KHQ-TV: LIVE AT UM
Reporter and photographer spend five days
teaching and working with journalism students

Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, most TV stations cut local news to allow more coverage of national events.

KHQ-TV, of Spokane, Washington, was no exception.

KHQ anchor and reporter Dana Haynes, as well as the station's chief photographer Jeff Hite, had only a one-hour time slot to report the tragedy’s effects on their community.

Both Haynes and Hite taught Sept. 27-Oct. 1 at The University of Montana School of Journalism as part of Broadcasters-in-Residence, a program administered by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. The program, which is funded with an $11,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, will bring six more KHQ-TV employees to the university this year to work with broadcast journalism students.

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Photos by J-students, alumni to decorate Alumni Association calendar This spring thousands of people from across the nation will tack a photo taken by University of Montana student Oona Palmer to their walls for 30 days. Palmer’s photograph, which includes a couple standing near the Clark Fork River at sunset, is featured as June in the UM Alumni Association’s 2002 School of Journalism calendar. The publication includes 12 photographs taken by journalism students and alumni. It will be distributed to the Alumni Association’s dues paying members, which number more than 7,000. “I’m excited to be a part of the calendar,” Palmer said. “It’s a great opportunity for students to showcase their work, and it reaches a pretty large audience.” Full story

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Editor: Michael Downs, visiting assistant professor

Reporter: Katherine Sather

Parents of alumnus
create fellowship
in his memory

Anthony Pollner died last May in a motorcycle accident in England. After his death, his parents wanted to find a way to honor their son’s memory. They turned to the University of Montana and with the staff of the School of Journalism created the T. Anthony Pollner Fellowship. The fellowship will bring an accomplished reporter to the University of Montana journalism school each year to work with its students with a special focus on the staff of the Kaimin. A committee is in the process of selecting the first Pollner fellow to work at UM this spring. Future Pollner guests will teach each fall semester.

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Student documentary
"Anaconda: The Legacy"
wins national SPJ award;
Graduating senior wins
for Kaimin sports story

A documentary produced by University of Montana radio-television students has received the National Mark of Excellence award from the Society for Professional Journalists. Ryan Divish, a May 2001 graduate and former Kaimin sports editor, also won a Mark of Excellence award for his article, "Reluctant Hero."

The award went to "Anaconda: The Legacy," which examines the history and aftereffects of mining in a western Montana community. The documentary was produced by UM's Student Documentary Unit during the spring 2000 semester, and it aired on Montana PBS.

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