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Grant brings TV professionals
back to J-school
Members
of the KHQ-TV news team from Spokane, Wash., will return
to the University of Montana this spring as professional
guest lecturers, thanks to a grant awarded to the Radio
and Television Department last fall.
The grant, one of only 10 such grants awarded across the
country, brought a bevy of professional talent to UM last
semester for the Broadcasters in Residence program. The
program will continue this semester and will bring in six
KHQ staff ranging from a sports anchor to an executive producer.
The broadcasters will put on workshops and visit classes
throughout March and April. Last semester the professionals
visited labs to watch the students work and then critiqued
them. They also held weekend workshops where students worked
on deadline to create a news story.
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Pollner fellow finds
comfortable fit at J-school
For Jonathan Weber, the University of Montana’s first
T. Anthony Pollner fellow, working at UM isn’t so different
than his position as editor-in-chief
at The Industry Standard.
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"In
some respects some aspects of my previous job aren’t
so different," said Weber, who moved into his J-school
office in mid-January. "I worked with young and inexperienced
staffers that I had to train and mentor."
However, the stress level is considerably lower. Weber,
one of the founding fathers of the Standard, a highly regarded
weekly business magazine that covered the Internet economy,
rode the tremendous boom of dot-com success to the ultimate
bust of bankruptcy.
The Standard
reported $140 million in revenues in 2000 and had offices
in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The magazine’s staff, which began with 26 people, ballooned
to 140 before the Internet economy began to fall apart and
three rounds of lay-offs ensued. The magazine topped out
its biggest edition at 360 pages and boasted the most advertising
in one year of any magazine in history.
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