Spring 2005 brings J-School visitors

Spring Semester 2005 will bring several professionals to the J-School, including Deborah Potter, a former correspondent for CBS and CNN; Chicago sports columnist Ron Rapoport; and Oregonian features editors Michael Rollins.

Potter

Potter, now president and executive director of NewsLab, a journalism training and research center in Washington D.C., will be the Dean Stone lecturer on April 14. She will speak again April 15 at Dean Stone Night, the J-School’s annual awards banquet.

Students in sports reporting will work with Rapoport, a nationally-renowned and award-winning journalist. Rapoport, an author and a columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times, will visit campus for three days in April. He will meet with professor Michael Downs’ sports reporting class and critique some students columns. He will also visit with local professionals, Kaimin and KBGA sports reporters, a class in Health and Human Performance, and give a reading from his forthcoming book “The Immortal Bobby: Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf” about Bobby Jones, the only golfer to have ever won golf’s Grand Slam.

Rapoport

Rapoport is also the author of “See How She Runs,” a biography of Marion Jones, and editor of “A Kind of Grace,” an anthology of the best sports writing by women. He regularly appears as a commentator on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. His visit to Montana is sponsored by a grant from the Provost’s Office and the School of Journalism.

In late February, students in feature writing and in the Native News class will hear from Rollins, the Living editor at the Oregonian. Rollins’ section is lively, entertaining and thought-provoking, said professor Sheri Venema, who worked with Rollins during the summer of 2003. He helps reporters find new angles and encourages them to try new techniques, qualities that will be valuable in the classroom, she said.

Rollins will also meet informally with the Kaimin staff during his visit on Feb. 28.

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