NEWSPAPER:

The School’s entrants placed first in the Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Awards, winning $10,000 for the School. 

Two of our students, Frank Tankard and Curtis J. Moore, competed in June in the national write-off among top winners of the six monthly contests.

Tankard’s in-depth follow-up on the Boardwalk Apartments fire that won first place in that category was named as the best of the more than 900 articles submitted in the six monthly competitions. 
        
Our winners in the six Hearst monthly contests were:
Frank Tankard, first for in-depth writing;
Curtis J. Moore, second in sports writing and fifth in spot news reporting;
Mark Vierthaler, fifth in personality profile;
Fred A. Davis III, ninth in profile and 17th in spot news;
Mark Phillips, twelfth in sports writing; and
Katherine Loeck, twelfth in opinion writing.

Seven KU students received Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Editing Internships for summer

The interns and the newspapers on which they worked are:
Cynthia Hernandez, The New York Times;
Natalie Johnson, The Indianapolis Star;
Derek Korte, The Rochester, Minnesota, Post-Bulletin;
Will McCullough, The Rockford, Illinois, Register-Star;
Vanessa Pearson, The Los Angeles Times;
Travis Robinett, The St. Paul Pioneer Press;
Kate Shipley, The Kansas City Star.

Dow Jones named an additional eight students as top prospects for editing internships at other newspapers.  They are:  Aly Barland, Kelly Lonigan, Mindy Ricketts,Patrick Ross, Diane Smith, Ashley Thompson, Jyl Unruh and Elyse Weidner. 

Catherine Odson received an editing internship from The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Kimberly Wallace received a Chips Quinn Internship from the Freedom Forum to report in summer for The TimesDaily in Florence, Alabama. 

Michael Phillips was a finalist for a National Mark of Excellence Award for sports writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.  He will be recognized at the national convention in October 2007 in Washington. 

BROADCAST AND ONLINE:

National Mark of Excellence finalist awards from the Society of Professional Journalists will be represented at the national convention in October 2007 to:

Matthew Goble and Patrick Shehan for online in-depth reporting;
James Pinick and Andrew Baker for online sports reporting;
Nicole Kelley for breaking news reporting. 

MAGAZINE:

In August 2007, Amanda Sellers received a first place award for her start-up magazine, “Layers,” in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual competition.

Elyse Weidner received a third place award for a service and information article, “Business Casual.”

Jayplay received a third place award for design of a single issue.  The editors were David Ruigh and Becca Cremer, and the designers were Katherine Loeck and Brian Marvin. 

The top three awards for magazine startups presented by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August 2006 went to KU students:

Jilian Baco, first place for Stems,
Heidi Fedak, second, for Home Again,
Jacky Carter, third for Presence.

Other magazine awards went to:

Melissa Byrd, third place,  consumer magazine service article;
Tara Schupner, honorable mention for first person article;
Jayplay magazine, design and single issue honorable mention awards,
Becca Cremer and Jacky Carter were recognized for Jayplay design.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS:

The University Daily Kansan advertising staff was named the best in the nation among 125 newspapers from nearly every state by the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers.

Other CNBAM best honors won by our students were:

Kyle Hoedl, business manager of the year;
Ryan Berg, advertising designer of the year;
Best Sales Incentive Program;
Best Special Section;
Best Electronic Display and House Ads;
Best Newspaper Marketing/Promotion Program;
Best Color Display Ad;
Best Classifed Group Promotion;
And third place for Newspaper Promotion Ad.

STUDENT REGIONAL AWARDS:    

Regional Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists went to 16 students from the School.  They were:

Brianna Auza, television general news reporting;
Fred Davis III, online news reporting;
Courtney Farr, general column writing;
Lynzee Ford, television general news reporting;
Heidi Fedak and Heather Brummitt, online news reporting;
Heidi Fedak and Michael Phillips, online opinion and commentary;
Matthew Goble and Patrick Shehan, online in-depth reporting;
Eric Jorgensen, sports writing;
Nicole Kelley, breaking news reporting;
Whitney Mathews, television feature;
Rachel Parker, general news reporting;
Michael Phillips, sports column writing;
James Pinnick and Andrew Baker, online sports writing;
Darla Slipke, in-depth reporting. 

The Bernstein-Rein Multicultural Internship-Scholarship was awarded to Minh-Tu Pham.

The Advertising Club of Kansas City Foundation awarded scholarships to:  Mallory Goldstein, Reka Justis, Carlos Perez Beltran, Carolina Medeiros, Carrie Mills, Angela Palacioz, Rachel Schulteis, and Nathan Totten.

STUDENT STATE AWARDS:

The Kansas Association of Broadcasters presented awards to 13 winning entries in its annual competition. There were five first place, four second place and four honorable mention awards. First places went to two entertainment programs, a Web site, an entertainment news package, and a complete news feature. Second places went to an entertainment program, a complete newscast, a hard news package and a complete sports feature.

Winners of first place awards were: Heather Brummitt, two awards; Blake Cripps, Rustin Dodd, Ryan Elder, Rahul Sharma, Scott Winer, and tv.ku.edu.

KAB Second place winners were:
Tami Dreitz, Annie Harrigan, Ian Hrabe, Mary Johnson, Kristin Luehrs, Danica Nisley, Joe Noh, Tracy Perlman, Rahul Sharma, Frank Waugh and Steve Zawilinski. 

Honorable mentions went to Bryan Cisler, Rustin Dodd, Audrey Esther, Colin Swartz and Heather Brummitt.

Carnez Williams is one of 40 recipients statewide of Robert J. Dole Public Service Scholarships that recognize involvement in volunteer community and public service.  Funded by a Congressional grant, this provides $1,000 a year for four years. 

RECOGNITION AT THE UNIVERSITY DURING 2006-2007:

Journalism students inducted by national academic honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa, 10;  Phi Kappa Phi, 16;  Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honorary, 20.

Two of the 10 finalists for the ExC.E.L. Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership Award, were journalism students Dena K. Neuenschwander and Zak Beasley.

Beasley was one of 15 U. S. students who participated in the Global Youth Partnership Conference in Africa in summer 2006. 

Whitney Fasbender, a journalism and pre-nursing senior, and Ali Bannwarth, a May 2006 graduate in journalism and political science and now a KU law student, were chosen to be featured on the KU Women of Distinction calendar. 

Carnez Williams is one of 21 members of the KU Freshman Leadership Council.  Members were selected based on high school gpa, involvement with high school activities, interest in leadership, activities at KU and answers to written essay questions.  They completed an eight-week series of leadership enhancement training.

Nicholas Jay Benedict and Jennifer Erin Short are on the Board of Class Officers. It chooses the recipients of the HOPE Award that goes to outstanding faculty members. Short was vice president of the senior class.

Matthew Goble co-chaired the selection of recipients of the Outstanding Educator Awards  given by Mortar Board academic honor society.

Rula Andriessen was student site coordinator for the 2007 Leader Shape Institute, a six-day program during winter break that had 56 graduates.

Angela Palacioz is director of administration for the KU Student Alumni Association. 

Marsha K. Leffler received a KU Undergraduate Research Award for summer 2006 to make a design video with Rebecca Evanhoe.

Five students had leadership positions in the Rock Chalk Review that supports local United Way agencies with fund raising and volunteer service. They were Jaime Hornberger, co-community service coordinator, Erin Gregory, assistant promotions coordinator, Emily Flom, alumni records coordinator, Courtney Hagen, program director and Krista Fisher, advisory board member.

Three journalism students were chosen as assistants for New Student Orientation.  They are Hali Baker, Emily Hendricks and Jacque Lumsden.

Two students, Sarah Beals and Annie Vangnes, have been chosen as peer advisers in the University Advising Center.

OTHER ACTIVITIES OF KU JOURNALISM STUDENTS:

Paola Adriazola, a journalism and political science senior, was one of ten students in the KU Global Awareness Program who went to Washington in March to meet policy makers and learn about international organizations.  She was cited as a KU Woman of Distinction in fall 2007.

Four journalism students had legislative internships.  Molly Lee Johnson was in the office of U. S. Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas and Natalie Nelson was in the office of U. S. Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.   In Topeka, Sasha Roe worked for state Rep. Clay Aurand and Kelsey Quillan worked for Rep. Terrie Huntington.

Anton Menning, a graduate student, spent three weeks in Africa reporting on U.S. military efforts to  provide humanitarian relief and to combat terrorism in several countries.  His reports appeared on KMBC-TV’s kansascitychannel.com and in The Leavenworth Times. 

Seven photojournalism students spent spring break in Emporia producing photo feature stories to appear in The Emporia Gazette.  They were Anna Faltermeier, Jon Goering, Marla Keown, Sarah Leonard, Rachel Seymour, Michiko Takei and Megan True.