Looking for the payoff in the layoff ...
A lively exchange characterized Fort Worth SPJ’s “Life After Layoffs” one-day workshop at UTA in June. All photos from left.
top: Eddye Gallagher, Tracy Everbach, Bitty Reilly and Kim Pewitt-Jones; Jack Raskopf
above: Robert Francis and Jim Domke; Robert Hart
below: Linda Pavlik and Gayle Reaves-King; Beth Francesco and Amber Tafoya
bottom: John Gilbert; Patrick Walker (red shirt), Scott McCoy (white shirt) and Gary Piña; Doug Bedell
— Kay Pirtle photos
PEOPLE & PLACES
Dr. Kay Colley spoke at the Texas Wesleyan University spring commencement ceremonies as the
2011 Earl Brown Distinguished Faculty Member. The award goes each year to a
Wesleyan faculty member for outstanding teaching, scholarship and service. The
faculty selects the recipients. Colley is an assistant professor of
communication and the director of student media at the university. She also is
a board member of IABC Fort Worth and a member of Greater Fort Worth PRSA and
Fort Worth SPJ. ...
Greater Fort Worth PRSA members Andrea Scott and Linda Jacobson, APR, received a 2011 Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation for designing and
implementing an interactive intranet to convey information about positive train
control to BNSF Railway employees. ...
Eliana Mijangos, a junior mass communication major at Texas Wesleyan University and sports
editor for The Rambler (also sports anchor on RamblerTV), was accepted to one
of this summer’s Freedom Forum Diversity Institutes. The American Indian Journalism Institute,
hosted and funded by the University of South Dakota and its Al Neuharth Media
Center, is a nationally competitive program designed to prepare college
journalism students for a career in new media. Mijangos will take a
concentrated college-level course in multimedia journalism taught by journalism
professors and professionals. At the end of the institute, which runs June
15-24, she will be eligible for a six-week newsroom internship.
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NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS
PRSA ... Claire Anne Bloxom, Concussion ... Kalyn Baldwin, CashAmerica ... Frank Griffis, Jr., Tarrant County College District ... Lori Pennington, First American Payment Systems
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