| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Submitted: September 28, 2011 |
Name: | The Observer | Hometown: Various | Department: | Communication |
| News: | The Observer, Central’s student-run and student-written weekly newspaper, has been named a finalist for the prestigious 2010-2011 Pacemaker Award, given by the Associated Collegiate Press to honor the nation’s top college newspapers for “general excellence.”
The newspaper’s coverage of last fall’s Four Loko incident also won an honorable mention in ACP’s national “Story of the Year” contest in the breaking news category. |
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| Submitted: April 4, 2011 |
Name: | Chanelle Fournier and Anthony James | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Chanelle Fournier and Anthony James won first and second place in the Kittitas County League of Women Voters' first annual scholarship competition.
Chanelle, an online journalism major, won first place and $500. Anthony, a print journalism major and The Observer's editor-in-chief, won second place and $350.
Both wrote essays about their civic involvement and how it's made a difference in their lives.
The students received their awards for use Spring Quarter 2011. |
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| Submitted: April 4, 2011 |
Name: | The Observer Staff | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | The Observer's Feb. 3 winter quarter issue won Third Place in the Best of Show contest for the weekly-to-twice-weekly category at the 27th Annual Associated Collegiate Press National College Journalism Convention March 3-6 in Hollywood, Calif.
The issue featured a cover package about heroin on campus and the death of Observer Assistant Scene Editor John Luke LaSalle.
The conference drew more than 600 students representing about 200 college newspapers.
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| Submitted: 05-25-2006 |
Name: | CWU-PRSSA | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | The CWU chapter of the PRSSA was the winner of national competition to host the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference. |
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| Submitted: 05-25-2006 |
Name: | Andy Hanson | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Andy Hanson received finalist honors in the National Broadcast Society's Student Video and Audio Production Awards Competitions. 2006 marks the ninth year out of the last eleven that a student of the CWU Communication Department has received this finalist honors. |
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| Submitted: 05-25-2006 |
Name: | Scott Iwata | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Scott Iwata, a public relations major, was elected PRSSA National President 2005-2006. |
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| FACULTY MEMBER |
| Submitted: February 22, 2013 |
Name: | | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Cesar Garcia published a research article titled "The use of sports as a tool of public diplomacy in regions or 'stateless nations': The case of the Basque Country in contemporary Spain" in the Journal of Sports Media, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 115-128. |
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| Submitted: January 14, 2013 |
Name: | | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Film and Video Studies faculty member Jon Ward directed a film here on campus that will screen on 9 February at the Spokane International Film Festival. The film is titled V3 and stars many CWU students. |
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| Submitted: September 13, 2012 |
Name: | Cesar Garcia | Hometown: ELLENSBURG | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Cesar Garcia published recently "Using Strategic Communication for Nation-Building in Contemporary Spain: The Basque Case" in International Journal of Strategic Communication, volume 6, issue 3, pp. 212-231. |
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| Submitted: February 13, 2012 |
Name: | Cesar Garcia | Hometown: Ellensburg | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Cesar Garcia published the article titled "Nationalism, identity and fan relationship building in Barcelona Football Club" in the International Journal of Sport Communication, 2012, 5, 1-15. |
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| Submitted: October 13, 2011 |
Name: | César | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Professor César García foreworded and translated into Spanish El público fantasma (The phantom public) (2011). It is the first time it is translated into Spanish the classic book that Walter Lippmann wrote in 1925. The publisher is Genueve Ediciones, Madrid, Spain. |
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| Submitted: October 13, 2011 |
Name: | César | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | In September 2011, Dr. García published "Sex scandals: A cross-cultural analysis of image repair strategies in the cases of Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi" in Public Relations Review. |
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| Submitted: September 15, 2011 |
Name: | Phil Backlund | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Phil Backlund was the lead author (with Betsy Back, Claire Procopio, Deirdre Johnston, and Howard Sypher) on a recent article published by the National Communication Association in the nation's leading communication education journal. The article, titled "NCA Program Review Standards: Background, Application, and Data" was published in the July edition of Communication Education. |
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| Submitted: September 15, 2011 |
Name: | Steve Jackson | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Shrapnel Games will publish ten computer game books written by Steve Jackson. The first, Total Eclipse, will be published this fall, with three more to follow in the coming months. The four books total over a thousand pages. Shrapnel Games was founded in 1999 and has published a number of award-winning computer games in the past twelve years, and calls Professor Jackson’s work, “the best of the best. ” Professor Jackson’s work is at the cutting edge of convergent media and the computer game industry. |
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| Submitted: September 13, 2011 |
Name: | César | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Dr. García published "American Psique, cosas que se suelen olvidar de los Estados Unidos," (American Psyche, Things People Tend to Forget about the United States), a book written for a foreign audience on defining characteristics of contemporary American society. The book was presented at the FNAC Madrid bookstore in June and has received significant press coverage in Spain. The publisher is Madrid-based Lo que no existe. |
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| Submitted: August 30, 2011 |
Name: | Cesar | Hometown: ELLENSBURG | Department: | Communication |
| News: | In September 2011, Dr. Garcia published "Real Madrid Football Club: Applying a Relationship-Management Model to a Sport Organization in Spain" in the International Journal of Sport Communication.
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| STAFF MEMBER |
| Submitted: 05-25-2006 |
Name: | Veronica Gomez-Vilchis | Hometown: | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Veronica Gomez-Vilchis' and Lois Breedlove's proposal, "Empowering students through video and self-expression: A collaboration with Central Washington University and Wahluke School District," has been accepted for presentation at the National Conference on GEAR UP, July 2006. |
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| ALUMNI |
| Submitted: April 4, 2012 |
Name: | Nichole Williamson, Matthew Carstens | Hometown: Paulsbo, WA; Kirkland, WA | Department: | Communication |
| News: | Nichole Williamson and Matthew Carstens both received Society of Professional Student regional awards for their work on the Observer. Williamson placed in the "Best Breaking News Photo" category for her photo of Ellensburg resident Daryl Petrey protesting President Gaudino's retention incentive in the fall. The photo appeared in the Observer issue dated OCt. 27, 2011.
Carsten, a graduate of the class of 2011, received yet another award in the "Best Sports Reporting" category for his piece titled "Sports struggles for equality and balance" centered on the lack of diversity in Central's coaching staff and appeared in the Dec. 1, 2011 issue. Carsten's first award, from the 2010 SPJ Region 10 conference, was for his investigative piece on the high pitch counts on Central's baseball team, coached by Desi Storey.
The Observer has yet to hear their placings. The awards were announced last weekend at Pacific Lutheran University during the 2012 SPJ Region 10 Conference. |
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