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Yearbook Nets Two Top Prizes

Chalk up another victory for the Razorback. At the Associated Collegiate Press Annual Convention in Austin, Texas on Oct. 31, the award-winning University of Arkansas yearbook received two ACP Pacemaker Awards – one for the book in its entirety and one for its Web site, http://yearbook.uark.edu. The Pacemaker is perhaps the most prestigious prize in the world of college media. “For the yearbook to receive two is an honor indeed,” Steve Wilkes, UA director of student media told the UA newspaper, the Traveler. “It speaks very highly of the students who participate in the Razorback.” Shannon Sanders, the editor of the 2008 Razorback, accepted the award.

 

National and Regional Journalists to Gather for UA Symposium

Matt Waite, designer of Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site PolitiFact

The Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism is pleased to present a national symposium, “When the Ink Runs Dry: A Forum on the Future of the News Business,” from Nov. 4 to Nov. 6. The symposium will bring together national and regional journalists to discuss online news trends, online journalism business models, ethics, and the new role of citizen-propelled journalism in the age of social networking. Guests include: Matthew Waite, the senior news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times and designer Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site PolitiFact; Gordon Witkin, managing editor of the online investigative team Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.; Michelle Malashock, Web content editor at the Morning News (Springdale); and Conan Gallaty, the online director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Nov. 5 panel begins at 12:30 and will be followed by a Q&A session and reception.

The symposium will also feature a sneak preview of the 10-part television series, “the Future of News,” produced by Washington, D.C.-based Newseum and scheduled to air in early 2010. And on Nov. 6, Waite and Witkin will appear for a taping of a UATV student program. The events are free and open to the public. The symposium is funded in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Please see the schedule below for specifics.

“A Glimpse of the Future” – The presentation of three videos produced by the Washington, D.C.-based Newseum, with showings scheduled in Kimpel 111 beginning at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m., throughout Nov. 4. The videos are part of “The Future of News,” which features “lively, cutting-edge conversations with well-known journalists and new media pioneers about the evolution of news reporting in an Internet age,” according to the Newseum.

“The Fog of New Media” – A panel of speakers, including Matthew Waite, technologist at the St.Petersburg Times and designer of PolitiFact, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2008,; Michelle Malashock, Web editor at The Morning News; Gordon Witkin, the managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity; and Conan Gallaty, the online director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, in the Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 5. The panel will last approximately 90 minutes. Refreshments will be available following the panel, compliments of the Lemke Journalism Alumni Society.

“Advice for the Future” – The taping of a student media program, which will include a student-led interview followed by a Q & A session, in Kimpel 111 at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 6.

For more information, please contact Bret Schulte, assistant professor, Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism at (479) 575-6659 or bjschult@uark.edu.

 

 

 

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