Member News: Jason Lee Guthrie, Jon Marshall, David E. Sumner, Carolina Velloso, Ashley Walter

Jason Lee Guthrie

Jason Lee Guthrie, an assistant professor at Clayton State University, won the Leibner Cooper Grant for Creative Productions on the History of Media from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). Guthrie was honored for his podcast Recollecting Carter, which explores the life of President Jimmy Carter. The full series will consist of several episodes and will feature oral history interviews with journalists, archivists, and academic experts, as well as archival media from the 1960s to the present day. The podcast is available through Apple podcasts and Spotify.

Jon Marshall

Jon Marshall of Northwestern University won the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. He is a guest in “Episode 105: Watergate and the Press,” a top-rated episode of the podcast with over 400 downloads. Marshall was also selected for his support of the show in the past year. Journalism History chooses its top guest from the prior calendar year.

David E. Sumner

David E. Sumner, professor emeritus of journalism at Ball State University, published the second edition of The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 with co-authored with Samir Husni. The new edition includes updated circulation statistics; the histories of several magazines not included in the first edition; a discussion of the internet’s effect on magazine publishing; and recent interviews with magazine editors and publishers (among several new and updated features).

Carolina Velloso

Carolina Velloso, a PhD candidate at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, won the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from the UMD Graduate School for the 2022-2023 academic year. The award honors the top 2 percent of graduate assistants at the university each year. Velloso won in the Teaching category and has been serving as an instructor of record at Merrill College for the last three years. She has taught two core courses in the journalism major: Introduction to Mass Communication and Journalism History, Roles and Structures. In the spring 2023 semester, she is teaching an upper level seminar course called Women in the Media.

Ashley Walter

Ashley Walter accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University, where she will begin as an Assistant Professor of Journalism in Fall 2023.