Flash Online Fall 2003/Winter 2004

Digital darkroom honors 'passionate' photojournalist
An "outdoor girl" who met her husband on a nordic club ski trek around Crater Lake, Lynne Ryder moke "had a great love of life and a great desire to learn more, se more, do more," says her dad, Steve Ryder. Full Story			ALSO INSIDE: 2003 Commencement awards and recognition Aaron ensures Ad Team's success Ruhl Lecture: 'these are not the worst of times' JAC: Journalism Advancement Council gears up to guide School's future 'Bearing Witness' to life: Terry Tempest Williams Homecoming 2003 'When he was proud of me, I was proud of myself' Leader Janet Wasko is School's first Knight Chair in Communication Research Scholar, educator, editor: Russial honored Upshaw wins Marshall Award for teaching excellence Rebecca Force wins first SOJC Adjunct Teaching Award Allen Hall stars inspire next generation Hall of Achievement 2002 and 2003 Inductees Students explore journalism with media internships in Ghana *2003 Flux* students take top national honors Big winner: Flux tallies 2002 awards 'Reclaimed Treasure' claims Emmy King moves on - across campus Practical Matters Fresh! New! Faces!**

Kessler offers a glimpse of her latest book
Professor Lauren Kessler reads at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan during a national tour in August to promote her tenth book, Clever Girl. She appeared on the Diane Rehm Show as well as C-SPAN's BookTV and was a guest on West Coast Live!, the weekly two-hour radio variety show broadcast as part of the tour. Read an excerpt of Clever Girl.
Ann Curry: Living the dream
Looking at her circumstances growing up, no one would have predicted that Ann Curry would become an award-winning television journalist, news anchor of the most popular morning show in the country and one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People". Full Story
'Courage and honesty' characterize 2003 Payne Award Winners
For The South Florida Sun-Sentinel there were plenty of reasons to stop pursuing the story. Plenty of road-blocks to getting at it. Governor Jeb Bush's threats of subpoenas, state agencies fighting public records requrests, the economic pressures associated with any in-depth investigation - plenty of reasons. Full Story

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Snapshots Wanderstock directs development; Summer Journalism Institute; Kerber, Wick honored for outstanding service; Creating Beauty in times of Terror Dean's Message Obituaries Faculty Updates Alumni News Grad Student News

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