NEWS & EVENTS (BenOrtiz.com)

The Truman College News Reporting & Writing class welcomes you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication.

Roxane Assaf speaks about Middle East media coverage on March 3rd.
[Photo courtesy of Truman web site and C.T. Daniel]

Thurs., Feb. 17 -- Medill School of Journalism graduate Jeff Kelly Lowenstein reports for the South Shore Community News and has freelanced for NPR, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, Daily Southtown, and The Common Review.

Thurs., Mar. 3 -- Award-winning journalist and Medill graduate Roxane Assaf teaches English as a Second Language for Truman's Adult Education Department, 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. 2:30pm, Room #2162
See also Ms. Assaf's FULL BIO.

Thurs., Mar. 17 -- With expertise from the University of Chicago Latin American Studies program, Aaron Cohen covers world music for a variety of publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Down Beat Magazine, and more. 11:40am, Room #2162

Tues., Apr. 5 -- Cheryl Ross got her start as a copy girl at a paper in Virginia, graduated from Northwestern University, and then went on to work as municipal and general assignment reporter for one of the country's top ten newspapers, the St. Petersburg (FL) Times. She covered one of the paper's biggest stories, the abolishment of a 100-year-old police department, wrote about an alligator that took a dip in a neighborhood pool, and followed police efforts to nab a serial killer. In the mid-'90s, she made her way to Chicago to write for the Reader. In recent months she assisted with the launch of Time Out Chicago, and now she's back to doing longer-form writing.
11am, Room #2162

Tues., May 17 -- Winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize for history, Rick Perlstein has written for The Nation, Mother Jones, New York Times, Village Voice, Slate, and The New Yorker. 11:40am, Room #2162

All talks take place at Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson.

Posted by Benjamin at February 15, 2005 03:47 PM