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from the Department of Journalism & Communication
January 21, 2013
All the Local News:
Sundance 2013! Utah Public Radio host started at age 14, Aggie alum goes from KSL to Vietnam, Logan as an art mecca? ‘advocacy journalism’ helps persecuted Christians in India, low enrollment forces USU Eastern dorm closure, women in photojournalism on Aggie TV News . . . and more.
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CACHE VALLEY & UTAH NEWS
From teen radio reporter to early-bird UPR host, alum has plenty to say
By Stacey Worster
Photo by Jessica Fife
Special from The Utah Statesman
LOGAN—Not many people can say they started a career before they could
drive. But Kerry Bringhurst started her radio career at age 14 in Vernal, Utah. Now, the USU JCOM alumna is the news director and local host
of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” at Utah Public Radio. “As an eighth grader, the news director asked me and a few of my
friends if we would be interested in working at the radio station after school,” Bringhurst said. “Honestly, I thought I would
be cleaning toilets or something. I never imagined it would be an on-air
job.”Sundance crowd panics at film premier when fire extinguisher explodes
By Katie Swain
PARK CITY—An explosion in the Eccles Theater ticketholder’s tent
caused mass panic Friday at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Kill Your Darlings”
Friday. A fire extinguisher was knocked off the wall and burst open on
impact, spreading cloudy, smoky fog throughout the tent. People began screaming and rushing for the exits, knocking down metal barriers in their urgent dash to escape.
“It sounded like a shot going off, or some kind of bomb with all of the smoke,” said Libbie Brunsvold.Sundance 2013: Redford’s annual celebration opens
By Ben Hansen
Special to Hard News Café
PARK CITY, Utah—The Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and like every year, the 2013 edition is packed with film premiers, concerts, celebrities, parties, panel discussions and off-screen events.
Logan has potential to be great art city, gallery owner says
By Dani Hayes
LOGAN—Despite Cache Valley vast artistic talent, there wasn’t a central place for artists and art lovers to congregate, to form a community, to make a name. So one prominent community member and artist set out to change that by creating Logan Fine Art Gallery in late 2011. Owner Eugene Needham hopes to make Logan a major art center. “Other cities have done it—Santa Fe, Scottsdale, Jackson. We need to make the people of Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Provo, Ogden, Salt Lake aware that Logan is a place to come and buy art.”
USU NEWS
Advocate-journalists: How suffering in India changed our worldviews
LOGAN—It was during a National Geographic photo assignment in India that she
felt drawn to something more personal and powerful than traditional
journalism. After more than 35 years as a photojournalist, suddenly Lynn Johnson’s job
became a “calling.” Johnson was on assignment to
document a group of Christians who had
been driven out of their village by Hindu extremists. Upon her return from India, she called her friend, activist Jen
Saffron, and told her that just photographing the world no longer seemed
sufficient. “She told me I had been called,” Johnson told an audience of 150 at
Utah State University on Wednesday, standing below a 30-foot image of
the young man, Anil, whose story changed her life.Humanitarian-journalists talk about advocacy, women in photography
LOGAN—Lynn Johnson, a veteran National Geographic photojournalist who came to Utah State Wednesday to talk about her “advocacy journalism” efforts to benefit humanitarian causes in India, also talked to AggieTV News about women in photojournalism. Click here.
USU Eastern closes residence hall as enrollment woes continue
By Seth Richards
USU Eastern Eagle News Editor
PRICE—Because of a nearly 6 percent drop in enrollment at USU Eastern between fall and spring semesters, there are no longer enough students at the Price campus to justify use of four residence halls. So the 20 students returning this semester to Burtenshaw Hall—deemed the most expensive to keep open—have been moved to other dorms, and Burtenshaw has been closed.
Broadcast news alum reports on the world from Vietnam
By Stacey WorsterSpecial from the Utah Statesman
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam—Sarah Dallof’s colleagues, professors and bosses would all agree on one thing—she can do it all. Whether behind the camera, putting together stories, editing, producing and, most of all, reporting about the world we live in—she has taken her education and experience to places she never expected. Dallof, a USU JCOM alumna, graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2003. After several years reporting for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, she now files stories as a freelancer from across Southeast Asia, based in Vietnam.
USU Eastern science prof to be Legislature’s ‘father figure’
By Nathan ManleyUSU Eastern Eagle Staff Writer
PRICE—For Jerry Anderson, a 77-year-old USU Eastern botany professor, being the first Republican representative elected in House District 69 in Carbon County is a crowning achievement of a long career. He has always been a busy man—“Rushed like mad,” as Anderson puts it, maintaining a rigorous lifestyle juggling work and family—a large family. Anderson and his wife raised 15 children and “just” 68 grandchildren who, he joked, contributed to the political victory by supplying the voting muscle.
REVIEWS
Sundance 2013: Radcliffe excels in daring, poetic ‘Kill Your Darlings’
By Katie Swain
PARK CITY—“Kill Your Darlings,” which premiered Friday at Sundance,
follows the true events of poet Allen Ginsberg’s transformation from
emotional and sexual repression to the realization of his unorthodox
genius and homosexuality—a process that is sparked by a tragic murder
and culminates in Ginsberg’s essential role in the beat movement of the
1950s. Ginsberg, played by Daniel Radcliffe, starts off in “Kill Your Darlings”
as a rather respectful and obedient son, and morphs into a poet and a rebel. As life imitates art,
Radcliffe also seems to have reached a similar breaking-out point in his
career in his evolution from the conventional Harry Potter we all know
to this character.Sundance 2013: Kenny Loggins back again with new band
By Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Blue Sky Riders entertained a wall-to-wall packed ASCAP Music Café at Sundance on Friday. The band, featuring Kenny Loggins, Georgia Middleman and Gary Burr, performed songs from their debut album, “Finally Home,” set to release on Tuesday.
Slamdance 2013 Q&A: ‘Rebel’ DJ LeCash as quirky as his film
By Katie Swain
Sundance 2013: ‘Crystal Fairy’ is a trip . . . literally
Story & Photo by Ben HansenSpecial to Hard News Café
PARK CITY—The 2013 Sundance Film Festival opened with a handful of films on Thursday night. Perhaps the most anticipated of the bunch, “Crystal Fairy” promised star power (Michael Cera), an eccentric director (Sebastian Silva), and an intriguing storyline. Jamie (Michael Cera), a drug-abusing American boy in Chile, takes his local friends on a mescaline trip—a voyage to find, cook, and drink the psychedelic San Pedro cactus. Coming along is a free-spirit Jamie meets at a party, Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann), which creates all kinds of conflicts.
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