SoJ Web Report | Jan. 11, 2011
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| Professor David H. Weaver has been selected as an IU Distinguished Professor. He'll receive his award in a special ceremony April 8. |
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School of Journalism dean Brad Hamm congratulated Weaver on this “outstanding achievement” and said the school will schedule a reception late this month to celebrate.
Weaver and other recipients will receive their official awards from IU President Michael McRobbie April 8 at the Celebration of Distinguished Teaching. No more than five professors receive the award each year and an official announcement about the other winners will come soon.
McRobbie¹s notification letter said, “It is because of faculty members like you who have made remarkable and far-reaching contributions to research and scholarship in their fields that Indiana University has achieved its reputation as one of the world¹s leading public research universities.”
A professor and scholar of journalism for 35 years, Weaver has published nearly a dozen volumes of media research examining media agenda setting and politics, public opinion, newspaper readership, social science methods in reporting, and the changing characteristics of American journalists. He was IU’s Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer for 2009.
Weaver is author of numerous books and articles, including Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Findings, Future (Blackwell/Wiley, 2008), which details the opportunities and challenges facing journalism research. He and colleagues have published three editions of The American Journalist (2007, 1996, 1986), which surveyed journalists at key points in the industry’s history.
Weaver also is author of Mass Communication Research and Theory, The Global Journalist, Communication and Democracy, The Formation of Campaign Agendas, Contemporary Public Opinion, Videotex Journalism, Media Agenda-Setting in a Presidential Election, and Newsroom Guide to Polls and Surveys. He has also published numerous book chapters, articles and reports on U.S. journalists, media agenda-setting, newspaper readership, foreign news coverage, and journalism education.
Weaver has won many honors for his work. He is the recipient of the 1983 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications' Krieghbaum Under 40 Award to recognize excellence in teaching, research and service in journalism and mass communication; the 1986, 1996 and 2006 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Research About Journalism; the 1993 MAPOR Fellow Award for significant contributions to public opinion research; the 2005 Trayes Award for outstanding contributions to mass communication scholarship; and the 2006 AEJMC Presidential Award for outstanding service to journalism education. He was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2000 for his research contributions.
Weaver earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Indiana in the 1960s, and his Ph.D. in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina in 1974. He joined the journalism school at IU in 1975 and was named Roy W. Howard Research Professor in 1988.
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