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News Briefs • December 2004
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R-TV student goes to Washington
Aaron Flint, a broadcast senior, is one of 13 students from around the country accepted for The Politics and Journalism Semester in Washington D.C. during the spring semester. The program, sponsored by the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism, teaches students about campaign, governance and interest group politics. Students will meet elected and party officials, political consultants, and national political journalists. Flint has long been interested in political reporting. “I saw the flier in the Radio-Television building,” he said. “And I’ve known from day one it is exactly what I am going for.” Students in the semester-long program are exposed to national politics and receive practical experience as reporting interns in major Washington news bureaus. Flint will move to Washington in early February to begin the 16-week program. Each student receives a $3,000 stipend for living expenses, but Flint hopes to make a little more money in the program. “I’ll be happy anywhere,” Flint said. “But from what I’ve heard, Bloomberg apparently pays their interns a little more money. Frankly, if I have to wait tables to make money I will because it’s a great opportunity. I’ll be happy either way.” Bloomberg Television and Radio and CNN are just a couple of the news organizations that offer students internships during the program. Flint is the third UM J-School student accepted to the program, and is excited for the opportunity. “It’s doing what I really want to do,” Flint said, “which is political journalism.” -Christine Tutty Students score in two Hearst contests
Two University of Montana journalism students have placed in recent Hearst Journalism Awards competition. Photo student Mike Cohea placed eighth in the Portrait/Personality and Feature photo category. Print student Joe Friedrichs tied for 19th place in the feature writing competition. Cohea will receive a $500 scholarship, an amount that the UM School of Journalism will also receive. Friedrichs will receive a certificate of merit.
Both students won for work published in the J-School's 2004 Native News tab written and photographed by students in last spring’s Native News Honors Class. Cohea's photo accompanied a story about housing on the Blackfeet Reservation. Friedrichs' story, titled “Whose Home on the Range?”, was about tribal management issues on the National Bison Range on the Flathead Reservation. “Writing that story took a lot of hard work,” Friedrichs said. “It’s nice to get some recognition.” The William Randolph Hearst Foundation sponsors the Hearst awards in conjunction with the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. The contest, a series of 12 separate competitions that run throughout the academic year, allows the nation’s best students in print, photo and broadcast journalism to compete for scholarships and money. UM’s J-School has placed in the Top 10 of the contest’s overall ranking for the past six years. -Erin Madison R-TV student adds another scholarship
A University of Montana broadcast student has added another notch to his scholarship belt with a $1,250 scholarship from the Broadcast Education Association. Andy Atkins – his full name is Andrew Owen Atkins Van Lieshout – of White Sulphur Springs will receive the BEA’s 2005-2006 Harold Fellows Scholarship, worth $1,250. It’s not the first time Atkins has received a prestigious scholarship. In late spring, the broadcast junior learned he’d been selected for a Great Falls Broadcasters Association scholarship worth $2,000. In June of 2004 he received a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences scholarship, also worth $2,000. “I really appreciate them (the scholarships),” Atkins said. “It’s just an awesome experience to be mentioned by these organizations. It’s kind of like, ‘Yay, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. I must be doing something right.’ ” Outside of school, Atkins runs his own production company, A2 Productions. He’s shot a Lady Griz season highlights video that aired on KPAX and he currently records the President’s Lecture Series for Montana PBS. Peter Orlik, BEA Scholarship Committee chair, said the Fellows scholarship recipient is determined by looking at, among other things, school performance, activities both in and outside of journalism and broadcast work outside of school. “What it was was a good balance between all of those things,” Orlik said via telephone from his office at Central Michigan University. “That really came through in Andy’s application.” Ray Ekness, chair of the Radio-Television Department, said this is the fourth year in a row that a UM broadcasting student has earned a BEA scholarship. Grad students Brent O’Connor and Christine Johnson won in 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, respectively, and Natalia Kolnik won in 2004-2005. “It’s really incredible,” Ekness said. “Andy’s an amazing student and he’s already working in the business. I think that’s what they see in him – they see a lot of potential.” Atkins said he plans to travel to the BEA’s convention in Las Vegas in April to accept the scholarship, just as he traveled to Seattle last summer to receive his NATAS scholarship. “It’s still just the most exciting thing to get that phone call,” Atkins said. “I’m going to keep applying.” -Tyler Christensen
2004 photojournalism graduate Lisa Hornstein brought home the gold in the 2004 College Photographer of the Year contest, and photo student Matt Hayes earned three honorable mentions. Hornstein won gold in the Personal Vision category for her underwater photo, “Bobs,” featuring swimming lessons at the Missoula YMCA pool. Hayes won honorable mentions in the Portfolio, Sports Portfolio and Sports Action categories. His sports action shot, titled, “Black Ride,” pictured a bareback rider at the Mackay Rodeo in Mackay, Idaho. The contest, founded in 1945, is administered by the University of Missouri. About 250 students from 50 colleges and universities around the country enter the contest, which was judged this year by photographers from National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press, the Dallas Morning News and The Comer Foundation. - Luke George Students, professors cover election Election night brought adventures for J-School students and professors alike who worked for radio station KUFM both on location and in the studio. Saboe was in charge of getting people on her cell phone so KUFM news director Sally Mauk, who was in the studio, could interview them. A highlight of the evening for Saboe was being one of the first people to talk to Bob Brown, the Republican candidate for governor, after his concession speech. Professor Dennis Swibold spent the evening in the KUFM studio as an analyst. Every hour he spent three or four minutes on air answering the questions Mauk would ask. “It was just pretty much off the cuff,” Swibold said.The time he didn’t spend on air, Swibold was in an office with a computer and a TV, watching the results come in. Students Nate Biehl and Natalia Kolnik also worked with KUFM on election night on location and in the studio. -Erin Madison Guest speakers critique photo students' work
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