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Anniversary Reunion

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Anniversary Reunion

The Emory Journalism Program observed its first decade back on campus October 20-21, 2006 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel. See Photos >>

Students Robbie Brown and Rachel Zelkowitz congratulate Claude Sitton.

Representing four generations of Emory journalists, more than 200 alumni, professionals and students marked Journalism's tenth anniversary. The Journalism Program reopened in 1996 almost a half-century after an earlier Journalism Division closed. A $1.35 million gift from Cox Newspapers, owner of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, restored journalism education at Emory.

The Reunion was a weekend of spirited debate on journalism's future. Professionals joined Emory Journalism alumni on panels exploring sports journalism, the relevance of newspapers, the changing broadcast scene and controversies in science journalism. Read the following student reports on the panels.

AJC Editor Julia Wallace rallied the participants to keep journalism relevant amid the revolutionary impact of new Internet technology. Wallace told the closing banquet audience, "I believe that things that have value survive and are made stronger through transformational change. And I believe passionately in the value of what we do.

“Just because we change platforms and methods of delivering journalism doesn’t mean that we have to shortchange the standards that guide the journalism we do,” she said. Read Julia Wallace's full remarks.