On November 20, 2009, Journalism professor David Loomis and Journalism Department secretary Lee Vest unveiled a redesigned on-line newspaper website, HawkEye, that features new and archival investigative stories reported by students in Loomis’s JRNL 328/News Reporting classes.

Monica Rizzo, a 1987 graduate of IUP’s Journalism Department, shared her experiences about her career in entertainment and journalism at a presentation to students, staff and faculty on October 21, 2009. Rizzo also spoke to several IUP journalism classes during her visit.

Dozens of students from five area high schools participated in a journalism workshop on October 8, 2009, sponsored by the Indiana Gazette’s Newspaper in Education program and IUP’s Journalism Department.

The Fun 5K Run/Walk will be held on Sunday, November 1, 2009, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Memorial Field House track to benefit the Kristen A. Stormer Memorial Scholarship Fund.

IUP’s Journalism Department will host a showing of All the President’s Men at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, 2009, in Beard Auditorium in Stouffer Hall, in preparation for Bob Woodward’s visit to our campus on November 4.

Alumna Monica Rizzo, a senior writer for People magazine, will make presentations to five sections of Journalism classes. She will also share stories of her adventures in the world of Hollywood at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. All IUP students, faculty, and staff are invited.

Journalism Department instructor Pat Farabaugh presented his dissertation project, titled “Carl McIntire and his Crusade to Topple the Fairness Doctrine,” at the annual national conference of the American Journalism Historians Association.