Aggie Journalism News
Dale Rice named director
of A&M Journalism Studies
Starting Sept. 1, 2009, the Director of Journalism Studies at Texas A&M University will be Dale Rice, a 35-year journalism veteran who began teaching at A&M in Fall 2008. Read more at the Aggie Journalists blog.
Fall 2008 interview with Dale Rice
Blog post about the Student Reporter Project, which Rice heads
2009 Fall Reception will be Sept. 5
The date's been set -- we'll gather in Cain Hall on the day of the Ags' football season opener against New Mexico. Mark your calendars! More details -- time, exact location, parking info -- will be posted soon here and at the blog.
Coming soon: Hall of Honor inductee
We're close to announcing the name that we'll add to the FJSA Hall of Honor at this year's reception. The search is over and the honoree is about to be notified! You'll be the next to know.
Latest on Roland S. Martin's $10,000 gift
CNN's Roland S. Martin, Class of '91, made a surprise donation last fall of $10,000 to FJSA to help support journalism at Texas A&M. FJSA is working with the A&M Journalism Studies Program on proposals now. Based on the great ideas so far, we're going to be able to put it to work exactly the way he hoped -- helping A&M students become multimedia journalists, able to work skillfully across many platforms. With such a generous gift, we are likely to be able to put several proposals into action. Whoop!
Battalion staffers intern at Washington Post, in NY, more
On the Aggie Journalists blog, students from the Battalion have been sharing breaking news from their summer internships:
Ryan '08: Covering Madoff for news radio in NYC
Turner '10: Covering serial killings in North Carolina
Alvarado '10, Crump '10: In NY with Dan Rather
Casanova '10: Next Batt editor at Abilene paper
Woolbright '12: Working crime beat at SA Express-News
Rojas '10 interning at the Washington Post
Join FJSA or donate online
Join more than 300 fellow Aggie journalists in our LinkedIn and Facebook groups, get in touch with your officers and/or read up on the latest goings-on at our blog. We've got a volunteer form online, too. Dues are $25 and definitely aren't mandatory, but they do help us put on the Fall Reception, our main membership event of the year. And now FJSA can accept dues payments online using credit cards or PayPal.
FJSA is still raising money for the Skip Leabo and Bob Rogers scholarships. The Rogers scholarship is endowed and already helping students each year; the Leabo scholarship fund needs to reach its goal of $25,000 before money can begin helping students (we're one-tenth of the way there, at $2,500 right now).
Get information on how to donate directly to these scholarships online or by check through the A&M Foundation at our donations page.
Send us your contact info
The FJSA Board of Directors needs to know how to get in touch with you. Please send your contact information (e-mail address, class year and other ways to reach you) to aggiejournalists@gmail.com. Tell us a little about yourself and what you're doing now and we'll include it on the blog.