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n the book “Inventing Medill,” author Alice W. EDITORIAL STAFF Medal Winner ISnyder described the school’s graduate program in Washington as “a uniquely successful enterprise” that DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI evolved from a “go-for-broke” style. RELATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT Kathy Gannon In April we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Belinda Lichty Clarke (MSJ94) Visits Medill the Washington program with a special ceremony that features stories from alumni who worked as part of the MANAGING EDITOR BELOW: Medal judge Dick Stolley (BSJ52, MSJ53) with 2014 James Foley Medill Medal Medill News Service. Lindsey Kratochwill (BSJ12) for Courage in Journalism recipient and AP The timing is perfect for several ambitious new efforts correspondent Kathy Gannon at Medill on in San Francisco and Chicago in 2016 and special plans DESIGN Nov. 20 for the Evanston campus. Amanda Good Medill still has a “go-for-broke” style. BOTTOM: Diane Foley, mother of James Foley (MSJ04), participated in a student-led Twitter BRADLEY J. HAMM Build-out is starting on our San Francisco site at 44 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS event for conflict journalists before the medal DEAN Montgomery St. The space will include classrooms, Jasmine Rangel Leonas presentation and lecture. a broadcast studio, a design lab with the McCormick Kaitlyn Thompson (BSJ11) IMC talentQ Expo School’s computer science program, and spaces for small-group work similar to the MEDILL STUDENTS, ALUMNI, style at new-media companies. FACULTY ADVISER FACULTY, STAFF AND MARKETING Also in the spring we will open a new Chicago site at 303 East Wacker Dr., overlook- Charles Whitaker (BSJ80, MSJ81) ing the river, for our graduate students. The architectural plans for Chicago are similar COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSION- ALS JOINED FOR AN EVENING to the San Francisco site. PHOTOGRAPHER OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE Gensler, with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, is the design firm for both Jenna Braunstein CONVERGENCE OF MARKETING locations. AND TECHNOLOGY AT THIS It is unusual to take on so many projects at the same time, but our academic buildings CONTRIBUTORS YEAR’S TALENTQ EXPO IN need significant work. Plus, Northwestern is significantly upgrading the main Evanston Brad Hamm DOWNTOWN CHICAGO ON campus and wants the teaching and research spaces to be top quality, reflective of a Beth Moellers THURSDAY, NOV. 12. world-class university. Lisa Parro (MSJ02) The spectacular Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts just Lisa Dunn BY KAITLYN THOMPSON (BSJ11) opened on the lakefront east of Medill, and the new Kellogg School of Management Mallory Busch (BSJ15) building is rising along the lakefront next to the Allen Center. Anna Swindle Keller (MSJ09) MIDDLE TOP: Panelist Paul Marobella, Havas By 2017, the plan is for a renovation of historic Fisk Hall, a Daniel Burnham building Worldwide Chicago CEO, speaks with Medill dedicated in 1899. We will select an architect in the spring. RESEARCH ASSISTANT students and alumni before the event on Nov. 12. Virginia Brown (MSJ11) The Fisk renovation offers a new building but not additional space. A review of MIDDLE SECOND: L to R, talentQ Committee Medill’s student life and technology needs shows that a much larger building is essential members Xinwei Zhang (IMC15), Xinwei Yang for our many programs in Evanston. We likely will design an additional building that (IMC15), Lindsay Saran (IMC15), Zachary Adler will link Fisk and the McCormick Foundation Center. (IMC15), Sara Singh (IMC15)

The expansion to San Francisco, along with construction in Chicago and Evanston, MIDDLE THIRD: Keynote speaker Terry establishes Medill once again as a unique enterprise, the best school of its kind in the Davenport (MSA82), SVP Marketing for world. Starbucks, interacts with Medill students and alumni.

\ LETTER TO THE EDITOR MIDDLE FOURTH: L to R, Singh and Adler introduce panelists Paul Marobella; Mary Lou Song (BSJ91), FUELX CEO; moderator and IMC Assistant Professor Dan Gruber; he article about John Bartlow Martin hit home with me. He’s the reason I went PLEASE SEND STORY PITCHES Scott Campbell, Colgate-Palmolive general AND LETTERS TO: manager; and Pradeep Kumar (IMC03), FCB into magazine work (business-to-business media). I’ve never forgotten one point T VP, consumer intelligence director. he made during our magazine class, and it has served me well. He told us that he edited 1845 Sheridan Rd. Evanston, IL 60208 MIDDLE BOTTOM: L to R, Panelists Marobella, his articles at least six times — trimming and trimming away — before submitting [email protected] them for publication. As the writer, he needed to know everything first, and then craft Song, moderator Gruber and panelist Campbell (plus Pradeep Kumar (IMC03), the story with only the points that really mattered. Less, to him, truly was more. To this not pictured) discuss the convergence of day, I follow that counsel in my own writing, and I’ve passed it on to staff and freelance PRINTED BY: marketing and technology. writers with whom I’ve worked. His legacy lives on. Active 5500 W. 31st St. ABOVE: Davenport delivers his keynote Cicero, IL 60804 speech. Maxine (Osdoby) Golding (MSJ74) uniqueactive.com

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NATIONAL NEW YORK CITY HAPPY ASSOCIATION OF HOUR FOR MAGAZINE NATIVE AMERICAN ALUMNI - OCT. 19 JOURNALISTS CONFERENCE - JULY 8 RIGHT: L to R, April Daley CHERUBS - JULY 23 (MSJ11) and Esther Bergdahl L to R, Noor Wazwaz (MSJ13) Medill Hall of Achievement member (MSJ15), Kenneth Piner and Board of Advisers member Dick (MSJ93) and Ezra FAR RIGHT: L to R, Victoria Stolley (BSJ52, MSJ53) speaks to the Kaplan (MSJ15) at the Fine (BSJ07, MSJ09) and summer Cherubs. D.C. reception for the Kate Gardiner (MSJ09) National Association of Native American BELOW: L to R, Laura Journalists conference Bradley (MSJ14), Jackie Zimmermann (MSJ14) and Mitch Goldich (MSJ14)

MEDILL CLUB OF SOCAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA - OCT. 4

MIDDLE LEFT: L to R, Kathy Neumeyer (BSJ66) and Jennifer Hontz (BSJ93)

FAR LEFT: Medill Hall of Achievement member and Fox Searchlight President Nancy Utley (BSJ77, MSJ78) spoke at the Medill Club of SoCal Gala.

LEFT: L to R, Thomas Greanias (BSJ87, MSJ87) and wife, Laura

MEDILL DEAN’S RECEPTION FOR HOMECOMING - OCT. 16

LEFT: L to R, Marc Zarefsky (BSJ07), NU Trustee Christine Brennan (BSJ80, MSJ81) and Gabe MEDILL TAILGATE Gutierrez (BSJ05) OCT. 17 ABOVE: L to R, Pat L to R, Christiana Phillips (BSJ54) and Joel Stewart (IMC15), Alex Sprayregen (BSJ55) Keshishian (IMC15), Sam Dyson (IMC15), Brandon Manzano (IMC15) and Ethan Bailey

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I was in D.C. the summer of the Iran-Contra hearings, and it was one of the most amazing summers of my life. I was assigned to two newspapers in Maine, and both senators from Maine were on the Iran-Contra hearing panel. This meant I was seated in Medill Alumni Remember the front row between the and —and both senators swiftly returned my phone calls. I felt a heady sense of power and responsibility. Everything about that experience has stayed with me, including finding news on a slow news day. Even getting to wear the Their Year in Washington press badges and descend on the Press Club on Friday nights for the free buffet was exciting for me. I feel extremely lucky to have had that opportunity.

Karen Dillon (MSJ87)

The Medill program was located in an old office building, on the We were the first class in D.C. immediately following ninth floor (I think). By late spring, the weather was warm and our 9/11. The professors were, to put it mildly, shell- office had no air-conditioning so we kept the windows open. I was shocked by the situation. Security had doubled, I remember the first day we met Neil V. McNeil. A the only married student in my group. My wife, Sherri Sandow tripled around the city, and the papers and TV little intimidating, to say the least. The first order of My decision to participate in Medill’s Washington program was the first Dees, was back in Evanston working on her master’s in music stations that subscribed to the Medill News Service business was a pop quiz on the president’s cabinet stepping stone toward a career I’m more passionate about every day. performance. I got to joking that the only reason I was married were demanding stories and coverage beyond what and the admonition that we better know the basics And a few of those [Washington] moments have stuck with me: was that I couldn’t remove my wedding ring. To prove my point, we were capable of handling. Not only that, we were if we expected to survive. Although McNeil was fair, National Press Club pass. This is when I really felt legit (and I didn’t hate I shook my hand to one side, once, twice, then whoosh, the ring all new to the D.C. area (and to this kind of news he made it clear we were just neophytes and he had a getting to chat with rapper Ludacris about his foundation). flew from my sweaty finger, over my neighbor’s desk, against a sill, coverage) and were essentially thrown right into the very high level of expectation from us. Interviews with congressmen and senators. As a 24-year-old graduate and out the window before plummeting to the busy sidewalk. thick of the action from day one. I remember the day President Johnson died. McNeil Bursting onto the sidewalk, I counted up the floors and across The experience I gained was phenomenal. At times student, getting the chance to interview Sen. John McCain about health grabbed me by the arm and bellowed, “Find out when care issues and industry reform is something I’ll never forget. the windows to locate the window. Then I scanned back down the it was tiring and sad, but it was about as real a crisis they’re going to plant the S.O.B.!” There was a rumor Shooting a stand-up in front of the White House in the midst of an angry drab brick wall to the sidewalk. No ring. I ran into the street. I ran situation as could be expected. It was some of the best (I never did ascertain if it was based in fact) that mob of health care protestors and loving it. across the street and back again. I looked under parked cars and news experience I've had in my journalism career. President Johnson had McNeil thrown out of a White moving cars. I looked under pedestrians. Then I looked up the Pardoning of the turkey. It was cool to have a front row seat as President House news conference several years earlier. sidewalk to see a metal grate covering a subterranean labyrinth. I Rin-rin Yu (MSJ01) Obama pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving. was sure that my ring had bounced, rolled or been kicked into the Mark N. Levine (MSJ73) abyss. Alexandra Thomas Sadler (MSJ09) By this time, an elevator load of my classmates had joined the search. Soon, one of them, a woman whose name I have long I was in D.C. for the winter quarter in 1973. I had since forgotten, approached me. “Is this it?” she asked calmly, some questions for the late Sen. Charles The best memory was covering Rep. holding up the ring. I was too astonished to say, “What do you Percy and tagged along with him as he left a commit - Joseph E. Karth from St. Paul, Minnesota. mean ‘Is this it?’ How many gold bands do you expect to find on tee hearing. The interview continued as I joined him One year after graduating I was working the sidewalk this afternoon?” I don’t think I said anything, but on the senators-only elevator. We descended one as his press secretary. Oh, I caught instead grabbed her and kissed her right on the mouth. floor, and the late Sen. George McGovern stepped Potomac fever while with the Medill News The impact left the ring less than round, and I gradually gained in. I was a personal fan of McGovern, who had just Service and never imagined that I would My most memorable experience in Medill’s Washington program too much weight to wear it anymore. But fortunately, nearly 35 lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon. I so be back to Washington that quickly. I required playing hooky. years later, I still have the same ring–and the same wife. badly wanted to drop my microphone and ask for had two stops between graduation and I completed my bachelor’s degree at Medill in April of 1974, and McGovern’s autograph, but I stuck to my duties and Capitol Hill: the Tulsa Tribune and the headed to Washington for the Medill graduate program just a month David Dees (MSJ81) settled for nods and polite smiles all around as the ABC affiliate in Tulsa. Medill certainly after unelected President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon. senators headed off toward the Capitol. gets credit for one of the best jobs I ever But there was no pardon for the president’s men, and that October enjoyed. (It paid very well, too.) John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Kenneth Parkinson Art Ellis (MSJ73) and Robert Mardian went on trial on charges of obstructing the John Hamill (BSJ68, MSJ69) Watergate investigation. A fellow student and I read that limited public seats were available I was amazed at how readily we were accepted by our professional colleagues. Sure, we had press identification, but we certainly at the trial, but we would have to line up in the morning in a court- looked younger than most of the pros. There were times when we would be interviewing a senator or congressman and a pro was house hallway in hopes of making the cut for the afternoon session. Since I was a child, my dream had been to told to wait until we finished before they could ask their questions. When Ehrlichman returned from his lunch break, he chatted a bit with report from the nation’s capital. I actually spent Every week, Sen. Everett Dirksen would meet with President Richard Nixon for lunch and then come by the Senate Press Room to those of us in line and even autographed my courthouse ticket. time as an 8-year-old watching the Watergate discuss the issues of the day. It was heady stuff for a 24-year-old from California. hearings on TV. I still remember the thrill It changed me for life, without doubt. Ann Silverberg (BSJ74, MSJ75) as a Medill graduate student, poised before During the fall quarter, I fell in love with a fellow graduate student, [also a part of the Washington program], Sue Hastings, and we that beautiful Capitol building, recording my were married at Christmastime. They were heady times indeed. stand-up for a television report I would file for a Midwestern station. Medill fulfilled my dream, William Michael (Mike) Cornner (MSJ69) and for that I will be eternally grateful.

Maria Vitale Gallagher (MSJ91)

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he year was 1966. The civil rights movement caster for 20 years, retired as co-director in 2007 was gaining steam; Medicare and Medicaid but remained teaching until 2010 when she became Thad started to expand health services to the associate professor emerita, and Shearer continued elderly and poor; and fighting escalated in Vietnam on as director. as public sentiment against the war grew. It was a Shearer, whose career includes stints at turbulent era in Washington and, for the first time, , (New York) Newsday and United Press CAPITAL Medill students were there to cover it with the launch International, is most proud of creating the National of what would become Medill’s Washington program. Security Journalism program and the investiga- As a member of the inaugural spring quarter 1966 tive projects she’s led for the Medill Washington class, Al From (BSJ65, MSJ66) recalls just how program—particularly the 2004 and 2006 “Power innovative it was for Medill to establish a working Trips” investigative projects. In a joint effort with IDEA: newsroom in the capital staffed by student journal- the Center for Public Integrity and American Public ists—the first of its kind by any journalism program Media, Medill reporters analyzed tens of thousands LISA (SMITH) PARRO Celebrating (MSJ02) IS PUBLIC AFFAIRS in the country. of documents to create databases of privately spon- MANAGER AT ADVOCATE “The school was so nervous we would do some- sored travel for members of Congress and their staff HEALTH CARE IN DOWNERS thing bad to put the program in jeopardy,” From said to lavish resorts in exotic locations. The award-win- GROVE, ILLINOIS, AND A with a laugh. ning reports generated enough media interest that 50 years FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN THE CHICAGO SUBURBS. The experiment worked. As the program other media outlets delved deeper into the topic. SHE SPENT TWO QUARTERS celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, Medill broke the scandal that led to IN MEDILL’S WASHINGTON students in Washington cover news on Capitol Hill former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s con- of Medill’s PROGRAM REPORTING FOR MARKETWATCH.COM AND THE as fully credentialed journalists working alongside viction and new policies for how lawmakers report NOW-DEFUNCT THE NEWS OF seasoned veterans. Building upon their training at trips financed by private interests. Washington MEXICO CITY. Medill’s Evanston campus and in the Chicago news- When Shearer started leading the program, stu- room, they continue to gain real-world public affairs dents were typically assigned to report exclusively for reporting experience as they earn their degrees. one or two media outlets. Now students write for mul- program The program has produced Pulitzer Prize-winning tiple clients depending on their chosen beats, which journalists, Emmy award-winning broadcasters, include business, national security, education, envi- respected political strategists, nonprofit leaders, ronment, health care, science and technology, sports, BY LISA PARRO (MSJ02) attorneys and corporate communications and public politics and living. Partners now include the Christian relations executives, among others. Science Monitor, MarketWatch.com, McClatchy news When the program began, a handful of newspa- service, PCWorld.com, USAToday.com, USNews. pers and radio stations subscribed to Washington com, four TV stations and two radio stations. dispatches from Medill students. The students And there’s no longer such a divide between worked under the leadership of the late Neil McNeil, broadcast and traditional print; students post to a newspaper reporter from Houston who worked in Twitter, write long-form narratives and produce Washington for the Scripps Howard newspapers, the multimedia packages with videos and charts. Washington Daily News. From remembers McNeil “We keep evolving as the industry keeps evolving as a “crusty old newspaper man” whose father also and we try to stay a step ahead,” said Shearer, who had worked in the business. is also the William F. Thomas Professor at Medill Charles Alexander, a Medill faculty member who and co-director of the Medill National Security served as editor and publisher of the Journal Herald in Journalism Initiative. “We want to make sure the Dayton, Ohio, became the second director of the pro- students are comfortable reporting across all these gram in 1975. He oversaw an expansion that included different platforms and excellent at one or two.” the addition of broadcast television stations to the Noor Wazwaz (MSJ15) covered national security client roster. Lou Prato, a veteran broadcaster who had from Washington and spent a week reporting from worked at stations in the Midwest, taught broadcast Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for Medill. Now an intern students starting in 1983. Prato taught his students to at National Public Radio’s “Weekend All Things do live shots and worked with them to build their demo Considered,” Wazwaz said the Washington program reels so they could find jobs after graduation. gave her the opportunity to “be a ‘real’ “We came to be recognized as a legitimate news before graduation. operation for the local papers and stations that were “What I mean by ‘real’ is I had access to Capitol our clients,” Alexander said. “That was very gratify- Hill, the Supreme Court, the White House and State ing for me by the time I left.” Department, where all the laws and policies for our Ellen Shearer and Mary Coffman succeeded country are being created,” Wazwaz said. “It was Alexander and Prato in the fall of 1984, becoming a great chance to not only witness history, but be a co-directors of the program, overseeing print and part of it. I was there, side-by-side, covering the same broadcast students, respectively. 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COVERING WASHINGTON’S COVERING THE STORIES MOVERS AND SHAKERS THAT MATTER TO HIM HELENA ANDREWS-DYER (MSJ05) TODD JOHNSON (BSJ08, MSJ09) With nary an interest in politics, Helena I kind of caught the D.C. bug,” she said. She was learning to hook readers with the lead Andrews-Dyer (MSJ05) wasn’t consider- worked as a news assistant in the New York of a story. As a Medill student in the Washington a digital journalist at The Grio, a New very, very small, minuscule part of that,” ing enrolling in the Washington program. Times’ Washington bureau for a year before “It can’t happen on every story necessar- program, Todd Johnson (BSJ08, MSJ09) York-based startup multimedia news site Johnson said. “I think we sort of moved That is, until the California native consid- joining startup Politico, the Washington- ily but you have to grab people—especially covered education and made the beat his covering issues relevant to the black com- the needle a little bit, along with NBC, in ered the alternative: spending the winter based online political magazine, covering in the new media landscape,” Andrews- own by pursuing stories about education munity. Johnson saw it as an opportunity making that happen.” quarter in frigid Chicago. One of the first “congressional style,” which Andrews-Dyer Dyer said. “That’s definitely stuck with me in underrepresented communities. Some to continue doing the work he started in Previously owned by NBCUniversal, stories she covered was the swearing in calls “the ultimate oxymoron.” She left to throughout my career.” of his stories included First Lady Michelle Washington. After several months, he was The Grio is now independent, and Johnson of freshman U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, once write “Bitch is the New Black,” a memoir That’s what Andrews-Dyer aims to do Obama’s commencement speech for a sent to earthquake-ravaged Haiti to report is the managing editor. He credits Medill’s a single mother and welfare recipient and published by Harper Collins in 2010 that as co-author of the Washington Post’s Washington public charter high school; on the disaster. Washington program with providing the the first black woman elected to Congress “Grey’s Anatomy” creator Shonda Rhimes Reliable Source gossip column, where she coverage of an event featuring then-House One of the stories he’s most proud of guidance he needed to become a better from Wisconsin. calls “an authentic fresh exploration of covers the intersection of pop culture and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hip-hop mogul is The Grio’s reporting on a 70-year-old journalist and giving him the freedom he After graduating from Medill, Andrews- what it is to be young, black and single politics. That coverage includes celebrity Russell Simmons and actress Gabrielle capital punishment case. In 1944, black sought to cover the stories that mattered Dyer expected to return to New York City, right now—from a voice both outrageously sightings around town; weddings and Union promoting foster care; and a teenager George Stinney Jr. became the most to him. where she had been working since earning funny and heartbreakingly honest.” other major social events involving public contestant from the U.S. Virgin Islands youngest person ever executed in South “D.C. was the most memorable experi- her bachelor’s degree from Columbia Her biggest takeaway from Medill’s figures, fashion and multi-million dollar participating in the ultra-competitive Carolina. His trial lasted a few hours, no ence of my master’s program,” Johnson University. But “after being in the program Washington program, Andrews-Dyer said, real-estate sales. w Scripps National Spelling Bee. witnesses were called on his behalf and no said. “It was all about the work. The A broadcast student, Johnson planned appeal was filed. NBC Nightly News picked university isn’t nearby. There isn’t a huge to follow the typical career path: Honing up the story and, in 2014, a judge vacated campus. You are Medill’s representative his skills by starting at a small TV news the conviction, clearing Stinney’s name. there. I didn’t want to leave.” w FROM JOURNALIST TO station before moving on to larger and “Here he is, 70 years later, getting some POLITICAL STRATEGIST larger markets. Instead, he was hired as form of ‘justice’ and I feel like I had a AL FROM (BSJ65, MSJ66) WASHINGTON PROGRAM A When Al From (BSJ65, MSJ66) started came out of journalism school,” From history.” The DLC championed national his journalism education, his idol was said. “My job was to go out around the service, an expanded Earned Income Tax SPRINGBOARD TO President John F. Kennedy’s press secre- country—in my case it was six states in Credit, welfare reform, charter schools, tary, Pierre Salinger. Drawn to journalism the Deep South—because Sargent Shriver community policing and expanded trade and politics, From headed to Washington, didn’t trust the bureaucrats to tell him and other ideas that became the core of INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM D.C., to be part of the inaugural Washington what was going on in his programs. So he the Democratic Party’s agenda. From led FRANCES KUO (MSJ00) news ­room in 1966. From would go on to hired a bunch of young journalists and a the organization from 1985 to 2009; it was become a powerful political strategist play- few lawyers. Our job was to go out and folded into the Clinton Foundation in 2011. Despite growing up nearby in hopefully find myself in in the professional Kuo, a first-generation Chinese-American ing a pivotal role in the Democratic Party’s spend a week reporting in the field and He’s now principal of The From Company, Maryland, Frances Kuo (MSJ00) still was world.” whose father was a journalist in , is return to power in the 1990s. write (long-form journalism) pieces of LLC, a consultancy. intimidated to cover Capitol Hill in 2000. After graduation, Kuo worked at TV currently a Washington-based reporter, A native of South Bend, Indiana, From what was going on.” A documentary based on From’s 2013 She worked as a Medill News Service cor- news stations in Illinois, North Carolina, producer and writer for CCTV America, an had spent several summers reporting at From continued working on Capitol book, “The New Democrats and the respondent for WCAX, the CBS affiliate in Indiana and Kentucky, where she earned English-language network that is part of the South Bend Tribune and brought , working as the staff director of Return to Power,” is under consideration Burlington, Vermont. It didn’t take long two Emmy nominations. She then worked China’s largest TV broadcaster. She covers newspaper on as a client of the Medill the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The for Kuo, to develop strong working rela- at the local NBC affiliate in Charlotte, international news for six daily news pro- News Service in Washington. He had Intergovernmental Relations, serving book includes a forward by President Bill tionships with the Vermont congressional North Carolina, and went on to join the for- grams that are broadcast worldwide. Kuo planned to return to journalism upon as deputy adviser to President Jimmy Clinton, who credits “a great deal” of his delegation and become acquainted with eign desk at NBC News Channel. Working has also come back to Medill’s Washington graduation from Medill in 1966 but instead Carter, and becoming executive director election to the DLC and From in particular. how the Beltway works. for the foreign desk, she provided reports program to teach reporting seminars. stayed in Washington, joining fellow of the House Democratic Caucus, among “It would be hard to think of a single “We were expected to generate story on international news stories to the NBC “I’m very proud to be able to return Medill alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner other positions. Those leadership positions American citizen who, as a private citizen, ideas, shoot B-roll and interviews, and file affiliates across the country. There she to the newsroom that was pivotal in my Edgar May in President Lyndon Johnson’s helped From establish the Democratic has had a more positive impact on the our stories in time for our respective sta- also served as part of the on-site produc- growth process and provide that same War on Poverty group. It was led by Robert Leadership Council with governors, sena- progress of American life in the last 25 tion’s newscasts,” Kuo said. “The entire tion team for the 2012 London Summer foundation for the next classes of talented Sargent “Sarge” Shriver, Jr., director of the tors, and house members. The New York years than Al From,” President Clinton time I felt like I was in a real newsroom Olympics and assisted in Olympics cov- journalists,” Kuo said. w Office of Economic Opportunity. Times Magazine called the DLC one of said in a 2000 speech recounted in the and knew that this was similar to one I’d erage for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. “It was the dream job for anybody who the two “most influential think tanks in book. w

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THIS JUST IN: USING DATA TO TELL STORIES, A WASHINGTON LOVE STORY SOLVE BUSINESS PROBLEMS JIM PARENTI (MSJ88) AND ALISA PARENTI (MSJ88) CARLOS ROIG (MSJ06)

Jim and Alisa Parenti (both MSJ88) have taken them to Chicago, Syracuse, for more than a decade as volunteer When Carlos Roig (MSJ06) was eval- for the organization’s digital platforms. He probes since 9/11, which was published in discovered their love of journalism, pol- New York and Washington. Alisa is a coordinators of the Medill Mentors uating graduate journalism programs, then became product innovation manager, the Washington Post. He now helps clients itics—and one another—during Medill’s Washington-based news anchor for Program, hosting a reception in Medill Medill’s Washington program was one a position that straddled the editorial and like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Washington program. The couple started Bloomberg Radio; she also has taught News Service’s Washington newsroom of the deciding factors that spurred business sides of USA Today. pull out newsworthy stories from their pro- dating during their winter quarter in journalism at Georgetown University’s each quarter to connect students with him to apply. The California native was In 2010, Roig left the newspaper to join prietary data about childhood obesity, for Washington in 1988, and one of their first graduate journalism program, earning the Washington-based Medill alumni. Many attracted to everything the nation’s cap- a Washington-based public affairs agency example, and partner with news organi- dates took place at The National Press Outstanding Faculty Award in 2011. Jim of these connections continue after ital has to offer—and he hasn’t left the now known as Subject Matter. He serves zations to publish trend pieces, interactive Club. has spent the majority of his career in com- the students become alumni seeking D.C. area since coming there as part of as the company’s executive vice president, stories and data visualizations on public At the time, both were students in Medill’s munications and administrative positions advice—and jobs—from their mentors. the Medill program. working on business and strategy devel- health issues. broadcast program, experiencing firsthand in state and federal government—includ- “For us, these receptions call to mind “It’s a great city for that mix of media and opment for industry associations, large “I used to joke that I felt like I was taking in Washington the deadline-driven world ing the U.S. Department of Housing and our own days as Medill students in communications and policy,” Roig said. foundations and other clients. a full step out of journalism, but now I say of TV news. Jim Parenti was covering Urban Development and a White House Washington—where we first met and fell in Roig built his career at the intersection Roig worked on a number of complex I took a quarter step or an eighth of a step then-Sen. Bob Dole’s presidential cam- detail—and higher education; he is a senior love—and allow us to reflect on the many of media, communications and policy. data-focused projects while he was at out,” Roig said. “You can apply the lessons paign for CBS affiliate WIBW in Topeka, associate dean and chief administrative meaningful ways in which Northwestern After graduating, he joined USA Today as Northwestern. As an inaugural McCormick of journalism to strategic communications Kansas, Dole’s hometown news station. officer for the School of International and and Medill have contributed to our lives assistant news director, later becoming the Tribune Foundation leadership scholar, by asking the right questions, creating the Alisa Parenti covered the North Dakota Public Affairs at Columbia University. and to any success we have enjoyed,” Jim news director of politics. In that position, Roig spent months sifting through data to right content and making sure it gets in the congressional delegation for WDAY, the In Washington, the couple recon- Parenti said. “We feel very blessed.” w he directed the 2008 presidential cam- break a story about Social Security data right people’s hands.” w ABC affiliate in Fargo, North Dakota. nected with the program that brought paign, election and inauguration coverage serving as a major source in terrorism Married since 1989, the couple’s careers them together. The Parentis have served

CATCHING POTOMAC FEVER DURING WASHINGTON NEWS WITH A A SENATE HEARING CHICAGO ACCENT LYNN SWEET (MSJ75) GREGG RAMSHAW (BSJ67, MSJ68) Although she’s been reporting from the and starting in 1993 from Washington. that led to the downfall of former Illinois Gregg Ramshaw (BSJ67, MSJ68) was a 1973 to be the one-man bureau chief for With Jim Lehrer”) on PBS, working on the nation’s capital for 22 years, Lynn Sweet “I owe everything career-wise to Medill Congressman Aaron Schock. Sweet student in Medill’s Washington program the now-defunct Chicago Today. He had program from 1983 to 2004. (MSJ75) hasn’t lost her Chicago accent. It’s for getting me started in the business,” appears regularly on CNN, and in 1968. Ramshaw was covering a Senate worked his way up at the afternoon news- The Ramshaws relocated to Pittsburgh as obvious in the columns and news sto- Sweet said. “My time in the Washington MSNBC and various Chicago radio shows Armed Services Committee hearing when paper to cover Illinois state politics after 11 years ago when Mary started working ries she writes as the Washington bureau program was the first time I really was She is a fixture in Washington, attends the news broke that President Lyndon Johnson graduating from Medill. Chicago Today is as an editor at the Post-Gazette. Gregg chief of the Chicago Sun-Times as it is in exposed on a daily basis to the govern- White House Correspondents Dinner, is had ordered the call-up of military reserv- also where he met his wife, Mary Leonard Ramshaw entered “semi-retirement,” her voice. She has followed then-U.S. Sen. ment. As it happened, I continued to cover the former president of the Washington ists and National Guardsmen in response Ramshaw (MSJ71), and the two married in taking on freelance journalism and com- to Africa and analyzed Illinois government and politics through- Press Club Foundation and said she hopes to North Korea’s seizure of the USS Pueblo. 1974. munications jobs and serving as an adjunct Rahm Emanuel’s transition from White out my career.” she can continue doing what she’s doing “Everybody at the press tables jumped Shortly thereafter, Chicago Today folded writing instructor for graduate students House chief of staff to Chicago mayor, Sweet’s career has flourished despite the for years to come. up and bolted for the doors to get to the and Ramshaw returned to his roots in at Carnegie Mellon University. Now, he and she has covered topics both local and downsizing that has impacted journalism “One thing that never gets old for me is phones in the nearby press room to call broadcast journalism. He worked behind looks fondly upon his time in Medill’s national. in general and the Sun-Times in particular. just being able to get cleared in through the in the bulletin to their bureaus or their the scenes at the syndication service Washington program, recalling the cheap Sweet’s career has taken her nearly full Through it all, Sweet has embraced the northwest White House gate,” Sweet said. home papers,” Ramshaw said. “It just Television News Incorporated and ABC beer and free appetizers available at the circle; as a student in Medill’s Washington change through digital journalism. She “Another thing is being able just to roam captured the essence, in a way, of being a News’ Washington bureau before landing National Press Club. program in 1975, her clients were two became one of the first Sun-Times report- the halls of the Capitol and be able to walk Washington correspondent. I wanted to do in public television, where he spent the “I owe a lot to Medill—my wife and my Illinois newspapers: the Alton Telegraph ers to write a blog and amassed more than up to the briefing room of the White House. w that, too.” remainder of his full-time career in jour- years in Washington,” Ramshaw said. and the Southern Illinoisan. After gradu- 27,000 Twitter followers. Or to go to political events and see some of That’s when Ramshaw, in his own words, nalism. He produced news segments for ating, she built upon what she started at Known for asking tough questions, the big local and national figures up close. caught “Potomac fever.” He embraced the “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” (which Medill by continuing to cover Illinois poli- Sweet is also well-sourced. That com- That never gets old.” w opportunity to return to Washington in later became known as “The Newshour tics and government — first from Chicago bination results in scoops such as those

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WASHINGTON WATCHDOG: WASHINGTON PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AFTER 9/11 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST CHAMPIONS FIRST AMENDMENT BY LISA PARRO MOST OF MY BAGS WERE ALREADY PACKED JAMES RISEN (MSJ78) (MSJ02) for Medill’s Washington program in 2001 when 9/11 happened. My worried mother urged me to call Ellen Shearer, the Washington program New York Times investigative reporter report from the newspaper’s Washington Institute are among the journalism advo- co-director, to ask if the program was going to James Risen (MSJ78) has built his career bureau, where he’s been ever since. cacy groups that have recognized Risen be canceled; Shearer reassured me Medill was as on keeping the federal government in Risen was part of a reporting team that for his commitment to press freedom—a committed as ever to training student journalists check. In 2006, he won the Pulitzer Prize won the 2002 Pulitzer for explanatory cross he never expected to bear. in this time of national crisis. My first lesson, it for national reporting for his stories about reporting for post-9/11 coverage. In “I never thought I would end up in this seemed, was to experience what conservative col- President George W. Bush’s warrantless 2015, Risen was prepared to go to prison situation,” Risen said. “I always was just umnist Rod Dreher described at the time: “There wiretapping program. He got his first taste to protect the identity of a confidential a reporter for my whole career. I didn’t are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, of Washington reporting as a correspon- source in a leak trial, but ultimately he think the government would come after not away: cops, firemen and reporters.” Off I went I opted to spend a second quarter in Washington, dent for Edinburg (Texas) Daily Review wasn’t called to testify. Prosecutors first me the way they have. So it was kind of to the Beltway, where the hotels were eerily empty covering the economic fallout from 9/11 for my during his fall 1977 quarter in Medill’s subpoenaed Risen in 2008 in the case of forced on me.” w and the streets comparatively quiet. Snipers were next client, MarketWatch.com. One of my first Washington program. former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, whom positioned on the roof of the White House. The assignments was to cover President Bush’s 2002 “It convinced me that Washington was they accused of leaking information to mood was somber. State of the Union address alongside my fellow where I wanted to be,” Risen said. Risen for his bestseller “State of War: As the nation mourned and searched for answers, Medill News Service writers. A sense of resolve During the program, Risen reported The Secret History of the CIA and the my classmates and I wrote about national security, and resiliency permeated the joint session of on political discussions about merging Bush Administration.” Sterling ultimately immigration and other hot-button issues for our Congress. It was an extraordinary time to be a cub the U.S. Customs, Immigration and Drug was convicted of violating the Espionage Medill News Service clients. I covered Mexican reporter rubbing elbows with fellow credentialed Enforcement agencies into a single organi- Act for revealing details about Operation President Vicente Fox’s visit with President George journalists, writing the first draft of history. zation. Although the idea didn’t gain any Merlin, a botched attempt by the Clinton W. Bush from the White House Rose Garden for Although I left journalism for a career in public traction at the time, it did in the aftermath administration to sabotage Iran’s nuclear of 9/11 with the establishment of the program, and in 2015 was sentenced to Department of Homeland Security as a three-and-a-half years in prison. unified, integrated cabinet agency. Risen calls the Obama administration “I was kidding people that I was 25 years “the greatest enemy of press freedom that Although I left journalism for a career in public ahead on that story,” Risen said. we have encountered in at least a gener- relations, the lessons I learned at Medill and He has been covering the Capitol as ation” for its use of the Espionage Act to a professional since 1990 when he trans- crack down on leakers and whistleblowers. specifically reporting from the capital in the ferred from the Los Angeles Times’ Detroit The Radio Television Digital News aftermath of 9/11 have remained with me: bureau to the Washington bureau. In 1998 Association, the New England First he was hired by to Amendment Coalition and The Nation Follow the money. Question authority. Don’t bury the lead.

the now-defunct News of Mexico City, an English- relations, the lessons I learned at Medill and language daily. When my boyfriend (now my specifically reporting from the capital in the after- husband) visited, we took the subway to Arlington math of 9/11 have remained with me: Follow the to view firsthand the destruction at the Pentagon. money. Question authority. Don’t bury the lead. Then the anthrax scare hit, specifically targeting As the Washington program celebrates its 50th politicians and journalists in Washington; at Medill anniversary, I’m grateful to those who paved the News Service’s Washington office, the office man- way before me and honored to be counted among ager wore rubber gloves to sort our mail. Medill’s Washington alumni. w

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MARTHA TOOT WASSON (BSJ45), SIDMEL ESTES MARIA DE LOURDES LASO (BSJ84), 1974 and landing at the Tribune. Sullivan MEDILL REMEMBERS: 91, of Canton, Ohio, died Jan. 5. Wasson (BSJ76, MSJ77), known to most as Mari Lou, 53, of Orange is survived by three daughters, Jennifer, grew up in Canton and graduated from 60, of Atlanta, died County, California, died Sept. 28. After her Evelyn and Susan; and a grandson. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Lehman High School. After earning a Oct. 6. A pioneer and graduating from , bachelor’s degree in journalism, Wasson CECILIA VAISMAN journalism industry Laso worked copy-editing jobs at the HARRY SEBEL (MSJ53), 84, of Dallas, worked in Chicago at the advertising veteran, Estes’ con- Austin American-Statesman in Texas and died July 12. Sebel attended the Chicago MEDILL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CECILIA VAISMAN DIED SEPT. 27 AFTER agency Foote, Cone & Belding and tributions will never the Orange County Register. It was at the Lab School for Gifted Children and was A COURAGEOUS BATTLE WITH CANCER. SHE WAS 54. ascended to account executive, one of the be forgotten. She Register that she met her future husband, one of the famous Quiz Kids. Sebel was first-ever women to hold that position. She made history as the Stephen Elders, who was also a copy a unique man—a romantic, and a feisty, returned to her hometown and married “Cecilia was a generous and warm teacher, who loved first woman to be elected president of the editor. They married in September 1989. individualistic and generous person, with Dr. Paul Wasson. In Canton, she served her students and the art of audio storytelling,” friend and National Association of Black Journalists, Laso joined the Los Angeles Times Orange a sharp mind and a quick wit. He loved the community as president of the Junior colleague, Associate Professor Mei-Ling Hopgood said. “She serving as NABJ president from 1991 to County Edition as a copy editor in 1992. Rotary Club, and pursued his hobby of League and a member of the Women‘s inspired and encouraged students to find the real heart of the 1993. Later in her career, she served as At both the Register and the Times she breeding and exhibiting Scottish terriers Board of Aultman Hospital, Stark County story. Cecilia also helped Medill develop the innovative bilin- president and principal consultant for wrote a regular column reviewing children‘s for 45 years. Sebel is survived by his wife Medical Society Auxiliary, Canton Garden gual reporting and storytelling class, and the Buenos Aires BreakThrough Inc., a media consulting books, which helped fuel her passion to of 35 years, Priscilla; two children, Lauren Club and Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae journalism residency program. We will miss her dearly.” and production company. For more than write young-adult novels and picture books. and Lee; three stepchildren; and eight Association. Wasson is survived by four Vaisman was an award-winning radio journalist, multime- 27 years, she was a member of WAGA/ In 1999, she became managing editor grandchildren. children and 12 grandchildren. dia producer and a devoted teacher. Fox 5 Atlanta staff. There, she served as of eToys‘ children‘s books department, Her radio features and documentaries have been broad- executive producer for the city’s top-rated which was the job she loved the most. JAMIE HABERKORN (IMC90), 53, of JOHN HOWARD CARSON (BSJ61, cast on “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” “This morning program, “Good Day Atlanta.” She next followed her dream of writing Lake Forest, Illinois, died July 22. Most MSJ62), 76, of Lorain, Ohio, died Sept. American Life,” “Living on Earth,” “Latino USA,” Radio Estes also was an adjunct professor in the children’s books, and became mentor to recently, Haberkorn served as director 28. He started his career as an assistant Bilingüe, Radio América in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Radio UNAM in Mexico City and journalism division of Emory University both aspiring and experienced writers. of learning and development for Swift sports editor of The News Palladium in many other public and community broadcasting outlets throughout the Americas. and Clark Atlanta University. Throughout Laso taught a volunteer weekly writing Media Group, Inc. During the late-1990s Benton Harbor, . In 1966 Carson Vaisman worked on staff at NPR in Washington, D.C. for several years. She reported exten- her career in TV and journalism, she was class for senior citizens in Orange. In and early-2000s, Haberkorn led several and his family moved to Bay Village, sively on a range of issues including the wars in Central America, AIDS in Brazil, the rights of recognized numerous times. Atlanta‘s spring 2015, she realized her dream successful advertising campaigns for the Ohio, where they spent the next 33 years. women and girls in India, and environmental and indigenous issues in the Amazon. Mayor Andrew Young proclaimed of becoming a published author when Leo Burnett agency, supporting clients Carson served as sports copy and makeup Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in northern New Jersey, Vaisman graduated November 18, 1988 Sidmel Estes-Sumpter Scholastic Books bought her middle-grade including Hallmark, The Beef Council, editor of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer for from Barnard College with a degree in Latin American studies. With her husband and two Day after she was named Media Woman novel “The Morning Come.” It will be 7Up International and more. According four years and as a part-time Plain Dealer children she lived in Havana for five years, where she taught journalism, shot still and video of the Year by the Atlanta Chapter of the released in spring 2017. Laso is survived to her former team members, “she was a sportswriter for another nine years. He photography and volunteered teaching English. National Association of Media Women. by her husband, Stephen; mother, Maria; passionate colleague and a great advocate joined the staff of a fledgling magazine, After moving to Chicago, Vaisman taught courses in political science, and in Latino She was also featured in Ebony‘s 100 Most brother, Andy; nephew, Andres; sister-in- for each and every account she touched.” Industry Week, in 1970. During his 30 and gender studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern University and the Influential Black Americans in 1993 and in law, Rachel; and mother-in-law, Theresa. Haberkorn also led a highly successful years at Industry Week, he held several University of Notre Dame. More Magazine‘s book “50 Over 50.” Estes capital campaign for the Ronald McDonald titles, including associate managing editor, She was also a co-founder of Homelands Productions, and was serving as senior pro- was honored with the Silver Circle Award BARBARA S. SULLIVAN (BSJ57), 79, House Charities, a cause she cared deeply news editor and feature editor. Carson was ducer and president of the board when she died. Homelands Productions is an independent, from the Television Academy and has of Wheaton, Illinois, died June 25. Sullivan about. She worked tirelessly to support honored by the Press Club of Cleveland in nonprofit journalism cooperative based in Ithaca, New York. Its work brings the voices of won several Emmy Awards. Additionally, was a retired Chicago Tribune reporter many other RMHC-related programs, 1995 and 1996 for best headline in an Ohio ordinary people to tens of millions of listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers as a result of her commitment to the who spent more than 20 years covering helping to develop and open a new RMHC professional magazine. He served as pres- around the world. community, Estes received numerous everything including arts and even zoning facility. A RMHC memorial fund has been ident of the Northwestern University Club Since Homelands Productions’ founding in 1989, its contributors have reported from awards from civic, community and church laws for the paper. Sullivan earned a Peter set up in her memory at http://support. of Greater Cleveland, the Berlin Heights more than 60 countries, produced eight special series for public radio and won 22 national organizations. She received Northwestern Lisagor Award for excellence in education rmhccni.org/JamieHaberkorn. High School Alumni Association, the Berlin and international awards. University‘s Alumni Service Award reporting along the way. She was also an Heights Kiwanis Club, Berlin Heights “Cecilia had an unusual gift for reaching across generational lines and helping students after being elected as president of the award-winning tennis and bridge player, a WILLIAM SCHUTT (MSJ15), 25, of Historical Society and the Berlin Echoes aim for more,” Medill Professor Doug Foster said. “They often came to her classes with Northwestern Black Alumni Association voracious reader and an inveterate traveler Lake Forest, Illinois, died Sept. 17. Schutt retirees group. After more than 30 years in reasonable but medium-sized ambitions and quickly got inspired, by her, to aim higher (and in 2004, and was later inducted as a who spent time in Turkey, Greece, Italy, is survived by his parents, Stephen Schutt publishing, he retired to his hometown in then deliver). Mischievous, funny and energetic, Cecilia reminded students and faculty charter member of the Medill’s Hall of Nepal, Peru, Costa Rica, China, Mexico and Loretta Grennon, and sister, Mary. 1999. Carson married Sue Lucas on June alike of why we’d been drawn to journalism in the first place and inspired people to stop Achievement. Estes is survived by her two and France, often writing about her adven- 23, 1962. Sue passed away in 2002. He then floating, as if we have all the time in the world.” sons, Joshua and Sidney. tures for the Tribune. After she earned a married Patricia (Ballash) Grant in 2003. “Cecilia was an incredible teacher who treated her students more like colleagues,” degree in journalism from Northwestern, Carson is survived by his wife, Patricia; Lindsey Kratochwill (BSJ12) said. “Her enthusiasm for workshopping our pieces in Audio Sullivan went to work as a reporter for his six children: Michael, Jeffrey, Rebecca, Documentary class led to invaluable lessons. She didn’t let us accept that a story was good the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She Donald, Kathy and Lucinda; 10 grandchil- enough—even if that meant re-taking narration over and over again to get the tone just also wrote for local newspapers in Contra dren; and five great-grandchildren. right. Cecilia gave us the opportunity to see what it was like to produce stories for a big Costa County, California, and Ridgewood, station like WBEZ, and I’ve kept that class in mind when producing my own podcast.” New Jersey before moving to Wheaton in Vaisman is survived by husband Gary Marx and children Ana and Andres. w

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When I dreamed of becoming a writer,“ my professors gave me feedback. When I expressed interest in documentaries, my peers lent me their tripods. When I became fascinated with code, the Knight Lab fostered a safe space for questions. When I sought to grow online audiences, my Journalism Residency at Time showed me the ropes. When I realized numbers could tell the most impactful stories, Medill alumni at The Texas Tribune expected excellence in data reporting. When I go forward in my journalism career, I know I’ll have the support of the Medill community, no matter how my pursuits in media evolve. ”

MEDILL ALUMNUS DICK STOLLEY INDUCTED INTO JOURNALISM HALL OF FAME BY BETH MOELLERS

DICK STOLLEY (BSJ52, MSJ53) WAS IN GOOD COMPANY WHEN HE WAS INDUCTED BETH MOELLERS IS A FREQUENT INTO THE DEADLINE CLUB’S NEW YORK JOURNALISM HALL OF FAME IN NOVEMBER CONTRIBUTOR TO MEDILL MAGAZINE AND THE MEDILL MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS he 2015 Journalism Hall of Fame inductees include Medill’s Dick Stolley, along with other notable AND ALUMNI RELATIONS Tjournalists Charlie Rose, of CBS and PBS; Lesley Stahl, reporter for “60 Minutes;” Max Frankel, PROGRAMS. SHE LIVES IN former executive editor of the New York Times; Juan Gonzalez, of the New York Daily News and co-host BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. of “Democracy Now!”; and Paul Steiger, former managing editor of and executive chairman of ProPublica. Stolley, who retired from a 62-year career with Time Inc. in 2014, was a founding member of the Medill Board of Advisers and still serves the school in that capacity. He is also a charter member of Medill’s Hall of Achievement and helped to found the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. Stolley has been a reporter, writer, bureau chief, senior editor and managing editor at Time Inc. since finishing his master’s at Medill in 1953. He has served as assistant managing editor and managing editor of MALLORY BUSCH (BSJ15) Life magazine, founding managing editor of People magazine, and director of special projects for Time Inc. BUSCH SPENT HER FINAL One of the biggest highlights of Stolley’s career was tracking down and purchasing for $150,000 the QUARTER AT MEDILL IN PARIS famed Zapruder film of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. FOR STUDY ABROAD. Stolley has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Magazine Publishers of America. w

L to R, Hall of Fame honorees included Max Frankel, former editor of the New York Times; Paul E. Steiger, former editor of the Wall Street Journal and ProPublica; Lesley Stahl, correspondent of CBS’s “60 Minutes;” Charlie Rose, host of “CBS This Morning” and “The Charlie Rose Show” on PBS; Juan González columnist for the New York Daily News and “Democracy Now!”; and Stolley, founding managing editor of People magazine who had a 62-year career with Time Inc. Photo courtesy of The Deadline Club

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1950s newspaper adviser to the Harvard- Advisers member and a member of the covering the Clinton Administration for EMERALD CHRIS GENTILVISO (BSJ09) is now Westlake School in Los Angeles. After Medill Hall of Achievement. Tribune Broadcasting stations around MORROW a writer at Working America, the JAMES MCCARTNEY (MSJ51), former Neumeyer graduated from Medill, she the country and the George H. W. Bush (BSJ07, MSJ08) community affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Knight-Ridder national security reporter worked as a reporter for the United PAMELA SAKOWICZ MENAKER (BSJ75, and Reagan administrations for Hearst took part in a Gentilviso is part of a six-person was in the process of writing the Press International, a correspondent MSJ76) was named ‘Wildcat of the Broadcasting’s stations while based in gubernatorial team that manages print and online book “America’s War Machine: Vested to The Economist magazine and a Week’ on Oct. 12 by the Northwestern Washington, D.C. bill signing communications and campaigns. Interests, Endless Conflict,” when he died contributing editor to Los Angeles Alumni Association. Menaker, who is ceremony The organization focuses on issues in 2011. His wife, former Washington Post Magazine. Neumeyer started working at an adjunct lecturer at Medill and is 1990s that stemmed including jobs, health care, education staff writer Molly Sinclair McCartney Westlake School as a substitute teacher communications partner at Clifford Law from a story and corporate accountability. Previously, recently completed the book and it in 1989. She joined the faculty as a full- Offices in Chicago, also played a key role JEFF GORMAN (MSJ92) is now a she broke and followed as a reporter he was politics editor at The Huffington was published by St. Martin’s Press in time newspaper adviser in 1992, after the in organizing her 40th reunion and the public address announcer for the Lake in Lansing, Michigan. Michigan House Post. October. The book describes James school merged with Harvard School for 2015 Homecoming celebration. County Captains, one of the Cleveland Bill 4056 improves oversight of mobile McCartney’s experience as a teenage Boys. Under her advisement, the school’s Indians’ minor-league baseball teams. home parks. It comes after unsanitary MATTHEW E. RADLER (BSJ09) soldier on the front lines in World War II publication The Chronicle earned 13 1980s Gorman is author of “This Side of the conditions and poor management forced recently joined Honigman Miller and his front row seat as a Washington Gold Crowns, five Pacemakers and is Mic,” a memoir highlighting the trials the local county health department to Schwartz and Cohn LLP’s Labor and reporter covering the military-industrial included in the High School Journalism WILLIAM and tribulations of what it’s like to be an push hundreds out of their homes in Employment Department and its complex as it expanded to envelop the Hall of Fame. Last summer, she returned WEINBAUM announcer. the middle of winter. Her reports on Wage and Hour Matter practice in the nation’s political, cultural and intellectual to Northwestern to teach at the Cherub (BSJ82, MSJ83) this story earned a regional Emmy and firm’s Detroit office. Previously, Radler institutions. McCartney writes that three program for high school rising seniors, received an 2000s a first place award from the Michigan worked at Bernabei & Wachtel PLLC in elements are now part of the complex: which she herself attended. award from the Association of Broadcasters. The Washington, D.C. Radler holds a J.D., Congress, which has a history of 2015 Military MELISSA also has recognized with honors, from Geroge Washington approving more military weapons than 1970s Reporters HARRIS her work. Morrow recently accepted a University Law School and has been even the military wants; the intelligence and Editors (MSJ02), has reporting position at WTSP-TV, the CBS admitted to practice in Virginia and community, which provides information BYRON HARRIS (MSJ72), a WFAA- Journalism joined Origin affiliate in ’s Tampa Bay area. Washington, D.C. He is anticipating to support White House and Pentagon Dallas on-air investigative reporter Contest in the Domestic, Large Capital Partners, admission to the State Bar of Michigan in decisions to use the military; and the for more than 40 years, retired Oct. Broadcast Category for ESPN’s “Outside a Chicago-based STEVE SILVER (BSJ08), an associate the coming months. think tanks that supply the intellectual 9. During his time with WFAA, Harris the Lines” episode, “Friend Who Fired.” private equity in the Philadelphia office of McBreen rationale for military actions. The result, traveled beyond the U.S. border to cover It tells the story of the Army Rangers firm, as vice & Kopko, testified in front of the South 2010s according to McCartney, is a perpetual wars in Somalia and Iraq. In the 1990s, involved in the friendly fire death of Pat president of Carolina Senate Higher Education war machine that drives U.S. foreign he went to Russia, where he uncovered Tillman, the former professional football marketing. Harris is a digital marketing Subcommittee in April 2015. Silver LEE WHACK policy and leads to military interventions the misappropriation of NASA money player. Weinbaum, the producer of the executive, startup leader and Pulitzer spoke in support of a bill to create (MSJ11) was around the world. During his reporting within the U.S. space program. More re- piece, was honored along with reporters Prize-nominated journalist with 15 years postgraduate trust funds for athletes recently named years, McCartney filed stories from more cently, Harris’ reports on the misuse of Mike Fish and John Barr in October in of experience breaking national and local who maintain good academic standing. press secretary than 30 countries. He wrote extensively Medicaid money spurred congressional Washington, D.C. news. She moved on from her position He joined state Sen. for the 2016 on Vietnam and other aspects of the hearings and the resignation of the as a business columnist at the Chicago Marlon Kimpson and former NFL Democratic Cold War as well as the ongoing crises director of the Texas Dental Board. Harris BARBARA GRAFF (MSA84) recently Tribune in October. player Henry Taylor to advocate National in the Middle East. He became an expert has written for Texas Monthly, the Wall released a new contemporary solo for monetary support of athletes in Convention. on nuclear issues, covering more than Street Journal and The Atlantic. Over piano album, “Pergola: Purely Piano.” CORINA QUINN (MSJ06) was recently revenue generating sports, such as Whack joins the 10 summit meetings between the U.S. the years, he won two Peabody Awards, The album’s title track, “Pergola,” was named digital travel editor for Travel football, men’s basketball and women’s Convention team from the U.S. House and the Soviet Union involving presi- four Edward R. Murrow Awards and six inspired by the namesake canopy of + Leisure, part of Time Inc. Previously, basketball. Silver’s testimony focused of Representatives where he served dents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan duPont-Columbia batons (the “Pulitzer vines. This is Graff’s third instrumental Quinn served as senior editor at on Title IX and existing NCAA bylaw as communications director for Rep. and George H. W. Bush. McCartney of TV”). He also received three Gerald album. She has released a holiday- La Cucina Italiana magazine, and compliance. Jan Schakowsky. Prior to his work for was present in 1972 in Moscow when Loeb Awards for Business Reporting, the themed single with vocals, titled as a freelance writer and editor for Rep. Schakowsky, Whack was public President Nixon signed the Anti- National Press Club Award for Consumer “Christmas Magic,” and a love song publications including Yoga Journal and ZACHARY SILKA (BSJ07) was named relations manager for the D.C. Housing Ballistic Missile Treaty. McCartney was Reporting and an Aviation and Space with lyrics, titled “This Way.” She is also 5280 Home, as well as several luxury senior director of communications for Finance Agency. Before that, he was in Jerusalem in 1977 when Egyptian Writers National Award. collaborating on a country song. food and wine brands. the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, a communications staffer for several President Anwar Sadat made his Ohio, in April 2015. In his role, Silka is Democrats in the Illinois State Senate. celebrated visit, and he was in Reykjavik, ELIZABETH HELLER ALLEN (BSJ75) STACI ADELMAN VINCENT (BSJ87, ERICA SCHLAIKJER (BSJ07) is now responsible for the development and He also managed press for the National Iceland, in 1986 when President Reagan was promoted to senior vice president MSJ87) of Orange Village, Ohio, is now creative strategist at Huge, a digital implementation of both external and Public Housing Museum and the 2010 met with Mikhail Gorbachev. And, he of external affairs at The MetroHealth a four-time winner of the Ohio School agency in Washington, D.C. She is also internal marketing communications Illinois state treasurer’s race. Previously, covered every presidential election from System in Cleveland. In her new role, Public Relations Association’s Best of co-founder of Media Rise, a global strategies for a diocese that covers 19 he was a local news reporter for the John F. Kennedy in 1960 to Bill Clinton Allen oversees marketing, internal and the Best Award in photography. She nonprofit volunteer-driven alliance that counties in Northwest Ohio, and includes Chicago Tribune. Photo credit: Sarah in 1992. external communications, government has also received multiple awards of connects people and ideas to promote 123 parishes and approximately 300,000 Tilotta relations and community engagement distinction for her writing. The Emmy- media for social good. Previously, Catholics. Previously, Silka served 1960s programs for MetroHealth. She award winning television journalist Schlaikjer served as EMBARQ media as director of external relations and previously held chief communications currently works in the communications relations and online engagement assistant director of communications positions at Huntington Bancshares, Dell, department for the Orange City School coordinator for World Resources and development for St. John’s Jesuit KATHLEEN MARSHALL NEUMEYER Submit to: Staples, Raytheon, Loral Corporation District, her alma mater. Vincent returned Institute and as managing editor for High School and Academy, based in (BSJ66) has retired from her role as [email protected] and Citicorp. Allen is a Medill Board of to the Cleveland area 15 years ago after TheCityFix.com. Toledo.

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“HEAL: THE VITAL ROLE OF “THE WARMING” “WHAT PRETTY GIRLS ARE “TOO MANY COOKS” “ANDY & DON: THE MAKING “RAISING THE BARRE: BIG “ARCHITECTING See more books written DOGS IN THE SEARCH FOR LORIN ROBINSON (BSJ65, MADE OF” DANA BATE (MSJ05) OF A FRIENDSHIP AND A DREAMS, FALSE STARTS EXPERIENCE” by alumni at CANCER CURES” MSJ66) LINDSAY ROTH (BSJ03) Publication date: Oct. 27, 2015 CLASSIC AMERICAN TV AND MY MIDLIFE QUEST TO SCOT WHEELER (IMC ARLENE WEINTRAUB SHOW” DANCE THE NUTCRACKER” ADJUNCT LECTURER) bit.ly/Medill-Keep-Reading Publication date: Feb. 24, 2015 Publication date: Aug. 3, 2015 (MSJ93) DANIEL DE VISÉ (MSJ90) LAUREN KESSLER (BSJ71) In this funny new novel by Publication date: Jan. 30, 2016 Publication date: Oct. 15, 2015 Publication date: Nov. 3, 2015 Publication date: Nov. 24, 2015 Author Lorin Robinson melds Envision Lauren Weisberger’s Dana Bate, a cookbook fact and fiction to explore the “The Devil Wears Prada” in a ghostwriter finds she has Today, we live in a world with Drawn from extensive research In this lively and revealing Like generations of little girls, impact global warming has high-drama, estrogen-infused bitten off more than she can a seemingly infinite amount and personal experience, biography of celebrity writer Lauren Kessler fell in on people around the world, world of cosmetics, and you chew. After reading a letter of content and scores of Arlene Weintraub’s second icons Andy Griffith and Don love with ballet the very first whether it’s through drought, have Lindsay Roth’s new from her late mother urging methods for consuming that book explores the intriguing Knotts, author and journalist time she saw The Nutcracker famine, flooding, destructive book, “What Pretty Girls Are her to take more risks in content. And that means collaboration between Daniel de Visé celebrates the at age five. From that day on, weather or conflict. Robinson Made Of.” In this hilarious, life, Madigan is offered a job marketing communication veterinarians and oncologists, powerful, real-life friendship she dreamed of becoming a puts a human face on the novel, Roth tells the story of abroad and sees it as a sign. has to focus on appealing to as they work together to behind one of America’s most ballerina. But when she was growing crisis, and highlights Alison Kraft, who reaches a She moves to London with a individuals person by person. discover new treatments for iconic television programs. 12, her very famous ballet many of the most-affected dead end in her acting career new assignment for Natasha Effectively appealing to those cancers. The research focuses What began as a journalistic instructor crushed those areas such as Bangladesh, and becomes the assistant Spencer, a movie star, lifestyle individuals requires creating on the cancers that are similar exploration into the storied dreams—along with her Los Angeles, New York City, to the diva of the Sally Steele guru and wife of a promising a brand experience that’s in dogs and people, including career of de Visé’s late youthful self-assurance—and southwestern China and the Cosmetics Studio. Surrounded English politician. Natasha is relevant and understands lymphoma, osteosarcoma, brother-in-law, Don Knotts, she stepped away from the United Arab Emirates. Readers by brilliant hues of glosses, selfish, temperamental and its context. In his new book, breast cancer, melanoma and the book features extensive barre. Fast forward four can begin to imagine the blushes and eyeshadows, she unwilling to let any regular Wheeler answers the biggest gastric cancer. Weintraub, un-published interviews with decades later to when Kessler— impact of the predicted global discovers she is actually really food past her perfect lips. question facing digital who lost her sister to gastric those closest to both men. De suddenly, powerfully, itchingly warming beyond the statistics good at her job. But, in the In-between testing dozens of marketers today: How do cancer, describes the Visé’s first book, “I Forgot To restless at midlife—embarks on of science. midst of juggling her love life, kale burgers and perfecting you deliver brand content remarkable ability of dogs to Remember” (with Su Meck), a “Transcontinental Nutcracker crazy family members and the chocolate mousse, she finds and experiences that build sniff out early-stage cancer, as began as a front-page article Binge Tour.” She attends a grueling demands of a jealous, adventure, but her attraction relationships and drive well as the efforts underway he wrote for the Washington string of performances in flaky boss, Alison starts to to her boss’s neglected results? The quick answer is to translate that talent into Post, part of a 23-year career Chicago, New York, Boston and question her choices. How husband is veering out of through data and analytics diagnostic devices. Over the spent at the Post, the San Francisco and it reignites long before her pretty face control. She knows there is no that drive targeted content course of bringing these dogs Herald and three other her love affair with ballet. What cracks for good? foolproof recipe to a happy and adaptive experiences. and their human companions newspapers. ensues is not only a story about life, but will she know when But since this answer is not as to life, she tells of her own The Nutcracker itself, but also she has gone too far to get easy to achieve as it is to say, journey from grief to healing, an inside look at the sweaty, what she wants? Wheeler’s guide is designed as she learns how man’s unglamorous hidden world to help readers develop the best friend could unlock the of ballet. It’s a peek at all that understanding of marketing mysteries of cancer. happens out of the audience’s data, technology and analytics eye and precedes the magic required to make it a reality. on stage—told from the perspective of someone who not only loves it, but is seeking to embrace it wholeheartedly. Kessler’s quest to dance The Nutcracker with the Eugene Ballet Company tackles issues of fear, angst, risk, resilience, the refusal to “settle in” to midlife and the refusal to become yet another “invisible woman.”

24 \ WINTER 2016 WWW.MEDILL.NORTHWESTERN.EDU \ 25 \ MEDILL NEWS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN AT MEDILL OPPOSITE TOP: George R.R. Martin accepts an NU helmet from Athletic Director Jim Phillips and Willie the Wildcat at the NU vs. Penn State Game on Nov. 7. Photo credit: Stephen J. Carrera

OPPOSITE BOTTOM: George R.R. Martin joined Medill students in Wicker Park on Friday, Nov. 6, for a special “Game of Thrones” night at Geek Bar Beta. Photo credit: Jenna Braunstein Photography

TOP: L to R, George R.R. Martin (BSJ71, MSJ72) with panelists Orko Manna (BSJ16), Darren Franich, senior writer for Entertainment Weekly and Niala Boodhoo (MSJ99) on Nov. 4 at the McCormick Foundation Center in Evanston. Photo credit: Jenna Braunstein Photography

MIDDLE LEFT: George R.R. Martin and Northwestern President Morty Schapiro at an event at Cahn MEDILL ALUMNUS Auditorium on Nov. 4. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Photo credit: Jenna Braunstein Photography (BSJ71, MSJ72), AUTHOR OF THE “A MIDDLE RIGHT: Medill SONG OF ICE AND students at the Nov. 4 FIRE” SERIES, WHICH event honoring George HBO HAS ADAPTED R.R. Martin’s induction INTO THE EMMY into the Medill Hall of Achievement. Photo AWARD-WINNING credit: Jenna Braunstein SHOW “GAME OF Photography THRONES,” VISITED CAMPUS TO RECEIVE BOTTOM: Medill students MEDILL’S HALL with George R. R. Martin at a luncheon in his honor OF ACHIEVEMENT Nov. 4 at Scott Hall’s Guild AWARD NOV. 4-7. Lounge in Evanston. Photo credit: Jenna Braunstein Photography

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SAVE THE DATE! Please save the evening of Thursday, April 7 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medill’s Washington program at NPR headquarters, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, D.C.

PHOTOS: On the cover and above are undated photos from the Medill archives. Whoever can ID any or all of the students or faculty will receive a Medill prize!

Photo at right: Gino Vicci (MSJ12) reports in Washington during his D.C. quarter. Vicci is currently a reporter and fill-in anchor for WNEM TV5- MY5 Meredith Corporation in Saginaw, Michigan.