Journalism Adjuncts
| Journalism | |
|---|---|
| Susan Carlson | Bruce Japsen |
| Sue Castorino-Minkoff | Edie Kasten |
| Brett Chase | Kris Kridel |
| Kevin Davis | |
| Robert Herguth | Randy Minkoff |
| Julianne Hill | Jack Smith |
| Andrew Huff | Paul Zimbrakos |
CITY NEWS BUREAU
In fall 2009 the School of Communication started offering students access to a Chicago news gathering institution the City News Bureau. For over 100 years Chicago hosted one of the best news bureaus in country. Young reporters learned at The City New Bureau of Chicago how the city worked and how they could best cover the city. We are re-launching that bureau in the form of a course this fall. It will be taught by two remarkable journalism veterans. Paul Zimbrakos was the Managing Editor of the bureau for a number of years before it closed its doors and tutored many of the best journalists in the country. Jack Smith was the former CBS Bureau Chief in Chicago and Washington DC. Together they will make this class a rich learning lab and help students discover how best to cover a city and its inner-workings.
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Susan Carlson is co-anchor of the morning news on CBS 2, where she has worked since 2002. She is a Chicago-area native and credentialed journalist.
Prior to joining CBS 2, Carlson served as a news reporter and fill-in anchor on the “Roe Conn and Garry Meier” radio show on WLS-AM, while also working as a freelance reporter at WLS-TV. During her tenure at WLS, she gained international media exposure when selected to serve as a witness to the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Other stations she’s worked at over the years include WGN-TV, WTMX-FM, WSCR-AM, WJMK-FM and WXLC-FM.
Carlson has been recognized for excellence in broadcasting throughout her career. Her many honors include: five local Emmy Awards; an Edward R. Murrow Award for “Best News Feature” (2001); and The Chicagoland Achievement in Radio Award for “Best News Reporter,” (2001).
Carlson graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors Program at Loyola University in 1991 with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and minor in English, and earned a Master’s degree in Journalism at Roosevelt University in 2009. She grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago and currently lives in the city.
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Sue Castorino-Minkoff has enjoyed two distinguished careers; first as a nationally recognized broadcast journalist, and today as the president of The Speaking Specialists in Chicago.
Castorino served as a news anchor and reporter at stations in Cleveland(NBCand ABC) and in Chicago at all-news WBBM-AM(CBS). Since 1986 she has provided her communication expertise to collegiate and professional athletes, Olympians, and corporate executives. She has conducted interactive sessions at more than 100 colleges and universities on understanding today’s changing media, the art of the interview & crisis communication, and freedom from fear of public speaking. She has provided media training to the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and to American Olympians since the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney.
She currently teaches two courses at Loyola: Public Speaking & Critical Thinking, and Sports Broadcasting. A native of Columbus, Ohio, she is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Speech.
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Brett Chase joined portfolio.com in August 2009 to cover health care. The Web site was relaunched in September. Chase was most recently deputy managing editor for Crain's Chicago Business and is teaching Writing for Business and Trade Publications in Fall 2009. Previously he was deputy business editor for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, editor and reporter for Bloomberg News, and Midwest bureau chief for American Banker.
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Kevin Davis, freelance journalist and author, has taught Reporting & Writing and Public Speaking classes in SOC since 2008.
Davis has written two books, Defending the Damned, a non-fiction book about public defenders defending capital murder cases and the ins and outs of the system, published in 2006 and The Wrong Man, a true story about a man wrongfully convicted. Davis has also written a series of children’s books called Things That Come from Various Places.
Davis has a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
During free time, he likes to draw, paint, and read books by Robert Kurson and Michael Connelly. When asked about his teaching philosophy he said, “It is important to have an exchange with students. Class should be lively and students should be engaged in the teaching.”
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Julianne Hill has won numerous honors for her work in print, radio and television in national outlets during her more than 25 years in journalism. Hill served as a Rosalynn Carter Fellow, won three Peter Lisagor Awards from The Chicago Headline Club, a Chris Award from the Film Council of Greater Columbus, two Silver Apple Awards from the National Educational Media Network and was a team member earning the George Foster Peabody Award, among other awards.
Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at Northwestern University, focusing on creative non-fiction, and teaches at Loyola University Chicago and Tribeca Flashpoint, the Academy for Media Arts and Sciences. She lives with her bright and beautiful 15-year-old son, Nicolas, in Chicago.
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Robert Herguth, the investigations editor for the Better Government Association, is an adjunct professor and faculty adviser to Loyola's student newspaper, The Phoenix.
Herguth has served as assignment editor, assistant metro editor and staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he worked for nearly a decade, until 2008. He also has been managing editor of the (Milwaukee) Business Journal, and has freelanced for The New York Times, Newsweek, Chicago Magazine and Crain's Chicago Business.
His first full-time journalism job was at the famed -- but now-defunct -- wire service, the City News Bureau of Chicago, where he wrote about everything from murders and fires to politics and religion.
Aside from working for the BGA, Herguth owns a small media company that operates a number of online news publications -- including ChicagoCatholicNews.com, ChicagoUnionNews.com, ChicagoWildlifeNews.com, and ObituaryChicago.com.
He's taught at Loyola University Chicago since 2006. His classes have included: Reporting and Writing; Writing and Marketing Articles; Investigative Reporting; Ethics and Communication; and Advanced Reporting.
In 2007, he created and helped supervise an internship program at the Sun-Times for Loyola students to spend part of a semester reporting and writing in the newsroom. In 2008, he was named adviser to The Phoenix, which has been recognized for excellence by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Herguth attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette and started his undergraduate work at Loyola University Chicago, later earning his BA from the University of Missouri Columbia in political science and history.
During free time, Herguth loves to spend time with his four children, who include two sets of twins.
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Andrew Huff is the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, an award-winning Chicago-centric news and events webzine he co-founded in 2003 with designer Naz Hamid. A serial early adopter, Huff created is first webpage in 1996; launched his personal blog, me3dia.com, in 2001; and joined both Flickr and Twitter in their infancy. In addition to Gapers Block, he has also worked for several years as a professional blogger for corporate clients such as American Express, Kenneth Cole, A&E and Starwood Hotels, and is a sought-after consultant on content oriented web projects and whenever big-idea brainstorming is required.
He holds a journalism degree from the Ohio State University and a certificate in medical writing and editing from the University of Chicago, and spent 10 years in the public relations, working primarily with clients in the healthcare and biotech industries.
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Bruce Japsen is a health care business reporter, contributing health business and policy stories to the New York Times and its Prescriptions news blog. He teaches Reporting and Writing, Feature and Opinion Writing. For several years Japsen also has taught an advanced level healthcare writing course, which is now part of the new Journalism curriculum.
Japsen, who has been a Chicago-based health care journalist for more than 20 years, was the Chicago Tribune's health care reporter from 1998 to 2011. He was previously a staff reporter for one of Crain Communications Inc.’s Modern Healthcare magazine. He has a BA in mass communication from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa and sits on the U of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication advisory board. He also teaches medical writing and editing at the University Of Chicago Graham School Of General Studies.
Outside of the classroom and office he enjoys spending time with his daughter, being involved in her school and helping coach her in basketball.
When asked about his teaching philosophy, Japsen said, “I like to make courses relevant to my students, hoping they will learn writing and reporting by first exploring things that interest them. He said,” As for how I conduct my class, I want my students to engage in stories that interest them because young people are the toughest demographic for news organizations to figure out.”
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Edie Kasten is a writer and special projects producer. She has been developing, researching, writing and field producing news and special projects on topics including health and medicine, education, crime, disabilities, mental health, social, family. legal issues and personality profiles since 1982. Kasten has won six Emmy Awards and 18 Emmy nominations for her work. She has also earned National Association of Black Journalists Award for Excellence, Cardinal's Communications Award from Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, two Gold Bell awards from Illinois Mental Health Assn., Associated Press award, and a Peter Lisagor Award nomination.
Kasten was a Benton Fellow in Broadcasting at the University of Chicago. She earned her BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urban and received the William Randolph Hearst Award for Excellence.
Kris Kridel is midday co-anchor at WBBM Newsradio 780 and co-host of the WBBM Noon Business hour. She will be teaching Broadcast News in Spring 2008.
As reporter-anchor at WBBM since 1986, she has won awards for best reporter, feature, newscast and documentary from the Associated Press and United Press International; Peter Lisagor and RTNDA honors and a National Headliner Award. Kridel’s writing and reporting were featured in Ted White’s 1993 book Broadcast Newswriting and Reporting.
Kridel has an BA in journalism from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and an MA from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting.
Before joining WBBM, Kris worked as a reporter-anchor and news director at WFYR, Chicago. She taught broadcast journalism at Loyola University Chicago in 1984 and 1985.
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Randy Minkoff has the rare distinction of having expertise in both print and broadcasting as a nationally recognized journalist. For nearly two decades he was Midwest sports editor for United Press International, where he covered major sporting events including various Super Bowls, World Series, and the Kentucky Derby. He then gained fame at WGN Radio, where he served as reporter, anchor, talk show host and play-by-play announcer for DePaul men’s basketball with the legendary Ray Meyer as his broadcast partner.
He joined The Speaking Specialists in 1996 and has provided media training to the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and to American Olympians since the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. He has conducted interactive sessions at more than 100 colleges and universities on dealing with 21st century media, and the art of the interview & crisis communication.
Minkoff is also the author of “For Love of Ivy”, the biography of former Cub Ron Santo. He currently teaches Sports Broadcasting at Loyola. A native of St. Louis, MO, he is a graduate of Drake University.
