Who is IanBH?

What is the news industry made of?

There are the Professional Journalists. There
are bloggers. There are the multimedia online
magazines, social media gurus, the PR cadre
– under their new moniker, “Brand Journalists”
– and then, somewhere in the maelstrom of
constantly updating content, are You and I.

My name is Ian Bowman-Henderson and I love

that the world is changing.

The shackles of corporate-behemoth

publications no longer bind purveyors of
content. The only impediment to our work is
our own capacity to create.

I am currently a student at Ohio University’s

E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. This
portfolio is a summary of my ongoing efforts
to understand and embrace the changing
paradigms of the Information Age.

If you have a smartphone, I encourage you

to experience the expanded digital properties
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 Spark Newsmagazine 4
DisciplesWorld Magazine 5
For the Estate & Speakeasy
6
INC: Internships, News, Commentary 7
FlareCode.com
8
JumpLookThink Webzine 9
The AthensNEWS 10
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 Spark Newsmagazine
2005-2008

Humble Beginnings
I began working at the Spark as a sophomore in high
school. During my first year on staff I learned the ropes
of news and opinion writing, and had my first late night of
magazine making. I remember staring bleary-eyed into an
InDesign document and praying for inspiration. That isn’t
a complaint — I was absolutely hooked. During my junior
year I redesigned and managed the magazine’s opinion
section. My fondest memory of Spark was leading our in-
depth package on undocumented immigrants, an issue of
personal interest to me, which won numerous awards.

Dean Hume’s Spark of Genius

Mr. Hume founded Spark in 1993. He intended to create
a model program for student journalists. The Spark is an
open public forum, free from the administrative oversight
that plagues many student publications, and it has become
one of the most award-winning student publications of all
time. I won several national awards with Spark, including
the Quill and Scroll Golden Key for General Column
Writing and the Quill and Scroll National Sweepstakes for
In Depth Team Reporting. Mr. Hume’s encouragement set
me down the path of a professional journalist.

Publication Awards Individual Awards

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DisciplesWorld Magazine
2007-2009

Early Opportunities
At DisciplesWorld magazine, I covered the goings on of
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). DisciplesWorld
was my first chance to write for a national audience. All
of my work for DisciplesWorld was published online, but
I still relished the feeling of working at a real magazine.
It afforded me so many fantastic opportunities including
an internship as Assistant to the Publisher, and a
chance to cover two General Assemblies of the Christian
Church (DOC) as well as the 2008 Democratic National
Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Democratic National Convention

If there were a line graph charting all of the greatest
moments of my life, the summer of 2008 would stand out
dramatically. I walked through riots, hugged veterans of
the 1960s civil rights campaign, shouted down vigilantes
from the Minute Men, met journalists from Italy and even
got quoted in the New York Times. The Trip cost every
penny of my graduation money, and put no small strain on
my credit cards, but the memories are invaluable. I sold
DisciplesWorld two stories from the trip. One of them, as
well as other stories for DisciplesWorld, can be read below.

Stories By IanBH from the Archives of DisciplesWorld Magazine

After 36 Years “Mom Thorpe” Aging Congregation Considers Hale Delivers Invocation at Disciples Urged to “Cell Out”
Will Come Home To Cleveland Place in College Town Democratic Convention for Congo

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 For The Estate & Speakeasy Magazine
2008-2009

College, Blogs and U.S. Politics Posts from For The Estate:
I Arrived at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism fresh Obama Can’t Relax and
off my trip to the Democratic National Convention. I felt Enjoy His Lead in the Polls
ready to take on any challenge the journalism world had
to offer. It should go without saying that I was not, but the
mere fact of feeling that way helped me dive head-first
into my college writing career. With the 2008 presidential
election on the horizon, I started a political blog called
For The Estate with former Spark-staffer Graylyn Roose.
We provided news analysis of election coverage and
campaign advertising. I also used For The Estate to further
explore the possibilities of self-publishing via the Web, Tasteless Bull Crap
which I first embraced while running a successful public Featuring “Black John
relations campaign against an Ohio high school after its McCain”
administration censored a student theater production. I
continued publishing For the Estate until I was selected to
blog for the online magazine Speakeasymag.com. I called
my new blog Ad Newseum. Unfortunately, Speakeasy
deleted their archives in 2009 and posts from Ad Newseum
can no longer be viewed.

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INC: Internships, News, Commentary
2008-2010

SPJ and Founding a Publication

The Ohio University Society of Professional Journalists was
the first organization I joined at the E.W. Scripps School of
Journalism. Little did I know then how big a part it would play
in my future. I liked the atmosphere of intellectualism SPJ
brought to all their meetings. This attitude played a great role
in shaping the type of adult I am striving to become. I applied
to be a Freshman Ambassador to OUSPJ’s Executive Board,
and was selected and contracted to design a newsletter for
the Scripps J-school. What I came up with was INC. After
printing the first few issues at my own expense, I began
to explore other publishing options. This is how I became
familiar with the online publishing website Scribd.com. I
published nine biweekly issues of INC during the first five
months it existed. I assigned, edited and wrote stories,
developed publication’s design and worked to establish INC
as a trusted brand within the school.
As a sophomore I was elected President of OUSPJ. While
I focused on improving the already stellar club — we won
National Chapter of the Year for my term as president —
INC continued to flourish under the leadership of two other
SPJ Executive Board members. I continued writing stories
and offering guidance while the new co-editors gave the
publication a beautiful redesign and began publishing on
a weekly deadline. Today, INC has its own website and its
stories are published to the front page of the E.W. Scripps
School of Journalism’s website. INC’s can be viewed online
by scanning the code below.

See INC Today:

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 FlareCode.com
2009-Present

Envisioning a New Medium

Flare turns every object into a real-time conversation
with global reach and hyperlocal relevance. An acronym
for Flexible Lite Augmented Reality Everywhere, Flare is
a mobile multimedia content management system and
social network which enables average people to create
augmented reality through “object hyperlinking.” Flare
allows users to create mobile webpages which aggregate
knowledge from across the web, and then attach them to
physical objects using Quick Response barcodes. Users
can scan these FlareCodes using our Android and iPhone
apps to see what people around the globe are saying
about an object. Users can even contribute multimedia
content to a conversation right from their mobile phone.

Researching Our Concept

I believe that there are few things more worthwhile in
life than collaborating with a friend. In the final weeks of
November 2009, Niklos Salontay and I were lavishing
technolust on Esquire’s “Augmented Reality Issue.” We
loved it, but we were not content to just stand around
watching. Augmented reality was the coolest thing we
had ever seen, and we wanted to use it for something
important. We initiated an independent study with Prof.
Hans Meyer to transform AR technology from a Hearst
Corp. parlor trick into a revolutionary bridge between the
real and virtual worlds. The result is Flare. Scan to see FlareCode.com, which is under construction.

Designing Our Invention

To take Flare from a brilliant idea to a revolutionary
media product, I joined the charter class of OU’s cross-
disciplinary “Future of Media” course, taught by former
J-school director Dr. Tom Hodson. In one year, Flare has
won top honors in OU’s Research and Creativity Expo,
and was awarded a separate university grant to begin
incorporating and pursuing patents for our work. The
service will enter public Alpha testing in winter 2011.

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JumpLookThink Webzine
2009-Present

My Digital Sandbox Scan to see JLT:

JumpLookThink, like the ‘zines of decades past, began as a labor of love. College
has exposed me to a remarkably wide range of intellectual disciplines, most notably
design, and I realize that I will not have the opportunity to pursue them all within the
boundaries of my formal education. Therefore, I decided to teach myself. All of JLT’s
content is submitted by its audience, and the feeling of creating an entire magazine
with my bare hands has been my most cathartic college experience. The anything-
goes editorial philosophy of JLT has been an invaluable tool in my quest to become a
more skilled writer and designer, and a more complete human being. JLT employs a
sophisticated multi-channel online marketing system, of my own design, and reaches
an online audience of up to 200 viewers an issue — in addition to our print readers — JumpLookThink is my
at a total cost of ten man-hours and $30, all while living up to my frequent promises experiment in avant-garde
to “publish anything.” The avant-garde design and writing I explore in JLT give me design, writing and publishing.
confidence and a new set of tools with which to approach my professional work. Take it with a grain of salt.

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 Flexible Lite Augmented Reality Everywhere
2009-Present

Write Locally, Think Globally

I began working for The AthensNEWS in June 2010, but
financial constraints forced me to split my summer between
writing and slinging burgers at a local drive-in. Now that the
school year has begun however, my fry-cooking days are in
the past. I have been happily working at “Athens County’s
Only Locally Owned Newspaper,” not to be confused
with the student-run Post or the Australian-owned Athens
Messenger, for several months now. I absolutely love it.
Cold-calling sources and attempting to understand a new
topic every few days is a challenge, but each story makes
me more comfortable and confident. In fact, I am more a
part of the community of Athens than ever before. I feel
connected to the soul of journalism, and the true meaning
and importance of the craft. Whether I am covering
historic architecture, geothermal energy or visits from
foreign dignitaries, I know I am informing my audience and
directly impacting the lives of my fellow citizens. Being a
professional writer is my dream, and I couldn’t be happier.

Read from The AthensNEWS:

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Appendix
More About IanBH

Scholastic Information of IanBH

BS, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, 2008-2012
Grade Point Average: 3.9 Journalism, 3.5 Overall

Potter, Tyler, Martin and Roth Scholarship

Outstanding Journalism Undergraduate Student

Courtland Anderson Memorial Scholarship

Outstanding Journalism Freshman

National Merit Commended Scholar, 2008

Perfect Verbal SAT

Internships of IanBH
WLHS 89.9 FM Lakota Radio, 2006-2008
Advertising Director, Music Director

ClearChannel Communications, Summer 2009

Communications and Marketing Intern

DisciplesWorld Magazine, Summer 2009

Assistant to the Publisher

Other Activities of IanBH

Society of Professional Journalists, 2008-Present
Freshman Liaison, President, PR Director

College Technology Advisory Board, 2010-Present

E.W. Scripps Journalism Representative

Beard Men’s Magazine, 2010-Present

DIY, Lifehacking and Tech Editor

Humans Vs Zombies, 2008-2010

Human, (and inevitably) Zombie
Ohio University Skeptic’s Society, 2008-2009
Member
A Parting Word From IanBH
Thank you for taking the time to thumb, scan or click
your way through my portfolio. It is literally my life’s work,
so thanks for taking the time. < 3

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