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Professional Encounters: How Stories Transformed Our WorkAn Evening With Narrative JournalistsWednesday, Feb. 22, 2006 Print a lecture flyer. FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER AND MODERATOR
Mr. Harrington's magazine articles are collected in his books, American Profiles and At the Heart of It, and appear in the prestigious anthologies Literary Journalism and Literary Nonfiction. His book Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life is a popular text in university nonfiction writing classes. He is head of the journalism department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches literary journalism. He earned M.A.s in sociology and journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS
Everyone is invited to attend this event, which is sponsored by Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public; Missouri School of Journalism; Society of Professional Journalists. |
Walt Harrington was
a staff writer for The Washington Post Magazine for nearly 15 years.
His recent book, The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns,
Friendship, and Family, is the story of what Mr. Harrington, while a
city-slicker Washington reporter, learned during his many years of rabbit
hunting with his Kentucky country father-in-law and his friends. Reviewers
compared the book to the fiction work A River Runs Through It and
the nonfiction classic A Sand County Almanac. It was praised in the Washington
Post by President George W. Bush, featured on NPR's "All Things Considered,"
and named a noteworthy book of
the year by Newsday, the Kansas
City Star, and the San
Jose Mercury News. Mr. Harrington's
book, Crossings: A White Man's
Journey into Black America,
won the Gustavus Myers Award
for the Study of Human Rights
in the U.S. His book, The
Beholder's Eye: A Collection
of America's Finest Personal
Journalism, was published
by Grove Press in last fall.
Jacqui Banaszynski holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the
Missouri School of Journalism and is on the visiting faculty of The Poynter
Institute. While at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her series "AIDS
in the Heartland"
— an intimate look at the life and death of a gay farm couple
— won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and a national SPJ
Distinguished Service Award. 
Mary Kay Blakely, who joined the Missouri School of Journalism
in September 1997, teaches Advanced Writing in the magazine sequence. A
contributing editor to Ms. magazine since 1981 and former Hers columnist
for the New York Times, she is the author of the critically acclaimed Wake
Me When It's Over and American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble
Pie.
Berkley Hudson teaches in the magazine sequence at the Missouri
School of Journalism. For 25 years he was a magazine and newspaper writer
and editor. He was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, the Providence
Journal, and The Bulletin in Bend, Ore. He edited the Providence
Sunday Journal Magazine. His freelance writing has appeared in the Los
Angeles Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Hemispheres, and Historic
Preservation. 
Steve Weinberg is a professor in the magazine sequence. His
books include Trade Secrets of Washington Journalists, Telling
the Untold Story, and The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's
Guide to Documents and Techniques. Weinberg is currently writing
a biography of Ida Tarbell and the centennial history of the Missouri
School of Journalism.Links in archives are not maintained. |