10.28.09

SPJ montly luncheon hosts Marianna Riley on Nov. 12

Posted in at 9:51 pm by toddsmith

Join SPJ at its monthly luncheon at 12 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, at Lucas Park Grille, 1234 Washington, Ave., in which the group hosts Marianna Riley, a former Post-Dispatch editor and reporter, and retired Army Master Sgt. Robert Ellis, a combat medic and nurse from St. Louis.

Riley has just finished a new book, “Caring for Victor: A U.S. Army Nurse and Saddam Hussein,” about Ellis’ experience with the former Iraqi dictator. Ellis served at the secure compound where Hussein was kept after his capture and had one order: to keep Saddam alive at all costs until he would be sent to the gallows.

Riley will be on hand to discuss writing the book, and Ellis will be available talk more about his time with Saddam, plus answer questions about what life was like serving in Iraq and dealing with the extraordinary challenge of trying to care for one of the world’s most wanted criminals.

Check out the St. Louis Beacon story on the book by clicking here.

Former Sports Illustrated Editor to Speak at Maryville University

Posted in at 9:50 pm by toddsmith

Mark Mulvoy, former longtime editor of Sports Illustrated and author of numerous books, will speak at Maryville University as part of the 2009 Medart Lecture Series. Mulvoy will discuss “The Future of Sports Media” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the University Auditorium.

Admission is free and open to the public; a reception will precede the lecture at 6:30 p.m. in Pfaff Lobby, outside the Auditorium.

Mulvoy retired as managing editor from Sports Illustrated in 1996 after 13 years in that role and more than 30 years overall at the magazine.  Prior to his work for the magazine, Mulvoy was a sports writer for the Boston Globe.

During his long tenure at Sports Illustrated, Mulvoy wrote about golf, baseball, hockey and football and authored a dozen books on sports subjects.  In 1984, he became the fifth–and youngest–managing editor of the magazine.

As managing editor, Mulvoy stamped Sports Illustrated as America’s sports conscience through critical news periods, including drug and steroid abuse in professional football, academic wrongdoing prevalent in college athletics and the Pete Rose scandal. Under his leadership, Sports Illustrated twice won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

10.27.09

Graduate level courses in sports journalism now offered

Posted in at 10:00 pm by toddsmith

All sports journalists looking to sharpen their skills can soon take advantage of the National Sports Journalism Center, which will start offering graduate-level sports journalism courses in Indianapolis this January. A full-fledged master’s degree program is proposed to follow in Fall 2010.

New courses available this January will include: Online Sports Journalism; the Business of Sports Media; and Sports Communication in Society. The courses will be run by Indiana University and IUPUI faculty and guest lecturers, including former Sports Illustrated senior writer William F. “Billy” Reed and former Chicago Tribune sports editor Tim Franklin.

For more information go to http://www.facebook.com/sportsjournalism or to http://sportsjournalism.org/

10.26.09

Learn How to Work Your Web Site

Posted in at 9:46 pm by toddsmith

Missouri Press Foundation is offering a new training opportunity, “Getting
More out of Your Newspaper Web site,” that will cover everything from
writing for the Web, including blogs, comments and hyperlinks, to
publicizing your online work so your readers can find it.

This training will address ways to use social networking sites like Twitter
and Facebook effectively and will look at tools on the Web that can enhance
your site and expand your coverage and presence online. A portion of the
training will be hands-on in a computer lab.

“Getting More out of Your Newspaper Web site” will be held in two locations:

  • Nov. 19 on the Drury University campus in Springfield (Nov. 6 Registration Deadline)
  • Dec. 3 at Webster University in the Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis (Nov. 20 Registration Deadline)

Both workshops will run from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The $50 registration fee
will include parking and lunch.

The trainer for these workshops is Aaron Manfull, Digital Media Chair for
the Journalism Education Association, Kansas State University. Manfull
developed and maintains the site JEADigitalMedia.org. He has been advising
high school media for the last 12 years, and his program, which includes a
monthly full-color newsmagazine, a yearbook, a podcast and a Web site
updated daily by students (FHNtoday.com), is one of the tops in the nation.

Manfull teaches at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles. He was
named a Distinguished Adviser in 2009 by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund.

A registration form can be downloaded at
http://www.mopress.com/current_forms.php.

Registration is limited to available seating. Cost is $50 if done before
Nov. 6 for the Springfield training and Nov. 20 for the St. Louis training.
Beyond those dates the cost is $70.

This workshop is brought to you by the Missouri Press Foundation in
partnership with Drury University and LIFT, Missouri’s Literacy Resource
Center. For more information on these trainings, contact Dawn Kitchell at
(636) 932-4301 or mailto:kitchell@yhti.net.

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