College of Media | Alumni Notes

• Kimberly Scarabello '10 JOURN
  12/10/2012
  Kimberly Scarabello of Blue Island, Ill. recently began an 11-month term of service in the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program. Scarabello arrived at her regional campus in September to begin a month of Team Leader training. In October, she lead a team through Corps Member training, which prepared the over 300 Corps Members for full-time service with AmeriCorps NCCC, emphasizing teamwork, leadership development, communication, service learning, and included certification by the American Red Cross. Scarabello will be responsible for completing a series of six- to eight-week-long service projects as the leader of a 10- to 12-person team. Their first service projects will end in mid-December, at which time the teams will break for the winter holidays and begin a new project in a new location in January. Scarabello said, "I chose to do a term of national service because I know that I can make a difference in our country. I also believe that there are tremendous benefits that I can gain for myself through serving with NCCC, such as everlasting friendships, professional experience, and the satisfaction of seeing a job well done." AmeriCorps NCCC is a residential national service program that supports disaster relief, the environment, infrastructure improvement, energy conservation, and urban and rural development. Fifty-six teams composed of over 600 Corps Members and Team Leaders began service projects in November throughout the Pacific and Southwest regions, based in Sacramento in Denver respectively. There are three additional NCCC campuses located in Perry Point, Md., Vinton, Iowa, and Vicksburg, Miss., each of which is a hub for its respective area of the country.
• Kate Brickman '07 JOURN, '11 MS
  12/4/2012
  Kate Brickman joined the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council as Media Relations Coordinator. She will act as the liaison between media and the Locals. Brickman was Press Secretary for Minnesotans United, serving as spokesperson and helping shape coverage across the state about the importance of defeating the marriage amendment. Before coming to Minnesotans United, Brickman worked as a TV reporter in Illinois and taught broadcast journalism as adjunct faculty in the Journalism Department at the University of Illinois.
• Jill Disis '12 JOURN
  10/19/2012
  Jill Disis '12 JOURN, a recent Pulliam Fellowship recipient, has been hired full time on the Metro Desk at the Indianapolis Star where she served her Fellowship over the summer. Jill was the Editor in Chief at the Daily Illini last year.
• Rachel Caulfield '12 JOURN
  10/19/2012
  Rachel Caulfield is an Associate Operator at ESPN. Rachel earned her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Illinois in 2012. While there she interned with Illini Productions and worked in production with the Big Tens Student U program. She also served as a news intern at Champaign's WCIA 3 and a social media intern with Mediatracks Communications, a radio syndicator in Chicago.
• Susannah Collins '01 JOURN
  9/24/2012
  Susannah Collins, whos been free-lancing since June as a reporter and anchor on SportsNet Central, was promoted Tuesday to full-time status as an anchor/reporter for the networks nightly sports news program. The Chicago area native also has been working as a post-game reporter on White Sox broadcasts and co-hosting Gas Money, a weekly sports trivia show, with Luke Stuckmeyer.
• Claudio Moreira 07 PhD
  8/28/2012
  Claudio Moreira 07 PhD, co-authored an article with Marcelo Diversi, "Missing Bodies: Troubling the Colonial Landscape of American Academia," which appears in Text and Performance Quarterly (2011), was just named the "Best journal Article" by the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.
• Breda Murphy '02 JOURN '03 MS
  8/27/2012
  After six years of working in broadcast journalism and public relations, Breda Murphy has transitioned into teaching. She teaches broadcasting and English at Oswego East High School in Illinois. She also advises the daily student run TV news program, Wolfpack News, on East TV 16.
• Christine Kim '09 JOURN
  8/24/2012
  Christine Kim has a new job as a weekday reporter at KSNV in Las Vegas. Christine will be moving from KTUU TV in Anchorage, Alaska, where she started immediately after college. The move from Anchorage to Las Vegas is a 108 market jump--market #150 to market #42. Congratulations Christine!
• Dan Manoyan '72 JOURN
  8/23/2012
  Dan Manoyan, '72 JOURN, has published a new book: ALAN AMECHE, The Story of The Horse
• Lawrence K. Beaupre '66 JOURN, '68 MS
  8/22/2012
  Lawrence K. Beaupre, managing editor of The Times-Tribune and executive editor of Times-Shamrock Communications, is stepping down after 12 years at the helm of Northeast Pennsylvania's largest news-gathering operation.