Students, Faculty and Staff Are Invited to Attend Several Upcoming Guest Speakers on A

Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend several upcoming guest speakers on a variety of topics related to journalism who will talk in courses this term taught by Professor Nancy Cohen. All of these talks will be held in room 251 in Hillyer Hall. Feel free to attend any of these talks:

Paul Singley Creative Nonfiction CMM317 2:05-3:20 March 24 Hillyer 251

Paul Singley is a senior reporter and web advocate at the Waterbury Republican-American. In that role, he reports on municipal government, crime, fire and other issues in the Naugatuck Valley and Greater Waterbury areas. He also covers veteran’s affairs. He works with other news reporters to tell their stories on the web using video, audio, documents and other materials. He oversees some of the social media pages for the paper. He has been a full-time reporter since 2004, when he joined the Republican-American staff after graduating from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He left the paper for three years to launch the Oxford CT Patch hyper local news site and soon took over the Naugatuck Patch news site before returning to the Rep-Am in 2010. He earned bachelors' degrees in Communications/Sports Journalism and English from Springfield College in Massachusetts. He is in his second term as president of the CT Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has received awards for journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Newspaper Editors Association. He has taught communications at Naugatuck Valley Community College every semester since 2006 and taught one semester of Journalism Technology at Southern Connecticut State University in 2013.

Mark KramerCreative Nonfiction CMM317 2:05-3:20 April 7 Hillyer 251

Mark Kramer is Professor of Clinical Practice in Narrative Journalism and writer-in-residence in Boston University's journalism department, and founder and director of the Power of Narrative Conference, now in its 17th year. He is the co-author of two leading textbooks/readers on narrative nonfiction: Telling True Stories and Literary Journalism, and is currently at work on a book about revising narrative nonfiction. He's written four

additional books: Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy, Three Farms, Invasive Procedures, and Travels with a Hungry Bear. Mark has also written for the New Times Sunday

Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals. He was

previously writer-in-residence in American Studies at Smith College and writer-in-residence and founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University. Mark leads a "kitchen workshop" for professional writers with book projects. His website is .

Diane Orson CMM 458 Reporting & Writing Radio 3:30 pm March 1 Hillyer 251

Diane Orson is WNPR's local host for Morning Edition. She is also a reporter and managing editor for WNPR, as well as a contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories are heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. Diane began at WBUR in Boston and came to Connecticut in 1988 as a co-producer for Open Air New England. She shared a Peabody Award with Faith Middleton for their piece of radio nostalgia about New Haven's Shubert Theater.Her reporting has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the Ellen Abrams Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Walt Dibble Award for Overall Excellence.

Catie Talarski CMM 458 Reporting & Writing Radio 3:30 pm March 29 Hillyer 251

Catie Talarski is Executive Producer at WNPR, focusing on original WNPR programs; working to develop new concepts, live events and content strategies, with concentration on three pillars: Talk Programming, Community Outreach, and Education.Catie got her start in documentary radio at the Salt Institute in Portland Maine. She has produced several PRNDI award-winning programs on Where We Live, including coverage of young people leaving Connecticut and Sexual Assault on College Campuses. In honoring her award-winning 2010 episode about what makes a good neighbor, PRNDI judges wrote that Where We Live “takes a news story and spins it into universal connections for listeners. This program is an inspiring example of how talk programs can take the ordinary and make it extraordinary.”

Catie’s also documented end-of-life decisions made by young people with Cystic Fibrosis for NPR’s Hearing Voices, and dug into archival tape of artist Romare Bearden for Studio 360. For WNPR, she’s explored the underbelly of Hartford’s Park River, and the history of the women who helped save the Mark Twain House. She worked with the Public Radio Exchange to produce the hour-long specials BULLIED: Teen Stories from Generation PRX and Left Behind, Dropping Out.

For more information about any of these talks, please contact Professor Nancy Cohen at .