Gena Asher | Oct. 15, 2007
Several School of Journalism faculty and Ph.D. students presented their work at the American Journalism Historians Association annual conference in Richmond, Va., Oct. 10-14.
- Professor Ulf Jonas Bjork, Indiana University School of Journalism at Indianapolis, presented “Noble Warriors or Bloodthirsty Redskins: Swedish and Swedish-American Views of the Sioux, 1862-1890.”
- Assistant professor Mike Conway presented “The Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite’s Local TV News Experiment.”
- Ph.D. student Bill Gillis’s paper, "Censors in the Shop: A Militant Black Newspaper Inspires a Printing Worker Walkout, 1970," was runner up for the Robert Lance Award for outstanding student paper and the William Snorgrass award for outstanding minority journalism paper.
- Ph.D. student Mike Lyons presented a paper entitled "Conversations in Exile: Social Networks and the Role of Print in the Russian Freedom Movement."
Lyons was a member of a panel on prominent American female journalists throughout history. Specifically, his talk was on Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of Woman’s Journal, a turn-of-the-century women’s suffrage newspaper. Lyons also was named chair of the association’s graduate student committee.
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