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The Minnesota Journalism Center hosted the World Press Institute and its "Transparency Reporting" workshop June 20-July 1. Ten journalists from Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa attended the conference, which focused on the principles of transparency reporting and the role of a free press in society. Carolina Carrazo, a journalist from Costa Rica said: "It was a wonderful opportunity to meet new people from all over the world and, most importantly, become part of a worldwide network of journalists."
The MJC will host the Asian American Journalists Association's "J Camp" Aug. 12-17. Forty-two high school students of color have been invited to the camp, which is an intensive six-day journalism training program where students will learn more about newswriting, broadcasting and photography and have opportunity to interact with multicultural journalists from around the country.
The University of Minnesota Alumni Association has added the Minnesota Daily Alumni Association as one of eight official UMAA interest groups. Interested alumni who worked at the Daily can visit the UMAA interest group site or contact the UMAA office at umalumni@umn.edu for more information.
The current issue of Minnesota, the alumni magazine of the UMAA, contains an article about Eric Sevareid and the story behind his book Canoeing the Cree. Sevareid, who served as a columnist at the Daily while he was a student at the U, wrote about a canoe trip he took with his friend, Walter Port, shortly after they graduated from high school. The book was reissued this year by Borealis Books.
Upcoming UMAA events, 2005-06
August 28: Maroon & Gold Day at the Minnesota State Fair
September 23: Scholars Walk and Alumni Wall of Honor Dedication
September 24: Homecoming Breakfast
October 7: Alumni Volunteer Awards
October 8: Alumni Volunteer Leadership Forum
Professor Jane Kirtley was a guest on the Stan Turner Show on WMGT-AM 1220 on July 9. The topic was the recent jailing of The New York Times reporter Judith Miller over her refusal to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame identification leak. Kirtley was also a guest July 8 on "The Wendy Wilde Show" on AM 950, Air America Minnesota, to discuss the jailing, and she participated in an online chat July 7 along with University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone on the same topic. The chat was hosted by Court TV, and a transcript of the discussion can be found here.
A wide range of journalists and news organizations also quoted Kirtley or asked her to comment on the Miller jailing. The journalists and publications include: David Sarasohn (column), The Oregonian, July 7; Michael Stiffen, The Associated Press, July 7; Elizabeth Dunbar, The Associated Press, July 6; Eunice Moscoso, Cox News Service, July 5; Tom Brune, Newsday, July 1; Josh Gerstein, The New York Sun, July 1; Adam Liptak, The New York Times, July 1; and Richard Scmitt, Los Angeles Times, July 1.
Finally, Kirtley wrote an editorial about the how courts have defined the freedom of the press. The editorial appeared July 5 in the Baltimore Sun.
Both the Wall Street Journal online (July 12) and print edition of the paper (July 13) quoted Kirtley in an article on the topic "Should newspapers sponsor blogs written by reporters?" The article discussed a blog that is sponsored by The Mercury (San Jose, Calif.) News called "SiliconBeat." Reporters from the paper regularly "blog" on that site, which runs under The Mercury News banner. Said Kirtley: "We expect in the American tradition to maintain this role of detached observer and not cheerleader or insider, and blogs for the most part trade on...the idea of inside information and commentary."
A Seattle Times series profiled assistant professor Gary Schwitzer’s analysis of five years of news coverage of a common cold drug in its installment entitled, “Many new drugs have strong dose of media hype.”
Professor Jane Kirtley was an invited participant at a meeting of the Commission on the Role of the Press in a Democracy, which was held at The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia June 12-14. The meeting was sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
Kirtley spoke June 15 at the 2005 "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" Summer Institute, sponsored by the Learning Law and Democracy Foundation at the Minnesota Humanities Education Center in St. Paul. The title of her presentation was "Citizens' Right to Know: The First Amendment and a Responsible Press." Kirtley also presented June 24 at the World Press Institute's "Transparency Reporting" workshop hosted by the Minnesota Journalism Center.
A selection of 30 photographs from associate professor Dona Schwartz's ongoing project, "In the Kitchen" was chosen for exhibition June 16-July 10 at the 7th Internationale Fototage in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany as a part of the festival's theme "Contemporary American Photography." The Fototage is the largest German festival of photography and includes exhibitions, lectures, workshops and seminars.
Assistant professor Gary Schwitzer’s article calling for voluntary certification of TV health reporters, “TV Medical Reporters – Puppets and Pros,” was published by the Columbia Journalism Review’s CJR Daily. (Click here to access the article.) An online debate over this proposal ensued on the membership e-mail listserv of the Association of Health Care Journalists (http://www.ahcj.umn.edu), resulting in more than 50 postings in a week.
The Institute for New Media Studies will host the third edition of New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium on the Twin Cities campus Sept. 15-16. The goal of the conference is to examine current new media research practices and to provide an opportunity to reflect on future directions new media research methods might take.
The Minnesota Journalism Center and the American Press Institute will host a one-day business journalism workshop on "The Craft of Business Writing" Sept. 28 at the SJMC conference facilities. The workshop is free and open to working journalists who want to improve their writing skills in the field of business. For more information or to register, visit www.businessjournalism.org's web page about the event.
The 20th annual Silha Lecture will be held Oct. 24 and will feature Floyd Abrams. Abrams is the William J. Brennan Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Abrams has also served as counsel or co-counsel in a variety of high profile court cases concerning First Amendment issues. Those cases include currently representing The New York Times reporter Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, as well as representing The New York Times in the famous "Pentagon Papers" case.
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