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The School of Journalism is welcoming four new faculty members and a new student media director.

Hans Ibold

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Hans Ibold joins the faculty in January.

Hans Ibold is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has taught news writing and reporting, qualitative research methods, history of American journalism and principles of American journalism. His research interests include media and cultural convergence, identity and Internet usage in Central Asia, and internationalization of journalism education.

Ibold has worked as a newspaper reporter at the Los Angeles Business Journal, arts editor at the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, Idaho, and Web site editor for the J. Paul Getty Trust.

He received his B.A. in liberal arts from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and his M.S. in communications studies from Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pa. He will join the faculty in January 2009.

Ron Johnson

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Ron Johnson will be Director of Student Media beginning July 1.

Ron Johnson is the new Director of Student Media and will oversee the operations of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, Arbutus yearbook and INside magazine.

Johnson previously has served as assistant professor at Kansas State University’s A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and as student publications director and adviser to the Kansas State Collegian newspaper. At Kansas State, Johnson taught editing, design and visual journalism.

Johnson replaces David Adams, the director of Student Media who died in June 2007. Johnson, Adams’ former student, has taken a similar career path. Both were assistant professors and publications advisers at Fort Hays State in Hays, Kan., before serving on the faculty and as newspaper adviser at Kansas State. Johnson now follows Adams in the Director of Student Media position at IU.

He will start July 1.

Shannon E. Martin

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Shannon Martin joins the faculty in August.

Shannon E. Martin currently is a professor of communication and journalism and director of the Maine Center for Student Journalism at the University of Maine.

Martin received her B.A. in art history and her M.A. in journalism from IU. She completed her Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of North Carolina.  She teaches and studies in the area of media law and news reporting as well as media and technology.

Martin has worked as a reporter, editor and news librarian at The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger, and The (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer.

She will join the faculty in August.

Emily Metzgar

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Emily Metzgar joins the faculty in August.

Emily Metzgar is a former foreign service officer to China and a current doctoral candidate at Louisiana State University¹s Manship School of Mass Communication. She received her B.A. in political science and French from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and her M.A. in international politics from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Her research focuses on the disruptive impact of interactive technology on established media and political institutions.

In addition to her work as a foreign service officer, Metzgar has worked as a freelance reporter, taught English in Japan, and served as a program officer for the U.S. Institute of Peace.

She will join the faculty in August.

Lars Willnat

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Lars Wilnat joins the faculty in January.

Lars Willnat currently is an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs and Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Willnat teaches international communication, media theory, media research and methods, public opinion and political communication. His research interests include international media effects, cross-national survey research, theoretical aspects of public opinion formation, and media effects on public opinion and elections. Political communication in Asia is of particular interest.

He was a Fulbright Scholar at Universiti Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, and a senior fellow at the School of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

He will join the faculty in January 2009.