Photography
dave@photomilestones.com

Dave Arntson grew up in West Fargo, N.D., and graduated from MSUM with a Mass Communications/Photojournalism bachelor's degree. He began his career as a photojournalist for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and The Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern. He has also worked in marketing and corporate communications for software and financial organizations in Fargo.

Dave owns and operates Milestones Photography in West Fargo. He brings his photojournalistic and documentary style to wedding, portrait and commercial work.

"Life's real moments are always better than anything one could dream up and I think capturing a small portion of those moments in photographs is a great way to spend a career." -da

Layout/Typography
dchristy@mnstate.edu

Growing up in the Black Hills a.k.a. "the Banana Belt of the Dakotas," David Christy finished High School in Bismarck, N.D. He received a BA in art from NDSU in 1971 with graduate studies in art at UND.

Christy's work experience has been wide and varied. The short list includes radio disk jockey, art instructor, newspaper paste-up artist, designer, illustrator, cell animator, famous artist, goat farmer, mural painter and web designer.

Maintenance Engineering, Fargo, N.D. hired Christy in 1990 as director of marketing. He established a Macintosh color desktop suite to design and produce the company's four-color presentation pages. Since then he oversees and produces the company's multimedia needs of audio, video and DVD training tools along with managing the company's recruiting Web sites. Maintenance Engineering is presently the #1 Premium Quality Industrial Lighting Company in the nation.

"I have found teaching a wonderful complement to a corporate production environment. They both sharpen one another. Layout and Typography can help focus a student to communicate clearly and with a purpose.” - dc

Jamie Farmen

Desktop Publishing
farmenja@mnstate.edu

Jamie (Woodley) Farmen is from West Fargo, N.D. She graduated from MSUM in May 2003 with a degree in graphic communications, digital design and production option, and a minor is mass communications. She works at Valley Printing in Fargo, N.D. as a graphic designer and customer service representative. She helps clientele with designing, typesetting, estimating, editing and proofing their jobs and prepares them for press.

As an adjunct professor, Jamie Farmen teaches a desktop publishing class.

"Desktop publishing is not just using your computer to create a brochure.

PR Processes
nancy@hansonphoto.com

Nancy Edmonds Hanson has been exploring new ways to inform and persuade since her own student days in the mass communications department-a journey that parallels the department’s own expansion from strictly journalism to today’s broader realm of possibilities.

As one of the first crop of graduates of the then-fledgling program in 1970, Nancy focused on newspaper journalism – in the classroom and on the job at The Forum. She subsequently served as North Dakota’s assistant tourism director, producer of a weekly news review for Prairie Public Television, frequent contributor to regional magazines, author of two best-selling books on freelance writing in the boonies, magazine editor, ad agency creative director, editor and author of the five all-time best-selling photo essay books on North Dakota, president of a regional book publisher and distributor, and full-time public relations professional. She also works with photography, video and multi-media production in the company she operates with her husband, Hanson Photo.Video.Communications.

Hanson teaches PR processes, a hands-on course in public relations, as well as classes in fund raising for the PR professional and promotions, in which students develop marketing and PR materials for New Rivers Press.

Media Planning
dave.howland@123fargo.com

Dave Howland has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Mass Communication at MSUM since 1987.

Howland grew up in Moorhead and received his degree in history education from MSUM in 1973.

With more than 30 years advertising and marketing experience, Howland is the sales manager for six Triad Broadcasting Radio stations in Fargo-Moorhead.

TV News Writing
KKealy@wday.com

Kerstin Kealy joined the MSUM faculty in January 2005. She teaches a course in Campus News writing while maintaining her job as anchor/producer at the ABC Affiliate in Fargo-Moorhead, WDAY6-TV. The Buffalo, Minn., native has been with WDAY since 1997, reporting on the people and events that shape life in the region.

Kealy attended MSUM, where she graduated with a degree in mass communications with an emphasis on broadcast journalism.

"Students in the Campus News Program are getting a jump on other students in their field. Through this program they are gaining experience and skills that are used in today's television newsrooms and are helping them become more employable." - kk

TV News Producing
rjkupec@i29.net

Rob is originally from Willimantic, Conn. He has a degree in atmospheric science from The State University of New York at Albany.

Rob teaches classes that are associated with Campus News, a weekly newscast done by students, which airs on Prairie Public Television.

In addition to teaching at MSUM, he is a meteorologist for WDAY TV in Fargo and keeps track of, and comments on, the weather on his blog at: fmweather.blogspot.com

" Campus news is a tremendous opportunity for students to get hands-on experience with televisions news. The show also gives them a chance to meet and get feedback from a wide variety of people currently working in television news." - rk

Online Communications
kuzniabr@mnstate.edu

Braden Kuznia grew up on a dairy farm near Argyle Minn. He attended college at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Before joining MSUM as an adjunct faculty member, he traveled to London, England, and gained valuable experience in web development and life while photographing everything he could. He returned to Fargo and accepted a position with the local newspaper, The Forum, as IN-FORUM producer. In this role he has designed, produced, programmed and created everything from banner ads to multimedia content.

"Finding your ideal career in the world today takes time and effort. This year I am helping my students prepare themselves for the world outside college by creating online portfolios and resumes while sharing as many real work experiences as I can." -bk

Ad CopyWriting
ABAdvert@aol.com

Anita Peterson Morgan grew up in East Grand Forks, Minn. Her first experience in advertising was handling the promotions for Sacred Heart's high school plays and doing layout and calligraphy for the school's yearbook.

She graduated from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, with a BA in speech with an emphasis in radio and television, and a Journalism minor. She jokes her big claim to fame at UND was being dubbed the “Polka Princess,” a name she received while co-hosting KFJM AM's daily "Old Tyme Show." Morgan observes, “I loved being on-air. The only drawback was our show time-6 to 7 a.m. It's tough on a college kid to be awake, perky and coherent when the sun's not even up."

Working in local television and radio, Morgan was an account manager. Also, she was the media director and account representative for a local advertising agency before her company, AB AdvertiZing was founded in 1989. Most of its clients are located in the upper Midwest with sales range from $800,000 to $4 million.

Morgan is a past president and board member of the Fargo-Moorhead Advertising Federation. She has been teaching advertising copywriting as an adjunct professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead since (I DON'T KNOW).

" I am so fortunate to be adopted by MSUM. I may be a Sioux-fan but one with a transplanted Dragon heart. I hope the collegians realize and appreciate the full-time faculty and the adjuncts who do so much for them. Such talent and technology in one place is mind boggling and humbling for me." - am

Desktop Publishing
ottpaul@mnstate.edu

Paul Ott is a Bloomington, Minn., native. He attended Winona State University and earned his degree in industrial education, with an emphasis in graphic communication.

Ott is technology coordinator for Central Cass Schools in Casselton, N.D. Previously he was a full-time classroom teacher and yearbook adviser, for Central Cass. He teaches computer aided drafting and web design at Central Cass and has been an adjunct instructor teaching desktop publishing since 1998.

“Publishing has changed tremendously over the past few years. I feel fortunate to have experienced this evolution and enjoy sharing these changes with my students as they enter the field of desktop publishing.” - po

Sports Information
scotty@mnstate.edu

Broadcast Journalism
jshaw@kvrr.com

Jim Shaw grew up in Newton, Mass. Hoping to become a television sports reporter he graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and also received a master's degree from Northwestern.

Jim is the news director at KVRR-TV (Fox News) in Fargo, N.D. Before that he reported for some suburban Chicago newspapers and was Washington correspondent for radio stations in Illinois and Texas. Shaw also worked for NBC Sports, and was a reporter at WDAY-TV in Fargo for 21 years.

"I want students to learn and have fun. I believe they go hand-in-hand." - js

Creating A Newsletter
ktweed@cableone.net

Curiosity drives Katherine Tweed. She began writing rhyme in her second floor bedroom on a North Dakota farm in first grade and hasn’t settled on a single writing style since.

She’s had an eclectic career that began while she was a student at MSUM. Communications has been her livelihood and pleasure. She developed the “Creating a Newsletter” course that produces the College of Business and Industry newsletter, B&I attaché, and teaches “Media Writing.”

"Journalists have huge responsibilities. We must always be willing to seek truth, not define it; tell stories that have integrity for both the subject and ourselves, and give people information to create communities better than they’ve been.” - kt

TV News Reporting
Kwallevand@wday.com

Kevin Wallevand is a native of Vining, Minn., in rural Otter Tail county.

He is a 1984 mass communications graduate of MSUM. Since 1983, he has been a news reporter at WDAY-TV in Fargo, N.D.