Mark Noack, chosen as a graduate student at the University of Oregon, impressed the judges with his commitment to editing and his interest in multimedia. He wrote eye-catching headlines that would be at home in any medium. His editing sample detailed how he worked with a news editor on deadline to resolve a problem with numbers, ensuring that an otherwise solid story didn’t generate a correction.
Bertil Peterson, Noack’s supervisor during his Dow Jones internship at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., noted Noack’s penchant for asking good questions, his quest for feedback and his initiative. “Mark collaborated with a graphics intern to produce a full-page look at the potential for wind-power generation in the Northwest,” Peterson wrote. John Russial, one of Noack’s professors at Oregon, wrote that Noack has developed skills in television and other media to keep up with the changing media landscape.
