Chris Daly (Boston University) participated in a screening and panel discussion of the new documentary “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People” at the 2019 Power of Narrative Conference. The film will air nationwide at 9 p.m. April 12 PBS’s “American Masters” series.
Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) started an online news site this semester for a Kansas community that no longer had a newspaper. Students in her reporting and social media classes provided content for the site.
Rachel Grant (Xavier University of Louisiana) will be joining the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida as an assistant professor of journalism for underserved communities in fall 2019.
Donna Harrington-Lueker’s (Salve Regina University) Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading, was published in the University of Massachusetts Press’s Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.
Drawing upon letter, diaries, archival materials, and a host of nineteenth-century popular novels set at summer resorts, the book argues that today’s practice of summer reading, heralded each year in the press, takes shape in the nineteenth century with the rise in travel and tourism and the popularity of paper-back fiction. It draws extensively on newspapers and magazines of the period.
Nick Hirshon (William Paterson University) organized a trip for journalism students from the William Paterson Society of Professional Journalists, which he founded and advises, to the press box at a New Jersey Devils hockey game on March 30.
On April 18, Hirshon will produce and co-host the first annual William Paterson Society of Professional Journalists Awards Ceremony featuring the inaugural inductions into the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame. The inaugural class of inductees includes former Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter and former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen.
Berkley Hudson (University of Missouri) has received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities.
The NEH grant is to help fund a traveling photographic exhibition accompanied by a website, curriculum materials, and related public programs that will explore the day-to-day lives of blacks and whites in the rural community of Columbus, Mississippi.
Will Mari (Northwest University) will be joining the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University as an assistant professor of media law/history in fall 2019.
Lori Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee) discussed her book, Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice, during a panel at the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference in Manhattan.