Reprinted from a section on new faculty in the Fall 2006 issue of Jargon, the alumni newsletter of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University:
Jan Leach has been named assistant professor, a tenure-track position. She recently earned a master's degree in journalism ethics from Kent State and will teach copy editing and ethics.
Leach, the former editor of the Akron Beacon journal, had been a professional in residence at JMC and is an ethics fellow at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
Leach coordinated the second annual Poynter-KSU Media Ethics Workshop May 18 at the Stark Professional Education and Conference Center. The workshop offers affordable, timely ethics training for professionals who cannot make it to The Poynter Institute in Florida for seminars but who are concerned about ethics development on the job. This year, 61 journalists participated, beating the goal of 50.
Five newspaper publishers co-sponsored the event with JMC: The Plain Dealer, Akon Beacon journal, The Columbus Dispatch, The (Toledo) Blade and Copley Ohio Newspapers which include The (Canton) Repository. As one participant noted on the evaluation form, the event was “a bargain way to have a Poynter experience.”
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I got my Poynter experience from the man himself when I was hired by Nelson's St. Petersburg Times. Once a month Poynter would gather up all the new hires into his office, and have a chat. As most old-time newspaper people know, the St. Pete Times has been at the front of new technology for decades. I used color techniques at the Times, as a sports layout designer (only we didn't use that term in 1966-67) that I didn't get to use again at the BJ till about 20 years later. It was a short but valuable experience for me.
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