Welcome to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The Cronkite School is a nationally recognized professional program that prepares students for careers as reporters, editors, producers, correspondents, anchors【广播节目主持人】, media managers and public relations specialists. Our students go on to online media outlets, television stations, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, newsletters, public relations firms and corporate and government public relations departments.
We consistently rank in the top 10 in the annual Hearst intercollegiate journalism competition, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism, finishing first in two of the past three years. And our students have finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards for a record fifth consecutive year. Our faculty consists of award-winning professional journalists and world-class media scholars. We are in the middle of one of the nation’s largest media markets. And each year we draw extraordinarily bright, inquisitive, passionate and diverse students from across the country.
ASU’s journalism program exploded onto the national education landscape in 1984 when the journalism school was named in honor of Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS Evening News anchor. For more than two decades now, the person who is often called “The Most Trusted Man in America” because of his journalistic excellence and integrity has helped shape and grow the program into a national journalism powerhouse.
In 2005, we entered a new era when ASU President Michael Crow made the Cronkite School an independent college. We declared a simple yet ambitious goal: to take this excellent journalism school and make it the preeminent professional journalism program in the country. And we are well on our way.
In the first few years of independence, we have added more than 15 top journalists and scholars to the faculty, people such as former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, former Minneapolis Star Tribune Editor Tim McGuire, BET Vice President Retha Hill, former Sacramento Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez and digital media guru Dan Gillmor. We launched the Cronkite News Service reporting bureau, where our best students prepare stories and news packages under tight deadlines for newspapers, TV newscasts, radio reports and news Web sites around the state. We started the New Media Innovation Lab and the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship to help develop the next generation of digital media solutions, and opened the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. We are transforming our award-winning weekly newscast, ASU NewsWatch, into a daily show. We started a partnership with ABC News in which our top students appear on ABC programs nationally. We are the headquarters for the exciting new Carnegie-Knight News21 experimental digital media program, a consortium of 12 of the nation’s leading universities. And we have a career development center that helps our students get the best internships and jobs possible because, after all, the most important measure of a professional journalism program is where students go after graduation and beyond.
All of these exciting initiatives are happening in a spectacular new facility in the center of the nation’s fifth-largest city. Our students are learning in a new, state-of-the-art journalism building that is unparalleled in journalism education.
It is equipped with 14 digital newsrooms and computer labs, two TV studios, 280 digital student work stations, the Cronkite Theater, the First Amendment Forum and the latest and most sophisticated technology found anywhere. Student journalists are walking to cover major events at City Hall, county, state and federal agencies, and major sporting and cultural venues across Phoenix. Our partnerships with media companies around the Valley – already strong – have grown as the distance between us in most cases is now blocks instead of miles.
Even with all of these exciting new initiatives, our biggest asset remains the foundation of excellence and integrity that has been the hallmark of our school, guided by the values and standards set by Walter Cronkite.
I hope you have the opportunity to take a look through our website and stop by the Cronkite School.
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Faculty BiographiesCraig M. Allen, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio University
Craig Allen joined the Cronkite faculty after 14 years in broadcast and print journalism and seven years teaching college journalism. He is active in international mass communication and has led delegations to Indonesia and Mexico. A broadcast historian, Allen has written extensively on political media, presidential communication and the international mass media, and he teaches courses in international communication and broadcast journalism. Allen’s books include “News Is People: The Rise of Local TV News.” He currently is writing a history of U.S. Spanish-language television. He also is active in ASU faculty affairs as past president of the Downtown Campus Faculty Senate and member of the University Academic Council and the ASU General Studies Council.
Melanie Alvarez, Executive Producer, Cronkite NewsWatch, Lecturer
B.A., University of Southern California
Melanie Asp Alvarez instructs and supervises student producers for the award-winning student-produced live newscast, Cronkite NewsWatch. In April 2010, NewsWatch was awarded Best of Festival by the Broadcast Education Association, making it the top student newscast in the United States. Prior to joining the Cronkite School, Alvarez worked as a newscast producer at KKTV in Colorado Springs, Colo.; WTSP in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla.; and KPHO in Phoenix, where she also served as an executive producer for the morning newscast and special projects. Alvarez has received several regional Emmy nominations.
Linda Austin, Executive Director, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Professor of Practice
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Linda Austin joined the Cronkite School in 2009 as executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. She has been editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader; executive editor of The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind.; and managing editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. She also served as assistant managing editor/finance for The Philadelphia Inquirer and as editor/publisher of the monthly PhillyTech magazine. She is a 2009 fellow in the Punch Sulzberger Executive News Media Leadership Program at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
Marianne Barrett, Senior Associate Dean, Solheim Professor, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Marianne Barrett brought her experiences as an ESPN programming executive to the Cronkite School when she joined the faculty in 1994. Barrett, whose research focuses on media management, economics and policy, was named a Frank Stanton Fellow by the International Radio and Television Society in 2002 for her “outstanding contributions to electronic media education.” She became associate dean in 2005 and the following year was named the Louise Solheim Professor of Journalism.
Sharon Bernstein, Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor In Business Journalism
M.A., University of California
Sharon Bernstein, an award-winning editor and reporter with experience in print, broadcast and online media, is the Cronkite School’s third Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism. Bernstein’s ground-breaking reporting led to new laws and policy in a variety of areas, including health care, urban planning and emergency preparedness. As an assistant business editor for the Los Angeles Times, Bernstein helped direct its coverage of the 2008 financial crisis. As a Times reporter, she contributed to the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of a bank shootout in 1998 and Southern California wildfires in 2004. Other awards include first place in investigative reporting from the Los Angeles Press Club and the Harry Chapin Media award for investigative reporting on the disadvantaged. She currently serves as online editor for NBC-LA.
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Associate Professor, Lincoln Center of Applied Ethics Professor of Media & Culture
Ph.D., Indiana University
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon is a winner of the Barry Bingham Fellowship for advancing diversity in college journalism education and a recipient of AEJMC Newspaper Division’s Professor or the Year Award for her multicultural initiatives. She has received numerous teaching, research and service award recognitions during her tenure at ASU. Previously, she spent seven years in newspapers, public relations and radio, including reporting for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her research focuses on U.S. media identity and representation of race, gender and social class.
Aaron Brown, Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism, Professor of Practice
Aaron Brown is the inaugural Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism. The former lead anchor for CNN joined the Cronkite School in January 2008 and teaches a seminar “Turning Points in Television News History.” Brown was news anchor of CNN’s flagship show “NewsNight” from 2001 to 2005, covering stories from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the 2004 presidential elections and the Iraq War. He is a winner of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award. Brown recently returned to television to host “Wide Angle,” a PBS weekly global public affairs series.
Christopher Callahan, Dean and University Vice Provost
M.P.A., Harvard University
Christopher Callahan is the founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School. He is responsible for leading a 75-member faculty and staff and 1,300 students. Prior to joining ASU, Callahan was associate dean at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and senior editor of American Journalism Review. Before entering journalism education, Callahan was a Washington correspondent for The Associated Press. He is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the author of "A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet."
Serena Carpenter, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Serena Carpenter joined the faculty in 2007 after finishing her Ph.D. at Michigan State University. Her teaching and research interest areas include online journalism, news quality, citizen journalism, blogs, military-press relations and the sociology of news production. Carpenter teaches JMC 425 Online Media, a course required of all Cronkite School students. Her research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society and Telecommunications Policy.
Michael Casavantes, Lecturer
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Michael Casavantes joined the Cronkite faculty in 1990 and has taught at the university level for 25 years. He has 15 years of experience in broadcast news, with five years as a television reporter, anchor and producer for ABC and NBC affiliates in El Paso, Texas, and 10 years as news director of a 100,000-watt public radio affiliate in Las Cruces, N.M. Casavantes has been honored with teaching awards at New Mexico State and the Cronkite School. He teaches JMC 315 Intermediate Reporting and Writing for broadcast students.
Sue Clark-Johnson, Director, Morrison Institute for Public Affairs in College of Public Programs (Joint Faculty Appointment)
Sue Clark-Johnson, director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University, has a joint faculty appointment with the Cronkite School. As president of the newspaper division of Gannett Co. and former publisher of The Arizona Republic, Clark-Johnson was head of the nation’s largest newspaper group. She spent 41 years as a reporter, editor, publisher and senior executive at Gannett Co. She has also served as chairwoman of the Newspaper Association of America.
John E. Craft, Curator of Marguerite and Jack Clifford Gallery, Professor
Ph.D., Ohio University
A national expert in television media, John Craft has taught broadcasting at the Cronkite School since 1973. His award-winning documentary programs on Route 66 have been distributed around the world and have been broadcast on public television stations in nearly 80 of the top television markets in the United States. Craft’s research interests are in media management, media and society and the philosophy of mass communication. As an Arizona Humanities Scholar, Craft often speaks to civic, educational and professional organizations. He is a winner of the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Steve Crane, Director of Washington Operations, Professor of Practice
M.B.A., University of Maryland
As director of Washington operations, Steve Crane runs the Cronkite News Service bureau in D.C. and manages Cronkite professional programs in Washington. Crane was a political reporter and editor for The Washington Times before directing the D.C. bureau of the University of Maryland’s Capital News Service, where his students won numerous awards for their reporting. For five years before joining the Cronkite School, he was assistant dean at University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Roy Dabner, Lecturer
A veteran photojournalist, Roy Dabner began teaching at the Cronkite School in 2005. For the past 15 years, he has worked as a Phoenix-based photo stringer for the Associated Press and European Pressphoto Agency. During his more than 30 years as a photojournalist, he has covered major sporting events from the Super Bowl to the World Series to NBA and MLB All-Star Games. He worked for several Midwestern daily newspapers, including five years with the Gannett-owned Commercial-News in Danville, Ill., before coming to Phoenix in 1996.
Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism, Professor
B.A., Dartmouth College
Steve Doig joined the Cronkite faculty in 1996 as the school’s first Knight Chair in Journalism following a 23-year career in newspaper journalism. An expert in computer-assisted reporting, Doig was part of an investigative team at The Miami Herald that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for an analysis on how weakened building codes and poor construction contributed to the devastation of Hurricane Andrew.
Leonard Downie Jr., Weil Family Professor of Journalism, Professor of Practice
M.A., The Ohio State University
Leonard Downie Jr. is vice president-at-large of The Washington Post, where he was executive editor from 1991 to 2008. During his 44 years at the Post, Downie was an investigative reporter, editor on the local and national news staffs, London correspondent and managing editor and helped supervise the newspaper’s Watergate coverage. During his 17 years as executive editor, the newspaper won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. Downie is a founder and board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., an advisory board member of the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and chairman of the board of advisers of Kaiser Health News. He is the author of four nonfiction books and a novel.
Steve Elliott, Director of Digital News, Cronkite News Service, Professor of Practice
M.B.A., Arizona State University
Steve Elliott is the founding director of Cronkite News Service’s print journalism program. He joined the Cronkite School in September 2006 after a 19-year career with The Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization. Elliott’s AP career included tours as a reporter, newsroom manager, bureau chief and business executive. At Cronkite News Service, Elliott leads groups of advanced students in coverage of statewide stories for newspapers and news Web sites. Their stories appear regularly in nearly 30 publications across the state and region.
Mary-Lou Galician, Associate Professor
Ed.D., Memphis State University (now University of Memphis)
Mary-Lou Galician, a media literacy advocate and award-winning researcher and educator, joined the Cronkite School after a long career in print journalism, television, public relations, advertising and marketing. She wrote the pioneering research-based textbook “Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media” for the analysis and criticism course of the same name that she created and teaches and that is a model used at universities around the nation. Her “Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media” is used worldwide.
Kristin Gilger, Associate Dean, Professor of Practice
M.A., University of Nebraska
Kristin Gilger directs the school’s 50-plus part-time faculty members and oversees the school’s professional programs. She also serves as executive editor of the national News21 program, headquartered at the Cronkite School. She was director of Student Media at ASU from 2002-2007. She spent 21 years in various reporting and editing roles at newspapers across the country, including the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., the Salem Statesman Journal in Oregon and The Arizona Republic. She conducts training at newspapers and for newspaper associations nationally and internationally.
Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship
B.A., University of Vermont
Dan Gillmor is an internationally recognized leader in new media who is the founding director of the Knight Center at ASU. A longtime Silicon Valley-based journalist, Gillmor wrote a popular business and technology column for the San Jose Mercury News and launched a weblog in 1999, a site believed to have been the first mainstream journalism blog. In 2004 he published “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,” the leading book on citizen journalism. He also directs the Center for Citizen Media, a project to expand grassroots media.
Dawn Gilpin, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Temple University
Dawn Gilpin spent more than 15 years working in Italy in organizational communication and public relations, including crisis management and internal communication. She completed her Ph.D. in Mass Media & Communication at Temple University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Gilpin’s research focuses on the interactions between organizations, media and public policy, particularly in terms of organizational and issue identity and the dynamics of knowledge and power. She teaches public relations at the Cronkite School.
Donald G. Godfrey, Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
Don Godfrey is the past president of the Broadcast Education Association and immediate past chair of the BEA Research Committee as well as a former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, one of the leading scholarly journals in mass communication. He came to ASU in 1988 with 17 years in the radio and television industry as a news and sports anchor, reporter and director. Godfrey, a broadcast historian, uses a variety of methods in his research, including historical, legal and critical. He has won multiple awards for his creative and scholarly work, including the prestigious Distinguished Education Service Award from the BEA. He has written and edited more than a dozen books and is still at it.
Susan Green, Assistant News Director and Broadcast Director, Cronkite News Service
B.A., Arizona State University
Susan Green is the founding broadcast director of the Cronkite News Service and assistant news director. She came to ASU in August 2006 from KNXV-TV, where she served as managing editor at the ABC affiliate. In her 21 years as a broadcast professional, Green held positions at stations in Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York City. At Cronkite News Service, she works with advanced broadcast students to produce news stories and packages that are distributed to television stations across the state.
Retha Hill, Director, New Media Innovation Lab, Professor of Practice
B.A., Wayne State University
Retha Hill joined the Cronkite faculty in 2007 after nearly eight years at BET, where she was vice president for content for BET Interactive, the online unit of Black Entertainment Television and the most visited site specializing in African-American content on the Internet. Before joining BET, Hill was executive producer for special projects at washingtonpost.com. At the New Media Innovation Lab, Hill works with students from multiple disciplines, including journalism, to research and develop new media products for media companies.
Jim Jacoby, NewsWatch Television Production Manager, Lecturer
B.A., Arizona State University
Jim Jacoby joined the Cronkite School faculty after 20 years in television news. An Emmy award-winning editor and director, Jacoby teaches television production and serves as the school’s production manager. In addition to his Cronkite School duties, he works as a freelance editor and does graphics for the Arizona Cardinals, Sun Devil Football, and several local production companies.
Aric Johnson, Arizona Republic Editor-in-Residence
B.A., University of Southern California
Aric Johnson is the school’s first Arizona Republic Editor in Residence, overseeing students in a multimedia reporting class in which they report breaking news for azcentral.com, Arizona’s most viewed news website. He works out of the Republic’s newsroom, coaching students and editing their work. Johnson worked at newspapers in California and Nevada before coming to the Republic, where he has served as assistant business editor, education editor and editor of the Tempe Republic.
Andrew Leckey, Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism, President, Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Professor
M.A., University of Missouri
Andrew Leckey is the Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism and President of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Cronkite School. He is a longtime syndicated investment columnist for the Chicago Tribune, former CNBC anchor and the author or editor of 10 financial books. He received the National Association of Investors Corporation’s Distinguished Award in Investment Education and was founding director of the Bloomberg Business Journalism Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Lodato, Assistant Dean, News Director, Professor of Practice
B.J., University of Missouri
Mark Lodato joined the Cronkite School in 2006 after working for 16 years as a television reporter and anchor for television stations in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Phoenix and Ft. Myers, Fla. He also served as news director at the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. At the Cronkite School, Lodato oversees the broadcast news operation and works with advanced students in the school’s national award-winning television newscast, Cronkite NewsWatch, which airs four times each week across much of Arizona.
Jason Manning, Director of Student Media
M.A., George Mason University
Jason Manning is director of student media at Arizona State University, where he serves as adviser and publisher of the university's student-run news outlets, the State Press, StatePress.com, State Press Multimedia and State Press Magazine. He also is a faculty member at the Cronkite School. Prior to joining ASU, he was the politics editor for washingtonpost.com, where he led the website’s coverage of the federal government and national campaign politics.
William K. Marimow, Executive Editor, News21
B.A., Trinity College
William K. Marimow comes to Cronkite after leading some of the nation's top newsrooms, most recently as editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and previously as managing editor and vice president of news at National Public Radio and editor of The Baltimore Sun. He received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1985 and the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1978. As a Nieman Fellow, he studied the First Amendment at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Marimow is also a member of the board of trustees of Trinity College in Connecticut.
Fran R. Matera, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Miami
Fran Matera joined the Cronkite faculty in 1989 after teaching at Florida International University and the University of Miami. She has a background in both newspapers and public relations, including stints as the night copy chief at The Miami News and as an editor of a fine arts magazine. She teaches writing for public relations and public relations campaigns at the Cronkite School, and her students have won the NASA Means Business competition four years in a row. Matera’s research focuses on Hispanic audiences and is conducted in both English and Spanish.
Tim McGuire, Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism, Professor
J.D., William Mitchell College of Law
Tim McGuire is the former editor and senior vice president of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the nation’s 17th largest daily newspaper. He served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and wrote a nationally syndicated column, “More Than Work,” focusing on ethics, spirituality and values in the workplace, before joining the Cronkite School in 2006 as the Frank Russell Chair in the Business of Journalism. He teaches courses in ethics and diversity and the business of journalism and serves as mentor to graduate students.
Rick Rodriguez, Carnegie Professor of Journalism, Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor, Professor of Practice
B.A., Stanford University
Rick Rodriguez is the Cronkite School’s first Carnegie Professor specializing in Latino and transnational news coverage. The former executive editor of The Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, Calif., and the first Latino president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors came to the Cronkite School in 2008 to develop a new cross-disciplinary specialization in the coverage of issues related to Latinos and the U.S.-Mexico border. While he was at the Bee, the paper won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Rodriguez is known nationally as a champion of watchdog journalism and newsroom diversity.
Sandra Mims Rowe, Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics
B.A., East Carolina University
Sandra Mims Rowe, former editor of The (Portland) Oregonian, is the Cronkite School’s sixth Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics. As editor of The Oregonian, Rowe led the paper to five Pulitzer Prizes, including the Gold Medal for Public Service, before her retirement in 2010. Prior to that, she served as executive editor and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Va., for nearly 10 years.
Dennis E. Russell, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah
Dennis Russell joined the Cronkite faculty in 1991 after a decade-long career as a print journalist in the Phoenix metropolitan area. He teaches a wide array of classes, including Mass Communication Law, Media Issues in American Pop Culture and Media Problems. His research focuses on mass-mediated popular culture, critical studies, film, literary and music analysis and First Amendment law. He has been published in Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal and Communication and the Law.
Joseph Russomanno, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder
Joseph Russomanno joined the Cronkite School in 1994. He has worked a news reporter in radio and television and as a television news writer, newscast producer and executive producer at stations in St. Louis and Denver. He has received several awards for his broadcast work. His teaching and research focus on broadcast issues and First Amendment law. Russomanno has published three books related to First Amendment law and has written articles and opinion columns for scholarly and mass media publications. He teaches media law.
B. William Silcock, Director of Cronkite Global Initiatives, Humphrey Program Curator, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri
A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Bill Silcock researches global television news cultures, most recently in the Balkans. He joined the faculty in 2001 after a career as a TV news director, producer and anchor/reporter. He has won national awards for his documentaries “Backstage at a Presidential Debate: The Press, the Pundits and The People,” “Fortress of Faith” and “Woodstock: Back to the Garden.” Silcock’s research examines newsroom culture, particularly news values. He teaches broadcast journalism and the history and principles of journalism.
Terry Greene Sterling, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty Associate
M.F.A., Goucher College
Terry Greene Sterling is a three-time winner of Arizona’s highest journalism honor, the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award, and the recipient of more than 50 national and regional journalism awards. She was a staff investigative reporter at Phoenix New Times for 13 years. Her stories have appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Arizona Highways, the Arizona Republic, The Nieman Narrative Digest and many other publications. Her book, "ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone," was published by Globe Pequot Press in 2010 and excerpted online by Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and The Daily Beast. She is a contributor for The Daily Beast.
Edward J. Sylvester, Professor
M.A., City College of New York
Ed Sylvester is the mentor for Mayo Medical School students in the Combined M.M.C. / M.D. program that began in 2010. He created the course in Science and Medical Writing in 1999 and has taught it ever since. He has written five books for popular audiences ranging from the dangers of current U.S. biodefense policies (with Dr. Lynn C. Klotz) to doctors' efforts to rescue severely brain-injured patients in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Neurosciences Critical Care Unit. Before joining the faculty, Sylvester was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
Leslie-Jean Thornton, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Leslie-Jean Thornton’s research focuses on professional journalism practices, convergence and new media. She is particularly interested in the various “digital divides” that may or may not form as a result of changed distribution and reporting forms for news. She has taught online media and advanced editing at the Cronkite School since 2004 after developing similar classes for the State University of New York at New Paltz. Before accepting a Freedom Forum fellowship for her doctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was a newspaper editor in New York, Connecticut and Virginia - most recently at The Virginian-Pilot.
Xu Wu, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida
Xu Wu, a native of Beijing, graduated from People’s University of China in 1992 and worked as a national correspondent and domestic news editor at Xinhua (New China) News Agency. He helped found the Xinhua Daily Telegraph, one of the leading national newspapers in China, and operated a media consulting agency there. He has taught strategic media and public relations at the Cronkite School since 2005. Wu’s research interests include international public relations, crisis management, public diplomacy and political communication.
G. Pascal Zachary
Professor of Practice (Joint Faculty Appointment with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes)
B.A., SUNY at Albany
G. Pascal Zachary was a senior writer with The Wall Street Journal for 13 years and a technology columnist with The New York Times for two years. He has worked as a magazine editor for Time Inc. and as a reporter for The San Jose Mercury News and for three alternative weekly newspapers. Zachary has taught journalism and writing at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and is the author of four books, including "The Diversity Advantage" and "Married to Africa."
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Top 10 journalism schools for Asian studentsBy
Asian Correspondent
Apr 15, 2011 12:54PM UTC
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for our updated 2012 journalism schools list THE number of university-qualified journalists continues to grow all around the world. While you can still get a job with a media organization at entry level without a degree, many jobs in communications, particularly with government organizations, now require tertiary qualifications as a prerequisite.
If you choose not to get a journalism degree, it might be okay for a while, but it is likely to be a decision you will eventually regret.
Opinions about great journalism schools are highly subjective and can be heavily influenced by a few personal experiences. However, it is certainly true that good journalism courses develop reputations for turning out graduates who are highly regarded within the industry. The reputation of a journalism school definitely ranks highly in importance as something to help you make a choice.
Some journalism courses with very high entry requirements do not have industry reputations to match courses with lower entry requirements because of their record in producing distinguished alumni. So it’s a question worth investigating – who are the distinguished graduates of the course? Most universities with a good track record in this area will not be backward in telling you of their many distinguished alumni on their website.
Pic: Hong Kong Baptist University.
There is a direct way that also might help you to make a choice: figure out the job you would like more than any other, then ring up the Editor, Chief of Staff or Cadet Counsellor at the organization where you would most like to work and ask them which course they would recommend.
Of course, it’s critical that modern journalism courses keep students up to date with the latest developments and any journalism course that does not have a significant digital or new media component by now is letting its students down.
Fortunately, most senior university journalism staff have well and truly come to understand the importance of digital media and have brought in specialist lecturers, and developed facilities and courses.
The degree of emphasis on digital media will vary from course to course and if this is where you see your future, you will want to investigate whether or not specialist qualifications are being offered that can give you an edge. Without a doubt, tertiary qualifications in digital media will put you ahead of the game – but equally without a doubt, this is a rapidly developing area where you will constantly need to update your skills.
Another important marker for a good journalism course is that it is run by staff with sound industry links. Check their biographies online. Do the professors and senior lecturers have backgrounds in journalism that you would like to emulate? If they do, there is a good chance they can help find you internships in places you want to be and answer the questions you want answered.
Of course, a very important factor for Asian students studying internationally is the level of support available. The needs of individual students will differ. If proficiency in English is an issue, there will be no way of hiding this while doing a journalism degree. It is vital that your university has support available for you in a way that will not disrupt or prolong your course. Details about this support should be available online at any respectable university website under the heading of student services.
One statistic to be a little wary of is student satisfaction surveys. While this should not be discounted altogether, some of the best regarded journalism courses perform poorly in surveys of student satisfaction. Experience tells us that this often has more to do with the fact that many students in top courses have much higher expectations and are more likely to be critical – which, ironically, is exactly how they are taught to think.
The following list of top journalism schools is not ranked in any particular order, but has been compiled with a view to range of factors including links to industry, industry reputation, strengths in new and social media, academic reputation, salary and job success, and empathy to Asian culture.
Pic: Birmingham School of Media.
What the experts say…
We asked some top journalists, academics and some of our own correspondents what a student should look for when choosing a journalism school? Here’s what they said:
Prospective students should check whether practicing journalists are members of the faculty. This ensures that the teaching, or part of it at least, is grounded on actual practice. This is especially true for specialized subjects like investigative or multimedia journalism. Also, a good journalism school nowadays should offer an array of courses or subjects on multimedia journalism. These days, I can’t imagine new graduates of journalism not having at least a basic knowledge of multimedia journalism. Finally, a school that has a program that looks into journalism or media trends and issues is always a good sign that they take journalism seriously.
Graham Barnfield, Head of Journalism at the University of East London
Prospective students should ask themselves what they want to get out of any course they join. The big divide is between training and a specialized form of Media Studies – it’s important not to mix the two up. ‘What do you want to do?’ is always my question for students. Next they should see what’s on offer – how much will they develop their craft as writers through being in the School? (A good journalism student should be already writing anyway, but there’s always room for improvement.) Personally I favor a mixture of craft and critique, so the applicant doesn’t end up exclusively in lessons dedicated to picking up local newspaper-specific skillsets such as shorthand and observing local council meetings. Issues of why be a journo in the first place – questioning everything – should never be too far away … .
Francis Wade, writer and sub-editor for Democratic Voice of Burma When deciding on a school for journalism studies, the key factor is whether your place of choice effectively balances the hands-on, practical side of reporting with a good insight into how the media industry works. Both play key roles in the quality of your output and in helping you to understand the credibility of whatever organization/institution you choose. The majority of media groups are increasingly sacrificing good journalism for material that can be generated quickly and that satisfies a mainstream audience, regardless of the strength of the story, and a strong school should help you to develop both a sharp insight into how the industry functions, and equip you with the necessary tools to make you a driven, but sensitive, journalist.
Students are well advised to check out if a journalism school has built enough practical work into its curriculum. This is especially important for students seeking to specialize in either new media or television. They also should find out the practical experience the faculty brings to the classroom, and whether or not the school is able to attract professional journalists as visiting faculty. Finally, the best indicator of how good a J-school is is its alumni – where do they work today? What kind of positions do they hold? Etc.
Some universities have highly regarded journalism courses, and if you get into one, good luck to you. However, my advice is that wherever you go, build up a portfolio of work in your own time. If you can show an employer an impressive portfolio of work, it will take you far. Also, if you have a personal interest – say yachts, science, fashion or travel – whatever it is, becoming a specialist can be a smart way of getting ahead of the competition, and help you find work in a job you love.
Having taught Journalism to undergrads I would probably ask something about what links they have to the industry. Do they have good quality guest speakers and some lecturers with a proven and published track record? In the UK do they link to NCTJ courses, or if elsewhere, do they promote similar standards? Do they also promote critical thinking and engage students on broader issues? It is easy to teach students to do things – harder to get them to actually think what/how/why they are doing it.
Pic: Medill Northwestern University.
And here are our top 10 journalism schools for Asian students…
HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
While the rest of the world’s journalism students are flocking to expensive, high-profile media colleges in Europe and the US, a savvy few are looking for advancement opportunities in Asia’s burgeoning market. For ambitious students with the drive to carve out a career in one of the fastest growing consumer markets on earth, a degree in journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University is an outstanding option. Hong Kong Baptist University Department of Journalism, under the School of Communication, launched in the 1960s, and it quickly became the most successful program on offer here. The department continues to provide Hong Kong and China with some of the region’s most prominent journalists. All of the journalism coursework at HKBU is offered through the School of Communication. Journalism is the headliner here, but shares the marquee with film and communications studies.
Read full profile… MEDILL NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
Most graduate programs limit student travel to trips home or an occasional spring break trip with friends. Not so at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., just outside of Chicago, where Medill journalism students often venture thousands of miles in pursuit of an important story. Medill is one of the top-ranking journalism schools the US, offering a mix of undergraduate and graduate programs that consistently produce some of the most qualified and competitive journalists in the world. In less than a century of operation, the school has produced nearly 40 Pulitzer Prize winners, and current students are encouraged to pursue the same level of excellence. The university’s full-time faculty are seasoned professionals with extensive industry experience and contacts. Medill also draws on Chicago’s journalism community for accomplished adjuncts who have specialized in reporting, photography, videography, non-fiction narrative, magazine editing, web design and more.
Read full profile… BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF MEDIA
If carving out a career in the media industry were as simple as learning journalism theory and picking up the necessary technical know how, then just about any school of media would suffice. But anyone who has spent time trying to land a break in this industry knows that the hurdles are set quite a bit higher. Birmingham School of Media is a Skillset Media Academy. This means the school’s coursework has been approved by a panel of industry professionals for its ability to equip students with the sort of industry expertise it takes to launch a professional media career. The fact that less than two dozen schools in the UK carry this distinction puts Birmingham on an instant short list. This was one of the first schools in the country to teach media studies, and it enjoys a stand-out track record for graduate employability.
Read full profile… COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
Take an Ivy League university with centuries of tradition on tap, layer in some of the world’s most prestigious awards in journalism, and it’s easy to see why up-and-coming journalists are so keen on getting their credentials here. Simply put, degrees with this kind of clout are hard to come by. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism offers three major degree programs. The master of science program is suitable for those without experience, while the master of arts degree assumes that candidates already have a background in journalism. A Ph.D. in communications is also offered through the school. Naturally, the faculty at Columbia’s school of journalism are some of the industry’s most decorated contributors. These are highly regarded columnists, authors, media specialists and reporters, and they are no strangers to major awards like the Pulitzer Prize.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
One of the top journalism schools in the US, J-School at UC Berkeley provides students with a two-year master of journalism degree. The school consistently ranks as one of the top-10 journalism schools in the US and attracts prominent industry professionals to speaking engagements and guest lecturer series. From the J-School’s North Gate Hall, an historical landmark built at the turn of the 20th
century, students choose from one of seven primary media: radio, television, documentary film, broadcast media, magazine, newspaper or new media. Learning is hands on, and every student completes at least one internship during their time here. You’ll pick up equal measures of reporting tactics and technical skills needed to succeed as a 21st-century journalist. Cross-training is important here, so students with a penchant for radio are likely to discover new passions in fields like photojournalism or new media.
Pic: Birmingham School of Media.
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
The Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies opened in the 1970s, and that makes it the longest running center for postgraduate journalism education in Europe. It’s a prestigious academy, routinely referred to as the “Oxford of journalism”. For students based in Europe, there is no better launch pad for a career in journalism. The school has a healthy supply of degree programs on offer. Bachelors, masters and postgraduate diplomas are all available through the school. The undergrad degrees are academic and research based, and they consistently earn high marks in national student surveys. Meanwhile, the postgraduate coursework is more industry oriented. The research carried out here is particularly impressive. In fact, Cardiff is without peer in the UK. In 2008, an independent panel found nearly half of the research carried out at the school to be “world leading” and another third to be “internationally excellent”.
ESJ PARIS
One of the world’s first schools of journalism (a title tossed back and forth between ESJ and the Missouri School of Journalism), the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme was founded in the late 19th
century. Today, it’s a partner school for important initiatives including NATO civil training programs. There are some 130 faculty members on staff here, nearly all of whom are full-time professionals. Those who do not come from specific backgrounds in journalism are typically civil servants, lawyers or university professors. There is no lack of qualifications on this campus. This is one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the world, but it is worth taking note that only 20 percent of the instruction is in English at the Paris campus. The other 80 percent is offered in French, so proficiency is a must. Satellite campuses in Casablanca and Dubai offer some instruction in Arabic as well.
THE MISSOURI – COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
The Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia is the oldest journalism school in the US, and competes with ESJ Paris for status as oldest journalism educational institute in the world. The J-School’s bachelor of journalism degree can be customized according to more than 25 different areas of specialization. These include niches like producing for radio, television or multimedia. Opposite this, the graduate programs include master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees. The master’s program can be completed in two years on campus, or it can be taken as a one-year add-on to a bachelor’s degree. Instruction is hands-on here, and students spend time working at the J-School’s real-media outlets which are based in the community. The
Columbia Missourian
is published by the J-School and serves as a proving ground for aspiring journalists. Other media outlets include radio and television broadcast stations and an advertising and public relations agency.
UNC-CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication aims to raise up a new generation of media professionals – including journalists as well as communicators, researchers and teachers – and send them out into the 21st-century world of reporting. There’s a heavy emphasis here on embracing modern trends, but not at the expense of traditional journalistic skills. Degrees are available at every level here, and in all there are roughly 800 undergraduates and 100 graduate students enrolled. Many of the students aspire to be journalists, though the coursework is also designed to generate public relations specialists, marketers and other communicators. UNC Chapel Hill is one of the foremost public universities in the US, and the journalism school has long been a favorite in the industry. Two dozen students and faculty members have been involved in Pulitzer Prizes over the years, and this figure is expected to continue to rise in coming years.
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
A top ranker in UK journalism studies, the University of Westminster hosts roughly 200 students and about 50 faculty members. The school is based in London, undisputed media capital of Europe, and prepares students for a high-powered career in the world of 21st-century communications. Undergrad degrees include a standard bachelor of arts degree in journalism, along with more specialized niches like public relations, radio production or medical journalism. The list of postgraduate offerings is substantially longer and includes master of arts degrees and postgraduate diplomas. All of the tutors on staff at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications are practitioners themselves, and they bring lifetimes’ worth of experience into the classroom with them. Those who haven’t worked directly in journalism related sectors come from other communications backgrounds.
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http://asiancorrespondent.com/52488/top-10-journalism-schools-for-asian-students/
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AAJA-Asia is a non-profit professional organization for journalists, committed to encouraging diversity in newsrooms, mentoring young journalists and ensuring fair and accurate coverage of minority groups. In the US, where AAJA is based, AAJA-Asia’s sister chapters serve Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists. AAJA-Asia has members across the region, with groups in Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing and Thailand.
The Journalism & Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong runs premier programs for undergraduate and post-graduate media students, equipping them with multimedia know-how and in-depth reporting skills. Historic Eliot Hall, built in 1914, is the home of JMSC and the location of the 2013 NewNowNext Media Conference.
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