Greenlee instructor awarded prestigious fellowship
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Greenlee School Lecturer Shelley Rouse received the Radio-Television and News Directors Association and Foundation Fellowship. Rouse will spend her fellowship at WHO-TV 13 in Des Moines. |
By Daniel C. Hartman
Greenlee Web Team
A common complaint among students at most universities is that
their instructors don’t teach them what is going on in the “real world.” Greenlee School Lecturer Shelley Rouse can relate.
“
In teaching, we sometimes lose sight of what is relevant to the
real world,” said Rouse, who has been teaching classes in public relations and electronic
media studies at Iowa State since 2002. “The practical side is often overlooked in favor of the academic, and we should
really be teaching both sides.”
For four weeks this summer, Rouse will be stepping out of the
classroom and into the WHO-TV 13 studio in Des Moines courtesy
of the Radio-Television and News Directors Association and Foundation
Fellowship.
The Educator in the Newsroom Fellowship is awarded to a select group of educators
and has a very specific purpose.
“ We award 17 to 20 fellowships annually,” said Carol Knopes, director of education projects for RTNDA. The fellowships
are funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and
their aim is to get educators back in the newsroom for hands-on
experience and to become familiar with the latest technology.
“ I would definitely like to do some reporting,” Rouse said. “At the same time, I also would like to work with the assignment editor, in production
and do some photography."
Before coming to Iowa State, Rouse worked at TCI of Illinois
doing political news. And as a college student she interned at
KDSM Fox 17 in
Des Moines.
Rouse said she applied for the fellowship last fall
and was very pleased to find she got it after a lengthy application
process.
“ I think everyone knows that I got it around here," she said. After I got the email confirming it, I was running up and down the
halls.”
Before beginning her four weeks at WHO on May 22, Rouse will
travel to Washington, D.C., for a three-day orientation May 17-20.
Rouse said the fellowship will allow her to experience what her
students go through as television news interns.
“ I have many students who are down there right now,” Rouse said. “Hopefully, I will be back teaching next fall with a whole new understanding of
the intern experience.”
She also said she hopes the experience gives her ideas for new ways to teach
students before they become interns.
“ I will be able to use this to revamp the way I look at things," Rouse said. "I particularly want to look at the relationships between local media outlets
and the public and how they are perceived.”
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