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.

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.

9/1/2009

Professor Owen Youngman

Owen Youngman discusses the role of the newspaper in a new media world on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.

7/15/2009

Professor David Abrahamson

Under Abrahamson’s guidance seven upperclassmen won awards at the annual AEJMC Magazine Division student contest.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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

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