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
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 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…
Mark Mahoney, then a reporter at the Voice News in Hickman, earned a first place award in the weekly category of the 2010 Outstanding Young Nebraska Journalist Contest.
The competition is sponsored by Zean and Marilyn Carney, former…
By BRYCE McLEAY
J Alumni News staff
Brittany Jeffers is not your stereotypical beauty queen.
Jeffers may be the current Miss Nebraska, but she is no stranger to hard work and dedication. Working as the weekly morning and…
By MARCY PURSELL
J Alumni News staff
Monte Olson, a 1991 J school graduate, has had almost 20 years of experience on the agency and client sides, worked with Fortune 500 brands and has made his way in the…
By KATE ROSENBAUM
J Alumni News staff
Kent Wolgamott planned on being a great political journalist, but he said that “didn’t really work out.” Instead, he has been an arts and entertainment reporter at the Lincoln Journal…
By ERIN STARKEBAUM
J Alumni News staff
At a time when the journalism industry is getting rid of personnel and consolidating departments, two-time Emmy award-winning television producer Daryle Glynn Brown has an advantage over other journalists of…
By LISA FISCHER
J Alumni News staff
Eileen Wirth’s new book is a love letter to women in Nebraska journalism. She said she is eager to tell their stories.
“I want moderns to realize how much they contributed and…
By MAX OLSON
J Alumni News staff
The white certificate for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize hangs on the wall above the desk in Matt Waite’s basement office in Lincoln. Though he’s looked up at the Pulitzer hundreds…
By MARISSA COOPERSMITH
J Alumni News staff
In Sacramento, Calif., small-town Nebraska girl and J school alumna, Sheri Cross Sallee, works as the communications director for one of the nation’s leading health-care networks, Sutter Health.
On any…
By ELIZABETH VENRICK
J Alumni News staff
Josh Swartzlander was a journalism student. He never expected to be teaching high school math.
But now, currently in his second year as a Teach for America teacher, Swartzlander can apparently handle…
By DYLAN GUENTHER
J Alumni News staff
Steven Sipple has a job most Nebraskans covet.
The Lincoln Journal Star columnist, a J school graduate, covers Husker football.
It’s a dream job, but for Sipple it’s the payoff…
By ALLEN PROTHMAN
J Alumni News staff
Eric Pfanner traveled halfway across the country to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for college, only to later find himself working halfway across the world in Paris.
Pfanner, a New Hampshire native and…
By MAGGIE PAVELKA
J Alumni News staff
Well, let’s be honest. I came to Africa more than a year ago not really knowing what I was getting myself into.
After two months of training, I still had no idea…
By MATT HARON
J Alumni News staff
Mark Mahoney may be reporting on a high school sports event one day and the next day on a school bus accident. Each day brings something new in his job at the…
By BRYAN ODELL
J Alumni News staff
Diane Lindquist covered the civil rights movement, met Harvey Milk during his push for gay rights and has now started her own Mexican-business Web site. This 1968 J school graduate…
