KU School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Research Archive

PUBLICATIONS:

Sharon Bass and Mary Beth Gentry edited the book, "Medicine on the Kansas Prairie," a history celebrating 50 years of the KU School of Medicine Rural Preceptorship Program.

A chapter by Rick Musser and Douglas Sudhoff was published in "Technological Issues in Broadcast Education," published by Praeger. The chapter describes the creation of the Journalism 415 Multimedia Reporting class.

Carol Holstead contributed a book chapter on the working relationship between magazine art directors and editors to "Best Practices of the Business Press," edited by the American Society of Business Press Editors.

Max Utsler is the author of a chapter on convergence in "Mass Communication Education," a book published by Blackwell Science. It includes chapters on 24 different, but typical college journalism courses.

Charles Marsh's article, "Antecedents of Two-Way Symmetry in Classical Greek Rhetoric," appeared in the fall 2003 issue of Public Relations Review.

An article by María Len-Ríos and William Benoit of the University of Missouri was accepted for the spring 2004 issue of Public Relations Review. The title is "Gary Condit's Image Repair Strategies: determined denial and differentiation."

An article by Barbara Barnett on AIDS communication will be published in summer 2004 in Feminist Media Studies. The title is: "Emma Says: a case study of the use of comic books for educating women in the AIDS heartland." It looks at a comic book series used for educating women in Africa about AIDS.

Bob Basow's report on the "China-U.S. Relations: Past, Present and Future Conference" at Texas A & M University appeared in East Asian Studies NewsNotes in November.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:

Barbara Barnett presented a paper on "Medea in the Media: a narrative analysis of print coverage of the Andrea Yates murders," to the International Communication Association conference in May 2004. She also will present it to the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women in August.

María Len-Ríos presented a paper on "SARS Risk: impersonal impact and optimism" at the ICA conference in May.

Charles Marsh presented a paper on media effects of the Greek alphabet on Aristotelian ethics at the 2004 annual meeting of the Classical Association in Leeds, England. He will present "Plato's Worst Nightmare: Impact of the 'New Orality' on Media Literacy and Ethos" to the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC in August.

Marsh presented his paper, "Battle for the Soul of Ignorance: rhetoric and philosophy in classical Athens," to a conference on "The Need for an Ignorance-Based Worldview," sponsored by the University of Chicago, Clarkson University and the Land Institute.

Susanne Shaw spoke on "The Public and Accreditation" to the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.

Rick Musser was a discussion leader on convergence in the classroom at the annual Educators Seminar of the American Press Institute.

John Hudnall presented sessions on opinion writing at the Journalism Education Association national convention and was the featured speaker for the Indiana High School Press Association convention.

Susanne Shaw has a three-year term on the Membership Review Committee for the Association of American Law Schools. She served on the accrediting visit team to the University of Baltimore law school.

Brill participated in a workshop on new accrediting standards and training for future site visit chairs.

María Len-Ríos and Jennifer Kinnard edited the AEJMC Communication Theory and Methodology Division newsletters for spring and summer 2004.

KU Open House, Sept. 20, 2003:14 faculty and 36 students hosted and aided the visitors in their activities.

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics dedication, July 19-22, 2003. Linda Davis and Jennifer Kinnard assisted media covering the event. Broadcast faculty, staff and students videotaped events for air on KUJH-TV.

Sharon Bass was one of four KU representatives to a conference on "Making Learning Visible: Peer Review and the Scholarship of Teaching" held at the University of Nebraska.

Bob Basow led a session on teaching students in teams for the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Carol Holstead is the School's ambassador to the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Peggy Kuhr is one of 10 KU faculty members on the advisory board of the Dole Institute of Politics.

John Broholm is chair of the standing committee on new degrees and degree program changes of the KU Graduate Council.

Gerry Cain, Denise Linville and Jennifer Kinnard are on the KU Marketing Advisory Committee and Cain is on the Alumni Marketing Committee.

Malcolm Gibson served on the Fulbright and Direct Exchange Committee. He also is on the executive council of African and African-American Studies.

Linda Davis is on the faculty of the Center of Latin American Studies and Tom Volek is on the faculty of the Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Ann Brill chaired the KU Faculty Executive Committee's research committee. She also was chair of the News and Information track until she was appointed interim dean for 2004-2005.

John Hudnall began his term as president of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in fall 2003. He directed the Kansas Scholastic Press Association Fall Conference at KU September 24, 2003, with 809 students from 46 high schools. Nine faculty members and University Daily Kansan editors spoke. He spoke on scholastic journalism education to the Lawrence Rotary Club August 18, 2003.

The Kansas Scholastic Press Association regional contests brought 670 students from 34 Northeast Kansas high schools to KU on February 20. The 881 entries were judged by 17 faculty and staff and other journalists.

The KSPA state contests brought 846 students from 136 schools across Kansas to KU May 1. Their 1,019 entries were judged by 13 faculty and staff and other journalists.

The Kansas High School Journalist of the Year portfolio competition was judged by Ann Brill, Tim Janicke and Mary Wallace.

Faculty and staff judges for the Journalism Education Association of Metropolitan Kansas City student competitions were Kerry Benson, Terry Bryant, John Hudnall, Patty Noland and Mary Wallace.

Max Utsler spoke to journalism students from four Blue Valley high schools and critiqued their television shows.

Bryant, Noland and Gary Hawke represented the School at the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Career and College Fair for high school students.

James Gentry presented workshops on accounting and financial reporting to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, for American Press Institute in Minneapolis and San Jose, and the Central Exchange in Kansas City. He did a second series for API on Investigative Business Journalism. He also spoke to the Online News Association on working together across mediums.

Peggy Kuhr spoke at the Northeast District meeting of the Kansas Press Association in Leavenworth September 18, 2003, on "Suspicious Minds: ethical dilemmas and explaining them to our readers." She spoke at the Southeast District meeting of KPA in Pittsburg October 3 on the ethical dilemmas topic. She also participated in the API Publishers Forum on Ethics and Responsibility and the Knight Foundation News in the Public Interest programs. Kuhr attended Associated Press/Kansas Press Association Day at the Kansas Legislature in March. She spoke on the media habits of Generation Y to the KPA Leadership Academy March 11. She also judged the Wallace Stegner Awards for writing about the West.

Kuhr helped plan an Associated Press Managing Editors seminar on making international news important to local readers, held October 12 and 13 in Kansas City. She spoke at the national convention in Seattle on the same topic. She moderated a community forum for 6News and the Lawrence Journal-World April 19 as part of the APME Credibility Roundtables. She was a member of an ethics panel for the APME in Wichita. Malcolm Gibson attended.

Kuhr participated in a forum on citizen engagement at the Mid-America Regional Council in Kansas City on September 29. The event featuring Cole Campbell, former executive editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, was planned by Dan Blom, an adjunct faculty member.

Bob Basow chaired the International Advertising Education pre-conference at the American Academy of Advertising and made a presentation on integrated marketing communications in China at the 2004 AAA conference.

Rick Musser and Gentry made a presentation to the Kansas State University faculty and Flint Hills Press Women on the KU journalism curriculum.

Ann Brill judged the Online News Association Best of the Web contest and the EPpy competition for online products. She spoke at the Kansas Professional Communicators Awards banquet in Abilene.

Susanne Shaw represented the School at Kansas Editors Day at Kansas State University October 25.

Patty Noland was a judge for the International Association of Business Communicators, Kansas City chapter, Bronze Quill Awards.

Max Utsler conducted writing workshops for the staff of WINK-TV, Fort Myers, Florida. He led workshops on media relations, newsletter writing and public speaking at the Golf Course Superintendents Association convention in San Diego.

Dick Nelson moderated two seminars at the Society of Professional Journalists regional convention in Kansas City.

The School hosted the New Generations Society, a group of retired professionals in Lawrence, in November 2003. Ann Brill, Malcolm Gibson and Rick Musser spoke to them about the News/Information track and the Kansan on November 5. Gary Hawke, Charles Marsh and Dick Nelson spoke about broadcast opportunities and facilities and the Strategic Communications track on November 12. Jennifer Kinnard arranged the programs. The New Generations Society also visited the William Allen White home museum in Emporia.

The School hosted The Red Folder Reunion, a magazine alumni reunion and conference, recognizing Sharon Bass for her 20 years on the faculty. More than 40 alumni and current journalism magazine students participated in the two-day event. It included a reception, picnic and panels featuring national experts.

Ann Brill's Online Journalism class created a Brown v. Board of Education Web Site for the 50th anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court decision that school segregation was unconstitutional. It is at www.ku.edu/~ojclass/brown.

Students in the Community, Media and Credibility Seminar taught by Peggy Kuhr did a community credibility study focusing on residents of Fort Riley and of the city and students in the high school, for the Junction City Daily Union in the spring semester.

Kerry Benson's Message Development class in spring produced promotional materials for the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, and her Principles of Advertising class did a project to aid Trinity Respite Care in Lawrence.

Students in the Message Development class of María Len-Ríos produced advertising for the Johnson County Community College summer youth programs that was used to recruit children for the 2004 session.

The summer 2003 Multimedia Reporting class of Max Utsler conducted and taped many of the oral histories for the Memory Tent at the Dole Institute of Politics dedication in July.

Strategic Campaigns clients for fall 2003 were the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce for David Guth's and Tom Volek's class;

Union Broadcasting of Kansas City for Bob Basow's class; and Chipotle Restaurants for Tim Bengtson's class. Campaigns clients in spring were KU Women's Basketball, Commerce Bank, Douglas County Bank and UMB Bank.

Linda Davis participated in the KU International Faculty Development Seminar in Cuba June 1 to 8, 2004. She visited the University of Havana journalism program.

Tom Volek taught in Vologda, Russia and conducted workshops for journalism deans in Northwest Russia and the Baltic States September 26-October 11. He returned to teach law, history and ethics in a new journalism program at Petrozavodsk State University March 13 to April 3, and to observe Russian elections.

Kerry Benson taught in the fall and David Guth in the spring at the Consortium International University in Paderno del Grappa, Italy. The School has offered classes there since fall 2000. Terry Bryant will teach in fall 2004, and Patty Noland will teach in spring 2005.

Byung-suc Cha, a reporter on the Korea Economic Daily, studied at the School as the Sungkok Foundation Fellow.

Nurjigit Kadyrbekov, an assistant professor of law at Osh State University in Kyrgyzstan, was a visiting fellow at the School this year. He is continuing next year.

Professor Kattia Pierre, a master's graduate of the School, and three of her students at the University of Costa Rica spent a month at the School.