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Submit News [+]UI and DI alumnus Robert Novak dies
Posted by: Kit Donahue on 2009-08-18 16:32:48We've had several alums contact us to tell us about Robert Novak's death earlier today. Mr. Novak was inducted into the Illini Media Hall of Fame in the fall of 2007 and came back to Champaign for the celebration.
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Meyerson back to radio
Posted by: Charlie Meyerson on 2009-08-14 18:45:42Charlie Meyerson named WGN Radio news director Read More >>
Phil Strang Art Exhibits
Posted by: Phil Strang Art Exhibits on 2009-08-14 16:25:02Phil Strang (Class of 72) WPGU asst MD (68-69) and MG (69-70) has two exhibits of original art in the near future Read More >>
Dave Cullen publishes NY Times bestseller
Posted by: Dave Cullen on 2009-08-12 16:31:25Dave Cullen's book COLUMBINE spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list this spring and summer. It peaked at #3. Read More >>
Jodi Glenn Fox Elected Chair of Sonic Foundry User Group
Posted by: Jodi Fox on 2009-07-06 09:17:28Jodi Glenn Fox (DI 1989-92) was elected chairperson of the international user group for Sonic Foundry's Mediasite, a multimedia capture solution used to provide live and on-demand streaming of lectures, presentations, and other materials. Read More >>
Most recent new members:
Tom Wuellner, Ron Tripp, Robert Hrabak, Marjorie Morrison, Nick Jones, Melissa Silverberg, Jorie Johnson, Megan Herboth, Matthew Brandabur, Christina Campos,Most recent donors:
Matt & Kate Pokarney Brickman, Anonymous, Adriana Colindres, Doug Lee, Robin and Chris Kaler, Channing Brown, Peter A. Weitzel, Adrienne Leffler, Mona Blaber, Marty Jencius,Illini Media Hall of Fame - 2009
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Alan D. MutterDaily Illini: 1968-70 ReporterInducted: 2009 |
Alan D. Mutter knows journalism inside and out and has found his niche as a keen observer of today’s news media and technology landscape.
Before beginning his professional journalism career at the Urbana Courier at the age of 20, Mutter started out as a Daily Illini news and campus reporter from 1968-70. From there he went on to work for the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times, where he became city editor. He was referred to as one of the stars of Chicago journalism at the time. After his years in Chicago, Mutter moved to the San Francisco Chronicle and became the No. 2 newsroom editor there.
In 1988, he left the newspaper business and joined InterMedia Partners, a start-up that grew through acquisition to become the nation’s 12th largest cable TV system operator. Rising to the position of chief operating officer, Mutter managed coast-to-coast operations.
Now a senior media and technology executive and member of the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Mutter has had experience in both the news world and the business world as the former CEO of three different Silicon Valley companies.
His popular online commentary, “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” keeps up with the changing media industry and has been quoted by the Poynter Institute, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and other media outlets.
Mutter has been at the forefront of changes in the journalism world. “If you’re all about preserving the old way of doing things, then this is a very difficult time,” Mutter told the Columbia Journalism Review in January 2009.
Before beginning his professional journalism career at the Urbana Courier at the age of 20, Mutter started out as a Daily Illini news and campus reporter from 1968-70. From there he went on to work for the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times, where he became city editor. He was referred to as one of the stars of Chicago journalism at the time. After his years in Chicago, Mutter moved to the San Francisco Chronicle and became the No. 2 newsroom editor there.
In 1988, he left the newspaper business and joined InterMedia Partners, a start-up that grew through acquisition to become the nation’s 12th largest cable TV system operator. Rising to the position of chief operating officer, Mutter managed coast-to-coast operations.
Now a senior media and technology executive and member of the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Mutter has had experience in both the news world and the business world as the former CEO of three different Silicon Valley companies.
His popular online commentary, “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” keeps up with the changing media industry and has been quoted by the Poynter Institute, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and other media outlets.
Mutter has been at the forefront of changes in the journalism world. “If you’re all about preserving the old way of doing things, then this is a very difficult time,” Mutter told the Columbia Journalism Review in January 2009.