Indiana University

Indiana University School of Journalism

Mike ConwayMike Conway

Assistant Professor
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Currently teaching:

Recent News

Teaching and research areas

  • Teaching areas include Broadcast News, Advanced Broadcast News, Journalism History, Visual Storytelling, Community Journalism, Broadcast News Analysis, Visual Communication, Journalism Ethics, Media and Society
  • Research areas include birth and early development of television news in the United States, journalism history, media content and practices.

Recent research publications

Book
  • Mike Conway. The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Journal Articles
  • Mike Conway. "The Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite's Local TV News Experiment." American Journalism 26, no. 3 (2009): 7-28.
  • Mike Conway and Jacob Groshek. "Forgive Me Now, Fire Me Later: Mass Communication Students' Ethics Gap Concerning School and Journalism." Communication Education 58, no. 4 (2009): 461-482.
  • Mike Conway and Jeffrey R. Patterson. "Today's Top Story? An Agenda-Setting and Recall Experiment Involving Internet and Television News." Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 24, no. 1 (2008): 31-48.
  • Mike Conway and Jacob Groshek. "Ethics Gaps and Ethics Gains: Differences and Similarities in Journalism Students' Perceptions of Plagiarism and Fabrication. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 63, no. 2 (2008): 127-145.
  • Mike Conway. "A Guest in Our Living Room: The Television News Commentator Before the Rise of the Dominant Anchor." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 51, no. 3 (2007): 457-478.
  • Mike Conway, Maria Elizabeth Grabe, and Kevin Grieves. "Villains, Victims and the Virtuous in Bill O'Reilly's 'No-Spin Zone:' Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques." Journalism Studies 8, no. 2 (2007): 197-223.
  • Mike Conway. "Before the Bloggers: The Upstart News Technology of Television at the 1948 Political Conventions." American Journalism 24, no. 1 (2007): 33-58.
  • Mike Conway. "The Subjective Precision Of Computers: A Methodological Comparison with Human Coding in Content Analysis." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 83, no. 1 (2006): 186-200.
  • Mike Conway. "The Birth of CBS-TV News: Columbia's Ambitious Experiment at the Advent of U.S. Commercial Television." Journalism History 32, no. 3 (2006): 128-137.

Journalism & Media career

  • News and Public Affairs Committee; WFHB Community Radio, Bloomington, Indiana
  • Freelance writer, producer, videographer; corporate videos, electronic press releases, music videos
  • News Director; WICU/WFXP-TV, Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Regional Producer; NBC News Channel, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • News Director; WPBN/WTOM-TV; Traverse City, Michigan
  • Executive Producer, Newscast Producer; WNEM-TV, Saginaw, Michigan
  • Reporter, Photojournalist, Bureau Chief, Sports Anchor; KAKE-TV, Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas
  • Reporter, Anchor; WKEF-TV, Dayton, Ohio
  • News Director, Anchor, Producer, Reporter, Photojournalist; WGTU/WGTQ-TV, Traverse City, Michigan
  • Sports Anchor, Reporter, Photojournalist; WTHI-TV, Terre Haute, Indiana
  • Anchor, Reporter; WTHI-AM/FM, Terre Haute, Indiana
  • Reporter, Producer; WFIU-FM, Bloomington, Indiana
  • News Director, Reporter, DJ, Management Board; WIUS Radio, Bloomington, IN

Academic awards & grants

  • Faculty Fellowship, Community Outreach & Partnerships in Service Learning
  • Top Faculty Paper, Journalism Studies Division, International Communication Association
  • Summer Faculty Fellowship, IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research
  • Grant-in-Aid Award, IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research
  • Scholarship of Engagement Faculty Grant, Indiana Campus Compact
  • Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, American Journalism Historians Association
  • Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University School of Journalism
  • Ralph Nelson Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
  • Faculty Paper Award, 2nd Place, History Division, Broadcast Education Association
  • Debut Award, News Division, Broadcast Education Association
  • Jung-Sook Lee Award, Communication Technology and Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Ada Frances Miller Award, University of Texas at Austin
  • David Bruton Jr. Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (twice)
  • Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Societies
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Journalism awards

  • Emmy, Spot News, National Association of Television Arts and Sciences, Ohio Division
  • Overall Excellence, Michigan Associated Press
  • Best Newscast, Michigan Associated Press
  • Best Spot News Coverage, Michigan Associated Press
  • Best Hard News Coverage, Michigan Associated Press
  • Feature Reporting, Kansas City Press Club
  • Best Feature Story, Kansas News Broadcasters
  • Photo Essay Excellence Award, Kansas City Press Club
  • Sports Reporting, 2nd Place, Kansas News Broadcasters
  • Spot News Reporting, 2nd Place, United Press International

Academic and professional organizations

  • American Journalism Historians Association
  • Association For Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Broadcast Education Association
  • International Communication Association
  • National Press Photographers Association
  • Radio and Television News Directors Association
Joined the faculty here at Ernie Pyle Hall in 2004