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ALUMNI NEWS
 | Chris Hawley, ’95, along with his three Associated Press colleagues won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Their series exposed the New York Police Department’s monitoring of Muslim communities. Earlier in the year, the journalists were awarded a George Polk Award in Journalism from Long Island University and a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. [LINK TO BGSU PRESS RELEASE] |
 | Mizell Stewart was named vice president of content for Scripps newspaper group in January. Stewart will be responsible for developing strategies to create, produce and deliver news and information for print and digital platforms in all 13 Scripps news markets. The 1994 graduate moves from the Scripps-owned Evansville Courier Press where had been editor since 2007. [LINK to BGSU Magazine] |
 | The March 1, 2012 issue of the Ohio Newspaper Association’s bi-weekly newsletter featured a story by Bryan Times editor and 2008 alumna Tami Brigle who talked about her community’s struggle for access to public meetings on the fate of the Ohio Turnpike. Born and raised in Williams County, Brigle started as a reporter at the Times right after graduation. [LINK TO ONA BULLETIN] |
 | Natalie Taylor said everyone kept telling her to pursue a career in local broadcasting when she graduated in 2004, but she wanted more for herself. She strove both as an undergraduate and graduate to achieve her niche and chase her dream in the sports broadcasting world. Taylor returned to Ohio in December to cover the Columbus Blue Jackets. [READ MORE] |
 | Vince Guerrieri has spent the better part of his year enjoying his title as co-author of the new book “Ohio Sports Trivia,” published in 2011 through Canada’s Lone Pine Publishing. The book features 224 pages of buckeye state sports facts that focus on the history of all of Ohio’s sports figures and legendary athletic franchises. [READ MORE] |
 | Looking back, Tiffany Tarpley realized that she should have seen the signs of an interest in broadcast journalism: listening to the news on the radio, watching the nightly news, reading the paper and having a police scanner in the kitchen. The 2003 graduate recently made the transition from FOX Toledo News to the much bigger CBS affiliate WDJT in Milwaukee, Wis. "She was a very, very determined student," Kathy Bradshaw, associate professor, said. "She was a student who was like, 'I'm here and I'm going to learn this.'" [READ MORE] |
 | Many young boys watch Sunday night football hoping that they will one day be on the field throwing a winning pass. Alumnus Pete Schramm, 2009, is living the dream of being a part of the NFL, but not as a quarterback or defensive lineman. Schramm works as a media relations assistant for the Cincinnati Bengals. [READ MORE] |
 | According to Time magazine, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. As this statistic shows the way people are communicating is rapidly changing. Roger Lowe, alumnus and senior vice president of communication at the American Red Cross, is taking notice of this change by examining how this new form of communication fits into the emergency response industry. [READ MORE] |
 | Judy Hirsch remembers many of the highlights of her over 30-year career. Starting as a reporter, Hirsch would go on to handle some of the largest nuclear crises in the Midwest. From Three Mile Island to Davis-Besse, Hirsch truly experienced what it was like to go nuclear. She recalls it all now, and despite only being retired a few years, it seems like a lifetime ago. [READ MORE] |
 | Bliss Davis, 2010, has established herself as the daytime producer at WKEF-TV in Dayton, Ohio. Davis used her time at BGSU volunteering on campus and completing internships to give her plenty of experience despite her young age. “I spent a lot of time interning and doing just about anything I could to gain experience while in college,” Davis said. [READ MORE]
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