Faculty Kudos - Week of Aug. 10, 2009
David Cuillier was re-elected research chairman for the Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for 2009-10. Also at the national conference Aug. 5-8 in Boston, Cuillier moderated a panel, served as discussant for a research panel, and served as a panelist discussing problems journalists encounter while covering law enforcement. He also presented three research papers and received his first-place Promising Professor award for teaching.
Shahira Fahmy was elected research chair for the Visual Communication Division for 2009-10 at the same AEJMC conference. She also presented a refereed paper at a panel of the International Communication and Public Relations division with E. Nisbet titled “USA’s Image Overseas: Contributing factors, Image Effects and Public Diplomacy Implications.” At a pre-convention panel at the International Communication division, Fahmy presented “Resources In The Media in China.”
Fahmy also wrote two chapters that were included in a just-released book edited by Guy
Golan, Thomas J. Johnson and Wayne Wanta called International Media in a Global Age
(Philadelphia: Routledge). They are:
• “How could so much produce so little? Foreign affairs reporting in the wake of 9/11,”
(pp. 147-159); and
• “See no evil, hear no evil, judge as evil? Examining whether Al-Jazeera English-language
website users transfer credibility to its satellite network,” (pp. 241-260).
Kim Newton’s submission “The Power of Protest: Images from South Korea's Road to Democracy” has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Media, War & Conflict (Vol. 3, Issue 1) titled “Images of War.”
Jeannine Relly served as a discussant for research presented at a poster session titled “New Approaches and Research Paradigms in International Communication Research” for the International Communication Division at the AEJMC conference in Boston. She also served as a moderator at the conference for a Law and Policy Division panel titled “Solutions for Secrecy: Judicial and Statutory Avenues for Fostering Freedom of Information” and as a moderator for the International Communication Division panel titled “New Research Paradigms Explored Under the Global Microscope.”
Lew Serviss copy edited the special report "Anatomy of Injustice: The Unsolved Killings of Journalists in Russia" for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Student Kudos
CeCe Perry, a graduate student who worked this summer at an apprentice at the Arizona Daily Star, had a front-page story published Aug. 12 on “S. Tucson’s last bar.”
Alumni Kudos
Nicole Santa Cruz, who graduated in December 2008, starts the Metpro program in mid-September at the Los Angeles Times, where she worked as an intern this summer. Santa Cruz is a founding member of the UA student chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a former president of that chapter. Metpro is a two-year diversity program designed to help beginning journalists launch careers in Tribune newsrooms. Each participant can expect formal mentoring, frequent performance evaluations and coaching, a thorough grounding in journalism ethics and relevant laws pertaining to libel and privacy, an opportunity to cover communities, including cops, courts and city councils, a thorough understanding of public records and research tools and an opportunity to prepare stories for the Web. Fellow graduate Nathan Olivarez-Giles was selected for the same program in spring 2008.
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