Journalism Week 2010
Where the Jobs Are in the Changing Media Industry
| Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 6:30 pm | 205 Martin Hall
Open to all SOJ students.
Student and Alumni Panel Discussion
“Getting Started: Making the Most of Your Internship and First Job”
| Monday, March 22, 2010 | 7:30 pm | G21 Ming Hsieh Hall
Open to the public and all SOJ students.
Melissa Farlow
“Picture This: A Career as a Freelance Photojournalist”
| Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 7:30 pm | G21 Ming Hsieh Hall
Open to the public and all SOJ students.
John Harris
“POLITICO: Revolutionizing Political Coverage and Journalism”
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 2:30 pm | 205 Martin Hall
Open to all SOJ students.
Larry Powell
“Multicultural Messaging: Applying Your Skills in Today’s Diverse Market”
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 5:30 pm | 205 Martin Hall
Open to all SOJ students.
Sara Goo
“Newsroom 2.0: New Skills for New Careers”
| Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 11:30 am | 205 Martin Hall
Open to all SOJ students.
Chris Martin
“Public Relations 3.0: It’s About Relationships … With the Public. Finally. Really.”
About Chris Martin
The former dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University, Chris Martin was appointed vice president for WVU’s University Relations (then Institutional Advancement) in 2004.
In this role, Martin leads an integrated marketing communication division that has developed a unique hybrid of multi-platform documentary storytelling, marketing-driven communications and emergent media relations to build interactive communication with the largest audience in WVU’s history.
Martin began teaching journalism at WVU in 1990, after an eight-year career as a reporter and editor.
While a professor in the WVU School of Journalism, Martin won two Freedom Forum research awards for her work in journalism history and co-directed the Poynter Institute’s Newswriting and Reporting Fellowships, from 1997 to 2005.
Martin was named the 1999 Freedom Forum Journalism Professor of the Year, the 1998 CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers West Virginia Professor of the Year and a winner of the 1997-98 WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching.
As dean, Martin established the nation’s first online master’s program in Integrated Marketing Communications, She also served as the executive director of “The Cancer Project: Lessons in Hope, Love and Loss,” an Emmy-winning, three-year, multimedia journalism partnership with the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center that allowed journalism students and faculty to chronicle the lives of 10 cancer patients from diagnosis through treatment.
Martin speaks and consults nationally on writing, reporting and mass communications.
