M NEW LOOK NEW CONTENT SAME GREAT ALUMNI The Medill Magazine has a new look and new tablet edition just in time for the 2012-2013 school year! Starting with the cover and running throughout the issue, you will ind new designs intended for an easier and more enjoyable magazine-reading experience. New features showcase Medill’s active and accomplished alumni network. We hope you enjoy the new look and the new content, and we would love to hear your feedback. And of course, we want to know what you are up to. If you have news you want to share with other alumni, MMEDILL NEW please send a class note to [email protected]. NAMEPLATE NEW SPECIAL ELECTION SECTION DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 26 UPCOMING ALUMNI AND FEATURES Covering the White House EVENTS QUOTE 14 + Medill’s new dean A conversation with four alumni Meet Brad Hamm and hear his thoughts who are members of the White PLUS: Look for the 11 plus sign throughout on the future of the school. House press corps. the print edition. Each A DAY IN THE LIFE indicates exclusive Roy Elvove is the executive vice president and 30 tablet edition-only 19 Fiction from truth content. director of worldwide communications for advertising agency BBDO. Ray Whitehouse Journalism pioneers Nicolle Wallace’s books draw NEW (BSJ12) follows him on a typical day at his oice Get to know the irst graduating class on her own life as a D.C. insider. FACULTY NEWS STREAMLINED in Manhattan — and typical means beginning of journalism students from Northwestern at 2:30 a.m. University in Qatar. 33 M SECTIONING Past and present Prominent speechwriters from 22 diferent eras compare notes. Public defender John Sullivan is always on the hunt for a 34 ON THE COVER Faculty relections good story. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Medill Magazine is now available for free on your Thank you for the support and for being a Inside the White House press lecturer only needs to look in the mirror. Tim McNulty shares his D.C. iPad and features exclusive content and bonus features. valuable member of the Medill Network. room with Medill alumni experiences, and other faculty (clockwise top left): reminisce about election years . To download the tablet edition of the magazine, search Marc Zarefsky and Jessica Parker Gilbert Lark McCarthy, Susan Page, for “Medill Magazine” in the Apple App Store. Co-editors, Medill Magazine Jef Mason and Julie Pace. 6 Medill News 38 Class Notes 37 7 Events 41 Obituaries Names to know PHOTO BY RAY WHITEHOUSE (BSJ12) 8 Faculty News 42 Keep reading... Key players in election coverage. FALL 2012 3 M M DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS y family moved to Evanston in August, and we are learning all about AND ALUMNI RELATIONS Belinda Lichty Clarke Northwestern and the North Shore. Yet I’ve known Medill alumni for (MSJ94) years, so the transition to life in Fisk Hall seems natural. EDITORIAL ALUMNI EDITOR/ EDITOR/ M STAFF QUOTE MANAGING EDITOR ART DIRECTOR Marc Zarefsky Jessica Parker Medill is an incredible school, and I am proud to be the new dean. (BSJ07) Gilbert CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Several hundred alumni wrote, called or met with me Jasmine Rangel since President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer made the announcement in May. On a recent trip to South FACULTY ADVISER Charles Whitaker Korea and Japan to visit universities and media sites, I (BSJ80, MSJ81) met a number of people who wanted to talk about Medill. PHOTOS Ray Whitehouse They recall speciic events, professors, stories and peers. (BSJ12) They remember lessons taught years ago. I share their EDITORIAL ASSISTANT pride and appreciate the history. Tommy Carroll Brad Hamm (BSJ15) GUEST LETTER CONTRIBUTORS Medill is, and always will be, more than a speciic location Virginia Brown or a singular experience. New students and faculty arrive (MSJ11) each year. We develop new programs and classes. We buy new equipment and Christen Carter renovate classrooms so students and faculty can reach their full potential. Medill (MSJ11) Glenn Jefers is a great blend of history and values with innovation and change. (BSJ01) Lini S. Kadaba About 130 full-time faculty and staf work for Medill in Evanston, Chicago, (MSJ86) Anna Swindle Keller Washington and Doha. They are talented and driven. Dozens more teach as (MSJ09) adjuncts or support our programs. We want the ability to continue to attract and Matt Paolelli (BSJ05, MSJ06) retain the best faculty and staf for many years. Peter Sachs (MSJ06) Medill has a great history, from our esteemed Cherubs program to our innovative Elliott Smith (BSJ97) undergraduate journalism residencies to our graduate student work in D.C. and around the world. Graduate education in integrated marketing communications RESEARCH started at Medill, and our Qatar program is unlike any other model in the world ASSISTANTS Virginia Brown in our ield. (MSJ11) Maria Bouselli (MSJ11) We work in classrooms in four cities, and we need to have the kind of facilities Nicole Bowling and equipment that foster and encourage excellence, creativity, collaboration (MSJ11) and community. Our Doha program will move into a new building in two years, Dan Murphy for example. (MSJ11) There is I have heard ideas from many faculty, staf, students and alumni. Over the next few PLEASE SEND Marc Zarefsky months, I will visit with alumni in Washington, Los Angeles, New York and, of course, STORY PITCHES 1845 Sheridan Rd. AND LETTERS TO Evanston, IL Chicago. We will plan events in other cities soon. In addition, we met with a great group of THE EDITOR TO: 60208 m-zarefsky@ words alumni at UNITY and AEJMC and will hold events at other conferences in the fall. I northwestern.edu power in hope you will join us on visits to campus or at our alumni events. 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PHOTO BY RAY WHITEHOUSE (BSJ12) 4 FALL 2012 FALL 2012 5 MEDILL NEWS EVENTS M M Students and faculty involved with the Medill Watchdog Medill selected 10 McCormick National Security Journalism UNITY 2012 Craig Aaron (BSJ97), who is the THE program teamed with Chicago Tribune reporters to investigate Scholarship recipients on June 8 to participate in an innovative GERTRUDE president and CEO of the advocacy the Chicago suburb of Rosemont and how the village was 11-week reporting program in fall 2012. The project, formally AND G.D. group Free Press, talked on May 10 CRAIN JR. funding and awarding contracts for village-run ventures. The known as the National Security Reporting Project, will focus on about addressing pressing media and LECTURE story ran on the front page of the Aug. 5 issue of the Tribune. the national security implications of energy. SERIES technology issues in Washington, D.C. Medill Watchdog also released a report on July 7 that examined Illinois legislators’ unwillingness to pass laws to prevent Medill launched the Spiegel Digital & Database Research Medill lecturer Josh Meyer, who is the Director conlict of interest voting. The full report can be viewed at Initiative on May 22. The new center, led by Executive Director of Education and Outreach for Medill’s National medillwatchdog.org. Tom Collinger and Research Director Ed Malthouse, focuses Journalism Security Initiative, spoke on May 3 about on leveraging academic research to solve marketing industry- his book, “The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Miranda Mulligan was named executive director of Northwestern impacting problems that will improve inancial results. The Spiegel Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh University’s Knight News Innovation Lab. Mulligan, who is a Research Initiative was established with a gift from Medill Professor Mohammed.” seasoned innovator in journalism, education and news web design, Emeritus Edward J. Spiegel and his wife, Audrey. began her new role on July 23. Brooke Bailey Johnson (MSJ74), president of the Food The Knight News Innovation Lab created natoinchicago.com, Network, spoke on April 19 about her education at In June, The Texas Tribune became the latest news organization a website that showcased what was being said in news articles Medill and how it has been useful in her career. to partner with Medill and feature work produced by graduate and on Twitter about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization students in the Washington, D.C. newsroom. Co-founded by leading up to and during its May 2012 meeting in Chicago. In Former Columbia Journalism Review Executive Editor CEO and editor-in-chief Evan Smith (MSJ88), The Texas Tribune March, the lab released a new tool to create digital timelines More than 80 alumni, faculty, staf and friends of Medill came Michael Massing, author of “Now They Tell Us,” about is a nonpartisan, nonproit online publication that promotes quickly, and also created congressionalprimaries.org, a website together during the UNITY 2012 convention at Mandalay Bay’s Border press coverage of the war in Iraq, spoke on April 12 and civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, that featured a set of tools to help voters better understand Grill in Las Vegas on Aug.