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The Exponent
The ''Purdue Exponent'' is an independent student newspaper that serves Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is published on Mondays and Thursdays during university semesters by the Purdue Student Publishing Foundation, and is Indiana's largest collegiate newspaper. The ''Exponent'' employs four full-time professionals, relying for most operations on a staff of approximately 100 students, though the university has no journalism school. Exponent alumni have won six Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzers, six Emmy Award, Emmys, two Peabody Award, Peabodys, and two John Chancellors. History The ''Exponents first edition was published on December 15, 1889. It was a daily paper from 1906 to 2016. In 2017, it switched to a twice-weekly printing schedule. The Web edition (www.purdueexponent.org) was started in 1996. It was the first college newspaper in the country to build its own building (built in 1989 and sold in 2017, but the organization still resides there) and one of two coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Student Newspaper
A student publication is a media outlet such as a newspaper, magazine, television show, or radio station Graduate student journal, produced by students at an educational institution. These publications typically cover local and school-related news, but they may also report on national or international news as well. Most student publications are either part of a curricular class or run as an extracurricular activity. Student publications serve as both a platform for community discussion and a place for those interested in journalism to develop their skills. These publications report news, publish opinions of students and faculty, and may run advertisements catered to the student body. Besides these purposes, student publications also serve as a watchdog to uncover problems at the respective institution. The majority of student publications are funded through their educational institution. Some funds may be generated through sales and advertisements, but the majority usually comes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Butz
Earl Lauer "Rusty" Butz (July 3, 1909 – February 2, 2008) was a United States government official who served as the secretary of agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs. Background Butz was born in Albion, Indiana, and brought up on a dairy farm in Noble County, Indiana. He was the eldest of five children and worked on his parents' farm while growing up. He attended a one-room country school through eighth grade and graduated from high school in a class of seven. Butz was an alumnus of Purdue University, where he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1932, and then a doctorate in agricultural economics in 1937. He was the uncle of American football player Dave Butz. Butz met the former Mary Emma Powell (1911–1995) from North Carolina in 1930, at the National 4-H Camp in Washington, DC. They were ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Peterson (animator)
Robert Peterson (born January 18, 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, director, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor who works at Pixar. He was hired at Pixar by Roger Gould in 1994 as an animator for commercials, before subsequently becoming an animator on ''Toy Story'' (1995). He was the co-director and co-writer for ''Up (2009 film), Up'' (2009), in which he also voiced the characters Dug and Alpha. He conceived the idea of ''The Good Dinosaur'' (2015), and was the film's original director before being dismissed from it. His work as a writer for the films ''Up'' and ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was also a co-writer on ''Cars 3'' (2017) and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program for his work on ''Forky Asks A Question'' (2020). Career Peterson's early career as an artist started when he was a mechanical engineering student at ''Ohio Northern University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obama Administration
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following his victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2012 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney, to win re-election. Alongside Obama's presidency, the Democratic Party also held their majorities in the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Senate under Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid during the 111th U.S. Congress. Obama is the first African American president, the first multiracial president, the first non-white president, and the first president born in Hawaii. Obama was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election against Obama's preferred successor, Hillary Clinton. Historians and political scientists rank him among the upper tie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrangell Sentinel
''The Wrangell Sentinel'' is a weekly newspaper founded in 1902 in Wrangell, Alaska. The newspaper remains in publication with only a few short periods of inactivity. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Alaska. The paper covered potlach traditional celebrations. History The paper began in 1902 with the first issue published November 2 as the ''Alaska Sentinel''. In 1903 it was listed in the Governor of Alaska's report to the Department of the Interior as one of the newspapers in Alaska and again in 1904. A 1906 congressional report from the U.S. Government Printing office reported the Sentinel was among 23 papers in Alaska in 14 towns. The paper's name was changed in 1909 when Richard Bushell was induced to takeover the paper. Leonard P. Dawes took over the paper two years later. August 19, 1920, the editor of the ''Sentinel'', J. W. Pritchett, received a copy of the ''New York Times'' sent by plane, the first piece of mail to arrive in Alaska by plane. Mrs. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchorage Daily News
The ''Anchorage Daily News'' is a daily newspaper published by the Binkley Co., and based in Anchorage, Alaska. It is the most widely read newspaper and news website (adn.com) in the state of Alaska. The newspaper is headquartered in Anchorage, with bureaus in Wasilla and Juneau. History Early history The ''Anchorage Daily News'' was born as the weekly ''Anchorage News'', publishing its first issue January 13, 1946. The paper's founder and first publisher was Norman C. Brown. The early president of the paper's parent company was Harry J. Hill, who was also assistant treasurer of The Lathrop Company. This established the theory that Cap Lathrop was really behind the publication, but didn't wish to have his name formally associated with it, unlike his other newspapers such as the '' Fairbanks Daily News-Miner''. Brown did share Lathrop's views on the statehood issue. Brown became a leader in the short-lived mid-1950s movement to turn Alaska into a commonwealth rather than a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Persily
Larry Persily (born October 10, 1951) is a newspaper publisher and former Federal Coordinator of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects 2010–2015. The office was charged with coordinating federal agency responses to private-sector efforts to develop a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to supply the North American market. The Federal Coordinator is nominated with advice and consent of the Senate by the President of the United States."Across the USA: Alaska:Fairbanks," ''USA Today'', November 13, 2009, p. 13A.Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects government website biography of Drue Pearce . Accessed August 6, 2010 He was nominated by |
Mark O'Hare
Mark Sean O'Hare (born July 18, 1968) is an American cartoonist, animator, writer and storyboard artist who created the comic strip '' Citizen Dog''. O'Hare is well known for his work on animated television shows as a writer and storyboard artist for ''Rocko's Modern Life'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', '' Dexter's Laboratory'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', ''Hey Arnold!'', ''The Angry Beavers'', '' The Mighty B!'', ''Chowder'', and ''The Ren and Stimpy Show''. Throughout the run of the series, O'Hare served as the creative director and supervising producer on ''Camp Lazlo''. In 2016, he was employed as a storyboard artist for Illumination Entertainment. O'Hare has been nominated four times for an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and won his first Emmy in 2007 for "Outstanding Animated Program" on ''Camp Lazlo'' and his second in 2008. Early life and education O'Hare was initially enrolled in the aeronautical engineering program at Purdue University; however, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXIA-TV
WXIA-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). The two stations share studios at One Monroe Place on the north end of midtown Atlanta; WXIA-TV's transmitter is located in the city's east section, near Kirkwood (Atlanta), Kirkwood. Atlanta is the second largest television market (after KPRC-TV in Houston, Houston, Texas) where the NBC station is not owned and operated by the network. WXIA-TV is popularly known within the Atlanta metropolitan area by its longtime on-air moniker, brand, 11 Alive, which the station has used since 1976. History What is known today as WXIA-TV originally signed on the air September 30, 1951, at 5 p.m., as WLTV on VHF channel 8. It was the first full time American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate for Atlanta, taking it over from WSB-TV and WAGA-TV (channel 5), both originally primary NBC and CBS affiliates respectively t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael King (Project 21)
Michael Howard King (born December 18, 1962) is an American commentator, columnist and Murrow Award-winning & Emmy Award-winning television producer. Early life and education Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, King graduated from Roosevelt High School in Gary in 1980. King attended Howard University and Purdue University and was a student journalist for the ''Purdue Exponent''. His uncle Emery King was a reporter for NBC News. Career While still a high school student, King began his first media job in August 1979 as a weekend DJ for Gary radio station WLTH. King worked at various other radio stations in Northern Indiana and the Washington metropolitan area in the 1980s. King moved to the Atlanta metropolitan area in 1994, becoming station manager for WIGO (later WALR), a talk radio station targeting black Atlanta listeners. At WIGO, King launched new programming in January 1995 such as ''Georgia Live'', a daily interview show distributed to seven other stations in Georgia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Karr
Rick G. Karr is a journalist and educator who reports primarily on media and technology's impact on culture. They served as correspondent for the PBS series ''Bill Moyers Journal''. Prior to that, they reported and co-wrote the documentary ''Net @ Risk'', which aired in October 2006 as part of journalist Bill Moyers' series ''Moyers on America''. The show examined the impact of legislation on net neutrality and the future of the U.S. internet, as well as broader issues involving telecommunications and democracy. Karr was previously a correspondent for ''The Wall Street Journals PBS series ''Journal Editorial Report''; culture and technology correspondent for the public radio show ''Weekend America''; and a longtime correspondent, host, and engineer for National Public Radio. In 2002 and 2003, they were the media correspondent for the PBS series '' NOW with Bill Moyers''. Karr began their career in journalism as a teenager, when they worked as a reporter and music critic for The Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
