http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline Wed, 07 May 2008 13:48:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The National Association of Black Journalists has named a Philip Merrill College of Journalism professor and an alumna as its Journalist of the Year and its Emerging Journalist of the Year, respectively. The 3,300-member association last week selected Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts as its Journalist of the Year for his ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/05/07/nabj-honors-merrill-professor-alumna/ Note to faculty from Dean Tom Kunkel: Friends, Our associate dean, Don Heider, has been named the founding dean of a new School of Communication at Loyola University of Chicago. As dean, Don will be charged with pulling together what are now disparate departments (journalism, communication, public relations and advertising) into a ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/05/01/heider-named-dean-at-loyola-university-of-chicago/ Kellie Woodhouse won seventh place and a $500 scholarship in the 2008 Hearst Journalism Awards Spot News Competition, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation announced Tuesday. Woodhouse won for her story on the sexual assaults of two women in College Park in one morning, attacks that police believed were related to a ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/04/17/woodhouse-hearst/ Philip Merrill College of Journalism Associate Professor Susan Moeller has been named a 2008 Carnegie Scholar - one of 20 Americans honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is the first University of Maryland faculty member to be so named. Scholars are selected for their "compelling ideas and ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/04/07/moeller-carnegie/ Philip Merrill College of Journalism Professor Michael Gurevitch died Saturday morning in a London hospital. He was 77. Read the College release and tributes to Prof. Gurevitch here. Memorial Celebration Scheduled Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. West Chapel of the Memorial Chapel at the University of Maryland http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/03/31/prof-michael-gurevitch-dies-at-age-77/ Students of the Merrill College were among some of the most lauded in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards. Including the awards to the independent student newspaper, The Diamondback, Maryland students won 10 first place, 14 second and nine third place honors. The awards were ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/03/31/merrill-students-win-big-in-region-2-spj-awards/ Anju Kaur, a reporter in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s Capital News Service, has been named a finalist in the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors contest for her stories on the state’s abysmal record of disciplining attorneys. Kaur becomes the seventh CNS reporter since 2000 to win a finalist spot ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/03/26/cns-reporter-is-investigative-reporting-finalist/ Geremy Bass, a Diamondback sports reporter, won 10th place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program for his personality profile of Terrapin basketball player Bambale Osby. Bass will receive a $500 scholarship for the story, which was selected from 101 entries submitted by 60 schools nationwide. The personality profile writing award ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/03/13/bass-wins-10th-in-hearst-personality-profile-contest/ Philip Merrill College of Journalism Dean Thomas Kunkel has been named the seventh president of St. Norbert College, a highly respected liberal arts school located in De Pere, Wisc., the school announced today. He succeeds William J. Hynes, who led St. Norbert for eight years. The appointment is effective on ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/02/28/dean-kunkel-named-president-of-st-norbert-college-in-wisconsin/ The following is the letter Dean Kunkel sent on the news of his appointment as president of St. Norbert College: To our faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends, I am writing to tell you about an important development in my life and career, one that I convey to you with a mixture ... http://www.merrill.umd.edu/deadline/index.php/2008/02/28/dean-kunkels-letter-to-faculty-students-alumni-and-friends/