NCEW bids farewell to two great journalism academics.Harry W. Stonecipher Harry W. Stonecipher, longtime NCEW NCEW National Conference of Editorial Writers member and professor emeritus of journalism at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, died on December 26, 2004, in Carbondale. He was 86. Mr. Stonecipher taught at SIU-C from 1969 to 1984. His teaching and research interests included editorial writing, news reporting, journalism law, legal research, and press freedom. His academic research resulted in the publication of three books: Editorial and Persuasive Writing Persuasive writing is used to convince the reader of the writer’s argument. This may involve persuading the reader to perform an action, or simply consist of an argument convincing the reader of the writer’s point of view. , Electronic Age News Editing, and The Mass Media and the Law in Illinois, as well as numerous articles in scholarly publications and legal journals. In retirement, he authored a book of memoirs, Meaningful Connections: A Personal Retrospection, co-published in 1995 by Steindorff Press. He served as deputy director of the school of journalism for four years and headed the news/editorial faculty from 1974 until his retirement in 1984. In his book, Editorial and Persuasive Writing, published in 1990, he notes: "One of the often repeated criticisms of the press is that it does not engage sufficiently in mutual self-criticism. Editorialists, however, have benefited from such criticism for more than thirty years. The catalyst for this self-examination is usually identified as the National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW), which was founded in 1947. The Masthead mast·head n. 1. Nautical The top of a mast. 2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation. 3. , the quarterly publication of the NCEW, has been filled with criticism of editorial pages through the years." He also "was a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC AEJMC Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication ) for many years. Survivors include his wife, Helen, six nephews and nieces, and a sister-in-law. Memorials may be made to the Harry W. and Helen M. Stonecipher Scholarship Fund for scholarships in journalism at the SIU SIU Southern Illinois University SIU Seafarers International Union SIU Special Investigations Unit SIU Schiller International University SIU Special Investigative Unit SIU Salem International University SIU Societá Italiana di Urologia Foundation, Mail Code 6805, Carbondale, Illinois 62901. Robert Reid Robert Reid, professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
He was a 1962 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States. at Northwestern University. He began his career working summers in northwest Illinois as a reporter and copy editor at the Freeport Journal-Standard. In 1966, two years after receiving his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern, Mr. Reid became an editorial writer for the Lindsay-Schaub newspaper chain. He took a job as the managing editor of the Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale two years later. Mr. Reid returned to writing editorials for the Lindsay-Schaub newspaper chain in 1972. In 1979, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific as a visiting lecturer in journalism and became a faculty member the next year. He retired in 2003. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; a daughter, Laura Barnes; and a son, John. Mr. Reid had been a member of NCEW since January 1967. Memorials may be made to the College of Communications UIF UIF Unemployment Insurance Fund UIF United Indoor Football UIF User Interface Friction UIF Unfavorable Information File UIF Universal Institutional Funds UIF United Islamic Front UIF Union Infirmières France UIF Universal Indexing Frame Reid Minority Fund for the recruitment fund, c/o College of Communications at the University of Illinois, 119 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street, Urbania, Illinois 61801. |
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