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Contact: David West (west@alpha.nsula.edu
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News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
9/05/2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES -The Department of Journalism at Northwestern State University will host two University Satellite Seminar Series sponsored by the Museum of Television and Radio during the fall 2001 semester.
The first seminar, "Spin City" will be held Monday, Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m. "Open Mics: The Art of Radio Documentary" is set for Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. Both will be held in the Ora Garland Williams Electronic Media Center located in Kyser Hall, Room 142. The seminars are free and open to the public
"Spin City" will discuss the ABC comedy that looks at the absurdities of city politics and sexual politics. The show is one of television's most successful sitcoms, despite undergoing extraordinary upheaval over five seasons on the air. "Spin City" not only lost its original leading man (Michael J. Fox, replaced last season by Charlie Sheen), but also had other changes including the addition of Heather Locklear; the departure and return of co-creator Gary David Goldberg; and relocation of the production from New York to Los Angeles. Goldberg along with Locklear and Sheen will discuss the evolution of the show and the process of crafting and producing the series on a weekly basis.
One of the areas of greatest artistic growth for radio over the past few years has been in the field of the documentary. Top radio documentarians will discuss their craft and address the challenges of building compelling stories solely through the use of sound. Panelists will discuss how radio differs from other documentary media, and how they find and create the sound they use.
Participants will include Jay Allison of Transom.org and Lost
& Found Sound,
David Isay of Sound Portraits, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva of
Lost & Found Sound
Joe Richman, Radio Diaries and Stephen Smith, American RadioWorks.
For more information on the seminars, call (318) 357-4425.