Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 7

callercom Cotpttf drirti CaUeNJunrf Wednesday February 7 2001A7 KENNEDY Gore gives first lecture at Golumbia Working media left out in cold as class discussion is kept off the record FROM A1 that there's no rush and well do it with great care sure some of them will jump and ran and others will Br Diego Ibarguen AKodited Presi titled National Affairs in the Information I understand it the normal Rumors in the newsroom in the US Army in World War IL His wife was an Associated Press correspondent He has demonstrated his abilities as a lawyer decorated officer in World War II and secretary of 10 Ibxas Democratic Party conventions During the Depression Kennedy founded The State Observer now The Ibxas Observer a bi-monthly publication that covers the Texas political scene He was a correspondent for many metropolitan newspapers including the San Antonio Light and the Houston Chronide In 1931 he launched the Austin Bureau of the International News Service which later merged with United Press Kennedy was the INS bureau manager from 1931 to 1942 when he left to serve in World War IL NEW YORK Former Vice President A1 Gore taught his first class at one of er The AP and UP worked out of the same offices at the Capitol Building in Austin but Kennedy managed to get his own office While running the bureau he continued taking law courses at the -university In 1934 he passed the Ifcxas State Bar examination and was admitted to practice He has practiced law primarily as it relates to broadcasting Vann Kennedy made KZTV teaching affiliate a place that would let employees anchor or produce the 10 pun news even if they had just finished college courv es He has given hundreds of individuals their start in journalism including Walter Cronkite And even after the salet he's not going anywhere are staying said Mary is home" warned not to ask any political questions or queries on behalf of professional journalists An-advance e-mail also warned them the class was considered this record" "It definitely goes against what we're taught but A1 Gore and we have to accommodate him" student Benjamin Stein said is not just any professor added Michael Amone 29 a student in the class Gore has signed on to teach courses at Columbia Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University Graig Wolff one of the professors of the Columbia class said it was an opportunity for intimate with Gore Station manager Jim Bixler said tjte meeting was held to calm the employees and subdue the rumors floating around the newsroom year there was a rumor that Somebody bought the station and that never happened" Bixler said prefer not to add to the Kathleen Kennedy has taken time off from her job in North Carolina as a vice president at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to help with the sale Newsroom employees were told not to comment on the sale policy is that the classes are usually off the record" Gore said later would have had the option to do it on the record but I think the students will get more out of it if it's as much as possible a normal classroom University spokeswoman Suzanne Ttimel called the class a learning experience for students a news event" The irony was not lost on journalism students outside the building where some three dozen members of the working media were locked out Several students said they were the nation's premier journalism schools Tuesday but only off the record With security officers keeping news media at bay Gore delivered his first lecture at Gore Fop adhm snd mb cridc BSardo Bscs on be reached 886-3688 or by Mml baarOcdeECoo Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in a class Meteorologist Phil Sokolov 5 pm Anchor Walter Furley and executive producerweekend anchorassign-ments editor Jan Paik all refused to Kennedy's reputation Political observers of that time say Kennedy had built a reputation for exposing legislative cronyism and pork barreling terms often used when government funds are used for political benefit Kennedy graduated from San Marcos Academy in 1923 and enrolled at Southwest Ifcxas State Tbachers College (now Southwest Ifcxas State University) Kennedy never graduated from Southwest Ifcxas a college that would honor comment But Bixler said that qnoiale was fine after employees learned of the sale him in 1987 as a distinguished alum-years ne dead nus After two years he decided to take pre-law courses at the University of Ifcxas 'Change die Roger Brandt the general sales manager at NBC affiliate KRIS said he's not sure what the sale will bring to the market but is preparing strategy to compete against whoever the new owners are Brandt said the new management will most likely initially concentrate on ifevamping the local news and bringing new syndicated pro- While attending law school on his savings Kennedy founded the tramming all known that this station a Activate a Cingular Home" plan with access of $29" and higher and get unlimited mobile to mobile calling and mobile to mobile messaging to any Cingular customer within your local calling area would soon be for sale and heard rumors for years" said Brandt recognized that When it does happen it will change lace It will mal the marketplace It will make things Capital Weekly Press and became an Austin correspondent for The Houston Chronicle the Dallas Tbnes-Hendd and the San Antonio Light He also became an Austin correspondent for the International News Service a competitor to the Associated Press and what then was United Press (now United Press International) A turning point in career came in 1931 when he traveled at his own expense to New York City to persuade International News Service to open a bureau in Austin The wire service agreed and made Kennedy the bureau manag- jrnuch more competitive from that standpoint will benefit the marketplace no question about Vann Kennedy who has been called a human landmark has been in journalism for more than 70 years He was a confidant of governors and presidents He also served Offer 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