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		<title>SJMC students contribute to IowaWatch investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 14:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drake SJMC]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven SJMC students helped produce a package of articles about how 2014 Iowa college graduates are handling their college debt. Amanda Horvath, Sarah Fulton, Austin Cannon, Emma Wilson, Colton Warren, Mario Rossi and Meagan Flynn contributed reporting and video to the project produced by IowaWatch, an investigative reporting project headquartered at the University of Iowa [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><img class="size-large wp-image-4148 alignnone" alt="iowawatch" src="http://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/05/Screen-shot-2014-05-12-at-9.24.19-AM-580x421.png" width="580" height="421" />Seven SJMC students helped produce a package of articles about how 2014 Iowa college graduates are handling their college debt.</p>
<p>Amanda Horvath, Sarah Fulton, Austin Cannon, Emma Wilson, Colton Warren, Mario Rossi and Meagan Flynn contributed reporting and video to the project produced by IowaWatch, an investigative reporting project headquartered at the University of Iowa journalism school.</p>
<p>Their work was published online and also will be published in newspapers around the state.</p>
<p>Read the articles:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://iowawatch.org/2014/05/10/huge-debts-temper-job-searches-for-2014-college-graduates-in-iowa/">Huge Debts Temper Job Searches For 2014 College Graduates In Iowa</a></li>
<li><a href="http://iowawatch.org/2014/05/10/graduating-debt-free-gives-students-a-jump-in-job-market/">Graduating Debt-Free Gave Students A Jump In Job Market</a></li>
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		<title>Drake Students Win IBNA Recognition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 14:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lytle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electronic Media seniors Frank Merchlewitz and Gwen Baumgardner won first-place student awards in Public Affairs and In Depth/Series for their 4-minute reports produced during fall semester&#8217;s JMC73 Radio News class and aired on 94-1 The Dog. Merchlewitz also won second place for his radio newscast. 2013 broadcast news graduate Noelle Smith took first-place General Reporting [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic -->Electronic Media seniors Frank Merchlewitz and Gwen Baumgardner won first-place student awards in Public Affairs and In Depth/Series for their 4-minute reports produced during fall semester&#8217;s JMC73 Radio News class and aired on 94-1 The Dog.<span id="more-4129"></span></p>
<p>Merchlewitz also won second place for his radio newscast.</p>
<p>2013 broadcast news graduate Noelle Smith took first-place General Reporting for her DrakeLINE story about potential Drake impacts of a national budget freeze. Smith works for Edelman PR in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>Working professionals and students submitted 650 entries, a record number. Broadcast journalists in eight states judged the entries.</p>
<p>Awards were announced during the evening banquet program during which Judy Woodruff spoke about her trips to Iowa to cover politics. Woodruff, managing editor and co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour, earlier moderated the five-candidate Republican Senate debate.</p>
<p><a href="https://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/05/Mariah_Janet_050314.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4134" alt="Mariah_Janet_050314" src="https://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/05/Mariah_Janet_050314.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>During the noon luncheon program, sophomore broadcast news major Mariah Lewis accepted the $500 Eliot Keller Scholarship &#8220;designed to recognize outstanding promise at an early career stage for a sophomore or junior.&#8221; Lewis received her award from the Iowa City FM pioneer&#8217;s widow, Janet.</p>
<p>The DoubleTree hotel in downtown Cedar Rapids hosted the May 3 convention.
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		<title>SPJ lauds Drake student magazines</title>
		<link>http://sjmc.drake.edu/2014/04/28/spj-lauds-drake-student-magazines/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=spj-lauds-drake-student-magazines</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drake SJMC]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Drake University student magazines were finalists in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards this year, and one—DUH magazine (Drake University Honors) —is advancing to the national judging. The 2013 issue of DUH won the award for Best Student Magazine. Marina Shawd was editor of the publication, and Katie Minnick [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><a href="http://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/04/DUH2013Cover.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4122 alignleft" alt="DUH 2013 Cover" src="http://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/04/DUH2013Cover-309x400.jpg" width="309" height="400" /></a>Four Drake University student magazines were finalists in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards this year, and one—DUH magazine (Drake University Honors) —is advancing to the national judging.</p>
<p>The 2013 issue of DUH won the award for Best Student Magazine. Marina Shawd was editor of the publication, and Katie Minnick was art director. Jeff Inman served as faculty adviser.</p>
<p>Also a finalist in the Best Student Magazine category was the <a title="Drake Magazine past issues" href="http://drakemagazine.com/past-issues/" target="_blank">spring 2013 issue of Drake Magazine</a>, edited by Jeff Nelson. Elyssa Yesnes was art director. Their adviser was Lori Blachford.</p>
<p>Two Drake magazines designed as iPad apps were named finalists in the Best Digital-Only Student Publication: Urban Plains and Think. Kerri Sorrell guided the <a title="Urban Plains" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/urban-plains-magazine/id486642942?mt=8" target="_blank">Urban Plains</a> team, Lindsay Susla was art director, and Jeff Inman adviser. <a title="Think magazine" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/think-magazine-2013/id640382906?mt=8" target="_blank">Think’s</a> editor was Olivia Young. Rebecca Boneschans was art director, and Jill Van Wyke adviser. The winner of the digital category was the University of Missouri’s Vox.</p>
<p>The regional winners were announced at the Region 7 conference in Overland Park, Kan., on April 26. The national awards will be handed out in May.</p>
<p>Region 7 includes schools from Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.</p>
<p>“The fact that our students are so successful in the publications categories speaks to their ability to managed the entire production process, not just tackle one article at a time,” said Lori Blachford, the Peggy Fisher and Larry Stelter Chair of Magazine Journalism at Drake.</p>
<p>“I’m also delighted to see the students and faculty recognized for their work in digital production,” Blachford said. “That has been a focus for us ever since 2010, when the first iPad was sold. By fall of that year, the first issue of the digital-only Urban Plains was an iPad app.”
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		<title>Governor Branstad Visits With Reporting Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lytle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Terry Branstad told Advanced Reporting students Iowa operates an &#8220;honest, open, responsive&#8221; government. During a 40-minute visit to Meredith Hall, the governor said &#8220;The state&#8217;s financial house is in order&#8221; and the unemployment rate has dropped from 6.1% to 4.4%. The 5-term governor appeared at the invitation of adjunct instructor Mike Glover, retired AP [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><a href="https://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/04/&#66;&#114;&#97;&#110;&#115;tad1&#95;&#52;&#48;&#48;x3&#48;0&#64;7&#50;.j&#112;g"><img class="size-full wp-image-4113 alignleft" style="margin: 5px" alt="Branstad1_400x300@72" src="https://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/04/&#66;r&#97;ns&#116;a&#100;&#49;_&#52;&#48;&#48;&#120;3&#48;0&#64;&#55;&#50;.&#106;&#112;&#103;" width="400" height="300" /></a>Gov. Terry Branstad told Advanced Reporting students Iowa operates an &#8220;honest, open, responsive&#8221; government. During a 40-minute visit to Meredith Hall, the governor said &#8220;The state&#8217;s financial house is in order&#8221; and the unemployment rate has dropped from 6.1% to 4.4%.</p>
<p>The 5-term governor appeared at the invitation of adjunct instructor Mike Glover, retired AP political reporter. Branstad is running for another 4-year term on the Republican ticket.</p>
<p>Raised on a farm near Leland, in extreme Northern Iowa, his career has included financial advising, private law practice, three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, a term as lieutenant governor and, most recently, the presidency of Des Moines University, the state&#8217;s osteopathic medical college.</p>
<p>The governor said two Drake Law students initially urged him to return to politics. &#8220;The hardest one to convince (about the pay cut) was my wife,&#8221; said Branstad, who still visits DMU&#8217;s Wellness Center for which he raised construction funding.</p>
<p>Branstad said he&#8217;s keeping an open mind on whether to support a freshened effort to legalize a marijuana oil extract to treat Epilepsy. The drug would require a prescription. His main concern is &#8220;a whole lot of unintended consequences.&#8221;</p>
<p>Branstad said he&#8217;s  spoken with Utah&#8217;s governor and plans to seek advice from Alabama&#8217;s governor, a physician, telling student reporters he never promises to veto or to sign a bill until he sees the final form.</p>
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		<title>NYC Trip for Drake Magazine Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The annual networking trip to New York City for magazine majors begins Wednesday, April 9. The group of seven students and their fearless leader, Professor Jeff Inman, will have some time to explore New York before heading back home on Sunday, but the highlight of the trip is a busy schedule of publication-hopping on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><strong>Ryan D&#8217;Agostino, articles editor for Esquire, will be sharing his wisdom with students again this trip.</strong></p>
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<p>The annual networking trip to New York City for magazine majors begins Wednesday, April 9. The group of seven students and their fearless leader, Professor Jeff Inman, will have some time to explore New York before heading back home on Sunday, but the highlight of the trip is a busy schedule of publication-hopping on Thursday and Friday.</p>
<p>The schedule is developed to give students access to the vast diversity of communication types and platforms that magazines utilize today.</p>
<p>Here’s the schedule of visits (comfortable shoes highly recommended!):</p>
<p><b>Thursday</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Meredith Corporation Original Video Production</li>
<li>Parents Magazine</li>
<li>Entertainment Weekly</li>
<li>InStyle</li>
<li>Gold Magazine/Sports Illustrated Golf Group</li>
<li>New York Daily News</li>
<li>Refinery29.com</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Friday</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Martha Stewart Social Media</li>
<li>Fast Company</li>
<li>Cosmopolitan</li>
<li>Esquire</li>
<li>Woman’s Day</li>
</ul>
<p>Drake’s fabulous journalism alums, especially the magazine graduates, are at the heart of trip planning each year. As a thank-you, a special gathering for Drake journalism alums in the New York area will take place Thursday night.</p>
<ul>
<li>Follow all the fun on Twitter with <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DrakeNYC14&amp;src=typd&amp;f=realtime">#DrakeNYC14</a>.</li>
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		<title>2014 DrakeLINE Newscasts Reach Halfway Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lytle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen Radio-Television Producing and Broadcast News students are reporting, writing, producing and directing DrakeLINE&#8217;s 16th offering since spring 1993. The weekly 12-newscast cycle concludes May 8. Thursday newscasts air live at 4 on MediaCom&#8217;s College Channel, with digital repeats at 5 and 6. Programs also stream and are archived at DrakeLINE.com. Alumni and interested others [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Sixteen Radio-Television Producing and Broadcast News students are reporting, writing, producing and directing DrakeLINE&#8217;s 16th offering since spring 1993. The weekly 12-newscast cycle concludes May 8.</p>
<p><span id="more-4072"></span>Thursday newscasts air live at 4 on MediaCom&#8217;s College Channel, with digital repeats at 5 and 6. Programs also stream and are archived at <a href="http://www.drakeline.com">DrakeLINE.com</a>.</p>
<p>Alumni and interested others will enjoy clothing, hair styles and story treatment from 1993 and previously produced Focus capstone newscasts.</p>
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		<title>Join SJMC at the Relays and wish Lytle a happy retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The School of Journalism and Mass Communication is hosting an open house in Meredith Hall on Saturday, April 26, 4-6 p.m. There will be a cash bar and free snacks. The open house during last year’s SJMC reunion was so much fun and such an overwhelming success, it may become an annual event! This will [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4051" alt="lytle" src="http://sjmc.drake.edu/files/2014/03/lytle.jpg" width="150" height="175" />The School of Journalism and Mass Communication is hosting an open house in Meredith Hall on Saturday, April 26, 4-6 p.m. There will be a cash bar and free snacks. The open house during last year’s SJMC reunion was so much fun and such an overwhelming success, it may become an annual event!</p>
<p>This will also be a retirement reception for <strong>John Lytle, Ellis and Nelle Levitt professor of broadcast journalism</strong>. Lytle is retiring in May after 37 years on the Drake faculty.</p>
<p>Stop by to thank Lytle for his years of service to the SJMC and wish him good luck and happiness in retirement! If you can’t make it back to campus, please send best wishes to John in care of SJMC Director Kathleen Richardson at <a href="mai&#108;t&#111;:&#107;&#97;t&#104;le&#101;&#110;.ric&#104;a&#114;&#100;&#115;on&#64;&#100;&#114;&#97;&#107;e&#46;&#101;&#100;u">&#107;at&#104;le&#101;n&#46;r&#105;&#99;h&#97;&#114;d&#115;o&#110;&#64;d&#114;&#97;ke.e&#100;u</a>.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://alumni.drake.edu/SJMC2014">alumni.drake.edu/SJMC2014</a> for directions on how to RSVP so we are sure to have enough food and drink.
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		<title>SJMC professors to offer seven J-term classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication professors will offer six classes during the 2015 January term - including two travel seminars.]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Student Noelle Smith took these photos during the 2013 Drake in DC class.</p>
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<p>Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication professors will offer seven classes during the 2015 January term &#8211; including two travel seminars.</p>
<p>Interested students should attend the J-Term Fair 4-6 p.m. March 11 in Parents Hall.</p>
<p><strong>Here are the classes being offered:</strong></p>
<p><strong>JMC 058 Intro to Visual Communication:</strong> Professor Lee Jolliffe will teach this class for non-JMC students to fulfill the Artistic Experience AOI.</p>
<p><strong>JMC 085 Public Relations Principles:</strong> Professor Kelly Bruhn will teach this required class for PR majors that also fulfills the Engaged Citizen AOI for all Drake students.</p>
<p><strong>JMC 099 Social Media Strategies:</strong> Professor Chris Snider will teach this SJMC elective that explores how to create strategies for social media success.</p>
<p><strong>JMC 133 International Consumerism:</strong> Professor Dorothy Pisarski will teach this travel seminar to Poland. <a href="http://jtermpoland2015.blogspot.com/">See more information on the official class website</a>.</p>
<p><strong>JMC 199 Iowa Caucuses and the Media:</strong> Professor Jennifer Konfrst will teach this class that explores the Presidential nominating process as a whole, specifically focusing on the influence of early states in the process.</p>
<p><strong>POLS 199 Inside Washington: Exploring Bipartisan Solutions:</strong> Politics professor Rachel Caufield and journalism professor Jill Van Wyke will take Drake University students to Washington, D.C., for two weeks to study the new Congress, particularly legislative gridlock, partisanship, and the likelihood of collaboration and compromise in policy-making. They’ll also study how the media cover national politics.</p>
<p><strong>THEA 132 Music Video Project:</strong> Professor Sandy Henry is teaching this class. Students from Theatre, JMC and Music will work together to complete three major processes: transcribe a song into sheet music and perform the song for the video; design the costumes, lighting, scenery, and staging/choreography, as well as perform it; and, design and execute the multimedia production.
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		<title>Return to Washington</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics professor Rachel Caufield and journalism professor Jill Van Wyke are returning to Washington, D.C., in 2015 for another January term course. They will take Drake University students to the nation&#8217;s capital for two weeks to study the new Congress, particularly legislative gridlock, partisanship, and the likelihood of collaboration and compromise in policy-making. They&#8217;ll also [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Politics professor Rachel Caufield and journalism professor Jill Van Wyke are returning to Washington, D.C., in 2015 for another January term course.</p>
<p>They will take Drake University students to the nation&#8217;s capital for two weeks to study the new Congress, particularly legislative gridlock, partisanship, and the likelihood of collaboration and compromise in policy-making. They&#8217;ll also study how the media cover national politics.</p>
<p>The trip will include class sessions through The Washington Center, site visits, guest speakers, small group discussions, and professional networking opportunities. Students will chronicle their experiences in a blog.</p>
<p>Interested students can <a href="http://www.drake.edu/dc/j-termexperience/j-term2015travelseminars/" target="_blank">read a full course description of Pols 119 here</a>. Registration for j-term classes takes place at the same time as registration for fall 2014.</p>
<p>Caufield and Van Wyke last traveled to Washington with students for the presidential inauguration in 2013. This video, produced for <a href="http://drakeindc.com/" target="_blank">the class blog</a>, offers a glimpse into the experience:</p>
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		<title>Prof. Inman Picks Top 5 at SXSW</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Inman, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Drake University AUSTIN, TEXAS – They call it Nerd Spring Break for a reason. Every March social media junkies, venture capital gurus, scruffy bearded programmers and would-be Mark Zuckerbergs all converge on downtown Austin for South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive. While the annual SXSW convention covers more that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>AUSTIN, TEXAS – They call it Nerd Spring Break for a reason. Every March social media junkies, venture capital gurus, scruffy bearded programmers and would-be Mark Zuckerbergs all converge on downtown Austin for <a title="SXSW" href="http://sxsw.com/interactive" target="_blank">South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive</a>.</p>
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<p>While the annual SXSW convention covers more that the tech industry—there’s also an education, film, and, most famously, a music convention running nearly simultaneously—the Interactive portion grabs the lion’s share of the press. It’s the convention of the future—or what the geeks of the world wish it would be. It saw the launch of Twitter. It helped make social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk famous. It even brought together Vice President Al Gore and Napster founder Sean Parker.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em">Last year’s convention boasted over 30,000 paid attendees. Predictions for this year’s SXSWi (March 7-16) are trending even higher. And while the long lines, odd sidewalk marketing, and endless dash for free beer provide plenty of distraction for convention goers, it’s the panels that truly matter. Here are some of my top picks for the weekend.</span></p>
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<li><strong>“Online Lego Fans and the People Who Love Them”:</strong> Sure, it’s a panel about adult Lego fans. But it is also a panel about how to deftly balance brand values and messaging with a rabid and devout fan base in an ever-expanding online community. This is content marketing at its greatest.</li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em"><strong>“I’m Not a Designer: Accepting the Designer Label”:</strong> User experience dominates the tech lexicon these days. It’s also often seen as the designer’s responsibility. Avanade Inc. UX Architect Morgan Burton will talk about accepting the title of designer even though UX design should be everyone’s responsibility.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em"><strong>“A Virtual Conversation with Julian Assange”:</strong> Admittedly, a Skype interview with Wikileaks founder Assange could go quickly off the rails. But with the NSA always watching and online privacy becoming even more of a concern, Assange’s views on the world seem less anarchistic and more prophetic by the day. Though, for the record, he’s still weird.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em"><strong>“Print is Amazing (…ly Profitable)”:</strong> OK, that title alone should catch a journalist’s eye. But presenter Ane Marie Gardner, CEO and Founder of “Modern Farmer” magazine, actually has the experience—and the business model—to back it up. And with the launch of other new high-profile mags like “Dr. Oz,” “AllRecipes.com,” “Politico” and “Pitchfork,” she’s not alone.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em"><strong>“Dive into Social Media Analytics”:</strong> Pulling meaning from metrics isn’t easy. Even seasoned social media marketers and editors have difficulty interpreting all the numbers. With a panel stocked with analytics experts, this session will </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em">provide some solid tools to see the story in the data. </span></li>
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<p><strong>Related articles: </strong></p>
<p><a title="SXSW Day 1" href="http://meredithmagstudies.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/sxsw-day-1-embracing-the-scene-ius/" target="_blank">SXSW Day 1: Embracing the &#8220;Scene-ius&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a title="SXSW Day 2" href="http://meredithmagstudies.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/sxsw-day-2-here-comes-the-future-whether-you-want-it-or-not/" target="_blank">SXSW Day 2: Here comes the future, whether you want it or not</a></p>
<p><a title="SXSW Day 2" href="http://meredithmagstudies.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/sxsw-day-2-here-comes-the-future-whether-you-want-it-or-not/" target="_blank"> </a>
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