Barbara Walsh, 2007
Jackie MacMullan, 2006
Ron Winslow, 2005

Visiting Journalist Program

2005 Visiting Journalist:
Ron Winslow

Ron Winslow's week-long residency on campus in October 2004 inaugurated the new Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Program, which gives UNH journalism students the chance to benefit from the expertise of the program's distinguished alumni.

Ron has two titles at the Wall Street Journal: deputy news editor for health and science, and senior medical and health care writer. From 1978 to 1983 he was a journalism professor at UNH. During his 2004 visiting journalist stint, we kept Ron plenty busy. He spoke in every journalism class, held office hours, met with the editors of The New Hampshire, and gave a talk titled "The Bleeding Edge: A Journalist's Perspective on the Health Care Wars" that attracted lots of students, faculty, community members and Don Murray himself.

Among the long list of things that journalism students report learning from Ron: You can be a hotshot journalist and be nice. You can stay a Red Sox fan while living in New York. There's no substitute for deep, detailed reporting. You can use lots of numbers and technical info and still make people and plot the center of your work. Thanks to Ron, STORIFY, the Journal's word for finding the people who will bring an issue to life, is now firmly entrenched in the journalism-course lexicon in Ham Smith.

Ron's week as the first visiting journalist turned out to be a miracle of timing. A lifetime Red Sox fan, he got to watch on TV from a bar in Portsmouth as the Sox won the Series . . . during a lunar eclipse . . . on his birthday. Ron's wife, Larkin, reports that he was standing on a table and screaming. Ron claims it was only a bench.
Some of Ron's stories from the Wall Street Journal:

	One Patient, 34 Days In the Hospital, a Bill For $5.2 Million
	In 'Tinman' Gene, Scientists See Root of Two Heart Defects

2007 Walsh | 2006 MacMullan | 2005 Winslow