News & Events
STARTUPS FOR JOURNALISTS, Thurs., Dec. 3, 4 p.m., Bartlett 206. Lisa Williams, founder of placebloggers.com and fellow at MIT Media Lab will talk on journalism entrepreneurship. All are welcome.
Watch Prof. Ralph Whitehead and Vice President Joe Biden at a forum on economic challenges facing the middle class, Nov. 5, in Washington, D.C.
Watch the video from Journalism's Career Night, Thurs., Oct. 22.
ESPN PANEL
Wednesday, Oct. 14
12:30 – 2 pm Bartlett 61
Join Steve Fox and his Sports Journalism class (J393S) as
they welcome Jena Janovy and Matthew Lee from ESPN.com to a panel discussion.
Jena Janovy, ESPN.com Senior Editor, Enterprise, oversees the integration of long-form, cross-platform journalism at ESPN.com, and plans, assigns, edits and produces long-form features in the ESPN.com enterprise/features/investigations group. Jena works with national enterprise writers and television producers to integrate content for TV and ESPN.com – primarily for “Outside the Lines” and “E:60.” Jena has been at ESPN.com since 2006, and has won two Sports Emmys for her work on cross-platform integrated content. Before joining ESPN, she was an assistant sports editor at The Charlotte Observer, overseeing NFL, NBA and enterprise coverage as well as the copy/news desk. She has more than 15 years of newspaper experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Matthew Lee, ESPN.com Senior Editor, Blogs, has 12 years of experience as an editor and producer for online publications, including nine as an editor in various capacities at washingtonpost.com <http://washingtonpost.com/> . Matthew has been at ESPN.com since 2006, first as editor of the site’s premium content and more recently as editor of the site’s NFL, College Football and MLB network of blogs. He has a bachelor’s degree in Communication from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
All Journalism majors are welcome to attend and join in the discussion...
STEVE FOX recently was a panelist at the Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop, talking about "When the News Finds You Through Social Media." Watch here...
"TAKING BACK CAMPUS" Thurs., Oct. 1, 7 pm Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union. First screening of Journalism major Rosie Walunas' documentary. Read more...
INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP, Wed., Oct. 7, 4 pm, Bartlett 206 with Jeff Silver, Director of Career Services and BJ Roche, Journalism's internship coordinator. Learn about Spring & Summer 2010 interships and coops and more! Any student thinking about doing an internship at some time is welcome and encouraged to attend.
WMUA 91.1 FM MEETING
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
7 pm Campus Center 917
The radio voice of UMass, WMUA 91.1 FM, is looking for new recruits! At the meeting WMUA will go over the opportunities of getting involved - whether it be hosting your own radio show, calling a UMass football game, or anchoring your own newscast. The station is specifically looking for new talent in the Sports Department, where students can anchor a daily sports cast, call a UMass Football, Basketball, Lacrosse, or Baseball game, and host a weekly sportstalk show along with many other things in the field of sports media. Alumni of the WMUA Sports Department have gone on to work at ESPN/ESPN Radio, WEEI 850 AM, and 98.5 The Sports Hub. WMUA loves new contributors and expects a big turnout. For more information, contact Neil Carroll, Sports Operations Director Sportsop@wmua.org. (09/14/09)
We recently found out that a member of our journalism family is facing some serious health issues. Matt Sheehan, class of 2008, is awaiting a bone marrow transplant at his parent's home in New Jersey. He recently sent out an email to Journalism faculty members and we passit along here in its entirety.
"On June 29th I was sent to the emergency room due to critical bloodwork. I spent three days in Hackensack University Hospital received six blood transfusions, a bone marrow biopsy and phone calls from charming health insurance and billing representatives. The deal is my bone marrow is not
producing blood cells, the disease is called aplastic anemia.
I'm currently resting comfortably at my parents home in New Jersey awaiting a bone marrow transplant. If you would like to do something to help, PLEASE join the bone marrow registry, It's an easy process,you sign up, they mail you a kit to swab a few cheek cells and you mail it back. Simple.
If there is anything I have learned from all this it is the importance of donating, if people had not taken the time to donate blood I would be dead. So please become a donor and get yourself on the bone marrow registry, you never know who you can help. I'll provide a link below where everyone who has not yet joined can do so ASAP:
http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/index.html
I am forwarding this to everyone---family, friends, colleagues, random strangers etc. Please do the same and forward this e-mail along to anyone and everyone.
Thank you to all ahead of time and God bless.
best,
Matt
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