April 23, 2009
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Weaver has conducted research at IU nearly 35 years. He is finishing a book on global journalism research and working on a follow-up of journalists who participated in the 2002 American Journalist study. He has begun work on a 40-year replication of the original 1968 media agenda-setting study conducted in Chapel Hill, N.C., and on a new edition of The Global Journalist book that he edited in 1998, which included reports of surveys of journalists done in 21 different countries.
Weaver spent fall semester working and lecturing at University of North Carolina and spring semester in Taiwan, teaching and lecturing on political communication and agenda-setting. Throughout his career, he has traveled around the world to lecture, visiting Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, Hong Kong and Venezuela.
His awards for teaching and research include three Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Awards for research about journalism; the 1993 MAPOR Fellow award for contributions to public opinion research; the Trayes Award from the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications; and, with professor emeritus Cleve Wilhoit, the AEJMC Presidential Award for three decades of research concerning journalists.
Weaver earned his Ph.D. in mass communications research from the University of North Carolina in 1974, the same year he joined the School of Journalism faculty.
Begun in 1980, this annual award honors the achievements of an IU-Bloomington faculty member and is co-sponsored by the Office of the Bloomington Chancellor and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
