Lincoln, Neb., July 28th, 2010 — Matt Waite, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Politifact.com, will teach this fall in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Waite will teach a new course, “Developing…
2010
Erin Balderson is working for Honeybaked Ham as office manager and in-house marketing coordinator.
Katelyn Bierman is an on-call crew member for NET sports remotes.
Rachel Bruss will attend graduate school at UNL this fall.
Andrew Ciaccio…
By NICOL WOODY
J Alumni News staff
Ten years ago, Kosovo was in the news every day. Today, many people have probably forgotten about the conflict that ripped the Balkans apart in the late 1990s.
But two J school…
By CHARLYNE BERENS
If one goal of higher education is to make students’ world bigger, the journalism college has found an efficient and cost-effective way to do that: Get students from UNL talking in real time with college…
By JENNIFER SEEFELD
J Alumni news staff
Assisting with emergency deliveries of humanitarian relief aid to Haiti and Chile after the devastating earthquakes in early 2010 was something UNL Journalism graduate Sean Powers didn’t expect when he took a…
By JENNA GIBSON
J Alumni News staff
It’s a tough time to go into journalism. Many newspapers and broadcast networks are cutting staffs. Internships are harder to find. Online markets are cutting into the demand for professional news coverage.…
By JENNA GIBSON
J Alumni News staff
Kirstin Swanson Wilder was inspired to go into journalism because a writer spelled her name wrong in the school newspaper in eighth grade. When she stormed down to the after-school program to…
By LINDSAY PAPE
J Alumni News staff
Mary Fastenau lives where many people dream of being.
It took love, a big move to Hawaii and a career change for Mary Fastenau to find her passion. Perhaps a little humor…
By ALIA CONLEY
J Alumni News staff
After the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in November 2008, journalist Todd Baer searched for the untold story. He found out that a fisherman from Gujarat, India, was one of the first…
By BECKY GAILEY
J Alumni News staff
Five minutes after her third interview for an internship with TOMS Shoes, Julia Stumkat had the job.
Stumkat graduated from the J school’s Marketing, Communication and Advertising master’s program in…
By MITCH SMITH
Mitch Smith is a journalism major who will begin his second year at UNL in August. Originally from Overland Park, Kan., Smith was the winner of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas…
By BECKY GAILEY
J Alumni News staff
Phil Witt’s primary job may be anchoring the evening newscasts on WDAF-TV FOX 4 in Kansas City, but working for his community comes in as a close second.
Witt, who…
By CAMERON KLITZ
J Alumni News staff
Discovering what one wants to do after college graduation can be tough. As a double major in journalism and theater, Mai Mijoe Sahiouni wasn’t sure about her career goals —…
By EMILY NOHR
J Alumni News staff
Lise Olsen is adventurous.
A 1988 J school grad, Olsen dug deep for stories in the classroom — and in the basement of the Union at the Daily Nebraskan.
Her…
By MOLLIE ADAM
J Alumni News staff
During spring semester, 13 students were enrolled in the first half of a yearlong depth report on Bolivia — but one of the students was never in class.
The “absent” student was…
By JEREMY STEELE
J Alumni News staff
Karoline Kastanek probably isn’t the first college student to discover a new type of beer on spring break — but she may be the only one getting paid to study it.
Kastanek,…
By COLIN CLIFFORD
J Alumni News staff
Imagine being given an assignment on something you know nothing about. A project so demanding that it’s a government matter. Now imagine being a sophomore in college and having this…
By ALIA CONLEY
J Alumni News staff
Stacy Fuller wants students who think they don’t have a shot at jobs in big cities to think again.
Fuller, a UNL J school advertising alumna, moved to Chicago for her first job…
By ALIA CONLEY
J Alumni News staff
When Elise Hernandez introduced herself onstage at dinner reception in New York City for promising minority advertising students, she uttered a catch phrase that any student from Nebraska would say.
Go Big…
