April 2008
Upcoming Events | SJMC Media Hits | Awards and Kudos |
Publications, Presentations, and Research | Murphy Hall Happenings
Emerging Digerati Rendezvous: Where are they now?
Thurs., Apr. 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. - Digital Design Consortium, 107 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis. Don a computerized “welder's helmet” and walk around a virtual building construction site. But don't fall off the steel beam optical illusion at a unique lab research collaboration between architecture and computer science.
Fri,. Apr. 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. - Join other Emerging Digerati at the Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Parkway, Minneapolis, for an all-day showcase of cutting-edge work hosted by the Institute for New Media Studies. A schedule of presentations and gallery exhibition include: Your DNA Portrait: A New Way to Understand Your Ancestry; VideoANT: An Online Video Annotation Tool; Localtone Radio; Flash and MediaMill RSS Feeds; Producing New Media Texts - collaborative classroom technology; Flashbelt; Blind Side of a Secret and much more.
More information at the INMS Web site.
Global Media-Diasporic Cultures Series
Lecture/discussion: "A Theory of Hypermedia Events: Reality TV and Public Contention in the Arab World"
Marwan Kraidy, University of Pennsylvania
Fri., Apr. 4, Noon-1:15 p.m.
Murphy Hall Conference Center
Prof. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an expert on Arab media. Kraidy was previously a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the founding director of the Arab Media and Public Life (AMPLE) project at American University, both in Washington, D.C. He has published two books and more than 40 articles and essays. He is a regular expert guest on public media programs like: The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, On the Media, All Things Considered, NPR News, The World, Day to Day, and The Diane Rehm Show.
The Great Transformation: China's Rush to Urbanize and the Fate of its Cities; a lecture by Howard French
Fri. Apr. 11, 12:30 p .m.-2:00 p.m.
Room 120 Anderson Library
Howard W. French is a senior writer for the New York Times and will be a faculty member at Columbia University's School of Journalism in the fall. After teaching at the University of Ivory Coast in the early 1980s, he began his journalism career writing about Africa for the Washington Post, Africa News, The Economist and numerous other publications. Since 1986, he has reported for the Times from Central America, the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan, Korea and now China. In 1997, his coverage of the fall of Mobuto Sese Seko won the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best newspaper interpretation of foreign affairs. Cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, East Asian Library, the CLA Scholarly Events Fund and the Minnesota Journalism Center.
Minnesota News Photographers Association Annual Convention
Fri., Apr. 11- Sun., Apr. 13
Murphy Hall
The convention is open to professionals and students in the area of journalism an editorial photography. Speakers include Kuni Takahashi - Photojournalist, Chicago Tribune, Stacia Spragg-Braude - Freelance Photographer and Phaedra Singelis - Multimedia Manager, msnbc.com. Click here for more on the speakers. The event will also include the judging for the College Photographer of the Year (CPOY), the Photographer of the Year (POY), workshops on storytelling, transitioning from a still shooter to a videographer, lighting techniques, the art of the ‘audio slide show’, as well as panel discussion on the I-35W bridge collapse, working at an out-state newspaper and the business of freelance photography. Click to view a more detailed schedule. Cost for the 3-day event is $35 for professionals and $20 for students (includes membership to MNPA) Click here to join.
"Saving economies from economists: Imagining a cultural studies of economics"
With Lawrence Grossberg
Mon., Apr. 14, 12:15 p.m.
Room 102 Fraser
Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, as well as the Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the world's leading figures in cultural studies and media studies, Prof. Grossberg's most recent book is Caught in the crossfire: Kids, politics, and America's future (Paradigm, 2005). Sponsored by
Department of Communication Studies,
Department of American Studies, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
Department of Political Science,
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
SJMC alumnus David Domke (Ph.D., '96) to discuss his new book" The God Strategy"
Tues., Apr. 15, 4:00 p.m.
University Bookstore, Coffman Memoria Union
David Domke, best-selling author and University of Washington professor, will discuss his new book The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America on Tuesday, April 15 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union. Domke offers a dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The God Strategy concludes that U.S. politics today are defined by a calculated, deliberate and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Domke’s work documents how this occurred, who has done it and why, and what it means for the American experiment in democracy. Domke will sign copies of his book following the discussion.
Journalism Through the Eyes of Faith: Advocacy, Ethics, and Faith in an Election Year
Apr. 15-18
Bethel University
A conference for journalists, educators, and students on the intersection of religion and media. Featured speakers include Ray Suarez, Jerry Mitchell, Jennifer Arul, Bill Norton, Ted Olsen, and SJMC alumnus David Domke.
For more information, contact the Bethel University
Events Services Office at
651-638-6090 or at event-services@bethel.edu.
Green Lights & Red Flags: FTC/BBB Rules of the Road for Advertisers
Thurs., Apr. 24, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Ballroom & Clubroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN 55416
Admission fee $130 ($100 for BBB members) includes breakfast and lunch and a CD of all workshop materials
This “back to basics” event provides details on how to comply with federal and state truth-in-advertising standards. Sponsored by the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota and the Federal Trade Commission, Green Lights & Red Flags will feature a roster of knowledgeable speakers discussing what you need to know about:
- Advertising Law: Understanding the Rules of the Road – The FTC’s approach to ad claims, disclosures, endorsements, and substantiation
- Avoiding a Promotion Commotion – Complying with new standards for rebates, gift cards, commercial email, and other promotional practices
- The Secure Entrepreneur: Data Security & Consumer Privacy – Best practices to avoid, assess, and address a data security breach
- If the Government Comes to Call – An inside look at federal and state consumer protection investigations
- When Your Competitor Crosses the Line – Self-regulation or litigation? Weighing the options when a competitor’s practices violate the law
Green Lights & Red Flags is presented in partnership with: Advertising Federation of Minnesota, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Department of Ethics and Business Law, Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas, Greater Metropolitan Automobile Dealers Association, Metropolitan Independent Business Alliance, Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association, Minnesota Broadcasters Association, Minnesota Journalism Center, University of Minnesota, Sales and Marketing Executives Association of Minneapolis/St. Paul. For more information, visit www.thefirstbbb.org or www.ftc.gov/greenlights.
2008 Silha Spring Ethics Forum
Journalism from the Frontlines: Remaining Independent When Covering Politics and War
With veteran journalist Edward Wasserman
Thur., Apr. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Room 140, Nolte Center
The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law will once again partner with the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists to produce a program for SPJ’s National Ethics in Journalism week. The theme of this year’s Ethics Week is “Act Independently.” “Journalism from the Frontlines: Remaining Independent When Covering Politics and War,” will feature Edward Wasserman, Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington & Lee University and a veteran journalist. He will be joined by a panel of reporters who will discuss the ethical challenges of covering military and political campaigns. Please join us for this free, public event. The Forum will include an opportunity for audience Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.
Contact the Silha Center at 612-625-3421 or silha@umn.edu with questions.
31st Annual Frank Premack
Public Affairs Journalism Awards Ceremony and Program
Tues. Apr. 29, 5:00 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center, A.I. Johnson Room
Join us as we honor the winners of the 2007 Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Awards include the Star Tribune, Tri-County Record, Rochester Post-Bulletin, Minnesota Monitor, and The Northeaster. Veteran St. Paul Pioneer Press political reporter Bill Salisbury is the recipient of the Graven Award. For the first time in its history, the Premack competition was open to all forms of media. A record number of entries were received. The 31st annual awards program will celebrate the winning works and best practices of public affairs journalism in Minnesota. The winning journalists will have the opportunity to speak about their work at the public program.
Free and open to the public. RSVP to rachelj@umn.edu.
Supply, Demand & Deadlines
A workshop on Economics for Journalists
Sun., June 22 - Tue., June 24
"Supply, Demand & Deadlines: A Workshop on Economics for Journalists" provides mid-level reporters, editors and producers from the business, economics, political and policy beats with insights into how to cover some of the most important but difficult economic and business issues facing our communities. The workshop will include extensive opportunities for journalists to work through sample stories, case studies, and critiques of journalistic work in these subject areas. Registration and information coming soon. Interested? Join our mailing list at mnjrnctr@umn.edu.
Cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Journalism Center.
Associate professor Gary Schwitzer was quoted in several articles in a special edition of TV Week, published at the time of the annual Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Washington, D.C.. He was quoted in: "Rushing to the Scene: Health Care Journalism,", "A Banner Year for Recalls,""Working Sunday Morning Miracles," and "In Search of Ethical Guidelines."
Professor and Silha Center Director Jane Kirtley was a guest on The Roy Green Show (substituting for Charles Adler's regularly scheduled show) on AM 940 Radio Montreal (Canada) on March 11, 2008. The topic was media reaction to and coverage of Rep. Steve King's continuing predictions that terrorists will celebrate if "Barack Hussein Obama" is elected president. On March 12, she was a guest on The Jack Rice Show . With guest host John Rash, she discussed former USA Today reporter Toni Locy being held in contempt for refusing to reveal her confidential sources, and the New York Times story about alleged improper relationships between John McCain and a lobbyist. She also wrote a column, "Letter to Snowbirds," which was posted at the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors "Sunshine Sunday" Web site on March 16. . "Sunshine Sunday" is observed in Florida on the first day of national Sunshine Week, and columns posted on this Web site are made available to Florida news outlets for publication without charge. In early April, she was interviewed for the Chicago Sun-Times story, "Judge keeps Kelly case under wraps", which discussed the judge presiding over R&B star R. Kelly's child pornography case and his measures to impose secrecy on parts of the high-profile case.
SJMC senior Carina Enbody has been selected as one of three American students to compete in the Cannes Lions 55th International Advertising Festival's Student Academy this June. Carina was a member of last year's award-winning National Student Advertising Competition team and is also a member of this year's team. Congratulations Carina!
SJMC student Jeanine Lilke has been awarded a 2008 Vance and Betty Lee Stickell Student Internship. Jeanine was one of only 15 students chosen nationwide for this honor. This summer, she will intern with BBDO New York. This internship was established in 1989 in honor of Vance L. Stickell (1925 -1987), former Executive Vice President, Marketing, for the Los Angeles Times. During his 39 - year career in advertising, Vance Stickell established himself nationally as a highly respected advertising practitioner and statesman. The program is intended to raise awareness and understanding of advertising processes and business ethics among future advertising professionals. Congratulations Jeanine!
Congratulations to Silha Fellow and graduate student Patrick File! Patrick won the Top Student Paper Award for the law division at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, hosted by Auburn University, March 13-15. The paper was titled "Do the Courts Think Blogging is Journalism? An Early Examination of Descriptive and Functional Approaches to Analysis in Case Law Involving Blogs."
Ph.D. candidate Julie Jones will be honored for her excellence in graduate student teaching at the International Communication Association annual conference to be held in Montreal this May.
Associate professor Chris Ison conducted a workshop at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on March 29 for Investigative Reporters and Editors. The presentation was titled "Bulletproofing Watchdog Stories." Ison also helped conduct a workshop on "Presenting the Watchdog Story." Both presentations were part of IRE's "Better Watchdog Reporting" series.
Associate professor Gary Schwitzer taught a workshop for the California Endowment/USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellows in Los Angeles on February 29. His manuscript, "How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories," was accepted for publication by the journal PLoS Medicine/and will be published in May.
Health Journalism coordinator and lecturer Leyla Kokmen's article on alternative medicine and kids was published in the April issue of the Minnesota Monthly. Her article about the new green justice movement was published in the March-April issue of the Utne Reader.
INMS director Nora Paul gave a talk at the Columbus Post Dispatch newsroom on March 7 titled “The Naked Truth about Internet Research.” She visited the ECM Publishing Group’s Futures Committee on March 27 to talk about trends in online publishing.
Assistant professor Brian Southwell and Ph.D. candidate Rita Langteau's article "Age, memory changes, and the varying utility of recognition as a media effects pathway" will be published in a special issue of Communication Methods and Measurement. Articles were selected from those presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University on the relations between media exposure and health behavior.
Professor Jane Kirtley delivered the keynote address, "The Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Outlook for FOI" at the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information's Freedom of Information Day ceremony at the Minneapolis Central Library on March 14. The text of her speech was posted on the national Sunshine Week Web site and was published in several newspapers, including the Alexandria (La.) Town Talk. In late March, she served as a discussant on a panel, "Understanding the Media Ecosystem" at the "Media Re:public -- Participatory Media - Surveying the Field in 2008" conference at USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles.
Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Moore served as a judge at the annual St. Thomas Media Ethics Bowl on Saturday, March 29 in St. Paul. As a judge panelist, she evaluated the work of students who prepare analyses of current cases in media ethics and present their analyses in a format similar to a debate.
On March 20, assistant professor Michael Stamm presented a paper titled “Paul Lazarsfeld’s Radio and the Printed Page: A Critical Reappraisal” at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Gary Schwitzer, associate professor and director of graduate studies for the health journalism M.A. program, and program coordinator Leyla Kokmen organized and hosted an event, "The Medical Arms Race: health policy, news coverage and public relations," on March 24 in the McNamara Alumni Center. Their guest speakers were award-winning health journalist Shannon Brownlee, School of Public Health professor Susan Foote, and Allina Hospitals & Clinics VP of marketing and communications Amy Phenix.
Associate professor Gary Schwitzer had Dartmouth Medical School outcomes research guru Dr. Jack Wennberg speak to his Journalism 5155 class. He also had Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital radiation oncologist Dr. Anthony Zietman speak to the students on some of the questions surrounding high-priced, high-tech cancer radiation treatments. He also had Star Tribune computer-assisted reporting editor Glenn Howatt and veteran health journalist Maryn McKenna visit the class.
Recent guest speakers in Chris Ison's Media Ethics course included Eric Black, a blogger and writer for Minnpost.com, who spoke about objectivity as a false promise in journalism; photographer Mike Zerby, who spoke about visual ethics; and public relations expert Bruce Benidt, who spoke about PR ethics.
Applications now being accepted for Fall 2008 enrollment in the Health Journalism program*
Interested in health journalism or communication?
Whether you want to report on health for the media, work in communications for a health care organization, or promote health to the public, our master’s program can help you launch—or advance—your career. Our innovative program bridges the disciplines of public health and communication and builds on the excellence of two of the University of Minnesota’s nationally ranked schools—the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Public Health. Students specializing in health journalism will learn to evaluate claims from health, medical, and scientific sources. Students specializing in health communication will learn the fundamentals of writing about health topics for different audiences in different formats, as well as health campaign development. All students will develop multimedia skills and advanced computer-assisted research and reporting skills. Students will be able to work with high-caliber faculty from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the School of Public Health, and across the University. Those interested in gaining hands-on skills will also have practicum opportunities to work in local news organizations or in communications roles with health care organizations. For more program details and information on applying, contact Director of Graduate Studies Gary Schwitzer or Program Coordinator Leyla Kokmen.
*The graduate program in Health Journalism has proposed a name change from the Master of Arts in Health Journalism to the Master of Arts in Health Journalism and Communication, effective for fall 2008. The name change and some curriculum revisions are currently under review by The Graduate School. The review of these changes will be completed around May 1, and a recommendation will be made to the Board of Regents. The Board of Regents will consider the proposed changes in July. Please note that you must apply to the Health Journalism program at this time for entry in fall 2008. If the Board of Regents does not approve the name change to Health Journalism and Communication and the curriculum revisions, you will be given the opportunity to request a refund of your application for admission fee. For information about the proposed curriculum changes please visit our Web site.
Minnesota Journalism Center partners with E-Democracy.Org to study the rural online media landscape
Over the next few months, E-Democracy.Org will be gathering information on interesting community orientated online Web sites, discussions, or citizen media projects in Greater Minnesota.To gather information, E-Democracy.Org is asking people to fill out (and share with others) a short survey that will help us better understand how Internet users in Greater Minnesota are using the Internet to connect with others in their local community and to share information about their community.The survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/2444xy and should take less than 5 minutes to complete. If you have additional questions about the project, contact us at team@e-democracy.org
Alums: Alumni societies offer ways for you to stay active
For more information on how to become involved with the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Alumni Society, contact Erica Giorgi in the CLA External Relations office at giorg003@umn.edu or 612-625-8837.
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Deadline for publication is Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
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