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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Faculty News

• New Faces

• Meet Dawn, Brett andYvonnes

• Student and AlumniNews

• J-School Calendar

Upcoming Dates andEvents

See full J-SchoolCalendar for moreinformation

Aug. 21 - Faculty / StaffRetreat

Aug. 23 - Graduatestudent and GTAorientation

Aug. 25 - J-School's"Hawk Week" welcomeevent

Oct. 3 - 5 - J-SchoolGenerations

Faculty News

Peter Bobkowski met withwith Mary Beth Tinker at theAEJMC Scholastic JournalismDivision Teach In inWashington, DC. Tinker, oneof the plaintiffs in the Tinkerv. Des Moines student freespeech case, shared herstory during the daylongseminar for DC-areajournalism teachers. Bobkowski was representing the NationalScholastic Press Association, which co-sponsored the event.

Pam Fine was one of six members of the Association for Education inJournalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) to receive a 2013-14Scripps Howard Foundation/AEJMC Social Media Externship Grant. Fine spent two weeks this summer at DNAinfo.com in New York andalso met with editors at the New York Times and Digital First Media tolearn first-hand how they’re using social media across multipleplatforms. As part of a second phase of the program, a DNAinfo editorwill visit the J-school during the school year.

Fine also got hands-on experience this summer shooting and editingvideo as a participant in a weeklong “Backpack and Mobile VideoReporting” seminar at the Poynter Institute.

Doug Ward has been named a fellow at the Center for TeachingExcellence. He will work half a day a week at CTE on projects andworkshops related to teaching and education.

Ward’s article “Process Over Product,” about structural problems thatimpede learning at colleges and universities, was published by InsideHigher Ed.

Ward is featured in a new video on the site of the Institute for DigitalResearch in the Humanities. He talks about the importance of digitalliteracy, the use of digital tools and the creation of Infomania.

Kerrin Burke and Matt Garrett from KU Information Technologyspoke about mobile app development with students in Doug Ward'ssummer Infomania class.

Our new Media Director andContent Stategist, Brett Akagi,went to China this summer towork with broadcastprofessionals in Nanjing at theJiangsu Broadcast Corporation.

Akagi, also met with journalismdeans from two different Chinesecolleges, and has been asked toreturn to be a guest speaker attheir universities.

New Faces

We want to welcome serveral new hires to the School of Journalism.Brett Akagi, Yvonnes Chen, and Dawn Fallik. You can read moreabout them below.

Meet Dawn, Brett and Yvonnes

Dawn Fallik writes about super nerdy medical advances and reallybad television for The Wall Street Journal, Neurology Today and ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. After working as a staff writer for 15 years, most recently on The Philadelphia Inquirer's medical desk, shemoved to academia at the University of Delaware in 2007. She is nowdirector of the school's journalism program.

She was the Reader's Digest Fellow at the Missouri School ofJournalism and co-director of the school's National Institute forComputer-Assisted Reporting. She received her undergraduatedegree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madisonwhere her first story involved covering condom day.

She's living at the Delaware Street Commons and wonders why shehad to come to Kansas to live on a kibbutz. Please feel free to sendsuggestions about restaurants, dance classes and kayaking trips.

Brett Akagi was hired by theSchool of Journalism to manageits student media operations,including KUJH-TV and theUniversity Daily Kansan. Akagiowns his own media companyand most recently was theassistant news director asKSHB-TV in Kansas City.

Akagi’s career includes threeyears as the assistant newsdirector at KSHB-TV in KansasCity and two years as the seniorvideo producer in the multimediadepartment at the MinneapolisStar Tribune. Akagi served as thedirector of photography for adecade at KARE-TV inMinneapolis, and worked as aphotographer at WDAF-TV inKansas City, WIBW-TV inTopeka, and KSNC-TV in GreatBend, KS. He also worked atKGNO Radio in Dodge City.

As Akagi makes anothertransition in his award-winningcareer, which icludes 21Regional Emmys, regional andnational Edward R. Murrow andNational Press PhotographersAssociation awards, he says helooks forward to continuing theSchool’s commitment toproviding professional mediaexperiences to the students.

Yvonnes Chen is AssistantProfessor of StrategicCommunication at the WilliamAllen White School of Journalismand Mass Communications. Shereceived her Ph.D. from theEdward R. Murrow College ofCommunication at WashingtonState University in 2008.

Her research primarily centers onoffering empirical implications foroptimal targets and timepointsfor effective behavioralinterventions in the area of healthpromotion. Specifically, shefocuses on investigating theextent to which health and medialiteracy strategies mitigate thenegative impact of mediamessages, strengthenindividuals’ logic-baseddecision-making to resist thepersuasive intent of mediamessages and promote healthybehavior. She has collaboratedwith faculty across variousdisciplines, including HumanNutrition, Foods, and Exercise,Agricultural and AppliedEconomics, HumanDevelopment, Public Health,Education, Biological-systemEngineering, English, andComputer Science.

She is currently working with aninterdisciplinary team on a NIHgrant project that tests theeffectiveness of a technologyenhanced, health literacy basedintervention on decreasingsugary drink consumption amongadults in rural Southwest Virginia.

Student and Alumni News

Luke Ranker (left) interned atthe Stevens Point Journal inStevens Point, WI.

Kristen Luehrs is a trafficreporter for WTVR-TV inRichmond, VA

Marit Ehmke, 2012,accepted a copy editorposition at the LawrenceJournal-World.

Andrew Sherwood acceptedan offer to become theAssistant Director of AnnualGiving for Athletics at the

University of Connecticut.

Luke S. Morris, 2009, accepted a job on the sports copy desk for theDallas Morning News.

Jeff Beringer, GolinHarris’ Global Practice Leader, Digital, who isbased in the Dallas office, was just announced as part of PR Week’s40 under 40.

Mike Montano, outgoing Advertising Club president at KU, recentlyaccepted a position with global ad agency, gyro, as an InfluencerMarketing Account Executive in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company’sheadquarters are in London and include offices in Paris, New York,Chicago, Cincinnati and more. A few of gyro’s clients: Kellogg’s,BBC, Forbes, John Deer, SAP, Intuit, and T Mobile.

“When I made the decision to finish my college degree at KU, I knew Iwanted to go into advertising and social media. The J-Schooldefinitely prepared me for success through campaigns, social mediaclass and as KU’s Advertising Club president. I still keep in touchwith some of the club officers too. Being a Jayhawk doesn’t end atgraduation and I’m forever grateful for my time spent at thisprestigious university. I’m proud to be Rock Chalkin’ in Cincy!”

Matt Galloway accepted a position as a sports desk copy editor forThe Topeka Capital-Journal.

Chris Hong and Ian Cummings announced their investigative storiesabout drugs and Kansas City has been picked up by bio True Story,TV. This episode focuses on the gangster of suburbia who led adouble life, Alejandro Corredor. He seemed like an average familyman living in the small town of Fairway, Kansas. But in his other life,he was Kansas City's cocaine pipeline, moving massive shipmentsfrom Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel. With the money from drugs, he investedin a local gangsta rap group called Block Life. Eventually, several

members of Block Life helped him sell drugs to some of the mostnotorious gangs in Kansas City. As the money from drugs and thesuccess of Block Life grew, Alejandro strove to keep a balancebetween his two worlds. But his dealings with the Sinaloa Cartel ledhim down a dangerous path that would threaten to destroy everything.

Upcoming Airings Tuesday August 20 at 10:00PM EDT Wednesday August 21 at 2:00AM EDT

J-School Calendar

Fall 2013

Aug. 21 Faculty/Staff retreat We will tour the Kansas CityBusiness Journal, The EwingMarion Kauffman Foundation andMuller Bressler Brown. We will havelunch at the Cheesecake Factory.

The chartered bus will leave fromthe J-School promptly at 8 a.m.More information will follow.

Aug. 23 Graduate student andGTA orientation andreception

Clarkson Gallery

Graduate student orientation: 3– 4:30 p.m.GTA orientation: 4:30 – 5 p.m.Reception: 5 – 6 p.m.

Aug. 25 Hawk Week / J-School Welcomeevent for newstudents on theStauffer-Flint Lawn

1 – 3 p.m.

Sep. 6 Friday Educationsession

9:30 a.m., 303 ST-F

Q&A about hybrid and onlinecourses. Julie Loats, director of theCenter for Online and DistanceLearning, will meet with us to takeanswer about setting up hybrid andonline courses, working with

instructional designers at CODL,and anything else that’s on yourmind.

Sep.13

Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

Sep.25

KSPA Fall Conference

Sep.27

Friday Educationsessions

9:30 a.m., 303 ST-F

Faculty advice on hybrid and onlinecourses. Journalism facultymembers will share theirexperiences about alternativemethods of teaching.

Oct. 3-5

J-School Generations Oct. 3 (Thursday)

Alumni visit classes (all day)Free Pizza and networking lunch,Noon, Clarkson GalleryStudent and alumni networkinground robin, 3:30 p.m.,Resource CenterAlumni evening reception, 6p.m., Clarkson Gallery

Oct. 4 (Friday)

Student and alumni “Challengeproject” event, 9 a.m., Stauffer-Flint HallAlumni networking lunch, Noon,Kansas UnionChallenge Project Presentations,1 p.m., Kansas Union

Oct. 5 (Saturday)

Alumni tailgate reception,Kansas Alumni AssociationBuilding, two hours prior tokickoff (time will be announcedweek of game)

Oct. 18 Friday Educationsession

9:30 a.m., 303 ST-F

Dealing with and preventingplagiarism. We’ll talk about therecent e-book on plagiarismcreated by several journalisticorganizations. We’ll also talk aboutthe discussions at the PlagiarismSummit sponsored by the AmericanCopy Editors Society in the spring.

Oct. 21 Kerry Luft from theChicago Tribune willat the J-School torecruit.

See Patty Noland for moreinformation and to sign up.

Oct. 21– 27

Free Speech Week

http://www.freespeechweek.org/

Oct. 25 Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

Dec.13

Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

Spring 2014

Jan. 31 Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

Feb. 6-7

William Allen WhiteDay Festivities

Stauffer-Flint, Union, AlumniAssociation

Mar. 7 Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

May 9 Faculty Meeting 1:30 – 3 p.m.SF 206

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