Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac University) is the winner of the 2019 Quinnipiac University James Marshall Award. The award recognizes outstanding service to the Quinnipiac community. Burns chaired the Faculty Senate for three years and the Media Studies Department for six years as well as serving on numerous university committees. She also founded the Sports Studies Interdisciplinary Minor and started Quinnipiac’s chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the communication student honor society. Burns is a former head of the AEJMC History Division and currently chairs its Book Award committee.
C-SPAN’s “Lectures in History” series aired in late April and early May the presentation by W. Joseph Campbell (American) about the media myth of William Randolph Hearst’s purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain at the end of the 19th Century. C-SPAN taped the lecture in Campbell’s “Myths of the Media” class late January and has made it available online at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?457425-1/yellow-journalism-spanish-american-war
Nick Hirshon (William Paterson University) organized and emceed a televised awards ceremony on the William Paterson University campus that featured the inaugural inductions into the New Jersey Journalism Hall of Fame on April 18. The class of inductees included former Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter and former New York Timescolumnist Anna Quindlen. The ceremony can be viewed online at http://bit.ly/SPJAwards. Hirshon also moderated a discussion with ABC News reporter Christina Carrega on April 29 as part of a monthly speaker series sponsored by the student SPJ chapter.
Ana Stevenson (University of the Free State, South Africa) is the recipient of the 35th Annual Covert Award. She won for “Imagining Women’s Suffrage: Frontier Landscapes and the Transnational Print Culture of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States,” Pacific Historical Review, 87, no. 4 (2018): 638–666.
The award, endowed by the late Catherine Covert, a professor of public communications at Syracuse University and former head of the AEJMC History Division, goes to the article or chapter in an edited collection that represents the year’s best essay in mass communication history.
Carrie Teresa’s (Niagara University) first book, Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America has been published by University Nebraska Press. Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow–era segregation.
After 11 years at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Tim P. Vos is moving to Michigan State University, where he will be Professor and Director of the School of Journalism.
Kimberly Voss (University of Central Florida) was promoted to full professor of journalism.
News compiled by Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair.