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(Last updated February 12, 2008)

BOOKS

David Perlmutter’s book, “ Blogwars: The New Political Batleground,” was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press.

Perlmutter was co-editor of the book, “From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology,” published in 2007 by Louisiana State University Press. John M. Hamilton was the other editor. 

David Guth and Charles Marsh are co-authors of the book, “Public Relations: A Values-Driven Approach,” fourth edition, published in 2008 by Allyn and Bacon. 

Tien Lee’s book, “Media, Politics and Asian Americans,” will be published early in 2008 by Hampton Press.  It is co-authored by H. Denis Wu of Boston University.

David Perlmutter has signed a contract with Harvard University Press to write a book about promotion, tenure and academic culture. It will, in part, draw from his monthly “P&T Confidential” column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kristen Swain will write a chapter, “Moral Development Framing in Environmental News Coverage,” for an edited volume titled “New Agendas in Science Communication” to be published in fall 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum/Taylor & Francis.  As one of the 12 chosen authors, she received a fellowship to attend the New Agendas in Science Communication conference in February 2008 at the University of Texas. 

ACADEMIC ARTICLES and PUBLICATIONS

David Guth’s article, “The Bay Bridge Metonymy: How Maryland newspapers interpreted the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,” was accepted for publication in American Journalism in 2008. 

Rick Musser and Staci Martin-Wolfe co-authored “Blogs as a Student Content Management System,” that appeared in The Journal of Electronic Publishing, a publication of the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office in fall 2007. 

David Perlmutter’s essay, “The Lure of China,” drawn from his book, “Picturing China in the American Press,” was published in Nieman Reports for fall 2007.

Perlmutter’s essay, “You Didn’t Get Tenure: Part 2,” appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education September 28 in his series of columns headed “P&T Confidential.”

Perlmutter was guest editor of a special issue on Hurricane Katrina in Visual Communication Quarterly.

Perlmutter was interviewed for an article in American Journalism Review on the “Distorted Picture” of modern photojournalism because of digital editing technology.

Tien Lee’s article on declining readership among young Americans has been accepted for publication in the Newspaper Research Journal.

Kristen Swain’s risk communication research appeared in the proceedings of the National Community Readiness Communications conference, held at Kansas State University in 2006.  The book and CD were distributed to scholars, journalists, health and safety experts, and government communications specialists around the U.S. in 2007.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Barbara Barnett’s paper, Toward Accuracy and Authenticity: Using Feminist Theory to Construct Journalistic Narratives of Maternal Violence,” will be presented at the 2008 International Communication Association conference in May in Montreal.

Barnett’s paper, “Sports Talk: How the Media Framed the Duke University Lacrosse Case,” was accepted as a work-in-progress for the ICA conference.

Crystal Lumpkins will present “The Church as Health Brand: Exploring Effective Strategies to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Among Culturally Diverse Populations” at the 2008 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication.

Lumpkins’ paper, “A Content Analysis of Women’s Mass Magazines: An Examination of Socio-cultural Factors in Health Magazine Stories Targeting African American Women,” was presented at the National Association of African American Studies conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in February 2008.

Tien Lee is co-author with students in the graduate seminar in Political Communication of the paper, “Changing Images and Issues in U.S. Media Portrayal of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama,” to be presented at the International Communication Conference in Montreal in May. 

Charles Marsh will present “Isocrates’ Concentric Ethics: From the Personal to the Global” at the 2008 annual conference of the Rhetoric Society of America.  

Susan Novak will present her paper, “All Who Are Honorable Are in Your Debt,” at the Central States Communication Association conference in April at the University of Wisconsin.  The paper looks at the writings of  the late Anna Politkovskaya, from her coverage of the second Chechen War as an investigative journalist for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta.

David Guth received the top paper award at the Public Relations Society of America International Conference in Philadelphia for “Untapped Potential--An Analysis of Online Newsrooms on State Emergency Management Agency Web Sites.”

Tien Lee presented “The Common Grounds and Grand Canyons Between Liberals and Conservatives: A Lifestyle Analysis” at Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism.  He compared their stands on political issues, media habits and consumer behavior.

Kristen Swain presented her paper, “Quasi-Scientific and Elucidating Explanations in News Coverage of the Anthrax Attacks,” to the International Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in October in Cincinnati. She was a discussant for another panel there. 

Max Utsler’s paper, “Southern Fried Advertising: Nascar Meets Madison Avenue,” was presented at the Super Bowl Symposium at the University of South Carolina in January 2008.  His co-author is Stuart Esrock of the University of Louisville.

David Perlmutter was keynote speaker at a Photo Ethics conference in Taiwan in October.  It was sponsored by National Chengchi University and the TVBS Hong Kong and Taiwan television network.

Barbara Barnett spoke on “Managing the Mega Class,” at the KU Center for Teaching Excellence Large Class Colloquium in October.

PROFESSSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

David Perlmutter’s article, “Hillary Clinton’s critical choice: Attacking Obama could push youth away from politics,” appeared in the Christian Science Monitor January 15, 2008.

Perlmutter’s article, “Taking Time for R&R (Revise and Resubmit),” appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education January 11. 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Jimmy Gentry was designated an All-Star Speaker by the International Association of  Business Communicators following his presentation at the IABC International Conference in New Orleans in June.  His top-rated presentation was entitled, “”Financial Statements: The Cliff Notes Version.”

Gentry presented “Thinking Inside the Box: Deciphering A Company’s Income Statement in Five Steps,” at the IABC Business Communicators conference of the Kansas City chapter October 25.

Gentry led a 4-day workshop, “Strictly Financials,” for business reporters in January 2008 for the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. 

Perlmutter moderated a panel discussion on Military Blogging at the Dole Institute of Politics January 29, 2008.

Rick Musser spoke on video editorials to the National Association of Editorial Writers conference City September 26.

Musser was interviewed for a November 2 Baltimore Sun column headlined “If church doesn’t  pay, father still wins.”  The column was on the $10.9 judgment awarded in a federal jury in Baltimore against the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka.  It was sued by the father of  Marine killed in Iraq, whose funeral was picketed by the group.

Simran Sethi spoke to the following organizations:  Maria Shriver’s California Women’s conference in October, Bioneers by the Bay and Minneapolis Planners conferences as keynoter in October, and the Green Business conference in November.

Sethi appears regularly on the NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News and on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Dean Ann Brill chaired the Accreditation Site Visit Team at Michigan State University the week of October 15. 

Susanne Shaw participated in the Latin American Accrediting Council meeting and arranged an exchange agreement with the University of Buenos Aires. She participated in the Inter-American Press Association conference.   She also visited the University Puerto Rico on accreditation matters in October.

Shaw attended the first graduation program of the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and  Communication in Pristina November 26. The Institute has an exchange agreement with the University of Nebraska. It plans to seek accreditation in the future. 

Max Utsler is a member of the board of directors of the Broadcast Education Association and was elected treasurer to take office in spring 2008.

Malcolm Gibson is president of  Associated Collegiate Press of Kansas, representing newspapers from both four-year and two-year colleges in the state.

Gibson was a panelist with area journalists on Sports Ethics in an education class November 19.  

Tom Volek is the School’s liaison to the KU-Fort Leavenworth joint programs.  He arranged a mock briefing and  press conference for 12 lieutenant colonels at the School. The December 12 event was canceled because of weather conditions. 

Volek and Barbara Barnett have developed a new class, Media and the Military, for 16 KU students and 16 majors from the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. It will be offered in spring 2008 and thereafter. 

Kristen Swain participated in “Energy, Climate and the Future,” a planning workshop in Topeka for the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research proposals for the state of Kansas in October. 

Swain is a member of the KU Cancer Center, an interdisciplinary network of researchers, clinicians and educators who collaborate on clinical cancer research and cancer prevention projects.

Swain is the journalism school liaison to the KU Center for Sustainability that promotes interdisciplinary research projects, student projects and service learning about environmental responsibility.

Swain is one of ten assistant professors chosen to participate in the Hall Center for the Humanities spring 2008 Proposal Writing Workshop.  She will develop an NSF research proposal in collaboration with CreSIS, which will examine public communication about sea-level rise. 

Crystal Lumpkins represented the School at the Board of Regents Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism in Wichita in October. 

John Hudnall taught two writing sessions at the Journalism Education Association in November.

FALL 2007 CAMPAIGNS CLIENTS

The KU Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CreSIS), Bob Basow

The University Daily Kansan, Tim Bengtson

Chipotle and School of Journalism student recruiting, Mugur Geana

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Malcolm Gibson, Kerry Benson and Christy Bradford judged the Editorial Excellence contests of the Inland Press Association and Gibson presented the awards in Chicago.

Gibson judged the Best Investigative Journalism category in the 2007 editorial contest for the Suburban Newspapers of America. SNA is comprised of more than 2,100 suburban and community newspapers in North America.

Gibson attended the annual Associated Press Kansas-Missouri educators breakfast in Kansas City December 3. The event is an opportunity for news professionals to learn about university journalism programs and student media. 

Rick Musser represented the School at the Online News Association in Toronto in October.

David Guth and Patty Noland represented the School at the Public Relations Society of American International conference in Philadelphia in October.

Patty Noland and Jimmy Gentry represented the School at a conference on “World Class Training, World Class Opportunities: A dialogue with the Higher Education Community to prepare students for rewarding careers in public relations at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis.  

OTHER SERVICE

Dean Brill worked with The Lawrence Journal-World in developing and teaching in its Citizen Journalism Academy.

Brill spoke on “Prominent Women in Journalism” to the University Women’s Club in October.

Brill and Tom Volek spoke to the 5th graders at Pinckney School November 27 about how to cover an event.  The Pinckney students went to Topeka November 30 to participate in the presentation of a grant to KU’s UKanTeach program.

Sethi keynoted the Lawrence Home Energy Conservation Fair  in October and spoke at the Rural Route Film Festival’s “Go Organic” series of short films in Lawrence in August.  She will moderate the January 31 Focus the Nation Roundtable panel discussion on global climate change, its potential regional impacts, and possible solutions at all levels of government, at the Dole Institute of Politics. She also serves on the City of Lawrence Sustainability Board. 

Max Utsler spoke to students at Blue Valley High School about choosing a college. 

GRANTS

The McCormick Tribune Foundation awarded the School a $50,000 grant to support. The Media and Military program that brings officers from Ft. Leavenworth to learn how to work with media and takes students to the Fort for a three-day “bootcamp.”  Tom Volek is coordinating the program.

Rick Musser received a $106,000 grant from the Kansas Health Institute to research and evaluate the effectiveness of a three-year program of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Columbia, Missouri. The Missouri program to train working journalists in health care reporting is supported by a grant from a consortium of  Kansas and Missouri health foundations.

David Guth received a $65,514 grant from the KU Transportation Research Institute for a nationwide study of the effectiveness of state emergency management agency Web sites.  

David Perlmutter is co-principal investigator in a multidisciplinary research project on “Improving Highway Workzone Safety” that is funded by the KU Transportation Research Institute for 2008-2009. He works on ways to improve public message campaigns on workzone safety. 

Mugur Geana received a New Faculty General Research Program grant to research “Identification of Key Communication Channels/Messages for the Efficient Delivery of Health-Related Information to the Baby Boomers Generation. The amount is $7,600. 

Linda Lee received an undergraduate research assistant grant for a student to assist her on a book on global marketing that she is writing with the dean of the Negocia business school in Paris.