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Snedden Lecture Wednesday, 7pm, October 19, 2011: Cheryl Thompson on "Guns in America"
Emmy award-winning journalist Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post who has written extensively about government corruption, immigration, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Washington, D.C. police department’s handling of homicide investigations.
Most recently, she tracked guns used to kill more than 500 police officers—including several in Alaska—since 2000. The groundbreaking series examined how the killers, many of them felons, got their firearms.
A Chicago native, Ms. Thompson has a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, and Georgetown and Howard universities. She was part of a Washington Post team of reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
Preston Gannaway and pictures from "Life Other Side"
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Preston Gannaway has worked as a documentary newspaper photographer for the past 10 years. Gannaway believes the daily newspaper is an inclusive medium that brings visual storytelling to a diverse audience. She currently works for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk. In 2008, Gannaway's intimate photo story on the St. Pierre family, Remember Me, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Her work has been honored in numerous other national and international competitions, including Pictures of the Year International's One Week's Work and an award of excellence in Best Multimedia Project. A native of North Carolina, she began her career at the Coalfield Progress in rural southwest Virginia after earning a BA in fine art photography at Virginia Intermont College.
Wednesday 3.2.2011, 7pm
Noel Wien Library
War photographer and newspaper reporter Cheryl Hatch coveredconflicts in the Middle East and Africa, including the aftermath of the first Gulf War in Iraq and the famine in Somalia. Hatch will share her
photographs and discuss the effects of war on women and children – and on her as a journalist.
Tuesday 2.8.11 - 7 p.m.
Schaible Auditorium
UAF Bunnell Bldg.
Mark Trahant will be giving his lecture, "Native Americans, Media and Health Care Reform", at the Schiable Auditorium (Bunnell Bldg., UAF Campus) at 7pm on 2/11/10.
UAF student Kaleb Yates and Journalism Professor Robert Prince are working on a half-hour documentary on the new postal regulation effecting letters to Santa - see more information at the website!
UAF Journalism recently presented the local community with a Borough Mayorial Debate - video available here!
Iraq Embed: Read about our three students and faculty member who traveled to Iraq to embed with the Ft. Wainwright-based Army Stryker Brigade in their blog, Short Timers.Alaska Press Club 2009 Public Service Award
The Public Service Award is the highest honor Alaska Press Club, a 300-member professional organization, annually bestows for work published or broadcast in the previous calendar year. The competition is open to any and all Alaska media. The award recognizes a news organization "marshaling resources above and beyond what is expected" in its pursuit of a story deemed to be important to society.
A pair of judges determined this year's Public Service winners: Gary Cohn, a former Atwood Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards. Loretta Tofani is a longtime investigative reporter and foreign correspondent and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards.