Martha Mendoza, 2001, wins open government award

Dec 1st, 2007     News - Awards

MARTHA MENDOZA received a Beacon Award from the California First Amendment Coalition in October 2007. The Beacon awards are given to individuals who have championed free speech and open government. Mendoza, an Associated Press reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner, was honored for her news stories about government wrongdoing, including an article exposing rapes of young women by US military recruiters. The awards were presented at the organization’s Free Speech and Open Government Assembly held at the Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. CFAC is a nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to advancing free speech, more open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs.

KF Board member Bill Woo’s book on journalism

Nov 28th, 2007     News - Staff & Board

“Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life” by WILLIAM WOO, former member of the Knight Fellowships Board of Visitors and Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Journalism at Stanford University, was published in September by University of Missouri Press. Stanford’s Department of Communication held a reception Oct. 30, 2007 to celebrate the book’s publication. The event included three of Woo’s former students reading their favorite passage from his book. “Letters” is a book of essays on a wide range of subjects, lessons to the next generation of journalists on their craft’s highest purpose. Woo had written a weekly column as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; when he came to Stanford in 1996, he began writing weekly essays for his students, which he continued until his death on April 12, 2006.

Mike Keefe, ‘89, wins national editorial cartoon award

Nov 28th, 2007     News - Awards

MIKE KEEFE, 1989 Knight Fellow and editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post, won the national Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition for 2007. The award was presented in Chicago and honors the memory of Pulitzer Prize Winner John Fischetti of the Chicago Sun Times. Keefe won the award once before in 1991 and placed second in 2002.

“A Horse in the House” by Gail Ablow

Nov 28th, 2007     News - Books

“A Horse in the House and other Strange But True Animal Stories,” by GAIL ABLOW, 2004, was published by Candlewick Press on Sept. 25, 2007. Ablow writes that it’s a book of “crazy, but true, animal stories from the news. The project fell in my lap the winter after I returned to NYC from my 2004 Knight Fellowship. Kathy Osborn (the illustrator) told me her idea for a kid’s book “ripped from the headlines.” Some two years later — it’s a book!…The paintings are flights of imagination, and the stories are all true (double-sourced at least). It’s a great book for budding journalists (ages 6 to 10) and even has a bibliography. I’m happy to have a copy sent to anyone who thinks that their paper might review it.” Ablow is a television producer for Bill Moyers Journal in New York.

Director of USC School of Journalism

Nov 28th, 2007     Jobs

Following is the posting for the USC School of Journalism Director. Note that review of applications began Nov. 1, 2007.

Position Description:
Director, School of Journalism
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California seeks a director to lead its accredited School of Journalism.

The ideal candidate is passionate about the mission of journalism and recognizes that the changing media and societal landscape calls for forward-thinking, innovative, ethics-based education in both public relations and journalism. She or he must be committed to the professions, to the training of the next generation of practitioners, and to the value and use of scholarly work relevant to both fields.

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