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Leading Professionals Share Their Expertise at ‘Must See Mondays’ Each Monday during the semester, the Cronkite School brings prominent media and communication professionals to speak to students as part of the “Must See Mondays” series. The 2011-2012 “Must See Mondays” presentations were: • “Meet the Women of Arizona TV News”: Catherine Anaya, CBS 5, KPHO-TV; Lin Sue Cooney, 12 News, KPNX-TV; Carey Peña, KTVK 3; Katie Raml, ABC15, KNXV-TV; Linda Williams, FOX 10, KSAZ-TV • “Ten Years Later: Reflections on the 9/11 Attacks”: Aaron Brown, Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism and former CNN anchor • “From Apple to Google: Reporting Inside the Internet Business”: Steven Levy, senior editor of Wired and author of “Hackers” • “Investigating Power and the Future of Truth”: Charles Lewis, executive editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop • “Food Safety: A News21 Investigation”: Carnegie-Knight News21 students • “Covering the World”: Kim Barker, reporter, ProPublica, and author of “The Taliban Shuffle” • “Celebrating National Freedom of Speech Week”: James Weinstein, Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law with Associate Professor Joseph Russomanno • “Thinking Like an Entrepreneur”: Dan Gillmor, director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, and Retha Hill, director, New Media Innovation Lab • “Opinion Writing: Exploring the Op-Ed World”: A panel of top Valley columnists • “Through the Photojournalist’s Lens”: Michael Chow, photographer, The Arizona Republic • “A History of the Future of News: What 1767 Tells Us About 2110”: Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation • “Social Media and the Digital Culture”: Steve Rubel, executive vice president/ global strategy and insights, Edelman • “Public Relations in a Fast-changing Media World”: A panel of top Valley PR professionals • “Africa: One Journalist’s Journey into a Misunderstood Continent”: Professor of Practice G. Pascal Zachary • “Journalism and an Economy that Better Serves More People”: David Brancaccio, host, “Marketplace Tech Report,” American Public Media • “Leadership Now: Making a Difference in a New Journalism World”: Stephen Buckley, dean of faculty, The Poynter Institute • “Secrets of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist”: Jeff Leen, assistant managing editor, investigative unit, The Washington Post • “Making Sense of Social Media in Public Relations”: Jennifer Hellum, formerly of azcentral.com; Chris Kline, ABC15, KNXV-TV; and Ashley Oakes, Zion and Zion • “Baseball’s Brightest: Covering Spring Training”: Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Gayle Jansen, FOX 10, KSAZ-TV; Janie McCauley, The Associated Press; Scott Miller, cbssports.com; and Bob Nightengale, USA Today • “The Changing Role of the News Photographer in a Multimedia World”: Dave Seibert, multimedia producer, The Arizona Republic • “Phones, Tablets and the Future of News”: Regina McCombs, faculty member, The Poynter Institute, and former senior producer for multimedia, startribune.com • “Student Showcase: Public Relations Lab”: a panel of Cronkite PR students • “Ethics and Excellence: A Global Perspective”: Sandra Mims Rowe, Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics and former editor, The (Portland) Oregonian • “Reporting Abroad: Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic”: Cronkite depth reporting students Joe Henke, McKenzie Manning, Tarryn Mento and Brandon Quester 62
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Top: Newton says that the future of journalism can be predicted by looking at patterns in the history of news. Bottom: Cronkite students Monica Vainauskas (left) and Jessica Saenz listen to Newton’s presentation.
thought projection, telepathy and telekinesis will be possible. Technology will make it possible for humans to know everything and do anything, including read others’ thoughts, project commands or teleport. Cronkite student Agnes Kozina, who attended the presentation, agreed with Newton’s perspective on how changing technology will affect the future of journalism. “I feel like our world just won’t keep evolving or growing if we don’t follow up with the technology and keep up to date with it,” she said. “When we do, we will be on the verge of changing our future and changing our technology in the most unexplainable ways possible.” Newton said that even as technology changes radically, journalism will still play a vital role for future generations. He urged young journalists to learn truthful storytelling in all media and explore new digital tools. “There are going to be people in power abusing authority, and they’re going to use all the technology,” he said. “Does society need someone to provide an independent, truthful source of information so people can decide what’s going on out there in the great expanse, the great sea of data? Absolutely. All of these things that you do now become exponentially more important as the technology becomes exponentially larger. If you don’t engage with technology, you’re not part of the future.” o