Thursday, October 13, 2011

Where are they now?

Catching up with some recent SPJN grads…
Kristen Shilton, SPJN class of 2011
            Kristen Shilton, winner of the G.P. Hunt faculty award in our class of 2011, is now attending graduate school at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
            Kristen is focusing on sports communications and is also a research assistant for Dennis Deninger, a former producer at ESPN, who’s working on a book about television sports that will be published in December.
            “Things down here are insane, but awesome,” Kristen said in an e-mail this week. “Living in the States has been an adjustment, but I am really enjoying it now, although I get plenty of jokes about my supposed accent.”
            You can read Kristen’s work at the following link: http://www.thenewshouse.com/blog/sus-group-californians

Megan Burke, SPJN class of 2011
            Megan Burke has been a full-time reporter at The Recorder and Times in Brockville, Ont., since she completed the Sports Journalism program in the spring.
            Initially, Megan was covering news, but she recently has been re-assigned and is now doing a mix of news and sports, including hockey and football. You can check out Megan’s recent hockey story at: http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3315970