Columbia Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann at AEJMC 2010

Columbia Journalism Dean Nicholas Lemann, will participate in panel session: Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
1:30 pm to 3 pm, session number 80

Learn more at this session about the Carnegie-Knight initiative, and Columbia Journalism School’s Master of Arts program.

The M.A. program offers four areas of concentration:

-       Arts and Culture
-       Business and Economics,
-       Politics
-       Science: Health & the Environment

Students in the M.A. program develop the knowledge that will allow them to situate news events in their larger context, to ask more informed questions, and to evaluate competing claims made by sources. The focus is on content as much as on skills, and the result is that the program imparts a deeper understanding of journalism and the many forms it takes.

The program is full time and runs from August through May. For more information, please visit www.journalism.columbia.edu/maprogram.

Contact:

Christine Souders
Associate Dean, Admissions & Financial Aid
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
212-854-8608
cs2534@columbia.edu

www.journalism.columbia.edu

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Columbia Journalism School rolls out New Dual-Degree Masters Program in Journalism and Computer Science at AEJMC 2010

Please stop by our booth #207, to meet Academic Dean Bill Grueskin on Wednesday, August 4th from 10:00-11:30am to learn more about our exciting new Master of Science dual degree.

Some highlights:

• This program, accepting its first students this fall, will prepare a new generation of professionals with skills in the technical aspects of both digital media and news production.   It is designed to provide graduate students with both the editorial and technological skills to produce new applications and online tools that could help redefine journalism in a fast-changing digital media environment.
• Admitted students will enroll for a total of five semesters:   two at the journalism school and three at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
• Students in the program will take classes at both schools during each of their five semesters. This will be a true dual-degree program, in which students will use the content of one discipline to inform their execution of the other.
• The new dual-degree program will be affiliated with the journalism school’s newly launched Tow Center for Digital Journalism. The mission of the center, established earlier this year, is to educate journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of professional journalism online and in other forms of digital journalism.
• In addition to taking classes already offered at the journalism and engineering schools, students will attend a seminar and workshop designed specifically for the dual-degree program. The seminar will teach students about the impact of digital techniques on journalism; the emerging role of citizens in the news process; the influence of social media; and the changing business models that will support newsgathering.  In the workshop, students will use a hands-on approach to delve deeply into information design, focusing on how to build a site, section or application from concept to development, ensuring the editorial goals are kept uppermost in mind.

For more information, please contact:

Leon Braswell
Director, Admissions & Financial Aid
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
lb2545@columbia.edu or 212-854-8164

www.journalism.columbia.edu/engineering

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Columbia School of Journalism Knight Case Studies Initiative at AEJMC 2010

Please stop by our booth #207, to meet with Kirsten Lundberg, director of the Columbia School of Journalism Knight Case Studies Initiative.

Real Journalists. Real Problems. Your Classroom.
What would your students do if a great story they’d produced could harm its subject? Do they wonder about whether to use social media material in a news story? Are hidden cameras okay? How does the nonprofit, online news model work in practice? These questions are the subject of the newest additions to our growing library of case studies about the dilemmas facing journalism practitioners today.

• For off-the-shelf curriculum that sparks in-depth, reality-based classroom discussion, come visit the Knight Case Studies Initiative (http://casestudies.jrn.columbia.edu).

• Our “teaching” cases are provocative vehicles for classroom discussion, and reflect the rapid evolution of the field of journalism. They cover the gamut from print to broadcast to digital media, and include both domestic and international situations.

• On our website, you will find materials on how to use Case Method in the classroom. Each case has a Teaching Note to guide you through its use in the classroom; and each case has an Epilogue, which you may provide to students after class at your discretion.

Our cases have been taught in multiple courses at more than 60 schools across the US and abroad. Courses include: Digital Journalism, Intro to Magazine Writing, Introductory Journalism, Environmental Journalism, History, Philosophy & Ethics of Journalism, Media & Technology, Media Law and Ethics, International Journalism, Magazine Journalism, Media Literacy, Media and Public Policy, Creative Nonfiction, and Business of Media. Class sizes range from 10 to 300 students.

For more information, contact us at jcaseorders@columbia.edu or send an email to Kirsten Lundberg, KCSI director, at kol2101@columbia.edu.

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Television Newsroom Technology and Infrastructure Explored at AEJMC Conference

Emeryville, California, July 21, 2010 – Advanced Systems Group, LLC is bringing Journalism educators a glimpse of the Television Newsroom of the Future by hosting a series of presentations highlighting real-life television newsroom software and systems integration projects, such as ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism and NBC affiliate KTUU in Anchorage, at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in Denver, Colorado. Highlighting the latest technology and components using the Apple computing platform and AJA Video Systems solutions, Advanced Systems Group will discuss several software options that optimize workflow and refine data and content management.

Educators can greatly benefit from attending presentations focused on both large and small television newsroom deployments. Broadcast industry trends indicate a distinct increase in integrated television newsrooms. Both educators, and their students, will gain from insight into how facilities are evolving and how changes in technology affect the broadcast and film industry.

Leading the industry forward, Advanced Systems Group has been servicing broadcast and film organizations for over 13 years, developing a reputation as an engineering powerhouse and facility designer. “Our greatest strength is in designing custom solutions for any size program, and quickly understanding the unique nature of each project, from commercial television newsrooms to educational facilities,” said Dave Van Hoy, President of Advanced Systems Group, LLC. Advanced Systems Group routinely selects AJA Video Systems digital video interface, conversion, and desktop solutions products for television newsroom installations. “We can always depend on innovation and quality from AJA,” said Mr. Van Hoy.

Sessions will be held on August 5th at the AEJMC conference.

About Advanced Systems Group, LLC:
At Advanced Systems Group, we engineer solutions and facilities for Digital Media, Entertainment, and Broadcast that bring your creative concepts to life. We integrate custom file-based video and film workflows including, software, storage, digital asset management, archiving, and hardware, developing an optimal workflow that best suits your digital media objectives.

Contact:

Jeanette Andrews, Marketing Director
Advanced Systems Group, LLC
510.654.8300

http://www.asgllc.com

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New Political Communication Group to Convene in Denver

The NEW Political Communication Interest Group will sponsor “The State of Political Discourse in America: Reevaluating the Role of the Media in the Political Process” on Friday, August 6 from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m.

The panel will feature David Pelmutter (Iowa), Dhavan Shah (Wisconsin), Spiro Kiousis (Florida) and Regina Lawrence (LSU). The panel will be followed by the interest group’s first business meeting where future officers will be elected.

For more information about the Political Communication Interest Group or the panel, please visit our Facebook page or email me directly at golanresearch@yahoo.com.

New Sports Communication Group to Convene in Denver

The Sports Communication Interest Group (SPORTS) will meet for the first time at the national convention in Denver. The group is designed to support AEJMC members who are scholars and teachers of sports-related courses, including those in the areas of journalism, broadcasting, advertising/marketing and sports information/public relations.

Sports communication is a unique area that combines elements of newswork and entertainment and related industries. SPORTS is designed to provide networking, resources, scholarship and programming with a balanced agenda that focuses on teaching, scholarship and issues of professional freedom and responsibility. This agenda will be pursued through activities at the national convention and regional meetings as well as the organization’s newsletter, Web site, and listserv. The group will also facilitate outreach for its members to scholarly and professional organizations.

The group will sponsor “Ahead of the curve: Multimedia and the future of sports journalism” on Thursday, August 5 from 5-6:30 p.m. Sports media have been innovators in multimedia usage long before other journalistic enterprises. Why have sports been at the forefront of maximizing technology and integrating fans into coverage? What’s next? Panelists who will discuss this issue include Graham Watson (freelance journalist, formerly with ESPN), Reggie Rivers (commentator and retired NFL player), Woody Paige (The Denver Post) and Lindsay Jones (Denver Post).

The group’s Member’s meeting will take place right after the panel, from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.

DON’T MISS our upcoming online chat!

AEJMC Sports & Social Media: Issues & Predictions

Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Location: http://www.aejmc.com/topics/chat

Scholars and professional journalists engage in a discussion of the ways social media has altered sports coverage. Moderator Marie Hardin, will be joined by Malcolm Moran, Knight Chair for Sports Journalism and Society; Viv Bernstein, New York Times contributing correspondent for sports; Megan Hueter, founder of Women Talk Sports; and Brad Schultz, researcher on sports reporters and new media.

AEJMC Announces Logo Competition Finalists

After a worldwide call for logos that asked everyone graphically inclined to give AEJMC a facelift, the association received 169 entries from across the globe. Those entries were narrowed down by the AEJMC Council of Divisions, Strategic Planning Subcommittee on Branding (Lillie Fears, Suzette Heiman and Birgit Wassmuth), professional graphic designers, and Board of Directors.

The top six finalists (below) will be presented to the AEJMC membership for their vote during the association’s 2010 annual conference, August 4-7 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. The top two designs selected by the membership will be revealed during the AEJMC Business meeting on Friday, August 6 and then go before the AEJMC Board of Directors for final approval.

The first prize winner will receive $1,000; second prize: $750; third prize: $500. The designer of the winning entry will work with the leadership of AEJMC if modification is recommended. The association does reserve the right not to select a winning entry. For comments or questions, contact Mich Sineath at AEJMCpr@aol.com.

Meet the Logo Finalists

Bob Ruggles Receives Barrow Award for Achievement in Diversity Research and Education

Achieving diversity requires commitment. It will not happen on its own.
Once achieved, like a garden, it requires constant tending.

- Robert M. Ruggles

Robert M. Ruggles, Professor Emeritus at Florida A&M University, will receive the 2010 Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education at the 2010 Denver Conference during the AEJMC Business Meeting on Friday, August 6. The award recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts within the journalism and mass communication discipline. The award was created by the Minorities & Communication Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities of AEJMC in 2009.

Ruggles was the founding dean of Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication. Ruggles wrote and fine-tuned FAMU’s journalism curriculum, established its first journalism degree program, and helped lead the program to national accreditation in 1982. FAMU was the first historically black university to receive ACEJMC accreditation. Throughout his career, Ruggles consulted with 10 historically black colleges on program accreditation, of which several are now accredited, including Grambling, Jackson State, Hampton, and North Carolina A&T.

In his nominating letter, Phillip Jeter, Professor and Chair at Winston-Salem State University, wrote, “A review of Robert Ruggles’ career at FAMU indicates he was a visionary, a builder, a fierce advocate of journalism and mass communications education for college students, especially racial minorities.”

In a personal statement, Ruggles writes, “In 1974 I came to predominantly black Florida A&M University to establish a journalism degree program. [...] One of my first efforts was to drive around the state to visit newspaper editors and publishers. Everyone was warm and welcoming. All were white males. All said they supported my efforts to bring minorities into journalism. I’m sure they all believed I would fail.”

“Without Bob Ruggles, diversity in journalism education might still be struggling to get a foothold,” Gale A. Workman, Professor at FAMU, writes. “Probably no one has done so much to bring minorities into the mainstream media organizations of this country.”

During his tenure at FAMU, Ruggles served as president of ASJMC, a national organization of mass communication department chairs, deans and directors. In 1998, he was selected as the national Journalism Administrator of the Year by The Freedom Forum, and in 2000, was honored by the University of Oklahoma journalism school as a “distinguished alumnus. Ruggles retired in 2003 and was named Professor Emeritus in 2004.

Ruggles is a 1957 graduate of Ponca City (Oklahoma) Senior High School, and earned his BA and MA degrees in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, in 1961 and 1962 respectively. He worked at newspapers in Ponca City and Oklahoma City before joining the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 1969. Ruggles has been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists since 1959, and was once the president of the Oklahoma Professional Chapter.

About Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr.
Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. was a long-time member of AEJMC. He pioneered and founded in 1968 the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Education and in 1970, founded the Minorities and Communication Division of AEJMC. The Communication Theory and Methodology Division of AEJMC renamed its diversity scholarship after Barrow in 1997, the same year he received the AEJMC Presidential Award for his work and contribution. In 2005, he was recognized with one of AEJMC’s highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award, for his outstanding service in promoting diversity within the association and the discipline.

About AEJMC
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.

Elon Receives National Equity & Diversity Award from AEJMC

Elon’s School of Communications has been named the 2010 recipient of the national Equity and Diversity Award by AEJMC.

The School of Communications will be honored twice, first at the AEJMC Denver Conference Keynote session on August 4 and then in a special presentation at Elon next fall by 2010-11 AEJMC President Jan Slater of the University of Illinois.

The award recognizes an academic unit for progress and innovation in racial, gender and ethnic equity and diversity in such areas as faculty hiring, school initiatives, the presence of a supportive climate for women and minorities, and institutionally embedded support.

Specifically, AEJMC praised the School of Communications for building a diverse faculty that is more than 25 percent minority, for its commitment to salary equity by gender, for its participation in national diversity programs, for securing $200,000 from the Hearst Foundation to endow minority student scholarships, for twice engaging in an innovative teacher exchange with historically black North Carolina A&T, and for faculty scholarship in the realm of diversity.

“I am thrilled on behalf of our school’s faculty and staff that Elon is being nationally recognized for its commitment, efforts and success in advancing equity and diversity,” Dean Paul Parsons said. “We talk all the time about the importance of building a school that reflects the society in which our students will live and work. We didn’t embark on this mission to win an award, but we are happy to serve as a model for others of what can be accomplished with commitment and hard work.”

The selection committee co-chair, Anita Fleming-Rife of the University of Northern Colorado, notified Parsons of the award on April 6. She said the selection committee used the metaphor of Elon as “the little engine that could” in citing the school’s successes in equity and diversity.

The Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University was the inaugural recipient of the national award in 2009.

Kyu Ho Youm Elected AEJMC Vice President

Kyu Ho Youm, University of Oregon, has been elected AEJMC Vice President for 2010-2011. He will become president-elect in 2011-2012 and president in 2012-2013. Youm ran against David Mindich, St. Michael’s College, in the vice-presidential race. Youm received 439 votes and Mindich received 312 votes, garnering AEJMC’s highest response rate (31.6%) since 1998 (31.8%).

I’m honored to serve AEJMC members, especially as we prepare for our centennial celebration in two years.

Journalism and mass communication education is undergoing tremendous changes in and outside the classroom. I am eager to help AEJMC as a positive force in setting the agenda for what we can do to address these changes.

I look forward to working closely with AEJMC members and our committed officers in accomplishing the goals that I presented to the members and that resonated with so many of them:

• defending press freedom vigorously;
• enhancing the scholarly impact of AEJMC; and
• expanding the international scope and outreach of the organization.

- Kyu Ho Youm

As an active AEJMC member of 27 years, Youm has held various elected and appointed positions, including as head and vice head of the Law and Policy Division and as member of the Research Committee and of the Publications Committee. He also served as president of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication and of the Korean-American Communication Association.

Youm’s research has appeared in major U.S. and international journalism and law journals, and his articles have been cited by American and international courts, including the Supreme Court of Great Britain and the High Court of Australia in ruling on freedom of expression. Youm has received fellowships from the American Press Institute, the Gannett Foundation, and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Since the early 1990s, Youm has served on the editorial boards of a dozen scholarly journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. As a member of the Communication Law Writers Group, he writes a chapter for the media law text Communication and the Law. He is the communication law and policy editor of the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He often contributes opinion columns and book reviews to newspapers and trade magazines. He also delivers lectures on press freedom and media law and sits regularly on scholarly and professional panels in the United States and abroad.

A native of South Korea, he has received his bachelor’s degree in Seoul and his MA and PhD from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He holds master of law degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford University.

The following were elected to a three-year term on the Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee:

Dwight E. Brooks is professor and director of the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. Brooks’ teaching and research focuses on media diversity, media literacy, and race, class and gender media representations. Brooks is a member of the Minorities & Communications and Cultural & Critical Studies divisions as well as the Commission on the Status of Minorities. Brooks serves on the Nominations and Diversity Committees of ASJMC. He also is an alumna of the Journalism Leadership Institute for Diversity (JLID). Brooks earned a PhD from The University of Iowa and an MA from The Ohio State University.

Diane L. Borden is the director of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University, where she has served on the faculty since 1998. Previously, she held tenure-track positions at George Mason University and at Temple University. Borden teaches mass communication law and theory as well as media ethics. Her research examines the intersection of gender and freedom of expression. She came to academe after a lengthy career in professional journalism. She has been a member of AEJMC since 1993 and is a member of the Law Division and the Commission on the Status of Women.

Lee Wilkins is a Curator’s Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri where she teaches in the Radio/TV department. Her research and teaching focus on media ethics and media coverage of disasters and risk. She teaches regularly at the AEJMC pre-convention ethics workshop, has served as chair of the Council of Divisions, and has held one previous term on the Professional Freedom & Responsibility standing committee. This year she is working as a faculty fellow at the University of Missouri Graduate School. She is a member of the founding editorial board and currently serves as editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

The following were elected to a three-year term on the Research Committee:

Patricia Curtin is professor and public relations endowed chair in the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Oregon. Her research applies varied theoretical and methodological approaches to agenda building and cross-cultural public relations campaigns. A former head of the Public Relations Division, Curtin chaired AEJMC’s Council of Divisions’ Chip Task Force. She was book review editor for JMC Quarterly, reviews manuscripts for major journals and conferences, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals. She served as the School’s representative to the IRB, defending journalists’ first amendment rights while protecting the interests of human subjects.

Carol M. Liebler is associate professor of Communication and director of the PhD and Media Studies Programs in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Liebler’s research centers on media and diversity issues, and her projects share a common thread of a concern for social justice. Current work examines predictors of news media visibility of missing children and the use of social media in searching for missing children. Liebler is a former head of the Mass Communication and Society Division, and previously served on the Standing Committee for Research. As the mother of three daughters from China, Liebler is an outspoken advocate for international adoption, and has authored several op-ed pieces on this topic.

David D. Perlmutter is Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at The University of Iowa. He is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion and has written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as more than 200 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, “P&T Confidential,” for the Chronicle of Higher Education. His book on promotion and tenure is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Perlmutter has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC and, most recently, The Daily Show.

The following were elected to a three-year term on the Teaching Committee:

Bonnie J. Brownlee is associate professor of journalism at Indiana University. She has been involved in the internationalization of the school’s journalism curriculum, serves on the university’s Overseas Study Advisory Council and currently teaches a course on media in Latin America. Students visit Chile as a part of the class. For the last nine years she has served as a site team member on ACEJMC accrediting teams to 10 journalism programs in the United States. Brownlee is co-author (with Dave Weaver, Cleve Wilhoit, Randy Beam and Paul Voakes) of The American Journalist in the 21st Century.

Charles N. Davis is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the executive director for the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC), headquartered at the School. Davis’ scholarly research focuses on access to governmental information and media law. He has published in law reviews and scholarly journals on issues ranging from federal and state freedom of information laws to libel law, privacy and broadcast regulation. In 2009, Davis was named the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Teacher of the Year.

Jennifer Greer is chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Alabama and a member of the Elected Standing Committee on Teaching. Greer has twice been awarded college-wide teaching awards and has been involved with curriculum review and revision for more than a decade. She has held leadership roles in AEJMC for 13 years. Greer has led campus readership programs at Nevada and Alabama, assisting faculty who use newspapers in the classroom. She researches media effects, gender, and emerging media and is a member of the editorial boards of Mass Communication & Society and Journalism & Communication Monographs.

About AEJMC
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.

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