E-mail:
cholmes@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.5913
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room: Coliseum 4004

Hours:
Prof. Holmes:
Mon. and Wed., 1-2:30 p.m.
Thurs., 1-3 p.m.
Room 4004,
or by appointment.

Carrie McCullough:
Thurs. 10 a.m. – noon
Carolina Reporter room.

Fall 2008 Syllabus:
Jour 533 - Newspaper Feature Article Writing
Jour 536 - Advanced Reporting

On the Web:
Dateline Carolina
Narrative Journalism
Newsplex Showcase

Cecile S. Holmes
Associate Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence

B.A., Journalism, University of South Carolina
MA., Liberal Studies, University of North Carolina

A Columbia native and veteran journalist, Holmes is lead instructor for The Carolina Reporter. As a journalist and a teacher, she is especially interested in religion, diversity and multiculturalism. Through her courses in writing, reporting and narrative journalism, she tries to help students see the world and report on it in new ways. In May 2006, she led a Student Journalist Study Tour to Jordan. Visit the Jordan Web site>

Holmes specializes in research related to convergence, storytelling, religion and media and writing and reporting for newspapers and new media. Nominated seven times for a Pulitzer Prize, she has more than 20 years of experience in reporting and editing.

Her second book, “Four Women, Three Faiths,” was published this spring by Harbor House Books of Augusta, Ga. The book tells the stories of four remarkable women and the faiths that guide them in a volume that also explores Holmes’ own search for spiritual mentors. The women featured hail from four states and three religions, including Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.

“Practical and sublime, the four women’s teachings inform and transform us and eventually; their voices become ours through the narratives, “ religion professor Vasu Narayanan of the University of Florida said of Holmes’ book.

Holmes examines each woman’s story and her outlook on tensions between religions, races and different cultures in an era of global communications and rapid technological change. Her first book, “Witnesses to the Horror: North Carolinians Remember the Holocaust,” was reported while she was working for the Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina. From there she went on to work at the Houston Chronicle in Houston, Texas. She served as the Chronicle’s religion editor, winning awards for her writing and editing, and is a past president of the national Religion Newswriters Association.