Member News Round-Up – Gregory Borchard, Dane S. Claussen, Christopher Daly, Michael Fuhlhage, Melissa Greene-Blye, Owen Johnson and Will Mari

By Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu

Greg Borchard

Gregory Borchard (University of Nevada Las Vegas) is editing the second edition of SAGE’s Encyclopedia of Journalism.

Dane S. Claussen has launched with several partners and interns a nonprofit news organization, Nonprofit Sector News, to cover all types of nonprofits, nationwide, and deliver content free to all U.S. news media on all platforms. It also reposts notable stories about nonprofits by other news media. NSN is at nonprofitsectornews.org and on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, plus emails newsletters on request. He continues as editor of Newspaper Research Journal.

Chris Daly

Christopher Daly (Boston University) published this piece in the wonderful “Made by History” feature of The Washington Post at the end of April.

Michael Fuhlhage

Michael Fuhlhage (Wayne State University) will be tenured and promoted to associate professor in the Department of Communication effective August.

Melissa Greene-Blye (University of Tennessee) completed the doctoral program at the University of Tennessee where she served as a lecturer teaching upper-level broadcast/multimedia courses. She will be joining the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas as assistant professor starting August 2020.

Owen Johnson

Owen Johnson (Indiana University) will play the role of a bystander in one episode of the 13-part podcast, “The Ernie Pyle Experiment,” in which actor and playwright Michael Brainard imagines the relationship between Pyle and his wife Jerry, with each episode including one of Pyle’s pre-war columns.  The first four episodes have already aired and are available at https://indianapublicmedia.org/erniepylepodcast/episodes.php

Will Mari

Will Mari (Louisiana State University) was invited to participated in the “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press,” an National Endowment for the Humanities-funded, and now virtual, summer institute hosted by the New York City College of Technology (CUNY), in late June and early July.