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STUART AASE (B.A. ’80) joined the
Wisconsin State Journal in Madison as a copy editor in May 2017. Prior to that, he was with the Florida TimesUnion in Jacksonville for 23 years as an assistant city editor and copy editor.
HAILEY ALMSTED (B.A. ’19) was promoted to editor of Woodbury Magazine and associate editor of eight other publications at Tiger Oak Media. Previously, she worked as assistant to the managing editor, which started before her graduation in March 2019. REED ANFINSON (B.A. ’77) was
featured in the TIME magazine article, “COVID-19 is Killing Newspapers, Creating an Information Crisis.”
BETH AULWES (B.A. ’07) spent a
decade in nonprofit fundraising in Washington, D.C., before recently joining the TPT team to support their mission that uses the power of media to advance the arts, spur learning, help young people succeed and help adults age vitally.
GRACE BECKER (B.A. ’20) was hired
as a communications specialist with Osseo Area Schools, Minnesota's fifth-largest school district.
DAVID BERKUS (B.A. ’64), after a
45-year career in advertising and marketing, has used his journalism background to become a certified grant proposal writer for charities in Los Angeles.
CHRISTIAN BETANCOURT (B.A. ’06) was promoted to the director of Demand Generation. He now oversees national paid media strategy and social media programs for all four brands at Self Esteem Brands 28
MURPHY REPORTER ❙ Winter 2021
JAKE GROVUM (B.A. ’09) was pro-
moted to deputy off-platform editor at The New York Times.
KATELYN BLOOMQUIST (B.A. ’19) was named the editor of Midwest Home Magazine.
JENNIFER HASS (M.A. ’04) started a part-time, six-month position with Maine Regional School District 21 in Kennebunk, Maine, whose focus is delivering the latest developments in the district related to COVID-19, connecting schools and the community, and working on the district website.
SAMANTHA BORING (B.A. ’20) started
BETSY HELFAND (B.A. ’15), who
(Anytime Fitness, Waxing the City, The Bar Method and Basecamp Fitness).
as a reporter at ABC 6 News in Rochester, Minn. She was recently promoted to a morning reporter.
TIM BROWNE (B.A. ’72) and Colleen
Browne's (B.A. ’78) Browne+Browne Marketing’s publishing division, Browne+Browne Books, recently won the 2020 Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Best Book by Youth Author (under 18).
JON COLLINS (B.A. ’08) and Riham Feshir (B.A. ’08) and their team at MPR won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for their reporting on the Mohamed Noor trial. ANGELA DELMEDICO (B.A. ’04),
Elev8 Consulting Group CEO, was accepted into the Forbes Business Council, an invitation-only community of successful business owners and leaders.
CHRISTY DESMITH (B.A. ’98) joined
the Boston Globe in August 2019. As an assistant arts editor, she oversees coverage of visual arts and classical music. She previously worked as an arts editor at the Star Tribune.
SAMIR FERDOWSI (B.A. ’19) landed
the news residency at VICE, one of four chosen out of 700 applicants. He was part of VICE Media’s 2030 Project, which was released last year.
JENNA FRANK (B.A. ’20) is a junior strategist at The Stable.
covers the Minnesota Twins for the Pioneer Press, was voted the Twin Cities chapter Baseball Writers’ Association of America Chairperson for 2021. She becomes just the second female chairperson in chapter history.
JAIME HUNT (B.A. ’99) was named Miami University’s vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. Prior to that, she was the vice chancellor for strategic communications and chief communications and marketing officer at Winston-Salem State University. MUKHTAR IBRAHIM (B.A. ’11), editor
and executive director of the Sahan Journal, announced that the organization was selected to join Facebook Journalism Project’s Sustainability Accelerator Program, in a cohort of 20 news operations that are owned and led by people of color. The six-month Facebook program offers participating newsrooms training and grant support to explore new revenue and audience development strategies.
JULIA KRIEGER (B.A. ’09) was the
regional communications director for Biden for President, and in December 2020 became the senior spokesperson at the Biden Inaugural Committee.
SARAH (THEISEN) MARSHALL (B.A. ’12) and her Milwaukee, Wis.-based
