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Weaver, five others join Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame

mslaby — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:23:37 +0000

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Professor Emeritus David Weaver was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame Saturday.

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School of Journalism Professor Emeritus David Weaver was among six people honored at the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday at the Indiana Memorial Union.

“It’s amazing to me that I’ve been so lucky to be associated with so many great people,” Weaver told the crowd of fellow inductees, family and friends in the Tudor Room. “I am very fortunate to be supported by great journalists in this state.”

In its 47th annual induction ceremony, the hall of fame also welcomed new four other members to its roster of more than 200 Hoosier journalists:

Mark Ferree, Scripps Howard executive and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association;
Skip Hess, longtime investigative reporter at the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News;
Steve Kroft, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent;
Kate Milner Rabb, early 20th century columnist for The Indianapolis Star.

The hall of fame presented its inaugural Distinguished Service Award to Walt Tabak of The Associated Press for his 25 years of keeping member newspapers online and up-to-date with ever changing technology.

For nearly 40 years, Weaver dedicated his career to journalistic teaching and research. Although he has a long list of works and accomplishments, he is most known for his work in agenda setting and the 1982, 1992 and 2002 American Journalist series of surveys. Later this year, the 2012 study, The Global Journalist in the 21st Century, will be published.

Last year, IU named Weaver “distinguished professor,” the only professor from the School of Journalism in the journalism school’s 100-year history to earn the title.

Weaver, though, downplayed these accomplishments as he addressed the audience Saturday.

“I think the title of Wells’s biography is Being Lucky,” he said. “And I can relate to that.”

Weaver also credited his mentor and American Journalists collaborator Professor Emeritus Cleve Wilhoit and his three “bosses” at the school, deans Richard Gray, Trevor Brown and Brad Hamm. He also acknowledged colleagues in the audience.

Other inductees or their families also made remarks, sometimes sharing personal stories or anecdotes.

Walt Tabak provided technical support to Associated Press members from 1961 to 1986, and many journalists remembered him as someone who was always there to fix problems no matter the time or the weather. His family remembered the same qualities.

“My dad’s commitment, dedication, pride to do the best job he could at one in the afternoon or one in the morning,” said his son, Ron Tabak, who accepted the award for his father.

Mark Ferree was a classmate of Ernie Pyle and Nelson Poynter at IU and the two helped him to land a job selling advertisement for the Washington Daily News in 1932, starting his long career as an executive with Scripps-Howard Newspapers.

His great-great nephew Kevin Harris accepted the award and said his uncle had a high view of journalism and loved to see young people join the profession and succeed.

Skip Hess spent 50 years with the two Indianapolis newspapers, writing investigative stories that brought down politicians and sparked government and institutional reform. He said his induction isn’t about one story, but about the thousands of stories, years of reporting, all the people he interviewed and the editors who helped him.

“It’s been a fun, 50-year ride,” he told the crowd, which included former colleagues, family and friends. “I can’t remember one day that I didn’t want to go to work.”

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60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, a native of Kokomo, said he was honored to be part of the state's history.

Steve Kroft has been in the business nearly as long as Hess. The Kokomo native spent 40 years in broadcast journalism, and since 1989 has been at 60 Minutes. His work has earned five Peabodys, 10 Emmys and two Dupont awards.

Kroft said his Midwestern roots have taught him hard work, to be friendly and to have a healthy distrust of people in power.

With all of his awards, he said he was especially appreciative of Saturday’s honor.

“There’s nothing more satisfying in life than being recognized among the people and place where you grew up,” he said. “I want to tell you how much of a privilege it is to be a small part of the state’s history.”

Kate Milner Rabb was most famous for her columns about Indiana’s history and people in the Indianapolis Star. One, “A Hoosier Listening Post,” ran daily from 1920 to 1937. She also authored several books and was an avid Hoosier historian.

Her great-granddaughter, Julia Rabb Whitley, said her grandmother talked often about Rabb and her amazing career.

The Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame is housed at IU’s Ernie Pyle Hall, where placards in the rear room of the library list members.

The hall now is taking nominations for the 2013 class of inductees. All materials are on the group’s website.

Raymer selected 2012 Dart Academic Fellow

SoJ Web Report — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:23:09 +0000

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Professor Steve Raymer has visited Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) six times in recent years to work on his latest book, Redeeming Calcutta, which comes out later this year. He has been selected one of 14 Dart Academic Fellows.

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Professor Steve Raymer has been selected as one of 14 Dart Academic Fellows for the 2012 program at Columbia University in New York.

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma conducts the program, now in its third year, to provide intensive training for educators on how to teach accurate, ethical and sensitive coverage of tragedy. The center itself serves as a resource for reporters all over the world covering conflict, from wars to natural disasters.

The fellows, from all over Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, will gather at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism June 28-30 for the intensives sessions.

Raymer, a photojournalist, has covered conflict all over the world for National Geographic and other media. He teaches J461 Reporting War and Terrorism, one of few such courses offered at any university, and said he draws on his own experiences when relating the topic to students.

This new opportunity will enable him to teach the course even more effectively, he said.

“Just because I have covered conflicts all over the world doesn't mean I know the latest thinking on how to teach conflict,” he said.

Among his many travels on assignment, Raymer shot this story on the humanitarian work of the International Committee of the Red Cross, an assignment that took him to 13 wars in eight months in 1985-1986.

After service as a lieutenant in the United States Army, Raymer joined the staff of National Geographic in 1972, launching a career that has taken him to more than 90 countries. From famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Raymer’s photographs have illustrated more than 30 National Geographic articles and have appeared in numerous other publications around the world.

In 1976, the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri named Raymer "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for his reporting of the global hunger crisis. He received a citation for excellence in foreign reporting requiring exceptional enterprise from the Overseas Press Club of America in 1981 for his work on the worldwide trade in endangered animals and products from endangered animals.

Raymer also is winner of numerous first-place awards from the White House News Photographers’ Association between 1975 and 1995. In 1999-2000, Raymer received a Fulbright Research Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, to support his work among the Muslim populations of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.

More:

Visit Raymer's bio page.
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Kelly wins Lieber award for teaching

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:48:01 +0000

Associate professor Jim Kelly is the recipient of this year's Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Distinguished Teaching Award for Indiana University.

This award is given to a faculty member from any of the eight campuses. IU President Michael McRobbie will honor Kelly and other outstanding faculty at the IU Celebration of Distinguished Teaching dinner April 20.

The committee on university distinguished teaching awards was unanimous in its selection of Kelly for the award. His name will be added to a plaque on display in the Indiana Memorial Union. Previous winners of IU distinguished teaching awards from the School of Journalism include associate professor Dave Boeyink, professor Claude Cookman, associate dean and professor Michael Evans and the late journalism lecturer Beth Wood.

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Weaver headed to journalism hall of fame

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:45:46 +0000

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Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver will be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame April 28.

Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver is one of five journalists to be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame this spring, the organization announced this week.

The other inductees are:

Mark Ferree, a longtime senior executive of the Scripps-Howard newspaper company who was a national free press advocate as president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, and who established a scholarship for journalism students;
Skip Hess, who spearheaded numerous prominent investigative projects during more than 30 years as a reporter for the Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star;
Steve Kroft, who has been a correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes for more than two decades; and
Kate Milner Rabb, who wrote columns devoted to the state’s history for The Indianapolis Star from 1920 until 1937, a time when few women had such opportunities.

The induction ceremony is April 28 at the Indiana Memorial Union. The hall also will award its first Distinguished Service Award to Walt Tabak, who for 25 years provided technical support to Indiana newspapers and broadcast stations that receive The Associated Press.

Weaver, who retired from teaching at the end of 2011, has been connected with IU nearly all of his student and professional life. After completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees at IU in the 1960s, he received his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1974 and returned to the IU journalism program the same year.

His research niche is agenda setting, an exploration of media effects on the public as well as influences on the media agenda, such as news sources, other news media, journalistic norms and traditions, unexpected events, and media audiences.

Weaver is author of more than a dozen books, including the American Journalists series in collaboration with various School of Journalism colleagues over the years. The most recent, The Global Journalist in the 21st Century, will be published in April 2012 with co-editor and journalism professor Lars Willnat.

Other members of the hall of fame who served the school include student media publisher Jack Backer; HSJI director Mary Benedict; retired placement adviser Marge Blewett; retired IUPUI journalism associate dean Jim Brown; retired dean Trevor Brown; photojournalism professor Will Counts; professor Ralph Holsinger; 1900s-era journalism instructor Fred Bates Johnson; HSJI director Gretchen Kemp; student media publisher Pat Siddons; department chair John Stempel; and broadcast professor Richard Yoakam.

Also among the members are many alumni, including Nelson Poynter and Ernie Pyle.

The Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame was established in 1966 to recognize and honor journalists who have significantly contributed to the profession through their careers and communities. For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Catawba honors Hamm as distinguished alumnus

SoJ Web Report — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:34:27 +0000

School of Journalism dean Brad Hamm and his twin brother, Benjy Hamm, were honored as recipients of Catawba College's Distinguished Alumnus Award Oct. 22 in their hometown of Salisbury, N.C.

These awards are given annually by Catawba's Alumni Association to individuals who have served their community, distinguished themselves in their profession, and have served the Catawba College community, according to the school's press release.

The brothers, class of 1986, both pursued journalism careers, working part-time for the Salisbury Post as they majored in communications. After graduation, they both worked full-time for one year at the Post and then went on to the University of South Carolina where they earned master's degrees.

Brad Hamm was associate dean at Elon University before assuming his duties as IU School of Journalism dean in 2005. His brother is editorial director for Landmark Community Newspapers, which owns more than 60 newspapers and seven college sports publications in 14 states.

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White wins ‘Friend of High School Press’ award

SoJ Web Report — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:13:14 +0000

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HSJI director Teresa White is the winner of the Friend of the High School Press award from the Indiana High School Press Association.

School of Journalism lecturer and High School Journalism Institute director Teresa White is the recipient of the Louis Ingelhart Friend of the High School Press award presented Oct. 21 as during the Indiana High School Press Association’s annual convention.

White, who taught journalism and was a high school publications adviser for two decades, said she was “surprised and thrilled” to receive the award, which goes to those who are not working as high school press advisers but make contributions to scholastic journalism.

As a high school adviser, White worked with HSJI long before she became director in 2008. Since then, she has launched outreach programs to support high school publications programs, and has arranged collaborative projects between high school students and IU journalism students.

For example, IU students helped one Indianapolis high school with plans to recharge its publications, participated in a high school press workshop in Orange County and facilitated a high school workshop project that was a collaboration between IUPUI and IU Society of Professional Journalists chapters.

At IHSPA this year, White arranged for IU journalism students to serve as judges for the Thursday evening “write off,” where they also led critique discussions with the high school students.

Read more about the IHSPA convention.
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Purvis wins honors at AJHA conference

SoJ Web Report — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:06:43 +0000

Doctoral student Amy Ransford Purvis’ paper, "Roy W. Howard and the Early American Newspaper Guild: One Publisher's Approach to the Unionization of Journalists in the 1930s," won an honorable mention in the Robert Lance Memorial Award for the Outstanding Student Paper competition at the Oct. 6-8 American Journalism Historians Association meeting in Kansas City, Mo.

The paper explores the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain's attitude toward the formation of the Newspaper Guild and how its management, specifically Roy W. Howard, reacted to the evolution of the Guild.

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Doctoral student work nets top AEJMC prizes

SoJ Web Report — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:16:35 +0000

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Four students and one newly-minted Ph.D. alumnus scored six awards for the research work at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference Aug. 10-13 in St. Louis.

Covering a variety of topics, from analyses of news during the Haitian earthquake to framing of Tea Party candidates, the work earned prizes in their respective divisions as well as overall top awards.

During the conference, students also presented their work, and faculty members moderated and served on panels. (See a full report.)

Here are the winners:

Jason A. Martin, Ph.D.’11

“Understanding the Internet’s Impact on International Knowledge and Engagement: News Attention, Social Media Use, and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake”
First Place Student Paper Award in the Mass Communication and Society Division

This paper examines the relationship of media use, foreign affairs political knowledge, and international involvement using a nationally representative survey conducted after the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Analysis found that news exposure, news attention and various types of social media use produced significant independent positive associations with international news knowledge and involvement. Cable TV exposure, Internet news exposure and radio exposure were the most important predictors of international knowledge. News attention, email use, social media use and texting were the strongest predictors of involvement. Thus, media use helped moderate the knowledge gap and predict likelihood of donating to the relief effort.
(See a PDF of the paper.)

Bill W. Hornaday

“Tweeting the Police Scanner: The Rediscovered Liabilities”
This paper won the Whitney and Shirley Mundt Award, First Place Student Paper in the Law and Policy Division.

This article examines First Amendment issues that might arise when professional or citizen journalists use Twitter to spread information obtained from police scanner transmissions. It addresses confusion concerning the practice’s legality and illustrates potential risks. It concludes by arguing that “scanner tweeting” should be done sparingly and under guidelines that minimize the spread of flawed information, reduce the risk of a potential defamation lawsuit, and promote the safety of emergency personnel, the public and media.
(See a PDF of the paper.)

Jihyang Choi

“The Effects of Questionnaire Frames on Indicators of Data Quality”
Winner of the Chaffee-McLeod Award, First Place Student Paper in the Communication Theory and Methodology division.

This study aims to empirically test how different kinds of frames of survey questions –“informative” and “accepting consequences” frames– affect the quality of the survey data collected. The “don’t know” response rate and the level of opinion diversification were adopted as criteria to measure data quality. The study reveals “informative” frames, in which background information about particular issues or policies is provided in the form of a preamble, did not increase the data quality significantly. “Accepting consequences” frames yielded contradictory results depending upon the level of the consequences involved. When the questions contain frames that facilitate the respondents making an evaluation about the personal-level consequences, the data quality significantly improved. However, the quality did not increase in the frames of the national-level consequences.
(See a PDF of the paper.)

Jaesik Ha

“Press Independence in the Guantanamo Controversy: Effects of The New York Times’ Coverage on Public Opinion During the Bush and Obama Administrations”
This paper won the MacDougall Award, First Place Student Paper Award in the Newspaper Division.

This study analyzed The New York Times’ coverage of the Guantanamo prison issue between 2004 and 2010. It investigates two aspects of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: How NYT covered the controversy over the closing of the Guantanamo prison during the Bush and the Obama administrations; and How NYT’s choice of frames affected public opinion. NYT showed itself a powerful and consistent challenger to the Bush administration on the Guantanamo issue by using more torture framing which described the Guantanamo prison as violating the human rights of prisoners and lacking due process. However, NYT’s coverage did not have an impact on the public’s judgment about the closing of the Guantanamo prison. NYT’s framing might be outweighed in the public’s mind by the “War on Terror” frame.
(See a PDF of the paper.)

Jaesik Ha
“Ronald Reagan in Heels: How Tea Party ‘Mama Grizzlies’ Framed Gender and Public Issues in the 2010 U.S. Mid-Term Election”
This paper won the First Place Student Paper Award in the Commission on the Status of Women Division.

This study conducted a discourse analysis of news interviews of female Tea Party candidates, television debates, and campaign ads during the 2010 U.S. election. Female candidates attacked both the “femininity” of male candidates and President Obama’s policies, such as health care and abortion. These candidates not only attacked the manhood of their opponents but also constructed a public persona with clear links to widely known conservative luminaries. They tried to depict themselves as disciples of Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. By doing so, they framed themselves as determined and courageous politicians. The tactical choice to align their public personas with Reagan and to become Palinesque “mama grizzlies” was the result of their judgment that such personas could be advantageous to their campaigns.
(See a PDF of the paper.)

Mohammed H. S. Mohammed al-Azdee
“The Salience-Setting Function”
This paper won the Third Place Student Paper Award in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division.

Agenda Setting Effect and Political Predisposition Effect are two latent constructs in a structural model. While Affect Salience conceptualizes their covariance, saliences in both of them compete to predict a third latent variable, Voting for President Obama. The analysis shows that in voting behavior, an individual significantly relies on Salience-Setting Function that primarily composes of political predisposition salience and affect salience. Need for Orientation explains condition when the function becomes consequences of media agenda setting.

Conway book nominated for Tankard award

Gena Asher — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:19:31 +0000

Associate professor Mike Conway’s book, The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s, is one of three nominated for the Tankard Book Award, an annual prize given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

The book, published last year, looks at development of the television newscast, specifically the people who experimented with the medium in its earliest years, developing what became the modern-day TV newscast.

The award will be presented at the AEJMC’s conference in Denver in August.

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