FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6,
2006
Contact: Chelsey Walden, chapter
president
E-mail: cwalden@iastate.edu
Telephone: (608)
469-1339
Greenlee students earn
nine Mark of Excellence Awards
AMES,
Iowa – The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State
University had nine winners in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of
Excellence Awards for 2005, the national office in Indianapolis announced March
3.
Individual winners included Eric Gapstur, Erin McCuskey,
Ricky Rud, and the team of Daniel Brauer and Louis Kishkunas.
Gapstur won for a series of editorial cartoons he did for
the Iowa State Daily. McCuskey won for her article on the Iraq War that appeared
in Ethos. Rud’s portrait of two brothers from Kenya on the ISU men's track team
appeared in the Daily, while Brauer and Kishkunas’s feature titled "Zero
Degrees from Center" about an ISU student running for city council appeared on
ISUtv.
Other recipients from the Greenlee School include the Iowa
State Daily for Best All-Around Daily Newspaper; Ethos and Uhuru for Best
Student Magazine published more than once a year; and both the Centennial of
the Greenlee School and History of the Iowa State Daily Web sites for Best
Independent Online Publications.
The actual place for each winning entry will be revealed
when the top-three finishers will be given their awards April 7-8 at the SPJ
Region VII Conference in St. Louis. The conference will be held at the Holiday
Inn Select in downtown St. Louis and at the Post-Dispatch newspaper.
Winners from Iowa State who are interested in attending the
regional conference are asked to contact Joe Owens, vice president of the ISU
Chapter of SPJ, at joeowens@iastate.edu, no latter than March 15.
Region VII includes chapters in Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri and Nebraska. The following universities have active chapters in
Region VII: Drake, Iowa and Iowa State; Baker, Emporia State, Kansas, Kansas
State and Wichita State; Central Missouri State, Missouri, Northwest Missouri
State, Southeast Missouri State and Truman State; and Nebraska-Omaha.
Featured
at this year’s regional convention are: Walt Harrington, former Washington Post
reporter and author of "Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting
Everyday Life"; Matt Sedensky of the Associated Press, who will discuss
covering Hurricane Katrina; Jaimi Dowdell, computer-assisted reporting specialist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
and Christine Tatum, SPJ president-elect and business writer with the Denver Post, who will present a lecture titled "Boot
Camp for Young Journalists."
Registration
is $40 for SPJ student members and $50 for non-members.
In
other ISU chapter news, the organization will hold its March meeting on
Wednesday, March 8, in Hamilton Hall 172. Featured guests are Lucas Grundmeier,
Jared Strong, Lauren Burt and Beth Loberg, who served as interns at the Des
Moines Reigster in the fall. Grundmeier was editor-in-chief of the Iowa State
Daily for the 2004-05 academic year.
Pizza
and drink will be served. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
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