Murphy Reporter Summer 2022

MURPHY SUMMER 2022 REPORTER 100 HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION YEARS HUBBARD SCHOOL TURNS 100

CONTENTS SUMMERREPORTERMURPHY2022 1 NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR 2 DEAN’S LETTER 3 IN MEMORIAM 2 AROUND MURPHY HALL New Faculty and Staff 4 Faculty Promotions 5 6 FEATURES Decades of Stories 6 Centennial Quiz 11 Minnesota Daily 12 The Mentor Program 14 Alum Memories 16 Why We Give 20 17 EVENTS 2022 Commencement 17 Spring Forum 18 Exhibit Opening 19 22 TEACH Faculty News 22 Murphy Hall Makeover 25 25 LEARN Graduate Student News 26 Undergraduate Student 26 Meet a Student 28 29 ALUMS Alumni Spotlight 29 Alumni News 30 CONNECT WITH US! U of MN Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication instagram.com/umnhsjmcyoutube.com/umnhsjmctwitter.com/umn_hsjmcfacebook.com/umnhsjmcAlumni BYPHOTO AmandaEDITORElisiaDIRECTORCohenFretheim Gates CONTRIBUTINGJeanneDESIGNSchacht WRITERS Erica Bouska, Katie Dohman Scott 2022-2023KayleeALUMNIKatiePROOFREADERMemmelDohmanRECORDSHighstromHSJMC ALUMNI SOCIETY BOARD MEMBERS Michael Schommer, president Kelli (Theiler) Brady Alexa (Trussoni) Cushman McKenna Ewen Riham HubbardsemiannuallyTEmeeKarenJenniShreyaSuzyMaggieFeshirHabashy(Hart)LangdellMukherjeePinkleySchultz(Drews)StraussheMurphyReporterispublishedbytheUniversityofMinnesotaSchoolofJournalism&Mass Communication for alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the school. Send questions or comments to murphrep@ umn.edu or Murphy Reporter, 111 Murphy Hall, 206 SE Church St., Minneapolis, MN The55455University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender Thisexpression.publication is available in alternative formats upon request. Direct requests to murphrep@umn.edu 100 HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION YEARS

1 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

AFTER MORE THAN FIVE YEARS serving as the Hubbard School director, I’ve watched the School go through a period of rapid growth, discovery and innova tion. We aspire to be a driver of innovation within the College of Liberal Arts, the University of Minnesota, and the Twin Cities community. Indeed, throughout its 100-year history, the School has held steadfast to its goals of cultivating diverse student talent, strengthening community and media indus try-engaged collaborations, and supporting faculty-led research, leadership development, and practice-based discovery.TheSchool has grown its diversity and number of students served, with a 12 percent enrollment growth over the past three years. In Spring 2022, we enrolled 2,120 unique students in our classes, and about half those students were pre-majors, majors, and graduate students. We also continue to strengthen our commu nity and industry connections, expanding our summer internship, mentor and job-shadowing programs that continue moving students from the classroom into their professionalFundamentalcareers.toachieving our strategic goals is our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and promoting diverse and talented faculty, staff and students. The Hub bard School faculty and staff family is now stronger than ever (see p. 4-5). Our faculty’s research accomplishments have contributed to their campus, national and interna tional recognition (see p. 22). The University of Minnesota now ranks No. 22 in the 2022 Shanghai Global Ranking of Communication (a broad ranking that includes journal ism and mass communication scholarship) for its subject matter expertise. College Factual also rates the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities as No. 8 in the country on its list of 2022 Best Journalism Schools. Our accreditation, student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion rates and post-graduation earnings support College Factual’s ranking and our success. Our faculty and staff also continue to find ways to innovate and develop our student talent. Becky Borg, assistant director for external relations and career coach (see p. 5), has been developing School-wide professional development events for students to build their community and connections to local industry. Recently, Mark Jenson and Rich McCracken advised our American Advertising Federation competition team to win their district and regional competitions, advancing to nationals and winning the first place presentation award at the national com petition in Nashville (see p. 27). Our student journalists continue to place their work in local and national outlets, and we congratulate the Minnesota Daily for qualifying for the Associated College Press’ Hall of Fame (see p. 31). We cap off 2022 with our Centennial Gala on Nov. 5, 2022. Our vision is to provide guests a one-of-a-kind event experience demonstrating both the history and innovative vision for journal ism and media education that has transformed the School, Twin Cities, Minnesota, and the world over the past 100 years. If you have not returned to campus in recent years, I hope you will join me in celebrating the School’s accom plishments and vision for the future (learn more at z.umn.edu/HubbardGala).Therearesomanynewstories to share as the School continues to write its future. We are one of the units in the College of Liberal Arts that enjoys the deepest philanthropic commit ment from its alumni. Our lower-level renovation to Murphy Hall will transform the Hubbard School student experience as we center the dig ital resource center and Sevareid library space to support collaborations, and renovated labs and studio spaces support cross-cutting multimedia reporting and strategic communication work. Read more about ways to give on p. 20.

The School continues to prosper as it embarks on its second century of innovative teaching, research, and practice. These accomplishments are possible due to the deep and sustained support we receive from our alumni and friends, and we will continue to strengthen our reach and impact through our work that advances journalism and mass communication professions.

All my best, Elisia L. Cohen Director and Professor

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“The School has grown its years.”thegrowthenrollmentaserved,ofanddiversitynumberstudentswith12percentoverpastthree

“Our promise to you is to sustain and grow the prestige of your degree and to earn your support and pride in the powerful work of this School.”great

Hubbard School alumni have worked for esteemed media outlets like CBS, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, and the Washington Post. They’ve enhanced world-renowned agencies like Fallon. Others have launched their own firms and agencies. And Hubbard School graduate students are the next generation of scholars and educators.

Here in Minnesota, alumni fuel the state’s workforce and have helped build the Twin Cities’ strong media market. Our students benefit from internships and hands-on learning experiences provided by this dynamic business market and an impressive alumni network.

Our promise to you is to sustain and grow the pres tige of your degree and to earn your support and pride in the powerful work of this great School.

I OFTEN SAY THE LIBERAL ARTS ARE “FRONT-PAGE NEWS.”

Today, we are grappling with societal issues around addiction, mental health, environmental challenges, racial justice, economic dislocation, political polarization, the implications of technology and artificial intelligence, and the need for information and data literacy in an intense communications environment.

All of these are front-page news. And they are exactly the kinds of issues we explore in the liberal arts. Through their research and teaching, our faculty are confronting the toughest problems we face. They are asking the kind of questions that drive national discourse: enduring and emergent questions that are central to, and have implications for, our daily lives. Our students are sharpening modes of thinking and analysis that help them make sense of the world around them and prepare them to lead through change.

For 100 years, the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication has helped students build careers as journalists, reporters, and writers. The School has produced leaders in advertising and public relations agencies. It has launched successful entre preneurs across the media landscape and beyond.

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One can only imagine what the next 100 years will bring. But I know that the Hubbard School’s legacy and promise will continue to reflect its educational mis sion: To teach students to think critically and creatively in an environment that is diverse, dynamic, globally aware, interactive, and intellectually challenging. And to prepare its graduates to be leaders in their indus tries, communities, and in public life.

As alumni, your degree from the Hubbard School has helped you find professional success. It has also helped you develop the skills and confidence to more fully launch into public life, to listen and engage with a range of viewpoints with humility and empathy, to learn how to participate in robust and productive dialogue, and to see engaging with others across all of our differences as a wonderful and powerful opportunity.

Congratulations to the Hubbard School on a century of world-class scholarship, education, and impact, and to all of you for what you’ve achieved so far.

JohnBest, Dean,ColemanCollege of Liberal Arts

EARL JOHNSTON, 1963-2022

HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 3 IN MEMORIAM

Hubbard School students, faculty, and staff are saddened by the loss of Earl R. Johnston III. A beloved husband, father, son, and brother, Johnston passed away May 15, 2022, at age 58. He was a leader in the Minneapolis business communications, public relations, and advertising communities. He held lead ership roles with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, US Bank, Piper Jaffray, Thrivent Financial, and most recently UnitedHealthcare. An alum of the School’s master’s program, Johnston continued his service by teaching and mentoring hundreds of students, through both the undergradu ate and professional master’s programs. This role became his joyful passion.

“I first met Earl when we were both exploring making a transition from careers in professional communications to academics,” said Steve Wehren berg, former program director for the School’s Professional Master’s in Strategic Communication. “He was that rare combination of intellect, com passion, kindness, and courage—a perfect fit for our program. And in a School filled with great writers, he was one of the best. We were very fortunate to have someone of Earl’s abilities and character shine his light on our stu dents. We will miss him dearly.”

“His own undaunted fight with the illness that moved.”hisbutofhimagothankillednearlyhimmoreadecaderobbedgraduallymovement,neverofabilitytobe

The mantel over a fireplace at the historic mansion where he lived—and used to host gradu ate student get-togethers—bore the inscription Memento vivere, “remember to live,” a perfectly in-character riff on the classic Latin exhortation Memento mori, “remember that you will die.”

Johnston’s family set up a schol arship to honor his legacy and the family's connection to the School. The Earl and Brenda Johnston Scholarship in Strategic Communication provides financial support to students seeking to advance their education and careers in strategic communication. Contribute to the fund by visiting crowdfund.umn.edu.

In October 2001, Ken and I officially became “colleagues” when my very first scholarly publication, an article he and I co-authored, was published by the American Behavioral Scientist Journal. We had started working on the project, which investigated the symbolic uses of money as a form of communication in comparative socio-cultural contexts around the world, while I was studying for my master’s degree in Murphy Hall. By the time the article was printed, Ken, as Director of Graduate Studies, had been instrumental in getting me back to the School for my Ph.D. More than 20 years later, when we last met this past January, we were still colleagues, both associate professors at the Hubbard School. Ken was the only faculty left in the School among those who first started shaping my path back when I was a freshman—staunchly loyal to the end to his academic calling, to this School, and to those of us fortunate enough to be his friends.Inthat article two decades ago, Ken had given me first author privileges, even though it was his conceptualization and research frame. (The psychology of communication analyzed through a financial framework was his most widely recognized contribution to scholarship.) I was only one among several graduate students included in that special journal issue as authors, a tradition of intellectual generosity that I watched him continue with cohort after cohort of students. My own research followed a different direction, but Ken remained a crucial figure in my development as a scholar, a teacher, and most fundamentally, a person through that same altruism. Thanks to that, his deep knowledge of psychology, and our shared Catholic backgrounds and passionate engagement across international, cultural experiences, Ken became one of my most trusted sources of advice. There was no personal or profes sional dilemma where I did not find in him a patient, probing, reassuring, and inspiring listener. His own undaunted fight with the illness that nearly killed him more than a decade ago robbed him gradually of movement, but never of his ability to be moved.

KENNETH O. DOYLE, 1943-2022

Thank you, Ken, for never ceasing to remind me that life is meant to be lived not in fear, but generously, courageously, fully—each aha! moment celebrated with an amused chuckle at the beauty and the fleetingness of it all.

Whether in his office crammed with publications, or at the McDonald’s he favored as his home office, or over steaming Vietnamese fare from his special St. Paul dive, I knew Ken would take any and all of my concerns seriously. And then the unmis takable, unforgettable glimmer of mischievousness in his eyes would teach me, once again, not to take myself so very seriously.

BY GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO

MARÍA E. LEN-RÍOS

Dr. María E. Len-Ríos (Ph.D., Mis souri) joins the Hubbard School as professor and associate director after serving as the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of public relations at the College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She con ducts research in the areas of public relations, health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In 2016 she co-edited the text Cross-cultural Journalism: Communicating Strategically about Diversity, which was updated and republished in 2019/20 under the title Cross-cultural Journalism and Strategic Communication: Storytell ing and Diversity (Routledge). She has won more than 10 top paper awards at regional, national, and international academic conferences, published numerous journal articles with colleagues, and has served in various roles on large and small grant projects. She is a member of Page Up, a member organization of senior cor porate communications leaders. She is an editorial board member of Public Relations Review, the Journal of Public Relations Research, the International Journal of Strategic Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Howard Journal of Communications. Additionally, she is a board-member-at-large and co-Chair of the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) Standing Committee of the International Communication Association.

HASEON PARK Haseon Park joins the Hubbard School as an assistant professor in strategic communication. Park comes from the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Her research interests primarily focus on examining consumer-brand relationship build ing on emerging media platforms and interactive advertising effec tiveness by incorporating various quantitative methodologies such as surveys and experiments, computa tional analyses including data mining, computerized textual analyses, and social network analyses. Her work has been featured in the International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Market ing Communications, International Journal of Mobile Communications, and Cyberpsychology.

DON ALLEN Don Allen joins the

NEW FACES IN MURPHY HALL

ALVIN ZHOU Alvin Zhou joins the

Allen earned his undergraduate degree, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Arts in Education at Hamline University, and was a new-teacher mentor for Hamline University’s School of Education. Today, he is earning his Super intendent Licensure at Hamline University. Allen is the co-founder of the ad-free/income-free online news platform the Independent Business News Network, which

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tionalofthemunication.strategicprofessoranSchoolHubbardasassistantincomAtintersectioncomputasocial science and strategic communi cation, Zhou’s research focuses on advertising, public relations, audience analytics, and the various ways digital technologies (e.g., AI, platform design, mobile access, behavioral trace) are changing their industry practices and social impli cations. During his graduate study, he received six top paper awards from the International and National Communication Associations and published more than 10 articles in journals across communication subfields such as Social Media + Society, Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, and Journal of Public Relations Research. He is moving to the Twin Cities from Philly after graduating from the Uni versity of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in Communication at the Annenberg School and an M.A. in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School. Previously, he finished an M.A. in Stra tegic Public Relations at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School. At the Hubbard School, he is excited to teach courses on com putational social science and digital media, and mentor students who will use insights from data analytics to inform their journalistic and strategic work. Zhou previously worked as an investigative journalist, a news anchor, and a public relations specialist in the industry.

world.intionsforstrategicspecialistaSchoolHubbardasteachingforwritingcommunicaandmediaachangingPriorto his appointment, Allen worked in corporate America for more than 20 years in internet marketing, public relations, and media. In 2015, he became a high school English teacher specializing in university courses, in introduction to teaching, public speaking, journalism, writing and rhetoric, and life sciences.

HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 5 NEWS AROUND MURPHY HALL hosts a series of live online news programs including The Last Question, and Our Black News, and for the last 12 years, time permitting, he has been dedicated to delivering news and information to Minnesota’s diverse populations.

JEAN KUCERA rejoined HubbardtheSchool as chief of staff. Kucera held that role ofatbeforepreviously,hertimetheSchoolMusic. SCHILLINGERTROY joined the team as Finally,School’sapplydeclarehelpdinatorservicesuateundergradstudentcoorandwillstudentsandtothemajors.

MATT CARLSON, PROFESSOR Matt Carlson is director of graduate studies at the School. He is the author or editor of six books and has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters. His research within the field of journalism studies concentrates primarily on how different actors publicly compete to define journalism and its boundaries, dictate its normative and ethical com mitments, and establish proper forms of news. He was also named Cowles Fellow in Journalism.

VALÉRIE ASSOCIATEBÉLAIR-GAGNON,PROFESSOR Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and Yale Law School Information Society Project. She uses qualitative methods and theories at the intersection of the sociology of work and organizations and journalism studies. She is the author of The Paradox of Connection, Journalism Research That Matters, and Social Media at BBC News. She was also named Cowles Fellow in Media Management.

The University of Minnesota Regents voted to promote four faculty mem bers to the position of associate professor with tenure, and one tenured associate professor to the position of tenured full professor. The vote was ratified on May 12 and the promotions took effect July 1, 2022, for Matt Carlson, Colin Agur, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Adam Saffer and Claire Segijn.

NEW STAFF

The welcomedSchoolHubbardalso four new staff members in the last year.academic BECKY BORG joined the School in a new position as assistant direc tor for jobinternshipsstudentsandorganizationswithrelationshipsBorgcareerrelationsexternalandcoach.willbuildcommunityassistwithandsearches.

ADAM ASSOCIATESAFFER,PROFESSOR Adam Saffer teaches Strategic Communication at the Hubbard School after beginning his career on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Saffer's research revolves around a core interest in understanding the ways individuals, groups, and organizations use and are influenced by communication networks. He was named one of the 25 most prolific authors in communication in 2021 by the Observatory of International Research (OOIR).

CLAIRE M. SEGIJN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Claire Segijn’s work focuses on the intended and unintended effects of using multiple media simultane ously (multiscreening and synced advertising). She studies how media multitasking affects information processing and advertising effective ness, as well as privacy concerns and ethical ramifications of synced advertising and other forms of cor porate surveillance. She was named Mithun Program Fellow in Advertising and her work has been honored with numerous awards and grants.

HUBBARD SCHOOL PROMOTES FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS

COLIN AGUR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Colin Agur’s research explores emerging media, with interests in mobile communication, digital games, and the political economy of media. In addition to his book, Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future (2016, MIT Press), his work has appeared in leading jour nals such as New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Com munication, Social Media + Society, Mobile Media & Communication, and Journalism. He was also named Cowles Fellow in Journalism, Media and Mobility.

SETH RICHARDSON Mostreporter.aslongdecade-followingaSchoolHubbardjoinsRichardsonSeththeaslectureracareeradailyrecently, he was the chief politics reporter and assistant politics editor for cleveland. com/The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. He previ ously reported for the Reno Gazette-Journal in Reno, Nev., and The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill. He spent the majority of his career covering politics, ranging from local-level races to the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in the crucial swing states of Nevada and Ohio, respectively. His political reporting and analysis has appeared in national and international outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC, NPR, and C-SPAN. An Iowa native who grew up in Illinois, Richardson earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and his master's degree in public affairs report ing from the University of Illinois Springfield. Richardson began teaching journalism in 2021 at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.

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6 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 STORIES FROM Join us for the second part of our trip down memory lane, featuring the people, places, and events that shaped the School. BY AMANDA FRETHEIM GATES AND ERICA BOUSKA 100 HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION YEARS

“Heggen took journalism because he considered writing and newspaper or magazine work the easiest way he knew to exist and do what he pleased,” Cohn wrote. “He gave the subject as little attention as anything else ... yet he was easily expert at headline writing, editing, makeup and typography.”

Unfortunately, Heggen didn’t live long enough to see the screen adaptations of his story. There are two “Mister Roberts” movies; one came out in 1955, and a TV movie came out in 1984. Additionally, Warner Brothers released a one-season sitcom in 1965. After his passing, his parents donated money to the School to build a library in his honor. The Thomas Heggen Memorial Library opened in Murphy Hall in 1950 and still stands to this day.

He was a broadcasterlegendaryforCBS in radio and TV. Working alongside Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, he is partially credited for establishing broadcast as legitimate journalism.

Milton Kaplan, B.A. 1943 He served at multiple news company,ownedCommunications-Syndicate,ofgeneraltheHeMinneapolisincludingorganizations,theTribune.alsoservedaspresidentandmanagerKingFeaturesaHearstproductionfor28years.

Arthur Naftalin, B.A. 1939, Ph.D. 1948 Minneapolis Mayor from 1961 to 1969, he was a political scientist and the first Jewish mayor of the city. As a colleague of Hubert Humphrey, he helped merge the Democratic and inPartiesFarmer-LaborintotheDFL1944.

Arnold Eric Sevareid, known as Eric, was a broadcast legend in TV and radio during his nearly 40 years in the news business. Known for his clever wording and keen analysis, Sevareid was a talent of the 20th century. The son of Norwegian immigrants, Sevareid was born in North Dakota, but moved to Minneapolis when he was young. But no matter what age, Sevareid said he never wanted to be anything other than a journalist.Hestarted at the University of Minnesota in 1931; here, he became a renowned campus activist and a reporter at the Minnesota Daily and the Minneapolis Journal. At 19, he wrote his first book about a canoeing trip he and a friend took up the Minnesota River. After graduating in 1935 with a major in political science and a minor in journalism, Sevareid studied abroad in Europe and worked for the United Press and the Paris Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Then, on the eve of World War II, he was plucked by CBS to become their French correspondent in 1939. That position skyrocketed his career. Sevareid was in Paris when France surrendered to Germany in 1940, the last American to report from the city. After fleeing with his family, he ended up in London and reported on the Battle of Britain. Sevareid, along with Edward R. Murrow and William Shirer, is credited with establishing broadcast news as a legitimate journalism source. His dedication in the Television Hall of Fame lists him as reaching “the hearts of millions” with his wartime broadcasts. Sevareid spoke like he was reading wartime poetry. “Paris died like a beautiful woman in a coma; without struggle, without knowing or without even asking why,” he said over a radio broadcast on ALUMNI

HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 7 100 YEARS

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Heggen was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1918 and graduated from the School in 1941. During his time at the School, he wrote for both the Minnesota Daily and Ski-U-Mah, but Cohn said Heggen wasn’t as passionate for journalism as he was for the freedom that came with it.

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Bob Fransen, B.A. 1943 Though he got his start in radio, Fransen spent most of his career on TV, which earned him multiple accolades. He started FOX9 in the Twin Cities and spent much of his time at the precursor to KARE-11.

Harrison Salisbury, B.A. 1930 Alongside writing 29 books, he covered JFK’s assassination, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the USSR, and was the first American journalist to report from North Vietnam. He received multiple includingaccolades,aPulitzer for International Reporting.

Grades weren’t pressing to Heggen, but he excelled regardless. There were few people—students or instructors—he considered worth his time, Cohn said. But those he did, he greatly admired—among them, Ernest Hemingway and F. ScottCohnFitzgerald.saidHeggen only wrote about sad topics, often tragedies, and spent most of his time in silence, either studying people or lost in his thoughts.“He had great black moods,” he said. “He was greatly concerned with people and their pitiful little attempts to lead simple, reasonably happy lives in a confusing world.”Perhaps this is what led him to write “Mister Roberts,” the darkly funny, best-selling novel based on Heggen’s service during World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he spent four years in the Navy and started “Mister Roberts” while deployed. The book pulls from Heggen’s experience overseas, capitalizing on the feeling that he spent his best years standing watch. The play and movies drew on the novel’s humor, but Cohn described it as “hysterical laughter at a funeral.”After its publication in 1946, it quickly became a bestseller and sold more than one million copies. Two years later, Heggen co-wrote the play adaptation with Joshua Logan. It premiered on Broadway, starring Henry Fonda as the title character, and won five Tony Awards. Cohn donated one of them alongside a portion of an original manuscript to the School in 1988. At the time of Heggen’s passing, the play already had more than 500 performances.

Otto A. Silha, B.A. 1940 He was the Minneapolis Star and untiltheservedtheelectedandpresidentbecamepresident.manager,manager,Company’sTribunebusinessgeneralandviceIn1968,heexecutiveviceandpublisherin1973,hewaspresidentoforganization.HeaschairmanofBoardofDirectors1984.

Thomas Heggen, B.A. 1941 After his time serving in the Navy during WWII, he wrote the bestselling novel “Mister Roberts.” The book sold more than one million copies and was turned into two movies, a TV series, and a Tony Award-winning play.

If you walked into Pillsbury Hall in 1939, you’d likely see a young man with dark curly hair and a green corduroy jacket slouched over a typewriter writing a term paper hours before it was due. That was Thomas Heggen, renowned American novelist, World War II vet, and University of Minnesota journalism graduate.“Ithink Tom Heggen was a genius,” wrote Victor Cohn, classmate and friend, in his essay dedicated to Heggen after his early death in 1949.

Even students like Pauline Gough—who received an F on her first paper for one of Charnley’s classes—said he was patient, encouraging, and always ready with a letter of recommendation. He valued succinctness and accuracy over almost all else, but he never let his responsibilities as an editor override his relationship with his students. When Michael Soffin transferred from NYU in 1949, he knew no one and showed up two weeks before classes started. The only person even inside Murphy Hall was Charnley. “He sat there in his sports coat and made me as comfortable as he could,” Soffin said. “He was one of the leading faculty.” Charnley helped Soffin find a place to live and offered to be his professor for the next two years. When they announced Charnley’s 90th birthday celebration, Soffin and his wife visited.

David Carr, B.A. 1981 He served as editor for both the Twin Cities Reader and the Washington City Paper before starting at The New York Times in 2002. While there, he wrote his memoir, and worked as a cultural reporter until he died in 2015.

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of Charnley’s professors at the University of Washington when he got his master’s degree, and after 10 years in the industry and four as a teacher, Charnley was already proving what an invaluable instructor he was.

After five years, he was appointed a national correspondent and spent the rest of his CBS career alongside Walter Cronkite with his daily analysis segment on the CBS Evening News. For the next 13 years, Sevareid interviewed dozens of high-profile personalities, including multiple presidents, and reported in more than six countries. Throughout his career, Sevareid wrote seven books, covered everywhere from Saigon to the Dominican Republic, and earned multiple awards, including three Emmys and the Freedom Medal of Norway. He also received honorary degrees from eight universities. The School honored him in 1980 by naming its library after him. Six years later, he established an endowment fund at the School for the library, which provided updates for the well-loved space.Despite attending the university before TV and radio news courses existed, he made a name for himself through them. Though often referred to as a writer, he discovered a real love for broadcasting. “It is a marvelous and frightening instrument, broadcasting, as part of this marvelous and frightening century,” he said. “But ordinary men must use it, as ordinary men have made this century what it is…The camera’s unblinking eye sees through character faster than the printed word.” Sevareid died in 1992 from stomach cancer. He was 79.

“He made you take his course very seriously,” Gillmor added. “Yet he made you feel like you were special and were going to be a great reporter someday.” Charnley passed away in 1991 at the age of 92.

Annie Griffiths, B.A. 1976 She was one of the first women photographers to work for her150photographedGeographic,Nationalandhasinnearlycountriesduringcareer.

NOTABLE ALUMNI his last night in Europe. “London fights down her fears every night, takes her blows and gets up again every morning. You feel yourself an embattled member of this embattled core.” After the war, he moved back to America and started at CBS’s Washington Bureau. He worked part of the time as the chief Washington correspondent and had a five-minute weekend segment called “Eric Sevareid and the News.” In 1959, he was back in Europe as a “roving correspondent.”

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Gail Marks Jarvis, B.A. 1973 Her Chicago Tribune personal finance columns reach millions of readers in leading reporting.forClarionincludingawardsnearlyShethroughoutnewspapersmetropolitantheU.S.hasreceived20journalismforherwork,aNationalAwardhumanrights

Some other attendees at his 90th included professors George Hage and Don Gillmor and media professionals such as Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid. “As far as my career goes, he probably made it,” said Reasoner in 1988. “I think many students would say he was the best teacher they ever had.”While he taught, Charnley advised student publications and continued to publish his own work, including three books. He also served as a critic for the Minneapolis Tribune and as managing editor for Journalism Quarterly for 10 years.Alongside Casey, Charnley helped establish the radio and television program at the School, which earned him the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Radio-TV News Directors Association in 1963. In the years following, he garnered more distinctions, but in his obituary, Professors Hage and Gillmor highlighted his commitment to his students. “Most people,” Hage said, “will remember him as an editor-educator whose standards were very high and who helped [students] improve their thinking and their writing.”

Jim Klobuchar, B.A. 1950 An author of 11 books, he worked at bikelaunchinranbikeMinneapolisTribune,AP,newspapers:Minneapolis-basedthreethetheMinneapolisandtheStar.Histourcolumnthatfornearly40yearstheStarhelpedMinnesota’scraze.

Bill B.A.Allard,1964 He received a double major in photography and journalism and went on to work for National Geographic and Life Magazine. Chuck Porter, B.A. 1967 An marketer,advertiser,and author, he’s been honored by many magazines and companies, including his induction into the American MDCforasFame.FederationAdvertisingHallofHenowservesthechiefstrategistholdingcompanyPartners.

Professor Emeritus Edwin Emery dubbed him both at Sim’s unofficial retirement in 1979.Sim received his B.A. at the University of North Dakota and taught there while editing and co-publishing the East Grand Fork Record for a decade. That work established him as a leading authority on community journalism when he joined the School in 1956. Nicknamed “Mr. Weekly Newspaper” by his community press courses, Sim taught a few other subjects, including reporting, editing, and media law. His John Finnegan, B.A. 1948, M.A. 1965 A strong advocate for open government, he co-wrote Minnesota’s first open-meeting laws in 1957 and lobbied for the Data Practices Act in 1974. During his career at the Pioneer Press, he served 15 years.

It took Professor Emeritus Mitchell Charnley 12 years to retire from the School and the University. He hit the required retirement age–68–in 1966 after 32 years at the School, but after jumping around to a couple of different positions, he officially retired for the fourth time in 1978. And he returned for one more year as the interim director of University Relations. “I can think of no other lifestyle that could be so satisfying to a man than having been a teacher,” Charnley said at a banquet honoring his 90th birthday in 1988. Ralph D. Casey, the School’s first director, encouraged Charnley to join the faculty while Charnley taught at Iowa State University. Casey had been one JOHN SIM John “Cam” Sim spent more than four decades at the School, earning titles like “unofficial office manager for Murphy Hall” and “the scholarly fellow.”

After receiving her bachelor’s and master’s in journalism, Kirtley worked at a few newspapers before returning to school to earn her J.D. in 1979. She went on to practice law in New York and D.C. Quickly developing a specialty in press freedom, she started as executive director of the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia, in 1984. She left that position in 1999 to join the University of Minnesota. Kirtley joined the School as the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and Chris Ison, B.A. 1983 He won a Pulitzer in 1990 with the Star Tribune, after he and Lou Kilzer published a series of connectiondocumentingarticlesthebetween suspicious St. Paul fires and people connected to the fire department. He went on to teach at the Hubbard School for two decades.

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Phillip Tichenor began his teaching career in 1956 as an instructor and extension information specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Agriculture. In 1965, he earned a doctorate in mass communication research from Stanford University. Tichenor joined the University of Minnesota journalism faculty the same year and accepted a joint appointment in Rural Sociology. He became Director of Graduate Studies in 1986.During his 30 years at the School, Tichenor taught public opinion, science writing, media and social change, and opinion writing. His research, on media distribution of knowledge and the community press, along with sociologists George Donohue and Clarice Olien, was known internationally. The three earned worldwide recognition for coining the phrase “knowledge gap” in the 1970s. In 1994, this “Minnesota team,” as it was known, received the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for outstanding contributions to research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. After retirement, Tichenor wrote “Athena’s Forum,” a novel about an immigrant journalist and his family on the Minnesota prairie during the decade prior to World War I. He also wrote “13 Days at Andersonville: The Trial of the Raiders and Civil War P.O.W.”

“Professor Kirtley,” said Scott Memmel, one of her former graduate students and now assistant professor at the School, “has taught First Amendment values and principles to the current and future leaders in mass communication, law, and a number of other industries/areas, a legacy that cannot be overstated.”

While we couldn’t fit every person or event that shaped Murphy Hall in these last two issues, we want to continue to collect your ourjoinHubbardStoriesusmomentsSharememories.yourfavoritewithatz.umn.edu/andusonNov.5forCentennialGala. commitment granted him tenure and promotion to associate professor in 1961 and full professorship in 1968. Sim had a propensity for fostering students both in and out of the School. For 20 years, he served as a placement officer. He directed the Minnesota High School Press Association for 14 years, and continued to give speeches at high school press meetings. He also revived the summer high school journalism conferences at the U. But his most notable impact was his work for community newspapers. From 1956 until his retirement, Sim was the chief liaison for the faculty with the weekly press across the state. He expanded his reach across the country by giving talks at weekly newspaper gatherings. He also restarted the state tour of weekly newspaper offices in 1958. Sim’s book, “The Grass Roots Press: America’s Community Newspapers,” studied the role of weeklies and speculated about their future in the journalism community. It examined the community press’s role as a social instrument as well, further exemplifying his commitment to the field.

Michele Norris, B.A. 1985 She was the first womanAfrican-Americantohostfor NPR where she started the Peabody Awardwinning program, The Race Card Project. She also won a Peabody and an Emmy for her ABC coverage of the September 11 attacks. Harry Reasoner, B.A. 1989 He co-founded the CBS program “60 Minutes” with Mike Wallace in 1968 before he moved to ABC to anchor the evening news. He won three Emmys and a Peabody Award. Mary LaHammer, B.A. 1995 She is an anchor, reporter, producerandfor Almanac, Minnesota’s longestrunning public affairs show. She’s earned multiple Emmys and was named Best Newscaster in 2002. Shani Marks, B.A. 2002 Born in Bloomington, she took home first in state and national track and field competitions, and in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the triple jump. She was the first Gopher to make the U.S. Olympic women’s track and field team.

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Jamie Yuccas, B.A. 2004 She is a CBS correspondentNewsbased in Los Angeles. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

A member of three state bars, Jane Kirtley has served as an honored law professor at three universities and given more lectures than will fit on the Silha Center website. Her last two decades at the Hubbard School and the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law are rife with her dedication to press freedom.

After his and fellow community press advocate Walter Brovald’s passing, the School established the Brovald-Sim Community Journalism Practicum (see Winter 2022 issue) in their honor, which still runs today. Students spend a semester doing hands-on journalism work and studies around a specific and underrepresented community.

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“In speaking with media outlets from around the world,” Memmel said, “Professor Kirtley helps inform the public and hold the powerful accountable by providing her expertise and knowledge of crucially important topics … that implicate all of us.”

In addition to her time abroad, her work in the U.S. is also weighty. She serves on several scholarly journals’ editorial boards, and on the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation board. She currently teaches Mass Communication Law alongside a few other courses at the School—Memmel cites that as her principal impact. Her list of awards is lengthy and includes her induction into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame as a founding member in 1996, being named a First Amendment Fellow by the National Press Club in 2000, and receiving the “Pioneer Award” from the National Scholastic Press Association in 2011. Kirtley continues to direct the Silha Center and is responsible for multiple lectures and panels each year.

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assumed the directorship of the Silha Center as well. In 2004, she became an affiliate faculty at the U’s law school. She’s written friends-of-court briefs for state courts, federal courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2013, the U.S. State Department published her book, Media Law Handbook, which is available in 10 languages. Including her adjunct professorship at the Notre Dame London Law program in 2012, universities globally recognize her reputation, and she’s spoken in Brazil, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand and more. In 2015, she was made a Fulbright Scholar and taught U.S. media law and media ethics on the law faculty at the University of Latvia in Riga for one academic term.

In 2022, given the Hubbard School faculty's leadership and growth in the field of journalism studies, the Minnesota Journalism Center has returned to a collaborative leadership model.

The material resources of the endowment continue to provide focused support for these varied initiatives and the faculty who lead them.

1979-1985: Director F. Gerald Kline

Ward and Hansen worked together to develop the notoriously challenging Jour 3004: Information for Mass Communication, and created the book and search strategy exercises that they updated as technology evolved. Their groundbreaking work started solely because there wasn’t enough space for all the students to find the information. “We couldn’t send 150 students to the library at one time,” Hansen said. “We created the simulations out of necessity. But the students loved it.”

The Minnesota Journalism Center (MJC) was established in 1979 to honor the gift of John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles. The MJC is a distinct organization that has exceeded the guidelines set for it in the ’70s. Initially, it sponsored lectures, workshops and conferences and then expanded to research on journalistic problems for political, economic, social, and cultural influences. Additionally, it continues to host training and workshops for journalists.

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The School expanded on this in 1991 with the Undergraduate Studies Center (USC). Linda Lindholm, the coordinator of advising, internships, and placement, alongside Tina Thai, Renee Parduhn, and Dana Mitchell, made the USC an effective establishment. Former Director Al Tims commended the USC for bringing together the professional community and Today,students.advising helps students take full advantage of the School courses to align best with their professional and academic goals. They also encourage students to engage with opportunities outside the classroom like student groups, School activities, internships, and more. Rebecca Rassier, the current associate director of Student Services, said she wants students to be prepared for their lives outside Murphy Hall. “I hope that students learn from advising how to create an undergraduate experience that will provide them with great memories and a path for success, however they wish to define it, after they graduate.”

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Hansen didn’t just work with undergraduate students either; many grad students said Hansen was a trusted mentor and advisor as well. Hansen retired in 2020.

1985-1997: Director George Hage Hage was known for his red pen, and during his 12 years as the director, the MJC hosted events just as powerful as his red ink. From 1986 to 1988, the MJC hosted Targets of the Media Fight Back. Called a “noble experiment,” the panel provided a space for people critiqued by the media to speak about how the media could improve. Some guests were Gopher basketball coach Jim Dutcher and Minneapolis City Council member Barbara Carlson.

1997-2011: Director Kathleen Hansen During Hansen’s 15 years as director, the MJC added a collection of new events. 2002 kicked off a new tradition: the Spring Showcase. The event honored scholarship winners, graduates, alumni, and donors. The event included showcases of student work from student groups and publications, graduate student work, and the Award for Excellence and Above the Fold awards, given to honored alumni. The U.S. State Department asked the MJC to host the Edward R. Murrow Journalism Fellowship program, which invited journalists from around the world to the School. The first of its kind, the program served as a model for other schools.

At its start, the MJC implemented projects that left a lasting legacy. In 1978, the MJC hosted the first Premack Awards, a distinguished honor that continued for 35 years. Named after Minneapolis Tribune reporter and editor Frank Premack, the categories covered everything from metro reporting to opinion. Kline said one of the most significant events was the 1981 50th anniversary celebration of the landmark case, Near v. Minnesota. The case set a precedent against prior restraint imposed on media companies. The MJC hosted a conference chiefly organized by free speech advocate Professor Emeritus Don Gillmor.

2011-2017: Director Nora Paul Paul was the director of the Institute for New Media Studies, which served as a center for analysis, creativity, and innovation. In 2011 the Institute merged with the MJC, and continued to offer opportunities to the community and create partnerships within the industry. The Convergence Summit started in 2016, bringing together experts from both the business and academic realms to explore the changes and challenges business communicators face.

Kathy Hansen wore many hats during her 40 years at the Hubbard School. She began her journey at the School in 1981 when Professor Jean Ward was looking for an expert in information and library science. Hansen, who holds a master’s in English and library science, fit the job and moved to Minneapolis from her head librarian position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s journalism library.

During her four decades, Hansen served as both the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. With the MJC, Hansen’s goal was to increase the connection between the school and the professional community and create training opportunities with Poynter, the National Television Academy, the Associated Press, and more.

2017-2022: Director Valérie Bélair-Gagnon When Bélair-Gagnon joined the MJC, she brought in many academic scholars from around the country to discuss research and books. The Center continued to partner with community and University members on events, and once the pandemic hit, the MJC pivoted effortlessly to hosting virtual events on journalism and strategic communication during times of uncertainty and unrest.

Nancy Roberts (M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’82) taught at the School for 25 years. She was an Honors advisor, as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies from 1997-2003. Roberts published multiple articles and edited multiple newsletters during her time at the U. She is the editor and author, along with the late Professor Edwin Emery and Michael Emery, of “The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media,” which is considered to be a leading work on the history of media in the United States. Roberts received the Pax Christi USA Book Award in 1997 for her and St. Thomas Professor Anne Klejment’s book “Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.” She’s been a book reviewer and a freelance journalist and is currently a professor in the journalism program and communication department at the University of Albany. In the ’90s Roberts served as a consultant to the Freedom Forum, the nonprofit organization that financed the creation of the Newseum, which opened in Rosslyn, Va., in 1997. The museum held everything from video galleries and TV news studios to hands-on exhibits and national and international newspaper collections, with a goal to highlight the development of news, past and present, and the history of mass communications. Roberts specifically helped narrow down the list of featured journalists and select the various communication artifacts displayed, such as ancient tablets, a drum, and typewriters. The Newseum eventually moved to Washington D.C. in 2008 and then after 11 years, and nearly 10 million visitors, the Newseum closed to the public on Dec. 31, 2019. Its digital work remains through newseum.org and its traveling exhibits.

When the School’s own advising program launched in 1985, former Director F. Gerald Kline said it was time to combine the School’s internship and placement programs to create a more comprehensive system for students. Pat Gotschalk, the first advising coordinator, did just that, focusing on advising, internships, and helping seniors find jobs post-graduation. “Position yourself,” she said to students. “Get everything organized so you’re ready to take things when they come.”

Throughout the Minnesota Journalism Center’s 43 years, it has held and facilitated dozens of events under the watchful eye of five directors.

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O Which of the following accolades do School alums

MARY ACHARTZ HAVERTY: Mary Haverty worked in Murphy Hall for 37 years as secretary, senior secretary, and executive administrative assistant. She served seven directors: F. Gerald Kline, Mary Ann Yodelis Smith, Dan Wackman, Robert Scott, Al Tims, Jane Kirtley, and Elisia Cohen. “I met so many wonderful faculty, staff, and students who have remained good friends,” Haverty said. “I think that really says how great the School is. I always considered it my second family. I can’t imagine my life without all of my j-school memories, friends, and events.” THE MAIN OFFICE CENTENNIAL QUIZ

T Which of the following does the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law do? Publish a thrice annual newsletter called The AuthorBulletinamicus briefs for court cases Hold an annual public lecture

R When arguing for practical training in the School, the school’s first director, Ralph D. Casey said communication professionals should be trained like: Scientists and researchers Doctors and lawyers

M Which of the following is NOT a real magazine created in the School’s Magazine Editing and Production class? Flux, on the changing American Dream ReMixed, on the music scene in the Twin Cities Fin, on the end of the world InFlux, on lifestyles for people in their 20s

All of the above

St. Paul Mayor Thomas R. Byrne

LINDA WILSON: When Linda Wilson retired from the School after 18 years, the Murphy Reporter called it a “major change.” Wilson said she valued her time at the university as it allowed her to both meet her husband and raise her daughter. As she retired to relax and travel, Wilson said her time at the School was one of the most important in her life and had created lasting friendships she treasured.

D True or False: Radio K was the first radio station in Minnesota.

U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy

S Which of the following politicians had alumnus Bill Allard as their photographer?

I True or False: Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia hated history in high school and college.

H True or False: Virginia Harris, the first female full-time instructor, had so many students at her office hours the school added another class for her to teach.

K Which team won the annual School softball tournament in 1966? The Daily Staff School staff Graduate students Faculty L How many times did Emeritus Professor Mitch Charnley retire from the university? 1, 2, 3, 4

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P Alumnus Thomas Heggen wrote a bestselling book called “Mister Roberts” that sold more than one million copies. Which of the following Tony Awards did the book’s play NOT win?

E True or False: In 2009, the School’s National Student Advertising Campaign (NSAC) student group won the national ad campaign competition, and as a result, were funded to distribute their campaign, The Other Hangover, across the U of M campus.

Educators and politicians

AllU.S.of the above

MARY ANN LUKANEN: During Mary Ann Lukanen’s 35 years in Murphy Hall, she worked on anything with numbers. Called the “heart of the school” by former administrative assistant Linda Wilson, Lukanen said her main job was to keep the School out of dollar trouble with the college. Though the sign on her door said “the wicked witch lives here,” after her sudden passing, many missed her gruff but humorous personality.

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A True or False: Students used to eat steak and lobster at the annual School banquet.

N Which Minnesota North Shore town has a photo documentary made by the School’s students?TwoHarbors, Grand Marais, Lutsen, Beaver Bay

Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin

Q How much does it cost to listen to, read and watch the student work from The Wake, The Daily, StudioU and Radio K?

AllZeroNadaNothingofthe above

JOAN BOWMAN: Staff at Murphy Hall called Joan Bowman “irreplaceable” when she retired after 28 years at the School. She started in 1958, before digital records were kept for students and graduates, and kept physical personnel files for 350 students by herself in the ’50s and ’60s. She was even in charge of typing out alumni notes and stencils for the mimeographed Murphy Reporters until the 1970s.

Firsthold?University of Minnesota women’s track

J True or False: The China Times Center for Media and Social Studies hosted a conference at the peak of the Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan debate in the 1990s for officials from the countries.

B True or False: StudioU was the second broadcast newsgroup in the Big 10.

F True or False: Between 1960 and 1970, the School’s enrollment doubled.

C True or False: Radio K served as an online learning service called “Minnesota School of the Air” during quarantine.

G True or False: School graduates have held positions at 60 Minutes, The CBS Evening News and Warner Communications.

Letters poured in. The Regents were being pressured “to do some thing, to punish someone,” Tanick said. So they did: In a 9-3-1 vote, the Regents voted to make the student portion of Daily funding optional—essentially, students could now specifically opt out of funding the Daily from their student fees.

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Forty years ago, The Minnesota Daily published its finals week satire edition just like it always did—except this time, it ended in a lawsuit.

“There was a firestorm of upset,” said attorney Marshall Tanick—an alum (B.A. ’69) and former Daily reporter himself—who represented the Daily during the court battle. The Minnesota legislature held hearings.

The incendiary story involved recreating part of Jesus’ crucifixion on the Mall, along with an advice column from Jesus that included obscene language and references to illegal drugs.

Though the number of students who opted out was small, and the percentage of the Daily’s budget that came from fees also not particularly significant, the editors concluded that the overall effect on the Daily staff

A FIGHT FOR A (Above and right) MinnesotatakenphotosThesewereoftheDaily offices in 1983 for the DailyIsonEditorReporter;Murphy(Right)Christalkstotheteam.

Students, alums and faculty join forces to protect First Amendment rights.

“It cost money to sue appealandand it showed

“The humor issue defined the j-school’s advocacy for journalism and that of a lot of academic community at the U…It wasn’t a given they would support this suit, and certainly wasn’t a given they would support the appeal. A lot of people really stepped up in support of the Daily’s First Amendment rights at several stages—and that was vital to winning the case,” Ison said. “It cost money to sue and appeal and it showed their belief in the free press. It was really inspiring to see that.” In the end, the judges ruled in favor of the Daily. The suit was seeking remuneration for the lost fees—about $15,000—and to cover its significant legal costs, plus an injunction barring the Regents from ever going this route again. The University appealed to the Supreme Court, but eventually settled with the Daily, meeting its demands. Tanick and his colleagues used part of the money to establish a First Amendment Fund, setting up forums and symposiums about First Amendment issues in “the good old Murphy Hall auditorium,” as well as providing scholarship money to students interested in both journalism and law. The case opened up a lot of litigation, from student fees to equity in perspectives. “A lot of the litigation draws upon this idea: to what extent should students or public funds support organizations that have some type of ideological bent to it? The Daily case was the forerunner to that movement,” Tanick said. The case itself “was probably the high point of my semi-illustrious career, for many reasons. It’s not often you get a chance to litigate interesting, important First Amendment issues that I learned about at Murphy Hall, and that was very rewarding,” he said. Ison, who went on to become a long-time instructor at the Hubbard School before retiring in 2021, said the suit echoed through his lessons to his own students. “I did occasionally remind them how hard some of their predecessors pushed for the right for them to publish what they want—and that comes with responsibility, and also means you have to do good work and for the right reasons, and not abuse that right we have.”

This is one of the first stories about the case, printed in the Summer 1980 Murphy Reporter.

Despite a lack of local media support—and, in fact, strong opposition—Harrison Salisbury (B.A. ’30), a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times and former Daily reporter, appeared in court to support the student journalists, which impressed both Tanick and Ison, and they hoped, the judge. But the judge ruled against the Daily. That led to an appeal in the Eighth Circuit Court, where Tanick once again argued the punishment exacted on the Daily created a chilling effect and vio lated their First Amendment rights. The U argued they had to preserve their funding from the legislature and that their actions were appropriate.

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The wheels of justice turned slowly and the trial was lengthy. By the time Chris Ison (B.A. ’83) became editor of the Daily in the ’82-’83 academic year, the original editors had graduated or otherwise moved on, but the case was still alive. “I had joined the suit, got attached as a plaintiff, and went to court that year,” he said. “I feel like I inherited a great opportunity to represent the Daily in a suit that other very courageous people had set on its course. It allowed me to really learn about what the First Amend ment meant, and how important it is to journalists being able to do their work without fear of repercussions.” “We knew the content was pretty explosive and hard for some people to get past,” he acknowledged. “But we knew the First Amendment should protect us from any kind of punitive action.”

Ison recalled that while local media was not sup portive, Murphy Hall professors were. Professor Donald Gillmor, among other distinguished professors, argued that it was also a matter of academic freedom in an amicus brief to the court.

14 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 40 YEARS OF MENTORING mentorthroughexperiencereal-worldstudentsAmbitiousmeettheirmatches. 1983 2012 2013 2018 BY KATIE DOHMAN

“I told Ray Faust, my mentor, that I was thinking of doing two wildly different disciplines [at once]. He told me to choose one, because it wasn’t something you can parallel path. I didn’t know, because I was the first one in my family to go to college…It was instrumental having him.” Still is: Arntson meets with him once in awhile to get advice from someone a couple of steps ahead of her professionally. She then picked up the torch when her time came to serve both as a mentor and on the alumni board, where she served for six years. The board strives to get student commitment up front, as board members are opening their personal contact lists to connect pros with students. “The really unique thing about the mentor program is that it is a customized match: Real people finding real people—not a computer database,” she said. “We’re going to our personal contacts and asking if they want to participate, which is really rare.”

The hope, of course, is that the mighty, all-vol unteer outfit continues providing valuable insights to students long into the future.

The hope, of course, is that the mighty, all-volunteer outfit continues providing valuable insights to students long into the future.

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The program has hummed along—serving between 40 and 60 students a year or more— for decades. And although the pandemic slowed things in some ways, it also opened up a whole new world: Mentors and mentees Zooming“Whatnationwide.Iloveabout Murphy Hall is that it is in Minneapolis—close proximity to thriving industries, in journalism as well as advertising. That connection between the alumni commu nity as well as those professors or adjuncts or guest speakers…speaks so highly of the school, the alumni, and the mentor program,” Arntson said. “With the pandemic, [things became] totally digital and the program still happened. And now it’s national because we can do virtual meetings.”

“A lot of students said it made such a big impact for them,” said Arntson. “The longevity of the pro gram, and the power of the people who come back year after year to mentor, speaks to the power of the program.”

“To have someone doing the work they want to do, talking about the roadblocks they’ve experienced, and changes they went through, is key,” Rassier said. “Experience takes you where you are, but you can’t map it out. Having someone in their field with lived experience explaining their trajectory is helpful.”

“Students are [generally] really checkbox-oriented and want to know what they need to do to succeed: If they take this class or this minor, will they be OK? That’s hard, because generally in life this isn’t how it works,” said Rebecca Rassier, associate director of student services and the person who currently facili tates tactical aspects of the mentor program. But, she said, the mentor program bridges those worlds.

The Alumni Mentor Program has been around so long that people who once were mentored are now mentoring others—several times over. And there’s a lot of them: in the last three years alone, more than 1,000 hours were spent mentoring 200 students across 100 different organizations, from print jour nalism and broadcast to advertising and corporate communications.Theprogrambegan in 1983 with 13 students.

The parameters were purposely strict: Pine said they “kept it clean” by reiterating that mentors weren’t responsible for finding jobs for students. The work would come in advising and helping them understand what to expect in the marketplace—all the juicy details that, with hindsight, a professional often wishes they’d had future warning about, but that only exists through real-life experience. An organized launch, Pine said, made it an easy sell to pros working in the field. It was also a quick draw for students hungry for connections beyond Murphy Hall walls.

Heather Arntson (B.A. ’05, M.A. ’09), who is now a director of digital marketing, was one such student. She took a non-traditional pathway to the Hubbard

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At the time, Carol Pine (B.A. ’67) sat on the alumni board along with Dan Wascoe (B.A. ’67); together they dreamed up a program that would continue year after year. “It was really lovely how this all unfolded,” she said. “We thought, if you ask anyone, they’ve had a mentor somewhere along the line, chiefly in their pro fessional lives. We thought, well, let’s create one right here in the j-school.”

School, and when she arrived, thought the mentor program would be a good opportunity.

—Hoang Uyen Nguyen, B.A. ’06

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Alums

“I went through all these majors before I decided that I would pursue a major in journalism. I have my friend Christie to thank, who was a student worker in the Admissions Office, and she helped me decide which major would align with my interests and goals. I was very interested in the event world, and she shared that there was a journalism major with a public relations/advertising emphasis. Spanning across 14 years, I worked for the following: 96.3 FM “B96,” CBS Radio, PR Newswire, Hubbard Broadcast ing, and FOX Sports. No longer working in media full time, I still continue to take on contract work in events, which I have been doing all these years from the early 2000s to now. My future is not 100 percent (nobody’s future is); nevertheless, I plan to take on events as long as I am able to.”

—Karen Wright, B.A. ’87

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“George Hage and professors!”wonderfulDicken-Garcia—bothHazelandinspiring —Lori Lohman, B.A. ’82

“Besidesstorytelling.planning,writing, producing, and presenting live TV newscasts, the course also entailed current events quizzes. I rarely did well on these quizzes. However, one day, a current events quiz included a map of the Middle East and Cen tral Asia. We were to locate and to label a handful of countries that had been in the news that week. I was passionate about geography, and I knew my grade could use all the help it could get, so I half-jokingly asked Mr. Stone if we could receive extra credit by labeling all the countries on the entire map. To my surprise, he obliged.

“The reason I remember this moment is because I was far from being Ken Stone’s best student academically. This was a class brimming with die-hard broad cast students who were more experienced, polished, and knowledgeable about the field than I was. But I could hear the sincere encouragement in his voice when he noted one of my strengths in front of my peers. That encouragement, along with the skills he taught us, helped nurture me into not only a passionate sportswriter, but one who had the ability to produce news packages to boot. I fondly carried those skills and this memory with me throughout my career—as a journalist and now as a tenure-track assistant professor at Arizona State University, where I, of course, include maps on my current event quizzes.”

—Anthony B.A.Kiekow,’09

“In the spring of 2003, I was an undergraduate student in Advanced TV News with Ken Stone. Though it was an advanced television broadcasting class, I was not pursuing a career in television broadcast. I wanted to be a sportswriter, preferably at a newspaper. But I knew the industry was changing, and that knowing how to create video news packages would be important as newspapers increasingly embraced multimedia

“I beamed ear to ear when Mr. Stone returned the graded quizzes and I saw the extra credit points I received. Then, Mr. Stone told the entire class about my completed map. He said that our newsroom colleagues would have various strengths that would be in our best interest to identify, and geography was one of them.

Sada Reed, B.A. ’03, M.A. ’11

—Phavanna Nina Bouphasavanh, B.A. ’03

“My favorite memory is PRISM. We created a special group leadership organization to help promote diversity long before it became a thing. It was a labor of love and a small group of people kept it alive. We had intentional meetings in Murphy Hall, building memo ries in our special office and the library. The experience of doing something new, different, and working toward positive change and a positive cause influences and encourages me to be of service to others in my personal and professional life even decades later. I’m grateful the School supported such an organization.”

“I was in the TV broadcast program at Murphy Hall in 1986-87. At the time, there were protests for “CIA Off Campus” taking place in front of Northrop Auditorium on a regular basis. I thought this would be a great story to cover for the campus news. I lugged the camera on the lawn to get interviews and capture shots of a burning banner attached to a tree with “CIA Off-Campus” written in big red letters. Protesters chanted and pushed one another. I was awkward with the camera/ tripod, as this was all new to me. As I struggled to set up the tripod, one of the protesters pushed my camera from the front and it fell on top of me as I buckled to the ground. A big burly reporter from KSTP named Lou Harvin picked the camera off me and helped me to my feet. It was at that moment I was hooked and knew I wanted to be a part of the exciting world of journalism!”

“After the 2009 School.”ataboutwhenimageitaus.tookmytionpost-graduaandourdepartedBeforeuationourprogramthroughlearnedthingsstoriesandofontrackJournalismBroadcastfromtheceremony,mencementcom-allgraduatesthegatheredthestepsMorrillHallexchangedaboutwetheandpost-grad-plans.wewithfamiliesstartedourjourneys,motheraphotoofMorethandecadelater,remainstheIseeIthinkmytimetheHubbard

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Class of 2022 Hubbard School students were thrilled to attend commencement in person on May 15, 2022.

Clockwise from top left: Drew Mabusth, Christensen,Amanda Senator Amy CommencementKlobuchar, speaker Kareem Rahma (B.A. '08), Samantha Osei and Dean Coleman, Chase Langlee and Dean EricaReginaJarrettColeman,George,McCombs,JinsolLee and Sara Quinn.

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The guidelines also state that “[w]hen possible, ask sources how they would like to be described. If the source is not available or unable to communicate, ask a trusted family member, advocate, medical professional or relevant organization that represents people with disabilities.” The guidelines further recommend being “sensitive when using words like ‘disorder,’ ‘impair ment,’ ‘abnormality’ and ‘special’ to describe the nature of a disability. The word ‘condition’ is often a good substitute that avoids judgment. But note that there is no universal agreement on the use of these terms—not evenFollowingclose. McClure’s presentation, the other pan elists spoke, including Hubbard School Senior Fellow Scott Libin, Peter Tressel, a creative director with 38 years of experience at advertising agencies around Minneapolis, and Sophia Schmaltz, a first-year student with dyslexia. There was a Q&A portion as well.

“We people with disabilities talk about ableism in the same context as we talk about equity, social justice, and inclusion. When we talk about coverage of disability issues and of coverage of people with disabilities themselves, we need to keep ableism at the forefront.”

The Silha Spring Forum attracted more than 80 attendees from the United States and abroad, including members of the media, Hubbard School students and faculty, and the general public. The forum panel, consisting of McClure and three other speakers, was sponsored by the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law and the Min nesota-Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) as a virtual webinar.

McClure began her presentation by discussing “ableism,” which she defined as “discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. It’s based on the belief that people with so-called ‘typical abilities’ are superior to those of us with disabilities, including people like me. [It] is a lot like sexism and racism. It categorizes entire groups of people [as] lesser, inferior beings, and it includes negative and harmful stereotypes.” McClure continued, “We people with disabilities talk about ableism in the same context as we talk about equity, social justice, and inclusion. . . .

The event focused on the ethical considerations of covering and depicting people with disabilities. BY SCOTT MEMMEL

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McClure turned to several considerations the media face, including that “when we refer to the disability community, it’s by no means a monolith. There [are] thousands of disabilities [and] tons of advocacy groups and self-advocates.” McClure also discussed the differ ences between “person- or people-first language” and “identity-first language.” Person-first language, accord ing to McClure, refers to “language that puts a person before their diagnosis, such as being a person with a disability or disabilities.” Identity-first language refers to “language that leads with the disability, as in ‘John is an autisticMcClureman.’”cited guidelines developed by the National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ), which is headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. In its “Disability Language Style Guide,” the NCDJ offers several basic guidelines, including that journalists should “[r]efer to a disability only when it’s relevant to the story and, when possible, confirm the diagnosis with a reputable source, such as a medical professional or other licensed professional.”

A video of the entire webinar can be found on the Silha Center YouTube’s page. Silha Center activities, including the Silha Forum, are made possible by a gen erous endowment from the late Otto and Helen Silha.

DURING THE 2022 SILHA CENTER SPRING ETHICS FORUM, “ONE IN FOUR: THE ETHICS OF COVERING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,” on April 4, 2022, award-winning journalist Jane McClure, editor of Access Press, which describes itself as “the upper Midwest’s disability community news source,” contended that “writing about disability is complicated. It requires a lot of sensitivity and that’s a must for any form of journalism that involves people, which is what most of us write about. And if you’re in doubt about how to refer to a person, ask that person, and if you can’t ask the person, don’t avoid writing about dis ability, just use your judgment. Do your best. Be fair, and think, too, about the stories that aren’t getting covered.”

When we talk about coverage of disability issues and of coverage of people with disabilities themselves, we need to keep ableism at the forefront.”

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The Hubbard School of andJournalismMass Communication and Mill MuseumCitypresented Documenting a Reckoning: The Murder of George Floyd, which was curated by Senior Fellow Regina McCombs (above). The reception featured a panel discussion with three of photographersthe –Gene Garvin, Nicole Neri and Octavio Jones–on how history is documented. The panel moderatedwasby Brent Lewis, photo editor at The New York Times, founder of Diversify Photo, and one of the jurors for the exhibit (bottom middle photo).

DOCUMENTING A RECKONING AT MILL CITY MUSEUM

On April 1, nearly 200 people gathered to see the opening of the photojournalism exhibit at Mill City Museum.

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HALL Long-time supporters and frequenters of the Sevareid Library generously give to the School’s renovation project.

And, Hill said, it’s not just the fundamentals: He’s pleased with how the School is leading into the future. “I appreciate the fact that the School has also recognized and embraced modern technology and methods. For all of those reasons, I find it to be a very worthy place to stay in touch, to understand what they’re doing, and to support it as best I can.”

Ida B. Wells would certainly agree.

The School is turning 100 at a time that is very challenging and demanding of journalism—for technical, social, and political reasons. “While we can all point to many times that are important or pivotal in history, this is also one of them.”

—Ida B. Wells Michael Hill (M.A. ’79), raised in St. Paul, graduated from the School and worked at the Minneapolis Tribune before heading to the East Coast to write and edit for the Wash ington Post. “Running around putting my name on things is not what I am about, but being able to indicate we supported this renovation, and that some body from many, many years ago and of another race had something to say that was per tinent today—that appealed,” he said.Hilland his wife, Bink—who is not an alum but a big sup porter of libraries—have been donors to the Sevareid Library for years.“Itbecame a very lovely waystation,” he said. “I spent a lot of time there, because it was a place to be, in between classes and the office. It was one of my favorite places in Murphy Hall. I appre ciated the institutional history reflected there—and the resources.”Hesaid it’s important to give back to an institution and organization that was helpful to him along the way— not just as an alum, but even as a reader of this very magazine. “I enjoyed the recent issue with the 100-year review, looking back at names and faces I knew when I was on campus. And by realizing how much I gained by my association with them and being a student there.

There’s the sense of giving back to the organization that was very formative and important,” he said.

And, even with all of the industry’s changes and challenges, he said he still believes in good journalism.

WHY WE GIVE

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MICHAEL HILL AND BARBARA BINK

One day, when students enter the renovated Murphy Hall lower level and Sevareid Library, they’ll be greeted at the information desk with this message: Welcome to the Michael E. Hill and Barbara H. Bink Information Desk ‘The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.’

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“Someone who comes through this program can be assured that a certain foundation is in place: Those old standards—the basic standards—of effort and reporting and clarity and the fundamentals of letters and words and sentences and paragraphs still pertain. I’m happy to sup port that effort, because, I think, in any kind of economic or social environment, what [the j-school] teaches and does will be important.”

In the end, Viola is donating to a space in the renovated lower level, which she never imagined would be possible. With the generous gift, came naming rights: the Joy Winkie Viola Group Room. “It’s not about really putting my name on the wall,” she said. “It’s the fact that I’m publicly saying thank you to the j-school. My personal thanks are on that wall, not to glorify Joy Viola, but to publicly say ‘It meant so much to me, so I am publicly saying thank you.’”

JOY VIOLA

“I think we support in life what we care about,” she said. “Whether that is mental support or spiritual support or financial support—to coin the old phrase: ‘Put your money where your mouth is.’ I wasn’t sure how I was going to finance this, but it was some thing I wanted to do.”

“I feel such an affinity to the j-school because I found myself there,” she said. Viola had been studying to be a concert pianist and was well on her way to a scholarship at Juilliard when she realized she was watching the clock when she practiced. “I thought I shouldn’t really be feeling this way if I want to do this the rest of my life.” Watching a movie about the bombing of Hiroshima with her father set her on a different course: She wanted to become a diplo mat with the Foreign Service. A political science professor suggested that the career path wouldn’t be an option for her, owing to her being a woman, and suggested she look into“Ijournalism.startedworking on the Daily, and Murphy Hall became my home away from home. I lived at home while going to college, and would take the last 11 p.m. bus out to Excelsior on Wednesday nights after I covered the All University Congress for the Daily. That was really where I found my life’s work. It shaped my life.” She graduated with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School, and what followed was an extremely colorful life, filled with worldwide travel, writing, and adventure, including an Erma Bombeck-like column in a newspaper and in the press bureau and as the speechwriter for the president of Northeastern University in Boston.

WHY WE GIVE

HOW TO GIVE If you’d like to support the renovation of Murphy Hall, please visit edu/SupportMurphyHall.z.umn. If you’re interested in a named gift, please contact Louis Clark IV at clarkl@umn.edu.

Author, photographer, and global adventurer Joy Viola (B.A. ’57. M.A. ’58) never thought of herself as an overly generous benefactor to the Hubbard School. But, over the years, she gave regularly to the Sevareid Library—$50 here, $150 there—because she said she always felt it was her home away from home in the j-school. “I never really thought beyond that,” she said. Until the School men tioned the remodeling of the Murphy Hall basement and library to her, that is. “I just felt such an affinity for the library, I thought, I’ll take the plunge and try to do a naming gift.”

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“I got a great education, which turned my life in the direction it was meant to go, and I have lifelong friends from there, so the minute they said they were going to do the library—the heart and soul of my home away from home—I knew I wanted to be a part of it.”

“I fromhomebecameMurphytheworkingstartedonDaily,andHallmyawayhome.”

DANIELLE BROWN received the 2022 ICA Journalism Studies Public Engagement Award at the Interna tional Communication Association conference. She also received a Knight Foundation grant for her project “Trusted messengers can leverage connections to combat disinformation about Black commu nities in Black communities,” which will develop a scalable model for addressing dis/misinformation in Black communities.

SCHOLARSHIP FACULTY NEWS

22 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 the role of journalists in negotiating systemic racism.” Bedingfield co-ed ited Journalism and Jim Crow with Kathy Roberts Forde, professor of journalism at the University of Mas sachusetts. He also contributed two chapters to the collection.

SID BEDINGFIELD’s latest book proj ect—Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, a research collection that he co-edited and contributed to—won two awards in May. Both the American Journalism Historians’ Association (AJHA) and the AEJMC History Division selected Journalism and Jim Crow as the best book on journalism or media history published in 2021. One judge in the AJHA contest called the book “an important intervention in our understanding of Sid Bedingfield Hubbard School faculty attend Commencement. Clockwise from left: Sara Quinn, Elisia Cohen, Amy O'Connor, Susan LaRusso, Sarah Lemanczyk, Rich McCracken, and Regina McCombs.

VALÉRIE BÉLAIR-GAGNON was named a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow, which recognizes recipients who are recommended by their college dean and chosen at the discretion of the executive vice president and provost based on excellence in research and scholarship, leadership, potential to build top-tier programs, and ability to advance University priorities.

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Colin Agur Ruth DeFoster COLIN AGUR published “Newly minted: Non-fungible tokens and the com modification of fandom” in New Media & Society.

ELISIA COHEN joined the Minnesota News Media Institute Board of Directors.

Jenson’s Jour 3241: Ad Strategy/ Creative Development class client was Lovejoy’s Bloody Mary Mix (a Amy O’Connor Rebekah Nagler Scott Libin Jisu Huh BIPOC family-owned business from St. Paul). Five teams made their final project advertising presentations to the four clients on April 26. With the encouragement of VAN HORGEN, a Hubbard School diversity fellow, JENNIFER JOHNSON is prototyp ing “The Show at HSJMC.” This is an opportunity for students majoring in strategic communication to have their creative and strategic work entered into the student competition for the Minnesota AdFed professional show.

MARK JENSON’s Jour 4263 Cam paigns class client was Fox Sports U. Four teams presented their final presentations to the client on April 27. The challenge was to identify an appropriate CSR partner for Fox Sports Supports and develop a complete integrated marketing com munication plan to help Fox Sports reach its young target audience.

The virtual program was coordinated through Meridian International Center and Global Minnesota, and was attended by 13 journalists and NGO representatives from eight different countries, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. She was also a facilitator/panelist for the Hot Issues in Data Privacy workshop at the 27th Annual Conference of the American Bar Association Forum on Commu nications Law in February. Kirtley conducted many media interviews on topics like cameras in courts, Sarah Palin’s libel suit, the Supreme Court leak and more.

SCOTT MEMMEL became a teaching assistant professor at the Hubbard School in spring 2022.

REGINA MCCOMBS received the David and Vicki Cox Innovation Award from the Hubbard School, which awards extraordinary innovation and accomplishment to someone who encourages the students and faculty in the School to think creatively about new and powerful learning opportunities. The award recognized McCombs’ work with photojournal ism students in the past year, as well as her work developing the “Docu menting a Reckoning” photo exhibit.

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JISU HUH is the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advertising. As editorin-chief, Huh will work with a team of associate editors and editorial review board members to advance the Journal of Advertising’s mission and to further expand the advertising scholarship and theory. Huh also organized and chaired the Special Topic Panel Session on “Computa tional Research and Measurement Innovations—Affective Computing and Emotion AI in the Future Adver tising Research” at the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) 2022 annual conference held in St. Peters burg, Fla., in March 2022.

RUTH DEFOSTER published “Rational izing Fear: How Media Coverage of Violence Shapes American Culture” in the January issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press. GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO is now associate professor emerita; she left the School to return to work at the Associated Press.

Jane KirtleyMark Jenson

The best of show winners in categories that include integrated campaigns, digital and video content, and print, will be selected by School alumni and ad professionals. The winners receive paid entry into “The Show.” Johnson’s course Jour 4242: Advertising Portfolio Development worked with 18 profes sionals during its final portfolio review. Ten of the professionals were Hubbard School alumni, including six former students.

GAYLE GOLDEN spoke on a three-member panel, “The role of editorial today,” during a webinar hosted by Goff Public, a local public relations and public affairs firm.

REBEKAH NAGLER presented a paper titled “Vulnerability to the effects of conflicting health information: Testing the moderating roles of trust in news media and research literacy” at the International Communication Associa tion annual conference.

SHERRI JEAN KATZ was awarded a seed grant from the College of Liberal Arts for her project “Opioid warning labels: A strategy to prevent addiction and overdose.” She was also named a Fellow in Health Communication.

In January, JANE KIRTLEY delivered the keynote address on media ethics and law for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program “Countering Holocaust Distortion and Denial: The Role of New and Traditional Media.”

SCOTT LIBIN was elected to the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Board of Directors, representing the state of Minnesota. He also led sessions on ethics and newswriting at the Midwest Journal ism Conference in Minneapolis and at the New York Press Association Spring Conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

ADAM SAFFER received the 2021-22 Hubbard School Graduate Student Organization Dedication to Graduate Students Award. The annual award recognizes School faculty and staff for supporting graduate students and is intended as a way for gradu ate students to collectively express thanks.

HYEJOON RIM, with co-authors at University of Tennessee (Moonhee Cho) and Bethel University (Betsy Anderson), and graduate student Katie Kim, presented the paper “Revisiting the state of CSR from the perspectives of corporate communication professionals,” at the International Public Relations Research (IPRR) annual convention in Orlando in March. She also Study of Journalism, published their fifth report, “Snap judgements: How audiences who lack trust in news navigate information on digital platforms,” which examines how people in Brazil, India, the United Kingdom and the United States evaluate information they encounter while using Facebook, WhatsApp, and Google.

EMILY VRAGA, along with her co-authors, published “The psychological drivers of misinfor mation belief and its resistance to correction” in Nature Reviews Psy chology. She also presented the keynote, “Observational Correction as a Response to Social Media Misinformation,” at the Language of Covid Symposium hosted by the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Richmond in April.

YAN QU’s dissertation, advised by Adam Saffer, was awarded the 2022 ICA James Grunig and Larissa A. Grunig Outstanding Dissertation Award at the International Com munication Association annual conference. The award recognizes an outstanding dissertation that focuses upon phenomena, issues and questions relevant to the study of public relations.

BENJAMIN TOFF, along with the research team he is leading at Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Hyejoon Rim

In March, she presented research at the International Association of Business Communicators Conver gence Summit on how stakeholder expectations for corporate social responsibility are influenced by their proximity to the corporation. She was also named a Fellow in Strate gic Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility.

CLAIRE M. SEGIJN published an article in Communication Research with Iris van Ooijen and Sanne Opree on privacy cynicism and its role in privacy decision-making.

MARCO YZER completed three presentations at the International Communication Association conference in May. He, along with co-authors, also had three papers accepted for publication or published: “Effects of expo sure to conflicting information about mammography on cancer information overload, perceived scientists’ credibility, and perceived journalists’ credibility” in Health Communication; “Theories of reasoned action and planned behavior” in The International Encyclopedia of Health Commu nication; and “Advancing health communication research: Issues and controversies in research design and data analysis” in The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication. He was also named a Fellow in Health Communication. Marco Yzer Adam Saffer

24 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 co-authored, “The process of online keyword activism in political crisis: Moderating roles of like-minded public opinion and government controllability of crisis outcomes” with professors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Sora Kim), and at Zhejiang University (Yingru Ji), and it recently published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. She was also named a Fellow in Compar ative International Public Relations.

SCHOLARSHIP Claire Segijn Benjamin Toff AMY O’CONNOR, along with Rong Wang (University of Kentucky), published “Can corporate-non profit partnerships buffer socially irresponsible corporations from stakeholder backlash?” in Corporate Communications: An International Journal. O’Connor also received a Grant-In-Aid for more than $36,000 from the University of Minnesota Office of VP for Research for her research on the Iron Range mining communities called “Mine Life: Communication, Work and Identity.”

ALLISON STEINKE is now a teaching assistant professor at the Hubbard School. CHRISTOPHER TERRY published research on the Supreme Court's Mahanoy decision in Communication Law and Policy, and has forthcoming work on indecency enforcement in the Journal of Media Law and Ethics, on minority media access in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and on FCC Minority Ownership Policy in the Michigan Technology Law Review.

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NICK MATHEWS accepted the position of assistant professor of digital journalism at the University of Missou ri-Kansas City.

Senior EMILY DIODATI acted as Olivia Rodrigo’s production assistant when the musical artist was in Minneapolis for a show in April. Diodati has a connection with Live Nation through her job as a music event planner at the University.

CAROLINE PRITCHARD, a senior strategic commu nication major, practiced her social media skills for the University of Minnesota Marching Band’s whirlwind trip to perform at the United States’ National Day in Dubai over spring break. It was a global stage for the band and a boost for Minnesota’s bid to host the World Expo in 2027. Pritchard posted all of the band’s content while abroad and directed the media team, including a pro fessional photographer and videographer.

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JONATHAN ANDERSON co-authored four papers presented at the 7th Global Conference on Transparency Research and the 72nd Annual Inter national Communication Association conference. He also moderated the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Law & Policy Division’s Spring Professional Freedom and Responsibility event, “Fresh Thinking on Government Transparency.”

NINA RAEMONT was accepted into the American Society of Magazine Editor’s Magazine Internship Program, a 10-week program for college students

LEARNING

CLARA JUAREZ MIRO successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Who are “The pure people”? Populist supporters and the role of media in the populist imagined community.” Her dissertation also won the Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Research Award, the highest honor the School gives to graduate students. She then joined the University of Vienna for a postdoctoral appointment.

BELLA CARPENTIER is the new managing editor for the Minnesota Daily.

JESS JURCEK won the Drake 2022 Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics for her AccessU: Black on Campus story, “The consequences of cutting indoor track.”

NEWS MARAL ABDOLLAHI received a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Uni versity of Minnesota Graduate School for her dissertation.

Graduate students from 2020, 2021, and 2022 attended in-person commencement on April 29, 2022. Left to right: Scott Memmel, Hao Xu, Chuqing Dong, Sarah Kay Wiley, Clara Juarez Miro, Lauren Ernt, and Allison Steinke

FOLASADE ADESANYA had a paper accepted into a pre-conference at the International Communication Associ ation’s annual conference. The paper, “The indispensability of social media to collective action: Implications for media ethics and Trans BIPOC activ ism” was presented at the Patriarchal Worlds, Feminist Networks, and the Conjuncture Pre-Conference.

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EMMA CARPENTER won an Upper Mid west Emmy Student Production Award in the Sports Story or Segment category for her piece “Gopher Basketball Player’s Discovery in Recovery.”

MAIA IRVIN is the new editor-in-chief for the Minnesota Daily.

ALLISON STEINKE successfully defended her dissertation, “The Institu tionalization of Solutions Journalism,” in May 2022. She also presented a project called “Climate Change Jour nalism, Audiences, and Advocacy” at the International Communication Asso ciation conference in the Environmental Communication division. HAO XU will join the School of Culture and Communication at University of Melbourne as a tenure-track lecturer in the area of Marketing Communication.

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Six other team members also attended: Maggie Boedigheimer, Tyler Lee, Carmen Libesch, Maylee Moore (co-president), Alex Neale (co-president), and Hamilton Peterson. Rory Uskavitch (co-president) could not attend. Hubbard School lecturers Mark Jenson and Rich McCracken were the team’s faculty advisors.

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BACKPACK, the student-run agency in the Hubbard School, retained its largest client, Serve Minnesota, while adding new external clients (Greenkey Digital and Ampack), internal clients (Professional Master’s program and University Relations), and a pro bono client (First Nations Repatriation Institute (FNRI)). The agency added a new planning and production department, in addition to its account management and creative departments. The group has also added social media planning and trafficking to its list of offerings and experiences. This work has been supported by Nicole Newville, Founder of Kose Digital and Jeffrey Byson, Kose AMD. Backpack has also developed a dedicated creative/production team that builds TikToks and social media videos for three of the clients. The agency has met its financial goals for the first year and is adding eight new employees to the agency in Fall 2022. Please reach out to Backpack for brand communications needs. Jennifer Johnson is the senior adviser (joh02016@umn.edu).

The project this year was Meta Quest 2. In April, the team presented virtually with a pre-recorded presentation and held a live Q&A with the District 8 judges. The team swept the ‘best plans book’ and ‘best presentation’ in District 8 and advanced to the NSAC National Semi-Finals on May 5-6 (virtually) where they were named as one of the Elite 8 teams from around the country and headed to Nashville for the American Advertising Federation Admer ica Annual Conference. This is the first time the Hubbard School NSAC team returned to the National Championship since 2009.

at magazines in New York and Washington, D.C. ASME interns have top academic records and previous experience working in their local media market. The association boasts only 10 percent of all appli cants are accepted.

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SAMANTHA WOODWARD is a free lance writer for CNN Politics. Twelve seniors were awarded the Alpha Delta Sigma designation from the American Advertising Federation (AAF): MAGGIE BOEDIGHEIMER, ADAM DARRAGH, EMMA DENZER, JESSICA GORDON, ANGIE HUYNH, KRISTEN KOSKINEN, TYLER LEE, CARMEN LIBESCH, LEO MOULSOFF, ALEX NEALE, BEN NICHOLSON, and HEATHER SELLECK. Alpha Delta Sigma, a national honor society sponsored by the AAF, recognizes and encourages scholastic achieve ment in advertising studies.

The National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team competed in the national competition in Nashville on June 3. While the team did not finish in the top 3, they did walk away with Best Team Presentation of the entire competition; the award came with a $2,500 cash prize. The four presenters in Nashville were: Alex Chrislu, Emma Denzer, Elizabeth Gordon, and Luckett Vanguard.

THE MAGAZINE EDITING AND PRODUCTION CAPSTONE COURSE focused on climate change with the spring 2022 issue of InFlux magazine. The issue covered the impact of climate change on mental health, profiled a group of students who build and race solar-electric cars, featured local climate activists, and looked at the beef industry’s possible key to climate change. The magazine is produced annually by Hubbard School students in a hands-on publishing experience. In addition to a high-quality print publication distributed around campus, the capstone class of 32 students produces a robust social media campaign, videos, website, and regular podcast.

Q What is your dream job?

INTERVIEWED BY ERICA BOUSKA

28 MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Summer 2022 LEARNING MEET A STUDENT: EMMA CARPENTER

Senior Emma Carpenter is a member of the wom en’s golf team, works for Gopher Productions,Digitalandhas a podcast with Golf Chan nel’s Gary Williams and ESPN’s Jay Bilas. She is a journalism major with a minor in sport management. In April, Carpenter won an Upper Midwest Emmy Student Production Award for a sports segment she produced.

Q What is one aspect of your major that surprised you?

Q What journalism class or professor has had the biggest impact on you?

Q What course or professor would you recommend for other students in your major?

The Illinois native is paving the way for a career in sports journalism.

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Q What tactics do you use to manage school, work and life during the COVID19 pandemic?

Q What advice do you have for future Hubbard School students?

A It depends on the career you wish to pursue, but I would absolutely recommend Multimedia Produc tion and Storytelling with Regina McCombs. As someone who never knew I would love to be behind a camera and edit until taking this course, I can confidently say that there are several different aspects of this course and lessons that are taught throughout that are important from a journalistic standpoint when it comes to telling a good story, whether it be print, photography, videography, etc.

A I was surprised [by] how much I have learned about myself within my major. I am also surprised how so much of the work I have done in class has already helped my resumé and, in my opinion, set me ahead in my desired career path.

A My dream job would be a career in sports broadcasting.

Q What has been your favorite part of your experience at the Hubbard School?

A My advice would be to make an effort to personally connect with your professors and put 100 percent of your heart into each class and assignment because you never know what new passions you may uncover.

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A While the different compo nents of life can be stressful and overwhelming, it is important to compartmentalize and stay orga nized. I like to make a schedule of the things I need to get done and a timeline of when I will do them.

Q What do you wish you’d known before you started down your career path?

A I wish I knew how easy it is and what a big difference it makes to ask for help. Go to office hours, personally ask your professors for feedback, and don’t hesitate to ask questions. This will set you apart from your peers and allow you to learn much more than just listening in class.

A Definitely Regina McCombs, Andy Mannix, and Michael Rand. Each one of these professors personally helped me outside of class. Andy helped me edit a story that ultimately got published in the Daily. Regina helped me with my film and editing, then suggested I enter my film feature into the Student Emmys and I ended up winning! Michael Rand has the career that is most similar to what I want to pursue and he has personally listened to my podcasts and offered lots of helpful insight and feedback. I am very grateful for each of them!

A My favorite part of the experience at the Hubbard School is 100 percent the connections I have made with my professors. The professors are extremely qualified and have person ally helped me in endeavors outside of class: for example, getting a story published [in] the Daily and entering a film feature into the Student Emmys.

BEIJING-BORN-AND-RAISED FRAN LIU (B.A. ’12) knew she wanted to study journalism by the time she was 6 years old. She would dress herself up, hold a carrot as a microphone, and record tapes full of telling stories about dogs and bunnies, or record sounds of the waves at the beach, pretending her audience was a sea of other 6-yearold girls. “I was sharing my life through my story box,” she said. The dream came into a bit more focus when her mom traveled to Min nesota when Liu was 12. “She came back and told me how Minnesota is the backyard of the United States,” she said, which is a reference compar ing the state to the empyreal backyard of the king’s palace in China. That was intriguing, as was the unique pronunci ation of “Minnesota” in Chinese. She landed at St. Cloud State, and attended for a year, learning the basics of American college and the definition of Minnesota Nice. A year later, set in her decision to major in journalism, she transferred to the Twin Cities campus to enroll at the Hubbard School. Breaking into broadcasting was a challenge for a non-native speaker, but she didn’t let it dim her ambition, branching into photojournalism and graphic design to balance her broad cast skill. She capped her college experience reporting in Washington, D.C., right before graduation, then hopped a plane to New Zealand to kick off her career. As a radio host, she discovered she had found her audience at last. But she also realized she loved tying her work and success to revenue and business. “That was the turning point. It was time to pivot my path to business and marketing,” she said. Back to Beijing she went on a five-year plan of her own making. She realized

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: FRAN LIU

As the Director of the University’s China Office, Liu focuses on five mis sions: Enhancing the U of M brand by delivering info sessions to prospective students; social media marketing; engagement with the more than 4,000 alumni living in China; partnering with businesses in China; and assisting her colleagues at the University when they need help from the Chinese office.

As director of the University’s China Office, Liu engages with both prospective students and alumni.

“I learned those things at j-school: I learned newswriting to structure articles, used InDesign, and trained my eyes for good visuals. Those skills combined perfectly in this startup.” But like many startups, cash flow stopped flowing, so it was time for the next thing. Graduate school had been in the back of her mind, so she enrolled at the University of Washington for an M.S. in entrepreneurship. “I learned to go for my passion, what was really in my heart, my calling. If I’m not studying the things I’m not passionate about, I’m wasting my life.” A couple of job interviews went well, but the offers didn’t appear. Then, along came an opportunity to helm the China office for the University of Minnesota. “Being an alum helped me, because I love the U so much,” she said. “I was standing on the shoulders of a giant at the U. Every time they lift you up. Every time! That’s how I built up my confidence—the U of M helped me to have that.”

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“America [still] has a unique attrac tion,” she said. “I feel like my dream came true studying in the U.S., and par ents and students believe we have the best higher ed in the world. And I still get to speak a lot and practice my journal ism skills.” And if she ever changes her mind? She still has 20 of those demo tapes from way back when.

❙ BY KATIE DOHMAN journalism would be an uphill battle in her homeland. “It’s very hard to do journalism in China. This is the fact, this our culture, the situ ation—and I cannot change [it],” she said. But she could do PR, and jumped aboard a tea-com pany startup she describes as “like the ledintheeveryproduct,toourITeavana.”American“IlovedthathadtowriteownarticlespromoteourbecausetimeIwrote,classsoldoutlike24hoursandtoresults,”shesaid.

SARAH HOFF (B.A. ’22) is a meeting and event specialist for CNO BothFinancial.

BLAKE APGAR (B.A. ’16) joined the Salt Lake Tribune. Previously he worked at the Las Vegas Review Journal.

LAUREN BORCHART (B.A. ’22) is part of Fast Horse’s “integrate program.”

JAKE GROVUM (B.A. ’09) was promoted to associate director, off-platform, at The New York Times, overseeing the work on social and other emerging platforms.

ANNA GORDON (B.A. ’21) is an assistant account executive at Carmichael Lynch.

NICOLE GARRISON (B.A. ’02) is the senior director, Employer Brand and Marketing, at RBC Wealth Management, a global role that leads a team of marketers, content strategists and more. She previously led communications for RBC’s U.S. Wealth Management division.

CAITLIN ANDERSON (B.A. ’20) received the Dave Pyle New Jour nalist Award from the Minnesota Newspaper Association for her role as the community editor for the Edina Sun Current, a paper that publishes weekly.

GULED IBRAHIM (B.A. ’11) and ALEX WEST STEINMAN (B.A. ’11) received the 2021 Emerging Alumni Award from the College of Liberal Arts. The award recognizes former students who stand out as great leaders, professionals, and service-dedicated citizens.

JESSICA HART (B.A. ’19) joined WCPO 9 in Cincinnati. ALEXANDRA HENSRUD (B.A. ’21) is an account coordinator at Intemark. A.J. HILTON (B.A. ’04) is now the morning anchor at WCCO.

KATELYN BLOOMQUIST (B.A. ’19) is now Group Editor at Greenspring Media Group. SANDRA BOONE (M.A. ’20) was accepted to the Communication & Media Studies doctoral program at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

SAMANTHA BORING (B.A. ’20) is now the weekend morning anchor/week day reporter at KSN-TV in Wichita, Kansas.

AUDREY KENNEDY (B.A. ’20) received a Society of Professional Journalists Page One Award for her work on the Axios Instagram account. SHAHBAZ KHAN (B.A. ’15) joined Uninterrupted, an organization that inspires athletes and those in sports culture to be ‘More Than’ through entertainment, product and apparel, social impact and events, as senior director of social.

EMMA DENZER (B.A. ’22) is an account service intern at Broadhead.

KATHRYN SUSAG BAUER (B.A. ’84) retired after a 34-year career at the state of Minnesota. She worked as a media writer and radio/TV coordi nator for six years at the Minnesota House of Representatives and as a public information officer and media relations manager for 28 years at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Prior to her state career she was a reporter and editor at the Savannah News-Press and the St. Cloud Times. Bauer is now the communication specialist at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico.

RIHAM FESHIR (B.A. ’08) is a senior writer on the RBC Wealth Manage ment corporate communication team. JOHN FINNEGAN (M.A. ’78, Ph.D. ’85), professor and dean emeritus at the School of Public Health, received the President’s Award for Outstand ing Service from the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member.

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MADISON DAHLGREN (B.A. ’22) is an account coordinator at Infinity Direct.

ERIC HANSEN (B.A. ’05) is now a creative director at BBDO.

JOHN ERICKSON (B.A. ’79) wrote “When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family’s Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance.” The book deals with Minnesota’s one-time obsession with eugenics and the impact it had on his family. Erickson previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Dayton Daily News. The book will be published in September by Rowman & Littlefield.

TED DAVIS (B.A. ’85) has assumed the role of Executive Vice President at Weber Shandwick. In his new role he leads the Public and Corporate Affairs Practice at the agency’s Min neapolis Office.

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SCHULER MCKINLEY (B.A. ’20) is an Interpretative Ranger at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

KAREEM RAHMA (B.A. ’08) was the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts’ undergraduate com mencement speaker this past May.

CARMEN LIBESCH (B.A. ’22) joined Haworth Marketing + Media as an assistant media planner.

JEYCA MALDONADO-MEDINA (B.A. ’18) joined the 99% Invisible podcast. Previously she was an associate producer at the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking. CHRISTOPHER MATTSON (B.A. ’84) is now director of communication at All Saints Catholic Church in Lakeville, Minn., part of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

DANNY OLSEN (B.A. ’03) is now the Director of Marketing & Com munications for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.

BAO ONG (B.A. '04) joined the Houston Chronicle as a restaurant columnist.

ANTHONY J. KIEKOW (B.A. ’09) joined Boeing as a senior communications specialist with the company’s Global Services Division. Previously, Kiekow served as director of com munications for Hazelwood School District and Riverview Gardens School District, and public relations manager for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Associated Press award-winning writer also worked as a news reporter for ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS television stations in Dallas and St. Louis.

ALEJANDRA PALACIOS-PEREZ (B.A. ’16) was promoted from bilingual reporter to anchor for WDJT CBS 58 Telemundo Wisconsin.

CHRISTINA MILANOWSKI (B.A. ’06) is now the social media director at Curious Plot.

LOU RAGUSE (B.A. ’05) will publish his first true crime book, Vanished in Vermillion, about two high school juniors who were on their way to a party outside Vermillion, S.D., on Memorial Day weekend in 1971, but they never showed up.

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KATIE ASKEW MILLER (B.A. ’13) was promoted to General Manager, Publishing, at BiggerPockets Media, launched BiggerPockets Wealth magazine, and serves as volunteer on the Editorial Board for the Inde pendent Publishers Association.

RYAN RUSSELL (B.A. ’19) is execu tive producer at Hearst’s KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa.

GRACIE STOCKTON (B.A. ’21) was promoted to producer at KSTP-TV.

BRIE COHEN VLACH (B.A. ’06) is a global instructional designer at 3M in their health care business group global marketing center.

LIZA STRINGHAM (B.A. ’21) is an assistant account executive at Carmichael Lynch.

HYEDI NELSON (B.A. ’08, M.A. ’10) was named to the board of the Public Relations Society of Ameri ca’s (PRSA) Minnesota chapter.

TOCONGRATSTHEDAILY TEAM!

THE MINNESOTA DAILY NEWS TEAM—past, present, and future—will be inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame in October 2022 in Washington D.C. at the Fall National College Media Convention.

KATE RADDATZ (B.A. ’04) joined Park Street Public as a senior principal, public relations and com munications. Previously she was at WCCO for almost 10 years.

KIRSTEN MITCHELL (B.A. ’17) is a reporter at WCCO-TV.

MICHELE NORRIS (B.A. ’85) received the 2022 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Ken nedy School. The award is given annually for outstanding contri butions to the field of journalism, and for work that has enriched our political discourse and our society.

CLINT SCHAFF (B.A. ’00) left his role as Vice President of the Los Angeles Times and is now commu nications director for the campaign to elect Dr. Chris Jones as Gover nor of Arkansas. SARAH SOLOVY (B.A. ’22) joined Ogilvy this summer.

MARA WESTON (B.A. ’22) is an account management intern at Collective Measures (formerly Nina Hale). MORGAN WOLFE (B.A. ’16) is now an anchor at KARE-11.

P BEST SCENIC DESIGN. Besides the other three, it also won best production and best author. One of Heggen’s Tonys was donated to the School after his death.

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I TRUE. She started loving history after taking communica tions classes and becoming fascinated with how people communicated in the past.

T ALL OF THE ABOVE. The Silha Center does all of these and more, such as sponsoring research fellowships and providing information to scholars across the world. How did you do? SCORE: You graduate with honors 15–20 CORRECT: You made the Dean's list 10–15: A little more studying needed—follow us on social media to stay up to date 0–10: Time to come back to Murphy Hall for a visit!

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H TRUE. The school’s director at the time, Robert Jones, said it became clear she was informally teaching another class already and added advertising copywriting to the school.

Join us for a pre-parade tailgate in front of Murphy Hall with friends, food and giveaways. Then line up along University Avenue for the Homecoming Parade. Watch for Hubbard School students, faculty, staff, and alums as we walk the route and spread Centennial cheer.

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D TRUE. It is the 10th oldest active station in the U.S. It also beat the University of Wisconsin’s radio station by only hours.

R DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. Casey was a firm supporter of integrating journalism with all kinds of techniques and disci plines in CLA.

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S U.S. SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY. Allard accompanied Kennedy on his 1965 trek up Mt. Kennedy in Canada, the mountain renamed for John F. Kennedy after his assassination.

E FALSE. They lost and still received $75,000 to produce and distribute their campaign from a foundation dedicated to reducing underage drinking and drunk driving.

A TRUE. The banquet, hosted in the spring, was meant as a way for students and staff to meet on even ground and discuss the state of communications.

G TRUE. One graduate, Leslie Edwards, has been a producer of both programs and the director of corporate communica tions at Warner.

J TRUE. America was considered a safe middle ground in 1994. Former School professor and Center Director, Chin-Ch uan Lee, said the officials likely wouldn’t have met without the conference.

F TRUE. The enrollment increased from 300 to 602 students. The School had to implement the entrance application still present for the School’s pre-majors.

O ALL OF THE ABOVE. They were Shani Marks, Alla Ilushka, and Carol Ann Shudlick, respectively.

B FALSE. It was the first! C TRUE. However, it was during the polio epidemic quarantine in 1946. The program ran through the 80s.

K THE DAILY STAFF. They beat the faculty in the final game 23-4. L 4, including twice from the Hubbard School. M REMIXED. N TWO HARBORS. In 1978, a photojournalism class photo graphed more than 300 people in the tourist-heavy town.

Q YOU’RE RIGHT, IT’S FREE! Check out the students’ hard work on any of their websites.

Centennial Gala THE HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND OUR Saturday, November 5, 2022 six o’clock in the evening MCNAMARA ALUMNI CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Join us for dinner, reminiscing and a live and silent auction. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit z.umn.edu/HubbardGalaCOCKTAILATTIRE

MURPHY REPORTER Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota 111 Murphy Hall 206 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 U of MN Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication instagram.com/umnhsjmcyoutube.com/umnhsjmctwitter.com/umn_hsjmcfacebook.com/umnhsjmcAlumni Inherit the What? Banning Books in 2022 Featuring: Robert Corn-Revere Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. Cowles Auditorium, West Bank Free and open to the public Contrary to the assumption that book bans are relics of the distant past, they have enjoyed a banner year in 2022 as the broader culture war sparks fierce battles across the country over purging books from schools, libraries, and even bookstores. What are the First Amendment implications of these hotly contested battles? And how do we, as a society, maintain a culture of free expression in highly polarized times? 37th Annual Silha Lecture For more information on these events, visit hsjmc.umn.edu/news-events/events