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Harriett Brown’s essay, “The Story of My Dream House,” was published in the November issue of Health magazine. The article discusses her move from Madison, WI to Syracuse, NY and the houses she has known and loved.
Tula Goenka and Newhouse alum Jim Virga’s 22-minute Spanish language documentary, El Charango, was screened at the Miami Short Film Festival on November 18. Tula’s conversation with Sri Lankan activist and Berkeley High School film teacher, Dharini Rasajah, will appear in the winter issue of Catamaran, the South Asian Literacy magazine published by the University of Connecticut.
Maria Russell spoke to the students and faculty of the College of Literature and Journalism at the Chongqing University in Chongqing, China on November 16 and 17, 2008.
Nancy Snow continues to be an active contributor to the Huffington Post blog.
Pat Longstaff served as a member of the scientific committee that met in Rotterdam on November 10-12, 2008 to discuss ”Building Networks for a Brighter Future.“ She also presented a single-authored paper at the conference titled ”Managing and Regulating Network Industries for Sustainability and Resilience.“
Dick Breyer and Greg Hedges collaborated with VPA music professor and pianist Fred Karpoff to create for him a six-DVD series with a supplementary book. Greg Hedges created the logo, web site and book design for the project. The video series, book and website will be acknowledged at the Setnor School of Music’s auditorium on Tuesday, February 10 at 7 p.m.
An article by Shannon Bowen was accepted for publication by the Journal of Applied Communication Research. The journal is widely considered the best in the discipline, and the National Communication Association’s most prestigious publication because of its low acceptance rate of just 3.85 percent of all submissions.
Marc Obbie was a featured speaker at the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s “Law School for Journalists,” an annual all-day training session for reporters who cover the courts. In addition, Obbie’s LawBeat blog, made the American Bar Association Journal’s list of the 100 best law blogs for the second year in a row. Only half of last year’s top 100 remained on the list. LawBeat is one of 15 in the news category. In the past year, LawBeat has featured 330 critiques of good and bad legal reporting in the mainstream press.
Vin Crosbie spent five days in the Republic of Montenegro teaching investigative journalists from there, Kosovo, Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine and South Africa how to broadcast online as a way to circumvent censorship of traditional news broadcasting.
Bob Lloyd, Roy Gutterman and Jean Albanese’s Advanced Newswriting graduate class won second place in the National Press Photographers Association’s Monthly Multimedia competition in the team audio slideshow category.
Nancy Snow contributed a chapter called “US Propaganda” for a new book titled American Culture and Thought in the 21st Century, edited by Martin Halliwell and Catherine Morley, from Edinburgh University Press. She has also given several media interviews and talks, and is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post.
The National Law Journal published Roy Gutterman’s piece on the FCC v. Fox Supreme Court case, which was based on his attendance at the oral arguments.
Ken Harper has developed and designed a web site for the Teacher Support Network, a national non-profit organization. He taught four major national workshops in web design, photography, visual storytelling, electronic publishing and multimedia.
Bruce Strong was invited by MediaStorm founder Brian Storm to join him and Tom Kennedy, assistant managing editor of WashingtonPost.com, to serve as multimedia producers at the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop. He also led Newhouse’s four-day Fall Workshop, which hosted 20 professionals and over 65 Newhouse students.
Doug Quin received confirmation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that the film “Encounters at the End of the World” by Werner Herzog, for which Doug was a mixer and principal sound designer, will advance in the voting process for the 81st Academy Awards.
Bob Thompson has been named to the Board of Directors of the Museum of Broadcast Communications. He will serve as coordinator of a massive project to make the museum’s 85,000 hours of historical television programming available free online. As the museum’s chief scholar, he will provide historical essays to accompany the online offerings.