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Episode 9: International journalist Susanne Fowler

 

In this episode, host Sylvia Clubb interviews Susanne Fowler, a former senior staff editor for The New York Times, a University of Iowa School of Journalism graduate and a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Susanne is an alumna of Kennedy High School, where she worked on the newspaper, The Torch, and where she was inducted into Quill & Scroll.

As a journalist and teacher, Susanne has traveled the world to cover important stories.

She was an editor in the London and Paris offices of The New York Times from 2006 through 2017.

She began working in Paris at The International Herald Tribune, now the global edition of The New York Times, in 2006 as an editor of financial news. She transferred to London in 2013 to be part of The Times’s digital transition, editing business and international news.

Sylvia spoke with Susanne about her career as an international journalist — some of the interesting stories she’s told and people she’s interviewed — and the value of a strong journalism education and being a part of Quill and Scroll Honor Society for High School Journalists.

ICHS students at climate rally Oct. 4, 2019

Iowa City High School students speak before Greta Thunberg takes the stage at Oct. 4, 2019 climate rally in downtown Iowa City.

Greta Thunberg speaks to Iowa City, Oct. 4, 2019

Here's Greta's speech to a crowd in downtown Iowa City.

Episode 8: Friendship

Quill and Scroll interviews John and Mary Beth Tinker

We’ve been focusing this year on the eight guiding principles for our organization. Our initiation ceremony notes that “Friendship is the link that binds humanity.” Like Aristotle, we recognize the importance of friendship and the synergy it brings to the journalistic endeavor.

In late February, Nichole Shaw had the chance to meet with two siblings — two of scholastic journalism’s best friends, John and Mary Beth Tinker.

The names should ring a bell. The Tinkers, along with John’s friend Christopher Eckhardt, in 1965 were suspended from their Des Moines, Iowa schools because they wanted to protest the Vietnam War. They proposed wearing black armbands emblazoned with a peace symbol. With the help of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, they sued the school district. The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where in February 1969 the justices ruled in favor of the Tinkers. The “Tinker Case” has forever burned in our minds the sentence: “Students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Last month the Tinkers set out on a 50th anniversary celebration of that decision. Nichole Shaw spoke with them in the studios of KRUI, the student radio station at the University of Iowa.

Episode 7: Judgment

Jack Rintoul, a member of the Quill and Scroll Student Advisory Board, speaks with his fellow editors at Kirkwood High School about how they use good judgment to make important journalistic decisions. Kirkwood's student publication is The Kirkwood Call. 

Episode 6: integrity

In this episode, Q&S Student Advisory Board member Emily Hood speaks with her principal at Frances Howell North High School about the value of integrity in high school journalism programs and how to work best with your administrators.

Episode 1: Truth

Host Nichole Shaw and Quill and Scroll Executive Director Jeff Browne discuss the primary principle upon which the organization is founded: TRUTH.

Episode 2: Learning

Host Nichole Shaw talks with two high school editors about the importance of learning and research before entering into an interview.

Episode 3: Leadership

Host Nichole Shaw interviews Daily Iowan editor Katelyn Weisbrod about how to lead a student newsroom packed with your peers. It's not easy. 

Episode 4: Loyalty

Host Nichole Shaw interviews Colorado Student Media Association Executive Director about loyalty and its relationship to high school journalism. Kennedy was initiated in high school into Quill and Scroll and today serves on the board of directors.