Archives: Class Notes
Jennifer Herner, BJ ’87
Jenny Herner, BJ 1987, was named Head of Ethics & Compliance for Anheuser-Busch.
Amy Fiscus, BJ ’03
Amy Fiscus is the deputy national editor at The Washington Post, overseeing a team of more than 120 journalists covering politics, national news and more.
Christopher Hemeyer, BJ ’99
Chris has been promoted to Senior Associate Athletics Director, External Affairs at Campbell University where he is also the play-by-play voice of the Fighting Camels.
Carleigh Hill, MA ’10
Carleigh Hill, is currently the Services Manager for the Washington Community and Technical Colleges Library Consortium. She supports librarians and staff at 30+ community colleges in providing access to resources for the state’s students. Her journalism degree has strengthened many necessary skills including information literacy, investigative problem-solving, and data analysis.
Chris Arb, BA ’08
Chris Arb has signed on with McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. as Senior Business Development Manager. In this position, he will build client and partner relationships to expand McCarthy’s industrial experience across the company’s 28-state Central Region—from the Plains to the East Coast. Before joining McCarthy, Arb served as Industrial Group Business Development Manager at a … Continued
Mark Welsh, BJ ’08
Mark Welsh was promoted to Senior Vice President, Executive Director at Golin, a Global PR agency.
Trish (Houts) Reeves, BJ ’69
Trish Houts Reeves writes: “It has been a while. I hope my J-School classmates are thriving. After MU, I followed a career in creative writing that ultimately led to receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Keck, and the Kansas Arts Commission. My first book, Returning the Question, won the Cleveland State … Continued
Scott Nishimura, BJ ’84
Scott Nishimura, BJ ’84, is new editorial director for 360 West Magazine, Fort Worth, Texas.
Jackie Borchardt, MA ’09
Jackie was promoted to senior news director for the Cincinnati Enquirer and relocated to the Queen City with her husband, Joshua Bickel (MA ’09) and their two daughters in June 2022. She previously covered Ohio politics for 10 years in Columbus, Ohio, as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Dayton, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
Fred Bleakley, MA ’66
After retiring from a career in journalism, I recently wrote about an Auschwitz escapee I had interviewed in 1995 for an article in the Wall Street Journal. The book, “Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary’s Jews,” was published this past April by Post Hill Press and is being distributed by Simon … Continued