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The Unstoppable

Perley Isaac Reed 2

Furfari Still Has Many Stories to Tell 5

Journalism Week 2007 8

Katrina Website Garners Awards 11

In Their Own Words: Covering

the Virginia Tech Tragedy 12

Editorial Cartoonist

Visits SOJ 15

A Different Kind

of Storytelling 17

Alumna Travels for AP 22

PR Student by Day;

Stand-up Comic by Night 23

NY Times Science Reporter

Addresses Global Warming 24

Young Alum’s

Journey to NBC News 25

SOJ Students Help Launch

Local Radio Programming 26

“WVU News” Offers Podcast 28

2007 High School Journalism

Competition 29

New Visual Journalism

Curriculum 31

New Faculty 33

Graduation 36

Scholarships 2006-2007 38

Student Awards 39

Faculty Briefs 40

E D I T O R I N C H I E F

Kimberly Brown

A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R

Jan Boyles

C R E A T I V E D I R E C T O R

Dana Coester

D E S I G N C O N S U L T A N T

Steve Urbanski

E X E C U T I V E E D I T O R S

Becky Moore Jamie Weisenbourne

M A N A G I N G E D I T O R

Juliana Bonner

P H O T O E D I T O R S

Megan Damewood Jessica Martin

A R T D I R E C T O R

Jessica Asztalos

D E S I G N D I R E C T O R

Megan Frush

P R O D U C T I O N M A N A G E R

Jessica Soccorsi

A S S I S T A N T M A N A G I N G E D I T O R

Heather Bonnecutter

A C Q U I S I T I O N P H O T O E D I T O R

Matt George

A S S I S T A N T P R O D U C T I O N

M A N A G E R

Amanda Spangler

F E A T U R E E D I T O R

Cara Folk Amanda Spangler

S T Y L E E D I T O R

Erin Woodell

C O P Y E D I T O R

Cara Folk

D E S I G N E R S

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Maryanne Reed

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1P E R L E Y I S A A C R E E D S C H O O L O F J O U R N A L I S M

GREETINGS FROM MARTIN HALL AND THE P.I. REED SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.

I’m pleased to report that we’ve had another successful year of continued growth, innovation and

excellence. As you’ll see in this issue of the School of Journalism News Magazine, we’ve raised

our national profile in a number of areas, and our students and faculty are poised for even greater

success.

These are challenging times for the School, as we forge our way in the new media landscape. It

seems only fitting that our cover story is about Dr. Perley Isaac Reed, the founding father of the

School — a man conservative in manner and dress but visionary in his dream of creating an inde-

pendent school of journalism.

Today, we’re trying to envision a new curriculum that will prepare students for careers in a

multimedia world — a world changing so rapidly that the word “change” doesn’t even begin to

capture the radical transformation taking place. Newspapers are now providing video. TV news-

casts are being podcast. Citizen journalists are competing with professional reporters to produce

content for the Web. And that’s just the beginning.

In response to these changes, the School is developing an integrated news curriculum that will

offer students opportunities to develop skills across disciplines — in print, broadcast, online and

visual journalism. As you’ll read about in this issue, the first phase of our curriculum revamp is a

new track in visual journalism. We’re also adding multimedia elements into our existing courses,

and we’re developing a new cross-media capstone course.

This year we focused Journalism Week on the merging of traditional journalism with new

media. Our speakers included Yahoo! News Correspondent Kevin Sites, a pioneer in “backpack”

journalism, and 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler, whose powerful in-depth

reporting about a Marine casualty assistance unit was packaged for print and the Web. Our stu-

dents and faculty learned how journalists are reporting and producing news using multiple for-

mats. But what we ultimately walked away with — the underlying theme to every presentation

— is that the very best journalists are those who tell powerful stories, regardless of the medium.

As we create a cutting-edge curriculum, we will take that lesson to heart. To build a successful

future we will need to build from our core mission — to teach students how to be skilled and ethi-

cal reporters, producers and communicators. And we’ll lead them to embrace new technologies

and new techniques for telling stories that matter.

That’s a pretty tall order. But with the help of our skilled faculty, talented students and dedicat-

ed alumni and friends, I am confident we will succeed. In the words of Dr. Perley Isaac Reed, we

won’t be “spineless jellyfish” but will face the challenge as we always do, working harder and

smarter than anyone else.

M E S S A G E F R O M T H E D E A N

“To build a successful

future we will need to

build from our core

mission — to teach

students how to be

skilled and ethical

reporters, producers and

communicators. And we’ll

lead them to embrace new

technologies and new

techniques for telling

stories that matter.”

Sincerely,

Maryanne Reed

Dean

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PE R L E Y IS A A C RE E D

B O R N T O M A K E A D I F F E R E N C EBorn Sept. 28, 1887, in the rural town of Lowell, Ohio, Reed graduated from

Marietta College, and in 1916, earned his doctorate in English from The Ohio StateU n i v e r s i t y. After graduation, Reed served as head of the English department at theUniversity of Maryland until 1920, when he came to WVU to teach English.

Reed began adding journalism courses to the curriculum — journalistic writing andediting, advertising and ethics. He also started the student newspaper, theA t h e n a e u m .

“He knew where he was going,” said Paul Atkins, who was one of Reed’s studentsand later a WVU journalism professor.

Reed insisted that journalism was not a trade and should have the same status asl a w, medicine or economics, Atkins said.

Many university administrators did not agree. “He took a lot of grief,” said Guy Stewart, one of Reed’s students who later served

on the faculty and then as dean of the School of Journalism.

Thehen Dr. Perley Isaac Reed set a goal,

he reached it. It didn’t matter that his

vision for a school of journalism at We s t

Virginia University would take nearly 20 years to

materialize. He fought administrative battles and ral-

lied outside political forces to establish a department

of journalism and, later, an autonomous school of

journalism. Conservative in politics, manner and

dress, Reed was passionate about the First Amend-

ment and media ethics. He earned his students’

respect, even though he sometimes annoyed them

with rigid teaching methods and quirky say-

ings, such as “don’t be a spineless jell y f i s h . ”

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SOJ students contributing to thisstory include: Eric Arnold,Katelyn Culver, MelissaD’Agostino, David Dobson,Chris Drescher, Daniel Fischer,Colin Foster, Tricia Fulks, LydiaGilpin, Chas Holden, NicholasInghilterra, Janet Irwin,Stephanie Mathias, KacieMiller, Samantha Parsons,Lianna Philipps, James Rowing,Danielle Schultz and JennetteStout. Compiled by assistantprofessor Bonnie Stewart.


Reed started a journalism department in the basement ofWo odburn Hall in 1927 but realized he had to have outside helpto create a journalism school.

“He needed to utilize the power of the press in West Virginia toadvance journalism at WVU, so he helped form the StateNewspaper Council made up of editors and publishers throughoutthe state. They were his strong right arm,” Atkins said.

Reed got his school in 1939 and convinced the administrationto give him most of Martin Hall in 1953.

A L W A Y S I N C H A R G EAfter World War II, when soldiers began taking advantage of

the G.I. Bill, the halls of the journalism school filled with morethan 180 men and women, many of them in their 20s. Their ageand military service didn’t change the way Reed managed them.

After being away at war for three years, Stewart came to theschool and asked to carry an 18-hour course load his first semester.

“He didn’t waste a moment,” Stewart said. “He said, ‘You can’tdo that Mr. Stewart. You’ll have to prove yourself at this school.’”At the end of the semester, Stewart came back with five As andasked again to take 18 hours.

“ M r. Stewart, you may do that,” Reed said.Some of Reed’s teaching practices became legendary. “He was rather famous, or slightly infamous, to students for

using his system of a point digest,” said Dick Toren, one of Reed’sstudents who had a long career with United Press International.

For a point digest, students had to make notes about all thesalient points in their readings or lectures.

“When P.I. Reed retired, the students had a bonfire and burnedall their point digests,” Toren said.

R e e d ’s support for his students more than made up for his strictm e t h od s .

In the mid-50s, when newspapers were breaking stories aboutcorruption in the state legislature, Daily Athenaeum (DA) editor,William K. Stevens, began editorializing on the subject.

“This, to put it mildly, upset some members of the WVU Boardof Governors, who were afraid legislators would retaliate againstthe university when appropriation time came,” Stevens said.

Because the DA was under university control at that time, afaculty investigative committee was formed, and Reed andStevens had to answer for the editorials.

“At the meeting where I was questioned, Dr. Reed was magnif-icent. He came across to many people in those days as a somewhats t u f f y, prissy, mild-mannered sort, but he was steel integrity inside.In no uncertain terms, he stalwartly defended me and theA t h e n a e u m ’s First Amendment rights,” Stevens said. “He was anall-out absolutist on freedom of the press. After the committeehearing, outside Martin Hall, he offered me this piece of advice aswe parted: ‘Don’t let [them] grind you down.’”

After the incident, Stevens said Reed’s annual pay dropped by$100. Stevens went on to become the science writer for The NewYork Times, retiring in 2000.

The first class of the School of Journalism in 1939 pose for agroup shot. Archival photo

“He was an all-out absolutist on freedom of the press.”

— William K. Stevens, former Daily Athenaeum editor

P.I. Reed meets with a student in his office. Archival photo

P.I. Reed influenced hundreds ofstudents and his family as well.

“He was always the academicianand professor, traits I believe heinstilled in his three grandchildren,”said grandson Reed Byrum, who ownsa public relations company in SouthCarolina. “I first saw his impact whenI was 5 years old. He andGrandmother Reed returned myChristmas thank you note edited inblue pencil.”

Reed died April 24, 1973, just sixdays after the death of his secondwife, Elizabeth Frost Reed. He was85.

“I believe he would want to beremembered most as a great teacher,which is one of the greatest roles any-one can play in our society. He did ita little differently than many — withgreat discipline, earnestness and intel-ligence. I don’t think he suffered foolswell, but, for those students he knew

wanted to learn, there could be nogreater teacher,” Byrum said.

Years after Reed’s death, his formerstudent and renowned sportswriterMickey Furfari led WVU’s JournalismAlumni Association into battle toname the journalism school after itsfounder. There was resistance. Butsupporters flooded the President’soffice with letters, and the School ofJournalism continues to carry thename of the man who gave it life,Perley Isaac Reed.

R E E D ’ S L E G A C Y

P.I. Reed leads the graduating class of 1949. Archival photo


Around 7 a.m. each morning, 83-year-old MickeyFurfari wakes up to check his blood sugar, show-er, shave and eat breakfast. After his morning

routine, he stops by the WVU Sports Information Officebefore going home to transcribe tapes, schedule inter-views and write stories.

After what would be a normal day’s work for peoplehalf his age, Furfari has lunch before returning to hisdesk.

“I take it day to day, just like the coaches say,” Furfaris a i d .

Nearly 68 years after his first stories were printed,Furfari continues to work as a syndicated sports columnistfor seven West Virginia newspapers. In 2006, Furfari wasinducted into WVU’s Sports Hall of Fame.

“When I first got into sportswriting, I never dreamedawards would go to sportswriters,” said Furfari.

Furfari started his writing career at Morgantown HighSchool. He worked as sports editor of the school paper,the Red and Blue Journal.

He also kept statistics for a local softball team andsoon was tapped by the editor of the town’s paper, TheDominion News, to write game summaries.

“My father always told me I wanted to be a newspa-perman,” Furfari said.

In 1939, some of Furfari’s first sports stories wereprinted. He continued to write through college.

“While other guys were dating as freshmen, I washanging around the newspaper as I did when I was ajunior and senior in high school,” Furfari said.

He landed his first job with the Huntington, W.Va.,Associated Press Bureau in 1942. Soon after, he wasdrafted and served three years during World War II inthe U.S. Army 97th Infantry Division. While on duty,he worked as sports editor of Pacific Stars and Stripes inTokyo.

After the war, he returned to Morgantown and gradu-ated from West Virginia University’s P.I. Reed School ofJournalism in 1948.

Furfari’s long-term presence in the region’s sportsjournalism community has influenced generations ofreporters, including recent SOJ graduate DrewRubenstein.

Rubenstein shadowed Furfari as an assignment forassistant professor John Temple’s advanced reportingcourse. In Rubenstein’s December 2006 convocationaddress to fellow graduates, he noted that spending a daywith Furfari was a career highlight.

Furfari also inspired his granddaughter, Robyn, to pur-sue studies at the School. Robyn, who now lives inNorth Carolina, works as a media planner and buyer fora local advertising agency.

“Attending WVU was one of the best decisions I’veever made because I became closer to him and saw howimportant he was to the community,” Robyn Furfarisaid.

After he writes each story on his antiquated Tandy102 computer, Furfari still e-mails Robyn his articles toreview. His word processing program lacks spell check,but he says that he rarely makes mistakes. Nevertheless,he still demands that all his work be thoroughly edited.

“When I get to the point where I am making a lot ofmistakes, I’ll quit,” Furfari said. “They won’t have to tellme to.”

Now, Furfari lives just a few houses down the streetfrom his childhood home. The five-time West VirginiaSports Writer of the Year believes his long career can beencapsulated in one word.

“Fortunate,” Furfari said. “Very fortunate because I’vehad so many opportunities, and I hope that I’ve madethe best of them.”

Mickey Furfari interviews Jerry West, WVU All-America basketball star, in 1960. Submitted photo

Syndicated Sports Columnist FurfariStill Has Many Stories to Tell By Nicole Riggleman


More than 2,000 miles from Morgantown,W.Va., P.I. Reed School of Journalismalumni gathered last summer to recon-

nect and reminisce.On Aug. 2, 2006, Bay Area alumni met with SOJ

faculty, who had traveled to San Francisco for the

Association for Education in Journalism and MassCommunication’s annual convention.

Public relations sequence head Dr. Ivan Pinnell

organized the informal reunion. Dean MaryanneReed, Dr. Diana Knott Martinelli, Dr. RalphHanson and IMC instructor Mitchell Friedman also

attended the event. “It was an excellent opportunity to meet with Bay

Area alumni,” Pinnell said.

Julie Sims, a 1994 broadcast news graduate, saidshe enjoyed the opportunity to greet fellowMountaineers at the downtown San Francisco

Marriott’s The View Lounge. Sims currently works asthe Director of Communication Strategy for RobertHalf International — a specialized staffing firm with

more than 350 offices worldwide.Matt Sturm, a 1993 public relations graduate,

encountered many new faces at the alumni event.“I was very surprised by the number of SOJ alum-

ni here,” Sturm said. “I hadn’t met any of them

before.” Sturm currently owns four restaurants in San

Francisco and Tampa, Fla., and was particularly

interested to learn from faculty about the School’sonline master’s degree program in IntegratedMarketing Communications.

Other SOJ alumni who attended include GregFischer (’97 advertising), Media Director of Swirladvertising agency; Kristi Specker (’90 public rela-

tions), WW Analyst Relations Manager for Hewlett-Packard Company; and Brian Bronk (’97 MSJ),Account Manager for Owens Corning.

Inspired by the gathering, 1998 public relationsalumna Becky Zegar hopes to start an official BayArea alumni chapter.

“Everyone I’ve ever met that has gone to schoolat WVU has such fond memories of their experiencethere and such loyalty to the school,” Zegar said. “I

think it would be really fun to have that spirit onthe West Coast.”

SOJ Faculty Meet Bay Area Alumni

As the School’s External RelationsC o o r d i n a t o r, Kimberly Brown assists the

dean in a variety of integrated communica-tion activities, including alumni relations,internal and external communications, mar-keting, event planning and developmentefforts. She serves as the primary liaisonbetween the School and the SOJ AlumniAssociation, supervises and coordinates alum-ni-related events and maintains communica-tions with journalism alumni. Brown is alsoresponsible for overseeing the design and pro-duction of the School’s alumni news maga-zine, marketing and recruitment materials andw e b s i t e .

A native of Fairmont, W. Va., Brown earnedher bachelor’s degree in secondary Englisheducation from WVU. After teaching inWest Virginia and North Carolina publicschool systems and later working for both cor-porate and government agencies, Brownreturned to her alma mater. She received herm a s t e r ’s degree from WVU in instructionaldesign and educational technology in 2005.

“ Taking this position last July was sort of a‘coming home’ for me. I’ve known the facultyand staff at the School for several years, andgetting the opportunity to work with them onthis level is a real honor. � It’s an exciting anddynamic role that I feel lucky to have.”

Brown Joins School of Journalism

By Kate Grosel


When P.I. Reed School of Journalism news-editorialseniors Brandon Stump and L.J. Ulrich were select-ed for summer internships in Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s

office, the two never imagined how much real-world experiencethe apprenticeship would provide.

During his four weeks on Capitol Hill, Ulrich says it was “fas-cinating” to field calls from Rockefeller’s constituents. His mostextensive contribution, however, was a 100-page report on theMedicaid Real Estate Recovery law. The senator’s staff used hisreport to craft policy, Ulrich said.

Ulrich, a former WVU Young Democrats president and internfor the Pennsylvania General Assembly, says he was deeplyimpressed by the staff’s professionalism.

“Everyone there was smart and on top of their game,” Ulrichsaid. “It’s kind of like playing a sport with all the best athletes.”

Stump also worked with Rockefeller’s staff. He served as aninterim press assistant for the senator’s press office.

“He was literally doing a real job on the Hill for four weeks,”said internship coordinator Alexandra Kincaid. “I was reallyproud of him.”

Stump was assigned to clip news stories pertaining toRockefeller’s committees and interests. The clip file allowedRockefeller and his staff to react to public opinion.

Stump credits his previous experiences to landing the interim

position. Before working in Rockefeller’s office, Stump hadinterned with the West Virginia Legislature and had beenaccepted into the Institute on Political Journalism, where heinterned for USA Today.

Ulrich agrees that his resume and his coursework in theSchool of Journalism “did a good job of providing a culture ofprofessionalism” that helped him to successfully complete theinternship program.

School of Journalism associate professor Dr. Ralph Hanson hastaught both Ulrich and Stump.

“Both are really passionate and have the dedication andenthusiasm an internship like that demands,” Hanson said.

While demanding, the internship program also had its perks.In addition to their daily responsibilities, Stump and Ulrich

had several opportunities to meet prominent figures, includingjournalist Helen Thomas, Sen. Barack Obama and NBA playerDikembe Mutombo.

Both students hope one day to return to Capitol Hill.Ulrich says that his time in Rockefeller’s office will provide

easier networking for future legislative jobs.And Stump hopes one day to be elected to political office.“I’ve always wanted a substantive political career, and I really

wanted to get that level of understanding of the way it runs,”Stump said.

Two SOJ News-Editorial SeniorsIntern for Sen. Jay Rockefeller By Bridget Rader

Brandon Stump, a May 2007 news-editorialgraduate of the School of Journalism, was

named one of WVU Foundation’s OutstandingSeniors and awarded the Order of Augusta,W V U ’s most prestigious student honor.

The eight recipients of the Order of Augustaare chosen from 30 WVU FoundationOutstanding Seniors for their achievements inscholarship, leadership and service.

The son of Michael and Cheryl Stump ofK i n g w o od, W. Va., Stump plans to attend lawschool to focus his attention on public interestand human advocacy law.

In addition to a state Legislature internship,Stump interned at USA Today and was credit-

ed with scooping other major daily newspaperswhen he reported that a missing boy scout hadbeen found alive. He has written for The Ti m e sWest Virginian, The Daily Athenaeum, theIntelligencer and Wheeling News-Register andThe Dominion Post.

Stump has also volunteered at RonaldMcDonald House, the Windy Hill ManorAssisted Living Facility and AmeriCorpsService Project and helped raise money forHurricane Katrina victims through theDiversity in Media Association. He is an EagleScout and member of Kappa Tau Alpha, thejournalism honorary fraternity.

Stump Receives Order of Augusta


KEVIN SITES PRESENTS PERSPECTIVE

ON SOLO JOURNALISM By Josh Austin

Thrust into 22 con-flict zones in one year’stime for Yahoo! News,multimedia journalistKevin Sites has reportedon stories often neglect-ed by American main-stream media. Unlikemany mainstream jour-nalists who travel withan entourage, Sites cov-ers these stories alone.

A headliner for thisy e a r ’s Journalism We e k ,Sites’ March 6 presenta-tion focused on his

experience as a solo journalist — or what he calls “SoJo.”Visiting 17 countries for his multimedia website, “Kevin Sitesin the Hot Zone,” his mission was to cover every conflict zonein the world in less than one year.

“Luckily for me, it was a life-changing experience, not a life-ending one,” Sites said.

Before joining Yahoo! News, Sites’ broadcasting career hadreached its peak. Based in Iraq, he served as a freelance warcorrespondent for NBC News.

But an incident while Sites was embedded with the 3rdMarine Battalion in the Iraqi city of Fallujah would change hislife forever.

While reporting for NBC, Sites videotaped a Marine shoot-ing a wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque. But his report,which aired Nov. 15, 2004, on “NBC Nightly News,” did notinclude the footage of the Marine opening fire on the insur-gent.

Sites, who helped make the decision not to air the footage,said he originally thought showing the death of the insurgentwould embolden the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq. Afterfurther reflection, Sites reconsidered his decision and postedthe unedited video — along with a 2,400-word essay — on hisprivate blog.

The video caused a firestorm of criticism from both support-ers and opponents of the current Iraq war, prompting his careerc h a n g e .

“I was able to see the weaknesses in my medium — televi-sion — and the strengths of new media,” Sites said, explaininghis switch to online journalism.

N o w, Sites travels the globe with two video cameras, a digi-tal camera, a laptop, a satellite phone, a cell phone and ar e p o r t e r ’s notebook, hoping to find a story to “put a humanface on global conflict with multimedia storytelling.”

Sites merges video, photo images and text to present in-depth coverage of conflict issues. In his year on the road forYahoo!, Sites shot 1,320 still photographs, filed 153 dispatches

Beyond Convergence:

Journalism Week 2007

T his year’s Journalism Week focused on the merging of traditional journalism with multimediastorytelling. In March, the School of Journalism hosted guests of national and internationalprominence, including Yahoo! News’ first solo journalist, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter

and ground-breaking independent multimedia journalists.“Beyond Convergence: The New Media Landscape” explored the trends and innovations in journalism

and mass communications, providing small-group workshops and multimedia presentations. The speakersshared their personal experiences and advice with young journalists entering the new media world.

“Journalism is no longer just print and broadcast news,” said Dean Maryanne Reed. “News is being report-ed and produced across media platforms using multimedia technologies. We want our students, our faculty andthe university community to learn from and be inspired by what professionals are doing to reach an increas-ingly diverse and sophisticated media audience. This year’s Journalism Week was a perfect venue for that.”


and uploaded 131 video clips. He shared selected posts from his“In the Hot Zone” website (http://hotzone.yahoo.com/) with thestudent and community audience.

“The idea is that war is not all about the combatants,” Sitessaid. “It is about the destruction of civil life.”

Students attending Sites’ lecture said they were impressed withhis real-world knowledge and his proximity to the battlefielda c t i o n .

Ryan Posey, a broadcast news senior and president of the cam-pus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, praised Sitesfor his commitment to his craft.

“He has been to Iraq, Iran and Sudan — those countries arewhere the news is coming out of now,” Posey said. “Our[ A m e r i c a ’s] involvement overseas does have an effect, whetheryou realize it or not, on our everyday lives.”

Dean Maryanne Reed described Sites as a pioneer in newmedia.

“As a solo-journalist, he has greater flexibility and accessbecause he doesn’t have to travel with a huge team of supportpeople,” Reed said. “He is literally the face of new media.”

2006 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER SHARES STORIES BEHIND “FINAL SALUTE”By Erin Wooddell

When the U.S. Department ofDefense filed its report of the firstColorado casualty of the Iraq War, thereport stated the name, rank, home-town and cause of death.

But Rocky Mountain News reporterJim Sheeler knew there was a storybehind the name, a tale about the per-son who died.

“Each day I got into work, I had to check the Department ofDefense website,” Sheeler said. “It’s not a good way to start thed a y, but I always had to look, hoping there wouldn’t be a namefrom Colorado. Since the beginning of this war, I have made it myjob to get behind [it] and find out who each of these people are.”

His determination to tell the story of each soldier’s life wasthe impetus for his project, “Final Salute,” a narrative aboutAmerica’s fallen soldiers.

Sheeler shared with students and community members thestory behind the story in a public lecture sponsored by the

Ogden Newspapers Seminar Series.“Final Salute,” which earned the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fea-

ture writing, took months to complete. Sheeler followed MajorSteve Beck, a Casualty Notification Officer, who provided himand photographer Todd Heisler with an inside look on the noti-fication process.

“People always want to know, how did I get access?” Sheelersaid. “Well . . . I found the white-gloved hand that knocks onthe door.”

Sheeler said he refused to get his stories through telephoneinterviews, a process he viewed as impersonal. He always wantedto see the families face-to-face.

In Sheeler’s mind, gaining trust was another important part ofthe process.

“It takes time and listening,” he said. “And when you reallylisten, you really get the gifts in return.”

WVU freshman Dana Crouser found Sheeler’s methods ofreporting inspiring.

“It was so good how he got into the people’s lives and reallydescribed the situations. It wasn’t so cut and dry,” Crouser said.

Sheeler says he likes quiet stories. “You sit and wait for thescenes to happen. They aren’t necessarily newsworthy — this onejust happened to be,” he explained. “I like to write about things,places where no one else is looking.”

“Final Salute” was published at 12,000 words and can beaccessed online (http://denver. r o c k y m o u n t a i n n e w s . c o m /news/finalSalute/). Sheeler described it as one of the longest andmost emotional stories he has ever written.

After finishing the article, a Rocky Mountain News team builta Web-based multimedia component to share the project with alarger audience.

“It wasn’t an afterthought; it just came at the end,” Sheelersaid. “The power of the Web has been amazing as far as gettingthis story out there.”

Sheeler says he still keeps in touch with all the families. Everymonth they have a Marine picnic and invite him to attend.

After he learned he had won the Pulitzer Prize for “FinalSalute,” he called the families who were included in the project.

“It was another posthumous award for their sons,” Sheelersaid, with a hint of emotion in his voice. “I still don’t see it asmine.”

The New Media Landscape


M U LTIMEDIA PRODUCER BRIAN STORM

STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF

GOOD STORY T E L L I N G By Briana Warner

According to Brian Storm, presi-dent of production studioMediaStorm, the future of journal-ism is multimedia reporting.

“Photography and journalismwill eventually merge,” Storm saidof changes in the industry. “Theimportant thing will be whetheryou can tell a good story. The mul-timedia medium can reach andinspire so many people.”

Since starting his own company 14 years ago, Storm hasreached thousands of viewers with his online multimedia proj-ects through his company’s website (www. m e d i a s t o r m . o r g ) .

One piece, “The Sandwich Generation,” follows a couple intheir 40s, who are taking care of two children and the wife’s eld-erly father battling dementia. The report blends natural audio,video, still photos and music to capture the daily rhythms oftheir lives.

Another piece, “Bloodline,” profiles AIDS victims in Africaand was aired on television overseas.

“This was a really important story to tell,” Storm said of theproject. “This is the people telling you how they feel. It is impor-tant to find the subtlety in a story, things you don’t see becauselife is so fleeting.”

Storm said he draws inspiration from his early career in pho-tojournalism, as Director of Multimedia at MSNBC.com and asVice President of News, Multimedia and Assignment Services forCorbis, a digital media agency.

He developed the idea for his current business while in gradu-ate school. Storm wanted to create a home for stories with in-depth reporting accented by compelling photography.MediaStorm stories have been sold to National Geographic,MSNBC, Slate.com and AARP.

During his visit to the School, Storm critiqued work done bystudents in assistant professor Joel Beeson’s multimedia reportingc l a s s .

“In addition to the feedback on their work, visiting profes-sionals like Brian Storm help students develop confidence and aprofessional identity,” Beeson said. “As one student told me, ‘Hesat at the computer and talked with me for 30 minutes just like ac o l l e a g u e . ’ ”

Storm said he looks forward to seeing more young journalistssharing powerful stories on the We b .

“ We’re empowered with the tools to publish in a global way, ”said Storm. “If I was young and entering the field of journalism,I’d be so excited about this revolutionary moment.”

A S S O C I ATED PRESS EDITOR TED ANTHONY INTRODUCES AP’S NEWM U LTIMEDIA SERV I C E By Bridget Rader

Associated Press editor Te dAnthony told School ofJournalism students that to be asuccessful journalist in tod a y ’smultimedia world they need tobe open to learning new skillsand new ways of connecting to ayoung audience.

“I don’t think ‘change’ is apowerful enough word todescribe what’s happening on theWeb,” Anthony said.

In his Journalism Week presentation, “Around the Wo r l dand Into the Future,” Anthony related the personal and pro-fessional experiences that helped him to adapt to changes inthe media industry.

Anthony currently serves as editor for a s a p(http://asap.ap.org), the AP’s online service that provides newsfor younger readers. The multimedia service, launched in 2004,targets 18- to 34-year-olds by using alternative storytellingtechniques.

He described a s a p as a “multimedia litmus test” and said it is“ [ A P ’s] attempt to figure out the 21st century. ”

“ We are reflections of the world we live in,” Anthony said.“But it is important not to lose the foundations of journalism inexperimenting with new media.”

Anthony has faith in the a s a p m odel because “it takes theA P ’s reputation for accuracy and fairness and blends it withvoice, personality and verve.”

In addition to supervising a s a p content, Anthony regularly filesreports as a correspondent for the wire service. His reporting hastaken him to places like China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The 38 - y e a r-old journalist encouraged the young journalistsin the audience to watch for similar opportunities.

“Choosing this life can offer experiences and take you to cor-ners of the world that you never dreamed of,” Anthony said.


One year after Hurricane Katrina devastat-ed the Gulf Region, P.I. Reed School ofJournalism students and faculty

relaunched the multimedia website, “Starting Over:Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath.”

In September 2006, the School hosted ananniversary event to promote the website’s newcontent.

“The updated website is much deeper than whatwe had before,” said project co-director BonnieStewart.

Originally unveiled in November 2005, theinteractive, student-produced website uses photoessays, narrative stories, multimedia pieces and doc-umentary footage to chronicle the stories ofHurricane Katrina evacuees.

The updated website includes stories by studentswho traveled to New Orleans in December 2005with evacuees returning to their homes for the firsttime. The evacuees included Greg and GlendaAvery, a couple who married during their time atCamp Dawson in Preston County, W.Va.

Assistant professor Bonnie Stewart, along withgraduate students Ivy Guiler and Lingbing Hangand undergraduate student Justin Weaver, docu-mented the Averys’ experiences as they wentthrough their water-logged home trying to findwhat — if anything — could be salvaged.

“Being able to follow the Averys, and themallowing us to follow them back to their home inNew Orleans for the very first time, was just a realprivilege,” Weaver said. “They let us in, they trust-ed us, and that just said a lot. Just that moment ofthem going into their home for the very first timeand documenting that will always stick with me.”

In addition to the personal, first-person perspec-tives, the updated website featured an interactivediscussion forum structured to stimulate dialogueand interaction.

In April 2006, the website received first-placehonors for online in-depth reporting at the Societyof Professional Journalists (SPJ) Region 4 “Mark of

Excellence” competition in Cincinnati, Ohio. InJuly 2006, the website was named as one of the topthree finalists in SPJ’s national “Mark ofExcellence” competition.

In 2007, the project continued to receive nation-al recognition. Three School of Journalism facultymembers — assistant professors Joel Beeson, DanaCoester and Bonnie Stewart — were awarded acombined “Best of Festival Award” for FacultyMultimedia Interactive at the Broadcast EducationAssociation’s (BEA) annual “Festival of MediaArts” competition for their roles in the productionof the interactive website.

In addition, Beeson received first-place honors,and Coester garnered an “Award of Excellence” inthe Educational Production subcategory for theirindividual contributions to the site.

“We are so proud of our faculty and students fortheir accomplishments with this project,” said DeanMaryanne Reed. “This was a labor of love foreveryone involved, and it’s a wonderful affirmationto receive national recognition.”

Updated Katrina Website GarnersRegional and National Awards

By Rachel Smith

Visit the site at: katrinapro j e c t . j o u rn a l i s m . w v u . e d u


IN TH E I R OW N

W O R D SYoung Journalists Share Their Experiences Covering the Virginia Tech Tragedy

On April 16, as the nation and the world learned of the shooting massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute,

three broadcast news seniors asked instructor Gina Martino Dahlia if they could cover the tragedy for “WVU

News.” Just a few hours later, Barclay Fuellgraf, Sean Tinnelly and Justin Van Slyke were on their way to the

Blacksburg, Va., campus. A fourth broadcast news senior, Justin We a v e r, was also on site. Slated to begin a new job with

ABC News after graduation, Weaver was sent by the network to assist with their coverage.

By We d n e s d a y, four more School of Journalism students arrived in Blacksburg. Broadcast news seniors Stephen

Matthews, Dani Brake and Missy Brown and news-editorial junior Andy Smith began work on a multimedia project to

share the stories of the students affected by the tragedy.

The following interview captures some of the students’ experiences and observations in their own words.

“ W E D I D N ’ T E X P E C T H O W I T W O U L D H I T S O C L O S E T O H O M E ,B E C A U S E T H E P E O P L E I T A F F E C T E D W E R E J U S T L I K E U S . ”

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Opposite A VT student mourns at a memorial site on the VT campus. Photo

by Andy Smith.

Above left, top to bottom Missy Brown (right) interviews sorority sisters ofMaxine Turner, one of the VT victims; A FOX News correspondent inter-views “WVU News” students (from left) Sean Tinnelly, Barclay Fuellgrafand Justin Van Slyke about their coverage of the VT tragedy; Justin Weavertakes a phone call while working for ABC at the VT campus. Photos by Andy Smith

GROSEL: Why did you want to go to Virginia Tech to cover this story?

FUELLGRAF: As a student, it’s an opportunity you just can’t turn down. It’sa chance to see what real reporting is like in the field with breaking news.And it’s a chance for you as a student to apply everything you have learnedthroughout the school year . . . and see if it’s something you really have theability to do.

VAN SLYKE: I think one of the reasons that compelled me was that we seeall of these stories nationally, and we never get to see a student’s point ofview of it. I think that’s one of the main reasons I wanted to go. I wantedto show my point of view as a student of what exactly happened.

GROSEL: What were your expectations going into the situation?

VAN SLYKE: We thought it was going to be like any other story, but it wasgoing to be exciting because there were media there from all over the world.We didn’t expect how it would hit so close to home because the people itaffected were just like us.

FUELLGRAF: I thought it would be extremely scary and sad. I didn’t expectmyself to make it through, but I did. I had to. It’s your job as a journalist.

WEAVER: I knew there were going to be a lot of media there, but I was stillblown away with the amount of media attention and focus. I would say over1,000 press members were converged into this one location on the VirginiaTech campus. And it’s very rare you see something like that.

GROSEL: What obstacles or challenges did you face?

TINNELLY: Keeping your emotions in check was pretty tough. We were infront of all this big media, and you’re just a kid trying to get an interview.These people don’t really recognize you as someone big with the media.

VAN SLYKE: I think the biggest obstacle was talking to the people that itactually affected. It’s really hard to talk to someone whose friend or sisterjust died because of a tragedy like this. I think that one of the biggest obsta-cles was sitting down and trying to ask these questions without getting toopersonal.

FUELLGRAF: I think my biggest obstacle was emotional. These peoplehadn’t even had time to decompress, and you’re trying to deal with this asa student yourself. They are no different than the students you see walkingon your own campus.

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Left: Missy Brown runs camera while Dani Brake records her standup for a news package for the WVU-KDKA partnership. In thebackground, “WVU News” students prepare for an interview with a FOX News correspondent. Right: Daisies were placed in the shapeof the VT logo on the college campus. Photos by Andy Smith

GROSEL: What surprised you?

WEAVER: I actually had a couple of people tell me that it madethem feel good talking about it, and sometimes as a reporter youare the first person they end up talking to — even before theirfamilies. I was surprised to hear that, and it made me feel betterabout what I was doing.

Fuellgraf: I think what surprised me was that not all jour-nalists are heartless, and the people that I talked to at the mediacenter were struggling with it just as much as I was. As a student,you look up to these veteran reporters, and for some of them, thiswas the worst thing they have ever covered. It’s not somethingyou can just detach yourself from because you wouldn’t behuman if you did.

GROSEL: What did you add to the story as student journalists?

TINNELLY: I think we helped it hit home a little harder to col-lege students. A lot of people saw it on TV, but I don’t thinkthey really grasped the reality of how horrific it was.

FUELLGRAF: We gave a student perspective. We had people saythat they were happy to talk to us as students more than to CNNor FOX reporters because they felt more connected to us. I thinkthat brought an element to the story that no one else could havedone. Producers would ask us to talk to people because theyknew we would get a different story, a real story from these peo-ple that they couldn’t get.

GROSEL: What moment or incident stands out in your memory?

FUELLGRAF: When we were at the candlelight vigil where thememorial sites were . . . It was silent, and then everyone startedto cheer, “Let’s Go Hokies.” I wanted to start crying, but I didn’tknow if journalists were allowed to cry — that’s how unsure Iwas. I looked over, and there was a reporter from my hometownthat I recognized from TV who was crying. That really said a lotto me — that he was a true journalist.

TINNELLY: When I first went to the memorial, it was heartwrenching. I felt so much sorrow for everyone there. At first, ithit me hard. I was unsure about being a journalist; I felt like abad guy walking around there. I felt like I didn’t belong there. Itwas really hard to see people going through what they gothrough. It’s such a shame.

GROSEL: How will you use this experience in the future?

WEAVER: This is an experience that none of us will ever forget.It will always be in the back of my mind every time I cover alarge story or any type of tragedy. I will use it in the future justknowing that I can get a story and be humane about it.

FUELLGRAF: It taught me to have a lot of integrity as a reporter.There’s always a way to get a story if you really feel what thesepeople are feeling. We were taught to ‘gulp and go.’ You can’tthink twice about it; you’ve just got to do it. If your true feelingsand your true emotions are there, then you will be okay. You willget the story that you need in a sensitive way — the way you aresupposed to be getting it.

VAN SLYKE: I think everything that we have learned from this,like how to talk to people the right way, the ethical way . . . Ithink the tools of the trade we learned down there will help usbecome great journalists.

TINNELLY: I’ll use it as a tool to tell myself that if I can coverVirginia Tech at 23, then I should be able to move on to anything.

GROSEL: What did you learn about yourself or about journalism?

FUELLGRAF: I learned you can have a good story and have emo-tion in it. So many times journalists are taught to stay neutral,and that’s a challenge that I faced. But I learned that I can doit. It’s how you approach people to get the story that makes youa credible reporter. They see that you feel their pain and you arethere for the right reasons — not just to make headlines.

WEAVER: I learned that you can get a story and be a good personabout it. We saw young people like ourselves who have beenthrough a terrible tragedy. More than anything I think we weretalking to them, and it didn’t feel like interviewing. We were justfindingout howthey were doing, and fromthat would come astory.

TINNELLY: I proved to myself that I was capable of being a jour-nalist outside of school. I always wondered if after I left schoolI would be able to apply what I was taught in college. By beingthere and doing what I did, I proved to myself that I was ready.

VAN SLYKE: I think one thing you learn is that you are nevertoo prepared for something. We didn’t expect to be hit emotion-ally. I think you have to go through things like this to make youstronger as a journalist and as a person.

Lampooning leaders and parodying politicians is all in aday’s work for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialcartoonist Mike Luckovich. Luckovich says he wouldn’t

have it any other way.“I love my job,” Luckovich told School of Journalism students.

“Simply put, it’s the best job on earth. I can’t think of anything elsethat I could be doing.”

As part of the Ogden Newspapers Seminar Series, the AtlantaJournal-Constitution’s syndicated cartoonist gave a public lectureon Nov. 9, 2006.

In his presentation, “Politics in Pictures: Editorial Cartooning inan Election Year,” Luckovich displayed examples of his work —both satirical and poignant. They included his Pulitzer Prize-win-ning cartoon of the Statue of Liberty crying after September 11,2001. In a more recent cartoon, former Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld is depicted as a homeless person in a bathrobe refusing toleave his Pentagon office.

Luckovich detailed the inspiration behind his award-winningartwork. To construct his cartoons, he starts each day by readingnational newspapers for inspiration. By 3 p.m., Luckovichshows a draft of his cartoon to his editor. Hehas until 5:30 p.m. to perfect his drawingfor the following day’s edition.

SOJ freshman Leann Arthur lovedlearning about Luckovich’s profession.

“I really liked the fact that heshowed some of his cartoons and toldthe stories behind them,” Arthur said.“He talked about experiences he’s hadat his office and on the job, and I feltlike I got a basic idea of what journal-ism is really like.”

Like many students, it didn’t occurto Luckovich — a graduate of theUniversity of Washington — until hewas in college that he could combinehis political science major with his nat-ural knack for drawing cartoons.

“I was never really interested inbeing a lawyer or a politician,”Luckovich said. “I’ve been drawing car-toons all my life. It’s like a genetic

thing even before I started elementary school.”During his visit to WVU, Luckovich met with visual arts stu-

dents at the College of Creative Arts. He also spent time sharing hisexperiences with journalism students, when he spoke to adjunctinstructor Tom Stewart’s media ethics class. He talked about walk-ing the fine line between news and satire.

“He’s a very interesting speaker and person, and I thought theclass would respond to that,” Stewart said. “I thought it fit right inwith the discussion of ethics in journalism. I’ve always said that aneditorial cartoonist is the only person at a newspaper who isn’tasked to be fair.”

Kathryn Gregory, a junior news-editorial major, thought thatLuckovich’s session in her ethics class was both unorthodox andinspiring.

“He didn’t just get up and speak; he wanted us to ask him ques-tions,” Gregory said. “It was positive and upbeat and motivated usto get out and do what we were getting our education for.”

Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich speaksto media ethics students before his eveningl e c t u re. Photo by Lingbing Hang

Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist

Visits SOJ


By Jon Offredo


As editor-in-chief of The Daily Athenaeum

(DA), School of Journalism news-editorial

senior Christine Simmons constantly faces

questions about the accuracy and editorial style of the

p a p e r ’s stories.

When Simmons learned that two of the industry’s

most revered copy editors would visit the School of

Journalism, she had her staff start compiling questions.

But they never expected how hard it would be to

stump Norm Goldstein and Deborah Gump.

Goldstein edits “The Associated Press Stylebook,” a

manual relied upon by journalists since the 1950s.

Gump served as the Knight Professor of News Editing

at Ohio University.

The two copy editors conducted a series of work-

shops on Oct. 12, 2006, with students and profession-

al journalists. SOJ faculty members Dr. Diana Knott

Martinelli and Dr. George Esper facilitated the visit.

“ We hope students came away with a new respect

for copy editors and their important role in the news

p r oduction process,” Martinelli said.

Simmons said the student journalists were intensely

focused during the workshop with DA staff.

“They had a field day at the meeting asking Norm

the most technical questions on AP style,” Simmons

s a i d .

Gump also worked with Martinelli’s public rela-

tions students. Gump emphasized during her session

that editing is not just about grammar, style and usage;

it is also about accuracy, clarity and judgment.

“I was bowled over by their energy and sense of

purpose,” Gump said of the students. “We want to

help make tomorrow’s journalism better, and one of

the surest ways to do this is to help students discover

not only the potential of journalism, but also their

own potential.”

Gump, who has more than 20 years of newsroom

experience as a reporter and editor, regularly presents

at professional meetings such as the American Copy

Editors Society, an organization she founded.

In an afternoon workshop for area journalists,

Gump led participants through exercises to correct

common headline mistakes and to generate fresh cap-

tion ideas.

“When we partner with working journalists, we

strengthen each other,” Gump said. “To be honest, I

consider collaborating with the pros one of the perks

of the job. The editing workshop with the regional

copy editors was another example of what a great

journalism school does.”

Also at the workshop, Goldstein shared the

changes he has witnessed in his years of editing “The

AP Stylebook.” The manual has grown from a 62-page

booklet issued in 1953 to the modern edition contain-

ing more than 350 pages.

The workshops included a luncheon with journal-

ists from regional newspapers, including The

Dominion Post, The Uniontown Herald-Standard and

the Times West Vi r g i n i a n .

AP Stylebook Editorand Award-winningCopy Editor ConductWorkshops

Norm Goldstein of the Associated Press visits studentsof the School of Journalism. Photo by Lingbing Hang

By Rachel Smith


B y J u s t i n M c L a u g h l i n

A DI F F E R E N T KI N D O F

S T O R Y T E L L I N G

Evonne Nicholson is a gifted artist with a keen eye for color, according to her teacher, Helen

Panzironi. Nicholson works in acrylics and paints pieces that invoke famous colorists. Nicholson

also has cerebral palsy — a disability that makes even preparing to paint a struggle. Through her

work with the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities, Panzironi has partnered with numerous local artists

like Nicholson, each of whom face unique challenges.

In Fall 2006, 10 P.I. Reed School of Journalism students in assistant professor Joel Beeson’s multimedia

reporting class shadowed five artists from the CED’s Fine Arts program to capture their stories.

From the beginning, Beeson saw great promise in the student-produced project.

Evonne Nicholson uses a customized head pointer to express herself through her acrylic paintings. Photo by Michael Costello

Above Musician, writer and flutemaker JoeGatski often finds inspiration for his work inthe natural world. Photo by Jeff Bowers

Left, top to bottom

Vicki Shaffer paints at the Center forExcellence in Disabilities in Morgantown.Photo by Jamie Green, Sam El-Aker and Halie Felton

Artist Greg Siegwart works on a painting inhis home studio. Photo by Michael Kalany

The CED’s Fine Arts program director HelenPanzironi meets with students and artists inthe studio at the CED. Photo by Jesse Wright


“It’s sort of funny that this whole project was about disabled artists, because to me, therewasn’t one time when I ever looked at Joe like that . . . So to me the story wasn’t about

his disability, but rather about him and his art and his creative process.” — Jeff Bowers, multimedia student

P E R L E Y I S A A C R E E D S C H O O L O F J O U R N A L I S M

“ It really seemed like an opportunity for my multimedia students to do

some real-world reporting, gain experience working with a diverse

population and be able to explore different types of storytelling,” said

Beeson.

To profile each artist’s creative process, students ventured into Panzironi’s

studio. Armed with cameras, notebooks and audio recorders, they captured

the stories behind each piece of art and the artists.

This fall, the School plans to showcase the students’ work through a mul-

timedia website.

Multimedia reporting goes beyond a newspaper placing its print stories

online or a television station streaming its news packages through the Web,

said graduate student Jesse Wright. The key is combining elements — like

photos, sound, video and text — into a non-linear form that users can navi-

gate as they please.

The CED’s Fine Arts program was a perfect fit for the unique aspects of

multimedia storytelling, Wright said.

“There’s a visual aspect because they’re artists,” Wright said. “We could

really include their art and make it quite an aesthetic piece. The issues sur-

rounding it are just very rich for stories . . . There were a lot of different

[multimedia] angles that you could approach it from.”

Wright notes that each reporting/producing team experienced the project

differently. Just as every team was unique, so was each artist.

Above left, top to bottomA painting by artist Greg Siegwart. Photo by Michael Kalany

Artist Evonne Nicholson (center) exercises various musclegroups affected by cerebal palsy. Photo by Michael Costello

Mark Calvert’s interest in photography became more thana hobby after a 1989 car accident that left him with quad-riplegia. Calvert now uses photography as motivationaltherapy and as a source of income. Photo by Shannon Dey

A painting by artist Evonne Nicholson. Photo by ChadHershman

“Working with these artists, who have to improvise and be creativejust in order to do their art, has been an inspiration to me and the students

in how we approach reporting.” — Joel Beeson, assistant professor


“There was another person who really had no physical disabili-

ties, just mental disabilities, so we had a big variation there

[between artists],” Wright said. “I think that every group was able

to focus on something different . . . each artist had something dif-

ferent about them to focus on.”

Students Jeff Bowers and Matt Sampson profiled Joe Gatski,

an artist who also plays several instruments, writes music and

poetry and finds inspiration in the great outdoors.

“Looking back, I can’t imagine working with anyone else,”

Bowers said. “Joe ended up being a good friend, and more times

than not, we would just end up sitting around playing guitar or

hanging out . . . with his friends at the VFW. Even though we

were the ones putting the story together, Joe was the one that

told it.”

Still, the story didn’t turn out quite as they expected it would at

the beginning.

“It’s sort of funny that this whole project was about disabled

artists,” Bowers said. “Because to me, there wasn’t one time when

I ever looked at Joe like that. So to me the story wasn’t about his

disability, but rather about him and his art and his creative

process.”

Most of the students, Wright said, didn’t have a lot of

experience with some of the more technical aspects

of the project — like editing in Final Cut Pro or

recording audio. In the first weeks of class, students spent signifi-

cant time learning how to use the equipment.

After students were grounded in the technology, Beeson left

many of the production decisions up to them. However, he did

have one rule: no voice-over narration in the final pieces.

“This forced them to be creative,” Beeson said. “And working

with these artists, who have to improvise and be creative just in

order to do their art, has been an inspiration to me and the stu-

dents in how we approach reporting.”

But it wasn’t just the journalistic work that was educational for

the students, Beeson said.

The students had to “confront cultural and social

stereotypes about people with disabilities, how they

have been represented historically as helpless victims

or romanticized as heroically overcoming ‘the odds’ against

them,” Beeson said. “The students have come to realize that we

are all a step away from being in a wheelchair or having a chron-

ic debilitating condition.”

Bowers said as they got to know the artists, the focus of their

pieces changed.

“The artists we worked with were more than just disabled

artists; they were people with stories. And working on a project

like this, especially in my case, we got to know them as people

and learned what motivated them and why they are the artists

they are.”

Panzironi also believes students learned far more than inter-

viewing and editing skills.

“If you’re in a wheelchair, all people see is the wheelchair, ”

Panzironi said. “For most [of the artists], this program and this

project is the first time anyone has defined them beyond their

d i s a b i l i t y. To be defined as an artist is a completely different

experience for most people . . . That in and of itself is very val-

i d a t i n g . ”

This spring, Beeson expanded the project to encompass

more artists with a new team of about 20 students — twice

the size of the first class. Wright returned as a student

c o o r d i n a t o r, helping to guide new reporting/producing teams.

He hopes that other classes or even media organizations

beginning similar multimedia projects can learn from the

students’ work.

Panzironi is curious about the students’ perceptions.

“I’d love to go back to the students in 20 years and ask how

this project impacted them,” she said.

As a globetrotting journalist for the Associated Press,Margie Mason’s passport is loaded with stamps from thePacific Rim.

Mason, a 1997 P.I. Reed School of Journalism graduate, is theAP’s Asia Medical Writer.

“I travel a lot,” Mason said. “It’s very difficult to cover a regionso vast geographically and so populated. I’m constantly runningfrom country to country. You name it, and I’ve pretty much beenthere if it’s in Asia.”

Mason, 31, currently calls Hanoi, Vietnam, home. As part ofher reporting on chronic and emerging infectious diseases, shetravels to the continent’s most rural regions.

“The best part of what I do, I’m able to bring light to issues invery remote parts of the world that people don’t know about,”Mason said.

Two years ago, Mason traveled to India where she uncoveredan encephalitis outbreak, which ultimately claimed 500 unvacci-nated children.

“I thought it was something that had to come out, so I wentthere and wrote a series of stories that attracted a lot of atten-tion,” Mason said. “They vaccinated millions of children thisyear. It’s a wonderful feeling when you get to do something likethat.”

Mason has traveled a long way from her hometown ofDaybrook, W.Va., but she got her start at the WVU School ofJournalism.

There she met her role model, Ogden Newspapers VisitingProfessor Dr. George Esper, a former Associated Press correspon-dent, who covered the Vietnam War for 10 years.

“I was completely starstruck because I’ve been following his sto-ries for years,” Mason said. “I interviewed him and wrote a storyfor The Dominion Post. He looked after me and guided me eversince.”

The friendship between Mason and Esper remains strong.“Margie is an outstanding journalist,” Esper said. “She has that

passion that it takes to be an extraordinary journalist. She goesbeyond what she has to do.”

Mason attributes her current successes to the mentoring she

received from WVU faculty, including Dr. Esper and ChristineMartin, former dean of the School of Journalism. She says theSchool of Journalism gave her confidence in her skills andopened her eyes to new opportunities.

“When I started at WVU, I knew right at the beginning I wasgoing to be a journalist,” Mason said. “I wasn’t really sure whatkind of journalist I was going to be or where I was going to go orhow I was going to make it happen. But one of the definingmoments here was when I won the Hearst Award.”

Mason won the Hearst Award — the most prestigious award forcollege journalists — for spot news reporting in 1997. After grad-uating that year, Mason worked for the Associated Press bureauin Charleston, W.Va. One year later, she moved to Jacksonville,Fla., to work for the Florida Times-Union as a general assignmentand special projects reporter.

Mason received a fellowship in Asian Studies at the Universityof Hawaii, where she studied Vietnamese. In 2000, she went toVietnam as a freelance journalist to cover the 25th anniversary ofthe fall of Saigon. Returning to the United States, she was hiredby the AP in San Francisco for two years until assuming her cur-rent position.

“One of the things I learned is that you can do anything,”Mason said. “You can come from a little place in West Virginia,and you can really go on and do whatever you set your mind to.”


WVU Alumna Travels Pacific Rim for the Associated Press By Kate Grosel

“The best part of what I do, I’m able to bringlight to issues in very remote parts of the worldthat people don’t know about,” Mason said.

SOJ alumna Margie Mason travels to India to cover an out-break of Japanese encephalitis. Submitted photo


Meet Eric Patrick: public relations studentby day; stand-up comic by night.

“I always wanted to be a comedian,”Patrick said. “I was always the funny kid in thegroup.”

A native of Herndon, Va., Patrick credits his“crazy” family for helping him to develop his comedictiming. Growing up, Patrick was also inspired byRichard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, GeorgeCarlin and, most of all, Dave Chappelle.

It wasn’t until he started college that he braved thestage. But the debut gig in Washington, D.C., wasprobably his worst act to date, Patrick says.

“I had never been on stage or even spoken into amicrophone before,” said Patrick. “I was stutteringand practically froze, but somehow I managed to getthrough my set with marginal success. It was definitelythe worst performance I’ve ever had, but I’ve learnedto appreciate my humbling beginning.”

Even though Patrick has performed dozens of timessince that fateful evening, he says he still experiencesstage fright.

“I get kind of anxious before I go on stage,” he said.“I’m still pretty nervous until I get into my zone.”

Nevertheless, he finds a way to make his audiencelaugh.

“I just be myself,” he said. “When you don’t try tomake people laugh, that’s when they laugh the most.”

In his act, Patrick talks significantly about his lifeas a WVU undergraduate student.

“I’m glad for the experiences here,” Patrick said. He also impersonates Bryant Gumbel, Snoop Dogg

and Shannon Sharp. Patrick describes his comedy asedgy, hip and fresh.

“The main theme of my stand-up is things Iobserve that don’t make sense,” he said.

Patrick has performed at The Funny Bone Theatreand The Rex Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa., and smallvenues in Virginia. In March, he took the stage atMorgantown’s Ramada Inn.

In the classroom, Patrick has found connectionsbetween his stand-up comedy and his selected major,public relations.

“Being a PR student has helped me with my come-dy because the teaching has enabled me to understandthe basics of communicating to a large audience and avariety of populations,” said Patrick. “My aim as acomedian is to make you laugh, whether you’re young,older, wealthy or just kinda hangin’ in there. PR hashelped me expand my range as a performer.”

Public relations sequence head Dr. Ivan Pinnell hasknown Patrick for several years.

“He’s a hoot,” Pinnell said. “He’s quick and wittyand always has a response.”

Though Patrick claims his dream job would bewriting and acting for “Saturday Night Live,” he planson attending law school.

“I’d like to work in entertainment law,” Patricksaid. “And do PR for media contracts, corporate tele-vision and record labels.”

After graduation, he plans to take time off todevote to his stand-up.

“I’m really committed to stand-up, and I plan onbeing very successful,” Patrick said. “I’ll do anythingto avoid going to a desk everyday. I think I can makeit.”

PR Student by Day; Stand-up Comic by Night By Shelly Davidov

Eric Patrick per-forms at RamadaInn’s “open mic”comedy night inthe spring of2007. Photo byWVU PhotoServices


More than a decade after hestarted reporting on cli-

mate change for The NewYork Times, Andrew C. Revkin foundhimself floating across the North Pole’s

ice sheets.Revkin shared highlights from his

journalistic travels when he visited the

School of Journalism on Oct. 25, 2006.As part of the Harry Bell Lecture Seriesin Ethics, Revkin gave an evening lec-

ture to the public and talked with SOJstudents during an informal luncheon.

Through his multimedia presentation to students —

“The Daily Planet: Covering Climate Change, from theNorth Pole to the White House” — Revkin illustratedthe conditions of the icy terrain.

His innovative presentation integrated sounds, textand pictures to take his audience to the North Pole.Students heard the grinding ice sheets breaking into the

Arctic Ocean and saw what it is like to have dinner atthe top of the world.

The presentation stemmed from Revkin’s latest book,“The North Pole was Here,” in which he profiled

researchers conducting studies in the Arctic. “He was an excellent speaker for future journalists,”

said Dean Maryanne Reed. “He didn’t just talk about

global warming, but he also talked about the challengesreporters face covering it.”

Revkin explained to his audience that science writers

often struggle to make complex issues relevant andaccessible to a general audience.

“We see very different issues now than we did in the

[19]70s,” Revkin said. “They are multifaceted andnuanced.”

Science writers face tight deadlinesjust like other beat reporters and must

clearly present their arguments tomerit page-one status.

“When big things happen, global

warming tends to get knocked out ofthe way,” Revkin said.

In the past six years, Revkin has

authored more than 650 stories on cli-mate change for his paper. He saysthat global warming “is a breaking

story on a century-long time scale.”Contrary to his most recent

exploits, Revkin originally wanted to be a biologist and

work in the tropics. Yet after receiving his biology degreefrom Brown University, Revkin began studies inColumbia University’s journalism graduate program.

Ultimately, Revkin combined his two academic degreesto become a science reporter for The New York Times.

Reed worked with SOJ donor Harry Bell to facilitate

Revkin’s visit. Bell said that Revkin’s reporting on cli-mate change engaged the university community.

“We wanted to get the dialogue going and get people

talking about this important issue,” Bell said. “We want-ed to do something to get people together to discuss theproblem and the solutions.”

SOJ student Blair Rice believes that Revkin helpsshed light on a very complicated and political issue.

“Until something drastic happens to remind us of the

impending disasters that climate change can bring or thenews media begins to provide well-rounded, unbiasedcoverage, global warming will continue to be a problem

for the future,” Rice said.SOJ freshman Frankie Johnson is planning a career in

news-editorial and was highly influenced by Revkin’s

career track, she said.“I thought it was very interesting when he was telling

us about the jobs that he had before he became a famous

journalist,” Johnson said.

New York Times Science Reporter Addresses Global Warming

By Jon Offredo

“When big things happen, global warming tends

to get knocked out of the way,” Revkin said.


Just a few years ago, Jason Neal came toa crossroads. Neal had just worked as a production

assistant at the 2002 Winter Olympics inSalt Lake City and was in between jobs.

After graduating from the School ofJournalism in 1999, Neal had often turnedto Dean Maryanne Reed — his formerbroadcast news professor — as a soundingboard for career advice.

More than ever, he needed some guid-ance from his mentor.

Neal had been offered a production staffjob at a small-market television station.He was torn about accepting the offer.Neal told Reed that he felt he was meantfor bigger things.

“I remember at the time saying ‘Jason,you’ve got to go with your gut,’” Reed said.

Neal turned down the position.Three days later, he landed a job at NBC News.“Jason had faith in his own abilities to succeed,” Reed

said. “I look back and think how smart he was and howmuch he knew himself and what he was capable of. Andit’s very emblematic of who Jason is — he always aimshigh.”

Reed says Neal’s drive was evident back when he was astudent in the School of Journalism.

His first experience in broadcasting was working for U92,the WVU campus radio station. Neal was also one of thefirst broadcast students to participate in the School’s part-nership with KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh’s CBS television sta-tion.

He later interned with WUSA, the CBS affiliate inWashington, D.C. The following summer, Neal served as a“runner” with Turner Sports for the Goodwill Games inNew York.

“Nothing can compare to working alongside professionals

in the business,” said Neal. “By offering real-world experi-ences and internships, the SOJ gives students every oppor-tunity to turn a major into a career.”

In his current position at the NBC News WashingtonBureau, Neal works with as many as 15 engineering crewson a daily basis in a job he describes as a “cross betweenengineering and production.” When the President travelsoverseas, Neal is in charge of making sure the satellite feedsrun smoothly. He handles the live feeds out of the OvalOffice and has worked on many high-profile stories, includ-ing the funerals of former Presidents Reagan and Ford andthe State of the Union address.

His achievements at 29 years old haven’t gone unno-ticed. In September 2006, Neal received the 2006 Schoolof Journalism Alumni Association’s “Young Alum Award”— an award given annually to an alumnus who has gradu-ated in the past 10 years and has demonstrated exceptionaldrive and ability to succeed in his or her profession.

Neal credits his success in large part to the training hereceived in Martin Hall.

“The SOJ gave me the confidence to believe in my owntalent,” said Neal. “It is truly a great place to work on yourcraft under the guidance of professors who excel in theirfields.”

Jason Neal (left) accepts the 2006 Young Alum award from Adam Green, amember of the SOJ Alumni Association, in September 2006. Photo by Lingbing Hang

2006 Young Alum Recipient Reflectson Journey from SOJ to NBC News

“The SOJ gave me the confidence to believe inmy own talent,” said Neal.

By Erin Wooddell


W hen Susan Vest was just seven years old, shedreamed of being a reporter.Living in Monroe County, W.Va., a rural region

nestled among the rolling hills of Appalachia, Vest faced obsta-cles to achieving her dream.

The county’s only news source was a weekly newspaper. Thelocal radio station was mostly automated, airing the occasionallive play-by-play of a high school football game.

But this year, the P.I. Reed School of Journalism, partneringwith Monroe County Schools, is helping to make Vest’s dreama reality.

In Spring 2006, Dean Maryanne Reed received a “NewVoices Grant” to help develop local news programming for thecounty’s community radio station, WHFI-FM, located at theMonroe County Technical Center.

The $12,000 grant, funded by J-Lab at the University ofMaryland, was the catalyst behind “Monroe County Today,” anewscast airing at noon three days a week.

During the summer and school year, Dean Reed and EmilyCorio, SOJ adjunct instructor and West Virginia Public Radioreporter, traveled to Monroe County with Corio’s communityjournalism class to teach high school students and adult volun-teers how to report the news.

“The School of Journalism played such an important part bytraining people how to report and by helping them understandthe ethics of journalism so that they can go out and gather sto-ries about their local community,” Corio said.

During the workshops, Corio shared interviewing tech-niques, ethical principles and technical knowledge. By the ses-sion’s end, participants had learned how to use a digital audiorecorder and to edit their stories on the computer.

“Basically the entire workshop was everything you wouldlearn in a journalism class,” Vest said. “It was really loaded.”

Initially, the project had three goals: to implement a dailynewscast, to launch a website and to develop public affairs pro-gramming.

“If we accomplish those three things, then we will havehelped them build the foundation for future programminggrowth,” Reed said.

Senior news-editorial major Robert Rizzuto worked withVest, now a junior at James Monroe High School.

“I didn’t realize how much I knew until I started to teach it,”Rizzuto said.

As part of the training, each high school student was pairedwith a WVU student and sent into the community to cover areal news story.

Rizzuto and Vest covered the Peterstown town councilmeeting. Vest shadowed Rizzuto throughout the entire report-ing process from start to finish, asking questions along the way.

“[The most valuable lesson I learned] was how importantjournalism is because people really don’t give journalism thecredit it deserves,” Vest said. “I really like helping people, and Isee journalism as a way to help people get involved.”

Vest is now the primary anchor for “Monroe County Today,”which first aired in September 2006. She’s currently working torecruit more reporters for the newscast.

Dean Reed hopes the WVU students will learn the value ofcommunity journalism, which she says “may provide the bestvehicle for reaching fractured audiences” not served by main-stream media.

“The radio station is an asset to the community and can beused as a great tool to educate and inspire Monroe County resi-dents,” Reed said. “We are just helping them realize the poten-tial of the radio station.”

New Voices: SOJ Students Help Monroe CountyResidents Launch Local Radio Programming

Monroe County High School students AJ Sizemore (left) andKatie Spangler (right) interview fellow student Cody Parkerabout a tractor competition at the school. Photo by Maryanne Reed

By Nicole Riggleman


According to the Urologic Research Institute(URI) in Wheeling, W. Va., testicular cancer isdiagnosed in 8,000 to 9,000 American males

each year. That’s a 1-in-250 chance of someone youknow being diagnosed.

In an effort to reach out to the young male populationwith education and self-examination programs about thiscommon form of cancer, URI sought assistance from P. I .Reed School of Journalism public relations students.

The partnership with URI is the latest in a series ofhealthcare public relations projects led by SOJ adjunctinstructor Chuck Harman, whose public relations classeshave developed campaigns for healthcare issues includingo b e s i t y, cancer and distonia.

“ We’re building a healthcare curriculum in the schooland developing a great track record for hands-on health-related projects,” Harman said. “West Virginia faces somany health challenges, and our goal is to expose stu-dents to real-world public relations campaigns, while hav-ing an impact on health awareness in the state.”

URI chose to focus its outreach efforts on testicularcancer — the most common form of cancer among youngmales. Despite testicular cancer’s common occurrence,less than 5 percent of men have been taught testicularself-examination. The disease has one of the highest curerates when detected early, reinforcing the need for educa-tion.

U R I ’s executive director, Dr. Gregory Merrick, said heappreciated the students’ efforts.

“WVU students have served as an integral part of ourtesticular cancer outreach program,” Merrick said. “Theyunderstand our goals and have communicated them effec-t i v e l y, enabling the program to take off.”

The campaign sought to increase overall awareness ofthe disease and to implement a self-examination curricu-lum in state high schools. For the program, URI devel-oped an informational self-examination video and a web-site.

This year, SOJ students developed supplemental pub-licity materials. West Virginia University sports announc-er Tony Caridi recorded a public service announcementfor the project. The student-produced work promptedcoverage in state media including the CharlestonGazette, The State Journal, The Dominion Post and theWheeling News-Register.

Public relations junior Katie Hinerman said she appre-ciated the hands-on experience.

“This class has provided an opportunity for me toapply the skills I’ve been working hard to develop for thepast three years,” said Hinerman. “Our class functions asa public relations team, and Harman guides us to thinkcreatively and entrusts us with the responsibilities ofworking for an actual client. It’s really fulfilling to thinkthat I may play a small role in saving a young man’s life.”

Students also developed a brochure and follow-uppostcard directed toward West Virginia health teachers.The program has been implemented in seven counties.

Graduate student Chris Marshall says he was happywith the opportunities the class provided.

“I enjoyed the course because it combined sound PRprinciples within a real-world setting,” Marshall said. “Inother classes you put together a campaign in theory butnever in practice. In this class we implemented the cam-paign and got to experience both the challenges and suc-c e s s e s . ”

PR Students Implement Statewide Testicular Cancer Awareness Campaign

By Briana Warner


Nearly 15 years ago, “WVU News” — the Schoolof Journalism’s student-produced newscast — wasproduced in a studio located in Martin Hall.

According to Dean Maryanne Reed, the studio and theequipment needed some work.

“When it was originally purchased, the equipment wasrelatively current,” Reed said. “But over time it becameoutdated and expensive to maintain. It would overheatand even break down.”

In 2003, the university’s Office of Te l e v i s i o nP r oductions gave the SOJ’s broadcast news program accessto its new television studio at One Waterfront Place. Sincethen, SOJ students have taped their newscast at the facili-t y. Recently, Television Productions revamped the “WVUNews” set, which was formerly used by the MountaineerSports Network.

“WVU News” is featured on “Campus Connection,”which airs statewide on West Virginia Public Television at1 p.m. every Sunday. The show also features segmentsfrom Marshall University and Concord University.

Television Productions’ involvement with “WVU

News” has been a crucial factor in the program’s success,Reed says.

“I’m very grateful Television Productions redesigned theset for us,” Reed said. “We could not provide a quality pro-duction experience for students without their support.”

Sarah LaMantia, a former entertainment news anchorfor “WVU News,” says her first days at the studio werescary but exciting.

“It felt a bit like being thrown into a pool and beingforced to swim or sink, and luckily I think each and everyone of us decided to swim,” LaMantia said. “We definitelybenefited a great deal, though, from the amazing crew atthe studio.”

Jeff Bowers, a senior broadcast news major and former“WVU News” anchor, appreciated the real-world experi-e n c e .

“ I t ’s really good training,” Bowers said. “It’s your lastchance to see if this is really what you want and a chanceto have your face on the news.”

When “WVU News” was launched in 1993, the pro-gram could only be viewed on closed circuit television inthe Mountainlair student union.

N o w, in addition to the weekly statewide public televi-sion broadcast, viewers around the world can tune in tothe student-produced newscast on the Internet.

Shows are now available as downloadable podcasts fromthe university’s website (http://wvudownloads.wvu.edu/).

According to senior broadcast lecturer Gina MartinoDahlia, the online podcasts will likely raise the profile ofthe broadcast news sequence.

“The podcasts will serve as exposure by being anotheravenue to have voices heard,” Dahlia said. “It’s also a hugerecruitment tool. We have new students saying that theycame here because they saw ‘WVU News’ air. What’sgoing to happen now that everyone in the world can seei t ? ”

“WVU News” anchors Justin Weaver and Barclay Fuellgrafare on set to produce an episode of the bi-weekly newscast.Photo by Lingbing Hang

“WVU News” Upgrades Equipment; Offers Downloadable Podcast

By Shelly Davidov


T his year’s annual High School Journalism Competition(HSJC) was one of the largest in history. In March, theSchool of Journalism hosted more than 140 students

from 15 West Virginia and Pennsylvania schools. Each year, the competition provides high school students a

chance to compete in broadcast, photojournalism, design andwriting. Co-sponsored by the West Virginia Press Association,this year’s competition included a new advertising category andoffered professional skills workshops to better prepare partici-pants for the competition.

ADVERTISING Hosted and judged by Sheila Wexler and WVU Ad Club members

The new Advertising category focused on campaign develop-ment to prevent teenage smoking among West Virginia teens.After completing the necessary background research, finalists inthe live round of competition created two magazine advertise-ments and a 60-second radio spot.1ST PLACE: J.J. Nichols of Morgantown High School(Morgantown, W.Va.). Nichols created the organization WestVirginia Teens Not on Tobacco (WVTeensNot), askingteenagers, “How do you want to be remembered?”

BROADCAST NEWS Hosted and judged by Gina DahliaBroadcast News and News Writing competitors attended a

mock press conference with guest speaker Alex Neville, a U.S.Marshall, who told the group about incidents surrounding anescaped convict. Broadcast contestants created two news scriptsfor radio or television newscasts. 1ST PLACE: Michael Gruber, Bridgeport High School (Bridgeport, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Emily Stewart, Greater Latrobe High School (Latrobe, Pa.)3RD PLACE: Zachary Kapp, Bridgeport High School (Bridgeport, W.Va.)

NEWS WRITING Hosted and judged by John TempleContestants in the News Writing competition attended U.S.

Marshall Alex Neville’s mock press conference, where theygathered details on an escaped convict’s crime and complex his-tory of escape attempts to write their final news stories.1ST PLACE: Scott Kinard, Bridgeport High School (Bridgeport,W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Michaela Cook, Parkersburg Catholic High School(Parkersburg, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Emily Barksdale, St. Marys High School (St. Marys,W.Va.)

FEATURE WRITING Hosted and judged by Pam Hanson and Jan Boyles

The two divisions of Feature Writing met with WVU’sExecutive Officer for Social Justice, Charlie Morris, who spokeabout his experiences growing up in Mineral Wells, W.Va.Contestants then wrote human interest stories about Morris. 1ST PLACE: Alex Kerns, Parkersburg High School (Parkersburg,W.Va.), Emily Barksdale, Saint Mary’s High School (St. Mary, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Marie Barrett, Richwood High School (Richwood,W.Va.), Whitney Simmons, Braxton County High School (Sutton,W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Emily Bard, Richwood High School (Richwood, W.Va.),Scott Kinard, Bridgeport High School (Bridgeport, W.Va.)

SOJ advertising student Brian Frye (left) works with contestantJ.J. Nichols. Photo by Angie Potts

Charlie Morris of the WVU Office of Social Justice speaks toparticipants during the competition. Photo by Becky Moore

2007 HSJC contestants gather in Martin Hall for morning regis-tration. Photo by Lingbing Hang

By Bridget Rader

SOJ’s 2007 High SchoolJournalism Competition


EDITORIAL WRITING Hosted and judged by Bonnie Stewart

Editorial Writing contestants addressed one of two topics:“Should schools have vending machines that sell junk food andsodas?” or “Should school teachers try to get raises from the legis-lature by holding ‘sick outs?’” Equipped with background informa-tion and access to the Internet, the high school students had twohours to write a true editorial, speaking as the voice of a paper orpublication, rather than first-person opinions. 1ST PLACE: Jeffrey Heck, Webster County High School (Kenova, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Angela Wiley, Morgantown High School (Morgantown, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Marie Barnett, Richwood High School (Richwood,W.Va.)

FEATURE LAYOUT & DESIGN Hosted and judged byDr. Diana Martinelli and adjunct instructor Sarah Barnes

The former Yearbook Layout and Design category wasrevamped and renamed to this year’s Feature Layout and Designto incorporate a wider range of publications. Sixteen finalistsfrom five West Virginia high schools each designed a two-pagespread for either a yearbook or magazine feature story usingimages and text provided by the School of Journalism. 1ST PLACE: Alissa Murphy, Bridgeport High School (Bridgeport,W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Jessica Watts, Wayne High School (Kenova, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Tiera Floyd, Braxton County High School (Sutton,W.Va.)

PHOTOJOURNALISM Hosted and judged by Joel Beesonand graduate students Lingbing Hang and PitchpatuWaiyachote

This year’s all-digital Photojournalism competition requiredstudents to create portfolios of five photographs including one“school life” shot, one portrait, one sports shot and two photo-graphs of their choice. The all-day event included walking toursof WVU’s downtown campus and a ride on the PRT to theRecreation Center for sports photography.1ST PLACE: Kendall McCaughrty, Bridgeport High School(Bridgeport, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Dani Fleegle, St. Marys High School (St. Marys,W.Va.)

3RD PLACE: Christian Arbogast, Webster County High School(Upper Glade, W.Va.)

NEWSPAPER LAYOUT & DESIGN Hosted and judged by adjunct instructor Kristine Schiffbauer

In the Newspaper Layout and Design competition, studentscreated a two-page, broadsheet-sized news feature layout designedto be published in a school newspaper.1ST PLACE: Shea Anderson, Wayne High School (Kenova,W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Elizabeth Pamfilis, Parkersbug High School(Parkersburg, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Nicki Shreves, St. Marys High School (St. Marys,W.Va.)

SPORTS WRITING Hosted and judged by Dr. George Esper

Ogden Newspapers Visiting Professor, Dr. George Esper, beganthe Sports Writing competition with a brief writing workshopbefore introducing guest speaker and legendary sports writer,Dominic “Mickey” Furfari. Furfari spoke to students about his 58years covering the WVU Mountaineers, his love for writing andthe importance of journalistic integrity and style. Contestantssubmitted news or feature stories on sports-related topics or pro-files on athletes. 1ST PLACE: Erin Riordin, Parkersburg Catholic High School(Parkersburg, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Gwynne Johnson, Richwood High School(Richwood, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Ryan Skidmore, Braxton County High School(Sutton, W.Va.)

CRITICAL REVIEW WRITING Hosted and judged byDr. Ralph Hanson

Critical Review Writing competitors wrote and submitted twowriting samples of original book reviews, literary critiques, moviereviews, play reviews or TV show reviews. 1ST PLACE: Parker Lawrence, Bridgeport High School(Bridgeport, W.Va.)2ND PLACE: Marc Basham, Shady Spring High School (ShadySpring, W.Va.)3RD PLACE: Alex Kerns, Parkersburg High School (Parkersburg,W.Va.)

Photojournalism contestants on location at the WVU RecreationCenter. Photo by Lingbing Hang

Scott Prince of Shady Spring High School writes a story onMickey Furfari. Photo by Becky Moore


School of Journalismnews-editorial studentsmay choose between two

areas of emphasis in print orvisual journalism, starting Fall2007.

According to DeanMaryanne Reed, the new cur-riculum is essential to meetingindustry demands.

“The faculty feels it is imper-ative that we pursue thischange, with print and broad-cast news organizations puttingmore resources into multimediastorytelling and producing,” Reedsaid. “Our curriculum will prepare students for what they’ll facewhen they graduate, giving them the skills needed to communi-cate effectively in the new media landscape.”

The School’s multimedia projects — which have profiled thelives of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, cancer patients and AfricanAmerican veterans — have sparked interest in multimediareporting.

“Through the Katrina Project, we disregarded traditional print-broadcast boundaries,” said Robert Rizzuto, a news-editorialmajor.

With more students participating in these specialized projects,demand for visual journalism courses continues to grow.

When assistant professor Joel Beeson joined the SOJ facultyfive years ago, there was only one visual journalism courseoffered.

Now, the School offers five visual and multimedia courses.

“We are becoming a visualculture,” Beeson said. “Thereare many challenges we andour students, as journalists inthis digital landscape, must beable to use as opportunitiesfor strengthening the tradi-tions of journalism throughinnovative storytelling meth-ods.”

As with the print journal-ism area of emphasis, strongwriting and interviewingskills will be emphasized in

the visual journalism track.“It’s not just a photography

track,” Reed said. “It’s photography, graphic design, video andweb publishing. It’s marrying pictures, sound, video and text,while effectively communicating messages.”

Beginning in 2008, the School of Journalism will offer a newcourse — JRL 210 (Visual Journalism and New Media). Thecourse will present students with a theoretical grounding in semi-otics and image ethics and will also include a lab component inwhich students will learn software programs, including AdobePhotoshop, Adobe InDesign, Apple Final Cut Express and AdobeGoLive.

In addition to the introductory course, visual journalism stu-dents will be required to take the following courses: JRL 220(Introduction to Photojournalism); JRL 431 (MultimediaReporting); and either JRL 320 (Advanced Photojournalism) orJRL 440 (Visual Storytelling).

Visual or Print Journalism New Curriculum Offers Areas of Emphasis

for News-Editorial Majors

Starting this summer, WVU students outside of the Schoolof Journalism will have the opportunity to earn a publicrelations minor without leaving the comforts of home.

The minor consists of five courses, all of which are offeredonline during WVU’s summer session. Students can complete theminor in two summer sessions.

“There’s been a lot of demand for these kinds of programs foryears,” said Dr. Ralph Hanson, SOJ Associate Dean and Directorof Extended Learning. “After we saw the success of our advertisingminor, we decided we had the resources to offer the public rela-tions minor, too.”

Hanson believes that the public relations minor could be evenmore popular than the School’s advertising minor.

“There are lots of majors throughout the university that couldbenefit from a minor in public relations,” Hanson said. “The PRminor offers students in a wide variety of fields expertise that canmake them more marketable when entering the job force.”

The minor, designed to complement any WVU degree program,teaches skills in public relations writing, media relations and oralcommunications. The upper-level courses focus on strategic cam-paign planning and integrated marketing communications.

SOJ Launches New PR Minor

Advanced Photojournalism students learn studio lightingtechniques from Professor Beeson. Photo by Lingbing Hang

By Briana Warner

By Rachel Smith


This spring, three School of Journalism adver-tising students were awarded the $5,000 grandprize in the first-ever IMCY AwardTM

Competition.Lauren Colsmann, Morgan Yates and Michael

Kalany of CYK Advertising were named the winners ofthe competition on April 16 and were presented withan oversized check by client Katherine Harrell, ownerof K. Lianna Design.

Designed to provide professional experience toundergraduates, the competition challenges students todevelop an integrating marketing communicationscampaign for a real-world client.

Three years ago, 1969 SOJ alumnus Jim Blair brain-stormed the idea of a real-world competition for adver-tising majors. Blair and his wife, Marsha, sponsored thisyear’s event.

“We have known for years that WVU graduates areamong the most capable in the world academically,”

Jim Blair said. “Weare happy to partici-pate in this competi-tive forum where ourbest students canfully demonstratetheir creativity in a‘real-life’ environ-ment and get a tasteof the thrill of com-petition that powersthe advertising pro-fession.”

Each participant developed a campaign strategy forK. Lianna Design, a Pittsburgh, Pa., company.

Harrell won the 2004 Business Plan Competitionsponsored by the WVU College of Business andEconomics. She used the $10,000 prize to startK. Lianna, which designs, manufactures and sellsunique handbags.

“Winning the Business Plan Competition reallyaccelerated my business growth,” Harrell said. “I love tostay involved with the university and hope to give backsome of what was given to me.”

This year’s competition pilot was only open toundergraduate advertising majors. Sheila Wexler, visit-ing advertising professor, hopes to expand the event inthe future to all journalism students.

“The competition is unique the way that it goesbeyond advertising to allow students to participate on aprofessional level,” Wexler said.

For this competition, successful advertising cam-paigns incorporated strategies for both print and onlinedelivery.

Students created magazine advertisements anddesigned a new company homepage directing customersto the K. Lianna website and retail locations.

Two teams were selected to compete in the finalround of competition on April 16. Competing againstCYK Advertising was FAR Advertising with advertis-ing students Bryan Frye, Jessica Asztalos and KarenRuffing.

Katherine Harrell, owner of K. Lianna Design, pres-ents the $5,000 grand prize to the winners of theSchool of Journalism’s first-ever IMCY AwardTM com-petition. Photo by Lingbing Hang

Competition Offers AdvertisingStudents $5,000 Prize By Bridget Rader

In Fall 2007, three new faculty members will join theP.I. Reed School of Journalism teaching courses inadvertising, news-editorial and design.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR QUILLIAM

Elizabeth Taylor Quilliambrings her advertising andmarketing expertise to theSchool as the first Harrison/Omnicom Professor inAdvertising. Quilliam comesfrom Michigan StateUniversity, where she is com-pleting her Ph.D. in MassMedia from the Departmentof Advertising, PublicRelations and Retailing. Shewas recently awarded a

University Distinguished Fellowship at Michigan State,allowing her to work full time on her dissertation.

Quilliam’s teaching interests include integrated market-ing communications, advertising and society, and researchmethods.

She also has been involved in several research projectsincluding programs funded by grants from the NationalScience Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, theAmerican Academy of Advertising and Microsoft. Herresearch focuses on issues related to marketing and socialresponsibility.

Quilliam brings to the classroom more than 20 years ofprofessional experience in strategic communications, pri-marily in the financial services sector. She has held execu-tive positions at national firms, including Equifax CardServices and the NYCE Network. As a consultant, herwork experience ranges from copywriting to directing pro-motional campaigns to developing complete marketingprograms for start-up technology companies.

TONI LOCY

Former reporter Toni Locy brings a wealth of nationalreporting experience to the School as the new Shott Chairin Journalism. As a 1981 SOJ alumna, Locy returns to heralma mater to give back to the school that sent her on theroad to success 26 years ago.

Locy has worked for some of the nation’s biggest and bestnews organizations, covering a range of beats — from theU.S. Supreme Court and Justice Department to City Hall in

Philadelphia and the State House in Massachusetts. She hasreported for the Washington Post, USA Tod a y, the BostonGlobe, the Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report,the Philadelphia Daily News and the Pittsburgh Press.

Her series about the Boston police department’s inabilityto solve serious crimes was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize,and she has often set the agenda for news coverage amongher competitors in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston andthe nation’s capital.

In May 2007, Locy completed her master’s degree incriminal and constitutional law at the University ofPittsburgh’s School of Law.

STEVE URBANSKI

Steve Urbanski, the newDirector of Graduate Studies, isalso an alumnus of the School(BSJ 1978). He is an award-winning newspaper design edi-tor and experienced journalismteacher and has a Ph.D. inRhetoric from DuquesneU n i v e r s i t y. In addition to run-ning the School’s on-campusgraduate program, Urbanskiwill teach courses in editorial and advertising design.

Urbanski has been a Page Design Editor at thePittsburgh Post Gazette since 1993. He has designed fea-ture, sports, news and business pages, as well as special sec-tions for the 240,000-circulation daily. He has receivedmany regional and national awards for his design work,including most recently, the 2006 Society of NewspaperDesign Award of Excellence for Individual DesignPortfolio.

Before coming to Pittsburgh, Urbanski worked at severalother newspapers, including The Sun Tattler, the DallasTimes Herald and the Herald Standard in Uniontown. Hehas also taught as an adjunct professor for 10 years atDuquesne University and served as advisor to theDuquesne Duke since 1999. Under his tenure, the studentnewspaper won more than 50 regional, state and nationalawards for design, photography and writing.

Urbanski is the co-author of the article, “What JaysonBlair and Janet Cooke Say About the Press and theErosion of Public Trust,” published by Journalism Studiesin 2006. His dissertation topic focused on the develop-ment of a free press in the African nation of Benin.


Three New Faculty Members to Join in Fall 2007 By Kate Grosel

Dr. Ralph Hanson NamedNew Associate Dean


Jan Boyles keeps enrollment statistics for theSchool of Journalism and organizes recruit-ment and retention efforts as the School’s

Enrollment Coordinator. She has instructedJournalism 215, News-Editorial 418 andJournalism 115. Boyles also advises undergradu-ates for course scheduling and at New StudentOrientation.

A native of Fairmont, W.Va., Boyles earnedher undergraduate in news-editorial from theSchool of Journalism. She was selected byWVU officials as a Rhodes Scholar candidate

and as a member of the WVU Order ofAugusta, WVU’s highest academic distinctionbestowed annually to eight graduating seniors.

Boyles also received her master’s degree injournalism from the School. She is a formernewspaper reporter for The Dominion Post,Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail.

“I am so fortunate to return to my alma materto guide the School’s enrollment efforts. Everyday I am blessed to work with such talented stu-dents and to be able to give back to the institu-tion that has given me so very much.”

Boyles Returns to Alma Mater

T his fall, Dr. Ralph Hansonwill assume new duties as theSchool of Journalism’s

Associate Dean and Director ofExtended Learning.

In his new position, Hanson willwork closely with the dean and fac-ulty to develop and implement newcurricula, help lead the School’sreaccreditation efforts and enhancethe undergraduate experience forincoming students.

Hanson also will continue to man-age, develop and promote theSchool’s successful undergraduateonline programs. Over the past threeyears, enrollment in the School’s online minors and otherjournalism courses has more than doubled.

“Dr. Hanson recognized the potential of online educa-tion to reach diverse audiences long before others realizedits value,” said Dean Maryanne Reed. “In his new position,I expect he will play an even larger role in program inno-vation.”

“I have been running the School’s online undergraduateprograms for as long as they’ve been in development,” saidHanson. “This is a nice recognition.”

According to Hanson, onlineeducation reaches a wide spectrumof people.

“You’d be amazed,” Hanson said.“We have young mothers, studentswho are overseas and even grand-mothers involved who have alwayswanted to get their degrees.”

A former newspaper reporter,Hanson earned his doctorate insociology at Arizona StateUniversity. Before coming to WestVirginia University in 1993, he wasan associate journalism professor atNorthern Arizona University.

In addition to his teaching andadministrative responsibilities, Hanson writes a blog,“Living in a Media World.”

He recently finished the second edition of his mass com-munication textbook, “Mass Communicarion: Living In aMedia World,” slated for publication by CongressionalQuarterly this fall. He also writes editorials about journal-ism and the mass media for the Charleston Daily Mail.

Hanson says that his work at the School is very fulfilling.“It’s a great place to work,” he said. “It’s a congenial envi-ronment that fosters and rewards innovation.”

By Shelly Davidov

Six New Members Join P.I. Reed Society


In September 2006, six new members were inducted intothe Perley Isaac Reed Society. Recipients were honored atthe School of Journalism Alumni Association’s annual

awards banquet.The Society was established to recognize individuals who

have donated $10,000 or more to the School of Journalism.Their contributions support a variety of activities, includingstudent travel to academic and professional conferences, facultyresearch, guest speakers, special projects and events.

JOHNNA BARTO

Barto graduated from the School of Journalism in 1963. Anative of Holden, W.Va., Barto worked for nearly four decadesin the educational publishing industry. Before her retirement in2004, she served as the higher education product developmentdirector for John Wiley & Sons. She also edited several collegetextbooks for Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Harper & Row andMacmillan. Her employer, Wiley & Sons, matched her generouscontribution to the School.

BONNIE BOLDEN

A native of Wheeling, W.Va., Bolden is a 1976 SOJ graduate.After graduation, she worked for the Huntington (W.Va.)Herald-Dispatch and the former Beckley (W.Va.) Post-Herald.For more than 20 years, Bolden has been the newsroom recruit-ing and development manager at the Akron (Ohio) BeaconJournal.

THOMAS HARRISON

Thomas Harrison is Chairman and CEO of DiversifiedAgency Services (DAS). DAS is the largest division ofOmnicom, the world’s largest group holding of marketing servic-es companies. With an advanced degree in cell biology andphysiology from WVU, Harrison began his career at PfizerLaboratories as a sales representative and left as marketing direc-

tor. He then joined a mid-sized healthcare advertising agency,where he worked for six years before starting his own company,The Harrison & Star Business Group. Harrison joinedOmnicom in 1992, when Omnicom acquired his company. Hewas inducted into the WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumniin 2006. That same year, Harrison established the Harrison/Omnicom Endowed Professorship in Advertising at the Schoolof Journalism.

J.FORD HUFFMAN

In 1981, Huffman helped develop the design prototype forUSA Today. One year later, he served as a content editor for thepaper’s Life section. In his 13 years with Gannett Company, hewas a managing editor for features, graphics and photography,including the Gannett Graphics Network at Gannett NewsService. In 1999, he returned to USA Today and now serves asdeputy managing editor in the graphics and photography depart-ment.

MARY TOLBERT AND WILLIAM F. TOLBERT, JR.Mary Tolbert helped to establish a scholarship fund for stu-

dents at the School of Journalism. This scholarship was set up inmemory of her brother William F. Tolbert, Sr., the former editorof the Williamson Daily News, who was inducted into the WestVirginia Press Association’s Hall of Fame in 1983. Mary Tolbertserved as Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University for 41years. She also co-authored two school music textbooks andedited three books in the Current Issues in Music Educationseries.

William F. Tolbert, Jr., the nephew of Mary Tolbert, has spentmore than 30 years working for papers throughout Virginia andWest Virginia. He began his newspaper career at the Williamson(W.Va.) Daily News before moving to the larger newspapers inBeckley, W.Va. Currently, Tolbert works as a night editor withthe Free Lance-Star, a daily newspaper out of Fredericksburg, Va.

By Rachel Smith

Thomas Harrison, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Diversified AgencyServices and WVU alumnus received an

honorary degree doctorate at West VirginiaUniversity’s 138th Commencement HonorsConvocation at the WVU Coliseum on Friday,May 11, 2007.

A member of the School of Journalism VisitingCommittee and sponsor of the Harrison/Omnicom Professorship in Advertising, Harrisonwas nominated for the honorary degree by theSchool of Journalism and approved by the WVU

Selection Committee, Faculty Senate and Boardof Governors.

Since 1692 when the first honorary degree doc-torate was conferred in the United States, thedegree has served to recognize extraordinaryindividuals for their outstanding scholarly, cre-ative or public service achievements.

West Virginia University continues this tradi-tion annually by honoring selected individualswhose outstanding contributions are importantto West Virginia University, to the people of theState of West Virginia or to the nation.

Harrison Receives Honorary Degree Doctorate


As part of a new School of Journalism tradition, news-editorial senior Drew Rubenstein was chosen from his

graduating class to speak at the School’s Decemberconvocation.

“I was up really late the night before Dean Reed called to ask

me to speak,” Rubenstein said. “I didn’t know if it was a dream.I’ve gone to friends’ graduation ceremonies and always enjoyedwhen a student spoke. It was a huge honor for me.”

During his remarks, Drew described the 15-plus hour day hespent with then 82-year-old sportswriter Mickey Furfari.Rubenstein shadowed the legendary journalist for assistant pro-

fessor John Temple’s advanced reporting class.“Dean Reed asked me what I learned at WVU and the J-

School, and Mickey was the first thing that popped into my

mind,” Rubenstein said. Rubenstein says he was impacted by Furfari’s commitment to

his work.

“Because of Mickey,I realized what this

profession meant tome, why I loved it andwhy I was being called

to do this work for aliving,” Rubenstein toldmembers of the gradu-

ating class. “Mickey notonly demonstrated thehighest degree of professional journalism, but he displayed the

passion and happiness that comes with loving your job andenjoying every moment of life.”

After graduation, Rubenstein was hired as the sports editor

for The Hampshire Review in Romney, W.Va.

Local Sportswriter Mickey FurfariInspires December Graduate

David G. Allen, a Clarksburg, W. Va. native, delivered theSchool of Journalism’s December convocation addresson Dec. 9, 2006.

Allen is a frequent contributor to The State Journal. He writesabout West Virginia politics and economics.

“David Allen has a truly original voice,” said DeanMaryanne Reed. “As a writer and a journalist, he calls themlike he sees them. His commitment to honest and accuratereporting is an inspiration to our students and graduates.”

In his remarks, Allen urged students to seek truth in all futurejournalistic endeavors. He reminded students of the FirstA m e n d m e n t ’s protections for press freedom.

“If we understand what happens when there is no free press, wemust also consider what happens when the press itself is derelict orcorrupt,” Allen said.

In his address, Allen focused on the School’s groundbreakingconvergence project, “Cancer Stories.”

In 2000, Allen was asked to serve on the WVU Mary BabbRandolph Cancer Center’s Advisory Board. Subsequently, he pro-posed that SOJ students interview cancer patients, following their

progress throughoutall treatment stages.

His vision andsupport led to theproject, “CancerStories: Lessonsin Love, Loss andHope,” an EmmyAward-winning documentary and a book published by WVUPress.

Allen lauded the School’s special projects that give the studentsreal-world experience.

“From ‘Cancer Stories’ to ‘Starting Over’ [the School’s innova-tive project on Hurricane Katrina], journalism students at WVUhave produced reports of exceptional quality,” Allen told graduatesand their families. “They have learned that facts speak for them-selves and that the truth, however painful, always wins the day.”

Allen Delivers ConvocationAddress for December Grads

Graduation

December graduate DrewRubenstein shares his source ofinspiration. Photo by WVU Photo

Services

David G. Allen reminds students to alwayspursue the truth. Photo by WVU Photo Services

By Kate Grosel

By Kate Grosel

In May 2007, more than 100 graduates entered the CreativeArts Center theatre, beginning May Commencement for

the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism. Graduates andtheir families and friends filled more than 1,400 seats of theauditorium on Sunday morning, May 13.

While graduation ceremonies are nothing new to the facultyand staff of the School, WVU’s 138th Commencement wasmarked by innovation and change.

With the elimination of the university-wide commencement,individual schools and colleges hosted their own more personal-ized ceremonies, incorporating many of the formal elements ofthe larger event.

WVU officials presided over each of the ceremonies, with for-mer SOJ dean Christine Martin — now WVU’s Vice Presidentof University Advancement and Marketing — conferringdegrees for the School’s 2007 graduating class. Sequence headspresented the actual diplomas to graduates as they crossed thestage.

Organist Marguerite Bostonia and vocalist Emily Lapisardi,both of the WVU College of Creative Arts Division of Music,provided live music to accompany the event. Jim Phillips fromthe Office of Social Justice provided interpretation for the hear-ing impaired.

One long-standing tradition of the School of Journalismremained — the commencement address by a renowned journal-ism professional.

John Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, theBaltimore Sun and the Lexington Herald-Leader, deliveredremarks to the standing-room-only crowd.

A Nieman Fellow at Harvard and Knight Visiting Lecturer atHarvard’s Shorenstein Center in the Kennedy School ofGovernment, Carroll encour-aged graduates to find the jobsthat fit them best.

His own experiences at the L.A. Times, which won 13Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure, served as the backdrop for hisremarks. Finding the right position with the right company —and under the right leadership — is key to success and happi-ness, Carroll said.

In addition to the keynote address, the ceremony includedthe Alumni Charge, formerly reserved for the university-widecommencement. Jason Neal, a 1997 broadcast news graduate,reflected on his time spent in Morgantown and at the “J-School,” reminding graduates of the value of a degree from WestVirginia University — one that will keep them forever connect-ed to the Mountaineer family.

Left: Graduates and their families and friends pose forphotos outside the CAC after May Commencement.Center: A graduate dons a special message on her mor-tar board.Below: Jason Neal delivers the Alumni Charge during

May Commencement.Photos by WVU PhotoServices


Standing Room Only:May Commencement a New Exercise for All

John Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, deliversremarks to the 2007 May Commencement audience. Photo by WVUPhoto Services


SCHOOL OF

JOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Jennifer BatesJessica Lynn BradleyBrianna BrennenMegan CharrCasey Rae CunninghamAndrew EpperleyEric LittleAdriane LohrAllison MillerCarly MorganMatthew PearlAdam StiversKathleen Stofko

GEORGE GIANODIS

JOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Breanne AliotoBelinda CapelAdrienne HendonLeandra HickmanKendal MontgomeryLynne PerryJenna RadfordKaren E. RuffingDavid M. SlusarickAshlee C. SowardsStephen StoneWilliam UjekColleen WrightJennifer Zook

LINDA E. YOST

SCHOLARSHIP

Brian ArmstrongAshley Hamilton

CUMMINGS

SCHOLARSHIP

Stephanie Bostaph

IRENE CAPLAN

MOKSAY

SCHOLARSHIP

Ashlee Sowards

MERIDETH ROBB

MEMORIAL

SCHOLARSHIP

Charles Holden

LINDA JEANNE

LECKIE SCHULTE

SCHOLARSHIP

Carissa BurdettHollie Ann Rice

EDITH WATSON

SASSER

SCHOLARSHIP

Heather BonecutterJessica Rhodes

DON S. MARSH

SCHOLARSHIP

Michael CostelloChristine SimmonsLouis Ulrich

W.E. CHILTON IIIJOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Nicole FernandesHolly LantzKathryn S. Ross

MARK S. AND

FRANCES S. GROVE

ENDOWED

SCHOLARSHIP

Shamika L. Page

MARTHA E. SHOTT

ENDOWED

SCHOLARSHIP

Megan DamewoodKellen Henry

PAUL A. ATKINS

SCHOLARSHIP

Amanda KarpeukAubrey Lynn MondiDaniel StefanoNicholas TolomeoLouis Ulrich

SCOTT D.WIDMEYER FIRST

GENERATION

SCHOLARSHIP

Keenan Cummings

SCOTT D.WIDMEYER

AFRICAN-AMERICAN

SCHOLARSHIP

Shamika L. Page

PERLEY ISAAC REED

SCHOLARSHIP

Tara RombergerKatherine Oren Smith

OGDEN

NEWSPAPERS &NUTTING FAMILY

JOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Marie Michelle RafaKaren SnyderJamie Ziegler

PAUL S. AND THEO

S. DEEM BOOK

SCHOLARSHIP

Katherine Hinerman

PEGGY PRESTON

TIERNEY

SCHOLARSHIP

Megan BowersShereen S. ComptonAmanda CutrightHolly D. LantzKara D. Noon

GILBERT AND

MARGARET LOVE

JOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Casey CallananMichael Lee KalanyAdriane LohrKelli Lynn McClellanNicole Rene RigglemanJustin Weaver

FRANK M. KEARNS

MEMORIAL

SCHOLARSHIP

Robert Rizzuto

DAVID MATTHEW

HASSEN

JOURNALISM BOOK

SCHOLARSHIP

Samantha C. Seifrit

THOMAS PICARSIC

SCHOLARSHIP IN

JOURNALISM

Barclay Marie Fuellgraf

CARY SCHOLARSHIP

Brian ArmstrongMichael Lee KalanyMichael D. KoehlerLindsey Snyder

NANCY HENRICHS

HODEL MEMORIAL

SCHOLARSHIP

Jeffrey Bowers

INTERSTATE

ADVERTISING

MANAGERS’ASSOCIATION

Dana Heavner

84 LUMBER

CLASSIC

SCHOLARSHIP

Louis UlrichCasey Rae Cunningham

WILLIAM F.TOLBERT

JOURNALISM

SCHOLARSHIP

Brianna Brennen

WEST VIRGINIA

PRESS ASSOCIATION

FOUNDATION

SCHOLARSHIPS

Guy H. StewartScholarshipMichael Costello

Cecil B. Hyland, Jr.Memorial ScholarshipJamie Ziegler

SCHOLARSHIPS 2006-2007

DECEMBER 2006

TOP GRADUATES

ADVERTISING

Lisa MarieBarnhouse

BROADCAST NEWS

Scott Gregory Reider

NEWS-EDITORIAL

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

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MAY 2007ADVERTISING

Jennifer Ann Zook

BROADCAST NEWS

Lindsay DaniellePodobnik

NEWS-EDITORIAL

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StudentAwardsJACKIE CAIN, a May 2006 broadcast newsgraduate, placed 12th for TelevisionBroadcast News Reporting in the HearstJournalism Awards Program with her piece“Miners Cut/Sago Mine.”

December 2006 news-editorial graduateMICHAEL COSTELLO and May 2006 advertis-ing graduates NEEL GOEL and RAY WEIBEL

received 1st place honors for Full Page PhotoLayout in the Columbia Scholastic PressAssociation’s Gold Circle Award 2007 for“Portraits of Recovery” in the 2006 editionof the School’s news magazine.

SARAH LAMANTIA, a December 2006 broad-cast news graduate, won 11th place forTelevision Broadcast Feature Reporting inthe Hearst Journalism Awards Program forher feature piece on the Mountaineer bal-loon festival.

Broadcast news senior SEAN MERINAR won1st place for TV Sports Reporting in theBroadcast Education Association Festival ofMedia Arts with his profile on legendarysports writer, Mickey Furfari.

Graduate student BRIANA WARNER and pub-lic relations junior ELIZABETH BRANDT wereselected to the GolinHarris “Mountaineer inDC” internship program and will receive a$2,500 stipend and a weekly salary to work atGolinHarris, one of the world’s top PR firms,during the summer and fall terms, respective-ly.

The following students were inducted intoKappa Tau Alpha, a college honor societythat recognizes academic excellence and pro-motes scholarship in journalism and masscommunication: ELIZABETH BRANDT,SARAH BRASWELL, BRANDON BRUMAGE,STEPHANIE EDWARDS, JACQUELINE

GILBERT, KATHRYN GREGORY, KELLEN

HENRY, MICHAEL KOEHLER, SARAH

LEONARD, SARAH MCLEAN, LINDSAY

PODOBNIK, TARA ROMBERGER, KATHRYN

ROSS, CHRISTINE SIMMONS, JOANNA

STEMPLE, CHELSEA TODD and COLLEEN

WRIGHT.

The following advertising students wereinducted into Alpha Delta Sigma, foundedby the American Advertising Federation torecognize and encourage scholastic achieve-ment in advertising studies: JESSICA

ASZTALOS, MEGAN DAMEWOOD, STEPHEN

DELGRECO, KELLI MEYER, HARRISON

PERKINS and KATHRYN ROSS.

The following students were honored inApril at the School of Journalism’s annualstudent awards luncheon:

ADVERTISINGOutstanding Leadership in Advert i s i n gCampaign Planning: KASIE FIANO, KELLI

MCCLELLAN, KELLY MCNEIL, ANDREW

MINENNA, ANGELA POTTS

Outstanding Leadership in Cre a t i v eA d v e rtising Campaign: JENNA RADFORD

BROADCAST NEWSWVU News Outstanding Anchor: PAUL

KETTERING, BARCLAY FUELLGRAF

WVU News Outstanding Executive Pro d u c e r :MEGAN GILLESPIE

WVU News Outstanding Sport sR e p o rter/Anchor: SEAN MERINAR

WVU News Outstanding Beat Reporter: CARLY MORGAN

WVU News Outstanding Broadcast News Senior: RYAN POSEY

Outstanding Breaking News Reporting in the KDKA/WVU Bureau Partnership: SEAN TINNELLY

Aw a rd of Excellence for Breaking NewsContinuing Coverage on the Vi rginia Te c hTragedy: BARCLAY FUELLGRAF, SEAN

TINNELLY, JUSTIN VAN SLYKE and JUSTIN

WEAVER

NEWS-EDITORIALOutstanding News-Editorial Seniors:JESSICA RHODES, ROBERT RIZZUTO,CHRISTINE SIMMONS

Outstanding News-EditorialP h o t o j o u rnalism: BILLY WOLFE

Outstanding Leadership Aw a rd for Service tothe Society of Professional Journalists, WVUChapter: RYAN POSEY

PUBLIC RELATIONS Outstanding Leadership as PRSSA Pre s i d e n tand Outstanding Public Relations Senior:JESSICA BRADLEY

Outstanding Leadership as PRSSA Memberand Outstanding Public Relations Senior:KATE GROSEL

Outstanding Public Relations Senior:KATIE HINERMAN, AMANDA NOWE,SHAMIKA PAGE

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS REGION 4 COMPETITION “MARK OF EXCELLENCE” AWARDS 2006

TELEVISION NEWSCAST1st place: SPRING AND FALL 2006 CREWS OF

“WVU NEWS”

TELEVISION GENERAL REPORTING3 rd place: JACKIE CAIN with “Miners Cut/SagoMine”

TELEVISION FEATURE3 rd place: MEGAN GILLESPIE with “Twins’ Disease”

TV SPORTS REPORTING 1st place: SEAN MERINAR with “Mickey Furfari Profile”

2nd place: AMANDA MCCALL with “Pittsnogle Baby”

3 rd place: PAUL WILLIAMS with “SportsMemories”

ONLINE NEWS REPORTING1st place: LINDSEY FLEMING with “From Stormto Surgery” on the multimedia website “StartingOver: Loss and Renewal in Katrina’s Aftermath”

2nd place: ROBERT RIZZUTO and SARAH

WESSON with “Running on Faith” on the“Starting Over” multimedia website

3 rd place: JESSE WRIGHT with “Staying forMissy” on the “Starting Over” multimedia website

ONLINE FEATURE REPORTING1st place: MICHAEL COSTELLO, ROBERT

RIZZUTO, JUSTIN WEAVER and SARAH WESSON

with “Together Again” on the “Starting Over” multimedia website

2nd place: IVY GUILER and JUSTIN WEAVER

with “Endless Stories” on the “Starting Over” multimedia website

ONLINE IN-DEPTH REPORTING1st place: SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM with “ALook Inside the Race Debate” on the “StartingOver” multimedia website

2nd place: HOLLY HILDRETH with “The Last toLeave” on the “Starting Over” multimedia website

3 rd place: SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM with“Journalists Speak/Privacy in the Media” on the“Starting Over” multimedia website


FacultyBriefsJOEL BEESONAssistant Professor Joel Beesonattended the 6th AnnualInternational Conference onDiversity in Communities,Organisations and Nations inNew Orleans in June 2006 topresent a documentary video onblues culture in Alabama.

In February, Beeson traveled toReno, Nev., for the 2007 AEJMCMidwinter Conference to present“The Learning Curve,” a presen-tation on teaching diversity serv-ice learning projects.

Beesonreceived aSchool ofJournalismResearch Grant andaWVU FacultyDevelopment Grantto interview AfricanAmericanveterans in Las Vegas, Nev., and ElPaso,Texas, forhis documentaryonWorld War IIveterans.

DR. GEORGE ESPERGeorge Esper, Ogden NewspapersVisiting Professor, was among thekeynote speakers at four majorconferences last year, including apanel of correspondents who dis-cussed AP’s coverage of theVietnam War.

Esper also spoke at the annualmemorial for combat photogra-phers in October, as part of theEddie Adams Workshop, inJeffersonville, N.Y.

The following month, Esperserved on two panels, “Coveringthe Front Lines: The Evolution ofWar Journalism” and “LastingEffects of War Coverage onJournalists,” presented by MiddleTennessee State University’s JohnSeigenthaler Chair of Excellencein First Amendment Studies inMurfreesboro, Tenn.

PAM HANSONIn October 2006, Pam Hanson,Director of Advising, attendedThe Southern AppalachianWriter’s Cooperative at theHighland Center in New Market,Tenn. Hanson also served on theworkshop committee for the WestVirginia Writers, Inc. 30thanniversary conference.

DR. RALPH HANSONRalph Hanson, Associate Deanand Director of ExtendedLearning, co-authored the article,“Back to the Future: AlleghenyMountain Radio and Localism inCommunity Radio,” with DeanMaryanne Reed, which was pub-lished in the December 2006 issueof the Journal of Radio Studies.

The second edition of Hanson’stextbook, “Mass Communication:Living in a Media World,” will bepublished this fall byCongressional Quarterly.

DR. DIANA KNOTT MARTINELLIAssistant Professor Dr. DianaKnott Martinelli was electedresearch co-chair of the PublicRelations Division and vice headof the Mass Communication andSociety Division of theAssociation for Education inJournalism and MassCommunication in August 2006.

Martinelli presented “Calmingthe Seas: How to Focus andEngage Large Lecture Classes” atthe 2006 AEJMC annual confer-ence in San Francisco, which wassubsequently published in TheCommunity College Journalist.

She presented apaper, “TheChanging Roles of Womenin OurField:Documenting theWorkofAP Correspondent, RooseveltConfidant, and PRPractitioner Lorena Hickock,” thatshe co-authoredwith aUniversityof Maryland professor at theInternational Public RelationsResearch Conference in March.

This spring a paper she co-authored as a doctoral student,“Southern v. Northern NewsAbout Territories, Sections, andSlavery: a Newspaper Case Studyof Historical Agenda Setting,1820-1860,” was published byPurdue University Press asChapter One in the book “Wordsat War: The Civil War andAmerican Journalism.”

DR. IVAN PINNELLIn April, Ivan Pinnell attendedthe Western Social SciencesAssociation’s 49th AnnualConference in Calgary, Canada,to present “Why Major in PublicRelations: Why, How, When,”“Fear Factor: ACEJMCAccreditation” and “IsJournalism Dead?”

In October, Pinnell was a guestspeaker for the West VirginiaDepartment of Transportation’sannual Financial ManagementConference in Morgantown,W.Va. Pinnell provided trainingto newly elected county officialsat the New CountyCommissioners TrainingWorkshop in January 2007.

MARYANNE REEDDean Maryanne Reed, co-authored the article, “Back tothe Future: Allegheny MountainRadio and Localism inCommunity Radio,” published inthe Journal of Radio Studies, inDecember 2006.

Reed also produced a televisionfeature about the MonroeCounty Radio Project, whichaired on West Virginia PublicBroadcasting’s “Outlook” pro-gram in November 2006.

BONNIE STEWARTAssistant professor BonnieStewart was selected to partici-pate in the competitive IndianaUniversity’s Journalism TeachingWorkshop in BloomingtonIndiana in June 2006.

Stewart received an SOJResearch Grant and WVUFaculty Development Grant grantto conduct research on herreporting project about theFarmington mine disaster.

JOHN TEMPLEJohn Temple spent the past yearresearching and writing a narra-tive nonfiction book entitled“The Last Lawyer.” Temple hascompleted a draft of the book,which offers a behind-the-sceneslook at a team of death penaltylawyers based in Durham, N.C.

BROADCASTEDUCATIONASSOCIATION’S2006 “FESTIVAL OF

MEDIA ARTS”

In April 2007, threeSchool of Journalism facul-ty members — assistantprofessors Joel Beeson,Dana Coester andBonnie Stewart —were awarded a combined“Best of Festival Award” inFaculty MultimediaInteractive at theBroadcast EducationAssociation’s annualFestival of Media Artscompetition for co-direc-tion of the multimediawebsite, “Starting Over:Loss and Renewal inKatrina’s Aftermath.”

Beeson received firstplace in the EducationalProduction subcategory forhis individual contribu-tions to the “StartingOver” website.

Coester received an“Award of Excellence” inthe EducationalProduction subcategory forthe segment, “Dialogues onRace and Poverty,” on the“Starting Over” website.

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2000sSTEPHANIE ACKERMAN (’05) is anAccount Coordinator/InternshipProgram Coordinator for Jack HornerCommunications Inc., an award-winningpublic relations and marketing agencylocated in Pittsburgh, Pa. She recentlycompleted a national public relationscampaign for the H.J. Heinz Company’sHeinz Ketchup Personalized labels,which was featured on Good MorningAmerica, FOX & Friends, Cold Pizza andThe Colbert Report, in addition to arti-cles in USAToday, the ChicagoTribuneandThe NewYork Post.

SHANNON BLOSSER (’02) has beenaccepted to AsburyTheologicalSeminary for the Fall 2007 semesterand is in the candidacy process ofbeing a youth minister in the UnitedMethodist Church.

KELLY LAMP (’00) accepted aposition as a field and special proj-ects producer with WJLA-TV inWashington, D.C.

NATALIE VOITHOFER (’03) is cur-rently working as News Producer atKDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1990sCRAIG FERRENCE (’97) is the ArtDirector at Martin/Williams inMinneapolis, Minn. He went on toreceive his master’s degree from theVirginia Commonwealth UniversityAdcenter in Richmond,Va., in 2003.

K. DANIEL GLOVER (’90) waspromoted to editor of NationalJournal’s Technology Daily inNovember 2006 after serving for sixyears as the managing editor.

DR. ALLEN H. LOUGHRY II,S.J.D. (’92) published his 600-page book, “Don’t Buy Another Vote,I Won’t Pay for a Landslide.” Thebook was released in June 2006.

MAUREEN KENYON (’95) is a fea-tures page designer and graphic artist atScrippsTreasure Coast Newspapers inStuart, Fla.The 100,000-circulation

newspaper chain owns publicationsfrom Sebastian to Jupiter. Kenyon hasworked with the company for more thaneight years, serving as a copy editor andhealth reporter before moving into hercurrent position.

1980sJOHN BANKS (’81) accepted a posi-tion with ESPN.com after working for21 years in various roles atThe DallasMorning News.

JAMES LOGUE (’83) is celebrating10 years with the Clarksburg ExponentTelegram. Previously, Logue spent 14years working withWBOY-TV, includ-ing six years as news director.

LYNN KESSLER (’86) has producedand written individual programs andseries for PBS,A&E, HGTV, CourtTV,National Geographic International,Animal Planet andTLC, as well as seg-ments for NBC and CBS. She has wonseveral awards, including Cine,Tellyand Silver Inkwell, and others from theNational Education Association,National Education Media Networkand the NewYork and Southwest FilmFestivals. She is producing two docu-mentaries aboutWashington D.C.’smonuments and memorials for the newSmithsonian Network and a series ofspecials about the Giant Pandas forAnimal Planet.

CAROLYN BAILEY LEWIS (’87,’71) received her Doctor ofPhilosophy degree in CommunicationStudies with a concentration in Healthand Organizational Communication atOhio University in June 2007.

CHARLENE SMITH-MCCAW (’86)had a baby boy, Kyle Robert McCaw, onJuly 5, 2006.

CHRIS MONROE (’88) is currentlyVice President of Marketing atSimontonWindows, a Fortune BrandsCompany, in Parkersburg,W.Va.Simonton employs 3,500 people innine locations nationwide and is

MARK SCHAEFER (’82), directorof eBusiness and Commercial Systemsat Alcoa, recently received his fifthU.S. Patent for new product develop-ment in the aluminum industry.

MICHAEL TOMASKY (’82) wasappointed editor of Guardian America,the Guardian’s U.S. website, in May2007.As editor,Tomasky is responsiblefor developing the Guardian’s onlinepresence in America.

1970sSUE BALDWIN (’73) was recentlyelected President of the NationalAssociation of County Recorders,Election Officials and Clerks(NACRC).Also a graduate ofWVUCollege of Law (’76), Baldwin is theDirector of Records for BrowardCounty, Fla., and a recognized leaderin the field of recording technology.

RON CUTRIGHT (’74), Director ofMajor Projects, U.S. Department ofEnergy, celebrated the birth of his firstgrandchild, a boy, Michael JoshuaBogroff.

CHARLOTTE FOX LUTTRELL

(’74) is now Fund DevelopmentManager for Girl Scouts of the HuronValley Council, a five-county GirlScout Council in southeasternMichigan. She directs special eventfundraising and special projects for thecouncil, which serves 14,000 girls.

VALERIE NIEMAN (’78) is an assis-tant professor of English and journal-ism at North Carolina A&T StateUniversity in Greensboro, N.C., a fac-ulty member in the new undergraduatecreative writing program and contentmanager for the College of Arts andSciences website. Her first full-lengthpoetry collection, “WakeWakeWake,”was published in 2006.

LINDA TROELLER (’71) won theLucie Award for her art photographyexhibition, “TB-AIDS Diary,” placingthird in Fine Art Collage.View herwork at http://photoawards.com/06/contests/2006winners.asp.

1960sTOM BURGER (’68), the firstbroadcast journalism graduate fromWVU, was recently recognized by theWestVirginia Annual Conference ofthe United Methodist Church for 25years of service as director of commu-nications, where he is a diaconal min-ister. Before his employment with thechurch, he was the first Charlestonproducer forWV Public Radio in 1974and later hosted legislative programsfor public television, such as “TheStateWe’re In” and “Capitol Beat.”

His wife Bettijane ChristopherBurger (’68) was a journalism minorand editor of the 408-page“Centennial Monticola” yearbook in1967. Her father, the late DavidChristopher (’18), was a historymajor and editor of both the“Monticola” and the Athenaeum in1917.

Their daughter, Renee Burger (’99,PR), is also an SOJ graduate and laterearned a J.D. (’02) fromWVUCollege of Law. She is an assistantprosecutor for Marion County.

LOUISE CRUMRINE SEALS (’66)retired as the managing editor of theRichmondTimes-Dispatch. Hernewspaper career spanned 40 years,the last 12 as managing editor at theTimes-Dispatch. She recently taughtAdvanced Reporting at the School ofMass Communications,VirginiaCommonwealth University, whereshe obtained her MSJ in 1983.

JANET SHAFFRON (’69) marked25 years working on Capitol Hill onAug. 19, 2006. She works in the U.S.House of Representatives as the leg-islative director forVirginia Rep.FrankWolf. Shaffron is aWestVirginianative and resides in Harwood nearAnnapolis, Md.

CORRECTION: MARTHA SMITH

(’70) was incorrectly identified as a1956 graduate in previous Class Notes.

ClassNotes

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THE PERLEY ISAAC REED SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM WILL HAVE A TENT FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS IN TENT CITY 2.

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In MemoryThe WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism dedicates this issue in

memory of Dr. Hunter P. McCartney, former head of the SOJ public

relations sequence, and Professor Emeritus Harry W. Elwood.

McCartney, who passed on March 5, 2007, taught at the School of Journalism for

22 years and was twice named outstanding educator before retiring in 1989.

Elwood, an associate professor from 1969-1988, was also named as an outstanding

teacher at the School of Journalism. He passed on Nov. 3, 2006.

West Virginia University is an EqualOpportunity/Affirmative Action Institution.

West Virginia University is governed by the WVU Board of Governors and the West Virginia

Higher Education Policy Commission.

Dr. Hunter P. McCartney Harry W. Elwood

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