Member News: Lisa Burns, Kathleen Wickham, Elisabeth Fondren, Gregory Borchard & David Bulla, Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Nicholas Hirshon, Jonathan Bullinger

Lisa Burns, Professor of Media Studies at Quinnipiac University, and her colleague Courtney Marchese have published a chapter on “Political Branding in a Digital Age: The Role of Design and Image-Based Messaging Strategies in the 2020 Presidential Election” in The 2020 Presidential Campaign: A Communications Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), edited by Robert E. Denton.

Kathleen W. Wickham, Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi, served as executive producer of the Theatre Oxford play The Heartbreak Henry, written and directed by David Sheffield, a former writer for Saturday Night Live. She chaired the fundraising, publicity, program, and marketing committees for the sold-out show, which was co-sponsored by the School of Journalism & New Media.

Elisabeth Fondren, Assistant Professor of Journalism at St. John’s University, published a chapter, “Media in Western & Northern Europe,” in Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), edited by Daniela V. Dimitrova. She traces the historical origins of political reporting across Northern and Western Europe, and discusses media pluralism, technology and law, public service broadcasting, and freedom of speech in EU member states.

Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press Through Nineteenth-Century Media by Gregory A. Borchard, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and David W. Bulla, Associate Professor of Communication at Augusta University, was republished by Routledge in December 2020. Bulla and Borchard are also working on the second edition of Journalism in the Civil War Era (Peter Lang, forthcoming).

Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Professor of Journalism at the University of Central Florida, has written a new book, Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s: Women Writers of the Runway (Palgrave, 2021), which documents the careers of newspaper fashion editors and details fashion sections of the post-World War II years. The analysis covers social, political, and economic aspects of fashion. The book–Voss’s fourth on women’s page journalism–also addresses journalism ethics, fashion show reporting, and the decline in fashion journalism editor positions.

Nicholas Hirshon, Assistant Professor of Communication at William Paterson University, was named the first two-time winner in the 43-year history of the Outstanding Campus Adviser Award presented by the Society of Professional Journalists. The award recognizes an adviser who has made “an exceptional contribution” to their campus chapter. In their nomination, Hirshon’s students cited his organizing nine installments of a Zoom discussion series with reporters during the 2020-2021 academic year and providing a “rich journalism experience” to the campus community.

Jonathan M. Bullinger, a lecturer at SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Oneonta, has begun hosting a new season of Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast, which introduces concepts from the disciplines of history and collective memory. This season includes episodes on sports media (NFL Films vs. NFL Media, nostalgia disguised as documentary), cultural figures (Bruce Lee and Chadwick Boseman), resuscitation of old narratives when new archives are found (Belushi documentary), and re-framing popular music with new iconography (Universal Music’s new holiday animated music videos).