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Grad Master’s Program Attracts Top Talent
Grad Master’s Program Attracts Top Talent
Meg Heckman, narrative journalist and blogger
Meg Heckman has been documenting rural New England for the last decade as a narrative journalist, using the tools of new media to craft her stories. She comes from ConcordMonitor.com in Concord, N.H., and is the kind of classmate students in our graduate program can expect to have in the coming year. She has reported on health issues, local government, and elder care. She has taught journalism at the University of New Hampshire, Durham and at the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications in Manchester, NH. She maintains a blog, “The Primary Monitor,” that has covered her state’s primary elections. Ms. Heckman holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire.
Allison Gagliardi, award-winning newspaper designer and editor-in-chief, Eagle News, Ft. Myers, Florida
Allison Gagliardi joins us from the Eagle News in Ft. Myers, Florida. As editor-in-chief, she supervised the complete redesign of the paper, taking it from a tabloid to a broadsheet and designed over 60 front pages. She has received a number of awards including one from the Associated Collegiate Press for Design of the year, 2011. She is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University where she will receive a Bachelor's Degree in communication."
Akinyi Valentine Lamar from Kenya, communication and program coordinator for HOPE project.
Akinyi Valentine Lamar comes to us from Nairobi, Kenya where she was the Communication Coordinator and Program Coordinator for the Abstinence and Being Faithful Project for HOPE worldwide Kenya. Ms. Lamar has also participated in several projects related to HIV/AIDS prevention. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Nairobi, where she graduated Cum Laude.
For information about applying to the graduate program, please e-mail Prof. Belle Adler at b.adler@neu.edu.
Cape Cod grad school finances questioned
A Cape Cod graduate school that specializes in quality management provides its President and founder, Dr. Robert Gee and his wife Aileen Waters Gee, with a lavish lifestyle. Journalism students in Prof. Walter Robinson's Investigative Reporting uncovered possible financial irregularities with the National Graduate School of Quality Management in Falmouth, Mass. The article, "Tax-exempt school gives president a lavish life," April 29, was written by students Brian Jordan and Kristina Finn; and Prof. Robinson. This article was also reported by students Betty Wang, Sara Feijo, Samantha Lane, Matt Kauffman, and Melissa Tabeek. Read the story.>>
Master's Alumnus Focuses on Fashion
Adam Tschorn, a School of Journalism alumnus and a fashion reporter for the LA Times, shared his fashion reporting and quiz show writing experience with Prof. Bill Kirtz's Interpreting the Day's News and Gladys McKie's Public Relations Practice classes on April 9. He told students his job entails not only writing about fashion but blogging as well. He writes for the Times blog, "All the Rage.">> His advice to public relations students – make sure you know the reporter’s beat before you pitch a story. Besides his reporting for the L.A. Times, Mr. Tschorn has written quiz show questions for “The Weakest Link,” and several other prime-time quiz shows. He graduated from the journalism master's program in 1994.
