Murphy Reporter Winter 2019

REPORTER MURPHY

WINTER 2019

THE PHOTO ISSUE

BEHIND THE LENS Undergrads experiment with visual storytelling.

JOURNALISM UNDER ATTACK: How to teach students in today’s landscape 2018 SILHA LECTURE: The First Amendment and #MeToo

CONTENTS MURPHY

REPORTER WINTER 2019 DIRECTOR Elisia Cohen

EDITOR

Amanda Fretheim Gates

DESIGN

Jeanne Schacht

FEATURES

JOURNALISM UNDER ATTACK.................. 4 BEHIND THE LENS.................................................. 8 JAMIE YUCCAS VISITS.................................... 14

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Elizabeth Brunette, Katie Dohman, Gayle Golden, Kirsten Nordstrom

PHOTOGRAPHY

Chris Cooper, Bill Kelley, Phuong Tran

STUDENT ASSISTANTS

Elizabeth Brunette, Willow Buckner-Gaudynski, Ellie Krummel, Phuong Tran Katie Dohman

ALUMNI RECORDS

Mary Achartz, Kaylee Highstrom

2018-2019 HSJMC ALUMNI SOCIETY BOARD MEMBERS Tanya Wright, president Jacqueline Larson, president-elect Jenni Pinkley, secretary Carolyn Ahlstrom Heather Arnston Nicole Garrison Eric Hansen Brian Hurley John Maher Tim Nelson Karen Schultz Jennifer Sorenson

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1 NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR 2 AROUND MURPHY

Northern Exposure.................................................. 2 Honoring an icon..................................................... 3 Around campus.................................................... 19

16 EVENTS

Silha Lecture......................................................... 16 Murrow program................................................... 18

21 SCHOLARSHIP

CBS NEWS

PROOFREADER

Faculty news......................................................... 21 Staff news............................................................. 24

25 LEARNING

Graduate student news......................................... 25 Meet a student...................................................... 26 Undergraduate student news............................... 27

28 ALUMNI

Why I Give: Jill Braaten.......................................... 20 Alumni spotlight..................................................... 28 Alumni news.......................................................... 29 In Memoriam......................................................... 30 Donor report.......................................................... 31

CONNECT WITH US! facebook.com/umnhsjmc twitter.com/umn_hsjmc instagram.com/umnhsjmc youtube.com/umnhsjmc U of MN Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication Alumni On the cover: A cow who lives on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus. Photo by undergraduate student Dylan Anderson.

NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR

HAPPY NEW YEAR! THE HUBBARD SCHOOL CONTINUES TO GROW AND BUILD ITS REPUTATION OF SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE IN MANY AREAS.

provide students with diverse perspectives from lead-

I am pleased to

Life Magazine), Maria Reeve, Jerry Holt and Mukhtar

its career

Ibrahim (Star Tribune), Alex West Steinman (The

development

report that this past October the School was visited by the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

The team’s on-site evaluation was overwhelmingly positive, taking note of the outstanding student learning outcomes, clear commitment to inclusion, equity and diversity, and strong faculty, staff, and programming for students and the community. We expect to receive final news of our reaccreditation in late spring, and plan to celebrate at that time. In addition, faculty and students have received several awards in the past six months.

Please take a look at their accomplishments beginning on page 21 of this issue.

We are also making impressive strides in our capital campaign goals. Thank you to our new and continuing Director’s Circle donors (see page 31) and all who have given back to the School and University. Through the generous support of alumni and friends, the School has expanded its career development offerings for students, provided continuing support for alumni society events, and added scholarships for undergraduate and advanced graduate students. The School continues to enjoy tremendous support from its loyal alumni, and

ing industry professionals to enhance undergraduate

Through the

education. While we have always welcomed industry

generous

professionals as fellows over the years, we are fortunate to have added support from professionals willing to engage with students several days throughout the semester, not only enhancing learning in a particular course, but offering career guidance as well. As part of this effort, we welcomed 10 new professional fellows into our classrooms in 2018-2019: Mahmood Khan (Risdall), Troy Longie (Longie LLC), Fred Melo (St. Paul Pioneer Press), Anjula Razdan (Experience

Coven MPLS), and Laura Yuen and Riham Feshir

support of alumni and friends, the School has expanded

(MPR News). If you are an experienced professional in

offerings for

the Twin Cities area and this opportunity would be of

students,

interest to you, please reach out to me or one of our program directors.

We also are making a commitment in the new year to launch a new look for our online presence. A local

provided continuing

firm, Public Works, led by HSJMC alums Brian Hurley

support for

(B.A. ’04) and Jenny McDowell (B.A. ’92), has been

alumni society

selected to help revise and relaunch our school website this summer. We hope that this initiative will make the online front door to our School as welcoming and inviting as Murphy Hall has been over the years to all of our alumni, students, faculty, and staff.

Finally, the director’s office is saying a fond farewell to two long-time staff members. Julie Golias, who has been our adjunct faculty coordinator and scheduler for 10 years, is retiring. My assistant, Mary

events, and added scholarships for undergraduate

Achartz Haverty, is also retiring after serving for 38

and advanced

years in numerous capacities within HSJMC. Mary has

graduate

made me and everyone around her feel welcome and supported through her service to five directors. Both

students.

Julie and Mary will be dearly missed.

we will have several new endowed fellowships and 25, 2019, at McNamara Alumni Center.

We continue to seek out diverse, outstanding professionals to work with our students as mentors, internship advisors, and guest subject matter experts in our classrooms. This fall we launched a new effort to 1

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Elisia L. Cohen, Ph.D. Director, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication

PHOTO BY CHRIS COOPER

scholarships to announce at Spring Showcase on April

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

LAUNCHING NORTHERN EXPOSURE

An anything-but-the-same-old conference to talk photography, video and storytelling.

BY ELIZABETH BRUNETTE

February 8–10, 2019 northernexposuremn.org FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, the

Schuneman family, we’re proud to

Hubbard School co-sponsored an

be able to offer these types of expe-

event for visual storytellers called

riences and training, not only to our

See Change, organized by former

students, but to the visual journalism

adjunct instructor, Jerry Broeckert.

community as a whole.”

See Change was built upon a

The event is a great opportunity

previous event created by Raymond

for students and professionals to

"Smitty" Smith Schuneman, a jour-

learn, network, and grow their skill

nalism school faculty member from

sets. Attendees have the opportunity

1960–1977, who had launched a new

to choose from a variety of breakout

and innovated photographic commu-

workshop sessions, including

nication program at the School. Over

Staying Creative in Stressful Times,

the years, this event has grown and

Getting Your Photos Published,

changed, but shifted from its mission.

Copyrighting, tech sessions, and

The School felt it was time to bring it

hands-on sessions with the newest

back to its roots.

Canon and Sony cameras. Guest

From Feb. 8-10, 2019, the

speakers include Richard Koci

Hubbard School, with the help of

Hernandez, an internationally rec-

an endowment given by Smitty and

ognized, award-winning innovator

his wife Pat, relaunches the event

in journalism and multimedia; Cheryl

as Northern Exposure, a gathering

Diaz Meyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning

of visual storytellers. It is organized

photographer known for her cov-

by new faculty member and senior

erage of the Iraq and Afghanistan

fellow for visual journalism, Regina

wars; Richard Tsong-Taatarii, a staff

McCombs.

photographer for the Star Tribune;

“We are thrilled to launch this

Chad Nelson, a two-time National

event for visual storytellers,” said

Press Photographer’s Association

Director Elisia Cohen. “With the

Ernie Crisp Photographer of the

addition of Regina to our faculty,

Year; and many other workshop

along with the generous gift from the

leaders and speakers.

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“This event is a great chance to support the local photojournalism community with interesting speakers and workshops, and also have a strong networking component,” McCombs said. “We want to connect students and professionals, and give

Chad Nelson

everyone something to take away and use immediately.”

The event starts on Friday, Feb. 8 with student sessions, and an evening reception for professionals.

It continues on Saturday, Feb. 9,

Cheryl Diaz Meyer

with breakout workshop sessions, dinner with small groups and various speakers. Sunday features additional breakout workshop sessions, the Visual Minnesota Photo Contest Awards, and a closing speaker.

The Hubbard School is excited to renew its commitment to the craft of

Richard Koci Hernandez

visual journalism by relaunching this event for students and professionals.

It's a great way to connect students and professionals to new ideas, give attendees a chance to share tips, and allow the School to continue to support the visual journalism community.

For more information visit northernexposuremn.org.

Richard TsongTaatarii

EVENTS

HONORING A NEWSPAPER ICON The Ralph D. Casey Award was presented to Cheryl Dell.

BY AMANDA FRETHEIM GATES

“You play an integral role in telling the community’s story,” said Dell.

It’s this truth that the Casey Award honors.

DIRECTOR ELISIA COHEN TRAVELED to the Inland Press Association’s annual conference in September to present the Ralph D. Casey/Minnesota Award to Cheryl Dell.

The award is named in honor of the first director of the University of Minnesota Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Ralph D. Casey, who believed that leaders in the journalism and media industry have an important responsibility to give their best to the community. When picking this year’s recipient, Cohen thought Dell lived up to that legacy.

Dell retired in 2017 after spending more than 33 years in the newspaper industry. Her last 20 years were spent with The McClatchy Company. After first working in advertising and sales, she then served as publisher for The Tri City Herald and The News Tribune in Washington, and most recently, The Sacramento Bee, her hometown newspaper.

Dell once said in a video for her alma mater, Sacramento State, that it’s not every day a person has the opportunity to publish their hometown paper, and it comes with great responsibility. She said, “You play an integral role in telling the community’s story.” It’s this truth that the Casey Award honors.

Under Dell’s leadership, those three McClatchy papers won more than 2,000 awards for circulation, advertising and news. They received recognition in every major journalism contest, including The Pulitzer Prize.

Minnesota Daily alum Jack Ohman,

the Bee’s editorial cartoonist, was a recipient of the Pulitzer in 2016.

“In a universe of Fake Every-

Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, worked with Dell at McClatchy for nearly two

thing, Cheryl is the most genuine

decades. He said, “Cheryl was a

person I have ever known, and that

champion for the newsroom, making

includes my mother and grand-

sure it had the resources to support

mother,” Ohman said. “She treats

a first-rate news report and to wage

all people with respect and fairness.

legal battles to protect First Amend-

She is an inspiring leader because

ment rights. Her commitment to

you want to succeed for her. She is

journalistic values never wavered.”

a beloved figure at The Sacramento

Throughout her career, Dell

Bee and in our Northern California

has given back to the community,

community. She has accomplished

not just through the pages of the

great things her entire life, and still

newspapers she published, but by

has many chapters ahead of her.”

volunteering. She served on the

During her nine years at The

board of directors for more than 30

Bee, circulation revenue doubled.

non-profit organizations, with causes

Dell has found many creative ways

ranging from diversity and economic

to drive revenue in an industry that’s

development to social equity and the

definitely seen its ups and downs.

environment. Currently, Dell is on the

She’s a leader not just in publishing

board of directors for the Children’s

and advertising, but also in event

Reading Foundation, an organization

marketing and other nontraditional

that focuses on pre-kindergarten

business areas within publishing.

learning in 23 states.

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T. CHICK MCCLURE

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WHAT

to teach journalism

students

when their

field is under ATTACK?

EARLY AUGUST IS WHEN I USUALLY begin planning for the basic news reporting course I’ve taught for more than 20 years to University of Minnesota journalism students.

What was different last summer was the backdrop: harsh, attacking noise from our U.S. president’s resurgent campaign branding journalists the “enemy of the people.” The vitriol has gotten particularly sharp recently, with angry crowds at Trump rallies shouting obscenities at reporters for merely showing up to do their jobs.

The spectacle bothers one former student, who recently posted a photo of a CNN reporter’s ambushed stand-up at a rally showing a man wearing a “F*** the Media” T-shirt, his face twisted in hate. My student posted: “What if your profession were being targeted in this way by scary/angry/violent people?”

As I prepared for the fall semester, I wondered about my incoming students. How will this bedlam shape their views when they show up for my “boot-camp” newswriting course, which gives them their first real experience with the hard work of journalism? Will it frighten them? Embolden them? Confuse them?

For me, it raises the question of what I should be teaching them. Covering a speech is difficult enough, requiring students to

The same things you always do, of course — how to interview, how to understand, how to get stuff right.

But they’re going to need something more, too.

BY GAYLE GOLDEN

not just listen to the speaker but also to understand the context of the event, figure out what’s important, seek balanced views, verify assertions, accurately report quotes.

Do I need to add “steel yourself to nasty crowd insults” to the list of skills? Maybe.

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“WHAT IF YOUR PROFESSION WERE BEING TARGETED IN THIS WAY BY SCARY/ANGRY/VIOLENT PEOPLE?” The truth is that none of last summer’s unpleasant sideshow changed the fundamentals of my syllabus. I still put these newbies through the paces of what they need to know to be reporters: how to write ledes, how to attribute, how to get to the point in a story, how to interview, how to write news clearly on deadline.

I still demand they get stuff right, that they MICHAEL RAMEY

care about every inaccuracy and that they understand the critical importance of verifying when a claim is a fact—or not.

We still talk about the core values of the profession: to seek truth and report it, to

skills they gain in the major will apply across a

minimize harm, to act independently and to be

range of careers. Besides, if they love journalism,

accountable and transparent. We still talk about

they’ll find a way to work in it.

the importance of the First Amendment.

Most of them have the usual anxieties about

journalists don’t lend themselves to glib or rosy

newsroom jobs, which have declined 23 percent

lesson plans. These are troubling times for U.S.

in this country within the past decade. I assure

journalists. To not respond is not an option. It’s my

them, as I have for years, that the critical think-

responsibility to help students see what’s happen-

ing, writing, data analysis and communication

ing today and to prepare them. So this semester,

NEWSWRITING STUDENTS REACT My prediction about my fall 2018 news reporting and writing class was right: I didn’t do a lot differently with the course content. I still took students through the basic lessons of story structure, attribution, fairness and fact-gathering. Yet the curriculum was shaped by polarizing news events: a contentious Supreme Court nomination, midterm victories marked by disputes about voter exclusion, troops sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop asylum seekers, and a continuing special counsel investigation.

Throughout, the media was still in the crosshairs—at rallies, in tweets and, in one instance, via a reporter’s temporary expulsion from the White House press corps. I asked my students to notice. I asked them to think about what it means to them. (In 12-minute snippets, we watched All the President’s Men so I could show them what has changed about reporting and, most critically, what has not.) And then I asked them to write a reflection. Here are a few of their thoughts. – G.G.

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But I admit, these new aggressions against

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“It is easy to know that journalists must have thick skin, but it takes today’s rhetoric to understand just how thick.

It is one thing to have to mentally prepare yourself for criticism and scrutiny, but it is another to have to conjure up the mental armor to protect yourself from a culture that denigrates you.”

—Farrah Mina, professional journalism, global studies, Asian languages and literatures

“Trump may be our greatest teacher as prospective journalists…Work being done by journalists right now isn’t fighting [his] power with any other tools than those of the journalists who wrote decades ago. They’re reporting fact.”

– Cleo Krejci, English, professional journalism, Spanish studies

“We can be scared, we can be shaken, we can be bothered, but we cannot be ignorant. Ignorance goes against one of the fundamental principles of journalism: being informed and reporting the truth.”

– Jonas Dominguez, professional journalism

I advised students to cultivate resilience and

that could easily tip an imbalanced mind.

courage beyond their expectation. Reporters have

Finally, I told them that waffling about their

always needed thick skin to endure criticisms from

purpose won’t serve them. They have to believe

people who fear scrutiny or who claim they’ve

wholeheartedly in the tenets of journalism—that

been treated unfairly. Abuse now extends to

facts don’t have alternative facts, that truth

trolling, from which they can find no refuge. Their

is verifiable, that the powerful must be held

digital management skills must be savvy, and their

accountable and that journalists, if they are doing

skin simply needs to be thicker.

their job, are champions of the people.

I prepared them for risk, too. Danger has

These students have a lot to learn. Some

always come with reporting. Students shouldn’t

come into class not knowing a lede from a logo.

think they’re immune. Within the past decade,

But my hope is that they will quickly understand

621 journalists have been killed around the world,

that the louder the abusive clamor against their

according to the Committee to Protect Journal-

journalism, the more important their journalism

ists, including the four shot at the Capital Gazette

will become for our democracy.

in Annapolis, Md., this June. While that gunman’s attack appeared to come from a personal grudge,

A version of this op-ed was published in the

and while American reporters have not typically

Star Tribune in August 2018. Gayle Golden is a

faced the life-threatening conditions of reporting

Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teacher

in other countries, the propensity for violence is

and a senior lecturer at the Hubbard School of

elevated by the fact that our commander-in-chief

Journalism and Mass Communication at the

openly denigrates the press with vile name-calling

University of Minnesota.

“Am I afraid of the chants of ‘fake news,’ the signs with targets on journalists faces, the angry mob hurling death threats, and the suspicious packages? I’m not. I’m ready…I want to make my country better than it is today and I believe this can be done through journalism. By telling people the truth, even if it isn’t what they want to hear. By asking the tough questions, even if I’m attacked for it.”

– Dylan Anderson, professional journalism

“All I can do, all any journalism student right now can do is be brave, learn to do the work of journalism accurately and to the best of our abilities and remember the essential purpose it is meant to serve as the Fourth Estate.”

– Erin Wilson, professional journalism

“I may not dream of being a reporter, but I now have an incredible amount of empathy and admiration for that profession. We are living in dangerous times, and I will never stop fighting for a free press, even if that means putting myself in danger because these days, that’s what journalists are doing every single day.”

“I attended a conference at the Newseum several years ago. There, the names of more than 2,300 journalists are etched into glass in a memorial honoring journalists who have died reporting the news. Then, I looked up in reverence and melancholy, thinking primarily of those across oceans who tried to dismantle dictatorships through their truth telling and lost their lives because of it. Now, I look up understanding how costly the truth may be, and I wonder whether my name may someday join the list.”

– Dylan Miettinen, English and professional journalism

“I know pursuing a career in journalism during an age where the media is called ‘the enemy of the people’ is challenging. I don’t really know what to expect moving forward. But I do know that I’m not going to let fear prevent me from trying.”

– Becca Most, professional journalism, anthropology, art history

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BEHIND THE LENS

Students learn the value of visual storytelling.

DURING FALL SEMESTER, new Hubbard School lecturer and fellow Regina McCombs guided students in visual storytelling in both Jour 3102: Multimedia and Production and Jour 4302: Photojournalism.

In these classes, students learned technical skills, such as how to operate a DSLR for both still images and video, and how to tailor stories to best reflect the differences in print, broadcast, web and mobile reporting. The students also learned how to grasp concepts related to the ethics involved in photojournalism and the role of photojournalism in a newsroom.

“In my first semester teaching photojournalism, I wasn’t sure what to expect, so it was fun to see where each of them took their skills,” McCombs said. “Most had never touched a professional camera

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before, so putting one that the school provides in their hands and watching what they did with it was fascinating. And I’m sure I learned more than they did!”

McCombs, and fellow adjunct instructor Rusty Ray, sent students out into the world to take portraits, unposed photos that celebrate life, sports shots, unplanned event photos and planned general news assignment photos. Students learned to create audio slideshows and multimedia stories where the student is the editor, weaving together photos, video, graphics and text to tell the story.

Students also took pictures on election night on Nov. 6, 2018, making their way to several different campaign events. Here is some of the best work from the semester.

COURTNEY DEUTZ

Middle blocker Taylor Morgan prepares to spike the ball on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, at Maturi Pavilion. The Gopher volleyball team swept the match against the University of Iowa.

IAN FLAHERTY

JESSI NEUMANN

Students at the University of Minnesota Veterinary School keep an eye on cows like this one on the St. Paul campus.

Architecture students take advantage of the equipment for shoe repair at the University of Minnesota wood shop.

CHRIS MCNAMARA

DYLAN ANDERSON

GENEVIEVE VICKERS

Marcus Jenson, 27, begins his descent down one of the east faces of Palisade Head. He has been climbing for 13 years and works in financial advising. The route he was climbing was called “Sunday Excursion.”

Jude Goossens’ interest in why people do what they do led the junior to major in both neuroscience and philosophy at the University of Minnesota.

Senior and oboe performance major Alexis Varghese in a practice room in the University of Minnesota School of Music.

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TONY SAUNDERS KAIT ECKER

Janna Holter, 26, is seen through the glass counter of the “world famous” 8th Street Market in Minneapolis as she watches a video on her phone during a slow day.

Jack Kocak, 64, is a retired representative for Local 48, a construction union.

Originally from Jackson, Minn., he now lives in Minneapolis. Kocak walks on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis.

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NICK SCHEFFLER SAMANTHA FREEMAN

Jonathan SilesGarner, a junior at the University of Minnesota, is majoring in aerospace and is researching fluids, focusing on the interaction between oil and water in a porous media.

Tom Donker, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, raced in the 200-meter butterfly on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. He competed against the Florida State Seminoles swimming and diving team at the University of Minnesota's Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.

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COOPER SILBURN TONY SAUNDERS SAMANTHA FREEMAN

DIJON MCCAIN

Governor-elect Tim Walz hugs Lt. Governorelect Peggy Flanagan as she speaks to the crowd at the DFL election night party in St. Paul, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.

Amy Klobuchar and her daughter, Abigail Klobuchar Bessler, greet fans and supporters at the DFL election night party, which took place at the Intercontinental Saint Paul Riverfront Hotel on Nov. 6, 2018.

Erik Paulsen takes a moment to thank his constituents after losing the congressional race in Minnesota’s third congressional district. Hundreds of Minnesotans gathered at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Bloomington, Minn., to watch the election results and hear from Republican candidates at the GOP election night party, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson and supporter Mary Johnson take a photo at the Minnesota GOP 2018 election night party, which took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington.

COURTNEY DEUTZ

Fifth congressional district winner Ilhan Omar takes a selfie with supporters at her election party on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, at the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Minneapolis.

SHAINA EKSTROM

Below: Dean Phillips speaks to a crowd of supporters after winning Minnesota’s third congressional district. Supporters of Dean Phillips gathered at the Hilton in Bloomington, Minn., on Nov. 6, 2018.

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JAMIE YUCCAS VISITS

“You just have to remember that what you do matters,” she said. “Your job is to tell people’s stories, expose lies and corruption, and fight for the underdog.”

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HER ALMA MATER The CBS News Correspondent

JAMIE YUCCAS (B.A. ’03) HAS LOVED the news for as long as she can remember.

When she was in elementary school, her

spent time

grandfather would pay her two dollars a

with students,

quiz. She would study up by reading the

sharing her

loved the storytelling of newspapers so

experiences.

week if she could pass a current events newspaper all week to earn her prize. “I much, I started my own called ‘The Loon Lagoon,’ writing stories about the happenings at my family’s cabin on Leech Lake in northern Minnesota.”

That early start led Yuccas to be the first to sign up to work on the newspaper at her high school. “I finally felt like I had a place,” she said of the school newspaper. “I was in band and played sports, but at the newspaper we all had the common goal of telling stories.”

Yuccas entered the University with a portfolio of clips; she knew she wanted to work for the Minnesota Daily. She applied to be a staff writer her freshman year and got the job. During her first year in the journalism school, two of her instructors, Ken Stone and Gary Schwitzer, encouraged her to get an internship at one of the television stations.

Yuccas applied to be a weather intern (the only spot available) at WCCO. Her first day was Sept. 11, 2001.

“Watching the news unfold that day, seeing how pictures could be put to words to make the greatest impact on the story really solidified my choice of working in broadcast journalism,” she said. After her weather internship ended, WCCO hired her as a producer’s assistant, working overnight for the station’s brand-new morning show, while still attending school.

With her degree from the journalism school, her internship experience, and a lot of tenacity, she had a job at KTTC in Rochester, Minn., before she even graduated in 2003. She spent 18 months in Rochester before moving

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to Fort Meyers, Fla., where she worked her way up to anchor. After being there for seven years, including during the recession, she thought that would be a place she should just settle in. Then the news director at WCCO, who remembered Yuccas as a producer’s assistant, came calling. He knew Yuccas might have aspirations for national news, and because WCCO is owned and operated by CBS, there was a lot of potential for growth.

During her second week at WCCO, Yuccas was sent

BY AMANDA FRETHEIM GATES

to Minot, N.D., to cover a flood. She ended up being on the CBS evening news, reporting from Minot. Over the years at WCCO, she would pitch ideas to CBS­—usually weather pieces during the cold Minnesota winters—and ended up reporting two “end pieces” for CBS, which was a rare and valuable opportunity for a reporter at an affiliate.

In 2015, she joined CBS News in New York and now works in L.A. as a correspondent.

In October, Yuccas came back to the University to interview new Gopher women’s basketball coach, Lindsay Whalen. She made time to stop by Murphy Hall to talk to students who are interested in broadcasting. She answered a range of questions about getting an agent, the differences between media markets, being a woman in the industry, and how to keep yourself from becoming desensitized.

She touted the benefits of starting out in a smaller market, where there’s more room to make mistakes and a better chance to get to know yourself as a professional.

She encouraged students to learn how to do everything in a newsroom. “Don’t ever say you want to be an anchor,” she said. “You need all the other skills in order to anchor anyway. The anchor is the quarterback of the team. You have to see the whole field and know everybody’s job to be successful.”

Moving to new markets can be a challenge—and Yuccas has moved a lot. She told students to read all the newspapers in the area and learn what’s important to the community. Watch the newscasts, and learn about the news directors. Sit at a coffee shop and listen to the conversations. Most importantly, she encouraged kindness.

Don’t rush sources or push to a deadline. Build a rapport first, and worry about the story second.

Yuccas was honest about the life of a correspondent, too. She’s covered hurricanes, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the California fires and more. It can all take its toll. “All the travel and getting up in the middle of the night for live shots, or being launched to breaking news at a moment’s notice can make planning your own life pretty tough,” she said.

“You just have to remember that what you do matters,” she said. “Your job is to tell people’s stories, expose lies and corruption, and fight for the underdog. You have to have a good sense of self and realize that it’s your job to flip the script on misinformation. The most rewarding part of my job is helping people tell their story.”

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EVENTS

33RD ANNUAL SILHA LECTURE ADDRESSES THE FREE SPEECH IMPLICATIONS OF THE #METOO MOVEMENT

BY KIRSTEN NORDSTROM FIRST AMENDMENT ATTORNEY Theodore Boutrous Jr., the

legal precedent that would help those who experience

Group, discussed the interplay between the First Amend-

retaliation in the workplace bring their own lawsuits in the

ment and the #MeToo movement during

future, he said. “The reason that Ashley

the 33rd Annual Silha Lecture, “The

wanted to bring this lawsuit was to take

First Amendment and #MeToo,” at the University of Minnesota’s Cowles Auditorium on Oct. 17, 2018, with more than 250 people in attendance. Boutrous, who is representing actor Ashley Judd in her defamation lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, argued that Judd’s case could produce a strong legal precedent that would allow victims of sexual harassment to stand up to their attackers and help catalyze the next stage of the #MeToo movement.

Boutrous began the lecture by noting that he had spent most of his

“I thought it was important for the women who had spoken out and were now threatened with these suits to know that there were lawyers in the world who would represent them.”

all this energy and momentum from the #MeToo movement and take the next step and have legal action that can really continue to change the world and improve the professional arc for all women and all men who might confront harassment and retaliation in the workplace,” Boutrous said.

Boutrous then explained why he believed Judd’s case raises completely different First Amendment issues than defamation lawsuits brought against media organizations.

“The defamation claim is easy for me

career defending news organizations

to reconcile because it doesn’t involve

from defamation claims and advo-

public debate or public controversy,”

cating for broad First Amendment

he argued, “but rather it was a purely­

protections. He said it was not until he began repre-

—­we allege—malicious effort to injure someone for

senting Judd that he realized the importance of the First

inappropriate reasons.” When defamation law was first

Amendment in the #MeToo movement. “It really shows

developed, he said, it was intended to address situa-

how speech and individuals, famous people and private

tions just like Judd’s—where blatantly false statements

people, speaking out about an issue, bringing it out from

damage someone professionally.

the shadows, having a global dialogue about an issue,

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ultimately decided to bring the lawsuit in order to set a

global co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Litigation

During the 2016 presidential election, then-candi-

can change society,” he said. “The #MeToo movement is

date Donald Trump vowed to file defamation lawsuits

all about speech.”

against the women who accused him of sexual assault

Boutrous gave a brief background of Judd’s case

and harassment. In response to President Trump’s

against Weinstein, which claims that Weinstein “defamed

threats, Boutrous tweeted on Oct. 22, 2016 that he

Ashley Judd, trashed her professionalism to retaliate

would “represent pro bono anyone [President Trump]

against her for rebuffing his inappropriate sexual advances,

sues for exercising their free speech rights.” Boutrous

[which] really changed the trajectory of her career in a

explained that “[t]he reason [he] thought it was import-

serious way.” Boutrous said that when it came to light

ant to do this is because the threats of lawsuits can

that Judd was harmed professionally and economically by

deter people from speaking and can deter journalists

Weinstein’s comments, she brought a defamation suit to

from engaging in journalism.” He continued, “I thought it

redress the injury, even though the statute of limitations for

was important for the women who had spoken out and

her sexual harassment claim had already expired. Judd

were now threatened with these suits to know that there

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were lawyers in the world who would represent them.”

Boutrous noted that although the #MeToo movement was largely about speech, some of the accused used various tactics in order to try to stop accusers from coming forward. He alleged that Weinstein and others used threats of defamation lawsuits, nondisclosure agreements, and harassment in order to suppress speech. According to Boutrous, this is an example of why First Amendment protections need to be strengthened in order to protect the people who were speaking out and the news organizations reporting on the accusations.

Boutrous noted that social media has greatly increased the amount of speech, joking that 1,000 defamations had likely occurred on social media during his 45-minute lecture. Although he noted that the increase in defamatory speech may cause some observers to advocate for looser defamation laws allowing more lawsuits, he argued that the speech is overall less damaging because social media allows for corrections to be almost instantaneous. Boutrous argued that in the cases where speech is blatantly false and extremely damaging, like in Judd’s case, his proposed changes to defamation law would still allow for meaningful lawsuits to recover damages.

Boutrous concluded by asserting that the #MeToo movement was a product of brave women who decided to come forward, journalists who covered the allegations with integrity, and the First Amendment. “At the same time,” he continued, “when a powerful man retaliates against a woman for rebuffing his sexual advances and then secretly defames her, that’s a defamation case and I don’t think the First Amendment has much of any concern with that, and time’s up for that kind of behavior in this country.”

Top: Silha Center Director Jane Kirtley visits with Theodore Boutrous, Jr. Center: Silha Lecture attendees.

Bottom: Theodore Boutrous, Jr., speaks to the audience.

A video of the lecture is available on the Silha Center website at silha.umn.edu. Silha Center activities, including the annual lecture, are made possible by a generous endowment from the late Otto and Helen Silha.

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EVENTS

EDWARD R. MURROW PROGRAM COMES TO MINNEAPOLIS More than 20 journalists from around the world visited HSJMC. EACH YEAR, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of

Latvia to Ghana and New Zealand—

spending time in a local resident’s

State’s Edward R. Murrow Program

arrived in Minneapolis on Nov. 7,

home for dinner, the group visited

for Journalists brings more than 100

2018. The 23 were reuniting after

Murphy Hall on Nov. 12 to hear from

emerging international journalists from

being split up between Pensacola,

faculty about many topics, including

around the world to examine journal-

Fla., Columbia, S.C., Huntsville,

the First Amendment and innovations

istic practices in the United States.

Ala., and Little Rock, Ark., for

in newsgathering. The group also

The Murrow program is an innovative

separate experiences. The first

participated in conversations about

public-private partnership between

day of programming sponsored by

the midterm elections and election ad

the Department of State, the Poynter

HSJMC featured a tour of the Mill

spending, and spoke with the Media

Institute for Media Studies and several

City Museum, a visit to Hubbard

History and Law class about their

leading U.S. schools of journalism.

Broadcasting and KSTP, a stop

experiences as journalists in their

at Midtown Global Market, and a

home countries.

Nearly every year since 2006, Minneapolis and the Hubbard School

chance to sit in on the news huddle

have been a multi-day stop for the

at the Star Tribune.

group. This year, 23 journalists from 22 countries—from Albania and

After a weekend spent sightseeing, watching American football, and

Programming for the visit is planned between the Hubbard School’s Minnesota Journalism Center and Global Minnesota.

Murrow program participants received University of Minnesota gear as a welcome gift.

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The Murrow program is an innovative public-private partnership between the Department of State, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and several leading U.S. schools of journalism.

AROUND CAMPUS & BEYOND

Hubbard School faculty, students and staff were busy during the Fall 2018 semester.

The College of Liberal Arts celebrated 150 years with CLA Day, an event on Northrop Plaza, highlighting all its departments and centers.

CLA Dean John Coleman welcomed attendees to CLA Day, touted the benefits of a liberal arts education and spoke kindly of all the departments in the college.

During CLA Day, Goldy Gopher helped undergraduate student services coordinator Christine Mollen answer questions about the journalism major.

PHOTOS BY PHUONG TRAN AND AMANDA FRETHEIM GATES

Undergraduate student services coordinator Christine Mollen and events manager Sue Couling (not pictured) traveled to Chicago in November for the National High School Journalism Convention, a semiannual gathering of high school journalists and advisers, co-sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. With typical attendance of more than 4,000 delegates, the convention is the largest gathering of student journalists in the country.

Jamie Yuccas (B.A. ’03), CBS News correspondent, spoke with broadcast students about her career trajectory since graduation at Murphy Hall in October.

The exhibit “On Purpose: Portrait of the Liberal Arts” was displayed at the Nash Gallery on the West Bank during Fall 2018 to help celebrate CLA’s 150 years. Each department had a portrait taken.

The Hubbard School’s portrait featured Director of Graduate Studies and Mithun Chair of Advertising Jisu Huh, Star Tribune reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim (B.A. ’11) and 2018 graduate Rilyn Eischens.

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WHY I GIVE

WHY I GIVE: JILL BRAATEN (B.A. ’91) A sad situation has helped so many, including me.

HAVE YOU EVER BENEFITED FROM THE KINDNESS and generosity of someone else?

For me the answer is easy; I have benefited greatly.

One particularly significant act of generosity came to me when I was a young student entering the journalism school at the University of Minnesota, and it has impacted my life ever since.

When I was a student, it took some time for me to settle on a major. But I knew I found my people when I chose journalism. I was a young photographer, keen on a faithful conduit for the stories of others. My acceptance to the School was an important vote of confidence. I recall that my level of enthusiasm was high, but both confidence and cash were on the low side.

Now, let me tell you about another story that was going on just before all of this: There was a young and very talented photojournalism grad named David Shippee, who was at the beginning of his career as a photojournalist with the

I was a young photographer, keen on the idea that my eye, and sometimes my pen, could be a faithful conduit for the stories of others.

Idaho Statesman. An exciting opportunity arose to be the photo-documentarian of an expedition of the upper Yangtze River in China. Being both adventurous and ambitious, Dave jumped at the chance.

The journey involved a rapid increase in elevation, and tragically, Dave fell ill to an elevation sickness that took his life. It’s hard to even fathom the devastation that Dave’s new wife and family felt and still feel. But, being the strong and special people that they are, they turned grief into grace and created a scholarship in his honor. And that is where our paths crossed.

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PHOTO BY CHRIS COOPER

the idea that my eye, and sometimes my pen, could be

Jill Braaten and Elizabeth Shippee at the 2018 Spring Showcase.

I was the second recipient of the David Shippee Memorial Scholarship—an act of kindness and generosity that changed the trajectory of my life. It couldn’t have come at a more necessary time. The funds were extremely helpful and the confidence it gave me by virtue of being chosen was priceless.

I’ve been fortunate to have a rewarding career in publishing and media and I count myself lucky to have a beautiful friendship with Dave’s enchanting mom, Elizabeth. I hope this story illustrates the potential we all have to make a difference in the lives of others. The rewards for giving, whether large or small, are great.

And I’m honored to now be a donor to the David Shippee Memorial Scholarship as well.

Jill Braaten (B.A. ’91) works in Strategic Performance Coaching & Development for Getty Images.

SCHOLARSHIP

FACULTY NEWS

COLIN AGUR presented “Mobile Chat Applications and Political Protests in Contexts of Surveillance,” at the third International Conference on Communication and Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2018. He also presented “Mobile Momentum: Conceptualizing the Social and Technological Changes

Publicly Engaged Scholarship Work-

Europe. This volume offers students,

shop in Murphy Hall. This workshop is

scholars and the general reader

open to the public and will gather early-

original research and candid frontline

and mid-career scholars located in the

insights to understand the intersecting

Midwest to discuss how they seek to

influences of journalistic practices,

engage with the professional commu-

news discourses, public opinion,

nity in journalism research.

and policymaking on one of the most

MATT CARLSON published “Fake news

polarizing issues of our time.

as an informational moral panic: The

GAYLE GOLDEN (G.G.) received the Greg

symbolic deviancy of social media

Carey Leadership Award during the

during the 2016 U.S. presidential

Minnesota Media & Publishing Associ-

August 2018.

election” online in Information,

ation Excellence Awards for her role as

Communication & Society. He also

an educator, mentor and champion for

BETSY ANDERSON was the co-author of

published “The information politics of

magazines, “nurturing and honing the

journalism in a post-truth age” in the

talents of dozens of new professionals

July issue of Journalism Studies.

to the industry.” G.G. was unable to

of Mobile Communication” at the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S) Annual Meeting in Sydney, Australia, in

“Work-life balance 2.0? An examination of social media management practice and agency employee coping strategies in a 24/7 social world,” a study which was published in the Public Relations Journal. This study examines the work experiences of public relations agency professionals who specialize in social media and digital strategy for clients and those who manage employees tasked with monitoring, updating and responding to social media content.

ELISIA COHEN and her research

Betsy Anderson

Sid Bedingfield

attend the November 2018 event, so two of her students, Kait Ecker and

team published "An evaluation of the

Ariana Wilson, accepted the award on

‘protect their future’ video intervention

her behalf (pictured below).

on parents’ intentions to immunize adolescents" in the Journal of Com-

Giovanna Dell’Orto

munication in Health Care.

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO co-edited a new book that’s now available, Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in

SID BEDINGFIELD, along with HSJMC grad Olivia Iverson and current student

Chris Ison

Ryan Russell, spent time in July at ThreeSixty Journalism summer camp, helping high school students interested in journalism create video projects.

ThreeSixty is a nonprofit program of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, which uses the principles of strong writing and reporting to help diverse Minnesota youth tell the stories of their lives and communities.

On May 11, 2019, VALERIE

BELAIR-GAGNON will host the first

ThreeSixty Journalism summer camp.

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SCHOLARSHIP

FACULTY KATHLEEN HANSEN’S and NORA PAUL’S book, Future-Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History, is out in paperback in February 2019. The two did a book signing at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society on Oct. 18, 2018.

JISU HUH published the article “Redundancy gain effects in incidental exposure to multiple ads on the Internet” in the Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, in collaboration with a former student Sangruo Huang (currently assistant professor at Zhejiang University in China). Huh was also invited by the Temerlin Advertising Institute at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, in October 2018 to give a lecture focusing on her latest research project “Trust

the “Recognizing and Engaging with

In MARK JENSON’S Strategic

News” series at the University of Wis-

Communication Campaigns class

consin-Menomonie on Oct. 18, 2018.

(Jour 4263), the final project was for

Ison also spoke to students at the

Chobani Yogurt Drinks. The client

University of Wisconsin-River Falls on

was HSJMC graduate Heather

ethics in strategic communications on

Arnston who is a senior customer

Nov. 8, and he moderated a panel dis-

marketing manager for Chobani. The

cussion entitled “Conflict on the Beat

class was divided into four teams and

and De-Escalation” for the Minnesota

given the same objective: to boost

Chapter of the Society of Professional

brand awareness and drive sales of

Journalists on Nov. 27, 2018.

the product to an 18- to 24-year-old

Kathleen Hansen

Jane Kirtley

audience. Each team presented their

JANE KIRTLEY was the principal speaker for a panel, “Privacy and Data Protection” at the Practicing Law Institute’s Communication Law in the Digital Age conference on Nov. 9, 2018, in New York City. She was also the author of the corresponding chapter in the course handbook.

campaign plan and ideas to the client in December.

STACEY KANIHAN and HYEJOON RIM published “Media use and political learning: Comparing Trump supporters to celebrity candidate

Len Mitsch

voters” in the Atlantic Journal of Communication.

and its influence on advertising processes and effects: Computational research applying the trust scores in social media (TSM)

RESEARCH AT THE FAIR

algorithm.”

the Minnesota State Fair in the

CHRIS ISON spoke

to Discover Barn collecting

on ethics in strategic communication for The BrandLab, which trains diverse high school students in marketing, at Macalester College on July 16, 2018. He spoke on fake news for the Minnesota High School Press Association on

University of Minnesota’s Driven survey data about Minnesotans’ attitudes and behavioral intentions toward corporations in their communities. The data

Sherri Jean Katz

collected will be used to help understand how people’s proximity to corporate headquarters influences their opinions and behaviors surrounding corporate social responsibility. Thirteen students helped administer surveys to more than 1,800 fairgoers. O’Connor and her volunteers spent 59 hours at the Fair. People ages 18 to 88 from 272 Minnesota cities took the survey. The research was made possible by a seed grant from the College of Liberal Arts. O’Connor is analyzing the data and hopes to present the findings at an upcoming conference.

Oct. 9, 2018. He was a panelist for 22

Mark Jenson

AMY O’CONNOR spent 10 days at

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Director Cohen visits with Dr. O'Connor's student research team at the Driven to Discover Barn.

SCHOLARSHIP

SHERRI JEAN KATZ co-authored the

WELCOME ERROL SALAMON

forthcoming publications: “Assess-

Errol Salamon was hired in Fall

ing the impact of conflicting health

2018 as the Hubbard School’s

warning information on intentions

first postdoctoral teaching scholar

to use e-cigarettes - an application

in diversity, equity and inclusion.

of the Heuristic-Systematic Model”

Salamon has a Ph.D. in com-

in the Journal of Health Communica-

munication studies from McGill

tion, and “Beliefs about e-cigarettes: A focus group study with college students,” in the American Journal

University and specializes in journalism studies, cultural studies, political economy

of Health Behavior.

of communication, media history and media policy.

SCOTT LIBIN received an Upper Mid-

Freelance journalists’ rights, contracts, labor organiz-

west Emmy Award as a co-producer of VISION: Seeing Is Believing (Cre-

In August, Salamon published “Precarious e-lancers: ing, and digital resistance” in the Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies.

Hansel, one of the most collected

awarded Nagler a $356,125 grant

artists in North America who also happens to be legally blind.

for her project, “Effects of prior

LEN MITSCH delivered a talk on the

mation on responses to subsequent

exposure to conflicting health inforunrelated health messages.” The

role branding plays in modern media

grant period runs from Sept. 6,

at TEGNA’s Annual Brand Summit, Claire Segijn

Minneapolis. TEGNA is a pure-play

2018 through Aug. 31, 2020.

AMELIA REIGSTAD was selected

local media company owning nearly

as a finalist for the TeamWomen

50 local broadcast affiliates in 39

WaveMaker Awards in the category

markets. Mitsch spoke to executives

of Outstanding Mentor. Awarded to

from 13 of TEGNA’s affiliates on the

a woman who makes a profound

importance of brand and why local

impact on the trajectory and

media brands must be relevant, differentiated and clear about who they

Christopher Terry

are, what they stand for and why

advancement of other women’s careers, she was nominated by former students for her dedication,

consumers would want to engage with them.

passion and support in guiding

REBEKAH NAGLER published “The

in the marketing communications

them toward a successful career industry.

evolution of controversy about mammography screening: A content analysis of four publicized screening recommendations, 2009-2016” in Women’s Health Issues. In addition, the National Institutes of Health, by way of the National Cancer Institute,

Grant of the Mobile Communication Interest Group at the International Communication Association. She will be using this grant to study a new phenomenon in mobile advertising that is known as synced advertising.

She will be the first to systematically examine this mobile advertising technique that entails syncing ads on a mobile device with other media messages across platforms at the same time. Segijn also received the Baschwitz Young Scholar Award (for the second time) for the best article

ative Soul Video), the story of Jim

held at the Muse Event Center, in

CLAIRE SEGIJN was granted with the Emerging Scholar Research

Hyejoon Rim

published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2017 for the article “The battle of the screens: Unraveling attention allocation and memory effects when multiscreening” which is co-authored

by Hilde M. Voorveld, Lisa Vandeberg and Edith Smit from the University of Amsterdam.

CHRISTOPHER TERRY received the Top Overall Faculty Paper Award from the Communication and Law Division of the National Communication Association for his paper “Localism: A solution to the maze of media ownership policy.”

MATTHEW WEBER was recently awarded a grant by the William T. Grant foundation to extend his research examining the ways in which members of Congress learn

HYEJOON RIM co-authored “Watch out when expectancy is violated: An experiment of inconsistent CSR message cueing” in the Journal of Marketing Communications.

about research through news media.

The grant will support a conference in 2019, and will provide additional support for an edited book to be published in 2020. Matthew was also elected as the next incoming chair of

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STAFF

WELCOME

LEAKS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT JANE KIRTLEY, along with four other professors, co-authored of 17 media law scholars, which was filed on Oct. 4, 2018 for the sentencing phase of U.S. v. Albury in the federal district court in Minnesota. Terry Albury, an FBI agent working in Minneapolis, pleaded guilty in April 2018 for sharing confidential information with an online news organization.

According to the Associated Press, the group asked the court “to craft a punishment that weighs the constitutional protection of free speech and the public’s interest in Albury’s disclosure against any harm to national security.

Ruth DeFos-

cation Association.

student and adjunct instructor, joins the School as a full-time lecturer in Spring 2019. She fills the School’s ongoing need for instruction in context and advanced courses. Her professional background is in print journalism, and she is passionate about media literacy, accessible education, and social justice.

Her published research includes studies of media coverage of terrorism, crime, and mass

Division of the National Communi-

MARCO YZER published “Beliefs underlying stress reduction and depression help-seeking among college students: An elicitation study” in the Journal of American College Health. This paper is based on research that was funded by Boynton Health at the University of Minnesota about mental health issues on our campus. Yzer wrote this paper with a student from his Jour 5542: Theory-based Message Design course.

BENJAMIN TOFF received two awards during the American Political Science Association annual meeting

“The scholars say that the

in September 2018. Toff received

government has acknowledged

the Heinz Eulau Award with Kather-

its classification system has been

ine Cramer for their article published

used improperly before and ‘ubiq-

in Perspectives with Politics titled

uitous overclassification has long

“The fact of experience: Rethinking

required journalists to rely on leaks

political knowledge and civic com-

to expose matters of powerful

petence.” He also received the E.E.

public concern.’ The scholars

Schattschneider Award for the best

say just because a document is

doctoral dissertation on American

marked ‘classified,’ that doesn’t

government (pictured left).

mean there will be harm if it is published. ‘It is fair to say that if all classified information were somehow hermetically sealed off from the public, ours would no longer be the vibrant, publicly-accountable republic it has been from its birth,’ the scholars wrote.” Albury was sentenced to four years in federal prison in October 2018.

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the Organizational Communication

HSJMC Ph.D.

shootings.

Marco Yzer

RUTH DEFOSTER

ter, a former

an amicus curiae brief on behalf

Matthew Weber

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The Hubbard School front office welcomed three new staff members during the Fall 2018 semester.

ERIKA NELSON, the School’s new Chief of Staff, came to the Hubbard School after six years as a chief operating officer and managing director of the University of Minnesota’s Food Protection and Defense Institute.

JIANI ZHOU

graduated from the Carlson School of Management and joined the team as a financial preparer.

KASSIE SNYDER is the School’s new graduate studies coordinator, joining the School from the College of Science and Engineering.

At the end of the Spring 2019 semester, the Hubbard School will say farewell to two longtime, irreplaceable staff members,

MARY ACHARTZ HAVERTY and JULIE GOLIAS, who

will both be retiring.

Many Hubbard School alumni know Mary and Julie, who have worked at the School for 38 years and 10 years respectively. If you have a story you’d like to share or a gift you’d like to give in their honor, please email murphrep@ umn.edu.

LEARNING

GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

JONATHAN ANDERSON co-authored “Forty years of public records litigation involving the University of Wisconsin: An empirical study,” which was published in the Journal of College and University Law.

KEVIN CROSS was promoted from writer/public relations associate to communication specialist in his job with the University of Minnesota’s Office of the Vice President for Professor Emeritus Dan Wackman with Ph.D. student Allison Steinke.

Research.

CLARA JUAREZ MIRO and MICHAELE MYERS presented “Effects of angerinducing political messages” at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Chicago.

DEBRA KELLEY was chosen to participate in a year-long study program called Muslim Women and the Media Training Institute (MWM Training Institute), sponsored by University of California, Davis (UC-Davis), and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The institute is a project of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, General Editor, Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis.

Kelley was one of 16 chosen from graduate students and early-career applicants from around the world.

Silha Center research assistants

SCOTT MEMMEL, KIRSTEN NORDSTROM, and CASEY CARMODY assisted Silha Center Director Jane Kirtley in the publishing of her chapter, “Privacy and Data Protection,” in Communications Law in the Digital Age 2018.

SCOTT MEMMEL presented a paper

ALLISON STEINKE received the 2018

titled “Defending the press: The shield

Dan Wackman First-Year Graduate

that sets Minnesota apart” at the

Student Research Award for her

2018 NCA Conference in Salt Lake

research on “Episodic activism

City, Utah. Assistant Professor Chris

and awareness: A frame analysis

Terry, Memmel, and former UMN law

of anti-trafficking NGO blogs.” The

student Ashley Turacek published a

Dan Wackman First-Year Graduate

paper related to net neutrality, “Lost

Student Research Award was

in a novelty mug: US Telecom, the

established with generous gifts

FCC and policy resolution for net

from HSJMC’s professor emeritus,

neutrality,” in the UC Hastings Com-

Dan Wackman and others, to honor

munications and Entertainment Law

a first-year graduate student or

Journal.

small group of graduate students

AMELIA NARIGON was promoted to

who produce the best research paper for a completed first-year

director of communications for the

graduate project in Mass Commu-

College of Design at the University of

nication. This monetary reward of

Minnesota.

$1,500 is given annually in the fall

FERNANDO SEVERINO was selected as

semester.

one of 12 graduate student fellows to participate in the Misinformation Solutions Forum at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., in October 2018.

This multidisciplinary forum was created to explore projects trying to tackle the spread of misinformation.

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LEARNING

MEET A STUDENT: MIGUEL OCTAVIO SHINES ON CAMERA ❙

INTERVIEWED BY ELIZABETH BRUNETTE

SENIOR MIGUEL OCTAVIO is a double major in journalism and political science.

He’s had a love for writing since high school. Last summer he participated in a competitive internship with CBS News’ 24/7 streaming service, CBSN. He’s a member of the Society of Professional Journalists student group and hopes to be a reporter someday —most likely on television.

mistakes I made

Q What classes or instructors in

helped me develop

would reflect on everyone else. There may be things you can't always prepare for but you just need to find ways to rise to the occasion for the sake of your team. Without a doubt, this was such a rewarding experience.

Q How will your internship help you in your future career?

A The stress that

comes from a fastpaced environment

Murphy Hall have had the biggest impact on you?

a thick skin and

wing of Scott Libin. Words cannot

to mention, witness-

remain composed

A I'm lucky to have been under the describe how thankful I am for him.

I've done things that I never imagined myself doing had it not been

under pressure. Not ing such amazing while also making the best memories with four other interns. To top

for his support.

it all off, our piece won [first place]

Q What were your responsibilities

and talents also hosted weekly

and aired on CBSN. Executives

as a CBSN intern last summer?

workshops. It was amazing to hear

with segments that aired on the

them.

A I produced stories and helped show. I also ran the teleprompter

about their journey and learn from

materials.

Q What is something that you learned from your internship experience?

Q What did you most enjoy about

but the experience taught me to

and updated the anchors with their scripts or any breaking news

A There were steep learning curves

your internship?

be persistent during challenging

one week creating a news package,

at the network. Therefore, any

A The intern project, where I spent 26

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moments. The stakes are high

There may be things you can't always prepare for but you just need to find ways to rise to the occasion for the sake of your team.

work from the best in the business inspired me to be a better storyteller. I hope that someday I can provide the same quality of work as them. Preparation is key. I visited the career services center multiple times to go over my resume and cover letter. I also met with people who have had internships that I was pursuing to gain a better understanding of what employers were looking for.

I've had the chance to tell the stories of inspiring people and learn more about the world. I've enjoyed my time at HSJMC so much.

LEARNING

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

KELLY BUSCHE, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Daily, appeared on the Washington Journal, C-SPAN’s morning call-in program, to talk about efforts to get students to vote and issues concerning University of Minnesota students during the 2018 midterm election.

The MINNESOTA DAILY STAFF walked away with an Associated Collegiate Press 2018 Pacemaker Award during the college journalism convention in Louisville in October.

Four undergraduate students received the Barbara Newsome Liberal Arts Internship Scholarship for the Fall 2018 semester. LEAH

COMINS worked as an editing intern

for the U.S. Department of State;

into the Carnegie-Knight News21 program for 2019. Students selected for the program participate—some of them via videoconference—in an intensive seminar in the spring semester of each year during which they research and hear from experts on a topic that will become the basis of a national investigation. The students then move into paid summer fellowships, during which they work out of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University’s digital media complex in downtown Phoenix for 10 weeks in the summer.

The fellows travel the country and sometimes go abroad to report stories and produce content for publication or broadcast across a

story “The Miracle of Finland: What

number of platforms. The national

a Tiny Northern Minnesota Town

News21 Initiative is part of an effort

can Teach America.” He receives a

on the part of the Knight Foundation

$2,000 scholarship along with his

and the Carnegie Corporation

second place win. More than 100

for the new Minnesota women’s

of New York to change the way

undergraduate journalism programs

professional hockey team, the

journalism is taught in the U.S. and

at universities across the nation are

train a new generation of journalists

eligible to participate in the Hearst

capable of reshaping the news

Awards Program, and more than 150

industry. The Cronkite School serves

feature writing entries were received

as the national headquarters for

in this competition from 85 schools.

KSEINA GORINSHTEYN worked as

an arts and entertainment reporter at the Minnesota Daily; BRIANNA

MONTGOMERY worked as an intern

Minnesota Whitecaps; and JILLIAN

WELBORN worked as a visual media intern for EFE News Services.

Several students were nominated

the initiative, which includes top

for the Hearst Journalism Awards.

journalism students from across the

GRACE STEWARD received a schol-

country. Since 2008, the Cronkite

arship to attend the Missing Voices:

School has been the recipient of

Diversifying the News hackathon

nearly $10 million in grants from

hosted by West Virginia University.

SHAINA EKSTROM and JESSICA HART were both nominated in the Television Features category. ELLEN SCHMIDT was nominated in the

the two foundations to support the

Photojournalism News and Features

News21 program.

WITTENBERG was nominated in the

JACOB STEINBERG earned second

category, and recent graduate ALEX Enterprise Reporting category.

MIGUEL OCTAVIO and JACOB STEINBERG have been accepted

Jack Nachtigal was named a 2018 University of Minnesota Homecoming royal in October.

YAYOUA YANG received The BrandLab’s John Olson Scholarship. The $10,000 scholarship is in memory

place in the 2018-19 Hearst

of John Olson, the founder of The

Journalism Awards Program for

BrandLab, whose dream was to

Feature Writing. Jake received this

bring new and diverse talent into the

honor for his City Pages feature

creative industry.

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ALUMNI

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: YURIDIA RAMIREZ USES JOURNALISM SKILLS TO STUDY AND TELL THE STORIES OF LATINO/LATINA MIGRANTS ❙ BY KATIE DOHMAN YURIDIA RAMIREZ’S EMAIL signature is

things that have been occurring

nine lines long. That only includes what

throughout

she’s currently doing, which is titled

this year, and

as follows: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral

especially with

Fellow for 2018-19 in the Department

the movement of

of Latina/Latino Studies at the Univer-

folks now, within

sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

the work we are

and Assistant Professor, Latina/o Stud-

writing,” she said.

ies & Global and Intercultural Studies

“Writing, for me,

Department of Global and Intercultural

while oftentimes

Studies at Miami University.

painful, seems so

A 2011 graduate of the profes-

critical and urgent

sional journalism track, she was a

in these times, not

first-generation college student, born

only to place into

of Mexican immigrant parents. She

context what it is

credits advisor Ellen Sunshine for

we are witnessing,

tagging her as a multicultural student,

but also to make

opening up educational opportunities,

sense of it for my

and mentors like former HSJMC

own self, to work

associate professor Brian Southwell,

out the intricacies

associate professor Giovanna

that hurt and pain

Dell’Orto, and Mark Pedelty, professor of communications studies, for showing her the way.

“I had done journalism in high school and was the editor of my senior paper. I loved journalism but I guess I hadn’t considered doing journalism. As it turns out, I fell in love more, because of its potential,” Ramirez said. “I realized I could write about what I wanted to write about: immigration, race, social justice. This is what I wanted to do.”

Ramirez stepped into the professional world by writing for La Prensa, a biweekly Latino publication in the Twin Cities, while attending classes, during a time of great social change for the Latino community. Her interest in social change, justice and organization grew.

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the honors Ph.D. program in History at Duke University. “I told myself, ‘Let me believe all these people telling me I could be a great professor.’ I learned from the best.”

“I didn’t leave my journalism behind,” she said. “I’m an oral historian, which means I do a lot of interviews with folks. I do life history and trace them, and through my dissertation to the book manuscript I’m working on now.”

The topic? Considering the heterogeneity of Latino, and specifically both indigenous and non-indigenous Mexicans, and their migration. She’s also working on a chapter with a colleague for an anthology that asks: When is a migrant a refugee?

“It’s impossible to not consider the

me the most.”

Ramirez brings an immediacy to her work, viewing it through the lens of a child of immigrants. When her mother, six months pregnant with Yuridia and carrying Yuridia’s oneyear-old brother, crossed the border in San Juan Capistrano, California in 1988, the entire landscape changed for her children.

“Everything I do is for my parents—to honor their experiences, to recognize their sacrifices, to celebrate their strength. They are the ones who give me strength, and I feel incredibly responsible to my communities to keep doing the work I do.”

Ramirez says there is a concerted effort in the academic community to become more public intellectuals—out from the Ivory

“Writing, for me, while oftentimes painful, seems so critical and urgent in these times, not only to place into context what it is we are witnessing, but also to make sense of it for my own self, to work out the intricacies that hurt and pain me the most.”

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Tower and instead on the streets in pursuit of social justice. That is sometimes through op-eds in newspapers, on social media, or through the type of work she does: oral histories.

“Journalism is about the contemporary moment, but we need to contextualize it, which is what history is all about. They are the perfect coupling of careers,” she said. “I love bringing really important stories to life, through the voice of the actors themselves. I’m writing about super important things—immigration, race, questions of diversity—it just so happened history was a way

JESSIE BEKKER (B.A. ’17), currently a

BETSY HELFAND (B.A. ’15) left her

health care reporter for the Las Vegas

position as a reporter for the Las Vegas

Review-Journal, was selected for the 2018

Review-Journal where she covered

class of the National Cancer Reporting

minor league baseball to cover the Min-

Fellowships.

nesota Twins for the Pioneer Press.

BRIANA BIERSCHBACH (B.A. ’09), a reporter

WING YOUNG HUIE (B.A. ’79) received

for MPR, will teach a class on politics and

the McKnight Distinguished Artist

governance at the Humphrey School of

Award, Minnesota’s biggest arts prize.

Public Affairs during Spring 2019.

In November, the Minnesota Historical Society Press published Huie’s book,

Padilla, the largest independent public

Chinese-ness, an exploration through

relations firm remaining in Minnesota, was

photos and observations of Huie’s life

acquired by Avenir Global. Padilla CEO

and what it means to be Chinese.

chair. She was also recently named to the

BRYCE THOMPSON (B.A. ’18) was pro-

Xcel Energy board.

moted from intern to project coordinator

LYNN CASEY (M.A.’80) moved to the role of

for me to be able to write and

ALEXA (TRUSSONI) CUSHMAN (B.A. ’06) was

teach about them.”

promoted to senior manager of industry

For a woman who entered college with a perhaps blurry vision of what her life would

at Superhuman Agency, a strategic and creative agency in Minneapolis.

marketing for healthcare and life sciences at

LAUREN WETZSTEON (B.A. ’18) was the

Appian Corporation in Reston, Virginia.

communications manager for Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn’s successful run for

become, she has built a giant,

LEE SVITAK DEAN (M.A. ’89), is the longtime

detailed dream. Her restlessness

food editor at the Star Tribune. She and

to craft a message that would not only

has been channeled into working

colleague Rick Nelson wrote a new book,

resonate with voters across party lines,

toward an ideal future state. “I

“The Great Minnesota Cookie Book” (Uni-

gender, race and income levels, but

envision a world through which all

versity of Minnesota Press), with 80 cookie

also inspire action.

migrants are treated with dignity

recipes, each with color photos and stories

and respect and allowed the

from the bakers, based on the newspaper's

ALEX WITTENBERG (B.A. ’18) was pro-

opportunity to live prosperous

15-year-old Holiday Cookie Contest.

moted from summer intern to a reporter

lives, especially in the ancestral

Minnesota House. Wetzsteon’s job was

at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business

lands of indigenous peoples in

RILYN EISCHENS (B.A. ’18) joined The News

which we ourselves are visitors,”

Leader in Staunton, Virginia, as an educa-

real estate, homebuilding, manufac-

she says.

tion and youth watchdog reporter.

turing, advertising and PR firms, and

“I have never seen myself as

Journal. Wittenberg covers residential

diversity in business.

just a scholar, or an activist, or the

NINA (PETERSEN-PERLMAN) GRAHAM (B.A.

child of immigrants, or a work-

’07) joined the Guthrie Theater in April

ing-class kid, or a Midwesterner,

2018 as director of institutional giving.

or a person of faith,” she says.

She oversees corporate, foundation and

award? Land a new job? Share your

“Most critically, I think I am called

government fundraising for the theater.

news with the Murphy Reporter. Send

as a believer to love humanity

Previously, she was grants and institutional

updates, including your graduation year,

and fight for justice; in everything I

support manager at The Saint Paul Cham-

to murphrep@umn.edu

do, I aim to never forget that.”

ber Orchestra.

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IN MEMORIAM

Marge lived at the Mendelson Assisted Living Center in Waterford Mich. until her death.

Marge is survived by daughters Cara, Orchard Lake, Mich.; and Christine Rushworth, San Anselmo, Calif.; and son William, Fridley, Minn.; grandchildren Kristin and John Kazanowski, John and Sarah Rushworth, great-granddaughters Harlow and Kendall Marra, and nieces and nephews.

Obituary submitted by Cara Benson Kazanowski.

FRANK GARDNER WRIGHT Frank Gardner Wright (B.A. ’54) died on July 24, 2018, at age 87. Frank was one of the founding members of the Hubbard School’s Premack Public

MARJORIE TWEDT BENSON Marjorie Twedt Benson (B.A. ’44), 95, died on Oct. 26, 2018, in Waterford, Mich. Beginning as a freshman, Marge worked on the Minnesota Daily and was named the newspaper’s first female editor-in-chief in 1943. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Following her marriage to William A. Benson, Jr., in August 1943 and graduation, Marge joined the staff of the Meredith Publishing Company in Des Moines.

Next, she was a reporter and then front-page editor of the Leavenworth (KS) Times. Upon her return to Minneapolis, she joined the National Scholastic Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press, based in Murphy Hall. She spent 25 years, while raising her children, as a part-time judge of high school and college newspapers and yearbooks.

Affairs Journalism Awards Board and a steadfast champion for the School’s mission. Frank was hired by the Star Tribune in 1954, covering politics and government.

He moved to the Tribune’s Washington, D.C., bureau in 1968, serving as a correspondent and bureau chief for nine years. As an investigative journalist, Frank uncovered the dairy lobby’s illegal campaign contributions to the Nixon Presidential re-election campaign, leading to arrests, trials and convictions. He moved back to Minneapolis in 1977, working as managing editor, associate editor and foreign correspondent, until retiring in 1996.

In retirement, Frank was a public speaker, volunteer, world traveler with his wife Barbara, sports fan and outdoorsman. He is survived by five children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

In 1972, Marge became the full-time public relations director of the American Collectors Association in Edina, Minn., and then edited The Collector monthly trade magazine until her retirement in 1987.

Born on Nov. 20, 1922, in Iowa, Marge had been a resident of Minnesota since 1923 and of the Minneapolis area from 1930 to 2013. After her husband died, she moved to Michigan in 2013 to be near her older daughter, Cara Benson Kazanowski (B.A. ’68).

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DOUGLAS TROUTEN Douglas Trouten (M.A. ’99, Ph.D. ’13) died on July 30, 2018, at age 58. For 20 years, Doug edited the Minnesota Christian Chronicle. For 19 years, he was a professor of journalism at the University of Northwestern - St. Paul, and served as executive director of the Evangelical Press Association for 11 years. He is survived by his wife and three children.

SUBMIT AN OBITUARY If you have news of the death of an HSJMC graduate, contact murphrep@umn. edu. Please include the name of the deceased, class year, date of death and if possible, the published obituary.

THANK YOU TO HUBBARD SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION DONORS With gratitude, we would like to acknowledge the generosity of the many donors to HSJMC. The President’s Club includes donors who have contributed more than $100,000 to the school over a lifetime, and the Heritage Society includes those individuals and organizations that have pledged a future gift to the school. We are grateful to all our lifetime and 2018 Director's Circle donors, all listed on the following pages.

The strength of our school and evolving programs depends on your ongoing support.

2018 PRESIDENT’S CLUB MEMBERS ($100,000+)

LIFETIME DONORS

$10,000-$24,999

Howard P. & Roberta J. Liszt

$50,000-$99,999

American Broadcasting Co, Inc.

John & Mary R Markle Foundation

$10 MILLION+

3M Company & 3M Foundation

Asian American Journalists Association of Minnesota

Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., and the Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation

$1 MILLION+ Elizabeth B.* and John* Cowles, Sr. Otto A.* & Helen F.* Silha Don R.* & Carole J. Larson

$500,000-$999,999

Adath Jeshurun Congregation Judith K. Conrad & James E. Stai The Century Council, Inc. Charles K. Porter Porter Creative Services, Inc. Mark* & Muriel L.* Wexler

Paul S. Brainerd CBS Corp & CBS Foundation, Inc. China Times Cultural Foundation David C. & Vicki B. Cox David D. Floren Duluth News Tribune Freedom Forum Joel R. & Laurie M. Kramer

Cowles Media Co Eastern Enterprises Inc

Elizabeth J. & Michael Cooper Gus L.* & Shirley G. Cooper* DDB Needham Worldwide, Inc. Fast Horse, Inc. Bruce R. Gefvert Harvey & Gail D. Goldberg

The New York Times Co. Foundation Photo Marketing Association International Jorg A. & Angela M. Pierach Harold J. Roitenberg S C Johnson Giving, Inc. Michael L. & Betty A. Soffin Selwoc, Inc. Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Solutran, Inc. Victor N. Stein* James M. Sternberg & Marsha E. Sternberg-May* Albert R. Tims & Kathleen A. Hansen

William F.* & Patricia M. * Greer

Tunheim Partners, Inc.

Mark J. Heistad*

Daniel B. & Kathryn Wackman

Mary J.* & Graham B.* Hovey

Jean W. Ward

Interpublic Group

Dare L.* & William F. White*

Wendy F. Horn

Jerome Foundation

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

John S. & James L. Knight Foundation

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Milton P. Woodard*

Sam H. Kaufman*

Steven P. Krikava & Linda A. Singer

* denotes deceased

Beverly A. Kees*

Mark R. Kriss

William H.* & Madoline D. * Kelty

D.J. Leary & Linda L. Wilson

KTCA/KTC I-Public TV

Lester A.* & Lorraine K. Malkerson*

Land O’Lakes Foundation

John T.* & Hazel H. Helgeson* Allan A. & Lois J. Hietala* Michael E. Hill & Barbara Bink Deborah L. Hopp & Christopher T. Dahl

To learn how to create your own fund at the School, please contact Natalie Bigley at nbigley@umn.edu.

Scott D. Meyer Midwest Communications Inc

Jane D.* & Bernard H. Ridder*

Sandra M. & C R. Morris

R. Smith & Patricia W. Schuneman

Janell M. Pepper

St Paul Pioneer Press

Strother Communications Group

Westinghouse Foundation-CBS Fund*

John Carr

National Broadcasting Company, Inc.

Willard A.* & Doris A. * Greenleaf

Bette M. Hammel

Elena Mickelson

WCCO AM/TV-WLTE FM

Donna M. Carr*

Comcast Corp

Ann & Thomas L Friedman Charitable Fund

Michael H. Anderson

Robert W. & Virginia D. Carlson

Richard A.* & Barbara B. Chapman*

Raymond O.* & Doris B.* Mithun

$100,000-$499,999

Lily T.* & Walter H. Brovald*

$25,000-$49,999

Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia*

Raymond J Tarleton*

Ann M. Brill

Lynn M. Casey & Michael J. Thornton

Herbert Berridge Elliston Memorial Fund Star Tribune and Star Tribune Foundation

Linda K. Berg

Mary N. Mullaney*

Star Tribune Media Co LLC Charles B. Sweningsen* William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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HERITAGE SOCIETY MEMBERS

FUTURE GIFTS OF ANY AMOUNT Brian E. Anderson* Keith H. Anderson* Helen V. Beggs* Gertrude L. Berndt* Kenneth G. Brown* Stan W. Carlson* James D. & Kathryn A. Catalano Clayton Kaufman Family Philanthropic Fund Phyllis B. Conrad* Ellen R. Costello* Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia* Michael A. Donner* Elizabeth D. Edmonds* Norma C. & John R. Finnegan* Neil D.* & Jeanne K. Freeman* Sheila M. Gothmann Herman F. Haeberle* Joan L. Halgren Gladys L.* & Robert W. Hefty* Patricia J. Heikenen* Susan S. & Clayton Kaufman* Jacqueline S.* & Joseph C. Kinderwater* Steven P. Krikava

Carol E. Ladwig* Stephen F. & Bonnie T. Litton* Serge E. Logan* Brad Madson Sandra K. Nelson Kelley Nichols Carol L. Pine Daniel S. & Katherine M. Revsbeck* Falsum V. Russell* Colleen M. Sauber Vincent B. Shea* Elizabeth P. & B. W. Shippee* Diane R. Siegel-Lund Norma B.* & James A. Smutz* Raymond J. & Elvira A. Tarleton* Dr. Herbert A. Terry and Diane E. Wille Mabel L.* & Willard L. Thompson* Joy D. Viola William D. Wells John W. Wheeler Chuck Whitney and Ellen Wartella Thomas C. & Elizabeth A. Yuzer

2018 DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Thank you to these supporters who made a gift between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.

PARTNER LEVEL ($2,500+)

BENEFACTOR LEVEL ($500-$999)

$100,000-$499,999

Mary M. Anderson

Elena Mickelson

$50,000-$99,999 Steven Krikava Family Fund

$25,000-$49,999 Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia*

$10,000-$24,999 Donna M. Carr* Elizabeth J. & Michael Cooper Mark J. Heistad*

By giving to the School, you help students by:

Julie J. Bartsch Elisia L. Cohen Brian R. Gabrial Getty Images, Inc Roderick A. Lawson John C. Maher Anne M. Obst Megan A. O’Hara PadillaCRT Gabrielle Riess Phillip J. Tichenor Bastiaan H. Vanacker

Leland T Lynch & Terry Saario Fund-Mpls Fdn

PATRON LEVEL ($250-$499)

$2,500-$4,999

Ronald D. Anderson

Jane Y. Burk Miriam R. Hernandez

JOIN THE DIRECTOR’S CIR CLE

Joshua D. Anderson

KSTP - AM LLC

Marian & Loren L. Chamberlain CP Charitable Fund-BNY Mellon Char Gift Fund Darlene A. Gorrill Glen A. & Jeanine A. HalvaNeubauer

♦ Offsetting the costs of producing high-quality journalism and strategic communication training

ASSOCIATE LEVEL ($1,000-$2,499)

♦ Embracing high-quality events and learning opportunities

Jill M. Braaten

Ingber Fam Phil Fnd-Mpls Jewish Fed Comm Fdn

Qimei Chen

Ralph H. Johnson

Eugene C. Frazer & Jacqueline D. Thompson

Hyung Min Lee

♦ Supporting emergency scholarships for students in need ♦ Helping students participate in national competitions through student group activities ♦ Building a targeted fund, like the library, a scholarship or other opportunities

Bruce R. Gefvert

Director’s Circle Giving Levels

Allan & Lois Hietala

♦ Student/Recent Alumni: $50-$99 (student or alumni within last five years) ♦ Friend: $100-$249 ♦ Patron: $250-$499 ♦ Benefactor: $500-$999 ♦ Associate: $1,000-$2,499 ♦ Partner: $2,500+ Recognition is based on total gifts, pledges and matching gifts contributed to the School in a single fiscal year (July 1-June 30).

Couples are recognized for the combined total of their household contributions.

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Richard & Frances K. Hansen Todd T. Hunt Myrna Meadows Joan W. & John N. Petroff Jennifer A. & James L. Schweigert Star Tribune Media Co LLC Louis A. Tschudy Kasisomayajula Viswanath The Walt Disney Company Foundation

Jerome B. & Judith B. Ingber

Gerald F. & Janet Madison Mary E. Niforopulos Sally A. & Charles H. Rix Nancy L. Roberts Richard R. Sanchez Gerald R. Taft Donald Tehven Christian J. & Peggy Trejbal Wells Fargo Foundation * denotes deceased

FRIEND LEVEL ($100-$249) Catherine T. Abbott Linda Adler-Kassner & Scott G. Kassner Dana L. Anderson Douglas D. Armstrong Abraham Z. Bass* John Blair Burton H. Boersma George L. & Linda G. Bounds Jonathan S. Bream James Brice Brightline Group Paul S. & Jane E. Brissett Donald F. Brod Carleton W. & Jean A. Brookins Joan L. Conners Kathleen M. Conroy Marcia G. & Richard Cornfeld The Delta Air Lines Fdn Lynn M. & Robert E. Drechsel Brittany Duff Diane S. Egner Katherine Friesz Watt & Jason Watt James D. & Barbara L. Gabbert Theodore L. & Charlotte K. Glasser Robert J. & Nancy C. Goodman Celine M. Graham Anne L. Greer Greer Enterprises LLC James B. Gustafson Nora D. Hall Kathleen A. Hansen Michael T. Hemmesch John B. & Tracy R. Hoeft Pamela K. Jennings Mark A. & Jodi Jenson Russell V. Johnson Harlan R. Johnson Stacey Kanihan Heidi M. Keel Steven J. Kelley Linda V. Kline Iva K. Knobbe Megan E. Kruse Kathleen M. & Jeffrey S. Laschen David T. Lawson & Judith W. Lu-Lawson Magdalene Lee Philip M. Lewenstein Lloyd’s Barbeque Company

Judith K. Mack Marcy & Rick Cornfeld Charitable Fund Melinda S. McDermott Eric J. Meester Melva D. Moline Steven A. Morawetz Randall L. Murray Joseph G. Nabbefeld Rebekah H. Nagler K R. Newcombe Nelson John S. Nichols Amy S. O’Connor Joan E. Ostrin Jack W. Peters Mary J. Pitzer Susan Platz Shurilla Steven Pope & Amanda S. Grimm Karen K. Potter John D. Prall Duane A. Rasmussen Terrance T. Ruane Jon F. Scheid Karen E. Schultz Inez M. & Lyall A. Schwarzkopf Lloyd M. Sigel Michael R. Stamm David E. Steen Thomas Suddes Elizabeth R. & Paul C. Susie Gretchen Van Natta Linda J. Vanderwerf Ann M. Waterhouse Jon Weber Jodi L. Williamschen & Michael C. Dickens Susan F. Willis Karen J. Wright

Robin C. Dybevik Christine E. Everson Georgia A. Ewing Elizabeth Fedor Linda Fei Charlene V. Follett Melanie J. Frick Debbie A. Gaffney-Dilley Jay A. Gould Donald Grussing Edward L. & Rachel Gubman Molly K. Harris Jennifer C. Hass Jeffrey & E A. Hill Deborah M. Hudson Susan E. Hudson Lynne K. Jacobson Katherine K. Johnson Sherri J. Katz Marilyn R. & Klaus J. Kemme Molly Kieloch Marjorie G. King Jane E. Kirtley Katherine A. Knudson Michael J. Kosik Lynette M. Lamb Bradley D. & Patricia L. Larson Pamela R. Lary Gary R. Lindberg Diane L. & Jeffrey H. Lovich Lisa Mack Dargontina Amelia A. Maijala William T. Mari Jerry F. Martin Addie Mattson Allen D. Merry Joan M. Meyer Kay M. Nagel Timothy P. Nelson

Bonita G. & Wallace W. Norlander Ashleigh M. Norris Lacey Nygard Susan S. Pastin Thomas & Virginia Ann Paulson Barbara J. Pearson Pamela L. Ramsay Robert J. Roos David R. Schuh Lynn E. & Mark O. Schwartz Ginger L. Sisco Susan B. & Gary M. Soule Cynthia L. Sowden Joelle M. Stangler Mary M. Tan Marshall H. Tanick Gregory C. Turosak Donna M. Weispfenning & Robert K. Groger Abraham D. Welle Ann M. Wiessner Steven P. Zerby Edward J. Ziesche Note: We made every effort to ensure that this list is accurate and reflects contributions recorded between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.

HOW TO GIVE If you have comments, questions, corrections or would like to make your own gift, please contact Peter Rogza at the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Office of Institutional Advancement at 612-624-2848 or rozga001@umn.edu

GIFTS UNDER $100 Stuart P. Aase Colin Agur Carolyn W. Ahlstrom-Balmer Colleen A. Aho Evelyn H. Anderson Arlene B. Appelbaum Barbara D. Axness Benjamin D. Bearman Valerie Belair-Gagnon Donald R. Browne Delane D. Cleveland Nicholas P. Daniels Amy M. Demarest

Thank you for your gift to our Journalism and Mass Communication Fund during GIVE TO THE MAX DAY on November 15, 2018.

You helped us raise more than $2,000. Your gift supports programming for students and alumni, allows us to continue important partnerships with organizations like the Society of Professional Journalists, and helps fund student group trips and competitions.

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