10/29/2009
IMC Adjunct Lecturer Robert Mark
Mark received the “2009 Gold Wing Award for Excellence in Journalism,” given by the National Business Aviation Association for a story published in Business Jet Traveler magazine earlier this year.
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9/17/2009
Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don Schultz
Professor Emeritus in Service Don E. Schultz wrote a paper, “The Missing Brand Ingredient—Trust,” which was published in the September issue of The Brander magazine.
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9/1/2009
Professor Owen Youngman
Owen Youngman discusses the role of the newspaper in a new media world on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.
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7/15/2009
Professor David Abrahamson
Under Abrahamson’s guidance seven upperclassmen won awards at the annual AEJMC Magazine Division student contest.
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7/13/2009
Assistant Professor Susan Mango Curtis
Mango Curtis was recently appointed president of the Society for News Design Foundation and will oversee scholarships, fundraising and grants.
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7/6/2009
Adjunct Lecturer Robert Mark
Robert Mark has been flying since he was 16 and has been writing his whole life. It's no wonder he was recently named Aerospace Journalist of the Year.
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6/25/2009
Professor Loren Ghiglione
Professor Loren Ghiglione’s book, “CBS’ Don Hollenbeck An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism” (Columbia University Press, 2008) has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2009 Tankard Book Award.
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5/20/2009
Assistant Professor Rachel Mersey
Rachel Mersey is getting people to eat their brussel sprouts—in a manner of speaking. That’s how she describes a growing movement to do audience research differently and more effectively than it’s been done in the past
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5/12/2009
Professor Ed Malthouse
Edward C. Malthouse, the Theodore and Annie Sills Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill, has been named the recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.Malthouse is an expert in applied statistics, market research, and media marketing within the realm of marketing communications.
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5/12/2009
Adjunct Lecturer Jim Carey
On April 10 the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM) announced that Adjunct Lecturer Jim Carey is this year’s recipient of CADM’s Charles S. Downs Award.
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1/6/2009
Professor Kalyan Raman
Both journalism and marketing are being driven by a common set of
factors—rapidly accelerating changes in a world steeped in sophisticated
technologies has dramatically reshaped the way consumers shop for information,
products and services.
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1/6/2009
Assistant Professor Ashlee Humphreys
One of my favorite recent projects has been a study of the online
encyclopedia, Wikipedia, with my co-author, Kent Grayson. We’ve used
computer-assisted content analysis to look at the rhetorical strategies
people use in discussions and which strategies lead to the most
cooperation and conflict amongst members.
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1/6/2009
Assistant Professor Rachel Davis Mersey
From roots in my Ph.D. work, I am still examining the role of online
news in geographic sense of community. There is initial evidence to
suggest that individuals who read news online have a different (weaker)
relationship with their local communities that those who read print
newspapers.
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1/6/2009
Associate Professor Matt Mansfield
The work that Medill has done on transforming its curriculum
for the challenges facing the news industry. Even before joining the
faculty, I was a user of research and insight coming from Medill. As a
news editor and manager, I counted on Medill to help me see around the
corner. As a new faculty member, I am excited about extending that
work, especially as it relates to visual journalism and the changing
way the audience wants to consume news.
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1/6/2009
Professor Alec Klein
We live in interesting times, to say the least, and both journalism and marketing communications in the real world face exhilarating and sometimes scary challenges. How would you characterize some of those challenges. I consider those challenges to be a byproduct of change, and change is often daunting—but it’s also a great opportunity.
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1/2/2009
Assistant Professor Jeremy Gilbert
I just finished the year-long redesign of Poynter Online. The Web site
for The Poynter Institute has incredibly loyal followers and serves
many different purposes. Finding ways to keep existing users happy but
make the site easier to use for new visitors was extremely challenging.
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4/16/2008
Lecturer Fred Barbash
"Monarchic Pretensions: The War Power Grab," by Fred Barbash, lecturer in Medill's Washington program, was published this month in "Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War," by Paradigm Publishers and the Institute for Policy Studies.
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2/14/2008
Steve Duke, Sector Head, Newspaper and Associate Professor
In November, Duke led a day-long strategic-planning computer simulation for a group of Middle Eastern media executives as part of a three-week MMC management training program on the Evanston campus.
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11/5/2007
Associate Professor Ava Thompson Greenwell
Outside of Medill, Associate Professor Ava Greenwell is spearheading a program to get more African-American youth interested in journalism. And it's getting good reviews.
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10/23/2007
Professor Emeritus Robert McClory
Bob McClory spoke to faculty and students on October 17 about "How to Write a Book." In his lecture, he discussed his process for research, notetaking and finding publishers for his various published works. McClory writes all of his
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10/19/2007
Professor Emeritus-in-Service Don E. Schultz
What are Chinese marketers to do, in an age when the traditional Western marketing communications business model no longer breaks through the blockade consumers have constructed for media messages pushed upon them? Medill Integrated Marketing Communications On October 1, 2007, Professor Emeritus, Don Schultz, shared his perspective on this question and others pertaining to his firsthand experience with marketing and primary research in China at a Professional Speaker Series Fall Quarter event.
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10/18/2007
Associate Professor Jacquelyn Thomas
Associate Professor Jacqueline Thomas presented a paper at the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation meeting held in conjunction with the Direct Marketing Association's 2007 annual conference in Chicago October 13-14. Her presentation was titled, "Balancing Acquisition and Retention Resources to Maximize Customer Value."
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10/18/2007
Lecturer Abigail Foerstner
About 190 young Chicago area journalists and their instructors attended High School Journalism Day, Medill's annual outreach program held on Oct. 15, 2007. Students revved up their writing and reporting skills and learned hands-on multimedia applications during a day of workshops with our faculty.
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10/18/2007
Associate Professor Ed Malthouse
Ed Malthouse presented a paper at the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation meeting held in conjunction with the Direct Marketing Association's 2007 annual conference in Chicago October 13-14. The paper, “Target Selection in Direct Marketing Based on Multiple Contacts” was co-authored by Kirstin M. Derenthal from the Institute of Marketing, University of M¨unster in Germany.
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9/18/2007
September 9-11 Media Management Conference
News media organizations must become portfolio entrepreneurs that make experimentation and “iteration” a way of life and that “put risk and speed at the center of the corporate altar,” a new report from the Media Management Center concludes.
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9/18/2007
Professor Abe Peck
Ellen Blum Barish, former editor of the Medill magazine, recently spoke with Professor Abe Peck, who is Chair of Journalism and Cross Media Story Telling and the Gurley Brown Professor at Medill.
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9/13/2007
Professor Clarke Caywood
In the increasingly complex world of integrated marketing communications—from Superbowl commercials gone wrong to corporate communications in China—Clarke Caywood is the man with the answers. In between teaching courses in public relations, crisis management and speechwriting
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9/12/2007
Associate Professor John Greening
On any given day (when he’s not teaching, of course) Greening, who earlier in his career was the advertising leadership behind Budweiser icons Spuds McKenzie and the infamous “Budweiser Frogs,” is working on a variety of projects, all
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