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Truman wins "Best News Story"
Today, my journalism student Tomás Martínez Guerra won First Place for Best News Story at the Illinois Community College Journalism Association (ICCJA) spring conference. Click on the picture (above) to see his winning story, "12 million shadows in limbo: Elvira Arellano and the immigration debate," as originally published in Truman's Uptown Exchange (Spring 2007).
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Truman J-Student Gets Published
I'm proud of my College Newspaper student, LAUREN VANDERMAR, who has started writing as an official freelance journalist, with her first paid and published piece for the Chicago Journal. I'm happy to say that what I teach in the classroom leads directly to success outside of the classroom! CONGRATS!!!
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Truman Student Newspaper Archive
See Truman's Uptown Exchange in PDF format.
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Journalism Guest Speaker Series (FALL 2007)
News Reporting & Writing and the Uptown Exchange student newspaper at Truman College welcome you to join in the following talks with professional journalists on a variety of topics, including how to pursue stories for publication and broadcast.
ABOVE: Award-winning photo-journalist Jon Lowenstein took this shot of border-crossers detained in Texas — Lowenstein talks about his work on Latinos, labor, and immigration on Oct. 3 (SEE DETAILS BELOW).
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Truman Journalism On-line
DOWNLOAD PDF COPIES OF THE TRUMAN COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER:
SPRING 2007 #5
SPRING 2007 #4
SPRING 2006
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Uptown Exchange Handbook & Agenda
Download a Word-document copy of the Uptown Exchange Student Newspaper Handbook. This includes complete information on how the newspaper works and how you can join, to earn credits and experience for your resume.
Also, see the Fall 2007 Agenda.