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GREG VISTICA’S
LATEST SCOOP
Grad breaks story on Sen. Kerrey’s Vietnam
death mission. Interviewer Natalie Connelly comes up with scoop
of her own: Vistica dreams of teaching–yes–journalism
to the next generation.
MANAGING
THE [X] HERD
Combine student newspaper + magazine + online
news site and you’ve got a staff of 96. Editor-in-chief Kim
Santos describes her trials and tribulations managing this herd
during the Golden Gate [X]press launch year.
I-TEAM RAISES
THE BAR
Joshua Wolfson counts the ways his investigative
unit set new standards for student reporting at SF State.
CLICKS ONLINE
Steve Cooper on our attempt to define and
redefine online news via [X]press Online.
ADVENTURE
IN CONVERGENCE
A look at our ongoing work-in-progress, a
student publication that unifies print with multimedia–an
adventure in convergence--by [X] advisor Yvonne Daly, who set
the stage and leads the way.
WHO’S
NEW
Welcoming eight new part-time faculty members
All professionals, they join us for the Fall
2001 semester: John Burgess, Molly Colin, Manny Crisostomo,
Dan Fost, Stefan Klocek, Mark Ludwig, Joyce Nishioka and
Kathryn Olney. They come from all over the place: Mother
Jones and Sports Illustrated and the Christian Science
Monitor and the SF Chronicle and Business 2.0
and the SJ Mercury News and elsewhere; and they’ve
won awards ranging from the Pulitzer Prize and the Society of
Newspaper Design (SND) award for photography to the Peninsula
Press Club prize for reporting and the New California Media Award
for feature writing. Check out capsule descriptions for each.
OVERSEAS
JOURNALISM STUDIES
La vida Europa: J-major Hilary Petersen writes
about earning her European Journalist Certificate on our one-year-exchange
program.
LEN SELLERS
RETIRES
After teaching for 25 years here, Dr. Sellers
looks ahead, not behind, and warns journalism majors they’d
better be ready for what comes next.
ERIC NEWTON
MOVES ON UP
Former SF State journalism major now heads
Knight Foundation program on journalism initiatives.
CHARLES
JACKSON, R.I.P.
His students ("Charles’ Children")
extend from SF State and the Maynard Institute to newsrooms in
every corner of America. Austin Long-Scott remembers the sharp-tongued
mentor who brought the best out of everybody.
JOURNALISM
IS…
Journalism is–what? Departing editor-in-chief
Kim Santos provides 34 answers, and they’re not exactly what
the faculty expected.
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