JOURNALISM

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Vision // In the Digital World, What’s News?
Our panelists discuss reporting standards in the digital age—from Twitter rumors
to Googled gossip to old-school investigative techniques. We’ll shed some light
on how old-fashioned storytelling can survive online.

Discipline Leader // Jess McCuan
Jess McCuan is Editor of the Asheville-area women’s magazine VERVE. She is a former staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc. and elsewhere. Jess has been working in journalism since she was a teenager and believes in the durability of good stories, no matter what the medium.

// Mentors

Jeff Chu leads Fast Company’s coverage of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship (do-gooder stuff) as well as urban affairs. He also writes. His recent stories include an investigation into legal and ethical problems at the furniture retailer Design Within Reach and a profile of Rwanda’s audacious and risky development strategy.

Before coming to Fast Company, he spent a very long nine months at the now-defunct Conde Nast Portfolio and seven years at Time magazine, where he was a London-based staff writer (his first cover story was on Britney Spears and her Swedish songwriter, Max Martin) and then a New York-based writer and editor.

A graduate of Princeton and the London School of Economics, Jeff was a 2004 Phillips Foundation fellow (his project examined complaint in American history) and will be a media fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution in 2012.

He is now at work on his first book, an exploration of the intersection between homosexuality and Christianity in America.

 

Jody Evans is Executive Director of Western North Carolina Public Radio. She has had a long and extensive career in broadcast journalism, serving as program
director at two of the nation’s premier public radio organizations, Vermont Public Radio, in Burlington, Vermont, and KUT-FM in Austin, Texas. She has also
served as board chair for the Public Radio Program Directors Association, an industry group representing more than 800 stations.

 

 

Tim Windsor is Editorial Director for the South at Patch.com. His focus at Patch is on building a new approach to local news and information. In 2010, Tim launched and managed more than 170 community news sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Georgia and Florida. He oversees the work of 19 regional editors and as many as 300 local editors. Patch is a network of community-specific news and information sites dedicated to providing comprehensive and trusted local coverage for individual towns and communities.

Previously, as Director of Digital Strategy for The Johns Hopkins University and as VP ofinteractive for The Baltimore Sun Media Group, Tim led expansions of two of the most powerful names in higher education and local news deeper into the digital space, reaching online audiences wherever they were—at their desks, on the go, and on their phones. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

After eight years traveling the U.S. as a folksinger, Kim Ruehl landed in Seattle in 2003 and started working as a music reporter. Since then, her reviews and feature articles about folk music have appeared in Performer, Sound, Seattle, CityArts, and Billboard magazines. She’s been the Folk Music Guide for About.com (part of The New York Times Company) since 2005 and Community Manager for NoDepression.com (the online incarnation of the leading roots music magazine) since 2009. She currently lives in Asheville, where she’s working on a book-length biography about Zilphia Horton.

Journalism Workshop

Jeff Chu of Fast Company Magazine will lead a workshop about modern reporting on sensitive social issues. He’ll talk about how he’s pulled together award-winning stories on topics like religion, sexuality, education, poverty and race.

Groundbreaker Submission & Selection
Journalism students in and around Asheville can contact us to be considered as HATCH Groundbreakers leading up to and through our HATCH Experience in April.

We will assign reporting projects beginning in February 2011

Apply to journalism.avl@hatchexperience.com

Journalism Schedule

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