Indiana Broadcast History Archive

Andy Hall won national recognition during more than 25 years as an investigative reporter, exposing corruption in the government and neglect of vulnerable populations, before founding the...

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Bill Foley, ’77, BA’07, left IU before finishing his degree and traveled on a $99 one-way ticket to Europe, where he landed a job with The Associated Press. Soon, he was traveling all over the...

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A lifelong Hoosier, Bob Jenkins, BS’69, earned the nickname the “voice of the Indianapolis 500” after spending more than 50 years on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. He...

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Bob Shanks worked in television as a creator, writer and producer for more than four decades, ultimately serving as vice president of programming and vice president of news at...

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Bonnie Brownlee, a long-time educator with an interest in international communication, dedicated 34 years to IU and the former School of Journalism as a teacher, researcher and administrator. She...

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Over his 38-year career at The Associated Press, Brian H. Horton was an important advocate for photojournalism in the world’s largest news organization and helped lead the industry’s...

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Bryan Moss’ photojournalism career took him to 13 newspapers in nine states and led to two staff Pulitzer Prizes during four decades.

Raised in Corydon, Indiana, Moss studied journalism...

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Catt Sadler, BAJ’97, is a three-time Emmy-winning journalist with almost 30 years of on-air experience.

Born in Martinsville, Indiana, she graduated from IU’s School of Journalism in...

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Journalism is innate in Craig Klugman, longtime editor of the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Journal Gazette.

“In my life, about the only thing that came easily to me was newspaper journalism,”...

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In a career spanning four decades, Craig Van Sickle has written, produced and directed more than 200 hours of prime-time television, including scripts for “Murder, She Wrote,” “NCIS,”...

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Dan K. Thomasson, a longtime Washington journalist and former vice president of Scripps Howard Newspapers, has covered many of the country’s defining moments and continues to write a syndicated...

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David B. Richardson spent four decades reporting from five continents as a foreign correspondent for Time, Life and U.S. News & World Report.

Richardson’s sister said he demonstrated his...

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David C. Krane took his journalism skills, his innate curiosity and the scientific influence of his nuclear physicist father and combined them into a career as a Google pioneer. Krane was part of...

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IU journalism Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Weaver has been connected with IU nearly all of his academic life, but acclaim for his work comes from across the globe.

A native...

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Dee J. (Michaelis) Hall, BA’82, has been an award-winning investigative reporter for 38 years — eight at The Arizona Republic, 24 at the Wisconsin State Journal and six at the nonprofit,...

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Del Brinkman has had a distinguished career in journalism and university teaching and administration. He began his career in 1954 on the staff of The Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette and retired in...

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Derek Mobley, BA’91, has shaped the viewing of three decades of major sporting events, including Rose Bowls, Wimbledons, Olympics, and many more.

Initially starting at ESPN as a college...

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Diana Hadley has dedicated her career to educating and advocating for new generations of journalists.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Purdue in 1971, Hadley took a job at...

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As a senior in high school in 1963, Diane Shah told her guidance counselor she dreamed of becoming a writer for Time or Newsweek.

He discouraged her, saying that Time and Newsweek hired...

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Donald Ring Mellett, 1914, was honored when his paper, The Canton Daily News (later acquired by The Repository), was awarded the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The paper was so honored...

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Douglas Freeland, BA’80, spent more than two decades leading successful marketing initiatives for McDonald’s USA.

During his tenure there, he oversaw the Monopoly at McDonald’s...

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E. Ross Bartley followed his job to Washington, D.C., and beyond before he came full circle, ending his career as Indiana University’s director of university relations. Along the way, he worked...

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In more than 30 years as a reporter, editor and bureau chief with the Associated Press, Earleen Fisher covered major stories in some of the world’s most volatile political regions and...

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Ed Spray’s legacy in the world of television includes dozens of industry awards, the programming of five CBS television stations and the creation of three cable networks. It culminates in his...

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Take Edna F. Einsiedel by the numbers, and one can see the impact she’s had on academia.

She has published nearly 70 journal articles, contributed to more than 30 books and taught...

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Over her rich, 24-year career at The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Bernstein, BA’87, has reported on higher education, philanthropy, psychology, and religion, all areas in which personal...

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Eric Deggans is a TV critic, journalist, political commentator and author known for his insightful reviews on NPR and for his hard-hitting criticisms of race relations in the media.

Deggans...

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Ernie Pyle came to Bloomington as a farm boy speaking in a rural Hoosier dialect and emerged as someone who loved to write in polished but everyday style. As a student, Pyle was the first editor...

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Everett G. Martin spent his career reporting from some of the world’s most turbulent locales. He was Newsweek’s bureau chief in Saigon during the war in Vietnam and covered the 1973 Chilean...

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Florence Myrick Ahl, BA 1899, was the first female editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student in 1897. After graduating with a degree in English, Ahl became a community leader in Centerville,...

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Frank Bourgholtzer, NBC News’ first full-time White House correspondent and a bureau chief in several European capitals, began his career with the network in 1946 and continued filing stories...

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Fred Kalil, BA’04, became an Atlanta icon over the course of the 31 years he spent as a sports broadcaster in the nation’s 10th-largest market, thanks to his affable personality and...

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Gary Donatelli is an Emmy award-winning television and film producer/director, best known for the 18 years he spent directing network dramas.

Donatelli attended Indiana University on a...

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Gene Miller, BA’50, DHL’77, was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. After graduation, Miller worked at the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, Wall Street Journal and the Richmond (Va.) News...

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George Gill started out as a copy editor at The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal and retired 33 years later as the paper’s publisher. He was a reporter, city editor and managing editor before...

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Gerould Kern, BA’71, is senior vice president and editor of the Chicago Tribune.

Since becoming editor in 2008, Kern has focused the Tribune and its website on local investigative...

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Harold de Bock’s developments in audience and customer loyalty research influenced multiple industries, media platforms and world regions — from media to customer contact, from broadcast to...

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In a career that has spanned 50 years, Holly Gooding Miller, BA’64 has held roles as a reporter, managing editor, corporate speechwriter, textbook author, guest lecturer, college professor, and...

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James Polk, BA’64, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his reporting as a staff writer for the Washington Star-News on financial irregularities that were part of the Watergate scandal.

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Jay Kincaid, BA’82, is a 10-time Emmy Award winner who directs CBS Sports Network’s coverage of the Super Bowl and the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on top of a weekly NFL pregame show...

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Jerald B. Harkness, BA’91 (sociology), Cert’91, is the president and CEO of Studio Auteur, a content creation company specializing in broadcast documentaries. A national Emmy-award winner,...

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Jim Bright's legacy in journalism and public relations spans 36 years and many countries.

Bright worked for Ford Motor Company for 24 years, retiring as global executive director of public...

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Indiana University Journalism Professor Emeritus John Ahlhauser drew on his award-winning professional experience during his 20 years in the classroom at his alma mater, where he had received his...

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John E. Stempel, BA’23, led the IU journalism department from 1938-1968. His lifelong affiliation with IU and journalism began as a student in the early 1920s. He was editor of the Indiana Daily...

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Since 1968, John Rappaport has brought laughter, fun and drama into the lives of the American public as a writer and producer of such all-time television classics as Laugh-In, All in the Family...

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John W. Hill, LHD’71, was co-founder of Hill & Knowlton, a leading international communications consultancy with 80 offices in 44 countries. A native of Shelbyville, Ind., Hill studied...

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Joseph Angotti’s career took him from student news director of Indiana University’s WFIU newscast to senior vice president for news at NBC and the chairmanship of the broadcast program at...

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For 30 years, Kathleen Johnston’s investigative reporting has exposed corruption and waste, and effected change in government and business practices. She finds investigative angles in chaotic...

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Ken Beckley has had a storied career in journalism, marketing and public relations since graduating from IU with a degree in radio-television in 1962.

Beckley served as news reporter and...

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Kent Cooper, LHD’41, an innovator of the concept of news distribution, paving the way for the success of modern news services such as the Associated Press. A native of Columbus, Ind., Cooper...

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Lars Willnat, MA’91, PhD’92, is the John Ben Snow Endowed Research Professor in the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. His research focuses on global journalism studies, the effects of...

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Over a versatile career, Lee Ann Daly, BA'85, has made significant contributions to the fields of media, marketing, and innovation. As a C-suite executive at ESPN, Thomson Reuters, startups,...

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Lillian Dunlap, MME’73 (Jacobs), PhD’92, has spent her career at the intersection of teaching and storytelling, training thousands of college students, professional journalists, and journalism...

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Madelyn Pugh Davis, BA’42, forged a career as one of television’s top comedy writers at a time when women in the business were a rarity. She is best known as the co-creator and co-writer of...

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Marcia Parker, BA’76, is a journalism and media industry leader with extensive experience at Fortune 500 media companies, startups, leading nonprofit news outlets and three of the nation’s top...

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Marilyn R. Schultz was a pioneer in broadcast journalism, dedicating herself to the fight for women's rights in the industry and, later, to educating future journalists as a college...

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Marjorie (Smith) Blewett, BA’48, has been closely associated with IU journalism longer than anyone else. The Bloomington native entered the department as a freshman 67 years ago and returned to...

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Mark Ferree, ’26, LHD’77, worked for Scripps Howard for more than 25 years, ending his career as executive vice president and then director of E.W. Scripps Co., the newspaper chain’s parent...

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Martha Moutoux Steffens shifted her focus after 30 years in newspapers to education, sharing her expertise with college students at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and with...

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The late Matthew Tully, BAJ’92, was an award-winning reporter and columnist for The Indianapolis Star before his life was tragically cut short by cancer in 2018 at age 49. During his abbreviated...

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Mel Raines, BA’91, is CEO of Pacers Sports & Entertainment, overseeing business operations for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA, the Indiana Fever of the WNBA, the Noblesville Boom of the G League,...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Melissa Farlow has contributed to National Geographic publications for almost 20 years, traveling around the globe to capture images from Africa to Alaska to...

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Michel du Cille, BA’85, is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer whose work documenting the lives of people facing extraordinary challenges and inconceivable tragedy has drawn public attention...

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Michael J. Hayes, BA'88, is the chief operating officer/deputy group head for Hearst Television, a national multimedia organization that serves one of every five households in the...

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Mike Kelley, BA’89, is an award-winning television writer, producer, and creator. Starting his professional career working as a production assistant in Los Angeles, he has gone on to write and...

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Miriam Meloy Sturgeon’s legacy to IU journalism lasted long after she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the program. She established IU’s first journalism library and, as an...

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Monroe Anderson, BA’71, worked for some of America's best-known media corporations including Dow Jones, Johnson Publishing Co., the Tribune Co., Post-Newsweek and Viacom, and he also served as...

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During a more-than-30-year career, Monte Hayes, BA’66, developed a deep knowledge of a region stretching from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America, a knowledge...

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In her four-decade career at major metropolitan newspapers, Myrna Oliver covered beats from general assignment to civil and criminal court cases to celebrity obituaries, carving a niche for...

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Nancy Callaway Fyffe, BA’72, is an Emmy Award-winning director who has spent her career breaking glass ceilings within the television industry. She was the first woman to direct television in...

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Nancy Weaver Teichert, BA’76, spent her career as a beat reporter and investigative journalist at the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, the Denver Post and, for the last 20 years of her career,...

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Nelson Poynter, BA’24, LLD’76, was founder of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and chairman of his family’s newspaper company The Times Publishing Co., where he also served as general...

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No matter the endeavor, Paul J. Caine has always found himself at the helm. His career has spanned a spectrum of media and major companies, including well-known names like Time, WestwoodOne and...

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Paul Tash, BA’76, is chairman and chief executive officer of the Times Publishing Co. A native of South Bend, Ind., Tash graduated summa cum laude from IU. As a Marshall Scholar, he graduated...

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Paul V. McNutt, BA 1913, used his journalism experiences at IU and his law degree from Harvard to launch a lifetime of leadership and public service roles, including serving as governor of...

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Using her authoritative expertise in color theory and the science behind graphic design, Pegie Stark, BFA’75, MA’79, PhD’84, has designed and redesigned a wide range of news publications,...

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Rafat Ali, MA’01, is an entrepreneur who has spent his career at the intersection of media and technology.

Ali is the founder and CEO of Skift, the most influential media company in the...

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Raju Narisetti has crafted a career that parallels journalism’s evolution into digital media and publishing’s move toward a viable business plan. Currently the senior vice president for...

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Renee Ferguson, BA’71, was the first African-American woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago and is co-founder of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black...

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Richard Horwitz’s photojournalism career was born of a series of right decisions made at the right time.

It was a career that took him to all 50 states and 76 countries, that traversed...

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The late Robert E. Thompson, who attended Indiana University on the G.I. Bill after World War II, became a top political reporter who eventually rose through the ranks to excel in newspaper...

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Sage Steele is one of ESPN’s most popular and respected commentators, currently serving as the anchor for the 6 p.m. SportsCenter with co-anchor Kevin Negandhi and as lead host for SportsCenter...

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Samuel Yette was the first Black Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, author of a landmark book and a journalism professor at Howard University.

Yette came to Bloomington for his...

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Immediately after graduating from Indiana University, Sandra Eisert began making history.

Eisert earned her degree in journalism in 1973 and took a job at the nationally ranked...

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Sharon Dunwoody is the Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She retired in 2013 after more than 30 years of...

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Stephanie Becker, BA’82, is a field producer in CNN's Los Angeles bureau covering breaking news, investigative pieces, politics and features for broadcast and online.

Since graduating...

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Stephen Lucas, BA’80, is an Emmy award-winning director who retired in 2019 after nearly 40 years of working in the television news industry.

Most recently, he directed “NBC Nightly...

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Taik Sup Auh has forged a career as a respected educator, administrator and acclaimed textbook author in his native country of South Korea. He came to America in the late 1960s to work at the...

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Thomas French, BA’81, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing while at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, where he had worked since he graduated. Three of his serials have been...

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A lifetime of newspaper work culminated in journalism’s biggest accolade for Tim Nickens, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for editorial for his work with the Tampa Bay Times.

Nickens’...

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After a decade leading major daily newspapers, Timothy A. Franklin helped launch the IU School of Journalism’s National Sports Journalism Center on the Indianapolis campus, taking the project...

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People sometimes asked sportswriter Tracy Dodds how she could cover sports if she’d never been an athlete.

"How can you cover a murder trial if you've never murdered anybody?" she...

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From the beginning, Vernon A. Williams, BA’73, wanted to be a writer.

Growing up in Gary, Indiana, he wrote his first play in the fourth grade, which was performed in class. In middle...

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I. Wilmer “Will” Counts, MS’54 (Education) and EdD’67, captured images of unrest during the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that still influence civil rights...

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