Archive for May, 2008

The six visiting journalists and one non-governmental organization worker from South Asia will present "HIV/AIDS and Journalism in India and Sri Lanka" at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ernie Pyle Lounge. A question and answer session will follow. Everyone is welcome. RelatedRead about the journalists’ arrival in Bloomington.Miller describes fraud, media coverage (Oct. 7)PRSSA hosts [...]

RelatedRead IDS campus editor Kaitlin Shawgo’s report for CNN on UWIRE 100.See the UWIRE 100 list.Learn more about UWIRE.SPJ honors IU chapter, students (Sept. 8)Sanserino wins Murray scholarship (July 9)INside wins [...]

Using a State Department grant, associate professor Jim Kelly and a colleague from ISU arranged for six South Asian journalists and educators to travel to the United States for a program on reporting HIV/AIDS.

RelatedRead the SPJ press release and list of winners.SPJ honors IU chapter, students (Sept. 8)News photographers meet Wednesday (Sept. [...]

Roy W. Howard Research Professor David Weaver will serve on a panel discussing the future of journalism research methods at the upcoming annual conference of the International CommunicationAssociation in Montreal May 22-26. This panel is based on a book Weaver co-edited with Martin Loeffelholz of Ilmenau University in Germany, Global Journalism Research: Theories, [...]

The May edition of Presstime magazine, published by the Newspaper Association of America, features an article about professor Jack Dvorak’s latest research that shows strong positive links between high school students’ participation in newspaper or yearbook activities and academic performance.Dvorak and Changhee Choi, Ph.D. Student, also have an AEJMC convention paper accepted for the Chicago [...]

Professor Jon Dilts has been named to the board of directors of the Community Justice and Mediation Center. The Community Justice and Mediation Center is a not-for-profit organization in Bloomington that promotes a civil community through mediation, education and restorative justice. Dilts, a long-time journalism professor at Indiana University, is a trained civil mediator [...]