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Journalism Roundtable, Tuesday Oct. 31

by | Oct 29, 2017 | Student_Work

Tuesday, Oct 31, 11 a.m., Kimpel 146

Join three outstanding journalists – Sharon Walsh, Bonnie Rollins and Cassie Cope – to discuss investigative journalism, digital media,  and the recently concluded Journalism and Women’s Symposium (JAWS). They will also discuss the investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the state of the journalism job market.

Bring your questions.

(For those not in the Digital Media Lab couse, please RSVP to Dr. Wells if you plan to attend. All are welcome. rswells@uark.edu)

Sharon Walsh

Sharon Walsh is the founding editor of PublicSource, an investigative news website in Pittsburgh. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor at The Washington Post, a business editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, a senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education and enterprise and investigative editor for The Lexington Herald-Leader. She has served on the boards of the Journalism and Women Symposium and the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition. She has won numerous journalism awards including the Morton Mintz Award for Investigative Reporting from the Baltimore Washington Newspaper Guild and the Washington Dateline Award for Investigative Reporting. As a reporter, she was nominated four times for a Pulitzer Prize by The Washington Post, including for her investigative work on the involvement of Clark Clifford and Robert Altman in BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). As an editor, her teams have won an APME Public Service Award and two McClatchy President’s Awards As the founding editor of PublicSource.org, Walsh created a digital-first investigative news website from scratch. http://publicsource.org/ Some staff awards during her tenure: http://publicsource.org/publicsource-reporters-honored-in-state-national-journalism-contests/ http://publicsource.org/publicsource-receives-awards-in-state-contest/ Some of her Washington Post reporting: Financial Stew With a Dash of Spice At Robert Altman’s Trial The Continuing Anguish of BCCI Two Years After Collapse

Bonnie Rollins

Bonnie Rollins worked for NBC News for 32 years before retiring in 2013. She began working for NBC in radio, before moving on to the TV network assignment desk. She began producing television for the Washington DC affiliate, as well as for NBC Universal in the 1990s. She earned a master’s degree from Georgetown University in the summer of 2010, and during that time contributed to The Truth Left Behind Project, a faculty-student investigative reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Pearl Project is here (essential reading for journalism students): https://cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/documents/pdfs/The_Pearl_Project.pdf Rollins graduated from Indiana University in the turbulent Vietnam War era and was news director of a public radio station, WBAA, during the Watergate hearings. She was named an AP Radio news editor in Washington, D.C., in 1979 days before 52 Americans were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Feature on Rollins’ career: http://herstory.rjionline.org/025.html

Cassie Cope

Cope is a business reporter for the Charlotte Observer. From 2013 to 2017, she covered general assignment and then politics for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. At The State, she was named South Carolina’s top government beat reporter for 2015 by the South Carolina Press Association and won awards from McClatchy newspapers for her digital media and social media reporting, including her work on The State’s political blog, The Buzz, which dramatically expanded its readership during her tenure. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina journalism program, where she won numerous scholarships, including the Society of American Business Editors and Writers David J. Morrow Scholarship for Business Journalism. She worked as an intern with the Index-Journal newspaper in Greenwood, S.C.
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