Visiting editor to be honored by SPJ

Terrific week coming up!

Visiting editor-in-residence Sue Burzynski Bullard will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award Tuesday evening at the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit Chapter banquet.
Sue, a veteran editor at The Detroit News, left the newspaper this past summer to join the J-School faculty. She has done a phenomenal job in the classroom teaching ethics, editing, advanced reporting and media management classes.

She will be leaving us at the end of the term to take an associate professor of journalism job at the University of Nebraska. Lucky Huskers! Sue is a J-School alum, and we will miss her talent and skill. She is most deserving of the SPJ award.

Also leaving MSU's J-School is Sandra (Sam) Combs, another Spartan alumna. She will be joining the journalism faculty of Arkansas State next fall. Sam's been the basic reporting courses coordinator since she arrived on campus five years ago. Ironically, Sam is past president of the SPJ chapter giving Sue the award!

Good luck to both of them! We will miss them

Last week’s whirlwind visit by Ithaca College Dean Dianne Lynch was a real eye opener for both faculty and students. Her thorough grasp of the fast paced changes triggered by the Web and its impact on the traditional news media platforms was striking, insightful and right on target. See a brief clip on Dianne's take on the future of journalism.