a department of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota,
for alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the School.
A fond farewell and many thanks for their hard work to Assistant to the Director Scott Elton and Outreach Coordinator Rita Rosenthal.
Danish journalists once again graced the halls of Murphy Hall in August as part of a National Television Association and MJC cosponsored event. The journalists came to study broadcast journalism and received a crash course in creating and editing a broadcast news story.
Professor Sherrie Mazingo served as the interim readers' representative at the Star Tribune over the summer.
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in an August 1 Los Angeles Times story about freedom of the press and the concept of prior restraint in the Kobe Bryant rape trial. The story is available here.
Kirtley was quoted in an August 4 St. Paul Pioneer Press about the Kobe Bryant transcripts. The story is available here.
Kirtley appeared on WCCO Radio's The Jack Rice Show on August 10, to discuss a recent ruling by federal Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, DC.
Kirtley was interviewed for an August 10 All Things Considered story about a CIA leak and reporters rights. The National Public Radio link is available here.
Kirtley was quoted in an August 19 Boston Globe article about reporters held in contempt in a nuclear espionage case.
Kirtley was interviewed for an August 20 National Public Radio story about journalists and court cases. The story is available here.
Kirtley was quoted in an August 27 story in the Boston Globe about the restriction of Guantanamo Bay coverage. The story is available here.
Professor Sherrie Mazingo wrote an August 22 Star Tribune column on the partisan responses to a new book about John Kerry's combat record. The story is available here.
The launch of the new Professional M.A. in Strategic Communication was the subject of an August 16 Star Tribune article. The story was also picked up by the Duluth News Tribune and WCCO TV. The story is available here.
Professor T.K. Chang and graduate students Xiaoli Nan and Dong Dong presented their coauthored paper "When Globalization Encounters National Identity: A Comparative Investigation of Cultural Values and Executional Cues in Chinese TV Commercials" at the AEJMC conference held in Toronto, Canada.
Professors Ken Doyle and Brian Southwell had an article on electronic game effects accepted for publication in American Behavioral Scientist.
Professor Ron Faber and graduate students Mira Lee and Xiaoli Nan's paper, "Advertising and the Consumer Information Environment Online," is forthcoming in American Behavioral Scientist.
Faber and Nan's paper "Advertising Theory: Reconceptualizing the Building Blocks," was published in the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.
Professor Linda Jean Kensicki has a forthcoming article in the Howard Journal of Communications titled “A comparison of environmental pollution coverage in mainstream, African American, and other alternative press.”
Professor Jane Kirtley appeared on two panels at the AEJMC annual convention in Toronto : "A Conflict of Laws: American Media Coverage of Canadian Crimes," and "Contemporary Libel Law and the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan."
Ph.D. student Amy Mattson-Lauters and alumna Jensen Moore presented their co-authored paper “What the Stories Told Them: Implications for Readers of Women's Magazines in Britain and the United States, 1920-1928" (Magazine Div.), at the AEJMC conference in Toronto.
Ph.D. student Xiaoli Nan presented a paper entitled "Attitude toward the Extension Ad: The Influence of Attitude toward the Parent Brand and Perceived Congruity" at the AEJMC conference held in Toronto, Canada.
Professor Brian Southwell had an article on multilevel modeling accepted for publication in Communication Research.
Southwell and graduate student Mira Lee had an article on new media and memory accepted in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
“God Willing? Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the “War on Terror,” and the Echoing Press” A lecture by David Domke
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Washington
Wednesday, September 22
7:00 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public
Book signing to follow!
Workshop for Professional Journalists:
Covering the Economy and the Markets
Thursday, September 23
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn Metrodome
1500 Washington Avenue S.
West Bank, University of Minnesota
Twin Cities Campus
click here for more information or to register visit: www.businessjournalism.org
This event is cosponsored by the Minnesota Journalism Center.
"The Role of the Media and U.S. Foreign Policy"
September 28
5:30 p.m.-Registration and reception
6:30 p.m.-Program
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
This will forum address how advances in technology, the consolidation of media ownership, celebrity journalism, foreign media, and the perceived disinterest of the American public all influence the development and execution of U.S. foreign policy. The panel discussion will include Dean J. Brian Atwood, former administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development; John Donvan, ABC News Nightline correspondent and guest anchor; and Mia Doornaert, diplomatic editor of De Standaard, a Belgian daily newspaper. This is one of 25 major town hall meetings being held throughout September and October across the United States as part of "The People Speak-America's Choices in the World." Visit www.thepeoplespeak.org for more information about this national project.
This event is cosponsored by the Minnesota Journalism Center
New Research for New Media symposium
September 30 - October 2
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia SPAIN
Complete symposium information can be found here.
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19th Annual Silha Lecture featuring Geneva Overholser
Wednesday, October 13,
7:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
300 Washington Avenue S.E.
University of Minnesota, East Bank
Free and Open to the Public
"High hopes and dire warnings: In search of a credo for today's journalist"
Geneva Overholser holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington bureau. She is a frequent print and broadcast media critic, and writes the weblog “Journalism Junction” at www.poynter.org.
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September 9, 2004