The Bulletin 4/16
UW Comm Department News & Updates
Take advantage of all the great opportunities in the department of communication! Seniors, it's not too late to get involved!
The Department's scholarship application is now open!
The application closes May 4. Apply today!
Apply here: catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/comsch/262241
Digital Media Workshop: Capturing and editing sound
CMU 302
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Learn the basics of capturing and editing sound from the Department’s tech guru Evan Swope. You will get an overview of digital audio recorders and microphones available to check out from CMU 318-A, and learn how to choose the right microphone for the job, how to clean up bad sound, how to trim and split audio clips, how to use transitions between clips, and how to organize your work into tracks.
Reserve a spot for the workshop here: eventbrite.com/e/digital-media-workshop-capturing-and-editing-sound-tickets-16210639459
Career Kickstart Professional Development Workshop with Amy Rolph and Taylor Soper
Tuesday, April 21
6-7:30 pm
CMU 126
Find out the unspoken expectations that these Communication graduates wish they knew before graduating: how to be successful in the workplace, dressing for success, managing up, teachable moments, and more!
Sign up here: PostGraduationSuccess.eventbrite.com
Mentor Chat with Amy Rolph
Wednesday, April 22
3-4:30 pm
CMU118
RSVP here: MentorChatAmyRolph.eventbrite.com
Mentor LUnch with Costco WHolesale technical writer/editor Julie Peterson-Snyder
11:30am-1pm
CMU 102 E
*Lunch will be provided
Julie Peterson-Snyder (’86) is a Technical Writer/Editor for Costco Wholesale. She has worked in various documentation departments and writing positions for Costco since the early nineties. She will be coming to campus to talk about how to use your writing skills in ways beyond Journalism.
interview to internship with alaska airlines magazine
Join Career Kickstart for an i2i event! Employers come to campus, enabling students to participate in 15 minute, one-on-one interviews for a chance to land a great internship! Sign up for a spot before they're all gone!
Thursday, April 30
2-4pm
CMU 102 E
Editorial Intern
Paradigm Communications Group, the Seattle-based publisher of Alaska Airlines Magazine and Horizon Edition Magazine, is seeking editorial interns. Interns have the opportunity to write several short articles, which are published with the intern’s byline, for two in-flight magazines that are viewed by more than a million travelers per month. The internships are unpaid and are 20 hours per week for three months. Hours are flexible, but they encourage a fixed schedule, typically two full days and a half-day each week.
Other duties include: Researching story concepts, conducting interviews, fact-checking, developing event calendars, and assisting with editorial research and art queries.
Sign up for a 15 minute interview and chance to land an internship here: slyreply.com/app/sheets/60ppdgoh4ef4/
Read a blog post on a former student's experience with this internship:
blog.com.washington.edu/2013/04/whats-your-internship-caroline-gabriel/
Mentor Lunch with Catherine Shen
11:30am
CMU 102 E
*Lunch will be provided
Catherine Shen has spent most of her career as a newspaper journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and a small daily on the coast of Maine, among others. She eventually veered into publishing and general management for the then Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and King County Journal Newspapers. She has experienced the digital revolution first-hand, working on the first computer terminals introduced to newsrooms and setting up the initial websites at some newspapers. Since 2011, she has directed communications for the UW School of Public Health. She earned her BA at Wellesley College and her MA at Claremont Graduate School. She was awarded a McCormick Fellowship to attend the Advanced Executive Program at Medill at Northwestern University, and has served on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prizes.
RSVP here: MentorChatCatherineShen.eventbrite.com
Career Exploration trip to Fierce, Inc.
Friday, May 1
10am-noon
Alumna Stacey Engle (B.A., 2008), who received the Department’s 2015 Alumni Award for Excellence in Mentoring, is inviting students into her workplace to learn about her role as the Head of Marketing at Fierce, Inc. Stacey will also lead the group in an exercise that she does with clients, focused on improving workplace communication. Every conversation counts.
Spots are limited. Apply by April 24 here: catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/comadv/255095
interview to internship with Kplu
Thursday, May 7
2-4pm
CMU 102 E
Marketing and Promotions Intern
Interns will contribute to on-air content by curating the KPLU online calendar of events, provide support for KPLU’s School of Jazz education program (duties vary depending on time of year), update and maintain School of Jazz web and Facebook pages, assist with maintaining Google AdWorks global marketing campaign for Jazz24, assist at KPLU events and interface with staff, listeners, and sponsor. Digital audio editing experience is a plus, but not a requirement.
10-15 hours per week, unpaid, 3 months long
Sign up for a 15 minute interview here: bit.ly/i2i-KPLU
Mentor lunch with northwest news editor phyllis fletcher
11:30am-12:30pm
CMU 102 E
*Lunch will be provided
Phyllis Fletcher is Managing Editor of the Northwest News Network, a news service to public radio stations in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. She manages the award-winning “N3″ as a collaboration of thirteen broadcasters and edits the work of journalists in Salem, Coeur D’Alene, Tri-Cities and Olympia. Their stories are heard in Seattle on KPLU and KUOW.
RSVP here: MentorChatPhyllisFletcher.eventbrite.com
Available Internships and Opportunities
UW Student LIfe
Crosscut Public Media
AIA Seattle
Other Opportunities
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a unique and immersive learning experience with Professor David Domke!
From Proffesor Domke:
"In August 2013 three former UW students and I traveled to stand on sacred ground in Montgomery, Alabama. It was in this city where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955 and where Martin Luther King Jr., then 25 and a local pastor, led a 381-day bus boycott that produced the first grassroots victory of the civil rights movement. And it was at the city’s Greyhound Bus Terminal that white and black Freedom Riders in 1961, most of them college students, were beaten for trying to integrate interstate bus travel—seven years after segregation had been declared illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court. And it was at the Alabama State Capitol in this city in 1965 where King and civil rights advocates—on their third try, after initially being beaten by state troopers—completed their 54-mile march from Selma in support of the right to vote. On our 2013 trip we went from Montgomery to Birmingham, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi and to Memphis, Tennessee and to Little Rock, Arkansas. All of them are places where heroes demonstrated profound courage, forcing people in authority to provide opportunities that we now enjoy. The four of us haven’t been the same since seeing and feeling this history firsthand.
I am now committed to sharing this experience with students, faculty and staff, and community adults. Since summer 2013 we have led three civil rights pilgrimages to the U.S. South and have conducted workshops on nonviolence upon returning to Seattle. A pilgrimage is an intentional journey of deep substance and meaning, in which people seek to learn, grow, and to understand in profound ways. A pilgrimage is a trip in which we seek to be changed in ways that will better us and the world. All of this occurs on these trips. These experiences are beyond the usual ones that students encounter. This is a special opportunity.
In this pilgrimage experience we will visit these locations:
• In Alabama: Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Selma
• In Arkansas: Little Rock
• In Tennessee: Memphis
• In Mississippi: Greenwood and Money, Ruleville, Oxford, Jackson, Philadelphia
We meet with footsoldiers, leaders, and locals—all of whom are committed to justice and opportunities. The “teachers” are the places + people we visit AND the people on our pilgrimage. This trip is not a series of lectures; it is meeting, seeing, talking, listening, singing, reflecting, and seeking."
Interested students can go here or email Troy Bonnes, Coordinator of Student Relations, at tbonnes@uw.edu for more information.
Applications are due by 5 pm, Monday, April 20 in CMU 118.
Read a blog post from Journalism student Ashley Walls about her experience on the previous pilgrimage: https://spjuw.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/student-shares-civil-rights-pilgrimage/
Don't miss this incredible opportunity!
“The Role of the Media in the New Civil Rights Era”
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 29.
The event, sponsored by the Seattle Association of Black Journalists (SABJ), will be held at the Northwest African American Museum, 2300 South Massachusetts Street, Seattle.
During this free community conversation, panelists and attendees will explore past coverage of The Civil Rights Movement, some of the challenges and rewards of covering the current movement, how social media is shaping the narrative, and a look forward at the media’s role in accurately chronicling this time in history.
The panel includes Elmer Dixon, a former Black Panther in Seattle; Michael Moynihan, UW student activist; Gerald Hankerson, president of Seattle/King County NAACP; Maria Guerrero, anchor/reporter, KIRO-TV; Ralina Joseph, associate professor, University of Washington Department of Communication and Sarah Stuteville, co-founder, Seattle Globalist. Tonya Mosley, award-winning broadcast journalist, will serve as moderator. “The media has always played a critical role in reporting on the civil rights story," said SABJ President Lisa Hall Youngblood. "Anyone who attends this event - civil rights activists, journalists, and community members - will leave with broadened and even new perspectives on this critically important contemporary issue." SABJ is an affiliate chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, a group of more than 3,000 African American professionals working in the media. The organization, which traces its roots to the founding of the Northwest Minority Media Association in 1984, includes journalists, student journalists, journalism professors, advertising, and public relations professionals.
Learn more about the forum and SABJ at www.sabjonline.org. For more information contact Kakela Hall, 206.321.2066, kdhallcommunications@gmail.com
A great opportunity to learn more about Japan!
Do you want to get involved with international students at the UW this August? UW International & English Language Programs is looking for responsible, outgoing UW students to take part in a specialized Environmental Studies program for Keio University, one of Japan’s most prestigious universities.
What we’re looking for: Current UW students (or spring quarter graduates) 18 years of age or older, who can live in UW dorms from August 3rd – August 23rd as roommates, UW and Seattle guides, and English language conversation partners for the Keio University students. UW students must be fluent in English, available each evening to eat dinner with the Keio students and to organize and attend social activities for the group. Social activities are up to the UW students, although previous activities have included shopping in U-Village, Frisbee at Denny Field, or attending sporting events.
What you get: If you are selected, you’ll develop great friendships, build your resume, learn about Japan, and have an incredible time. Previous participants have called it “the most important international experience” of their lives! The Keio program covers the cost of housing and meal cards for the selected UW students.
If interested, please send your resume and cover letter to jmarino@pce.uw.edu, by 5 pm on May 8th.
Study abroad in Rome!
Communication Italy: Roman Communication and Culture
Location: Rome, Italy
Estimated Program Dates: January 5 – March 11, 2016
Estimated Program Fee: $7,615
Credits: 15 credits
Program Director: Lisa Coutu (Communication); Caley Cook (Communication)
UW Study Abroad Advisor: Katherine Kroeger kroegk@uw.edu
Application Deadline: May 15, 2015
Scholarships
GO! and Fritz Scholarship
The GO! and Fritz scholarships are open to UW undergraduates from all three campuses and offer awards of up to $5,000 to support study abroad.
The application deadline for the scholarships is April 17, 2015. Read more about the scholarships and apply online at http://expd.uw.edu/globalopportunities/global-opportunities.
Society of Professional Journalists scholarships
The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has increased its scholarship amounts this year!
The chapter is awarding two scholarships for $3,500 to undergraduate students majoring in journalism or communications at two-year or four-year colleges in the state of Washington. Awards are for the 2015-2016 school year.
We are also offering the June Anderson Almquist Memorial Scholarship for $2,500 – this one is being offered to female undergraduate students in Washington who are majoring in journalism at the University of Washington.
Additionally, we are offering a fourth scholarship that will be at least $1,500 and at maximum $3,000. The total amount for this final award will be determined at the SPJ Awards Gala held in June.
The deadline has been extended to April 17, 2015.
Find more information and learn how to apply here:
www.spjwash.org/2015/02/spj-student-scholarships-we-are-giving-more-in-2015-16/
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