News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast.
Roxane Assaf speaks about Middle East media coverage and broadcast journalism on March 16 (photo courtesy of Truman College).
Sessions take place at Truman College (1145 W. Wilson), at the following dates, times, and rooms:
Thurs., Feb. 2nd, 11:30am, Room #2963 — Former feature writer and editor of the Wilmington Morning Star in North Carolina, CLIFTON TRUMAN DANIEL directs Public Relations and writes web stories that represent Truman College to the world. Daniel will speak on his journalism experiences and the differences between news writing and PR. He will also talk about specific approaches to on-line reporting and writing.
Tues., Feb. 7th, 11:30am, Room #2963 — Investigative reporter and Medill School of Journalism graduate JEFF KELLY LOWENSTEIN writes as a staffer for the Chicago Reporter and has freelanced for NPR, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, Daily Southtown, and The Common Review.
Thurs., Feb 23rd, 12:30pm, Room #2963 — Truman student at large KARI McCLEAN represents The Night Ministry as Coordinator for Public & Media Relations. In Spring 2005, she completed the News Reporting & Writing class and contributed articles to the Uptown Exchange premiere issue. Students will learn answers to the question: What can you do with the journalism program at Truman?
Thurs., March 2nd, 11:30am, Room #2963 — Staff writer at the Pioneer Press News-Star, ANGELA CAPUTO covers neighborhood news and public interest issues for the community newspaper that carries stories about Uptown and other North Side neighborhoods. A graduate of Columbia College, Caputo will speak about covering a community beat and pursuing advanced training in journalism.
Wed., March 15th, 4pm, Room #3416 — The Truman Journalism Program is proud to welcome LUIS ALBERTO URREA.
Professor of Creative Writing at UIC, Urrea is also a member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame, and his searing investigation, The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (2004), was a National Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Urrea has passionately covered the U.S.-Mexico Border with the eye of a reporter and pen of a poet, in such works as Across The Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border and By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border. In The Devil’s Highway, “Urrea has crafted an impassioned and poetic exploration of the dark side of globalization, where commodities flow free and people die in the desert” (Chicago Tribune).
Thurs., March 16th, 11:30am, Room #2963 — Award-winning journalist and Medill graduate ROXANE ASSAF teaches at Truman in the ESL and credit programs, in addition to having been a television producer, disc jockey, documentary filmmaker, essayist, and performance artist. Her work in Bethlehem and Jerusalem won a 2002 National Arab Journalists Association’s Excellence in Journalism Award. (See also Ms. Assaf’s full bio.)
Tues., April 25th, 11:30am, Room #2963 — TORI MARLAN has been a feature writer for the Chicago Reader since 1995. She has won three Peter Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism, an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for social reporting, and a Herman Kogan Award for writing about legal affairs. She has also contributed to The Christian Science Monitor, the Utne Reader, and the public-radio show This American Life.
Thurs., May 4th, 11:30am, Room #2963 — Journalist, critic, and curator of intellectual conversations, DANNY POSTEL (below) edits the international net-journal openDemocracy. Postel has covered international politics, culture, and intellectual currents for a variety of publications, including The American Prospect, The Nation, and The Washington Post.
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