Hampton U Prof Named Outstanding Teacher
An AEJMC Newspaper Division selection committee has named Rick Kenney of Hampton University the division’s 2010 winner of the Outstanding Teacher Award.
A former journalist with the Baltimore Evening Sun, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, St. Petersburg Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and other papers, Kenney was named Scripps Howard Endowed Professor of Journalism at the Hampton, Va., university last year. He teaches media ethics and media law and directs the school’s Academy of Writing Excellence. He has won numerous awards for both his journalism and his teaching, and also has been an Ethics Fellow with the Poynter Institute since 2003.
Kenney, former executive news editor at the Evening Sun, holds a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Georgia and has taught at the University of Central Florida, Troy State University and Florida Southern College. He also directed a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern residency program for copy editing interns from 2002 to 2008, and wrote COPY! The first 50 years of the Dow Jones newspaper Fund.
Brian Carroll of Berry College, co-chair of the Newspaper Division’s teaching standards committee, thanked Kenney’s nominators, Rick Brunson, John Gogick, Melissa Patterson and Tim Lynch. Presentation of the award will be made at the business meeting of the Newspaper Division during the AEJMC National Convention Aug 4-7 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver.
Academic Fellowships at Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Details: Applications Open for Inaugural Academic Fellowships
Deadline: Friday, March 26, 2010. Application guidelines
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is launching a new fellowship program for journalism educators June 17-18 at Columbia University in New York. Travel, lodging and curriculum-development funds are available.
The program is designed to provide college and university journalism faculty and advisers to student media advanced skills in teaching the art and craft of newsgathering, storytelling and self-care when reporting human tragedy.
Meg Spratt, director of Dart Center West at the University of Washington, notes that few student journalists are trained to recognize trauma and stress reactions in survivors, to make informed ethical choices about trauma news or to deal with their own emotional reactions while on the job.
The Dart Center has provided such training for working journalists; this new fellowship will make possible a three-day seminar for up to 12 college and university journalism educators.
The Dart Center will provide airfare and hotel in New York City for each fellow. In addition, up to $500 in post-seminar support will be provided each fellow to design and implement educational projects.
Contact information:
Meg Spratt, Ph.D
Director, Dart Center West
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
University of Washington
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195
206-616-3223
Teach news terrifically? Enter competition by May 21
Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century is a teaching ideas competition sponsored by the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
The deadline for e-mailed entries: 11:59 p.m. EDT, May 21, 2010.
Here’s the “call” for entries, courtesy of Susan Keith at Rutgers, Newspaper Division teaching standards co-chair : Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century
Excerpt:
Do you have an idea for improving the teaching of newswriting, reporting or editing? If so, enter it in the AEJMC Newspaper Division’s teaching competition, Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century, for the chance to earn recognition and a cash prize.
TNT21 was founded in 2009 to publicly acknowledge good ideas for foundational journalism courses from:
— Full-time faculty members
— Adjunct professors
— Graduate-student instructorsA prize of $100 will be awarded for the best teaching idea from each group. This year, the deadline has been moved to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time May 21 to allow professors to enter ideas they used in courses during spring 2010.
Or, if you know terrific teaching when you see it, go to Susan’s page for information about becoming a judge in the competition.
April 7 deadline for Newspaper Project Award submissions
2010 AEJMC NEWSPAPER DIVISION NEWSPAPER PROJECT AWARD
The AEJMC Newspaper Division’s Newspaper Project Award recognizes publications produced by students and professors in journalism classes or as special curricular projects connected to courses. To qualify, the publication must have been edited and produced as part of the curriculum, text reported and written by students, and professors must have been responsible for editing and/or advising.
Magazines, newsletters or Yellow Page-like compilations will not be accepted. Eligible publications must have been published in either the 2008-2009 or 2009-2010 academic years. Online newspaper publications are eligible and may be submitted on a DVD or CD. Read more
Papers win Philip Meyer Journalism Awards
USA Today, The Seattle Times and The Chicago Tribune have been named winners of the 2009 Philip Meyer Journalism Award for investigative reporting using social science research methods.
USA Today took first place with “The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools.” The Seattle Times project investigated Washington hostpitals and the drug resistent germ MRSA, while the Tribune team looked into new dangers facint elderly patients in Illinois nursing homes.
An honorable mention went to the Arizona Republic, whose reporters used social network analysis tools to examine a system in which 22 charities and dozens of affiliates moved millions of dollars among themselves while often performing little charitable work.
Looking Good in Berlin, Frankfurt and New York
The Society for News Design has declared the German papers der Freitag of Berlin and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and The New York Times, to be the World’s Best-Designed in this year’s “The Best of News Design” Creative Competition.
Meeting at Syracuse University in New York, an international panel of judges selected the papers from among hundreds of entries worldwide. The judges evaluated issues published in 2009.
Full details here:
http://www.snd.org/2010/02/three-judged-snd-worlds-best-designed/
“The reality of distress in our business is obvious. There are many signs of
reduced resources, including smaller news holes with crowded words, less
local news, an abundance of feature stories on the front page, a continued
shortage of good photojournalism and more use of stock illustration. An
overall feeling of looking a little confused and perhaps a bit stuck,
prevails.“But wait. The good news is that far from going away or giving up, we saw
much earnest effort towards reinvention.” — the judges
SND’s 31st Annual Creative Competition drew more than 10,000 entries and had more than 1,000 winners.
Database of all results: http://office.snd.org/competitions/contest31.lasso
Society for News Design launches new design
The Society for News Design has an updated website for the new year, pledging to be “a dynamic representation of our evolving organization… inclusive… multi-platform… aggressively forward-looking,” according to SND President Kris Viesselman’s announcement.
In the inclusiveness department, SND’s former “Best of Newspaper Design™” competition changed its name last year to the “Best of News Design™” Creative Competition and opened the competition to all magazines, not just newspaper Sunday supplements.
(Presumably all entries for this year’s competition are on their way to Syracuse, since they are due Wednesday. Entries from outside the U.S. are accepted for another week.)
SND has a separate Multimedia Design competition, with quarterly and annual awards. Newspapers’ Web sites (The New York Times in particular) led last year’s honorees.
For this month, the new SND site features a “Designing the next decade” video interview with Roger Black (transcript included), an interview with programmer-journalist Adrian Holovaty of Everyblock.com, and a survey of newspaper and magazine presentations reviewing the past decade, “Finding some heroes of the ‘Zeros’ coverage.”
The main SND site now incorporates SND’s Update blog; also see the SNDEast blog by Lee Steele, design editor of the Connecticut Post and Region 1 SND director.
Call for Nominations: Outstanding Educator Award
NYTimes leads multimedia design awards
The Best of Multimedia Design 2009 winners include two gold, two silver awards and seven awards of excellence for NewYorkTimes.com.
A Judges’ Special Recognition Award also went to nytimes.com, “to acknowledge their work in raising the bar for special events coverage with Election 2008,” according to the SND citation.
Among the Times winners:
* Choosing a President (gold award)
* You Finish, You Win (gold award)
* One in 8 Million (silver award)
* Tracking US Airways Flight 1549 (silver award)
Other silver awards went to:
* Andaman Rising carolinaphotojournalism.org
* Hurricane Tracker msnbc.com
* Indy 500 Car Tracker indystar.com
* Ted Kennedy boston.com
For the full list of winners, and judges’ comments, see SND Update: The Best of Multimedia Design Winners
