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Message from LynNell Hancock, Interim Dean of Academic Affairs

Dear Students and Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce three major additions to our new media
efforts at the Journalism School.

The first is the appointment of one our most popular adjuncts, Duy
Linh Tu, to the full-time faculty. Duy (pronounced “Do” - see bio
below) joins us as new media coordinator and an assistant professor of
professional practice. As you know, he has been teaching here for
several years in the new media classrooms. He will intensify his
efforts to “webbify” our fall classes, and to integrate new and
compelling ideas in multimedia storytelling throughout the curriculum
in the years to come. Duy will continue to work with Dean Sree
Sreenivasan, who, as you know, has increased administrative
responsibilities at the school.

In addition, we have created two new post-graduate New Media
Fellowships starting this year. These July-June fellowships will
employ two students who will work closely with the technology staff to
help students and professors alike navigate the world of new media
journalism.

Our inaugural fellows are Kenan Davis and Dave Mayers (see bios
below). Part-teaching assistants, part-technologists, this year’s
fellows are both smart journalists with terrific reporting, writing,
editing and production skills. They will report to Duy.

Please join me in congratulating them. Kenan and Dave officially begin
their duties on July 1, but I am sure you will have other
opportunities to greet them before then.

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From: Larry Fried, Asst. Dean for Technology

Dear Students,

Please make note of the following technology items as we approach the end of the academic year:

Equipment and Fines:

All checked out equipment should be returned no later than May 15th.

Equipment fines must by paid by May 16th or you may have a hold placed
on your diploma. If you wish to dispute a fine, please email Craig at
ch2314[at]columbia.edu.
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READ CAREFULLY - Graduation Tickets

Graduation tickets are now available.

Each graduate receives four tickets for the Journalism School Graduation Ceremony & four for the University Commencement. If you need more tickets, please arrange to trade with other students. Graduates don’t have to use a ticket for themselves.

To receive your tickets you MUST do TWO things.

1. Complete the graduation survey at http://fs7.formsite.com/cu_jschool_careers/gradsurvey2008/

The survey is used to create a class directory (both your class list serve and the alumni database), employment statistics and a database of employment information indicating the types of position openings in which you are interested. This is very important in determining how we can better help graduates find the best jobs as quickly as possible, and how the school can help make that happen by also collecting feedback on career services.

You willingness to allow career services to circulate your resume is also indicated on the survey.

2. Submit a NEW copy of your resume electronically with the survey. The resume should indicate that you have graduated and include up-to-date contact information. It will be used by the Career Services Office to assist you in your employment search.

You may pick up your tickets from Claudia Castillo in room 2M07A (mezzanine) once you have completed your online graduation survey AND submitted your updated resume. Ms. Castillo will verify receipt of the survey and have you sign for your ticket envelope containing both sets of tickets.

The survey can done 24/7, but Ms. Castillo is available for ticket pick-up/resume submission from 9 am-5 pm only. If you are a part-time student and it is impossible for you to come in, you may contact her (cc2964 or 212-851-0246) about having tickets mailed. Survey receipt verification is still required.

Come meet the new Student Services team!

All Ph.D students are invited to a fun and relaxing Chef’s Choice buffet at Faculty House on Tuesday, February 26, at 1 p.m.

Please RSVP to Evelyn Corchado at eoc11@columbia.edu.

FROM: Michael Hoyt, Executive Editor, Columbia Journalism Review

Dear students,

In 2004 Farnaz Fassihi of The Wall Street Journal sent an e-mail to friends and relatives about what it was like to be a journalist in Iraq. Somebody in the chain posted the letter on the Internet and it quickly went around the world. Among journalists the reaction was varied: some worried that an objective reporter had revealed too much; others thought the e-mail was dead on.

Meanwhile, something about the personal nature of the note communicated the reality of what Iraqis call “the situation” more forcefully than yards of standard prose. Here at CJR we wanted more, and for our forty-fifth anniversary issue we interviewed some fifty journalists who have covered the war. Out of their anecdotes and insights we have constructed an oral history of the war, the first of its kind, and we invite you read the issue when it comes out next week.

We also invite you to attend a panel discussion with five journalists who have covered Iraq on Thursday, November 2, from 7 to 9 in the lecture hall. These people have studied “the situation” closely, some of them for four years or more. They are:

Deborah Amos: Foreign correspondent for NPR and ABC News. Author of Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Washington Post assistant managing editor, former Baghdad bureau chef, and author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

Ali Fadhil: A physician and translator. He has collaborated with journalists from The Financial Times, Time, The Guardian, People, The Observer, The New Yorker and NPR.

Patrick Graham: Canadian freelance journalist who spent a year with the Iraqi resistance in Fallujah. His work has appeared in The London Observer, Harpers and other publications

Chris Hondros: A prizewinning photojournalist whose work has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and The Economist, and on the front pages of most major American newspapers.

We hope you can join us.

Mike

All graduating students should check out the following sites:

• Dean Huff’s End of the Year Manual
• Journalism School Graduation Information & Calendar
• Columbia University 2006 Commencement

Dear Students,

If you graduated in October 2005, February 2006 or will graduate this May, please check out the link at http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/students/graduation2006/Grad1.htm

This is the information we will be using for the graduation program and to plan the Journalism School event. If your name is missing or any of the information is incorrect, please send an e-mail to mgh2@columbia.edu immediately.

We are now beginning preparations for the printed graduation program and Journalism School graduation ceremony.

All those graduating in May 2006 and those who graduated in October 2005 and February 2005 are required to complete the graduation program form at http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/gradprogram.

Please note that this includes dual-degree students who are completing the Journalism portion of their degrees. You are eligible to march with your classmates even though you won’t receive your actual diploma until you have finished both degrees.

THIS IS A DIFFERENT FORM THAN THE ONE YOU SUBMITTED IN HARD COPY TO THE DEANS’ SUITE OR KENT HALL.

DEADLINE: Monday, April 3, 9 a.m.

Reminder: You can track all the Graduation events here:
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/students/graduation2006

Questions to dos@jrn.columbia.edu

Note from Joost van Dreunen, jv2108, aimed at fellow PhD students, but others might find it useful, too.

Instead of forwarding conference deadlines and ‘calls for papers,’
I’m sending you the necessary links to sign up for these
newsletters yourself. Please be aware that some will generate a lot
of daily messages. Here are the (non-videogame) ones I’m subscribed
to:

• DCC-Talk/NYU Forum
  http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=dcc-talk
  
• DCC-All/NYU Forum
  http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=dcc-all
  
• Call for Papers/U-Penn
  http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/
  
• Media Ecology Association (lots of yammering here)
  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/mea

  Thusly I resign from spamming the phd mailing list with forwards