the “One of the missions of the new ence and accused the Sentinel of exploiting media, Franklin is energized by the recent National Sports Journalism Center at IU is her husband’s death. jump in enrollment at the School of to illuminate the major trends and issues The conference ignited a revolt among Journalism. In the past three years, the in sports in America. And at a center fans, who flooded Franklin with threats. number of students in the program has dedicated to the study of sports media, “Die! Die! Die!” wrote one reader. “... I increased by 50 percent. we decided that the first issue we want- want to see your autopsy photos NOW.” But there are times, particularly when big ed to explore was the state of sports In the end, the Sentinel settled with news breaks, that he feels a sense of loss. media itself,” Franklin says. Earnhardt’s widow, and the paper’s inves- On Inauguration Day, Franklin couldn’t The center will train sports journalists, tigation confirmed that Earnhardt had help but map out sidebars and pages and … serve as a national resource for the train- indeed died from a skull fracture. In the Wait a minute. He had to stop and remind ing and continuing education of working wake of the revelation, NASCAR adopted himself: I’m not doing that now. sports journalists, and provide a forum sweeping safety reforms. Another time, he was with his family, for discussion on the major issues facing The Earnhardt story exemplifies watching an NFL playoff game that was sports and sports media, says journalism Franklin’s ideal of journalism and illus- running late. Franklin said, “I hope we get dean Brad Hamm. trates what he hopes to impart through the this game over with soon. We’re going to In addition to courses, the center will new sports journalism center. miss deadline.” offer a speaker series and a Web site, “I think it’s important that we ground His son looked at him and said, and it will develop partnerships with students in the ability to do more than “Dad, you don’t have to worry about media companies, sports franchises, just game stories,” he says. “We also want that anymore.” leagues, governing bodies and professional organizations in Indiana and across the country.

< 18 > newswire newswire / /Fall Fall 2009 2009 Fall 2009 / newswire < 19 > World View by Ben Weller

hen Rosemarie Overstreet told her advisers and colleagues at the Indiana Daily Student that she was going abroad her sophomore year, she got some strange looks. She was an involved, productive IDS staffer, and Wpeople probably expected her to follow the traditional path from the college paper to a daily, and then, if she still wanted to be a foreign correspondent, perhaps in a few years she could land a post abroad. “I think I threw the IU program for a loop when I told them I wanted to go overseas,” says Overstreet, BA’84. “To me it was just a necessary step in my preparation.” Overstreet did end up studying abroad that year, in Germany, and she hasn’t looked back. Her decision to bypass the traditional channels of a career in journalism may have puzzled her college classmates and advisers, but now it seems visionary. With that bold move, along with her journalistic training at the IU School of Journalism and a graduate degree in international communication from American University, Overstreet was crafting a set of skills that would help her stay relevant, even as the old model of journalism changed. Overstreet’s career has included freelance reporting assignments for ABC News, a stint as a production assistant for ABC’s Sam Donaldson during Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration, teaching appointments, and various roles as a producer, writer, editor and translator for media campaigns by international corporations and public relations agencies. She has produced travel documentaries for PBS, and she consults on content for English-language Web sites in Europe. Overstreet spoke by phone from her home in Germany about her unique career path and the changes and challenges of the new media landscape.

Newswire: You’ve had this sort of sprawling career, doing Newswire: You went to Europe in high school, again lots of different kinds of work for different kinds of in college and graduate school, and then following clients. How do you define yourself as a professional? graduate school you went back again. What gave you the Overstreet: I’m a journalist first and foremost. Ever since I was confidence it takes to excel not just in journalism but in a little kid, I’ve always wanted to have something to do with a media environment quite different from that in the writing. There are some people who say your career finds you, United States? you don’t necessarily choose it, and I think in my case that’s Overstreet: I knew that I had skills and I just thought, “If I can what it was. As early as grade school, I always enjoyed writing find someone who wants my skills, I’ll be OK.” I’m not saying and telling stories. I’ve always seen myself as a writer. I’m a that I came over with a backpack like some guitarist and then journalist and I was able to sell those skills or make those skills the next morning I was like the next Jimi Hendrix. But 20 or 30 work at quite a few different places. years ago, the only way you could think about having a career overseas was if you took this traditional career path of putting in time at a daily and then hoping that you might get placed overseas. I didn’t want to wait that long.

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graduating now be doing to prepare themselves for the new face of journalism and communications? Overstreet: When I went to college, I was sort of coming in at the end of an era in journalism. There wasn’t the Internet, and it was pretty black and white in terms of the careers you could have — you were going to go to print and work at a daily or a magazine, or you were going to do broadcast. I am sure that now for every person who is graduating and is thinking to themselves, “I’m going to go online and report for Slate,” there’s another person coming out going, “I’m really not sure what I want to do, but I know I want to write and I know I want to bring ideas together.” And I think what really needs to be told to some of these people is, “You know what, if you’re flexible and you’re a bit creative, you can take your media skills and you can take your journalism degree and parlay that into a lot of different fields.” It seems to me that in the ’80s, that was far more narrowly defined. Some people are saying the newspaper is dying and that everything is drying up, but I think there are so many opportunities that require the kind of skills you can get from a journalism background. They’re not just your typical newspaper, television, broadcast kind of jobs. You just have to be open and flexible.

Newswire: You definitely took some risks and followed an

Volker Droege Volker unconventional path. Looking back, was it the right move? Rosemarie Overstreet Overstreet: I suppose if I were a career counselor, this would not be something you could sell to a student. Some of it is luck and Newswire: How did you get into corporate opportunity. But I’m very certain that if I had stayed in the U.S. communications? and worked at a daily, the opportunities that have laid themselves Overstreet: In my grad school program, you absolutely had to out in front of me just wouldn’t have happened. I often wonder do an internship overseas. American [University] had some con- what would have happened, but… . nections and I had some offers. I liked some of the offers better Newswire: Are you happy with how it played out? than others, but they really wanted me to go do corporate com- Overstreet: Oh, yeah! munications at IBM. I wasn’t so keen on that position because I thought it didn’t sound very exciting; but I ended up saying yes Newswire: Final advice for journalism students? to it, and it ended up setting all kinds of other career opportuni- Overstreet: One thing I think is really important in your four ties in motion. years of getting your degree is to spend some time abroad. I went and spent four or five months looking into corporate Whether it’s backpacking, or if you can parlay it into some sort communications, but from this international perspective. I was of internship, it’s really important to spend some time overseas. working with Germans who were journalists, but they had very Any American who thinks that life can happen without being different backgrounds. We had all these conversations about aware of what’s going on beyond America is in denial. Whether journalism and I began to see that it wasn’t this black and it’s the products you buy, or the money you invest, or the leaders white field. you elect, the world is much more connected now than it was in the 1980s. I think you can only gain on your resume if you have Newswire: You’ve gotten a chance to see the changes in experience abroad. journalism and media from different viewpoints, both as a Ben Weller, MA’07, is a freelance writer and photographer. journalist and as a media consultant. What should students View his work at wellerpix.com.

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< 22 > newswire / Fall 2009 featurestory In theory, a student taking advantage of the Journalism Experiences Program could, in four years (take a deep breath): Live in the School of Journalism’s Media Living Learning Center; travel to Ernie Pyle’s birthplace in Dana, Ind.; spend a week at the Poynter Institute St. Petersburg, Fla.; visit media outlets in Chicago; spend spring break learning in London and Paris, Korea or Japan; head south to learn about media in Chile; travel to Kenya to learn how to report on HIV/ AIDS; work for the Indiana Daily Student, the Arbutus or campus radio or television; be a Journalism Ambassador, helping represent and promote the school; join the Public Relations Student Society of America, the Society for Professional Journalists or the National Association of Black Journalists; work in a student-run advertising agency; meet journalism legends such as Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg … . THE JOURNALISM EXPERIENCES PROGRAM THE JOURNALISM

by Anne Kibbler

lot of learning goes on outside the classroom walls of Ernie Pyle Hall. The goal of the Journalism Experiences Program is to help students grow personally Aand professionally through potentially life-changing activities. By the time they graduate, students have had multiple opportunities to become savvy, experienced, well-rounded young adults, ready for the world beyond Bloomington. “You have to define a school based on much more than classroom teaching,” says Dean Brad Hamm, who launched the Journalism Experiences program two years ago. “The Journalism Experiences and classroom combination will help us be one of the best schools in the nation and attract the best students.” Hamm cites the school’s international travel programs as experiences that enrich students’ lives. Travel allows the aspiring journalists to see the world in a different light and to understand Indiana’s ties to other countries. “The Ernie Pyle course (which takes students to Europe to follow Pyle’s footsteps during World War II) is the perfect example,” he says. “It’s taught only in Indiana, but it’s broader because of the links to World War II history and war reporting and the Classrooms without walls travel to two different countries. “It’s a powerful teaching method. It’s hard to match these four years if you take advantage of all of the Journalism Experiences opportunities.”

Fall 2009 / newswire < 23 > Class: 2009 Hometown: Fort Wayne, Ind. Major: Journalism uring her time at IU, Audrie Garrison walked on the beaches Other studies: Political science Dof Normandy as part of a journalism course and traveled to Experiences: Washington, D.C., to cover the inauguration of President Barack Obama • Indiana Daily Student reporter, for the Indiana Daily Student. But one of the best experiences she had sports editor, managing editor, as a journalism student took place in Bloomington. editor-in-chief As a Journalism Ambassador, Garrison ate dinner with legend- • Journalism Ambassador ary investigative reporter Bob Woodward at Bryan House, home of IU • Internships at the South Bend President Michael McRobbie. Tribune, the St. Petersburg “That was one of the coolest things I’ve done in college,” she says. Times (as a Poynter Scholar) Garrison first came to IU as a student in the High School Journalism and The Wall Street Journal Institute, then chose the School of Journalism for her undergraduate Michael Sanserino • Traveled to South Korea as education. She jumped right into extracurricular activities, working for part of J460 Korea: Technology, the IDS and, in her junior year, becoming an Ambassador. Change and the News At the IDS, she covered events ranging from the selection of

• Attended a sports journalism Scott Myrick McRobbie as university president to the murder trial of John Myers, summit at the Poynter Institute who was convicted in 2006 of killing IU student Jill Behrman. After serving as editor-in-chief last fall, Garrison spent the spring semester as a copy editor, designer and beat reporter. ichael Sanserino’s four years at the Indiana Daily Student brought Spending so much time at the IDS — Garrison said it can easily turn Mhim experiences he hadn’t anticipated, from covering the national into a 50-hour-a-week job — prepared her for the work place. But her disgrace of IU basketball coach Kelvin Sampson’s demise to learning dedication to the newspaper also meant she couldn’t take advantage what it takes to be a manager. of standard study-abroad programs. A class on Ernie Pyle allowed her As a lifelong newspaper aficionado who wrote captions for sports to travel to Europe. Without the class and her trip to Asia as a Roy W. clippings as a kid, Sanserino has taken each new experience in stride. Howard competition winner, she says she wouldn’t have traveled any- Covering Sampson, he says, was a challenge outweighed by the where. And the travel, she says, has been invaluable. reward of writing stories people cared about. “If you’re going to write about the world, even if you’re not writing And the move from IDS managing editor last fall to editor-in-chief about other countries, you still need to understand our country’s place in the spring brought valuable perspectives: To be a newspaper manager, in the world,” she says. “If you never leave, then you accept that things you have to manage people and conflict and still put out a newspa- are the way they are because that’s the only way. Maybe it’s the best per. But having first-hand experience on both sides of the desk gave way and maybe it’s not.” Sanserino insights into how he might best use his skills to effect positive change. Sanserino’s passion for change extended to his role as a Journalism Class: 2009 Ambassador. He enjoyed giving tours of the school and meeting well- Hometown: New Palestine, Ind. known journalists, but he thought the program could do more. Major: Journalism “It’s one thing to usher at a Speaker Series event, but another to Other studies: Political science go out and spread the passion we have for journalism to young people Experiences: we need in the business,” he says. • Journalism Ambassador As a graduate of Southside High School, an inner-city school in Fort • Reporter, campus editor, general Wayne, Sanserino thought the Ambassadors could make a difference assignment editor, managing by reaching out to kids who otherwise might not know about careers editor, editor-in-chief of the Indiana in journalism. Since so much of journalism is about diversity, he says, it Daily Student makes sense to enrich the industry by drawing in students from a variety • Traveled to Europe as part of J460 Audrie Garrison Audrie of backgrounds. This year’s Ambassadors will try to do just that. From London to Paris: In the At IU, Sanserino enriched his own experience by taking advantage Footsteps of Ernie Pyle of internship opportunities and traveling to Korea as part of class on • Interned at the Shelbyville (Ind.) media and technology. He completed his final internship in the summer, News, the Arizona Republic working in San Francisco for The Wall Street Journal. (Pulliam Fellowship) and the

In August, he accepted a job as a sports reporter with the Pittsburgh James Brosher Scripps Howard Foundation in Post-Gazette. Washington, D.C. • Traveled to Korea and Japan as a winner of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

< 24 > newswire / Fall 2009 featurestory Class: 2010 Hometown: Fortville, Ind. Major: Journalism fter Lindsay Pollack returned from a study program in Barcelona, Other studies: International ASpain, another international opportunity presented itself, this time studies, Chinese in Bloomington. As part of a U.S. Department of State program to help Experiences: rebuild Iraq, the School of Journalism won a grant to bring a group • Indiana Daily Student of young Iraqis to Bloomington for a communications and leadership reporter, special projects program. As a Journalism Ambassador, Pollack was asked if she wanted editor, managing editor to help out.

• Managing editor of INside Brian Spegele “It kind of fell into my lap,” she says of her 2008 summer experi- magazine ence mentoring future Iraqi leaders. “It was an awesome experience. • Journalism Ambassador I had just come out of an international experience and was enthralled • Studied for a semester in China with all things international. I thought coming back to Bloomington was • Internships at the St. going to be so painful, but then I had a group of international people Petersburg Times, as the I could learn from. You can read history books and see things on the winner of the Poynter news, but you don’t know what life is like. It’s very humbling.” Riya V. Anandwala Riya V. Scholarship, and at Conde Pollack was a mentor again this year for a second group of Iraqi Nast Traveler students. She spent four weeks living with them in Eigenmann Hall, • Traveled to Korea and Japan as a winner of the Roy W. Howard working with three other peer mentors to organize evening and National Collegiate Reporting Competition. weekend activities. In August she left for Costa Rica, where she is teaching English. Pollack didn’t set out to study journalism, but parental influence roaming life as the child of a U.S. Marine gave Brian Spegele a caught up with her. Her mother majored in journalism at the University Ataste for international travel. When he was looking for a uni- of Wisconsin–Madison and worked for many years in community versity to attend, the School of Journalism’s course flexibility and IU’s and public relations. Her father, an attorney, once was a legal editor. breadth of language and overseas study programs offered the combi- Pollack, a member of the Singing Hoosiers, was attracted to IU origi- nation he was looking for. nally because of the Jacobs School of Music, but after taking J110 With his family settled in Indiana, Spegele has continued to travel Foundations of Journalism and Mass Communication with professor as a young adult. In his sophomore year, he went to China as part of David Boeyink, she changed her mind. an intensive language program at Nanjing University. More recently, “I’m really glad I have this journalism education,” she says. “It’s he went to Japan and Korea as one of nine winners of the Roy W. a flexible degree to have. What kind of organization doesn’t need Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. Both programs people who can communicate?” are independent of the journalism school, but Spegele said the school’s requirement of a second concentration allowed him to study Chinese, and his experiences in student media and internships helped Class: 2009 him win the Howard competition. Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis. As an Indiana Daily Student regular since his freshman year, Major: Journalism Spegele covered the IU presidential search that resulted in Michael Other studies: Spanish McRobbie’s selection and was embedded with IU National Guard Experiences: students in Georgia. As a sophomore, Spegele started a weekly • Journalism Ambassador podcast, interviewing people from IU and the community. • Traveled to Santiago, Chile, as “I decided to study journalism because I wanted to tell people’s part of J460 Media in Latin stories — people who were different from myself,” he says. America: Messages and Moguls, Spegele says he was blessed to have the opportunity to study last Dictators and Democracy fall in Nanjing. He saw children herding goats in the street, traveled • Lived in Barcelona, Spain Lindsay Pollack to a monastery on the Tibetan plateau and played two-on-two • Worked for two summers as basketball with locals in a remote village. a peer mentor in the Iraqi Young “If I wanted to be a communicator,” he says, “what better Leaders Program, run by the experience could I have than that?” School of Journalism Spegele wants to tell China’s story, and he’s already started. In • Member of the IU chapter of Connor Wollensak December 2008, the Indianapolis Business Journal published his article the Public Relations Student on Eli Lilly and Co.’s efforts to start up new pharmaceutical businesses Society of America in China. And there are many more tales Spegele is waiting to tell.

Fall 20020099 / / newswirenewswire < 2525 > featurestory Class: 2010 Hometown: Fort Wayne, Ind. uring an eight-week internship in London, Katie Wickham faced a Major: Journalism Dsteep learning curve. Her employer, Wriglesworth Consultancy, asked Other studies: Business and sociology her to work with financial recruitment firms to develop public relations Experiences: materials and establish relationships between her clients and the media. • As an Ernie Pyle Scholar, Wickham had to become proficient not only in understanding financial traveled to Chicago and St. jargon, but also in interacting with professionals from a different culture. Petersburg, Fla., and spent It was a challenge, she says, but it helped her develop a better sense eight weeks interning in London of why she wanted to go into PR in the first place. for Euronews, a multi-platform Tim Solon “Seeing (public relations) through a different lens and seeing how news service; also traveled to they worked for their clients opened my eyes to the breadth of what South Korea as part of J460 Korea: public relations can do,” Wickham says. Technology, Change and the News While in London, Wickham filled every spare minute with visits to • Interned at Cook Medical in museums and trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Paris and elsewhere. She’s taken digital marketing the same approach in the journalism school, as an Ambassador, a High • Journalism Ambassador Courtsey School Journalism Institute counselor and an officer in the IU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. In PRSSA, Wickham was the point person on a 30-member greek media training committee, seeking guidance from local advertising s a sophomore in the School of Journalism, Tim Solon found him- agency Hirons and Co. and teaching fraternity and sorority members Aself in the middle of a discussion about journalism ethics. But this how best to promote their houses and deal with crisis situations. She was no ordinary workshop. The discussion took place at the Poynter also served as vice president of communications on a seven-member Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Solon’s classmates were employees Panhellenic Association executive team. of CNN and other prominent news organizations. While there, he also Each experience, she says, has been unique. But together, the opportu- took a writing workshop with famed writing coach Roy Peter Clark, nities she’s had at IU have helped her to become the kind of student and whom Solon describes as “awesome.” ultimately the kind of professional she has always wanted to be. When she Solon is an honors student in the Ernie Pyle Scholars program. graduates, she plans to look for a health or publishing PR position. The scholars have the opportunity to take part in some unique extra- “I try to soak up everything,” she says. “I think that’s what the curricular experiences, including the spring break trip to St. Petersburg, journalism school is set up to do. I don’t think I could have gotten that meetings with top media professionals who participate in the school’s anywhere else.” Speaker Series, and an eight-week internship in London. “I think this has been an amazing opportunity, because you really get involved with the school right when you come in your freshman Class: 2010 year,” Solon says of the honors program. Hometown: Hilliard, Ohio For his London internship last year, Solon worked for Euronews, a Major: Journalism news service that produces TV broadcasts and online news in multiple Other studies: Communication languages. As a junior, Solon took a new course on Korean technology and culture and news with assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major. The class traveled Experiences: to South Korea and visited media outlets, university classrooms and • Traveled to Chicago and cultural landmarks. For Solon, it was the trip of a lifetime. St. Petersburg, Fla., and spent “I didn’t know what to expect when I was getting ready for the eight weeks interning in trip, but it blew all my expectations away,” he says. “The technology London with Wriglesworth was pretty impressive, but I just thought that the people were fascinat-

Consultancy, a public relations Katie Wickham ing, despite the language barrier.” and research agency Solon says journalism classes have prepared him for the multimedia • Indiana Daily Student copy editor world that awaits him on graduation, and his classroom experiences • Journalism Ambassador have been positive. But the out-of-classroom experiences, he says, have • Vice president of the IU chapter of been “life-changing.” the Public Relations Student Shanna Rottinger “I really appreciate the fact that the journalism school has taken the Society of America approach that the global perspective is important,” he says. “Having • Counselor for the High School Journalism Institute this experience has helped me grow as a person, as a student, and • Vice president of communications for the Panhellenic Association hopefully as a person in the work force.” • Internship with Highlights magazine

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1940s 1960s Cooper, who was featured in the October 2008 issue of Entrepreneur magazine for her com- Russell L. Bufkins, BA’47, MA’51, retired Linda S. Gregory, BA’66, MA’71, EdD’74, is a mitment to community service, is also an event from the U.S. Navy in 1966 while serving as an senior programmer and analyst for Saint-Gobain speaker, business coach and real-estate consul- offi cer-in-charge in New York City. He then served Containers Inc. in Muncie, Ind. In November she tant. Her Web site is at www.justaskiris.com. as national PR director for the Boy Scouts of was selected as one of fi ve employees to receive America, a position from which he retired in 1982. the company’s Volunteer Recognition Award. She Richard Binkele, BA’76, has been named He also worked for the Denton (Texas) Tennis As- was cited for her involvement in the Eliminating editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Inkwell. sociation for 22 years and was a PR volunteer for Poverty Impact Coalition, of which she is co-chair. It is published semiannually in the spring and fall the University of North Texas Opera for 20 years. She lives in Muncie. by Manhattanville College in New York and is Bufkins lives in Denton. staffed by faculty and graduate students of the 1970s writing program. 1950s Michael H. Starks, BA’74, is a marketing Marcia Schmelter Stubbeman, BA’76, An 1840s log cabin donated by Joyce F. communications manager for IBM Corp. in Zions- writes, “I am in my 20th year at the NCAA as as- Lakey, BA’52, recently found a permanent home ville, Ind., where he lives. He writes, “After work- sociate director of publishing. I am living happily near Terre Haute, Ind. The cabin, which measures ing in nearly all the disciplines of organizational in Indianapolis with husband, Eric, and son, Kyle. 19 feet by 19 feet and formerly housed a family and marketing communications, I’m building a I am interested in hearing from old friends at of 10 children, has been rebuilt in a village of new career in interactive communications and [email protected].” nearly 20 pioneer buildings in Fowler Park in Vigo the use of Internet technology for accomplishing Carole Huber Braun, BA’77, writes, “I am County. Lakey, who is retired, named the cabin in personal, social and organizational objectives.” working in [the area of] student life for the memory of her late daughter, son and grand- Iris A. Cooper, BA’75, MBA’77, is director of Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, with the goal of daughter. A former counselor who specialized opening an independent Antioch College.” The in treating adolescent male sex offenders, Lakey entrepreneurship and small business for the Ohio Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute is an educational wrote a book about their treatment, Beware the Department of Development in Columbus. Ac- organization supported by alumni, students, Child, in 2004. She has been published in many tively involved in many community organizations, staff and former faculty of Antioch College — professional journals and has contributed a num- Cooper was honored in 2006 as a YWCA Woman which offi cially closed in June 2008 — to keep ber of Sunday features to The Indianapolis Star. of Achievement and in 2008 as a Woman of the college alive and operating in Yellow Springs, Lakey lives in Terre Haute. Economic and Leadership Development. She is an advocate for children and the disenfranchised Ohio. Nonstop is not supported by or affi liated Last fall, the IU Foundation presented its IU and has mentored many women and minority with the Antioch University system. Braun lives in Partners in Philanthropy Awards as part of Cel- entrepreneurs over the years. Xenia, Ohio. ebrate IU month. The Foundation’s Amicus Laure- ate Award was given to the chairman of Hoosier Times Inc., Scott C. Schurz, ’54, LDH’00, for his “extraordinary loyalty, leadership and achievement on behalf of Indiana University” during the past Plummer picks up national sports 40 years. A South Bend native, Schurz moved to Bloomington in 1966 and became involved with management honor IU through his work for The Herald-Telephone, now The Herald-Times. In addition to serving as Bill Plummer III, BS’73, American Softball a current member of the IU Foundation Board of Association Hall of Fame services manager, Directors, Schurz has been president of the Varsity has been named winner of the Sportsplex Club, chairman of the Knight Library Endow- ment fundraising effort and vice president of the Operators and Developers Association’s Friends of the Kinsey Institute. He and his wife, Elliot Hawke Award of Excellence for 2008. Kay, ’71, were also presidents of the Friends The award was announced at the organiza- of Music, which helps provide scholarships and competition travel grants to IU Jacobs School of tion’s National Conference in San Antonio, Music students. In the early 1970s, Schurz was Texas, in December. Plummer was chosen co-chairman, with Nelson Poynter, of fund raising from a field of seven national sports people. for the remodeling of Ernie Pyle Hall. Courtsey

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In October, R. William Jonas Jr., BA’78, involved in covering the Games. Shaw held a It’s good to be home. It’s also a pleasure to be JD’81, was inducted as president of the similar post for the IOC during the 2006 Winter working with several former IDS colleagues, Indiana State Bar Association. He is a partner Games in Turin, Italy, and has worked nine previ- including Bob Kravitz, BA’82, my partner cover- in the South Bend law fi rm Hammerschmidt, ous Olympic Games in a variety of capacities. ing IU basketball way back in 1980.” Brew lives Amaral and Jonas. As bar president, he is the She is married to Bud Shaw, a sports columnist in Indianapolis. primary spokesman for the more than 12,000 for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Julie Carey, BA’82, has worked in broadcast Indiana lawyers who belong to the ISBA, and Brent Bierman, BA’82, is assistant managing journalism for 29 years, most recently cover- he presides over the association’s board of editor for McClatchy-Tribune News Service in ing Virginia issues and politics for NBC4TV in governors. His wife, Kathleen Harsh Jonas, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Before joining the station BA’78, MLibSt’97, is executive director of the in 1992, she reported for TV stations in St. St. Joseph Valley branch of the Indiana Associa- Betsy J. Brazy, BA’82, graduated in May Louis, Indianapolis and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At tion of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors, with a JD degree from Golden State University NBC4TV, Carey has covered the impeachment based in Mishawaka, Ind. The couple lives in School of Law in San Francisco. She plans to trial of President Bill Clinton and the trial of South Bend. practice pro-student special-education law in sniper suspect Lee Malvo. In fall 2008, Carey California. Brazy was an IDS reporter and copy Stephen A. Wildfeuer, BA’78, is the scored exclusive interviews with Barack Obama. editor during the Pat Siddons years. She and her director of the Arts Institute Study Abroad Carey had what she says was a “two-second role husband, John, live in Alameda, Calif., and have Consortium in Pittsburgh, where he lives. (anybody who reached into their popcorn missed a daughter in the fourth grade. it.)” as a news reporter in a preview of State of In March, Gena L. Asher, BA’79, MLS/ Thomas P. Brew, BA’82, writes, “It only Play, a murder mystery starring Russell Crowe MIS’03, of Bloomington, Ind., was elected took 28 years, but I fi nally have a job working at and Ben Affl eck. Carey is married to Michael second vice president of the Woman’s Press an Indiana newspaper. After nine years at the St. Tackett, BA’81, former Washington bureau chief Club of Indiana. She is a freelance writer, Web Petersburg (Fla.) Times and seven at the Tampa for the Chicago Tribune. In August 2008, Tackett editor and adjunct lecturer at the IU School of (Fla.) Tribune, I [became] an assistant sports was named political editor at Bloomberg News. Journalism in Bloomington. editor at The Indianapolis Star in May [2008]. Jennie Rees, BA’79, has been covering horse racing for the (Louisville, Ky.) Courier- Journal since 1983. She is married to Pat Dupuy, a horse trainer. Narisetti named Post managing editor

1980s In a time of flux, ensuring the Tom Herrmann, BA’80, is corporate com- The Washington Post maintains munications manager for American Water in its journalistic standards may Alton, Ill. Of the spring 2009 issue of News- be Raju Narisetti’s biggest wire, which focused on journalists in transition, he writes: “What a timely issue. Two old col- challenge. But he says being a leagues head back to Bloomington and a story leader at one of the country’s on people leaving the newsroom for corporate most venerable papers as the work. I left 14 years ago when I had to choose whether to spend nights and weekends with industry revamps itself also is my family or the night news desk. I miss the rewarding. newsroom but I also have no regrets about the choice when I sit to play with my grandchil- Narisetti, MA’91, was dren. It’s nice to be back in the Midwest after named managing editor of 20 years in Arizona.” the Post in January, along with In January, Eric W. Kirchner, BA’81, be- Elizabeth Spayd. The two share came chief executive ofﬁ cer for UTi Worldwide responsibility for print, online Inc., an international company that provides air and ocean freight forwarding, contract Ramesh Pathania and mobile news services and logistics, customs brokerage and other supply- for the integration of print and Web entities. Among other duties, Narisetti is chain management services. He has also joined UTi’s board of directors. An I-Man in basket- responsible for the Post’s day-to-day Web operations. ball, Kirchner previously worked for UPS Supply The newspaper’s content must stay strong, he says, even as the paper Chain Solutions, overseeing strategy, ﬁ nancial undergoes what he calls “significant restructuring.” And that means adapting performance and revenue growth for global freight forwarding services. Kirchner lives in to change and being open to innovation. Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., and works in Long “I think an integrated approach to journalism, where print and online are Beach, Calif. fairly seamless and take advantage of different technologies, is absolutely criti- Susan Polakoff Shaw, BA’81, is president cal to the future of newspapers,” Narisetti says. “We are increasingly thinking of Polakoff Communications in Cleveland. She was hired by the International Olympic Com- multimedia from the get go.” mittee to oversee the press operations at the Before joining the Post, Narisetti was editor of Mint, a national business 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, helping sort out paper out of India. He has also served as editor of The Wall Street Journal problems that arose in media areas at Olympic venues. An estimated 5,600 reporters and Europe and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal in the photographers and 12,000 broadcasters were United States. Jessica Birthisel

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Alvia Lewis Frey, BA’82, MA’84, writes a 2008. She lives with her husband, Jasmel, in Higher Education, was honored for a seven-arti- column for The Frankfort (Ind.) Times called Slice Penns Grove, N.J., and can be reached at julie- cle series, Booster U, published in the Chronicle of Life, which focuses on positive, thought- [email protected]. of Higher Education. He lives in Arlington, Va. provoking stories about local residents. She lives Gillian T. Gaynair, BA’92, has written for fi ve Ruby Bugarin, BA’93, owns and operates in Frankfort with her husband, Dan. newspapers since graduating, most recently The Pepe’s and Margarita’s restaurants in Montrose Dennis Chamberlin, BA’83, MFA’05, Oregonian and The Virginian-Pilot. She served and Pasadena, Calif., with her brothers. Their received a fellowship from Iowa State University’s as a Peace Corps rural public health educator in late father, Bernie, founded the restaurants in Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Ecuador from 2001-2003, and later she worked the early 1970s. Bugarin was a reporter for a for a photojournalism project titled “Voices of briefl y in international development. Gaynair cur- Spanish-language weekly owned by the Chicago the Immigration Experience.” Chamberlin is an rently covers diversity issues and demographics for Tribune, but returned to Pasadena in 2006 to assistant professor of photojournalism at Iowa the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., where help her father. “He and I always knew I’d come State University in Ames. she lives with her fi ancé. back,” she told Pasadena Weekly in a story about the restaurants. David Brown, BA’85, is the environmental Bradley Wolverton, BA’92, was a co-recip- reporter for WCVB-TV/DT Channel 5 in Boston ient of the 2008 Excellence in Sports Journalism Jenny Miller Collins, BA’93, is the market- and a contributor to Going Green on the sta- Award, presented by Sport in Society and the ing director and co-founder of OddBodd.com, tion’s Web site, TheBostonChannel.com. Northeastern University School of Journalism to a video-based directory for businesses online, “recognize and honor journalists that look at the which launched in September 2008. She writes, Ken Chitester, BA’85, is director of commu- connection between sport and the societal issues “I am thrilled to own my own business, especially nications for The Appraisal Institute, the nation’s of the world beyond the court and fi eld.” Wolver- since we are able to help other women-owned largest association of real estate appraisers. ton, now business editor of The Chronicle of businesses and entrepreneurs-at-large. I some- Chitester was a White House aide during the administration of President Bill Clinton and a public relations consultant with Chitester Com- munications. He is a member of the School of Journalism alumni board. Investigative journalism center a Mark Land, BA’85, has been named executive director–corporate communications personal project for Hall for Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Ind. Cummins is a Fortune 200 company that designs and manufactures diesel engines, power generation Andy Hall, BA’82, says he wasn’t setting out to save local equipment and related components. Land, who investigative journalism when he started the Wisconsin has an MBA from Columbia University, previously Center for Investigative Journalism in January. was Cummins’ director of public relations. He spent 18 years as a newspaper reporter and has “I was trying to create the job that I would love to do taught classes at the School of Journalism in every day,” says Hall, previously an education reporter for Bloomington as an adjunct lecturer since 2002. the Wisconsin State Journal. “I knew that my two passions He lives in Carmel with his wife, Karen Smith Land, BA’86, who is an artist with a studio in were for investigative reporting and for teaching, and so Indianapolis. They have one daughter, a student I tried to come up with a job that would be built on at the University of Delaware. those passions.” Timothy S. Goeglein, BA’86, has joined Hall says that through assisting journalists, providing Focus on the Family Action Inc. as vice president of external relations. He was deputy director of online resources at www.WisconsinWatch.org, and teach-

the White House Ofﬁ ce of Public Liaison under Courtesy ing investigative journalism to students, the center — based President George W. Bush. Goeglein has more at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication than 20 years experience in public service. Before joining the White House staff, he spent a decade — honors the traditional mission of investigative journalism: to protect the vulnerable, to as the deputy press secretary and then communi- expose wrong doing and to seek solutions. cations director for U.S. Senator Dan Coats. After watching the growth of similar organizations in other parts of the country, Hall Mark Canada, BA’89, is a professor of became inspired by the nonprofit, university-affiliated model, which he says marks a change English in the Department of English and Theater at the University of North Carolina–Pembroke. In in our current journalistic moment. 2008, Canada received the University of North “The biggest change under way here in Wisconsin and across the country is the shift Carolina’s Board of Governors’ Award for Excel- away from competition in favor of collaboration as a means of pursuing better investigative lence in Teaching. journalism,” Hall says. “Everybody knows the current economic model of journalism is bro- ken, and there’s a great deal of willingness to experiment and embrace these new forms of 1990s collaboration to make better use of our resources and our strengths.” Timothy A. Dohrer, BA’90, is principal of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. He and Hall says so far the response to the center has been “terrific” and that projects have his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters and live involved a full range of journalists around the state. The center recently received its first in Northﬁ eld, Ill. major funding, a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Julie Price Sidhu, BA’91, welcomed a in Oklahoma City. Future goals for the center include securing funding for five staffers, daughter, Paulina Joncal Kaur Sidhu, in March including a correspondent in Washington, D.C., and a director of online development. Jessica Birthisel

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times long for the simple days I spent at IU, where my biggest concern was an exam or a Alumni Bookshelf paper. I can appreciate that era of my life now that I am an owner of a national and international company.” For more information about Melissa Warner LLC, 2009), Schroeder tells of eating city the company, visit www.oddbodd.com. Collins Scoggins, BA’74, had chicken and scrambled brains with eggs; lives in Mundelein, Ill. her first novel published of mowing down imaginary Nazis; and of Chris Parente, BA’93, is a reporter at in January. Journeys turning off Fibber McGee and Molly, his KWGN-TV in Denver. His profi le on the station’s Web site says, “It’s always something wild and of Choice: Joanna’s favorite nighttime radio show, to confuse different with his live reports. Yes, Chris is like Crossroads, is set in a fic- enemy bombers. Schroeder lives in Destin, a box of chocolates … you never know what tional town near Madison, Fla., with his wife, Helen, BS’59. you’re gonna get.” Parente studied improvisa- tion at Chicago’s Second City comedy theater. Ind. Scoggins says the David W. Bulla, Amanda M. Kaiser, BAJ’97, is the Asian book was “launched” from Madison Jan. editor of Women’s Wear Daily, a fashion- 23, and she was given the key to the city. MA’04, is the author industry trade journal. She lives and works in Scoggins practices law in Virginia but lives of Lincoln’s Censor Tokyo. She can be reached at Amanda.kaiser@ (Purdue University correspondenti.net. near Asheville, N.C., with her husband, Rev. Press, 2009), a story Tanjev Schultz, MA’98, is science and edu- Henry D. Scoggins, and their 16-year-old cation editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. daughter, Elizabeth. Their son, Matthew, was of press censorship Chad Carrothers, BAJ’99, founding married last year and lives near Richmond, during the Civil War. news director at WFHB Community Radio in Va. Information about Scoggins’ book can be Bulla, an assistant pro- Bloomington, Ind., won an Indiana Society of fessorf in the Greenlee School of Journalism Professional Journalists award for a piece called found at melissascoggins.com. “Generational Homelessness.” The segment and Communications at Iowa State aired as part of the National Homelessness Growing up in Indianapolis University, received a $5,000 grant from Marathon in 2008. during World War II, Don the university’s Center for Excellence in the Andrea Grove Kaplan, BAJ’99, is a model Schroeder, BA’59, lived Arts and Humanities. The grant is helping who is represented by the Stars agency in San Francisco. She is also a freelance writer. In June a life of contrasts: dark fund Bulla’s research into a second book, 2008 she married John Kaplan, an agent at Cre- nights when he feared Journalism in the Civil War Era, which he ative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. The couple potential air raids by the is writing with Gregory Borchard of the was married in East Hampton, N.Y. Nazis, and bright days filled University of Nevada–Las Vegas. That book Kimberly Ballard McKinley, BAJ’99, is the with childhood games. In is scheduled for publication in 2010 by operations manager at the Luis Vuitton store in Chevy Chase, Md. She married Harley McKinley, Air Raid Nights and Radio Days: Hanging on Peter Lang. an intelligence analyst for General Dynamics, in for Dear Life (Tate Publishing and Enterprises Washington, D.C., in November. Amy Paul Schmeltz, BS’99, MA’07, is a high-school teacher in Walkerton, Ind. She writes, “I married Dan Schmeltz on Dec. 29, 2007, and I am enjoying my second year of To view some images in my portfolio, please visit Tom Kreager, BAJ’00, is a prep editor at teaching at John Glenn High School.” Schmeltz www.seshu.net.” the (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) Daily News Journal. Kreager previously worked for The Tennessean in lives in Plymouth, Ind. Kelly P. Carnahan, MA’00, has joined IU Nashville; Rutherford A.M., a Rutherford County Bloomington’s Offi ce of the Vice Provost for Re- Sanhita SinhaRoy, BAJ’99, is manag- bureau of The Tennessean; and the Robertson search as associate director of creative strategy. ing editor of In These Times in Chicago. The County Times in Springfi eld, Tenn. He also had She writes, “I’m very excited to work on behalf magazine’s Web site describes the publication been a news writer at the News-Examiner in of the faculty and assist in the promotion of their as a “newsmagazine committed to political Gallatin, Tenn. and economic democracy and opposed to the research interests ... I learn something fascinat- dominance of transnational corporations and ing every day.” Carnahan took the position after Justin Rumbach, BAJ’00, and John Rum- the tyranny of marketplace values over human nearly seven years as the marketing manager of bach, photo editor and co-publisher, respectively, values.” SinhaRoy previously was editor of the the Indiana Memorial Union. She is serving on of The (Jasper, Ind.) Herald, won the award for Progressive Media Project in Madison, Wis. the IMU Centennial Committee, assisting the top photo editing team in the National Press union as it prepares for its 100th year. Photographers Association’s Best of Photojour- nalism contest. 2000s Sean F. Driscoll, BA/Cert’00, was married in May in Rockford, Ill., to Jennifer Ross. They met Carrie Smith McHaley, BAJ’01, is the devel- Seshu Badrinath, MA’00, writes, “After a at the Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, Ind., and opment director of The Bridge Youth & Family number of internships, I landed a job at ESPN. now work at the Rockford Register Star. Driscoll Services in Palatine, Ill. Her husband, James, com as one of their photo editors. More re- is a business reporter, and his wife is a copy edi- BS’01, is the marketing manager of the Norris cently, though, I have been pursuing documen- tor/page designer. Driscoll writes, “Sorry, she’s a University Center at Northwestern University in tary wedding photography. Though based in Ball State grad — although she’s grown to love Evanston, Ill. The couple lives in Des Plaines, Ill. Connecticut, I have clients all over the country. the Irish Lion and Bear’s.”

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Susan Kitchin Gerstenzang, MA’03, is an Chef blends passions for food, writing editorial assistant for Working Mother magazine. She lives in Littleton, Colo. After several years as a reporter and communications specialist in northwestern Indiana and Christine LaFave Grace, BAJ’03, writes, “I’m grateful to be covering a fun and interesting Chicago, Jennifer Bucko Lamplough, BAJ’96, industry as an associate editor at Restaurants & decided to follow her heart — and her taste buds. Institutions magazine. Joe Grace, BAJ’03, and I The Chicago Daily Herald recently chronicled Lam- got married in October and now live in Wheaton, Ill. Joe is editor of the Kane County Chronicle in plough’s journey from journalist to chef, teacher St. Charles, Ill.” and author. Tracie Barnthouse, BAJ’04, is the editor Lamplough is associate dean and chef instructor of The Signature, a military newspaper at NAS at the Robert Morris University Institute of Culinary Sigonella in southern Italy. Arts in Chicago, Aurora and Orland Park, Ill. She Michael G. Benner, BAJ’04, is a news re- also is pursuing her MBA. Lamplough is the author porter for KGW-TV, the NBC afﬁ liate in Portland, Ore. Before that he was a reporter at television of two books for the American Diabetes Asso- station WGBA in Green Bay, Wis., and an anchor Courtesy ciation: Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking and and reporter at WJFW-TV in Rhinelander, Wis. Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook. Benner lives in Portland. Lamplough told the Daily Herald she attributes her start in the culinary industry Chona M. Camomet, BAJ’04, is currently to making Dilly Bars for her parents’ Dairy Queen franchise when she was 12. working at The Boston Globe as a multimedia producer. She lives in Boston.

Kelly A. Sloan, BS/Cert’01, has won the 2008 Island Moving Co.’s Choreographer Com- Teeple, 80, breaks own IU sports record petition. The competition brought choreogra- phers from New York and Los Angeles to New- Charles E. Teeple, BA’50, port, R.I., to compete for a 2009 commission for the company. Sloan was chosen to create a new decided when he retired in 1992 work for the spring 2009 season. She is a dancer that his major hobby was going with the Los Angeles Ballet and has received to be watching IU athletic events several choreographic honors from around the country. Sloan lives in Los Angeles. in person. Now 80, he followed Jamie A. Sanders, BAJ’02, is a senior his avocation to a new personal copywriter for Bloomingdale’s in New York City. record, attending 74 IU games She is responsible for managing a team of two during the 2008-09 school year. other copywriters, writing merchandise copy for Bloomingdales.com, and managing all editorial Teeple saw 30 baseball games, content for the site, including e-mails and the including two NCAA tournament style guide. She previously worked for Ralph games in Louisville and three Lauren and Bergdorf Goodman. Sanders is also editor-in-chief of The Beauty of Life (www.the- Big Ten-Big East games in St. beautyofl ifeblog.com), a fashion and style blog Petersburg, Fla. He traveled to Courtesy that has more than 20,000 visitors a month. Penn State, Michigan State and Charles Teeple, BA’50, and IU goalkeeper Jay Nolly, after In October, MacKenzie Mayes Walter, Ohio State, watching 20 men’s BAJ’02, joined the law fi rm Dinsmore & Shohl as the soccer Hoosiers’ 2004 NCAA Championship victory. an associate in the litigation department, work- soccer games, and he attended ing out of the fi rm’s Lexington, Ky., offi ce. Before 15 men’s basketball games, five football games, two women’s basketball games and joining the fi rm, Walter served as a law clerk in two volleyball matches. the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington. Teeple’s sports season included Big Ten tournaments in men’s soccer, basketball and Jennifer L. Crafton, BS/Cert’03, is director baseball, taking him and his wife, Nancy, from their home base in Jeffersonville, Ind.; of long-term care claims for Conseco Inc. in Car- to Madison, Wis.; Indianapolis; and Columbus, Ohio. Charles Teeple has been a season mel, Ind. She plans to marry in the fall. Crafton ticket holder in football and basketball for 27 years, and he has been present for five of lives in Indianapolis. IU’s seven national championships in men’s soccer. A lifelong sports fanatic, Teeple grew Michelle Bard Davis, BAJ’03, is a fundraiser at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann up in New Jersey but chose IU because of the reputation of the journalism program. He Arbor, Mich. She married Michigan alumnus was editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student in 1950. After graduation, he spent two Jeff Davis in Negril, Jamaica, in June 2008. The years as a sports reporter for The Indianapolis Times and five years as Indiana sports edi- couple lives in Canton, Mich. tor of The Louisville Times. After 17 years of newspaper work, he spent 23 years with Humana Inc., a Louisville health care company, where he retired as vice president for investor relations.

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Emily L. Hendricks Turnier, BAJ’04, is an associate editor at All You Magazine in New Hershenson wins regional Emmy York City. On Oct. 18 she married New York City native Justin Turnier in her hometown of Terre Elyse Hershenson, BAJ’05, won a Haute, Ind. The couple resides in Astoria, N.Y. regional Emmy for news writing for her Alexander D. Hickey, BAJ’04, is a sports work at WTWO-TV in Terre Haute, Ind. editor for The Journal-Standard in Freeport, Ill. He lives in Libertyville, Ill. The Ohio Valley chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Holly L. Johnson, BAJ’04, JD’08, works as a litigation associate for the law fi rm Farmer Case recognized Hershenson, who goes by & Fedor in San Diego. Her practice focuses on Elyse Evans on the air, for Who Do I the areas of general liability, medical malprac- Grieve for Today? her coverage of the tice and insurance defense. Johnson writes, “I recently joined the board of directors of the IU challenges faced by a couple whose Alumni Association’s San Diego chapter and daughter and granddaughters were mur- serve as an editor for the San Diego County Bar Association’s Young and New Lawyers Division dered. Hershenson beat entrants from publications. I’m also a big sister with Big Broth- Courtesy Louisville and Cincinnati to win the Emmy. ers Big Sisters of San Diego County to an amaz- According to WTWO, Hershenson’s Emmy was only the second for the station ing 11-year-old girl [whom] I’m encouraging to consider [attending] IU in a few years. My Delta in 44 years. Mitch Blacher, BAJ’04, won the first in 2006 for his series Return Gamma class of 2004 fi ve-year reunion is also to Auschwitz. After stints in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Albuquerque, N.M., Blacher in Bloomington this summer, which just equates currently is a reporter at KGTV 10News in San Diego. to more time in the best college town I’ve ever experienced. I would love to connect with IU alums in the San Diego area. Please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].” Paula Lauster, BAJ’04, writes, “I have been Johnson returns to newspaper roots working as an account manager in the medical practice/home health care division at Press Bob Johnson, BA’79, JD’83, continues Ganey Associates in South Bend, Ind. I manage patient satisfaction and improvement, providing to practice law and consumer advocacy clients with strategies, action plans and unparal- from his Greenwood, Ind., office. He leled customer service. I currently reside in is executive director of Consumers for Mishawaka, Ind., after moving back to my home area from Chicago.” Competitive Choice, a national coalition Christa Williams Plew, BAJ’04, MBA’09, is of 1 million consumers that advocates for Latin America project manager for Chore Time investment in domestic energy, broad- Brock, an international agricultural company band and health care infrastructure. He based in Milford, Ind. She is responsible for working with distributors and representatives to also is a professor of law at three com- increase the sales and image of Brock products. munity colleges in Indiana and California. Plew married Cameron Plew, who is assistant Johnson’s latest passion is his greatest, vice president of Lake City Bank in Warsaw, Ind., in September 2008. The couple lives in Courtesy however, he reports. “When I turned Cromwell, Ind. 50, I told my wife that I did not want a red Corvette,” says the former IDS Amy Hamblen, BAJ’05, is a fl eet writer editor-in-chief, who had been away from newspapers for 27 years. “Instead, I in the fl ight operations department of JetBlue started covering sports and writing a political column for my local newspaper, Airways in Forest Hills, N.Y. The Daily Journal, and I love it. Gratification delayed is satisfaction indeed.” Kama M. Korvela, BAJ’05, is a reporter with Skating magazine, the offi cial publication of U.S. Figure Skating. She lives in Louisville, Ky. Courtney Leamon, BAJ’05, of Indianapolis, Yujin An, BAJ’06, writes, “Since I graduated, ate student in journalism at IU Bloomington, has been promoted to membership manager at I’ve worked at a Korean newspaper in the New Beemsterboer spent four years working for WFIU. the Indiana CPA Society. Her new responsibilities York area. [Then I] decided to go back to Korea She lives in Washington, D.C. include planning, coordinating and administering to work for the Nielsen Company as a research In September, Lauren A. Belles, BAJ’06, took membership acquisition, renewal and benefi ts executive. As of July 2007, I am a marketing of- a position as a recruiting consultant with the programs for the society. Leamon joined the so- fi cer for the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Cor- government-consulting agency Booz Allen Hamil- ciety staff in 2006 as communications specialist. poration.” She lives and works in Seoul, Korea. ton in McLean, Va. Also in September, she began Sheila Zhao, BAJ’05, is a picture editor J. Nicole Beemsterboer, BAJ’06, is a working as a monthly columnist for the Wash- for Time magazine and Time.com in Hong producer for National Public Radio’s All Things ington, D.C., edition of Beverage Journal. Belles Kong. Also a freelance photographer, Zhao just Considered. In 2007, she was part of a team is a weekly volunteer for the mentoring program launched a new Web site, www.sheilazhao.com, that produced NPR’s democratic presidential Streetwise Partners. She lives in Arlington, Va. which showcases her work. debate in Des Moines, Iowa. As an undergradu-

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Ryan Cost, BAJ’06, is a senior producer ing various fundraising events, along with donor development at Oxford University. He will study with palestra.net, The College Network, in cultivation. She lives in San Francisco. development with an emphasis on Turkey. Columbus, Ohio. Palestra describes itself as Edward M. Ryan, BAJ’06, works as a Elizabeth Pedersen Trinka, BAJ’06, is public “an online home for everything college stu- copywriter at Orca Partnership, a St. Louis-based affairs coordinator for Norwegian American dents care about.” A network of paid student advertising and marketing agency. He has partici- Hospital in Chicago. In May 2008, she married reporters covers sports, music, entertainment, pated in campaigns for companies and organiza- James Trinka, BS’06, a superintendent for G.A. politics, fashion and other topics of interest to tions such as Augusta Brewing Co., Plaza Motors Johnson and Son of Evanston, Ill. The couple lives students. of St. Louis and Missouri Children’s Trust Fund. in Chicago. Patrick Donohue, BAJ’06, is the police, Kara Seward, BAJ’06, is assistant political, Rachel Bassler, BAJ’07, will begin graduate fi re and military reporter for the Beaufort press and public affairs offi cer at the British classes at George Washington University’s College Gazette in South Carolina. He previously was a Consulate-General in Los Angeles. Previously of Professional Studies this fall. She will focus on general assignment reporter at The Destin Log she was a legislative assistant to Rep. Baron Hill, public relations. Bassler has been working with in northwest Florida. D-Ind., in Washington, D.C. Classifi ed Ventures, which provides online classifi ed As editor of LeftLaneNews.com, Andrew advertising services in the automotive, apartments Rebecca R. Solomon, BAJ’06, is a reporter Ganz, BAJ’06, of Dallas, is responsible for and real estate sectors. and weekend news anchor for television station the site’s new car reviews. Ganz and his team WJFW in Rhinelander, Wis., where she lives. Andrea M. Denney, BAJ’07, is a key accounts launched a new features section in the spring. She also keeps viewers informed on the area’s manager for SPEAK! Creative, a graphic design fi rm Jamie D. Holt, BAJ’06, is employed by popular restaurants in her segment, Reserva- based in Memphis, Tenn. She lives in Eads, Tenn. Marin Abused Women’s Services, a not- tions with Rebecca. Solomon can be reached at Chris Freiberg, BAJ’07, a reporter at the for-profi t organization in San Rafael, Calif., [email protected]. Daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska, organized working for the prevention and awareness of Cameron Thibos, BAJ’06, has been ac- “National Buy a Newspaper Day” Feb. 2. More than domestic violence. She works in the develop- cepted to the doctoral program in international 20,000 people reportedly signed on to support the ment and events department, assisting in host- Facebook campaign.

Obituaries

Jimmie G. Angelopolous, BA’47, died July 23 in Philip R. “Phil” Norman, BA’57, former city editor at Indianapolis. He was a sports journalist from 1942 until the Evansville Courier and a reporter, editor and colum- his retirement in 1992, working for The Indianapolis Times nist at the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, died May 24 and The Indianapolis News. He was inducted into five halls in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Norman, 78, joined the Courier- of fame, including the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in Journal in 1963 as a roving reporter. In 1975 he became 1993 and the Indiana Sports Writers and Broadcasters Hall farm editor, writing about the agricultural recession of of Fame in 1999. Angelopolous’s passion was high school the early 1980s, the boom and bust in grain farming sports, and he covered more than 200 school state finals and the failures of the national milk marketing sys- in almost 20 sports. He was a wrestler on IU’s Big Ten tem. In 1981 he won Long Island University’s George Championship team in 1943. Polk Award, whose recipients have included Edward R. Murrow, Norman Mailer and Ted Koppel. He also was John H. “Jerry” Lyst, ’55, opinion pages editor of The a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, presented by the Indianapolis Star from 1979 until his retirement in 2000, University of California–Los Angeles Anderson School of died June 20. Lyst, 76, was a former Indiana Daily Student Management. After early retirement from the newspa- staff member. After leaving IU, he joined The Star in 1955 per in 1987, he served as press secretary for then-U.S. as a police reporter. He worked for The Star for 45 years, Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., writing hundreds of speeches becoming the Statehouse reporter, financial reporter and before retiring in 1993. columnist, business editor and then editorial pages editor. As a business columnist, he wrote a column called Kurt Van der Dussen, BA’71, MA’75, a reporter and “Money, Jobs and People,” selections from which were copy editor at the Bloomington (Ind.) Herald-Times, died syndicated nationally. He received a national CASPER June 9. Van der Dussen, 59, covered state and county Award in 1969 for a series of stories about unemployment, government for 30 years and worked as a desk editor for and in 1990 he traveled to Eastern Europe and the Soviet the last two years of his life. He won numerous awards Union to examine those regions’ challenges in building for his work as an editorial writer, and he wrote an auto new governments and economies. He was a past president racing column and later a racing blog. He wrote his last of the Indianapolis Press Club and its foundation, a former blog entry from the 2009 Indianapolis 500, about two member of the IU School of Journalism alumni board and weeks before his death. an active member of the IU Alumni Association.

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Robert L. Gildea, BA’54, relations firm, then known as Howard S. Wilcox Inc., received the 2009 Indianapo- in July 1971. lis Public Relations Society’s Gildea served two terms as president of the Indiana “Indy PR Legend Award” at Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional a ceremony in June. Gildea Journalists and helped create the Indiana Journalism is senior vice-president of Hall of Fame, which recently moved from DePauw Sease, Gerig & Associates, University to the IU School of Journalism in Bloom- an Indianapolis-based public ington. Among numerous other activities, he served relations and management on the executive council of the IU Alumni Association consulting firm. for three years and for six years was vice-chairman of After serving as an Army the IU School of Nursing Advisory Board. He also has Courtesy officer, Gildea became city taught public relations at IU Bloomington, IUPUI, and editor and later news editor of the (Bloomington, Ind.) Her- Butler and Ball State universities. ald-Telephone (now The Herald-Times), then was appointed James R. Hetherington, BA’53, received the public relations director of the Indiana Area of the Methodist inaugural Indy PR Legend Award in 2008. Church, a position he held for 14 years. He joined the public

Jackie Gutmann, BAJ’07, has completed a two-year rotational assignment in marketing and public relations with Raytheon in Boston, Dallas Four alumni named deans and Tucson. Four School of Journalism alumni recently Katie Ly, BAJ’07, is a project coordinator have risen to the rank of dean in journalism, with the Association of American Publishers in New York City. communication and law schools around the Josephine McRobbie, BAJ’07, began country and the world. working as a broadcast assistant at WFIU in Lori Bergen, PhD’91, started her role Bloomington, Ind., in 2007, and is currently the as dean of Marquette University’s Diederich radio resources coordinator and an arts reporter Lori Bergen College of Communication in Milwaukee, and producer. Courtesy Wis., in July. Her most recent position was at Lauren Regan, BAJ’07, an intern with the Indianapolis Colts public relations department, the School of Journalism and Mass Com- went on a tour of the Mediterranean in April munication at Texas State University–San with a dozen Colts cheerleaders. The trip was Marcos, where she served as director and part of a military tour for U.S. troops based in Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy. professor. Mohamed Kirat, MA’84, PhD’87, was Lynn E. Steinberg, BAJ’07, is news direc- recently named dean of the College of tor and evening anchor with television station Mohamed Kirat

KUMV in Williston, N.D. Her on-air name is Lynn Courtesy Communication at the University of Sharjah, Adler. Steinberg lives in Williston. United Arab Emirates. Diana Biette, BAJ’08, is marketing coordina- H. Wilbert “Will” Norton Jr., MA’71, tor/designer for the Indianapolis Indians baseball began his role as founding dean of the new team. Biette was a marketing assistant for the team during the 2008 season. Meek School of Journalism and New Media Jodi Bradley, BAJ’08, has joined Author at the University of Mississippi July 1. He has Solutions in Bloomington, Ind., as a market- led the University of Nebraska College of ing specialist. She had worked as an intern at Journalism and Mass Communications for Indiana Sports Corp. H. Wilbert Norton Jr.

Courtesy the past 19 years. Jenny Evans, BAJ’08, started her new job as Kellye Testy, BA’82, JD’91, is dean of marketing coordinator for Indianapolis Parks and Recreation in December. Among other duties, the University of Washington’s School of Evans updates the organization’s Web site, www. Law. She also was named the James W. indyparks.org. Evans reports to Paula Freund, Mifflin University Professor. Testy is the first BAJ’00, Indy Parks’s public information ofﬁ cer. “We are having a lot of fun putting a new fresh female dean in the school’s 110-year history. face on Indy Parks, and I could not be happier,” Previously, she was a dean and professor at Evans says. Kellye Testy Seattle University. Courtesy

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Sally Tusa Abbey new managing editor at Oprah’s O magazine

When one door in the elite New York magazine world Overseeing a staff of approximately 65, Abbey is closed, another soon opened for Sally Tusa Abbey, MA’97. responsible for shipping roughly 130 editorial pages a In 2008, Abbey lost her job as managing editor of Cos- month in collaboration with her production director. moGirl when the magazine folded. But she landed on her Abbey says Oprah Winfrey stays on top of the editorial feet as managing editor of O, The Oprah Magazine. content through editor-at-large Gayle King. “I’m in charge of the day-to-day management of staff and deadlines,” she explained in a phone interview. Abbey, who previously had held a host of editorial positions at publications including Baby Talk, American Baby and iVillage magazines, says meeting deadlines makes her the happiest, but she also loves working with editors and writers. “My favorite part of being a managing editor, here or at any other magazine where I’ve worked, is helping the staff,” Abbey says. “I love it when someone comes to me with a problem and I can help them fix it. That’s when I’m most proud.” Abbey has worked her way up to this major media position one publication at a time and says she advises fledgling journalists to do the same. “Whenever a student asks me about how to get started, I always tell them to start off at smaller magazines,” she says. “If you start at the entry level at a big magazine, you’re not going to be able to do as much. Go somewhere small and put your hand up at every opportunity. It’s worked for me.” Although these are challenging times for the journalism industry, Abbey says she’s optimistic about the future of magazines and her employer, the Hearst Corp. Things will turn around, she says. “They always do. In fact, they already are. Difficult times bring innovation. There’s definitely some great stuff brewing over here at O, The Oprah Magazine.” Jessica Birthisel Olivia Barr Sally Tusa Abbey, MA’97, managing editor of O, The Oprah Magazine

Bryan R. Lufkin, BAJ’08, writes, “I am cur- Cassie Storm, BAJ’08, has joined Publicis is a member of the Chicago Chapter of the rently teaching English in a rural high school in Healthcare Communications Group’s Scientiﬁ c Public Relations Society of America’s Young Japan, about an hour from Mount Fuji. I’m doing Voice, a speakers’ bureau company serving the Professionals Network. this through the Japanese Exchange and Teach- pharmaceutical industry. She had been working Lindsy Wise, BAJ’08, was an intern in ing program. Next year I plan to move to New for Publicis, based in Chicago, as an intern since the Indiana Senate Majority Communications York and begin a career in print journalism.” December. Department. She wrote press releases and Jennifer Smith Simmonds, BAJ’08, has Alyssa Templeton, BAJ’08, is an assistant speeches, did radio feeds and assisted with landed a job at Advantage Health Solutions, a account executive for L.C. Williams and Associ- television equipment. large and growing health insurance company in ates in Chicago. She recently received a Publicity Indianapolis. Simmonds will help develop and Club of Chicago “Golden Trumpet” award and promote a new program called Money Follows an IABC Award of Excellence for a campaign the Person. for a new line of Eureka vacuums. She also

<< 36 36 > > newswirenewswire // Fall 2009 SpringFall 20092009 / newswire < 36 > honor roll British author Gladys B. Stern wrote, “Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” So, we trumpet our thanks to these donors whose gifts have enabled us to continue our excellence in journalism education. Giving levels are determined by the total gifts given during the calendar year 2008. All gifts count toward the $1.1 billion goal of the Matching the Promise fundraising campaign for IU Bloomington. As part of the campaign, which started in 2003, the School of Journalism seeks contributions for scholarships and fellowships for students, especially those from low- and middle- income households; funds to recruit and retain top faculty; and gifts for the Journalism Experiences Program for students pursuing study abroad and other unique opportunities. To ask questions about your listing or to make your gift, please contact Matt Morris, BA’80 (journalism) at (800) 558-8311 (toll free) or [email protected].

Gifts to the David L. Richard A. Horwitz and Nelma Gifts to the Bradley J. Hamm Gifts to the John M. Jackson Adams Scholarship J. Garcia International Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Sean F. Driscoll Jan T. Kubiniec Bradley J. Hamm Mary E. Armstrong Gannett Foundation Inc. Cheryl A. Magazine and Philip Victor R. Bardonner Rachel L. Kipp T. Moeller Gifts to the Ralph L. Holsinger James A. Belange Kathryn L. Knapp Scott Goldsmith Photography Scholarship John and Barbara Biersdorfer Millicent R. Martin Larry and Rosemarie Westberg Gannett Foundation Inc. Judith D. Biersdorfer Daniel Niles St. Petersburg Times Scholarship Thomas J. Biersdorfer Jean K. Person and Jack E. Gifts to the Lewis B. Fund Chet Branham Doskow Edwards Scholarship Paul and Karyn Tash P. Delbert and Carolyn Brinkman Robert and Janet Myers Nancy L. Waclawek Ryan Brooks Gifts to the Jack Backer State Farm Cos. Foundation Mark R. Wert Eddie and Janet Brown Scholarship Fund Charleston Fine Homes, LLC Paul and Carolyn Brinkman Gifts to the Harold C. Gifts to the IDS Special Michael A. Crist Michael H. Starks and Cynthia Feightner Fund Expense Fund Thomas Elliot DiTallo Indianapolis Press Club Nancy and Steven Comiskey Mike Frech Dennis W. VanHouten Foundation Donald and Joanne Cross Gannett Foundation Inc. Gregory and Tajharjha Gibson Gifts to the Dancey Balough Gifts to the Fisher Graduate Gifts to the Journalism Greg Gumberts Scholarship Scholarship in Mass Alumni Scholarship Dennis and Hollis Hall Richard and Cheryl Balough Communications Martin L. Anderson Michael Hamilton Harold and W. Elaine Fisher Stuart F. Chen-Hayes Kent and Angela Hatcher Gifts to the Marjorie Smith Susan O. Conner Benjamin and Keri Hegre Blewett Scholarship Gifts to the Freedom of the Gannett Foundation Inc. Home News Enterprises LLC Marjorie J. Blewett Press Scholarship Lumina Foundation for Education Patrick J. Hull Brian and Laura Klaum Margaret M. Maxwell Indiana University Alumni Gifts to the Burton Doris G. Vaughan Thomas and Jena Monahan Association Advertising Scholarship James R. Morris and Dorothy Michael and Barbara Jacks Southwest Anesthesia Inc. Gifts to the Richard Gray Devlin Joseph T. Jackson John and Margaret Wright Scholarship Virginia G. O’Hair Ronald E. Johnson Jim B. Barlow and Susan Randy and Kim Rendfeld Howard and Christina Jones Gifts to the Cookman A. Bischoff Christopher and Teresa Taelman Shawn Kelly Scholarship I. Ruth Gray Rochell D. Thomas Barton B. Lewis Claude and Joyce Cookman Andrew and Deanne Hall Mark R. Wert The Links Golf Club Cygnus Business Media Inc. Marian and Mansell Wolfe Brandyn A. Ludlum Unknown donor Gifts to the Guback Sports Peter C. Zwiebach Stacey L. Martin Journalism Scholarship MC Ramsey Inc. Gifts to the Counts/ Steve and Renie Guback Gifts to the Journalism McKenzie & Associates Inc. Ahlhauser Scholarship Library Fund Jason and Sarah Miller John and Louis Ahlhauser Gifts to the Steve and Becky Lawrence and Shannon Oates New York Times Co. Foundation Scott R. Goldsmith Gunden Smith Scholarship Michael A. Johnson Nikki Wheeler CPA David and Chloe Goldsmith Paul and Elizabeth Abramovitz One America Financial Partners Brian Horton Jon L. Ramsey

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James J. Ross Michael A. Johnson Richard and Mary Jane Madden Gifts to the Teeple Soccer James R. Ross Marilyn J. Kelsey Mead Mead and Clark PC Writing Scholarship Jonathan R. Ross Saint-Gobain Corp. Foundation Meadowood Retirement Charles and Nancy Teeple George and Marcia Ann Sapp Jerry and Sally Tanselle Community John and Amy Schwarb Norma J. Thiele New York Times Co. Foundation Gifts to the Joel Whitaker Jason K. Smith Janet B. Warrner Kent and Suzann Owen Scholarship Michael C. Smith Rachel B. Perry Joel and Donna Whitaker Jeffery A. Stephenson Gifts to the Linda Nichols Pauline Reyman Gifts to the G. Cleveland Thomas H. Swenson and Jane Mayes Memorial Fund Richard and Carol Routh Wilhoit Scholarship A. Howey Steven L. Mayes Judith L. Schroeder and Edward Julia K. Baumann Unknown donors Mongoven Gifts to the John F. McLeod Thomas A. Bowers Jason and Karen Wardwell Susan J. Voelkel Scholarship/Fellowship Brian J. Buchanan Eric and Jennifer Watkins Eugene and Frances Weinberg Elizabeth McLeod Allen J. Cone W. Bruce Watts Phillip and Sharon Wineinger Sharon L. Dunwoody Bradley T. Watts Karl C. Zacker and Diane M. Gifts to the Ogan Fund Laura A. Emerick Stan Watts Siddons Christine and Pekin Ogan G. Cleveland and Frances Wilhoit Ryan N. Whirty Larry Windle Gifts to the Fran and Donn Gifts to the Schurz Latin Matching Gifts Ruth A. Witmer Pearlman Scholarship American Journalism The School of Journalism Russell W. Pearlman Scholarship recognizes organizations that Gifts to the Trevor Brown Scott and Kathryn Schurz match contributions from our Fellowship/Scholarship Gifts to the Chris Savage alumni and friends. Trevor and Charlene Brown Memorial Scholarship Gifts to the Patrick Siddons Martha Dietz Addiction Recovery Programs Inc. IDS Scholarship AK Steel Foundation Christine S. Huston Janet K. Armstrong Karl C. Zacker and Diane CA Inc. Michael A. Johnson Marjorie J. Blewett M. Siddons HSBC–North America Stephen and Rebecca Smith Doris P. Brineman IBM International Foundation David and DaleAnne Cantrell Gifts to the John Stempel Eli Lilly and Co. Gifts to the Peter Jacobi Edgar and Elinor DeJean Memorial Scholarship/ Gannett Foundation Inc. Scholarship Martha Dietz Fellowship Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. Peter P. Jacobi Richard Dyar Jessica A. Feldman KPMG Foundation LLP Jon A. Franklin Richard A. Horwitz and Nelma Leo Burnett Co. Inc. Gifts to the Kemp Journalism Bradley J. Hamm J. Garcia Lumina Foundation for Education Scholarship/Fellowship Herbert and Barbara Hoeltke Frances L. King Macys Foundation P. Delbert and Carolyn Brinkman Richard D. Hvale and Catherine Marsh and McLennan Cos. Inc. John and Sandra Butler Gifts to the Teeple Business M. Hoff Motorola Foundation Janet M. Eberle Writing Scholarship Marilyn J. Kelsey New York Times Co. Foundation Linda S. Gregory Charles and Nancy Teeple Barbara J. Lawyer OneAmerica Financial Partners Robert and Kathleen Lentz Pearson Education Pepsico Foundation Inc. Procter and Gamble Fund Druck endowment, figurine collection Saint-Gobain Corp. Foundation honor longtime publisher St. Petersburg Times Scholarship Fund Justin M. Druck’s passion for newspapers extended beyond his job Schering Plough Foundation Scottrade Inc. as publisher of the Logansport (Ind.) Pharos-Tribune. Over the years, State Farm Cos. Foundation he acquired a collection of figurines of newspaper carriers; in the The Poynter Institute for Media spring, his daughter, Diane Druck, BS’73, donated 31 of them to the Studies Inc. School of Journalism in honor of her late father. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans The figurines are displayed in a case in the Weil Journalism Library TimeWarner with a plaque about Justin Druck. It tells of his lifelong career with Arbutus Society the Pharos-Tribune, from 1938 to 1990, with a break only to serve in David and Ruth Albright the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, Druck modernized Marty Anderson the newspaper, and in 1949, he bought the Logansport Press, mov- Scott Myrick Marjorie J. Blewett ing that paper’s operations into the Pharos-Tribune building. The two papers merged into a single James and Anne Bright publication in 1966, with Druck remaining as publisher until his retirement. Druck died in 2005. Linda Jo Clark Dague Jessica T. Feldman The Howard Charitable Foundation gave $500,000 to the School of Journalism to honor Druck’s Linda S. Gregory, Ed.D. life and career. The Justin M. Druck Endowment offers a four-year scholarship to a journalism Steve Guback major, preferably from Cass County, Ind. David W. McAllister

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Leo B. Melzer Jerry D. Raab Robert and Marcia Coleman Sponsors Deborah and John Perkins Ronald and Hiroko Rawald Susanna E. Coleman Steven and Lisa Abbott William H. Plummer III Rhys Corp. Michael A. Crist Paul and Elizabeth Abramowitz Richard and Carol Routh Gordon L. Rothman Donald and Joanne Cross John and Lois Ahlhauser Harry Sebel Ralph and Lesley Salo Janice E. Dean Eduard Avis and Kathleen Furore Velma Stephens Guido and Anne Stempel Unknown Donor Victor R. Bardonner Charles and Nancy Teeple The Links Golf Club Janet M. Eberle Jim Barlow and Susan Bischoff Joel Whitaker Rochell D. Thomas Daniel L. Egler John Barr and Ellen Kolodziej M. Eileen Widmer Vanguard Charitable Endowment Eli Lilly and Co. Joy A. Battistini Beth Wood Program Gordon K. Englehart Eric T. Benmour Mark A. Wood and Karen-Lee Nancy L. Waclawek Gordon K. Englehart Trust Susan E. Bennet Ryan Bradley and Garland Wilks Harold and W. Elaine Fisher Patricia A. Bennett Maury and Joni Fisher Barbara L. Berggoetz Joseph A. Piercy Society Benefactors James French and Allison Dehmer Mark A. Berkowitz Richard and Cheryl Balough Louis E. Alexander Julie A. Friedman John and Barbara Biersdorfer Steve and Renie Guback Mary E. Armstrong Kenneth D. Giffin Judith D. Biersdorfer Pekin and Christine Ogan Brenda A. Batten Raymond and Diane Giles Barbara Bischoff Richard and Carol Routh Thomas J. Biersdorfer J. Scott and Anne Griffin William L. Bishop Scott and Kathryn Schurz John and Sakae Bowles Ellen E. Hackney Anita R. Boorda Trevor and Charlene Brown Andrew and Deanne Hall Mary J. Borch John E. Stempel Society Barry and Sue Brucker Rick Horowitz and Sue Ryon Rosemarie Bouman Greater Cincinnati Foundation Kenneth R. Chitester Shoji and Yumi Hoshino Thomas A. Bowers Nancy K. Swanson Kevin and Trisha Corcoran Joseph T. Jackson Boxley Enterprises, Inc. William and Joan Fulton Richard G. Gray Society Robert V. Jones Perry E. Bradley James and Margaret Haddix Martin L. “Marty” Anderson David C. Krane William and Helen Brattain Kent and Angela Hatcher Marjorie J. Blewett Robert and Kathleen Lentz Markus and Marisa Brauckmann Roland L. Hicks Emerel G. Waters Trust John J. Mahan Diana Brautigam Morgan R. Hirst Indianapolis Press Club E. Mayer and Carol Maloney Jacqueline S. Bristow Brian Horton Foundation Inc. David W. McAllister Tad Brown and Amy Reynolds Ronald N. Horton Michael A. Johnson Ellen M. McCain Timothy M. Bruno Gregory and Judith Kueterman Samsung Press Foundation Patrick and Laura McGowan Warren and Judith Buddenbaum Tamara A. Lytle Ilaria St. Petersburg Times Scholarship McKenzie & Associates Inc. Brian and Lori Burton Richard and Mary Madden Fund James and Janet McKinney Nancy S. Burton Millicent R. Martin Paul and Karyn Tash Bruce and Rebecca Moon John and Sandra Butler Charles E. Merkel Charles and Nancy Teeple Robert and Janet Myers CA Inc. Motorola Foundation David and Martha Nord James Callaway and Elizabeth Trevor R. Brown Society New York Times Co. Foundation OneAmerica Financial Partners Dufour Susan O. Conner Donald L. Reeder Jack and Margery Overmyer Vince and Rebecca Camacho Claude and Joyce Cookman Richard J. Roth Catherine L. Quillin Warren and Elizabeth Canright Henry and Marjorie Coridan Saint-Gobain Corp. Foundation Jon L. Ramsey Ruth A. Carr Cygnus Business Media Inc. Linda S. Schottenstein-Fisher Renaissance Charitable Foundation Tim and Julie Carr Lee Ann Daly Mark and Alison Skertic Paul R. Rogers Christopher and Andrea Janine K. Davis Charles J. Small Richard Rorem and Linda Williams Carrington Daniel J. Dornbrook The Hearst Foundation Inc. Rorem Keith and Louise Carter Sharon L. Dunwoody Dolores M. Theisen Stephen S. Sanders John and Marion Castellucci Dennis and Catherine Elliott Norma J. Thiele George and Marcia Sapp Charleston Fine Homes, LLC Laura A. Emerick Wendy W. Wallace Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving James and Maureen Clarke Fidelity Investments Charitable Larry and Rosemarie Westberg John and Amy Schwarb Robert E. Colvin Gift Fund Jason K. Smith Steven and Nancy Comiskey Patrons Virginia D. Fielder Michael Stephenson and Brian and Janae Condit Frank C. Arganbright Gannett Foundation Inc. Jennifer Orsi Susan R. Constantin Nancy E. Baldwin I. Ruth Gray Barbara R. Stout Troy A. Cozad Julia K. Baumann Linda S. Gregory Robert and Margaret Walker Robert and Amy Crawford Mary A. Beams Bradley J. Hamm Eric and Jennifer Watkins James and Lucretia Cregar Brent H. Bierman Joseph U. Hinshaw W. B. Watts Jeffrey M. Crook David and Karen Boeyink Peter P. Jacobi Mark R. Wert Martin L. Curdes P. Delbert and Carolyn Brinkman KPMG Foundation LLP Joel and Donna Whitaker Conny and Martha Curtis Thomas and Jan Brock Charles and Gayle Lichtman David and Candace White Linda Jo Clark Dague Kristie Bunton Lumina Foundation for Education Peter and Kara Winton Jo Ellen Davis E. George and Jo Anne Burr Stacey L. Martin Ruth A. Witmer Christina A. De Mul Melinda D. Church Lawrence and Shannon Oates Karl Zacker and Diane Siddons Jean E. Deardorff Joel Cohen Russell W. Pearlman Jennifer L. Dewees

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Martha Dietz Richard E. Hagenston Indiana University Alumni Elizabeth McLeod Doris J. Donahue Susan Hanafee Association Mead Mead & Clark Pc Christopher and Marcia Doran Douglas and Ann Hannoy Kathey M. Jackson Elizabeth M. Melendez Jennifer A. Duncan Krystine D. Hansen Curtis and Nancy Jacobs James and Barbara Merrell Anthony and Jennifer Dzwonar Christopher D. Harbaugh Stephen and Anita Jacobson Jason and Sarah Miller Thomas Elliott Christopher and Wendy Harris James M. and Lucretia S. Cregar Philip Moeller and Cheryl Dawn E. Faris Thomas A. Harton Joint Living Trust Magazine Carl and Jean Foster Ronald A. Hendren Paul and Patricia Jefferys Rita J. Molter J. Lawrence and June Frazier Jeffrey and Cheryl Higley Kirk T. Johannesen Thomas and Jena Monahan Frances J. French Christopher and Ann Hilger Owen and Ann Johnson Eugene and Sherri Monteith John and Debra Gavelek Herbert and Barbara Hoeltke Ronald E. Johnson Francis and Melanie Morrissey Robert J. Giesting Jenifer V. Hofmann William and Margaret Joyce Alexander and Dorothea Muir Barbara J. Gill William A. Hokanson Stephen and Cynthia Kane Zachary A. Myers George and Kay Gill Scott E. Holeman Peter D. Kaufman Jeffrey and Julia Nelson Susan H. Glazer Kenneth Horn and Alison Walker Linda D. Keaton Richard and Diana Nevins Elizabeth A. Glover Richard Horwitz and Nelma Garcia James and Kathleen Kemper James and Stephanie Newell Francois and Evangeline Gohoure Bryan B. House Thomas A. Kenny Christopher and Mary Nielsen Paul S. Gold HSBC – North America Toni L. Killinger Nikki Wheeler CPA David and Chloe Goldsmith Kerry L. Hubartt Daniel and Valerie Kincaid Daniel Niles Jill E. Graves Stewart and Jane Huffman Michael D. Kinerk Robert and Laura Niles Monty and Susie Grover Michael A. Hyer Frances L. King Irene G. Nolan P. Ryan and Elizabeth Gunterman IBM International Foundation John King and Cynthia Butler Donald and Delores Odell Kevin and Rose Gustavson Indiana Utility Regulatory John and Kathryn Kish Michael G. Overstreet Clark and Diana Hadley Commission Laura S. Koffsky William Owsley and Susan Holli M. Haerr Indiana State Bar Association Darrell and LeAnna Kosub Kennedy Sue Lafky Curtis and Misty Parker Annadell C. Lamb Bruce and Sally Partner Mark and Karen Land Pearson Education Feldman’s charitable gift annuity Jeffrey and Debra Landers David and Charlsa Perdew Larry and Carol Landis Patricia C. Perkins benefits Experiences program James E. Lang Marylynne C. Pitz Dena E. Leibman Andrea S. Pohlmann Jessica Feldman, BA’54, Barnard K. Leiter Steve and Erin Pool grew up in Goshen, Ind., Kathleen R. Lemmon Thomas and Ann Price where she was editor of her Pauline J. Lennon Procter & Gamble Fund Janet L. Levin Martha T. Rasche junior and senior high school Lewis & Kappes PC Barbara E. Redding newspapers. She said that Carl and Betty Lewis Michael Redmond and Judith when her first choice of col- James and Laura Linder Cebula lege, Northwestern Univer- Amy B. Long Edward J. Reinke sity, did not pan out, “I chose Dustin T. Long Pauline Reyman Indiana and have always Joseph Lovrinic and Joanne Evelyn I. Rhamy Beheler Keith and Amanda Roach been very pleased with that Chris and Jerilyn Lowery Vincent P. Robinson choice.” Brandyn A. Ludlum James M. Roche Courtesy Feldman worked at the Paul and Kathleen MacMurray Deborah A. Rogus Chicago Tribune as an editorial research assistant before mov- Jack and Pamela Mahoney James J. Ross ing to an advertising agency. After many years spent raising Vladimir and Dorothy Mandl James R. Ross Hillary A. Mann Virginia R. Rouse a family and volunteering, including producing newsletters Terry Mark and Annette Long Rick and Lynne Rumford for several public schools and co-editing a 1960s edition of Salvo and Donna Marks Elisha R. Sauers This is Evanston for the League of Women Voters, Feldman Marsh and McLennan Cos. Inc. Tim and Rebecca Schroer returned to school, earning a Masters of Public Administra- Susan M. Marzetta Christopher and Alexis Schwartz tion from the Harvard Kennedy School. James A. Mather Louise E. Selden Returning home, she went to work for the City of Chi- Paul and Anne Maul Darren Shannon and Heather Maximize Communications Inc. Scott cago, retiring in 2002 as the managing deputy commissioner Margaret M. Maxwell Mary A. Shaver of the Department of Environment. Feldman’s charitable gift R. Bryce and Roberta Mayer Betsy L. Sheldon annuity was the first to benefit the school’s Journalism M.C. Ramsey Inc. William Shelton and Gretchen Experiences program. Gregory and Margaret McClure Letterman Michael H. McCoy Nancy R. Shephard Maurice E. McGrath Laurie B. Siegel

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Rosmarie Simons Thomas and Shawn Ardizone Ryan S. Sincroft Janet K. Armstrong Melzer honors friends, brother Carrie L. Smith Owen and Frances Arnold Howard and Charlotte Smith Rawson Atkin Stephen and Rebecca Smith Lisa R. Babcock Ted and Jane Smith James and Denise Badger Roger and Norma Staley Michael and Debra Bahler Jeffery M. Stanger Gerald and Adaline Bailey Toby R. Stark Robert W. Baird Michael Starks and Cynthia Paul and Karen Barker DiTallo Jennifer L. Barlow State Farm Cos. Foundation Nancy R. Barry Daniel and Rosemary Steiner Cary L. Bateman Jeffrey A. Stephenson James A. Belange Carol A. Stoker Charlotte M. Bell Jeffrey and Gina Sullivan William and Sherry Benner Jerry and Sally Tanselle Susan J. Berg Leslie D. Taylor Nancy E. Berghoff Dale R. Terry Nathan B. Bethea The Poynter Institute for Media Bonnie K. Biemer Studies Inc. William O. Birkett Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Stephen and Cynthia Bishop

TimeWarner Denise P. Bogard Gina Ferazzi Amy K. Trusty William N. Boggs Leo Melzer, BS’40, recently gave three gifts to the School Rachel B. Turry Kevin and Sara Bongiorni Robert and Evelyn Twitchell Victor W. Bracht of Journalism. The first is in memory of his friend Tom Miller, Kenneth and Deborah Ungar Chet Branham BA’40, former sportswriter and sports information director Mary Ann VanOsdol Christopher J. Breach at IU. The second gift is in memory of Melzer’s mentor, Doris G. Vaughan Eric and Cynthia Bright Tom Buck, BA’39, who was an editor-in-chief of the Indiana Steven and Karin Veatch Doris P. Brineman Daily Student, a reporter, a press agent for the mayor of Chi- Louis R. Vinci Clark Brittain and Karen Vickers Rebecca A. Voelker Mace and Gloria Broide cago and a teacher of journalism. Melzer recently established Bernard and Barbara Vonderheide Jody and Theresa Brooks his third gift, an endowed scholarship for journalism students Jacob and Beverly Voreis Ryan Brooks in need of assistance, in memory of his older brother, Andrew L. Wallace Marilyn Brougher Joseph L. Melzer. Janet J. Walls Eddie and Janet Brown The Miller fund will support faculty, student and staff Patrick S. Washburn Brian J. Buchanan development, including bringing speakers to campus, recog- Janeen M. Wasoski Thomas and Donna Buchanan Betty J. Weesner Guy and DeAnn Campbell nizing students through events, covering educational travel Timothy and Amy Whelan Michael J. Campbell expenses, and promoting special programs. The Buck fund Ken and Jenny White David and DaleAnne Cantrell will support three awards for undergraduates in the School of Dianne J. Wiley Robert and Olga Carlile Journalism who have written the best stories published in the G. Cleveland and Frances Wilhoit David Carrico and Anne Kibbler IDS during the preceding academic year. David and Julie Williams Casey A. Carrigan Amy L. Wolf Jennifer C. Casey Melzer, who studied business journalism at IU and served Mansell and Marian Wolfe Judith A. Cerek as associate night editor of the IDS, is a docent at the Will Christopher and Sally Wood Mary J. Chambers Rogers Historic State Park in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After Charles Wright and Jill Katter- Lisa M. Champelli graduation from IU, he worked for the City Bureau in Chi- Wright Michael V. Chapleau cago; the Evanston News Service in Evanston, Ill.; the United Anne B. Wymore John A. Chase Press; the International News Service; and the Los Angeles Kevin and Gloria Yancey Brenda K. Chattin Sherman and Angel Zent Duane H. Chattin Mirror. His journalism career was interrupted by active duty Stuart F. Chen-Hayes in the U.S. Air Force in Burma (now Myanmar) during World Contributors Carolyn A. Cline War II, and he was recalled to active duty during the Korean Paul and Debra Abrahms Linda E. Clopton conflict. Melzer spent many years employed by the federal Adaline C. Bailey Revocable Trust Gregory and Amy Cohn government as an information specialist, and he continued Addiction Recovery Allen J. Cone Programs Inc. Diane E. Connolly to serve his country in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Upon his AK Steel Foundation Michelle L. Cook retirement from the Reserves, he had earned the rank of Louise H. Anderson Spencer Cook and Lara lieutenant colonel. He lives in Santa Monica, Calif. Gregory and Julia Apple Funaro-Cook Jennifer A. Archibald Emily E. Cooper

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Ryan C. Cooper Kenneth W. Graber Brian and Laura Klaum Malcolm Moran and Karla Shay and Rachael Corcia Angie J. Grant Kathryn L. Knapp Hudecek Robert S. Corya Robert and Donna Green Joel H. Komisarow Jeffery A. Morehead William and Jennifer Cox James E. Grim Marie T. Kovalevsky Jennifer A. Morgan Christopher S. Creagh Greg Gumberts Amy D. Kraft James Morris and Dorothy Devlin Andrew J. Crouthamel Mark Gunn and Ayrika Peter and Maryclare Krusing Michael and Elizabeth Mudroncik Richard and Donna Cumberland Bryant-Gunn Michael and Natalie Kubat John K. Murphy Janice M. Custer Victor R. Haburchak Jan T. Kubiniec Joel and Mary Myers William W. Dallas Steven F. Hadt Patricia A. Kuehl Orayb A. Najjar Stephine A. Daugherty Shirley M. Haflich Douglas A. Lacey Rebecca C. Neale Stephanie L. Davis Nara L. Glenn and Vera Hakes L. Lynn Lambuth George and Sarah Nichter Jennifer L. Davis Frances A. Halberstadt Barbara J. Lawyer Jane A. Noblitt Robert A. Deitel Cecily A. Hall George and Diane Lee Amy L. Norwalk Edgar and Elinor DeJean Dennis and Hollis Hall Seth Leibowitz and Dori Graff Nicholas and Marilyn Novosel Bryan E. Denham Anne D. Hallett Schely A. Lengacher Carla O’Connell Thomas and Mary DiGiulio Michael Hamilton Leo Burnett Co. Inc. Margaret A. O’Connor James and Mary Divita Todd S. Harper Calli L. Levin Virginia G. O’Hair William and Mary Dolan Shelia C. Harris Jennifer S. Levine Kurt and Julie Ohlson Jack Doskow and Jean Person Scott and Arity Hasson Barton B. Lewis James B. Oliver James A. Drew Andrew and Tina Hawking Stephenie L. Lievense Eric W. Olson Sean F. Driscoll Jane A. Hawley Angela L. Lindauer Wendy P. Ostermeyer Marjorie J. Dubina David and Lisa Haynes Leo G. Loftus and Mary L. Loftus Kent and Suzann Owen Reid and Loretta Duffy David E. Heath Revocable Living Trust Susan E. Pahle Richard Dyar Benjamin and Keri Hegre Mary L. Loftus Barbara M. Parks Elizabeth Edwards Patricia C. Heise Gary L. Long Edward J. Pawlowski Aileen M. Elliott Keith and Debra Heitmann Kent R. Lowry Pepsico Foundation Inc. Cyril Emery and Chelsea Wald Terry J. Hemlinger Dyane M. Luker James Perry and Anna M. Ennis Margaret A. Herbst Charles and Mary Lyons Christina Hanagan Eric D. Erickson Alexander D. Hickey Teresa R. Maass Rachel B. Perry Teresa L. Evans Richard Higgins Macys Foundation Matthew J. Peyton David Evensen and Eunseong Jennifer S. Hirtzel Yvonne L. Maloan Constance S. Philips Kim John T. Holom Joseph and Gail Mancini Susan E. Phillips Jessica T. Feldman Home News Enterprises, LLC David and Vicki Mannweiler Christa S. Plew Emily R. Ferraro Terry and Grace Housholder John and Sharon Martin Robert H. Pockrass Barbara L. Fiedler James and Patricia Howard Andrew and Lisa Marum Kenneth and Donna Potocki Marci D. Fine Deborah S. Hudler Mark and LuAnn Mason Mary C. Powers Thomas and Eleanor Fisher Patrick J. Hull Wataru Matsuyasu and Eric R. Quinones Thomas J. Fleming Brent and Sarah Hunsberger Karla Armenoff Erin E. Raben Scott and Suzanne Fore Christine S. Huston Erin K. Maude Kenneth and Phyllis Rains Suzanne M. Fortier Terrence and Susan Hutchens Andrew and Claire Maxson Robert and Mary Remenih Edward H. Frank Amy R. Hutter Steven L. Mayes Randy and Kim Rendfeld Jon A. Franklin Richard Hvale and Catharine Hoff Virginia A. McClure Matthew W. Reynolds Mike Frech Irwin Union Bank & Trust Co. Brian J. McCoy Tracey L. Reynolds Brad and Tracey Freeman Michael and Barbara Jacks Lisa A. McCoy Chris and Shelly Riemer Lisa M. Freund James and Tamara Jarrow Sean and Stephanie McDade Tom and Laura Rigby Daniel and Alvia Frey D.J. and Susan Jefferson Sallie H. McElrath Constance D. Rita Martha J. Friedman Jeffery and Lisanne Jensen Lori A. McLaughlin Robert L. Carlile, C.P.A. Lawrence J. Frommer Howard and Christina Jones Meadowood Retirement Mildred A. Roberts Stephen J. Fullhart Candace J. Joy Community Thomas M. Romito Richard and Jeannette Fulmer Harvey M. Kagan Jennifer F. Meier Maryalice Rosenbalm Mark G. Ganchiff Jocelyn C. Kaiser Kathryn A. Melvin Scott and Amy Rosenberger Stephen and Katherine Garard Kenneth and Phyllis Kaplan Troy A. Mickley Carole W. Rosenblatt Margaret E. Gardner Kara M. Kelly Sean and Carol Miller Bernard D. Rosenthal John and Jo Garing Shawn Kelly Paul and Sue Milliman Jonathan R. Ross Gregory and Tajharjha Gibson Marilyn J. Kelsey Joseph J. Minnis Patrick Roth and Margaret Melissa E. Gibson Kristen M. Kemp Anne A. Mitchell McKinzie Roth Helen I. Glenn Sharon J. Kennedy Walter and Claire Modarelli Stephen Ruszczyk and Sallie E. Goetgeluck John and Beth Kerry Edward Mongoven and Judith Gaylee Morgan Scott R. Goldsmith Preston and Nancy Kingsbury Schroeder Johnathan C. Ryan Carlos Gonzalez and Karol Rachel L. Kipp William and Margaret Moor Stacey L. Ryner Sepilveda Klaes Image Productions Inc. Drew R. Moore Jamie A. Sanders Christopher T. Gorman William M. Klaes Glen A. Sargent

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Mark and Calley Savage Linda D. Voss A surprise anniversary gift Elizabeth B. Scarborough Ronald L. Waggoner Bradford W. Scharlott Frank and Kathryn Wall Schering Plough Foundation Tamara L. Wandel Norma Schmidt Jason and Karen Wardwell Phillip and Lisa Schmidt Laura L. Warren Brian and Eileen Schnepff Janet B. Warrner Lisa D. Schubert Bradley T. Watts John Schuerenberg and Rebecca Stan Watts Kelly Schuerenberg Alicia P. Webb Jon and Wendy Schwantes Robert M. Weber Scott Goldsmith Photography Eugene and Frances Weinberg Scottrade Inc. Sharon J. Weissbeck Joshua and Stacey Scruggs Scott A. Weisser Andrea E. Seib John J. Wessling Patricia Sheahan Ryan N. Whirty Emily C. Shirden Arden P. Wiggins Karen M. Sideris Karen L. Williams R. P. Singleton Scott and Susan Williams

Courtesy Katherine V. Sinn George and Carolyn Willis From left, Fran Pearlman, Sarah Hutchins, Russell Pearlman, BAJ’95, Arthur Skwerski and Jacquelyn James Wilson and Mary Lord MBA’00, and Donn Pearlman after Hutchins received the first Fran Pledger-Skwerski Kristen G. Wilson and Donn Pearlman Scholarship in April. Michael A. Slatin William E. Wilson John and Anne Smeltzer Larry Windle Betty S. Smith Phillip and Sharon Wineinger Russell Pearlman had a big surprise in hand for his parents Christianne Smith Richard and Rachel Winer when he took them out to dinner for their 40th wedding Michael C. Smith Lewiell and Elizabeth Winkler anniversary. Through a gift to the IU School of Journalism, he Terri P. Smith Charles and Carol Wise created the Fran and Donn Pearlman Scholarship to honor David Snodgress Gayle M. Wolski his parents. William and Sara Snyder Dennis and Deborah Wood Pearlman, BAJ’95, MBA’00, put a letter from journalism Nicholas and Tracey Solano Mary E. Wood William H. Somach John and Margaret Wright school dean Brad Hamm in a diploma cover and presented it Christopher S. Sommerfeld Roger and Marilyn Yockey to his parents. “My mom said, ‘Why are you giving us your Southwest Anesthesia Inc. Barbara Zang college diploma?’” Pearlman recalls. “Then they read the Christopher S. Stake Charles and Jill Zimmerman letter. They were thrilled.” Amie C. Stearns Peter C. Zwiebach Pearlman says education has always been important to his Damara D. Stewart Colin C. Swallow parents, so starting a scholarship in their name at IU was “a Edward and Tracie Sweeney no-brainer.” And the journalism school’s international travel Thomas Swenson and Jane Howey Gift Levels programs seemed like an ideal fit for the scholarship, which is Cheryl O. Syrett Arbutus Society: awarded to an Ernie Pyle Scholar with a minimum GPA of 3.2 Christopher and Teresa Taelman Planned or deferred gifts Betsy L. Taylor and an interest in studying abroad. Joseph A. Piercy Society: Sarah J. Taylor Pearlman’s parents flew in from Las Vegas and Russell flew Gifts of $10,000 or more Stephanie L. Taylor Ferriell in from New York to meet the first winner at the school’s William and Phyllis Taylor John E. Stempel Society: scholarship ceremony in Bloomington. Patricia E. Teall Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 “Attending the ceremonies in April to personally meet the James and Frances Terhune Richard G. Gray Society: first recipient, Sarah Hutchins, as well as other scholarship Diana M. Thomas Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Sharon L. Thomas winners and faculty members certainly reinforced our already Trevor R. Brown Society: Steven and Maria Tombalakian strong opinion about the excellence of the IU School of Jour- Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Russell and Audrey Tornabene nalism,” Donn Pearlman says. “It also brought back happy Denise A. Townley Benefactors: memories of previous visits to the campus.” Cecil and Georganna Tresslar Gifts of $500 to $999 The younger Pearlman is senior markets editor at Smart- Val G. Tsoutsouris Patrons: Money magazine in New York. He writes and edits stories Susan K. Tyburski Gifts of $250 to $499 Nathan and Lola Vandrey about investing and appears frequently on CNBC, CNN, Fox Sponsors: Dennis W. VanHouten Gifts of $100 to $249 and MSNBC to talk about the economy and the financial Jo Ann L. Versteeg news of the day. Carrol and Martha Vertrees Contributors: Catherine A. Vitali Gifts of $1 to $99 Susan J. Voelkel

SpringFall 20092009 / newswire < 43 > < 44 > newswire / Fall 2009 Reminisce with Marge Women editors break through ‘iron ceiling’

n today’s media mix, it’s hard to imagine II broke out in late 1941, the faculty faced a the faculty to Ithere was a time when women in journal- problem — manpower. So they reluctantly meet with the ism did not have a “glass ceiling.” It was had to turn to womanpower. rebellious women. really a tough iron ceiling, kept firmly in During the war, there were 13 woman We listened to the place by men and tradition. editors in a row! The line started with complaints and Across the years, that iron ceiling was in Mary Jean Johnson Hicks, BA’43, and went pointed out some

place on the Indiana Daily Student. After all, through Dee Harrington Moore. When I history of the job. Robertson Tyra the first woman admitted to IU was Sarah started on the Daily Student in 1945, there Our suggestion Marjorie (Smith) Parke Morrison in 1867. That also was the were few men on staff. One of them, Ed was that a strong Blewett, BA’48 year a group of men founded a newspaper Sovola, BA’46, had a medical deferment woman candidate run for editor. One of the they called the Indiana Student. from service and he became editor. group was Barbara Toman, BA’83, who had When I started planning for the 1967 In 1945, the veterans began to return to held several sub-editor slots and was one of 100th birthday of the Indiana Daily Student, campus and the newsroom. Some of them our top journalism scholars. I found no list of all the editors since 1867. had only a year, or a semester, to gradua- Barbara did apply, went through the So I went to the musty bound volumes of tion. They entered the newsroom like they rigorous interview process, and was named the paper in the basement of the old library, were storming Europe and the Pacific all editor for the spring semester. That was the now Franklin Hall. over again. end of the rebellion. It still was a student-owned paper in the The women, who had been turning out A few weeks after her selection, Barbara early years, publication was erratic, and the the paper all those years, were shoved aside. went through another rigorous interview listing of editors in each issue not reliable. In the late 1940s, only two women stood process, this time national, and became the Turning the yellowed pages, the first woman their ground and became editor. Annadell first woman from IU to be named a Rhodes editor name I could find was Florence Reid Craig Lamb, BA’47, was editor in 1947 and Scholar. The next fall she was off to study at Myrik Ahl in 1899. Then back to male edi- I was editor in 1948. The women’s edition Oxford, in England. tors through most of 1900 to 1919, though had been dropped during the war, and There are more women than men in the late in that period we find Ethel Larm women were in the editing mainstream. journalism program now. The editorship Stembel, BA’19, MA’24, and Helen Trent Through the 1950s and 1960s, there of the Daily Student swings back and forth Hobbs. These may have come during World was a long list of women editors. between women and men. Women work War I, when many men were in service. In the early 1980s, there was a string of their way to the top just as the men do. After that, women editors were rare. men editors, and they made their weekly They don’t have to fight the gender issue as In the late 1930s, there was an annual editorial planning meetings in male-only so many of their women predecessors did. women’s edition so the “girls” could act sessions at Nick’s on Friday afternoon. I can’t write about women on the Daily as editors and put out the paper. In the The women were left out. Student without mentioning Nellie Burke early 1940s, there was a woman editor Some of the women began to rebel at Winslow, BA’13. She wasn’t editor, but now and then. this. They thought there never had been a she was a crusader, and she took aim at The editors were selected by the journal- woman editor. I was working closely with the Well House. In those days, students ism faculty in those days. After World War students then, and I joined women from pumped a handle to bring up water from the well. It flowed into an old tin cup hanging on the pump, and everyone drank from it. “Unsanitary,” Nellie declared, and she argued until the cup disappeared. Nellie married a local dairy farmer, and over the years she wrote on many issues for the local papers. The old Winslow homestead is now Winslow Farm, a sprawling subdivision on Bloomington’s south side. As I wrote this column, the 2009 summer session editor and the fall editor had been chosen, both of them women with long experience on the paper — Sara Amato and Chris Pickrell James Brosher Natalie Avon. No man had applied. Summer 2009 editor Sara Amato Fall 2009 editor Natalie Avon

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Members of the American Civil War Society in the U.K., dressed in the uniforms of U.S. Sharpshooters, re-enact a battle at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire, England, in June. Jay Seawell, BAJ’09, shot this and a series of other photos and videos of American Civil War re-enactments in England as part of his Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship project. To see Seawell’s work and read his blog on the U.K.’s connections to the Civil War, go to jseawell.com/ pages/ACWUK.html.