by Shea Anderson, graduate student
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They are published authors, dedicated teachers and guides to the
future. They are also the newest members of the University of
Oregon School of Journalism and Communication faculty.
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Carol Ann Bassett
Carol Ann Bassett has spent much of the last two decades traveling
around the world to conduct journalism workshops in developing
countries, to freelance for Time and The New York Times and to produce radio stories for National Public Radio. But
these days she's settling into Oregon life and her position as
Assistant Professor on the SOJC faculty.
She says her interest in Eugene came from seeing FLUX online while she was teaching journalism at the University of Montana.
"I was so excited that I called my grad students around and said
'Look what they're doing at the U of O!'" says Bassett. Now,
Bassett is enjoying teaching magazine writing to undergraduates
and graduate students in the same department she admired. Her
first book, Wilderness of Light: North American Deserts, is due out next year from Key Porter Books in Toronto.
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Kim Sheehan
New Assistant Professor Kim Sheehan is happily making the transition
from student to professor after recently finishing her Ph.D.
from the University of Tennessee, where she examined in privacy
and the Internet. Along with her degree, Sheehan brings with
her 12 years of experience in the professional world at firms
such as Foote, Cone and Belding in Chicago; Darcy, Masius, Benton
and Bowles in St. Louis, and Della Femina McNamee in Boston.
Sheehan, who teaches courses in advertising management, media,
and campaigns, says she came to the School "for the opportunity
to work with an energetic and committed faculty, and I've found
that same energy in the students. The feeling in Allen Hall is
one of excitement, creativity, and dedication."
Sheehan's homepage |
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Pam Cytrynbaum
Though some students have yet to meet Visiting Assistant Professor
Pam Cytrynbaum personally, they have no doubt heard her discuss
internship opportunities in their classes or have received an
e-mail from her about summer learning opportunities. Cytrynbaum,
a former Chicago Tribune reporter and assistant to Tribune columnist Mike Royko, has brought a little of that big-city
pace to Allen Hall. She not only is working to jump-start the
SOJC's internship placement program by acting as the clearinghouse
for whatever internships might possibly exist, but she teaches
Reporting I and magazine writing classes as well.
About her move Cytrynbaum says, "Oregon is a great news state.
There's always something going on here making national headlines.
And this is a terrific journalism school. So I feel very lucky
to be teaching at a great journalism school in a state that's
got lots of great journalism being committed."
Cytrynbaum's homepage |
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Rick Gross
As the School's new Coordinator of Instructional Technology,
Rick Gross is here to help chart the course of technology at
the SOJC. He acts as a consultant for faculty and student projects
and is the invisible guiding hand for Web-based publishing at
UO. In addition, Gross is responsible for the operation of the
more than 150 computers in Allen Hall as well as the computer
networks they operate on. Gross is a systems analyst who spent
the last six years as the owner of In4mation Associates, a Eugene-based
computer consulting company. He can be seen most often working
in the Ballmer and Brainerd Computer Labs. "I took this job because
the people are great to work with," said Gross.
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Kellee Weinhold
Visiting Assistant Professor Kellee Weinhold is not a new face
around the SOJC. The former magazine editor and publisher, is
about to begin her tenth term teaching "Grammar for Journalists" in the School.
Although she realizes most people can't relate, Weinhold admits
that she not only enjoys teaching basic concepts of the English
language but looks forward to it each term.
"I love the power of the language, and part of utilizing the
power of language is knowing its basic components," she says.
In addition to grammar, Weinhold, who has an MS in Creative Nonfiction
from the University of Oregon, teaches Information Gathering, Magazine I and Reporting I.
Weinhold's homepage |
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