Journalists visit SUI class to discuss reporting practices
Des Moines Register top general assignment man George Mills and Houston Press chief feature writer Jack Gurwell spoke to SUI journalism students. Mills outlined his coverage of the Sioux City packing house explosion and Waterloo meat packing riots while Gurwell, a 1934 SUI graduate, shared feature writing insights from his career at the Houston Press United Press and Rockefeller Foundation work.
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Special Projects Offer Fields of Practical Work
A University of Iowa School of Journalism course titled Special Projects offers tailored credit in editorial pictorial or advertising sequences. Each project, supervised by faculty, targets individualized educational goals and may exceed typical class time, with examples including dormitory paper publication and a study of newsroom procedures and headlines.
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Leslie G. Moeller
Iowa Newspaper Desk
Towan
Iowa City
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Iowan 48 Page Campus Preview For New Students
The Daily Iowan publishes a 48 page six section special edition to welcome prospective fall students at SUI. Last year 5 200 copies mailed of an 8 300 run. this year mirrors that total. Sections cover sports campus life administration and education new building service facilities and general news.
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Telegraph Editors To Meet Oct 22 In Iowa City
The Iowa Associated Press Telegraph Editors association holds a fall meeting in Iowa City on Sunday October 22 with an evening banquet on October 21. Einer Nelson chairs from Ottumwa Courier. Old Capitol house chamber hosts the event and Prof Walter SteighleMan will speak at the dinner. Al Mitchell and C E Barnum arrange the program.
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Iowa City Press-Citizen
C. E. Barnum
Plan Five Reunions for SUI Journalism Graduates
Five reunions for SUI journalism graduates are planned over the next year. A dinner and reunion is set for June 9 1951 in Iowa City. Chicago hosts a February 12 event and Des Moines holds a Thursday before the Iowa Press association convention. Two gatherings occur in the east in April in Washington DC on April 20 and New York City on April 24.
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SUI study measures depth of readership for Laurens Sun
The SUI school of journalism completed a readership survey for the Laurens Sun edited by Neil L. Maurer with sponsorship from the Iowa Press association. Directed by Prof. Paul Lyness, this second depth measurement builds the Iowa Studies series, with a fall publication planned.
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Iowa
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Iowa Press Association
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SUI
Paul Lyness
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Iowa Studies
Parkersburg Eclipse
Eagle Grove Eagle
Anamosa Journal
Daily Iowan
Carroll Takes Aim at Job With Des Moines Register
Charles F. Carroll former editor of the Daily Iowan and MA in editorial journalism from August convocation will begin work September 1 as a copyreader at the Des Moines Register.
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Daily Iowan
Des Moines Register
New Graduate Assistants Named at SUI Journalism School
A Louisiana reporter who had work reviewed on a national radio show will be a graduate assistant in the SUI school of journalism for 1950 51. Wirt Williams, formerly of the New Orleans Item and Lake Charles Southwest Citizen, will assist in the news workshop and pursue graduate studies in English. He earlier exposed abuses at East Louisiana State Mental Hospital, prompting reforms after publishing an Item report.
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New Orleans Item
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Southwest Citizen
Bernard Stern
New Orleans
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