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By LACEY MASON J Alumni News staff When my alarm clock went off at 5:30 that morning, I immediately regretted agreeing to go to Elkhorn to write a story for the Post-Gazette. Originally, we were going to go up the night before, stay in a hotel for a couple of nights and have a fun weekend. At the la ...

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By CASSIE FLEMING J Alumni News staff Open a newspaper’s international section to find articles on the insurgency in Afghanistan. Click on a news site’s “world” section to find a story on violence in Iraq. International reporting is often skewed toward certain regions or events around the globe. The ...

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46 minutes ago by Marilyn

By DAMIEN CROGHAN J Alumni News staff Since Sen. J. William Fulbright led the move to establish the Fulbright Scholars program in 1946, about 300,000 scholars from 155 nations have participated. This fall, for the first time, two of those scholars are enrolled in the J school. Farooq Baloch is from ...

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By BRITTNEY SCHUESSLER J Alumni News staff When Natalia Ledford decides to do something, she doesn’t let anything stop her. In middle school she played football. “I’ve always had this weird thing where I like to prove people wrong,” Ledford said. “When people said, ‘Girls can’t do that,’ it fueled m ...

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55 minutes ago by Marilyn

By SHANNON SMITH J Alumni News staff Jon Hamm is as handsome as he looks on TV. Elisabeth Moss is not homely like Peggy; she is actually stunning. I was in the crowd with them, watching the “Mad Men” season premiere at a theater in West Hollywood with the people who actually created it. The people o ...

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58 minutes ago by Marilyn

By CARSON VAUGHAN J Alumni News staff “This time we had the hometown advantage,” joked “500 Days of Summer” actor Geoffrey Arend. “My parents were there!” One by one, the illuminated buttons died as I rose to the 14 th floor. The elevator doors pulled open to reveal a glass wall, “Reed Elsevier” etc ...

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Gates being briefed at Camp Eggers in Kabul during a tour of Afghanistan last December. Photo credit: Lynsey Addario for TIME Robert Gates is the only US Secretary of Defense to be invited to stay on by a rival administration. A Cold War hawk appointed under George W Bush, he was asked by Obama to c ...

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2 hours ago by dconley

Today’s artist profile is of famed painter, author, and musician Faith Ringgold. Born in 1930, Faith is best known for her “story quilts”, which she combined painting, quilting, and story telling with the fabrics. Her works are on permanent displays in many reputable museums such as the Solomon R. G ...

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3 hours ago by Marilyn

By MICHELLE DURHAM J Alumni News staff Kay (Philips) Lavene balances work on the family farm with publishing and editing her hometown newspaper, The Bertrand (Neb.) Herald. It’s a job she took to keep the paper going after its former owners quit four years ago. “I literally worked night and day at f ...

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3 hours ago by Marilyn

By CAROLYN JOHNSEN and CHRIS EMMA J Alumni News staff Katie Juhl recalls J school teachers telling her, “We’ll give you the tools and guidance, but it’s up to you to run with them.” Juhl, a 2001 graduate, took the tools and the advice to broadcast jobs at ABC affiliates, at PBS and Reuters. Now, fro ...

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