Features
John F. Russell, Photographer/alum
John F. Russell (’90) came to Steamboat Springs 20 years ago after answering a help-wanted ad for a journalist in the Rocky Mountain News. He had just graduated and was looking for a job that would give him the skills to move to a larger paper. That he did, but Russell never moved on. Today [...]
Journalism education continues at CU while program is restructured around new dual major
Graduate School Dean John Stevenson says CU now has ‘the opportunity to do something no one else has done.’ The administration is forming a Steering Committee to shape a new college of information, communication, media and technology.
History, traditions of West’s Muslims charted by CU journalism Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi
The team of five graduate students has visited Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Utah. ‘What was not surprising was that most Muslim people who live in these areas are just regular folk,’ Echchaibi said.
Q & A with Clinique’s CeCe Coffin (’87)
‘The most important thing I have learned is to listen. It is so easy in our society today, a culture of ‘15 minutes of fame,’ to voice opinion rather than listen.’
First Person: Shelby Campbell (’05) travels the world as an independent TV producer
Shelby Campbell (’05) isn’t sure what tomorrow will bring and that’s just the way she likes it.
Don Heider (Ph.D.’97) is first doc-to-dean alum
Don Heider began teaching broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1992, and a year later he started working towards his Ph.D. in journalism. He is the school’s first doctoral alum to become a dean.
School News
Gil Asakawa brings media savvy to CU Independent
Gil Asakawa draws experience from a wide array of informational technology and editor positions at MediaNews Group, eTown, Westword and Colorado Examiner.
Journalism receives highest number of applications in six years
The school received the highest number of applications for fall 2011 in six years and admitted 55 percent.
Dean’s Message: We’re not closing!
Provost Russell Moore recently told me the campus would not have put the School through this ugly “discontinuance” process if it didn’t have a promising alternative in the works.
National accrediting council finds journalism in compliance on 8 of 9 standards
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications today in Portland, Ore., overwhelming approved provisional reaccreditation to the University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate program in journalism and mass communication, in a 20-0 vote, and the master’s program in newsgathering, in a 17-1 vote.
CU Science Update is SJMC’s newest medium
Students podcast stories from ‘science Mecca’ of CU-Boulder
CU journalism reorganization timeline
On April 29 the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications meeting in Portland, Ore., overwhelming granted provisional reaccreditation to the University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate program in journalism and mass communication (a 20-0 vote) and the master’s program in newsgathering (a 17-1 vote.) Both programs will be revisited in two years for full accreditation for another four years.
Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism gives John E. Holden Journalism Lecture
‘We have a new and overriding social need today to educate our young people, starting in middle and high school but continuing on into university in the skills of how to function as citizens,’ Rosenstiel says.
Faculty News
New Faculty: News vet Kathleen Ryan brings ‘valuable mix’ to CU journalism faculty
Television producer and documentarian Kathleen Ryan joins faculty as an associate professor.
Dean Voakes moves to professor post
Paul S. Voakes, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2003, announced in November his resignation effective June 30. He will remain on the faculty teaching media ethics, law, reporting and writing.
Alumni News
Alumni updates spring 2011
They anchor, they report, they create, they produce, they teach and they manage PR. Find out where hundreds of SJMC alumni are now.
Lisa’s wide, wide world
As a freelance electronic video server, or EVS, operator, Lisa Robbins Menzies (’94) edits tape and performs instant replays seen by millions.
Rick Reilly is 2011 SJMC Distinguished Alum
Rick Reilly (’81) is probably best known for his work at SI, where he spent 23 years, 10 of those writing his column, “The Life of Reilly.”
Police officer-turned-author Paul Bacon discovers the force is – gratefully – still with him
Paul Bacon (’90) was ‘just writing things down as they would happen to me,’ and that turned into the book Bad Cop.
