 |
||
| alumni index | ||
| Alumni
News Break: JSU Comm PR Alum
Ashley L. Wheeler Joins the March of Dimes as Community Director
Alabama Chapter/North-Central
Division,
effective October 1, 2007. Recent News
Release about her acceptance of this prestigious position.
Printable Word or PDF (in
case the JSU News Bureau takes it down) Other
Alumni News Alumni Track: Alphabetical Directory (A - C) print 11-pg document The Department of Communication can help prepare you for a successful future. Just ask some of our graduates. Submission Instructions A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Kevin AndersonGraduated in 2002.
Production manager for IBN radio Network in Metro-Atlanta. Philip Attinger (updated cell phone number 9-5-2008)Phil, holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in English and History, double major (1992), and a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Communication (1999). He served as Editor in Chief of The
Chanticleer from 1998-99 and as secretary for SPJ. He wrote for
the Life & Times section
of the Gadsden
Times during the summer of 1999, after which, he moved to Florida
and worked as reporter/staffwriter for Highlands
County News-Sun, a
HarborPoint Media newspaper in Sebring,
FL,
home of the internationally known 12 Hours of Sebring auto race, part of
the American Le Mans series. Phil won first place in the Florida Press
Association Better Weekly Newspaper awards in the Humor Column category
for 1999, third
place in Humor Column for 2000, and second place in Environmental Writing
for
2003. He
married on July 8, 2006, and moved to Winter Haven, FL, (home of historic Cypress
Gardens. Bill Bauman
Bill is the Chief of Video Services for the U.S. Army Safety Center at
Fort Rucker, Ala., and has worked for the government in Florida and Colorado.
His current duties expose him to new media, working with AVID Media Composers
and using video streaming on web sites. While a communication major at
JSU, Bill worked as a DJ at WLJS-92J.
Tiffany Bearden (recently updated 8-18-2008)Tiffany
graduated from JSU in Fall 2007 and is currently working in the Country
Music Kaci Smith BeattyKaci is currently the Director of Alumni Affairs at Jacksonville State University. She previously worked for the university as an alumni field representative/admissions counselor before being promoted. She began her career at CNN after completing her internship there and at the time she left, she was a chyron operator in the control room during live broadcasts. Kaci was a member of SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) and a DJ for WLJS-FM radio.E-mail: kbeatty@jsu.edu Andrea Brown-Wilson (added 2-16-2008)Andrea graduated in 2002 (concentration in Public Relations). She was a photographer for The Chanticleer. She went on to earn a Masters in Public Administration from University of Alabama at Birmingham and currently works as a grant writer for Rainbow Omega, a faith-based non-profit organization in Eastaboga Alabama that provides residential and vocational services for adults with developmental disabilities.E-mail: awilson@rainbowomega.org Justin Brown (updated 2-16-2008)Justin is a former program director
at JSU's WLJS,
and Q-104, a 100,000 watt FM station in Gadsden, Ala., and was a DJ
at one of Alabama's largest and most popular stations, Magic
96 in Birmingham. Justin Brown now serves as the Program Director and
afternoon co-host at 93.7
WDJC-FM in Birmingham, a station consistently ranked
one of the highest-rated stations in the market. Brandi ByersBrandi graduated in 1996 and is currently working as an editor at FOX-6 WBRC in Birmingham.E-mail: berlinerinbby@yahoo.com Chris CappsChris, a photographer for the Mimosa and The
Chanticleer while at JSU,
was with Crawford Communications
in Atlanta as a Network Operator for Latin
American Pay TV.
Currently employed with AOL Time Warner Turner
Broadcasting in Atlanta, GA. He is a network
operator. He works in WTBS, Cartoon Network, TCM, Boomerang, TNT, and Turner
South all networks owned and operated by Mr. Ted Turner.
Chris started in broadcasting at WZDX
TV Fox-54 in Huntsville as a control operator, then moved to WTTO/WABM
TV in Birmingham as a supervisor of master control operations.
Jamie ColeA former Editor in Chief of The Chanticleer, Jamie is now Multimedia Designer with the new media group at Southern Progress Corporation and Progressive Farmer magazine. He designs and maintains the Progressive Farmer web site, and maintains a personal site as well. He won the John C. Turner award and the Outstanding SPJ Graduate award his senior year at JSU, and won an SPJ National Mark of Excellence Award along with several regional awards for his coverage of the devastating tornado in the Goshen community of Alabama in 1994.E-mail: jcole@pathfinder.com Karen ColeWhile at JSU, Karen was a member
of SPJ and during her senior year she worked as a photojournalist at The
Anniston Star. After graduation, Karen
worked at WTTO TV21 in Birmingham, Ala., first as a Film Assistant, then
as Promotion Copywriter, Creative Services Producer and lastly as Promotion
Director. She received 14 Emmy nominations and one Emmy for work done in
the areas of Topical Promotion and Collaborative Arts-Composing. Karen
now works at WBRC Fox 6 in Birmingham
as Creative Services Producer. She is also involved with Do
Dah Day, Inc., a non-profit, all volunteer organization benefiting
homeless and injured animals.
Jocelyn ConnellJocelyn was born in Anniston and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Jacksonville State University in 2002. She's proud to say that she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 GPA. Jocelyn anchored a local cable television show and went to WDSI in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a reporter. She then went north to Lansing in April 2004 reporting for WILX and WSYM, in addition to anchoring the WSYM weekend news.Her proudest moment, however, was receiving an Emmy in 2006 (Article + photo) for her reporting on teens driving with cell phones. She's also enjoyed covering stories of national significance such as the state funeral of late President Gerald Ford and the capture of serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. When she's not working, Jocelyn loves spending time with her Italian Greyhound she rescued, playing the piano, and learning many new things about the Tri-City area. E-mail: JConnell@wnem.com Dana Williams ConleyAfter receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Jacksonville State in December 1996, Dana immediately went to work as a news producer at WHNT TV in Huntsville. In 2000, she took a job as a primetime producer at WAAY TV in Huntsville. In March 2003, she took a big step and moved back to Jacksonville and got married. Since then, Dana has worked as a marketing consultant, as well as freelancing in radio, television and the magazine industry. She currently serves as the fill-in producer at TV-24 in Jacksonville and works as a freelance writer/editor for a new entertainment company in Anniston called Envizions. Currently, she is working on her Masters degree at JSU. Her ultimate goal is to teach communication courses at the univesity. During her time at JSU's communication department, Dana worked as a features writer for The Chanticleer, The Mimosa and as a DJ for WLJS radio.E-mail: danaconley4@aol.com NcKell CopelandBorn in San Jose, Calif., Copeland’s family moved to Marietta, Ga., and she later attended Jacksonville State where she graduated cum laude/special honors in communication in 2003. She worked as a coaching assistant with the Toledo Rockets (2006-2007) before making news recently (June 2008), accepting an assistant coach position at Bradley University.E-mail: nckell.copeland@gmail.com Vicki Chirpe Coward
Vicki is the Community Relations Coordinator
for WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate
in Atlanta. She completed her internship with WSB-TV in
Atlanta, and was a production assistant for the Olympic Games. Vicki also worked
at ABC
Sports, Atlanta, in 1993, and with CNN Sports in 1992. She was a member
of the JSU student chapter of SPJ.
Lantz Croft
Lantz was a two-year vice president
of SPJ and
participated in an SPJ internship with the first TV newscast produced from
its national convention. He received the Outstanding
SPJ Graduate award in 1998. Lantz also worked with TV Services while
at JSU. He completed his senior internship with WBRC
Fox 6 News in Birmingham and is now Assignment Manager there.
Lantz serves as the director of internships for the station. Page 2 (D-G) Page 3 (H-L) Page 4 (M-R) Page 5 (S-Z) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: |
Website Contributions, Comments, or Questions? Webmaster: Dr. Jeffrey Hedrick
Last updated September 5, 2008