Faculty, Ph.D. students attend journalism historians’ conference

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."

Conway also participated on a panel, Putting the “Multi” into Media History:  Teaching Media History with Multimedia, that explored the use of digital video recordings of oral history interviews in class exercises.

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.