Category Archives: Alumni News

For the eighth time, an alumnus from the School of Media and Communication has won journalism’s top prize.

Kurtis Lee, JOUR ’09, shares with rest of The Denver Post staff the 2013 prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the July 20, 2012, movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo. They were cited for their use of “journalistic tools, from Twitter and Facebook to video and written reports, both to capture a breaking story and provide context.”

The paper’s Aurora beat reporter, Lee was called into action at 2:14 a.m. by one of his editors. The second Post reporter … Read more »

Stanley Lumax, JPRA ’99, details the growth of his passion for photography though pictures of the cameras he has owned.

From his first point-and-shoot to his first SLR camera, Lumax showed these photos, as well as some of the work he created with them, to Professor Ed Trayes’ photojournalism students Feb. 22.

Lumax is the global cultural director at the Anomaly advertising agency in New York, where he is responsible for learning how best to market to customers around the world. He owns Stoneface Photography (named after his fraternity nickname), through which he has shot images for Nike, Converse, Sprite … Read more »

Temple University Athletics will celebrate 60 years of the most decorated sports information director in the history of intercollegiate athletics, Al Shrier, JOUR ’53, during its men’s basketball game against Penn on Jan. 23.

“There is no more beloved figure in Temple University, or for that matter Philadelphia collegiate athletics than Al Shrier,” said Temple University Director of Athletics Bill Bradshaw. “Al graduated from Temple in 1953 and never left, dedicating his life to promoting what is positive in college athletics and in particular Temple student-athletes and coaches. He is the epitome of Temple Made.”

Commemorative document bags, a Shrier … Read more »