On Friday, March 24, 2006 the SJMC’s student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will host a panel discussion entitled “Red Lake Revisited: Covering a Community and a Tragedy a Year Later” from noon-2:00 p.m. in the Murphy Hall Conferenc Center. The panel features journalists who reported from Red Lake during last year’s school shooting, including anchor Don Shelby of WCCO-TV, reporter John Croman of KARE-11, Pioneer Press reporter Jim Ragsdale, and Dalton Walker, a student journalist from Red Lake who covered the shooting for the Washington Post and Duluth News Tribune. Contact baue0247@umn.edu for more information.
On March 28, 2006, the Silha Center for Media Ethics and Law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will present its spring Forum on issues of digital communication, privacy, and government surveillance. The Forum will feature Mary Horvath of the FBI, Stephen Cribari of the University of Minnesota Law School, and Dick Reeve, the deputy district attorney for computer crimes for the Denver District Attorney's Office. The Silha Forum, which is co-sponsored by the SJMC's Institute for New Media Studies, is free and open to the public. The Forum will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Murphy Hall Conference Center.
The Institute for New Media Studies’ next “Emerging Digerati” lecture will be held on Monday, April 3, 2006, at 6:00 pm at the Weisman Art Museum. Emerging Digerati lectures feature U of M students’ work using digital tools and techniques. Lectures are free of charge and open to the public, and refreshments are provided. For more information cotnact inms@umn.edu or 612-625-0576.
The 29th Annual Frank Premack Memorial Lecture will be held on Monday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., in the Coffman Memorial Union Theater. The featured speaker this year is National Public Radio’s Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist and the nationally renowned host of All Things Considered, public radio’s longest-running national program. Norris’s lecture is free and open to the public. Visit www.mjc.umn.edu for more information or call 612-626-1723.
The Minnesota Newspaper Photographers Association will be judging its annual “Picture of the Year” competition in the Murphy Hall auditorium on April 22, beginning at 9 a.m. The judging event is free of charge and open to the public. The contest is part of the MNPA's annual conference.
Annual Celebration Update: Dinner seats for the UMAA Annual Celebration featuring retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor are already sold out! To accommodate the overflow, the UMAA has made special arrangements with the University Campus Club for that evening only. The Campus Club, located on the fourth floor of Coffman Memorial Union, is offering a special Tuesday evening dinner open to the public. The meal is available for $40, and includes tax and tip. Reservations are required. Call Barbara at the Campus Club at 612-626-1510 for information and reservations. A dinner reservation does not include tickets for the keynote speech by Justice O’Connor’s address at Northrop Auditorium. Tickets are $30 plus $6 in fees. If you purchase tickets in a block, you only pay one set of handling fees. Buying a group of 10 tickets means a savings of $54. For individual tickets, call the U of M Arts Ticket Office at 612-624-2345. For group tickets, call 612-625-8878.
New UMAA Member Benefit: The University of Minnesota Alumni Association and the University Libraries have partnered to provide UMAA members free, online access to premium content for thousands of publications in a wide variety of topics. Publications included in the program include Time, Newsweek, Health, Money, Child, PC Magazine, Popular Science, and thousands more general interest and research titles. Visit www.alumni.umn.edu/U_of_M_Libraries1 to access this new member resource. Full text publications are accessible through the University Libraries Web site for UMAA members. This benefit does not grant access to publication Web sites. To become a UMAA member, please visit www.alumni.umn.edu/membership or call 1-800-862-5867.
Classes Without Quizzes: Asian Lady Beetles, basic tree care, and affording the future are just a few of the topics featured at Classes Without Quizzes, an annual event at which researchers from the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences and the College of Natural Resources present mini-seminars on the latest scientific research that affect our everyday lives. The cost is $20 for the public and $10 for students. UMAA members qualify for a $5 discount. More details and a complete program are at www.coafes.umn.edu/CWQ. To register for the event, either use the online form or call 612-624-1745.
U of M Lobby Day 2006: Advocates for the U of M will come together on Thursday, April 6, for the annual Lobby Day. This event provides a unique opportunity for students, alumni, faculty, staff and community supporters to join together to directly influence legislation that impacts you. Speak your mind and help support the U. Complete information is at http://ga4.org/u_of_m_leg_net/events/lobbyday_06/details.tcl.
SJMC senior Mike Schneider made local, national, and international news by winning a $1 million jackpot aboard a “poker cruise” over spring break. The eight-day cruise went from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and back. Some 528 players entered the tournament to compete for $5.28 million in prizes. In just his second high-stakes tournament, Schneider became the youngest player ever to win the PartyPoker.com event when his queen-10 combination beat the jack-6 hand held by veteran Kenna James. The story about his million-dollar win has been covered in more than 90 national and international news outlets, including the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, UPI, MSNBC, ABC News, Forbes, and news organizations in Canada, Denmark, South Africa, the UK, and India.
SJMC Fellow Sherrie Mazingo was featured in a segment of KSTP-TV’s February 27 newscast. Mazingo commented on the role and importance of Black History and on Black History as American History. Mazingo's class, People of Color and the Media, was
also featured in the segment.
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a March 6, 2006 Minnesota Daily story entitled “Pawlenty looks to alter privacy law.” The story was written by SJMC student and Star Tribune Scholar Jeannine Aquino. Kirtley was a guest on Gary Eichten's Midday program on MPR on March 14, 2006. The topic was “Changes ahead for both Twin Cities papers.” Kirtley was also a guest on Access Minnesota, the public affairs radio program produced by the Minnesota Broadcasters Association, which was distributed to affiliated radio stations the week of March 12, 2006. The topic was the Danish cartoons controversy and other First Amendment issues.
Professor Kathleen Hansen and INMS director Nora Paul’s reseach project involving the modification of the computer game “Neverwinter Nights” for use in the classroom continues to generate significant interest in the press. The “Neverwinter Nights” project was the subject of an Associated Press story on March 8, and was picked up by dozens of media outlets, including USA Today, BusinessWeek, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, MSN, ABC News, and newspapers in Australia, India, Canada, and the UK.
The Minnesota Women's Press covered the presentation of a paper by Ph.D.student Kent Kaiser, SJMC, and MS student Erik Skoglund, School of Kinesiology at the SJMC’s graduate student conference on March 3. Kaiser and Skoglund’s presentation was entitled “Prominence of Men and Women in Newspaper Sports Coverage as an Indicator of Gender Equality Pre- and Post-Title IX.”
INMS director Nora Paul was quoted in an article entitled “Cutting Through the Blog Fog” in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on March 5, 2006. Paul also made several radio appearances: discussing online privacy on National Public Radio's Morning Edition with Renee Montagne on March 7; and a March 17 discussion about teens and young adults using the online meeting spaces Facebook and MySpace on Minnesota Public Radio.
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Suzy Hart, a senior in the SJMC studying strategic communication, has received a research grant from the CLA Honors program for a study she is working on with SJMC professor Marco Yzer. Hart and Yzer’s project examines use of figurative metaphor in modern advertising, and such advertising's impact on the audience.
Professor Kathy Roberts Forde has received the University of Minnesota McKnight Summer Fellowship for her project The "Wyaward Press" and the Public Sphere: Toward a Theory of Press Criticism."
Professor Gary Schwitzer was awarded third place in the Association of Health Care Journalists 2005 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in the category of trade publications/online journals/newsletters. His entry consisted of three pieces: “Commercialism in TV Health News” on Poynter.org; “TV Medical Reporters—Puppets and Pros” on CJRDaily.com; and “Revealed: the Stories That Broadcasters Did Not Want to Cover” in the journal BMJ.
Four SJMC students have been honored by the Northwest Broadcast News Association in their annual Sevareid awards: Kim Johnson '06 and Kara McElwee '07 in the General Reporting category, Jenna Ross '06 in the Investigative category, and Kim Johnson '06 and Tyler Richter '05 in the Photojournalism category. The “University Report" newscast was also honored in the Newscast category. All the honorees will be celebrated at the NBNA awards banquet on April 1.
A paper written by SJMC Ph.D. student Soyoen Cho was selected as one of the top three student papers in 2006 by the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association. Cho’s paper discusses news coverage of Korean anti-prostitution laws.
INMS director Nora Paul was in Caracas, Venezuela February 16-17 for two day-long workshops sponsored by the World Press Institute. The workshops, which focused on Internet research, advanced searching, and professional networking for journalists, were held at La Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. The workshop attendees were professional journalists from print, broadcast and online organizations, as well as a few journalism students from the University.
Professor Jisu Huh’s paper "Perceived Third-Person Effects, Age Differences, and Other Moderating Factors of Consumer Support for Prior Approval of DTC Ads and a DTC Advertising Ban” is published in the spring 2006 issue of Journal of Consumer Affairs. Huh co-authored the paper with Denise DeLorme, and Leonard N. Reid. Huh will also be presenting two papers at the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Conference, held in Reno March 30-April 1st.
Visting professor Chris Ison gave a presentation entitled "Giving Power to the People: The Role of the Free Press in the United States" to the Humphrey Institute Fellows on Feb. 2. Ison also was the moderator for “The Source Course,” a panel discussion on journalistic ethics sponsored by the SJMC’s student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on Feb. 3. n Feb. 21, Ison was a panelist for an event sponsored by the Al-Madinah Cultural Center to discuss the publishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
An article by Leyla Kokman, lecturer and coordinator of the Health Journalism M.A. program, is in the March issue of Minnesota Monthly. The story reported on women and clinical trials.
Ph.D. student Rita Langteau presented a working paper at the Society for Consumer Psychology Annual Winter Conference on February 12. The paper was entitled “Bring the Future in Front of the Mind’s Eye: Exploring the Moderating Role of Ad Evoked Imagery Processing.” SJMC Ph.D. students Soyoen Cho and Jun Myers were co-authors of the paper.
Michael Stamm will join the SJMC faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2006. Mr. Stamm is completing his Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, specializing in the history of the United States from 1900 to the present. His dissertation is entitled “Mixed Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio Stations and the Reorientation of American Culture, 1920-1950.”
Professor Jane Kirtley was in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 22-24, serving as a judge for the Scripps Howard Foundation Natoinal Journalism Award and selecting winners for two categories: “Service to the First Amendment” and “Journalism Teacher of the Year.” Kirtley was also the moderator for the panel discussion "The End of Journalism? Why News Still Matters" on Feb. 20 at Coffman Union. The program was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Journalism Center, the Minnesota Pro Chapter of SPJ, and the Silha Center, among others.
Assistant professor Gary Schwitzer had the following guests in his Jour 3771 Mass Media Ethics class: photojournalist and SJMC adjunct instructor Mike Zerby, former WCCO & KMSP news director Ted Canova, and Star Tribune reader representative Kate Parry.
John Welsh, State Government Editor of the Pioneer Press, and Steve Nelson, Program Director at MPR's new music station, The Current (89.3), both spoke with professor Brian Southwell's section of Jour 1001.
Guest speakers in Chris Ison's reporting class that meets at the Star Tribune included writing coach and projects editor Laurie Hertzel, Newspaper Guild Unit vice-chair Chris Serres, and Star Tribune librarian Sandy Date. Daily managing editor Brady Averill spoke to Ison's Public Affairs Reporting class on Feb. 28.
Instructor Dan Sullivan's Covering The Arts: Backstage at the Jungle Theater class recently interviewed playwright Craig Wright on his new career as a TV writer (“Lost,” “Six Feet Under”) and actor J.C. Cutler on how he puts together a character (currently the cuckolded husband in the Jungle's “Betrayal”).
Professor Jane Kirtley and Daily editor-in-chief Britt Johnsen, a senior in the SJMC, both contributed book suggestions to the current “UReads” program. UReads is an annual recommended reading list sponsored by the College of Continuing Education. The program taps the University’s “leading minds” to recommend titles. Kirtley’s suggested title on the list is Conversations with Jack Cardiff: Art, Light and Direction in Cinema by Justin Bowyer; Johnsen’s suggested title is The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Instructor Jennifer Johnson’s Jour 3241 and 4990 classes hosted Jeff Epstein, former Creative Director at Scali, McCabe, & Sloves and Leo Burnett, and current director of the Chicago Portfolio School. Epstein spoke about the current advertising climate and expectations of
entry level positions. Lydia Langford, the director of admission for the Miami Ad School, also visited Johnson’s classes to speak about careers in advertising and how to find your ideal job.
SJMC Fellow Sherrie Mazingo was one of three members of a journalism educators' panel for the Urban Journalism Workshop, held February 25-26 at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. The workshop, sponsored by the Washington Area Association of Black Journalists was attended by more than 70 area high school students and parents, and area print and broadcast journalists.
Guest speakers in SJMC graduate instructor Kent Kaiser’s Jour 3279W class in both the fall and spring semesters have included former U.S. Senator Rod Grams, who talked about his two decades of work in radio and TV broadcasting as well as his experience in Congress, and Minnesota Vikings vice president of public affairs and stadium development Lester Bagley, who used the Vikings stadium development project as a case study to discuss PR and lobbying.
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