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HUBBARD SCHOOL TURNS 100

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REPORTER SUMMER 2022 DIRECTOR Elisia Cohen

EDITOR

Amanda Fretheim Gates

DESIGN

Jeanne Schacht

YEARS

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Erica Bouska, Katie Dohman Scott Memmel

PROOFREADER Katie Dohman

ALUMNI RECORDS Kaylee Highstrom

Michael Schommer, president Kelli (Theiler) Brady Alexa (Trussoni) Cushman McKenna Ewen Riham Feshir Maggie Habashy Suzy (Hart) Langdell Shreya Mukherjee Jenni Pinkley Karen Schultz Emee (Drews) Strauss

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NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR

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DEAN’S LETTER

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IN MEMORIAM

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AROUND MURPHY HALL

New Faculty and Staff............................................. 4 Faculty Promotions................................................. 5

6 FEATURES

Decades of Stories.................................................. 6 Centennial Quiz..................................................... 11 Minnesota Daily..................................................... 12 The Mentor Program............................................. 14 Alum Memories..................................................... 16 Why We Give........................................................ 20

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CONTENTS

17 EVENTS

2022 Commencement.......................................... 17 Spring Forum........................................................ 18 Exhibit Opening..................................................... 19

22 TEACH

Faculty News......................................................... 22 Murphy Hall Makeover.......................................... 25

25 LEARN

Graduate Student News....................................... 26 Undergraduate Student........................................ 26 Meet a Student..................................................... 28

29 ALUMS

Alumni Spotlight.................................................... 29 Alumni News......................................................... 30

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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

AFTER MORE THAN FIVE YEARS

Federation competition team to win their district and

serving as the Hubbard School

regional competitions, advancing to nationals and winning

director, I’ve watched the School

the first place presentation award at the national com-

go through a period of rapid

petition in Nashville (see p. 27). Our student journalists

growth, discovery and innova-

continue to place their work in local and national outlets,

tion. We aspire to be a driver of

and we congratulate the Minnesota Daily for qualifying for

innovation within the College

the Associated College Press’ Hall of Fame (see

of Liberal Arts, the University of

p. 31).

Minnesota, and the Twin Cities

We cap off 2022 with our Centennial Gala

community. Indeed, throughout its 100-year history, the

on Nov. 5, 2022. Our vision is to provide guests

School has held steadfast to its goals of cultivating diverse

a one-of-a-kind event experience demonstrating

student talent, strengthening community and media indus-

both the history and innovative vision for journal-

try-engaged collaborations, and supporting faculty-led

ism and media education that has transformed

research, leadership development, and practice-based

the School, Twin Cities, Minnesota, and the

discovery.

world over the past 100 years. If you have not

“The School has grown its diversity and number

The School has grown its diversity and number of

returned to campus in recent years, I hope you

of students

students served, with a 12 percent enrollment growth

will join me in celebrating the School’s accom-

over the past three years. In Spring 2022, we enrolled

plishments and vision for the future (learn more

served, with

2,120 unique students in our classes, and about half

at z.umn.edu/HubbardGala).

a 12 percent enrollment

those students were pre-majors, majors, and graduate

There are so many new stories to share as

students. We also continue to strengthen our commu-

the School continues to write its future. We are

nity and industry connections, expanding our summer

one of the units in the College of Liberal Arts

internship, mentor and job-shadowing programs that

that enjoys the deepest philanthropic commit-

the past three

continue moving students from the classroom into their

ment from its alumni. Our lower-level renovation

professional careers.

to Murphy Hall will transform the Hubbard

years.”

Fundamental to achieving our strategic goals is our

growth over

School student experience as we center the dig-

commitment to recruiting, retaining, and promoting

ital resource center and Sevareid library space

diverse and talented faculty, staff and students. The Hub-

to support collaborations, and renovated labs and studio

bard School faculty and staff family is now stronger than

spaces support cross-cutting multimedia reporting and

ever (see p. 4-5). Our faculty’s research accomplishments

strategic communication work. Read more about ways to

have contributed to their campus, national and interna-

give on p. 20.

tional recognition (see p. 22). The University of Minnesota

The School continues to prosper as it embarks on

now ranks No. 22 in the 2022 Shanghai Global Ranking

its second century of innovative teaching, research, and

of Communication (a broad ranking that includes journal-

practice. These accomplishments are possible due to the

ism and mass communication scholarship) for its subject

deep and sustained support we receive from our alumni

matter expertise. College Factual also rates the University

and friends, and we will continue to strengthen our reach

of Minnesota-Twin Cities as No. 8 in the country on its

and impact through our work that advances journalism

list of 2022 Best Journalism Schools. Our accreditation,

and mass communication professions.

student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion rates and post-graduation earnings support

All my best,

College Factual’s ranking and our success.

Our faculty and staff also continue to find ways to assistant director for external relations and career coach (see p. 5), has been developing School-wide professional

Elisia L. Cohen

development events for students to build their community

Director and Professor

and connections to local industry. Recently, Mark Jenson and Rich McCracken advised our American Advertising 1

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innovate and develop our student talent. Becky Borg,

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

Here in Minnesota, alumni fuel the state’s workforce and have helped build the Twin Cities’ strong media market. Our students benefit from

“Our promise to

internships and hands-on learning

you is to sustain

experiences provided by this dynamic business market and an impressive alumni network.

As alumni, your degree from the Hubbard School has helped you find professional success. It has also

I OFTEN SAY THE LIBERAL ARTS ARE “FRONT-PAGE NEWS.” Today, we are grappling with societal issues around addiction, mental health, environmental challenges, racial justice, economic dislocation, political polarization, the implications of technology and artificial intelligence, and the need for information and data literacy in an intense communications environment.

All of these are front-page news. And they are exactly the kinds of issues we explore in the liberal arts. Through their research and teaching, our faculty are confronting the toughest problems we face. They are asking the kind of questions that drive national discourse: enduring and emergent questions that are central to, and have implications for, our daily lives. Our students are sharpening modes of thinking and analysis that help them make sense of the world around them and prepare them to lead through change.

For 100 years, the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication has helped students build careers as journalists, reporters, and writers. The School has produced leaders in advertising and public relations agencies. It has launched successful entrepreneurs across the media landscape and beyond.

Hubbard School alumni have worked for esteemed media outlets like CBS, 60 Minutes, National Public

helped you develop the skills and confidence to more fully launch into public life, to listen and engage with a range of viewpoints with humility and empathy, to learn how to participate in robust and productive dialogue, and

degree and to earn your support and pride in the powerful work of this great School.”

of our differences as a wonderful and powerful opportunity.

Our promise to you is to sustain and grow the prestige of your degree and to earn your support and pride in the powerful work of this great School.

One can only imagine what the next 100 years will bring. But I know that the Hubbard School’s legacy and promise will continue to reflect its educational mission: To teach students to think critically and creatively in an environment that is diverse, dynamic, globally aware, interactive, and intellectually challenging. And to prepare its graduates to be leaders in their industries, communities, and in public life.

Congratulations to the Hubbard School on a century of world-class scholarship, education, and impact, and to all of you for what you’ve achieved so far.

Best,

world-renowned agencies like Fallon. Others have launched their own firms and agencies. And Hubbard School graduate students are the next generation of scholars and educators.

John Coleman Dean, College of Liberal Arts

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prestige of your

to see engaging with others across all

Radio, and the Washington Post. They’ve enhanced

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and grow the

IN MEMORIAM

KENNETH O. DOYLE, 1943-2022

BY GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO

In October 2001, Ken and I officially became “colleagues” when my very first scholarly publication, an article he and I co-authored, was published by the American Behavioral Scientist Journal. We had started working on the project, which investigated the symbolic uses of money as a form of communication in comparative socio-cultural contexts around the world, while I was studying for my master’s degree in Murphy Hall. By the time the article was printed, Ken, as Director of Graduate Studies, had been instrumental in getting me back to the School for my Ph.D. More than 20 years later, when we last met this past January, we were still colleagues, both associate professors at the Hubbard School.

Ken was the only faculty left in the School among those who first started shaping my path back when I was a freshman—staunchly loyal to the end to his academic calling, to this School, and to those of us fortunate enough to be his friends.

In that article two decades ago, Ken had given me first author privileges, even though it was his conceptualization and research frame.

(The psychology of communication analyzed through a financial framework was his most widely recognized contribution to scholarship.) I was only one among several graduate students included in that special journal issue as authors, a tradition of intellectual generosity that I watched him continue with cohort after cohort of students.

My own research followed a different direction, but Ken remained a crucial figure in my development as a scholar, a teacher, and most fundamentally, a person through that same altruism. Thanks to that, his deep knowledge of psychology, and our shared Catholic backgrounds

and passionate engagement across international, cultural experiences, Ken became one of my most trusted sources of advice.

There was no personal or professional dilemma where I did not find in him a patient, probing, reassuring, and inspiring listener. His own undaunted fight with the illness that nearly killed him more than a decade ago robbed him gradually of movement, but never of his ability to be moved.

EARL JOHNSTON, 1963-2022

Hubbard School students, faculty, and staff are saddened by the loss of Earl R. Johnston III. A beloved husband, father, son, and brother, Johnston passed away May 15, 2022, at age 58. He was a leader in the Minneapolis business communications, public relations, and advertising communities. He held leadership roles with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, US Bank, Piper Jaffray, Thrivent Financial, and most recently UnitedHealthcare. An alum of the School’s master’s program, Johnston continued his service by teaching and mentoring hundreds of students, through both the undergraduate and professional master’s programs.

This role became his joyful passion.

“I first met Earl when we were both exploring making a transition from careers in professional communications

Whether in his office crammed with publications, or “His own at the McDonald’s he favored as his home office, or over steaming undaunted fight Vietnamese fare from his special with the illness St. Paul dive, I knew Ken would take any and all of my concerns that nearly seriously. And then the unmiskilled him more takable, unforgettable glimmer of mischievousness in his eyes than a decade would teach me, once again, not ago robbed to take myself so very seriously.

The mantel over a fireplace him gradually at the historic mansion where he of movement, lived—and used to host graduate student get-togethers—bore but never of the inscription Memento vivere, his ability to be “remember to live,” a perfectly in-character riff on the classic moved.”

Latin exhortation Memento mori, “remember that you will die.”

Thank you, Ken, for never ceasing to remind me that life is meant to be lived not in fear, but generously, courageously, fully—each aha! moment celebrated with an amused chuckle at the beauty and the fleetingness of it all.

to academics,” said Steve Wehrenberg, former program director for the School’s Professional Master’s in Strategic Communication. “He was that rare combination of intellect, compassion, kindness, and courage—a perfect fit for our program. And in a School filled with great writers, he was one of the best. We were very fortunate to have someone of Earl’s abilities and character shine his light on our students. We will miss him dearly.”

Johnston’s family set up a scholarship to honor his legacy and the family's connection to the School. The Earl and Brenda Johnston Scholarship in Strategic Communication provides financial support to students seeking to advance their education and careers in strategic communication.

Contribute to the fund by visiting crowdfund.umn.edu.

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NEW FACES IN MURPHY HALL MARÍA E. LEN-RÍOS

Dr. María E. Len-Ríos (Ph.D., Missouri) joins the Hubbard School as professor and associate director after serving as the associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of public relations at the College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She conducts research in the areas of public relations, health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In 2016 she co-edited the text Cross-cultural Journalism: Communicating Strategically about Diversity, which was updated and republished in 2019/20 under the title Cross-cultural Journalism and Strategic Communication: Storytelling and Diversity (Routledge). She has won more than 10 top paper awards at regional, national, and international academic conferences, published numerous journal articles with colleagues, and has served in various roles on large and small grant projects. She is a member of Page Up, a member organization of senior corporate communications leaders. She is an editorial board member of Public Relations Review, the Journal of Public Relations Research, the International Journal of Strategic Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Howard Journal of Communications. Additionally, she is a board-member-at-large and co-Chair of the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) Standing Committee of the International Communication Association.

HASEON PARK

Haseon Park joins the Hubbard School as an assistant professor in strategic communication. Park comes from the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Her research interests primarily focus on examining 4

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consumer-brand relationship building on emerging media platforms and interactive advertising effectiveness by incorporating various quantitative methodologies such as surveys and experiments, computational analyses including data mining, computerized textual analyses, and social network analyses. Her work has been featured in the International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Marketing Communications, International Journal of Mobile Communications, and Cyberpsychology.

in Communication at the Annenberg School and an M.A. in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School.

Previously, he finished an M.A. in Strategic Public Relations at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School. At the Hubbard School, he is excited to teach courses on computational social science and digital media, and mentor students who will use insights from data analytics to inform their journalistic and strategic work. Zhou previously worked as an investigative journalist, a news anchor, and a public relations specialist in the industry.

ALVIN ZHOU

DON ALLEN

Alvin Zhou joins the Hubbard School as an assistant professor in strategic communication. At the intersection of computational social science and strategic communication, Zhou’s research focuses on advertising, public relations, audience analytics, and the various ways digital technologies (e.g., AI, platform design, mobile access, behavioral trace) are changing their industry practices and social implications. During his graduate study, he received six top paper awards from the International and National Communication Associations and published more than 10 articles in journals across communication subfields such as Social Media + Society, Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, and Journal of Public Relations Research.

He is moving to the Twin Cities from Philly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D.

Don Allen joins the Hubbard School as a teaching specialist for strategic writing for communications and media in a changing world. Prior to his appointment, Allen worked in corporate America for more than 20 years in internet marketing, public relations, and media. In 2015, he became a high school English teacher specializing in university courses, in introduction to teaching, public speaking, journalism, writing and rhetoric, and life sciences.

Allen earned his undergraduate degree, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Arts in Education at Hamline University, and was a new-teacher mentor for Hamline University’s School of Education.

Today, he is earning his Superintendent Licensure at Hamline University. Allen is the co-founder of the ad-free/income-free online news platform the Independent Business News Network, which

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hosts a series of live online news programs including The Last Question, and Our Black News, and for the last 12 years, time permitting, he has been dedicated to delivering news and information to Minnesota’s diverse populations.

SETH RICHARDSON

Seth Richardson joins the Hubbard School as a lecturer following a decadelong career as a daily reporter.

Most recently, he was the chief politics reporter and assistant politics editor for cleveland. com/The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. He previously reported for the Reno Gazette-Journal in Reno, Nev., and The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill. He spent the majority of his career covering politics, ranging from local-level races to the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in the crucial swing states of Nevada and Ohio, respectively. His political reporting and analysis has appeared in national and international outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC, NPR, and C-SPAN. An Iowa native who grew up in Illinois, Richardson earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and his master's degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois Springfield. Richardson began teaching journalism in 2021 at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.

NEW STAFF The Hubbard School also welcomed four new staff members in the last academic year. BECKY BORG joined the School in a new position as assistant director for external relations and career coach.

Borg will build relationships with community organizations and assist students with internships and job searches.

JEAN KUCERA rejoined the Hubbard School as chief of staff.

Kucera held that role previously, before her time at the School of Music. TROY SCHILLINGER joined the team as undergraduate student services coordinator and will help students declare and apply to the School’s majors.

Finally, GRACE GOTHERS is the School’s new events director, planning and executing the School’s events, including this fall’s Centennial Gala.

HUBBARD SCHOOL PROMOTES FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS The University of Minnesota Regents voted to promote four faculty members to the position of associate professor with tenure, and one tenured associate professor to the position of tenured full professor. The vote was ratified on May 12 and the promotions took effect July 1, 2022, for Matt Carlson, Colin Agur, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Adam Saffer and Claire Segijn.

University of Minnesota and Yale Law School Information Society Project.

She uses qualitative methods and theories at the intersection of the sociology of work and organizations and journalism studies. ​​She is the author of The Paradox of Connection, Journalism Research That Matters, and Social Media at BBC News. She was also named Cowles Fellow in Media Management.

MATT CARLSON, PROFESSOR

ADAM SAFFER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Matt Carlson is director of graduate studies at the School. He is the author or editor of six books and has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters. His research within the field of journalism studies concentrates primarily on how different actors publicly compete to define journalism and its boundaries, dictate its normative and ethical commitments, and establish proper forms of news. He was also named Cowles Fellow in Journalism.

COLIN AGUR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Colin Agur’s research explores emerging media, with interests in mobile communication, digital games, and the political economy of media. In addition to his book, Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future (2016, MIT Press), his work has appeared in leading journals such as New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media + Society, Mobile Media & Communication, and Journalism. He was also named Cowles Fellow in Journalism, Media and Mobility.

VALÉRIE BÉLAIR-GAGNON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the

Adam Saffer teaches Strategic Communication at the Hubbard School after beginning his career on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

Saffer's research revolves around a core interest in understanding the ways individuals, groups, and organizations use and are influenced by communication networks. He was named one of the 25 most prolific authors in communication in 2021 by the Observatory of International Research (OOIR).

CLAIRE M. SEGIJN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Claire Segijn’s work focuses on the intended and unintended effects of using multiple media simultaneously (multiscreening and synced advertising). She studies how media multitasking affects information processing and advertising effectiveness, as well as privacy concerns and ethical ramifications of synced advertising and other forms of corporate surveillance. She was named Mithun Program Fellow in Advertising and her work has been honored with numerous awards and grants.

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Join us for the second part of our trip down memory lane, featuring the people, places, and events that shaped the School.

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Y E A R S THOMAS HEGGEN

If you walked into Pillsbury Hall in 1939, you’d likely see a young man with dark curly hair and a green corduroy jacket slouched over a typewriter writing a term paper hours before it was due. That was Thomas Heggen, renowned American novelist, World War II vet, and University of Minnesota journalism graduate.

“I think Tom Heggen was a genius,” wrote Victor Cohn, classmate and friend, in his essay dedicated to Heggen after his early death in 1949.

Heggen was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1918 and graduated from the School in 1941. During his time at the School, he wrote for both the Minnesota Daily and Ski-U-Mah, but Cohn said Heggen wasn’t as passionate for journalism as he was for the freedom that came with it.

“Heggen took journalism because he considered writing and newspaper or magazine work the easiest way he knew to exist and do what he pleased,” Cohn wrote. “He gave the subject as little attention as anything else ... yet he was easily expert at headline writing, editing, makeup and typography.”

Grades weren’t pressing to Heggen, but he excelled regardless. There were few people—students or instructors—he considered worth his time, Cohn said.

But those he did, he greatly admired—among them, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Cohn said Heggen only wrote about sad topics, often tragedies, and spent most of his time in silence, either studying people or lost in his thoughts.“He had great black moods,” he said. “He was greatly concerned with people and their pitiful little attempts to lead simple, reasonably happy lives in a confusing world.”

Perhaps this is what led him to write “Mister Roberts,” the darkly funny, best-selling novel based on Heggen’s service during World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he spent four years in the Navy and started “Mister Roberts” while deployed.

The book pulls from Heggen’s experience overseas, capitalizing on the feeling that he spent his best years standing watch. The play and movies drew on the novel’s humor, but Cohn described it as “hysterical laughter at a funeral.”

After its publication in 1946, it quickly became a bestseller and sold more than one million copies. Two years later, Heggen co-wrote the play adaptation with Joshua Logan. It premiered on Broadway, starring Henry Fonda as the title character, and won five Tony Awards. Cohn donated one of them alongside a portion of an original manuscript to the School in 1988. At the time of Heggen’s passing, the play already had more than 500 performances.

Unfortunately, Heggen didn’t live long enough to see the screen adaptations of his story. There are two “Mister Roberts” movies; one came out in 1955, and a TV movie came out in 1984. Additionally, Warner Brothers released a one-season sitcom in 1965.

After his passing, his parents donated money to the School to build a library in his honor. The Thomas Heggen Memorial Library opened in Murphy Hall in 1950 and still stands to this day.

ERIC SEVAREID

Arnold Eric Sevareid, known as Eric, was a broadcast legend in TV and radio during his nearly 40 years in the news business. Known for his clever wording and keen analysis, Sevareid was a talent of the 20th century.

The son of Norwegian immigrants, Sevareid was born in North Dakota, but moved to Minneapolis when he was young.

But no matter what age, Sevareid said he never wanted to be anything other than a journalist.

He started at the University of Minnesota in 1931; here, he became a renowned campus activist and a reporter at the Minnesota Daily and the Minneapolis Journal. At 19, he wrote his first book about a canoeing trip he and a friend took up the Minnesota River.

After graduating in 1935 with a major in political science and a minor in journalism, Sevareid studied abroad in Europe and worked for the United Press and the Paris Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Then, on the eve of World War II, he was plucked by CBS to become their French correspondent in 1939.

That position skyrocketed his career. Sevareid was in Paris when France surrendered to Germany in 1940, the last American to report from the city.

After fleeing with his family, he ended up in London and reported on the Battle of Britain. Sevareid, along with Edward R. Murrow and William Shirer, is credited with establishing broadcast news as a legitimate journalism source. His dedication in the Television Hall of Fame lists him as reaching “the hearts of millions” with his wartime broadcasts. Sevareid spoke like he was reading wartime poetry.

“Paris died like a beautiful woman in a coma; without struggle, without knowing or without even asking why,” he said over a radio broadcast on

NOTABLE ALUMNI Harrison Salisbury, B.A. 1930 Alongside writing 29 books, he covered JFK’s assassination, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the USSR, and was the first American journalist to report from North Vietnam. He received multiple accolades, including a Pulitzer for International Reporting.

Eric Sevareid, B.A. 1935 (journalism minor)

He was a legendary broadcaster for CBS in radio and TV. Working alongside Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, he is partially credited for establishing broadcast as legitimate journalism.

Arthur Naftalin, B.A. 1939, Ph.D. 1948

Minneapolis Mayor from 1961 to 1969, he was a political scientist and the first Jewish mayor of the city. As a colleague of Hubert Humphrey, he helped merge the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties into the DFL in 1944.

Otto A. Silha, B.A. 1940

He was the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company’s business manager, general manager, and vice president. In 1968, he became executive vice president and publisher and in 1973, he was elected president of the organization. He served as chairman of the Board of Directors until 1984.

Thomas Heggen, B.A. 1941

After his time serving in the Navy during WWII, he wrote the bestselling novel “Mister Roberts.” The book sold more than one million copies and was turned into two movies, a TV series, and a Tony Award-winning play.

Bob Fransen, B.A. 1943

Though he got his start in radio, Fransen spent most of his career on TV, which earned him multiple accolades. He started FOX9 in the Twin Cities and spent much of his time at the precursor to KARE-11.

Milton Kaplan, B.A. 1943

He served at multiple news organizations, including the Minneapolis Tribune.

He also served as the president and general manager of King Features Syndicate, a Hearst Communicationsowned production company, for 28 years.

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S T O R I E S his last night in Europe. “London fights down her fears every night, takes her blows and gets up again every morning. You feel yourself an embattled member of this embattled core.”

After the war, he moved back to America and started at CBS’s Washington Bureau. He worked part of the time as the chief Washington correspondent and had a five-minute weekend segment called “Eric Sevareid and the News.” In 1959, he was back in Europe as a “roving correspondent.”

After five years, he was appointed a national correspondent and spent the rest of his CBS career alongside Walter Cronkite with his daily analysis segment on the CBS Evening News. For the next 13 years, Sevareid interviewed dozens of high-profile personalities, including multiple presidents, and reported in more than six countries.

Throughout his career, Sevareid wrote seven books, covered everywhere from Saigon to the Dominican Republic, and earned multiple awards, including three Emmys and the Freedom Medal of Norway. He also received honorary degrees from eight universities. The School honored him in 1980 by naming its library after him. Six years later, he established an endowment fund at the School for the library, which provided updates for the well-loved space.

Despite attending the university before TV and radio news courses existed, he made a name for himself through them. Though often referred to as a writer, he discovered a real love for broadcasting. “It is a marvelous and frightening instrument, broadcasting, as part of this marvelous and frightening century,” he said. “But ordinary men must use it, as ordinary men have made this century what it is…The camera’s unblinking eye sees through character faster than the printed word.” Sevareid died in 1992 from stomach cancer. He was 79.

MITCHELL CHARNLEY

It took Professor Emeritus Mitchell Charnley 12 years to retire from the School and the University. He hit the required retirement age–68–in 1966 after 32 years at the School, but after jumping around to a couple of different positions, he officially retired for the fourth time in 1978. And he returned for one more year as the interim director of University Relations.

“I can think of no other lifestyle that could be so satisfying to a man than having been a teacher,” Charnley said at a banquet honoring his 90th birthday in 1988.

Ralph D. Casey, the School’s first director, encouraged Charnley to join the faculty while Charnley taught at Iowa State University. Casey had been one

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of Charnley’s professors at the University of Washington when he got his master’s degree, and after 10 years in the industry and four as a teacher, Charnley was already proving what an invaluable instructor he was.

Even students like Pauline Gough—who received an F on her first paper for one of Charnley’s classes—said he was patient, encouraging, and always ready with a letter of recommendation. He valued succinctness and accuracy over almost all else, but he never let his responsibilities as an editor override his relationship with his students.

When Michael Soffin transferred from NYU in 1949, he knew no one and showed up two weeks before classes started. The only person even inside Murphy Hall was Charnley. “He sat there in his sports coat and made me as comfortable as he could,” Soffin said. “He was one of the leading faculty.”

Charnley helped Soffin find a place to live and offered to be his professor for the next two years. When they announced Charnley’s 90th birthday celebration, Soffin and his wife visited.

Some other attendees at his 90th included professors George Hage and Don Gillmor and media professionals such as Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid. “As far as my career goes, he probably made it,” said Reasoner in 1988. “I think many students would say he was the best teacher they ever had.”

While he taught, Charnley advised student publications and continued to publish his own work, including three books. He also served as a critic for the Minneapolis Tribune and as managing editor for Journalism Quarterly for 10 years.

Alongside Casey, Charnley helped establish the radio and television program at the School, which earned him the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Radio-TV News Directors Association in 1963. In the years following, he garnered more distinctions, but in his obituary, Professors Hage and Gillmor highlighted his commitment to his students. “Most people,” Hage said, “will remember him as an editor-educator whose standards were very high and who helped [students] improve their thinking and their writing.”

“He made you take his course very seriously,” Gillmor added. “Yet he made you feel like you were special and were going to be a great reporter someday.” Charnley passed away in 1991 at the age of 92.

JOHN SIM

John “Cam” Sim spent more than four decades at the School, earning titles like “unofficial office manager for Murphy Hall” and “the scholarly fellow.”

Professor Emeritus Edwin Emery dubbed him both at Sim’s unofficial retirement in 1979.

Sim received his B.A. at the University of North Dakota and taught there while editing and co-publishing the East Grand Fork Record for a decade. That work established him as a leading authority on community journalism when he joined the School in 1956.

Nicknamed “Mr. Weekly Newspaper” by his community press courses, Sim taught a few other subjects, including reporting, editing, and media law. His

NOTABLE ALUMNI John Finnegan, B.A. 1948, M.A. 1965

A strong advocate for open government, he co-wrote Minnesota’s first open-meeting laws in 1957 and lobbied for the Data Practices Act in 1974. During his career at the Pioneer Press, he served 15 years.

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Jim Klobuchar, B.A. 1950

An author of 11 books, he worked at three Minneapolis-based newspapers: the AP, the Minneapolis Tribune, and the Minneapolis Star. His bike tour column that ran for nearly 40 years in the Star helped launch Minnesota’s bike craze.

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Bill Allard, B.A. 1964

He received a double major in photography and journalism and went on to work for National Geographic and Life Magazine.

Chuck Porter, B.A. 1967

An advertiser, marketer, and author, he’s been honored by many magazines and companies, including his induction into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame. He now serves as the chief strategist for holding company MDC Partners.

Gail Marks Jarvis, B.A. 1973 Her Chicago Tribune personal finance columns reach millions of readers in leading metropolitan newspapers throughout the U.S. She has received nearly 20 journalism awards for her work, including a National Clarion Award for human rights reporting.

Annie Griffiths, B.A. 1976

She was one of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic, and has photographed in nearly 150 countries during her career.

David Carr, B.A. 1981

He served as editor for both the Twin Cities Reader and the Washington City Paper before starting at The New York Times in 2002. While there, he wrote his memoir, and worked as a cultural reporter until he died in 2015.

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commitment granted him tenure and promotion to associate professor in 1961 and full professorship in 1968.

Sim had a propensity for fostering students both in and out of the School.

For 20 years, he served as a placement officer. He directed the Minnesota High School Press Association for 14 years, and continued to give speeches at high school press meetings. He also revived the summer high school journalism conferences at the U. But his most notable impact was his work for community newspapers.

From 1956 until his retirement, Sim was the chief liaison for the faculty with the weekly press across the state.

He expanded his reach across the country by giving talks at weekly newspaper gatherings. He also restarted the state tour of weekly newspaper offices in 1958.

Sim’s book, “The Grass Roots Press: America’s Community Newspapers,” studied the role of weeklies and speculated about their future in the journalism community. It examined the community press’s role as a social instrument as well, further exemplifying his commitment to the field.

After his and fellow community press advocate Walter Brovald’s passing, the School established the Brovald-Sim Community Journalism Practicum (see Winter 2022 issue) in their honor, which still runs today. Students spend a semester doing hands-on journalism work and studies around a specific and underrepresented community.

JANE KIRTLEY

A member of three state bars, Jane Kirtley has served as an honored law professor at three universities and given more lectures than will fit on the Silha Center website. Her last two decades at the Hubbard School and the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law are rife with her dedication to press freedom.

“Professor Kirtley,” said Scott Memmel, one of her former graduate students and now assistant professor at the School, “has taught First Amendment values and principles to the current and future leaders in mass communication, law, and a number of other industries/areas, a legacy that cannot be overstated.”

After receiving her bachelor’s and master’s in journalism, Kirtley worked at a few newspapers before returning to school to earn her J.D. in 1979. She went on to practice law in New York and D.C. Quickly developing a specialty in press freedom, she started as executive director of the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia, in 1984. She left that position in 1999 to join the University of Minnesota.

Kirtley joined the School as the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and

Chris Ison, B.A. 1983

He won a Pulitzer in 1990 with the Star Tribune, after he and Lou Kilzer published a series of articles documenting the connection between suspicious St. Paul fires and people connected to the fire department.

He went on to teach at the Hubbard School for two decades.

Michele Norris, B.A. 1985

She was the first African-American woman to host for NPR where she started the Peabody Awardwinning program, The Race Card Project. She also won a Peabody and an Emmy for her ABC coverage of the September 11 attacks.

Harry Reasoner, B.A. 1989

He co-founded the CBS program “60 Minutes” with Mike Wallace in 1968 before he moved to ABC to anchor the evening news. He won three Emmys and a Peabody Award.

assumed the directorship of the Silha Center as well. In 2004, she became an affiliate faculty at the U’s law school. She’s written friends-of-court briefs for state courts, federal courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2013, the U.S. State Department published her book, Media Law Handbook, which is available in 10 languages.

Including her adjunct professorship at the Notre Dame London Law program in 2012, universities globally recognize her reputation, and she’s spoken in Brazil, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand and more. In 2015, she was made a Fulbright Scholar and taught U.S. media law and media ethics on the law faculty at the University of Latvia in Riga for one academic term.

“In speaking with media outlets from around the world,” Memmel said, “Professor Kirtley helps inform the public and hold the powerful accountable by providing her expertise and knowledge of crucially important topics … that implicate all of us.”

In addition to her time abroad, her work in the U.S. is also weighty. She serves on several scholarly journals’ editorial boards, and on the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation board. She currently teaches Mass Communication Law alongside a few other courses at the School—Memmel cites that as her principal impact. Her list of awards is lengthy and includes her induction into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame as a founding member in 1996, being named a First Amendment Fellow by the National Press Club in 2000, and receiving the “Pioneer Award” from the National Scholastic Press Association in 2011. Kirtley continues to direct the Silha Center and is responsible for multiple lectures and panels each year.

PHILLIP TICHENOR

Phillip Tichenor began his teaching career in 1956 as an instructor and extension information specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Agriculture. In 1965, he earned a doctorate in mass communication research from Stanford University. Tichenor joined the University of Minnesota journalism faculty the same year and accepted a joint appointment in Rural Sociology. He became Director of Graduate Studies in 1986.

During his 30 years at the School, Tichenor taught public opinion, science writing, media and social change, and opinion writing. His research, on media distribution of knowledge and the community press, along with sociologists George Donohue and Clarice Olien, was known internationally. The three earned worldwide recognition for coining the phrase “knowledge gap” in the 1970s. In 1994, this “Minnesota team,” as it was known, received the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for outstanding contributions to research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. After retirement, Tichenor wrote “Athena’s Forum,” a novel about an immigrant journalist and his family on the Minnesota prairie during the decade prior to World War I. He also wrote “13 Days at Andersonville: The Trial of the Raiders and Civil War P.O.W.”

Mary LaHammer, B.A. 1995

She is an anchor, reporter, and producer for Almanac, Minnesota’s longestrunning public affairs show. She’s earned multiple Emmys and was named Best Newscaster in 2002.

Shani Marks, B.A. 2002

Born in Bloomington, she took home first in state and national track and field competitions, and in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the triple jump. She was the first Gopher to make the U.S. Olympic women’s track and field team.

Jamie Yuccas, B.A. 2004

She is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. *Note: The School is fortunate to have graduated many notable alumni, many of which we could not fit on these pages. If you’d like to update us on your news, please email murphrep@ umn.edu

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S T O R I E S NANCY ROBERTS

Nancy Roberts (M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’82) taught at the School for 25 years. She was an Honors advisor, as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies from 1997-2003. Roberts published multiple articles and edited multiple newsletters during her time at the U. She is the editor and author, along with the late Professor Edwin Emery and Michael Emery, of “The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media,” which is considered to be a leading work on the history of media in the United States.

Roberts received the Pax Christi USA Book Award in 1997 for her and St. Thomas Professor Anne Klejment’s book “Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.” She’s been a book reviewer and a freelance journalist and is currently a professor in the journalism program and communication department at the University of Albany.

In the ’90s Roberts served as a consultant to the Freedom Forum, the nonprofit organization that financed the creation of the Newseum, which opened in Rosslyn, Va., in 1997. The museum held everything from video galleries and TV news studios to hands-on exhibits and national and international newspaper collections, with a goal to highlight the development of news, past and present, and the history of mass communications. Roberts specifically helped narrow down the list of featured journalists and select the various communication artifacts displayed, such as ancient tablets, a drum, and typewriters. The Newseum eventually moved to Washington D.C. in 2008 and then after 11 years, and nearly 10 million visitors, the Newseum closed to the public on Dec. 31, 2019. Its digital work remains through newseum.org and its traveling exhibits.

ACADEMIC ADVISING

When the School’s own advising program launched in 1985, former Director F. Gerald Kline said it was time to combine the School’s internship and placement programs to create a more comprehensive system for students. Pat Gotschalk, the first advising coordinator, did just that, focusing on advising, internships, and helping seniors find jobs post-graduation.

“Position yourself,” she said to students.

“Get everything organized so you’re ready to take things when they come.”

The School expanded on this in 1991 with the Undergraduate Studies Center (USC).

Linda Lindholm, the coordinator of advising, internships, and placement, alongside Tina Thai, Renee Parduhn, and Dana Mitchell, made the USC an effective establishment. Former Director Al Tims commended the USC for bringing together the professional community and students.

Today, advising helps students take full advantage of the School courses to align best with their professional and academic goals.

They also encourage students to engage with opportunities outside the classroom like student groups, School activities, internships, and more.

Rebecca Rassier, the current associate director of Student Services, said she wants students to be prepared for their lives outside Murphy Hall.

“I hope that students learn from advising how to create an undergraduate experience that will provide them with great memories and a path for success, however they wish to define it, after they graduate.”

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F R O M KATHY HANSEN

Kathy Hansen wore many hats during her 40 years at the Hubbard School. She began her journey at the School in 1981 when Professor Jean Ward was looking for an expert in information and library science. Hansen, who holds a master’s in English and library science, fit the job and moved to Minneapolis from her head librarian position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s journalism library.

Ward and Hansen worked together to develop the notoriously challenging Jour 3004: Information for Mass Communication, and created the book and search strategy exercises that they updated as technology evolved. Their groundbreaking work started solely because there wasn’t enough space for all the students to find the information. “We couldn’t send 150 students to the library at one time,” Hansen said. “We created the simulations out of necessity. But the students loved it.”

During her four decades, Hansen served as both the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. With the MJC, Hansen’s goal was to increase the connection between the school and the professional community and create training opportunities with Poynter, the National Television Academy, the Associated Press, and more.

Hansen didn’t just work with undergraduate students either; many grad students said Hansen was a trusted mentor and advisor as well. Hansen retired in 2020.

MINNESOTA JOURNALISM CENTER The Minnesota Journalism Center (MJC) was established in 1979 to honor the gift of John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles. The MJC is a distinct organization that has exceeded the guidelines set for it in the ’70s. Initially, it sponsored lectures, workshops and conferences and then expanded to research on journalistic problems for political, economic, social, and cultural influences. Additionally, it continues to host training and workshops for journalists.

Throughout the Minnesota Journalism Center’s 43 years, it has held and facilitated dozens of events under the watchful eye of five directors.

In 2022, given the Hubbard School faculty's leadership and growth in the field of journalism studies, the Minnesota Journalism Center has returned to a collaborative leadership model.

The material resources of the endowment continue to provide focused support for these varied initiatives and the faculty who lead them.

1979-1985: Director F. Gerald Kline

At its start, the MJC implemented projects that left a lasting legacy. In 1978, the MJC hosted the first Premack Awards, a distinguished honor that continued for 35 years. Named after Minneapolis Tribune reporter and editor Frank Premack, the categories covered everything from metro reporting to opinion. Kline said one of the most significant events was the 1981 50th anniversary celebration of the landmark case, Near v. Minnesota. The case set a precedent against prior restraint imposed on media companies. The MJC hosted a conference chiefly organized by free speech advocate Professor Emeritus Don Gillmor.

1985-1997: Director George Hage

Hage was known for his red pen, and during his 12 years as the director, the MJC hosted events just as powerful as his red ink. From 1986 to 1988, the MJC hosted Targets of the Media Fight Back. Called a “noble experiment,” the panel provided a space for people critiqued by the media to speak about how the media could improve. Some guests were Gopher basketball coach Jim Dutcher and Minneapolis City Council member Barbara Carlson.

1997-2011: Director Kathleen Hansen

During Hansen’s 15 years as director, the MJC added a collection of new events. 2002 kicked off a new tradition: the Spring Showcase. The event honored scholarship winners, graduates, alumni, and donors. The event included showcases of student work from student groups and publications, graduate student work, and the Award for Excellence and Above the Fold awards, given to honored alumni. The U.S. State Department asked the MJC to host the Edward R. Murrow Journalism Fellowship program, which invited journalists from around the world to the School. The first of its kind, the program served as a model for other schools.

2011-2017: Director Nora Paul

Paul was the director of the Institute for New Media Studies, which served as a center for analysis, creativity, and innovation. In 2011 the Institute merged with the MJC, and continued to offer opportunities to the community and create partnerships within the industry. The Convergence Summit started in 2016, bringing together experts from both the business and academic realms to explore the changes and challenges business communicators face.

2017-2022: Director Valérie Bélair-Gagnon

When Bélair-Gagnon joined the MJC, she brought in many academic scholars from around the country to discuss research and books. The Center continued to partner with community and University members on events, and once the pandemic hit, the MJC pivoted effortlessly to hosting virtual events on journalism and strategic communication during times of uncertainty and unrest.

1 0 0 RUNNING THE MAIN OFFICE JOAN BOWMAN: Staff at Murphy Hall called Joan Bowman “irreplaceable” when she retired after 28 years at the School. She started in 1958, before digital records were kept for students and graduates, and kept physical personnel files for 350 students by herself in the ’50s and ’60s. She was even in charge of typing out alumni notes and stencils for the mimeographed Murphy Reporters until the 1970s.

MARY ANN LUKANEN: During Mary

Ann Lukanen’s 35 years in Murphy Hall, she worked on anything with numbers. Called the “heart of the school” by former administrative assistant Linda Wilson, Lukanen said her main job was to keep the School out of dollar trouble with the college.

Though the sign on her door said “the wicked witch lives here,” after her sudden passing, many missed her gruff but humorous personality.

LINDA WILSON: When Linda Wilson

Y E A R S CENTENNIAL QUIZ HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR SCHOOL? Created by Erica Bouska A True or False: Students used to eat steak and lobster at the annual School banquet.

B True or False: StudioU was the second broadcast newsgroup in the Big 10.

First University of Minnesota women’s track Olympian

C True or False: Radio K served as an online learning service called “Minnesota School of the Air” during quarantine.

Miss Minnesota Best senior women’s basketball player in the U.S.

D True or False: Radio K was the first radio station in Minnesota.

All of the above

E True or False: In 2009, the School’s National Student Advertising Campaign (NSAC) student group won the national ad campaign competition, and as a result, were funded to distribute their campaign, The Other Hangover, across the U of M campus.

F True or False: Between 1960 and 1970, the School’s enrollment doubled.

H True or False: Virginia Harris, the first female full-time instructor, had so many students at her office hours the school added another class for her to teach.

I True or False: Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia hated history in high school and college.

MARY ACHARTZ HAVERTY: Mary

L How many times did Emeritus Professor Mitch Charnley retire from the university?

K Which team won the annual School softball tournament in 1966?

All of the above R When arguing for practical training in the School, the school’s first director, Ralph D. Casey said communication professionals should be trained like:

S Which of the following politicians had alumnus Bill Allard as their photographer?

U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin

1, 2, 3, 4 M Which of the following is NOT a real magazine created in the School’s Magazine Editing and Production class?

Two Harbors, Grand Marais, Lutsen, Beaver Bay

Nada

All of the above

Faculty

N Which Minnesota North Shore town has a photo documentary made by the School’s students?

Nothing

Educators and politicians

Graduate students

InFlux, on lifestyles for people in their 20s

Best Direction Q How much does it cost to listen to, read and watch the student work from The Wake, The Daily, StudioU and Radio K?

Doctors and lawyers

School staff

Fin, on the end of the world

Best Play

Scientists and researchers

The Daily Staff

ReMixed, on the music scene in the Twin Cities

Best Actor in a Play

Zero

J True or False: The China Times Center for Media and Social Studies hosted a conference at the peak of the Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan debate in the 1990s for officials from the countries.

Flux, on the changing American Dream

P Alumnus Thomas Heggen wrote a bestselling book called “Mister Roberts” that sold more than one million copies. Which of the following Tony Awards did the book’s play NOT win?

Best Scenic Design

G True or False: School graduates have held positions at 60 Minutes, The CBS Evening News and Warner Communications.

retired from the School after 18 years, the Murphy Reporter called it a “major change.” Wilson said she valued her time at the university as it allowed her to both meet her husband and raise her daughter. As she retired to relax and travel, Wilson said her time at the School was one of the most important in her life and had created lasting friendships she treasured.

Haverty worked in Murphy Hall for 37 years as secretary, senior secretary, and executive administrative assistant. She served seven directors: F. Gerald Kline, Mary Ann Yodelis Smith, Dan Wackman, Robert Scott, Al Tims, Jane Kirtley, and Elisia Cohen. “I met so many wonderful faculty, staff, and students who have remained good friends,” Haverty said. “I think that really says how great the School is. I always considered it my second family. I can’t imagine my life without all of my j-school memories, friends, and events.”

O Which of the following accolades do School alums hold?

St. Paul Mayor Thomas R. Byrne U.S. Representative Alec G. Olsen T Which of the following does the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law do?

Publish a thrice annual newsletter called The Bulletin Author amicus briefs for court cases Hold an annual public lecture All of the above Answers can be found on page 32.

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(Above and right) These photos were taken of the Minnesota Daily offices in 1983 for the Murphy Reporter; (Right) Editor Chris Ison talks to the Daily team.

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Students, alums and faculty join forces to protect First Amendment rights.

BY KATIE DOHMAN Forty years ago, The Minnesota Daily published its finals week satire edition just like it always did—except this time, it ended in a lawsuit.

The incendiary story involved recreating part of Jesus’ crucifixion on the Mall, along with an advice column from Jesus that included obscene language and references to illegal drugs.

“There was a firestorm of upset,” said attorney Marshall Tanick—an alum (B.A. ’69) and former Daily reporter himself—who represented the Daily during the court battle. The Minnesota legislature held hearings.

Letters poured in.

The Regents were being pressured “to do something, to punish someone,” Tanick said. So they did: In a 9-3-1 vote, the Regents voted to make the student portion of Daily funding optional—essentially, students could now specifically opt out of funding the Daily from their student fees.

Though the number of students who opted out was small, and the percentage of the Daily’s budget that came from fees also not particularly significant, the editors concluded that the overall effect on the Daily staff

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FREE PRESS was a chilling one, stifling free speech. So, they took the U to court. The case became Stanley vs. McGrath, a case that is still used in courtrooms today.

The wheels of justice turned slowly and the trial was lengthy. By the time Chris Ison (B.A. ’83) became editor of the Daily in the ’82-’83 academic year, the original editors had graduated or otherwise moved on, but the case was still alive. “I had joined the suit, got attached as a plaintiff, and went to court that year,” he said. “I feel like I inherited a great opportunity to represent the Daily in a suit that other very courageous people had set on its course. It allowed me to really learn about what the First Amendment meant, and how important it is to journalists being able to do their work without fear of repercussions.”

“We knew the content was pretty explosive and hard for some people to get past,” he acknowledged.

“But we knew the First Amendment should protect us from any kind of punitive action.”

Despite a lack of local media support—and, in fact, strong opposition—Harrison Salisbury (B.A. ’30), a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times and former Daily reporter, appeared in court to support the student journalists, which impressed both Tanick and Ison, and they hoped, the judge. But the judge ruled against the Daily.

That led to an appeal in the Eighth Circuit Court, where Tanick once again argued the punishment exacted on the Daily created a chilling effect and violated their First Amendment rights. The U argued they had to preserve their funding from the legislature and

This is one of the first stories about the case, printed in the Summer 1980 Murphy Reporter.

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that their actions were appropriate.

Ison recalled that while local media was not supportive, Murphy Hall professors were. Professor Donald Gillmor, among other distinguished professors, argued that it was also a matter of academic freedom in an amicus brief to the court.

“The humor issue defined the j-school’s advocacy for journalism and that of a lot of academic community at the U…It wasn’t a given they would support this suit, and certainly wasn’t a given they would support the appeal. A lot of people really stepped up in support of the Daily’s First Amendment rights at several stages—and that was vital to winning the case,” Ison said. “It cost money to sue and appeal and it showed their belief in the free press. It was really inspiring to see that.”

In the end, the judges ruled in favor of the Daily. The suit was seeking remuneration for the lost fees—about $15,000—and to cover its significant legal costs, plus an injunction barring the Regents from ever going this route again. The University appealed to the Supreme Court, but eventually settled with the Daily, meeting its demands. Tanick and his colleagues used part of the money to establish a First Amendment Fund, setting up forums and symposiums about First Amendment issues in “the good old Murphy Hall auditorium,” as well as providing scholarship money to students interested in both journalism and law.

The case opened up a lot of litigation, from student fees to equity in perspectives. “A lot of the litigation draws upon this idea: to what extent should students or public funds support organizations that have some type of ideological bent to it? The Daily case was the forerunner to that movement,” Tanick said. The case itself “was probably the high point of my semi-illustrious career, for many reasons. It’s not often you get a chance to litigate interesting, important First Amendment issues that I learned about at Murphy Hall, and that was very rewarding,” he said.

Ison, who went on to become a long-time instructor at the Hubbard School before retiring in 2021, said the suit echoed through his lessons to his own students. “I did occasionally remind them how hard some of their predecessors pushed for the right for them to publish what they want—and that comes with responsibility, and also means you have to do good work and for the right reasons, and not abuse that right we have.”

“It cost money to sue and appeal and it

showed [the professors'] belief in the free press. It was really inspiring to see that.”

—Chris Ison

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40 YEARS OF MENTORING

Ambitious students meet real-world experience through their mentor matches.

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The Alumni Mentor Program has been around so long that people who once were mentored are now mentoring others—several times over. And there’s a lot of them: in the last three years alone, more than 1,000 hours were spent mentoring 200 students across 100 different organizations, from print journalism and broadcast to advertising and corporate communications.

The program began in 1983 with 13 students.

At the time, Carol Pine (B.A. ’67) sat on the alumni board along with Dan Wascoe (B.A. ’67); together they dreamed up a program that would continue year after year. “It was really lovely how this all unfolded,” she said. “We thought, if you ask anyone, they’ve had a mentor somewhere along the line, chiefly in their professional lives. We thought, well, let’s create one right here in the j-school.”

School, and when she arrived, thought the mentor program would be a good opportunity.

“I told Ray Faust, my mentor, that I was thinking of doing two wildly different disciplines [at once]. He told me to choose one, because it wasn’t something you can parallel path. I didn’t know, because I was the first one in my family to go to college…It was instrumental having him.” Still is: Arntson meets with him once in awhile to get advice from someone a couple of steps ahead of her professionally.

She then picked up the torch when her time came to serve both as a mentor and on the alumni board, where she served for six years. The board strives to get student commitment up front, as board members are opening their personal contact lists to connect pros with students. “The really unique thing about the mentor program is that it is a customized match: Real

The hope, of course, is that the mighty, all-volunteer outfit continues providing valuable insights to students long into the future.

people finding real people—not a computer database,” she said. “We’re going to our personal contacts and asking if they want to participate, which is really rare.”

The program has hummed along—serving between 40 and 60 students a year or more— for decades. And although the pandemic slowed things in some ways, it also opened up a whole new world: Mentors and mentees Zooming nationwide.

“What I love about Murphy Hall is that it is in Minneapolis—close proximity to thriving industries, in journalism as well as advertising.

That connection between the alumni community as well as those professors or adjuncts or guest speakers…speaks so highly of the school, the alumni, and the mentor program,” Arntson said. “With the pandemic, [things became] totally digital and the program still happened. And now it’s national because we can do virtual meetings.”

The hope, of course, is that the mighty, all-volunteer outfit continues providing valuable insights to students long into the future.

“A lot of students said it made such a big impact for them,” said Arntson. “The longevity of the program, and the power of the people who come back year after year to mentor, speaks to the power of the program.”

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The parameters were purposely strict: Pine said they “kept it clean” by reiterating that mentors weren’t responsible for finding jobs for students. The work would come in advising and helping them understand what to expect in the marketplace—all the juicy details that, with hindsight, a professional often wishes they’d had future warning about, but that only exists through real-life experience. An organized launch, Pine said, made it an easy sell to pros working in the field. It was also a quick draw for students hungry for connections beyond Murphy Hall walls.

“Students are [generally] really checkbox-oriented and want to know what they need to do to succeed: If they take this class or this minor, will they be OK? That’s hard, because generally in life this isn’t how it works,” said Rebecca Rassier, associate director of student services and the person who currently facilitates tactical aspects of the mentor program. But, she said, the mentor program bridges those worlds.

“To have someone doing the work they want to do, talking about the roadblocks they’ve experienced, and changes they went through, is key,” Rassier said.

“Experience takes you where you are, but you can’t map it out. Having someone in their field with lived experience explaining their trajectory is helpful.”

Heather Arntson (B.A. ’05, M.A. ’09), who is now a director of digital marketing, was one such student.

She took a non-traditional pathway to the Hubbard

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Alums share memories from their time in Murphy Hall in honor of the School’s Centennial.

“My favorite memory is PRISM. We created a special group leadership organization to help promote diversity long before it became a thing. It was a labor of love and a small group of people kept it alive. We had intentional meetings in Murphy Hall, building memories in our special office and the library. The experience of doing something new, different, and working toward positive change and a positive cause influences and encourages me to be of service to others in my personal and professional life even decades later. I’m grateful the School supported such an organization.”

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—Phavanna Nina Bouphasavanh, B.A. ’03

MEMORIES “After the 2009 commencement ceremony, all the graduates from the Broadcast Journalism track gathered on the steps of Morrill Hall and exchanged stories about things we learned through the program and our post-graduation plans.

Before we departed with our families and started our post-graduation journeys, my mother took a photo of us. More than a decade later, it remains the image I see when I think about my time at the Hubbard School.”

—Anthony Kiekow, B.A. ’09

“In the spring of 2003, I was an undergraduate student in Advanced TV News with Ken Stone. Though it was an advanced television broadcasting class, I was not pursuing a career in television broadcast. I wanted to be a sportswriter, preferably at a newspaper. But I knew the industry was changing, and that knowing how to create video news packages would be important as newspapers increasingly embraced multimedia storytelling.

“Besides planning, writing, producing, and presenting live TV newscasts, the course also entailed current events quizzes. I rarely did well on these quizzes.

However, one day, a current events quiz included a map of the Middle East and Central Asia. We were to locate and to label a handful of countries that had been in the news that week. I was passionate about geography, and I knew my grade could use all the help it could get, so I half-jokingly asked Mr. Stone if we could receive extra credit by labeling all the countries on the entire map. To my surprise, he obliged.

“I beamed ear to ear when Mr. Stone returned the graded quizzes and I saw the extra credit points I received. Then, Mr. Stone told the entire class about my completed map. He said that our newsroom colleagues would have various strengths that would be in our best interest to identify, and geography was one of them.

“The reason I remember this moment is because I was far from being Ken Stone’s best student academically. This was a class brimming with die-hard broadcast students who were more experienced, polished, and knowledgeable about the field than I was. But I could hear the sincere encouragement in his voice when he noted one of my strengths in front of my peers. That encouragement, along with the skills he taught us, helped nurture me into not only a passionate sportswriter, but one who had the ability to produce news packages to boot. I fondly carried those skills and this memory with me throughout my career—as a journalist and now as a tenure-track assistant professor at Arizona State University, where I, of course, include maps on my current event quizzes.”

—Sada Reed, B.A. ’03, M.A. ’11

“I went through all these majors before I decided that I would pursue a

major in journalism. I have my friend Christie to thank, who was a student worker in the Admissions Office, and she helped me decide which major

would align with my interests and goals. I was very interested in the event world, and she shared that there was a journalism major with a public

relations/advertising emphasis. Spanning across 14 years, I worked for the following: 96.3 FM “B96,” CBS Radio, PR Newswire, Hubbard Broadcasting, and FOX Sports. No longer working in media full time, I still continue

to take on contract work in events, which I have been doing all these years from the early 2000s to now. My future is not 100 percent (nobody’s future is); nevertheless, I plan to take on events as long as I am able to.”

—Hoang Uyen Nguyen, B.A. ’06

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“George Hage and Hazel Dicken-Garcia—both

wonderful and inspiring professors!”

—Lori Lohman, B.A. ’82

“I was in the TV broadcast program at Murphy Hall in 1986-87.

At the time, there were protests for “CIA Off Campus” taking place in front of Northrop Auditorium on a regular basis. I thought this would be a great story to cover for the campus news. I lugged the camera on the lawn to get interviews and capture shots of a burning banner attached to a tree with “CIA Off-Campus” written in big red letters. Protesters chanted and pushed one another.

I was awkward with the camera/ tripod, as this was all new to me.

As I struggled to set up the tripod, one of the protesters pushed my camera from the front and it fell on top of me as I buckled to the ground. A big burly reporter from KSTP named Lou Harvin picked the camera off me and helped me to my feet. It was at that moment I was hooked and knew I wanted to be a part of the exciting world of journalism!”

—Karen Wright, B.A. ’87

Class of 2022

Hubbard School students were thrilled to attend commencement in person on May 15, 2022.

PHOTOS BY REGINA MCCOMBS

Clockwise from top left: Drew Mabusth, Amanda Christensen, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Commencement speaker Kareem Rahma (B.A. '08), Samantha Osei and Dean Coleman, Chase Langlee and Dean Coleman, Jarrett George, Regina McCombs, Erica Jinsol Lee and Sara Quinn.

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SILHA CENTER SPRING FORUM

The event focused on the ethical considerations of covering and depicting people with disabilities.

BY SCOTT MEMMEL DURING THE 2022 SILHA CENTER SPRING ETHICS FORUM, “ONE IN FOUR: THE ETHICS OF COVERING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,” on April 4, 2022, award-winning journalist

Jane McClure, editor of Access Press, which describes itself as “the upper Midwest’s disability community news source,” contended that “writing about disability is complicated. It requires a lot of sensitivity and that’s “We people with a must for any form of journalism that involves people, which is what most of disabilities talk about us write about. And if you’re in doubt ableism in the same about how to refer to a person, ask that person, and if you can’t ask the context as we talk about person, don’t avoid writing about disability, just use your judgment. Do your equity, social justice, and best. Be fair, and think, too, about the inclusion. . . . When we stories that aren’t getting covered.”

The Silha Spring Forum attracted talk about coverage of more than 80 attendees from the disability issues and of United States and abroad, including members of the media, Hubbard coverage of people with School students and faculty, and the general public. The forum panel, disabilities themselves, consisting of McClure and three we need to keep ableism other speakers, was sponsored by the Silha Center for the Study of at the forefront.”

Media Ethics and Law and the Minnesota-Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) as a virtual webinar.

McClure began her presentation by discussing “ableism,” which she defined as “discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. It’s based on the belief that people with so-called ‘typical abilities’ are superior to those of us with disabilities, including people like me. [It] is a lot like sexism and racism. It categorizes entire groups of people [as] lesser, inferior beings, and it includes negative and harmful stereotypes.” McClure continued, “We people with disabilities talk about ableism in the same context as we talk about equity, social justice, and inclusion. . . .

When we talk about coverage of disability issues and of coverage of people with disabilities themselves, we need to keep ableism at the forefront.”

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McClure turned to several considerations the media face, including that “when we refer to the disability community, it’s by no means a monolith. There [are] thousands of disabilities [and] tons of advocacy groups and self-advocates.” McClure also discussed the differences between “person- or people-first language” and “identity-first language.” Person-first language, according to McClure, refers to “language that puts a person before their diagnosis, such as being a person with a disability or disabilities.” Identity-first language refers to “language that leads with the disability, as in ‘John is an autistic man.’”

McClure cited guidelines developed by the National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ), which is headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. In its “Disability Language Style Guide,” the NCDJ offers several basic guidelines, including that journalists should “[r]efer to a disability only when it’s relevant to the story and, when possible, confirm the diagnosis with a reputable source, such as a medical professional or other licensed professional.”

The guidelines also state that “[w]hen possible, ask sources how they would like to be described. If the source is not available or unable to communicate, ask a trusted family member, advocate, medical professional or relevant organization that represents people with disabilities.” The guidelines further recommend being “sensitive when using words like ‘disorder,’ ‘impairment,’ ‘abnormality’ and ‘special’ to describe the nature of a disability. The word ‘condition’ is often a good substitute that avoids judgment. But note that there is no universal agreement on the use of these terms—not even close.

Following McClure’s presentation, the other panelists spoke, including Hubbard School Senior Fellow Scott Libin, Peter Tressel, a creative director with 38 years of experience at advertising agencies around Minneapolis, and Sophia Schmaltz, a first-year student with dyslexia. There was a Q&A portion as well.

A video of the entire webinar can be found on the Silha Center YouTube’s page. Silha Center activities, including the Silha Forum, are made possible by a generous endowment from the late Otto and Helen Silha.

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DOCUMENTING A RECKONING AT MILL CITY MUSEUM On April 1, nearly 200 people gathered to see the opening of the photojournalism exhibit at Mill City Museum.

PHOTOS BY EVAN FROST

The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Mill City Museum presented Documenting a Reckoning: The Murder of George Floyd, which was curated by Senior Fellow Regina McCombs (above).

The reception featured a panel discussion with three of the photographers –Gene Garvin, Nicole Neri and Octavio Jones– on how history is documented.

The panel was moderated by Brent Lewis, photo editor at The New York Times, founder of Diversify Photo, and one of the jurors for the exhibit (bottom middle photo).

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WHY WE GIVE: SUPPORTING MURPHY HALL

Long-time supporters and frequenters of the Sevareid Library generously give to the School’s renovation project.

MICHAEL HILL AND BARBARA BINK One day, when students enter the renovated Murphy Hall lower level and Sevareid Library, they’ll be greeted at the information desk with this message: Welcome to the Michael E. Hill and Barbara H. Bink Information Desk ‘The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.’

—Ida B. Wells Michael Hill (M.A. ’79), raised in St. Paul, graduated from the School and worked at the Minneapolis Tribune before heading to the East Coast to write and edit for the Washington Post. “Running around putting my name on things is not what I am about, but being able to indicate we supported this renovation, and that somebody from many, many years ago and of another race had something to say that was pertinent today—that appealed,” he said.

Hill and his wife, Bink—who is not an alum but a big supporter of libraries—have been donors to the Sevareid Library for years.

“It became a very lovely waystation,” he said. “I spent a lot of time there, because it was a place to be, in between classes and the office. It was one of my favorite places in Murphy Hall. I appreciated the institutional history reflected there—and the resources.”

He said it’s important to give back to an institution and organization that was helpful to him along the way— not just as an alum, but even as a reader of this very magazine. “I enjoyed the recent issue with the 100-year review, looking back at names and faces I knew when I was on campus. And by realizing how much I gained by my association with them and being a student there.

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There’s the sense of giving back to the organization that was very formative and important,” he said.

And, even with all of the industry’s changes and challenges, he said he still believes in good journalism.

“Someone who comes through this program can be assured that a certain foundation is in place: Those old standards—the basic standards—of effort and reporting and clarity and the fundamentals of letters and words and sentences and paragraphs still pertain. I’m happy to support that effort, because, I think, in any kind of economic or social environment, what [the j-school] teaches and does will be important.”

And, Hill said, it’s not just the fundamentals: He’s pleased with how the School is leading into the future. “I appreciate the fact that the School has also recognized

and embraced modern technology and methods. For all of those reasons, I find it to be a very worthy place to stay in touch, to understand what they’re doing, and to support it as best I can.”

The School is turning 100 at a time that is very challenging and demanding of journalism—for technical, social, and political reasons. “While we can all point to many times that are important or pivotal in history, this is also one of them.”

Ida B. Wells would certainly agree.

WHY WE GIVE

JOY VIOLA Author, photographer, and global adventurer Joy Viola (B.A. ’57. M.A. ’58) never thought of herself as an overly generous benefactor to the Hubbard School. But, over the years, she gave regularly to the Sevareid Library—$50 here, $150 there—because she said she always felt it was her home away from home in the j-school.

“I never really thought beyond that,” she said. Until the School mentioned the remodeling of the Murphy Hall basement and library to her, that is. “I just felt such an affinity for the library, I thought, I’ll take the plunge and try to do a naming gift.”

“I feel such an affinity to the j-school because I found myself there,” she said. Viola had been studying to be a concert pianist and was well on her way to a scholarship at Juilliard when she realized she was watching the clock when she practiced. “I thought I shouldn’t really be feeling this way if I want to do this the rest of my life.” Watching a movie about the bombing of Hiroshima with her father set her on a different course: She wanted to become a diplomat with the Foreign Service. A political science professor suggested that the career path wouldn’t be an option for her, owing to her being a woman, and suggested she look into journalism.

“I started working on the Daily, and Murphy Hall became my home away from home. I lived at home while going to college, and would take the last 11 p.m. bus out to Excelsior on Wednesday nights after I covered the All HOW TO GIVE University Congress for the Daily. That If you’d like to support was really where I found my life’s work. It the renovation of Murphy shaped my life.”

Hall, please visit z.umn.

She graduated with both bachelor’s edu/SupportMurphyHall. If and master’s degrees from the School, you’re interested in a named and what followed was an extremely gift, please contact Louis colorful life, filled with worldwide travel, writing, and adventure, including an Erma Clark IV at clarkl@umn.edu.

Bombeck-like column in a newspaper

“I started and in the press bureau and as the working on speechwriter for the president of the Daily, and Northeastern University in Boston.

“I think we support in life what we Murphy Hall care about,” she said. “Whether that is mental support or spiritual support became my or financial support—to coin the old home away phrase: ‘Put your money where your mouth is.’ I wasn’t sure how I was from home.” going to finance this, but it was something I wanted to do.”

In the end, Viola is donating to a space in the renovated lower level, which she never imagined would be possible. With the generous gift, came naming rights: the Joy Winkie Viola Group Room. “It’s not about really putting my name on the wall,” she said. “It’s the fact that I’m publicly saying thank you to the j-school. My personal thanks are on that wall, not to glorify Joy Viola, but to publicly say ‘It meant so much to me, so I am publicly saying thank you.’”

“I got a great education, which turned my life in the direction it was meant to go, and I have lifelong friends from there, so the minute they said they were going to do the library—the heart and soul of my home away from home—I knew I wanted to be a part of it.”

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FACULTY NEWS

Colin Agur

Sid Bedingfield

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon

Hubbard School faculty attend Commencement. Clockwise from left: Sara Quinn, Elisia Cohen, Amy O'Connor, Susan LaRusso, Sarah Lemanczyk, Rich McCracken, and Regina McCombs.

COLIN AGUR published “Newly minted:

Non-fungible tokens and the commodification of fandom” in New Media & Society.

SID BEDINGFIELD’s latest book proj-

ect—Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, a research collection that he co-edited and contributed to—won two awards in May. Both the American Journalism Historians’ Association (AJHA) and the AEJMC History Division selected Journalism and Jim Crow as the best book on journalism or media history published in 2021. One judge in the AJHA contest called the book “an important intervention in our understanding of 22

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the role of journalists in negotiating systemic racism.” Bedingfield co-edited Journalism and Jim Crow with Kathy Roberts Forde, professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts. He also contributed two chapters to the collection.

VALÉRIE BÉLAIR-GAGNON was named a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow, which recognizes recipients who are recommended by their college dean and chosen at the discretion of the executive vice president and provost based on excellence in research and scholarship, leadership, potential to build top-tier programs, and ability to advance University priorities.

DANIELLE BROWN received the

2022 ICA Journalism Studies Public Engagement Award at the International Communication Association conference. She also received a Knight Foundation grant for her project “Trusted messengers can leverage connections to combat disinformation about Black communities in Black communities,” which will develop a scalable model for addressing dis/misinformation in Black communities.

ELISIA COHEN joined the Minnesota News Media Institute Board of Directors.

Ruth DeFoster

Jisu Huh

RUTH DEFOSTER published “Rational-

izing Fear: How Media Coverage of Violence Shapes American Culture” in the January issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press.

GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO is now associate professor emerita; she left the School to return to work at the Associated Press.

GAYLE GOLDEN spoke on a

three-member panel, “The role of editorial today,” during a webinar hosted by Goff Public, a local public relations and public affairs firm.

JISU HUH is the next editor-in-chief of

the Journal of Advertising. As editorin-chief, Huh will work with a team of associate editors and editorial review board members to advance the Journal of Advertising’s mission and to further expand the advertising scholarship and theory. Huh also organized and chaired the Special Topic Panel Session on “Computational Research and Measurement Innovations—Affective Computing and Emotion AI in the Future Advertising Research” at the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) 2022 annual conference held in St. Petersburg, Fla., in March 2022.

MARK JENSON’s Jour 4263 Cam-

paigns class client was Fox Sports U. Four teams presented their final presentations to the client on April 27. The challenge was to identify an appropriate CSR partner for Fox Sports Supports and develop a complete integrated marketing communication plan to help Fox Sports reach its young target audience.

Jenson’s Jour 3241: Ad Strategy/ Creative Development class client was Lovejoy’s Bloody Mary Mix (a

BIPOC family-owned business from St. Paul). Five teams made their final project advertising presentations to the four clients on April 26.

With the encouragement of VAN HORGEN, a Hubbard School diversity fellow, JENNIFER JOHNSON is prototyping “The Show at HSJMC.” This is an opportunity for students majoring in strategic communication to have their creative and strategic work entered into the student competition for the Minnesota AdFed professional show.

The best of show winners in categories that include integrated campaigns, digital and video content, and print, will be selected by School alumni and ad professionals. The winners receive paid entry into “The Show.” Johnson’s course Jour 4242: Advertising Portfolio Development worked with 18 professionals during its final portfolio review.

Ten of the professionals were Hubbard School alumni, including six former students.

SHERRI JEAN KATZ was awarded a

seed grant from the College of Liberal Arts for her project “Opioid warning labels: A strategy to prevent addiction and overdose.” She was also named a Fellow in Health Communication.

In January, JANE KIRTLEY delivered the keynote address on media ethics and law for the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program “Countering Holocaust Distortion and Denial: The Role of New and Traditional Media.”

The virtual program was coordinated through Meridian International Center and Global Minnesota, and was attended by 13 journalists and NGO representatives from eight different countries, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. She was also a

Mark Jenson

facilitator/panelist for the Hot Issues in Data Privacy workshop at the 27th Annual Conference of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law in February. Kirtley conducted many media interviews on topics like cameras in courts, Sarah Palin’s libel suit, the Supreme Court leak and more.

Jane Kirtley

Scott Libin

SCOTT LIBIN was elected to the

Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Board of Directors, representing the state of Minnesota.

He also led sessions on ethics and newswriting at the Midwest Journalism Conference in Minneapolis and at the New York Press Association Spring Conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Rebekah Nagler

REGINA MCCOMBS received the David and Vicki Cox Innovation Award from the Hubbard School, which awards extraordinary innovation and accomplishment to someone who encourages the students and faculty in the School to think creatively about new and powerful learning opportunities. The award recognized McCombs’ work with photojournalism students in the past year, as well as her work developing the “Documenting a Reckoning” photo exhibit.

Amy O’Connor

SCOTT MEMMEL became a teaching assistant professor at the Hubbard School in spring 2022.

REBEKAH NAGLER presented a paper

titled “Vulnerability to the effects of conflicting health information: Testing the moderating roles of trust in news media and research literacy” at the International Communication Association annual conference.

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Hyejoon Rim

AMY O’CONNOR, along with Rong

Wang (University of Kentucky), published “Can corporate-nonprofit partnerships buffer socially irresponsible corporations from stakeholder backlash?” in Corporate Communications: An International Journal. O’Connor also received a Grant-In-Aid for more than $36,000 from the University of Minnesota Office of VP for Research for her research on the Iron Range mining communities called “Mine Life: Communication, Work and Identity.”

In March, she presented research at the International Association of Business Communicators Convergence Summit on how stakeholder expectations for corporate social responsibility are influenced by their proximity to the corporation. She was also named a Fellow in Strategic Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility.

YAN QU’s dissertation, advised by

Adam Saffer, was awarded the 2022 ICA James Grunig and Larissa A. Grunig Outstanding Dissertation Award at the International Communication Association annual conference. The award recognizes an outstanding dissertation that focuses upon phenomena, issues and questions relevant to the study of public relations.

HYEJOON RIM, with co-authors at

University of Tennessee (Moonhee Cho) and Bethel University (Betsy Anderson), and graduate student Katie Kim, presented the paper “Revisiting the state of CSR from the perspectives of corporate communication professionals,” at the International Public Relations Research (IPRR) annual convention in Orlando in March. She also 24

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co-authored, “The process of online keyword activism in political crisis: Moderating roles of like-minded public opinion and government controllability of crisis outcomes” with professors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Sora Kim), and at Zhejiang University (Yingru Ji), and it recently published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. She was also named a Fellow in Comparative International Public Relations.

ADAM SAFFER received the 2021-22

Hubbard School Graduate Student Organization Dedication to Graduate Students Award. The annual award recognizes School faculty and staff for supporting graduate students and is intended as a way for graduate students to collectively express thanks.

CLAIRE M. SEGIJN published an

article in Communication Research with Iris van Ooijen and Sanne Opree on privacy cynicism and its role in privacy decision-making.

ALLISON STEINKE is now a teaching assistant professor at the Hubbard School.

CHRISTOPHER TERRY published

research on the Supreme Court's Mahanoy decision in Communication Law and Policy, and has forthcoming work on indecency enforcement in the Journal of Media Law and Ethics, on minority media access in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and on FCC Minority Ownership Policy in the Michigan Technology Law Review.

BENJAMIN TOFF, along with the

research team he is leading at Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the

Adam Saffer

Claire Segijn

Study of Journalism, published their fifth report, “Snap judgements: How audiences who lack trust in news navigate information on digital platforms,” which examines how people in Brazil, India, the United Kingdom and the United States evaluate information they encounter while using Facebook, WhatsApp, and Google.

Benjamin Toff

EMILY VRAGA, along with her

co-authors, published “The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction” in Nature Reviews Psychology. She also presented the keynote, “Observational Correction as a Response to Social Media Misinformation,” at the Language of Covid Symposium hosted by the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Richmond in April.

MARCO YZER completed three

presentations at the International Communication Association conference in May. He, along with co-authors, also had three papers accepted for publication or published: “Effects of exposure to conflicting information about mammography on cancer information overload, perceived scientists’ credibility, and perceived journalists’ credibility” in Health Communication; “Theories of reasoned action and planned behavior” in The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication; and “Advancing health communication research: Issues and controversies in research design and data analysis” in The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication. He was also named a Fellow in Health Communication.

Marco Yzer

MURPHY HALL MAKEOVER UNDERWAY

New labs, special group rooms, stateof-the-art broadcast studio, a comprehensive library and more! Visit us in January 2023 to see the improved Murphy Hall basement.

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GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

MARAL ABDOLLAHI received a Doctoral

EMMA CARPENTER won an Upper Mid-

Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Graduate School for her dissertation.

FOLASADE ADESANYA had a paper

position of assistant professor of digital journalism at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

CLARA JUAREZ MIRO successfully

accepted into a pre-conference at the International Communication Association’s annual conference. The paper, “The indispensability of social media to collective action: Implications for media ethics and Trans BIPOC activism” was presented at the Patriarchal Worlds, Feminist Networks, and the Conjuncture Pre-Conference.

defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Who are “The pure people”? Populist supporters and the role of media in the populist imagined community.”

Her dissertation also won the Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Research Award, the highest honor the School gives to graduate students. She then joined the University of Vienna for a postdoctoral appointment.

JONATHAN ANDERSON co-authored

ALLISON STEINKE successfully

four papers presented at the 7th Global Conference on Transparency Research and the 72nd Annual International Communication Association conference. He also moderated the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Law & Policy Division’s Spring Professional Freedom and Responsibility event, “Fresh Thinking on Government Transparency.”

NICK MATHEWS accepted the

defended her dissertation, “The Institutionalization of Solutions Journalism,” in May 2022. She also presented a project called “Climate Change Journalism, Audiences, and Advocacy” at the International Communication Association conference in the Environmental Communication division.

HAO XU will join the School of Culture

and Communication at University of Melbourne as a tenure-track lecturer in the area of Marketing Communication.

west Emmy Student Production Award in the Sports Story or Segment category for her piece “Gopher Basketball Player’s Discovery in Recovery.”

BELLA CARPENTIER is the new managing editor for the Minnesota Daily.

Senior EMILY DIODATI acted as Olivia Rodrigo’s production assistant when the musical artist was in Minneapolis for a show in April. Diodati has a connection with Live Nation through her job as a music event planner at the University.

MAIA IRVIN is the new editor-in-chief for the Minnesota Daily.

JESS JURCEK won the Drake 2022

Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics for her AccessU: Black on Campus story, “The consequences of cutting indoor track.”

CAROLINE PRITCHARD, a

senior strategic communication major, practiced her social media skills for the University of Minnesota Marching Band’s whirlwind trip to perform at the United States’ National Day in Dubai over spring break. It was a global stage for the band and a boost for Minnesota’s bid to host the World Expo in 2027. Pritchard posted all of the band’s content while abroad and directed the media team, including a professional photographer and videographer.

NINA RAEMONT was accepted into Graduate students from 2020, 2021, and 2022 attended in-person commencement on April 29, 2022. Left to right: Scott Memmel, Hao Xu, Chuqing Dong, Sarah Kay Wiley, Clara Juarez Miro, Lauren Ernt, and Allison Steinke

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the American Society of Magazine Editor’s Magazine Internship Program, a 10-week program for college students

LEARNING at magazines in New York and Washington, D.C. ASME interns have top academic records and previous experience working in their local media market. The association boasts only 10 percent of all applicants are accepted.

SAMANTHA WOODWARD is a freelance writer for CNN Politics.

Twelve seniors were awarded the Alpha Delta Sigma designation from the American Advertising Federation (AAF): MAGGIE BOEDIGHEIMER, ADAM DARRAGH, EMMA DENZER, JESSICA GORDON, ANGIE HUYNH, KRISTEN KOSKINEN, TYLER LEE, CARMEN LIBESCH, LEO MOULSOFF, ALEX NEALE, BEN NICHOLSON, and HEATHER SELLECK. Alpha Delta Sigma, a national honor society sponsored by the AAF, recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement in advertising studies.

BACKPACK, the student-run agency in the Hubbard School, retained its largest client, Serve Minnesota, while adding new external clients (Greenkey Digital and Ampack), internal clients (Professional Master’s program and University Relations), and a pro bono client (First Nations Repatriation Institute (FNRI)). The agency added a new planning and production department, in addition to its account management and creative departments. The group has also added social media planning and trafficking to its list of offerings and experiences. This work has been supported by Nicole Newville, Founder of Kose Digital and Jeffrey Byson, Kose AMD. Backpack has also developed a dedicated creative/production team that builds TikToks and social media videos for three of the clients. The agency has met its financial goals for the first year and is adding eight new employees to the agency in Fall 2022.

Please reach out to Backpack for brand communications needs. Jennifer Johnson is the senior adviser (joh02016@umn.edu).

THE MAGAZINE EDITING AND PRODUCTION CAPSTONE COURSE

focused on climate change with the spring 2022 issue of InFlux magazine. The issue covered the impact of climate change on mental health, profiled a group of students who build and race solar-electric cars, featured local climate activists, and looked at the beef industry’s possible key to climate change. The magazine is produced annually by Hubbard School students in a hands-on publishing experience.

In addition to a high-quality print publication distributed around campus, the capstone class of 32 students produces a robust social media campaign, videos, website, and regular podcast.

NSAC GOES TO NASHVILLE The National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team competed in the national competition in Nashville on June 3. While the team did not finish in the top 3, they did walk away with Best Team Presentation of the entire competition; the award came with a $2,500 cash prize. The four presenters in Nashville were: Alex Chrislu, Emma Denzer, Elizabeth Gordon, and Luckett Vanguard.

Six other team members also attended: Maggie Boedigheimer, Tyler Lee, Carmen Libesch, Maylee Moore (co-president), Alex Neale (co-president), and Hamilton Peterson. Rory Uskavitch (co-president) could not attend. Hubbard School lecturers Mark

Jenson and Rich McCracken were the team’s faculty advisors.

The project this year was Meta Quest 2. In April, the team presented virtually with a pre-recorded presentation and held a live Q&A with the District 8 judges. The team swept the ‘best plans book’ and ‘best presentation’ in District 8 and advanced to the NSAC National Semi-Finals on May 5-6 (virtually) where they were named as one of the Elite 8 teams from around the country and headed to Nashville for the American Advertising Federation Admerica Annual Conference. This is the first time the Hubbard School NSAC team returned to the National Championship since 2009.

The NSAC team finds out they are going to nationals (left) and the team at nationals in Nashville (right).

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MEET A STUDENT: EMMA CARPENTER

The Illinois native is paving the way for a career in sports journalism.

❙ INTERVIEWED BY ERICA BOUSKA overwhelming, it is important to compartmentalize and stay organized. I like to make a schedule of the things I need to get done and a timeline of when I will do them.

Senior Emma Carpenter is a member of the women’s golf team, works for Gopher Digital Productions, and has a podcast with Golf Channel’s Gary Williams and ESPN’s Jay Bilas. She is a journalism major with a minor in sport management. In April, Carpenter won an Upper Midwest Emmy Student Production Award for a sports segment she produced.

Q What course or professor would you recommend for other students in your major?

A It depends on the career you wish

Q What is your dream job?

A My dream job would be a career in sports broadcasting.

Q What has been your favorite part of your experience at the Hubbard School?

A My favorite part of the experience

at the Hubbard School is 100 percent the connections I have made with my professors. The professors are extremely qualified and have personally helped me in endeavors outside of class: for example, getting a story published [in] the Daily and entering a film feature into the Student Emmys.

Q What journalism class or professor has had the biggest impact on you?

A Definitely Regina McCombs, Andy

Mannix, and Michael Rand. Each one of these professors personally helped me outside of class. Andy helped me edit a story that ultimately got published in the Daily. Regina helped me with my film and editing, then 28

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suggested I enter my film feature into the Student Emmys and I ended up winning! Michael Rand has the career that is most similar to what I want to pursue and he has personally listened to my podcasts and offered lots of helpful insight and feedback. I am very grateful for each of them!

Q What advice do you have for future Hubbard School students?

A My advice would be to make an

effort to personally connect with your professors and put 100 percent of your heart into each class and assignment because you never know what new passions you may uncover.

Q What tactics do you use to manage school, work and life during the COVID19 pandemic?

A While the different components of life can be stressful and

“I am also surprised how so much of the work I have done in class has already helped my resumé and set me ahead in my desired career path.”

to pursue, but I would absolutely recommend Multimedia Production and Storytelling with Regina McCombs. As someone who never knew I would love to be behind a camera and edit until taking this course, I can confidently say that there are several different aspects of this course and lessons that are taught throughout that are important from a journalistic standpoint when it comes to telling a good story, whether it be print, photography, videography, etc.

Q What is one aspect of your major that surprised you?

A I was surprised [by] how much I

have learned about myself within my major. I am also surprised how so much of the work I have done in class has already helped my resumé and, in my opinion, set me ahead in my desired career path.

Q What do you wish you’d known before you started down your career path?

A I wish I knew how easy it is and

what a big difference it makes to ask for help. Go to office hours, personally ask your professors for feedback, and don’t hesitate to ask questions. This will set you apart from your peers and allow you to learn much more than just listening in class.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: FRAN LIU

As director of the University’s China Office, Liu engages with both prospective students and alumni.

❙ BY KATIE DOHMAN BEIJING-BORN-AND-RAISED FRAN LIU (B.A. ’12) knew she wanted to study

journalism by the time she was 6 years old. She would dress herself up, hold a carrot as a microphone, and record tapes full of telling stories about dogs and bunnies, or record sounds of the waves at the beach, pretending her audience was a sea of other 6-yearold girls. “I was sharing my life through my story box,” she said.

The dream came into a bit more focus when her mom traveled to Minnesota when Liu was 12. “She came back and told me how Minnesota is the backyard of the United States,” she said, which is a reference comparing the state to the empyreal backyard of the king’s palace in China. That was intriguing, as was the unique pronunciation of “Minnesota” in Chinese.

She landed at St. Cloud State, and attended for a year, learning the basics of American college and the definition of Minnesota Nice. A year later, set in her decision to major in journalism, she transferred to the Twin Cities campus to enroll at the Hubbard School.

Breaking into broadcasting was a challenge for a non-native speaker, but she didn’t let it dim her ambition, branching into photojournalism and graphic design to balance her broadcast skill. She capped her college experience reporting in Washington, D.C., right before graduation, then hopped a plane to New Zealand to kick off her career.

As a radio host, she discovered she had found her audience at last.

But she also realized she loved tying her work and success to revenue and business. “That was the turning point. It was time to pivot my path to business and marketing,” she said.

Back to Beijing she went on a five-year plan of her own making. She realized

journalism would be an uphill battle in her homeland.

“It’s very hard to do journalism in China.

This is the fact, this our culture, the situation—and I cannot change [it],” she said. But she could do PR, and jumped aboard a tea-company startup she describes as “like the American Teavana.”

“I loved that I had to write our own articles to promote our product, because every time I wrote, the class sold out in like 24 hours and led to results,” she said. “I learned those things at j-school: I learned newswriting to structure articles, used InDesign, and trained my eyes for good visuals. Those skills combined perfectly in this startup.” But like many startups, cash flow stopped flowing, so it was time for the next thing.

Graduate school had been in the back of her mind, so she enrolled at the University of Washington for an M.S. in entrepreneurship. “I learned to go for my passion, what was really in my heart, my calling. If I’m not studying the things I’m not passionate about, I’m wasting my life.”

A couple of job interviews went well, but the offers didn’t appear.

Then, along came an opportunity to helm the China office for the University of Minnesota. “Being an alum helped me, because I love the U so much,” she said. “I was standing on the

shoulders of a giant at the U. Every time they lift you up. Every time! That’s how I built up my confidence—the U of M helped me to have that.”

As the Director of the University’s China Office, Liu focuses on five missions: Enhancing the U of M brand by delivering info sessions to prospective students; social media marketing; engagement with the more than 4,000 alumni living in China; partnering with businesses in China; and assisting her colleagues at the University when they need help from the Chinese office.

“America [still] has a unique attraction,” she said. “I feel like my dream came true studying in the U.S., and parents and students believe we have the best higher ed in the world. And I still get to speak a lot and practice my journalism skills.” And if she ever changes her mind? She still has 20 of those demo tapes from way back when.

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ALUMNI NEWS

led communications for RBC’s U.S. Wealth Management division.

ANNA GORDON (B.A. ’21) is an CAITLIN ANDERSON (B.A. ’20)

received the Dave Pyle New Journalist Award from the Minnesota Newspaper Association for her role as the community editor for the Edina Sun Current, a paper that publishes weekly.

BLAKE APGAR (B.A. ’16) joined the Salt Lake Tribune. Previously he worked at the Las Vegas Review Journal.

KATHRYN SUSAG BAUER (B.A. ’84)

retired after a 34-year career at the state of Minnesota. She worked as a media writer and radio/TV coordinator for six years at the Minnesota House of Representatives and as a public information officer and media relations manager for 28 years at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Prior to her state career she was a reporter and editor at the Savannah News-Press and the St. Cloud Times. Bauer is now the communication specialist at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico.

KATELYN BLOOMQUIST (B.A. ’19) is now Group Editor at Greenspring Media Group.

SANDRA BOONE (M.A. ’20) was

accepted to the Communication & Media Studies doctoral program at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

LAUREN BORCHART (B.A. ’22) is part

of Fast Horse’s “integrate program.”

SAMANTHA BORING (B.A. ’20) is now

the weekend morning anchor/weekday reporter at KSN-TV in Wichita, Kansas.

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MADISON DAHLGREN (B.A. ’22) is an

account coordinator at Infinity Direct.

TED DAVIS (B.A. ’85) has assumed

the role of Executive Vice President at Weber Shandwick. In his new role he leads the Public and Corporate Affairs Practice at the agency’s Minneapolis Office.

EMMA DENZER (B.A. ’22) is an

account service intern at Broadhead.

JOHN ERICKSON (B.A. ’79) wrote

“When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family’s Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance.” The book deals with Minnesota’s one-time obsession with eugenics and the impact it had on his family. Erickson previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Dayton Daily News. The book will be published in September by Rowman & Littlefield.

RIHAM FESHIR (B.A. ’08) is a senior

writer on the RBC Wealth Management corporate communication team.

JOHN FINNEGAN (M.A. ’78, Ph.D.

’85), professor and dean emeritus at the School of Public Health, received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member.

NICOLE GARRISON (B.A. ’02) is the

senior director, Employer Brand and Marketing, at RBC Wealth Management, a global role that leads a team of marketers, content strategists and more. She previously

assistant account executive at Carmichael Lynch.

JAKE GROVUM (B.A. ’09) was

promoted to associate director, off-platform, at The New York Times, overseeing the work on social and other emerging platforms.

ERIC HANSEN (B.A. ’05) is now a creative director at BBDO.

JESSICA HART (B.A. ’19) joined WCPO 9 in Cincinnati.

ALEXANDRA HENSRUD (B.A. ’21) is

an account coordinator at Intemark.

A.J. HILTON (B.A. ’04) is now the morning anchor at WCCO.

SARAH HOFF (B.A. ’22) is a meeting and event specialist for CNO Financial.

Both GULED IBRAHIM (B.A. ’11) and ALEX WEST STEINMAN (B.A. ’11) received the 2021 Emerging Alumni Award from the College of Liberal Arts. The award recognizes former students who stand out as great leaders, professionals, and service-dedicated citizens.

AUDREY KENNEDY (B.A. ’20)

received a Society of Professional Journalists Page One Award for her work on the Axios Instagram account.

SHAHBAZ KHAN (B.A. ’15) joined

Uninterrupted, an organization that inspires athletes and those in sports culture to be ‘More Than’ through entertainment, product and apparel, social impact and events, as senior director of social.

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ANTHONY J. KIEKOW (B.A. ’09) joined

Boeing as a senior communications specialist with the company’s Global Services Division. Previously, Kiekow served as director of communications for Hazelwood School District and Riverview Gardens School District, and public relations manager for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Associated Press award-winning writer also worked as a news reporter for ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS television stations in Dallas and St. Louis.

KATE RADDATZ (B.A. ’04) joined

CONGRATS TO THE DAILY TEAM! THE MINNESOTA DAILY NEWS TEAM—past, present, and future—will be inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame in October 2022 in Washington D.C. at the Fall National College Media Convention.

was named to the board of the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Minnesota chapter.

RYAN RUSSELL (B.A. ’19) is execu-

MICHELE NORRIS (B.A. ’85)

CLINT SCHAFF (B.A. ’00) left his

tive producer at Hearst’s KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa.

role as Vice President of the Los Angeles Times and is now communications director for the campaign to elect Dr. Chris Jones as Governor of Arkansas.

Interpretative Ranger at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

CHRISTINA MILANOWSKI (B.A. ’06)

DANNY OLSEN (B.A. ’03) is now

LIZA STRINGHAM (B.A. ’21) is an

now director of communication at All Saints Catholic Church in Lakeville, Minn., part of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

SCHULER MCKINLEY (B.A. ’20) is an

is now the social media director at Curious Plot.

KATIE ASKEW MILLER (B.A. ’13)

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HYEDI NELSON (B.A. ’08, M.A. ’10)

received the 2022 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The award is given annually for outstanding contributions to the field of journalism, and for work that has enriched our political discourse and our society.

CHRISTOPHER MATTSON (B.A. ’84) is

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his first true crime book, Vanished in Vermillion, about two high school juniors who were on their way to a party outside Vermillion, S.D., on Memorial Day weekend in 1971, but they never showed up.

University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts’ undergraduate commencement speaker this past May.

Haworth Marketing + Media as an assistant media planner.

(B.A. ’18) joined the 99% Invisible podcast. Previously she was an associate producer at the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking.

LOU RAGUSE (B.A. ’05) will publish

KAREEM RAHMA (B.A. ’08) was the

CARMEN LIBESCH (B.A. ’22) joined

JEYCA MALDONADO-MEDINA

Park Street Public as a senior principal, public relations and communications. Previously she was at WCCO for almost 10 years.

was promoted to General Manager, Publishing, at BiggerPockets Media, launched BiggerPockets Wealth magazine, and serves as volunteer on the Editorial Board for the Independent Publishers Association.

KIRSTEN MITCHELL (B.A. ’17) is a reporter at WCCO-TV.

SARAH SOLOVY (B.A. ’22) joined Ogilvy this summer.

GRACIE STOCKTON (B.A. ’21) was

promoted to producer at KSTP-TV.

the Director of Marketing & Communications for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.

assistant account executive at Carmichael Lynch.

BAO ONG (B.A. '04) joined the

Houston Chronicle as a restaurant columnist.

global instructional designer at 3M in their health care business group global marketing center.

ALEJANDRA PALACIOS-PEREZ (B.A.

MARA WESTON (B.A. ’22) is an

’16) was promoted from bilingual reporter to anchor for WDJT CBS 58 Telemundo Wisconsin.

BRIE COHEN VLACH (B.A. ’06) is a

account management intern at Collective Measures (formerly Nina Hale).

MORGAN WOLFE (B.A. ’16) is now an anchor at KARE-11.

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CENTENNIAL QUIZ ANSWERS A TRUE. The banquet, hosted in the spring, was meant as a way for students and staff to meet on even ground and discuss the state of communications.

B FALSE. It was the first!

C TRUE. However, it was during the polio epidemic quarantine in 1946. The program ran through the 80s.

D TRUE. It is the 10th oldest active station in the U.S. It also beat the University of Wisconsin’s radio station by only hours.

E FALSE. They lost and still received $75,000 to produce and distribute their campaign from a foundation dedicated to reducing underage drinking and drunk driving.

F TRUE. The enrollment increased from 300 to 602 students.

The School had to implement the entrance application still present for the School’s pre-majors.

G TRUE. One graduate, Leslie Edwards, has been a producer of both programs and the director of corporate communications at Warner.

H TRUE. The school’s director at the time, Robert Jones, said it became clear she was informally teaching another class already and added advertising copywriting to the school.

I TRUE. She started loving history after taking communications classes and becoming fascinated with how people communicated in the past.

J TRUE. America was considered a safe middle ground in 1994. Former School professor and Center Director, Chin-Chuan Lee, said the officials likely wouldn’t have met without the conference.

K THE DAILY STAFF. They beat the faculty in the final game 23-4.

L 4, including twice from the Hubbard School.

M REMIXED. N TWO HARBORS. In 1978, a photojournalism class photographed more than 300 people in the tourist-heavy town.

O ALL OF THE ABOVE. They were Shani Marks, Alla Ilushka, and Carol Ann Shudlick, respectively.

P BEST SCENIC DESIGN. Besides the other three, it also won best production and best author. One of Heggen’s Tonys was donated to the School after his death.

Q YOU’RE RIGHT, IT’S FREE! Check out the students’ hard work on any of their websites.

R DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. Casey was a firm supporter of integrating journalism with all kinds of techniques and disciplines in CLA. S U.S. SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY. Allard accompanied Kennedy on his 1965 trek up Mt. Kennedy in Canada, the mountain renamed for John F. Kennedy after his assassination.

T ALL OF THE ABOVE. The Silha Center does all of these and more, such as sponsoring research fellowships and providing information to scholars across the world.

How did you do?

PERFECT SCORE: You graduate with honors 15–20 CORRECT: You made the Dean's list 10–15: A little more studying needed—follow us on social media to stay up to date 0–10: Time to come back to Murphy Hall for a visit!

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You’re invited:

2022 &

HOMECOMING TAILGATE PARADE

Friday, Sept. 30, 2022

Murphy Hall and University Avenue 4 p.m. and after

Join us for a pre-parade tailgate in front of Murphy Hall with friends, food and giveaways. Then line up along University Avenue for the Homecoming Parade.

Watch for Hubbard School students, faculty, staff, and alums as we walk the route and spread Centennial cheer.

T H E H U B B A R D S C H O O L O F J O U R N A L I S M & M A S S C O M M U N I C AT I O N C O R D I A L LY I N V I T E S Y O U T O A T T E N D O U R

Centennial

Gala Join us for dinner, reminiscing and a live and silent auction.

Saturday, November 5, 2022 six o’clock in the evening

MCNAMAR A ALUMNI CENTER, UNIVERSIT Y OF MINNESOTA

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit z.umn.edu/HubbardGala COCKTAIL ATTIRE

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37th Annual Silha Lecture

Inherit the What?

Banning Books in 2022 Featuring: Robert Corn-Revere Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.

Cowles Auditorium, West Bank Free and open to the public Contrary to the assumption that book bans are relics of the distant past, they have enjoyed a banner year in 2022 as the broader culture war sparks fierce battles across the country over purging books from schools, libraries, and even bookstores. What are the First Amendment implications of these hotly contested battles? And how do we, as a society, maintain a culture of free expression in highly polarized times?

For more information on these events, visit hsjmc.umn.edu/news-events/events