Updates from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
April 1, 2020
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Greenlee School adapts as Iowa State responds to COVID-19
For most of us, COVID-19 has affected nearly ever facet of daily life. And for many of our students, that includes the process of securing and completing their required internships this spring and summer. In an effort to help impacted students continue to make progress toward graduation, the Greenlee School quickly drafted and implemented an
emergency internship policy
that outlines severals options for them.
Earlier in the month, Greenlee faculty also worked with LAS to safely bring home students studying abroad in Italy, including the group participating in the Urbino mobile photography program led by associate professor Deni Chamberlin.
All spring university events have been canceled or postponed, including the school's annual First Amendment Days celebration, which will be rescheduled in the fall.
“The Greenlee School remains a family whether we see each other every day or are connecting remotely from across the country. In fact, disruptions such as COVID-19 demonstrate the importance of having a strong community to be able to respond to challenges and take care each other. The stories and updates in this Good News from Greenlee illustrate how our Greenlee family continues to thrive even as we adapt to unprecedented challenges,” said Michael Dahlstrom, LAS Dean's Professor and Greenlee interim director.
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Iowa State team make media plan case competition finals
Advertising students
Alison Donaghy
and
Avery Grundy
have been named finalists in the Washington Media Scholars Case Competition. They'll compete against teams from Binghamton, Temple, South Carolina, Wichita State, Stephen F. Austin and Notre Dame. Each year several hundred teams enter the competition, and 30 teams are selected as semi-finalists. Professor Jay Newell organizes the school's teams each year.
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Research spotlight: Exploring communication in times of international crisis
Turkey is home to almost 4 million Syrian refugees, the largest number worldwide. As part of a yearlong Faculty Professional Development Assignment, Greenlee Professor
Daniela Dimitrova
recently learned what it’s like to support them from the people serving on the front lines.
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Greenlee showcased in latest issue of VISIONS
Go Greenlee! Our alumni make a prominent appearance in the ISU Alumni Association's latest issue of
VISIONS magazine
, focused on cardinal and gold in Washington, D.C. The following are featured:
- Elaine Godfrey (’15 journalism & environmental studies), political reporter for The Atlantic magazine and featured on the cover
- Nirmeen Fahmy (’13 journalism & mass communication), press secretary for U.S. Sen. Gary C. Peters, Michigan
- Tom Davis (’05 journalism and public relations), director of entertainment for Washington Nationals
This issue is available to ISU Alumni Association members.
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Olivia Benjamin named Hugh Sidey Scholar
The White House Historical Association in partnership with the Greenlee School and the White House Correspondents’ Association, have awarded
Olivia Benjamin
with the
Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship in Print Journalism
. Benjamin, a junior in public relations, will receive $5,000 and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C.
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Greenlee advertising students earn Des Moines ADDY honors
Seven Iowa State students received American Advertising Awards from the Des Moines chapter of the American Advertising Federation Feb. 15. The award-winning work was completed in Greenlee advertising courses taught by Senior Teaching Professor Michael Wigton.
- Bailey Balmer/Vanessa Lewis/Tanner Short - North Face Print Campaign (ADVRT 334) - GOLD
- Riley Holtrop/Emilee Drost/Jakob Hill - Subaru Social Media Campaign (ADVRT 436) - GOLD
- Riley Holtrop - Emilee Drost Photography logo (ADVRT 436) - SILVER
- Lexie Muzzy - MyCycloneStory logo (ADVRT 434 civility campaign) - SILVER
At the banquet,
Mariah Johanssen
, senior in advertising, was presented the William J. Fultz Memorial Scholarship. Fultz, a former
Greenlee faculty and Advisory Council member and prominent Des Moines advertising professional, died in Jan. 2019.
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Vos wins BEA Award of Excellence
Jacob Vos, senior in journalism and meteorology and the student behind Iowa State Weather, won an
Award of Excellence in the Television Weathercaster category.
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Journalism graduate receives ISUAA 2020 Wallace E. Barron senior award
Naonady made the most of her Iowa State adventure. As a nontraditional transfer student, she interned with the World Food Prize Foundation, served as editor-in-chief of Cardinal Eats and balanced parenthood.
Read more about her story.
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Mark Witherspoon recognized by INA
The Iowa Newspaper Association honored Mark Witherspoon, editorial adviser of the Iowa State Daily, with its
2020 Distinguished Service Award
at its February convention. In his 40-year career, Witherspoon has taught and mentored over 3,000 student journalists. Greenlee alumna Jessie Opoien ('11) reflected on Witherspoon's impact in her
Feb. 11 column in The Capital Times
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King, Provenzano experience industry through Jack Shelley fellowship
All Greenlee students must complete internships, but did you know our faculty pursue externships to stay on top of current industry trends?
Andy King
spent six weeks at Meyocks in West Des Moines and
Grace Provenzano
experienced several days at CBC News in Toronto. Both opportunities were supported by the
Jack Shelley Professional Development Award
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Boyles named top reviewer for ICA Journalism Studies Division
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Greenlee's diversity plan featured in Inside Iowa State
A diversity plan can establish the importance of diversity, define what diversity is for that department and set procedures for assessment. Distinguished Professor
Michael Bugeja
was interviewed about the Greenlee School's diversity plan in this
Inside Iowa State piece
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Wald featured in LAS LINK magazine
Interdisciplinary innovator
Dara Wald
brings people and the environment together through a
unique lab
for undergraduate and graduate students and
research partnerships
that range from ecology to agriculture. Read more about her research in the latest issue of LAS LINK magazine.
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Guthrie receives Schwartz Award
The Greenlee School and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented the James W. Schwartz Award for distinguished service to journalism to alumna Kim Guthrie, Chief Executive Officer of Cox Media Group, on Oct. 24.
Guthrie ('84) leads the company’s entire media group, overseeing the operations of 33 broadcast television stations, 54 radio stations, dozens of digital sites and national advertising services including CoxReps, Gamut, Cox Local Solutions, Cox Healthcare Marketing and Cox Custom Research. The Schwartz Award is the highest honor conferred by the Greenlee School.
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Serbian journalists visit Greenlee
Six journalists from Serbia visited Greenlee School classes and the Iowa State Daily Media Group offices in early December to see how we help future journalists develop ethics and skills to help them be responsible communicators. The journalists were hosted by the Iowa International Center through the U.S. Congress' Open World program. They also toured a number of media outlets in central Iowa during their 10-day visit.
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A few recent Greenlee mentions:
- Remembering Dean Borg, Michael Bugeja, Iowa Public Radio
- Social media's effect on students' academic success, mental health, Michael Wigton, Iowa State Daily
- Being conscientous when consuming and producing TikTok content, Michael Bugeja and Michael Wigton, Iowa State Daily
- Paid assistantships for graduate students offer an alternative to off-campus jobs, Malik Newson, Iowa State Daily
- Iowa State professors study the effects of gender, racial media biases, Novotny Lawrence and Tracy Lucht, Iowa State Daily
- Iowa caucus research, Kelly Winfrey, Iowa Press
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Student Press Freedom Day
In honor of Student Press Freedom Day, the
First Amendment Committee hosted a panel on student journalism on Jan. 29. Panelists included editorial adviser Mark Witherspoon (not pictured) and Daily staffers (left to right) Logan Metzger, Madelyn Ostendorf, and Annie Wells. First Amendment specialist Julie Roosa moderated.
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Get in the Mix Spring Social
The Greenlee School encouraged students to "get in the mix" Feb. 11 during LAS Week. Students made their own snack mix and learned how they could get involved with student clubs and organizations related to their majors.
Greenlee ambassadors were on hand to answer questions about scholarships, internships and other Greenlee programs.
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Futures Forum
Joel Davis, vice president/general manager at WRAL TV and WRAZ TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, shared career and networking advice with students at the fall 2019 Futures Forum, "Oh, the Places You'll Go." See the advisory council member's advice for students on the future of media, job interviews, innovation, industry change and student experience on
our YouTube channel
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Associate Teaching Professor
Sherry Berghefer
has
been awarded one of five ISU scholarships to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria in British Columbia through ISU’s Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH). The DHSI will be held the first part of June and consists of a weeklong intensive course. She'll be taking
Modelling. Virtual. Realities. A Practical Introduction to Virtual (and Augmented) Reality
which will use both her design and coding skills.
According to CEAH’s website, “The DHSI offers nearly fifty separate courses and a number of short workshops on all aspects of digital humanities. Courses run for one week and cover an extensive range of topics, appropriate either to those just entering the field of digital humanities or to those with more experience.”
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Associate Professor
Jan Lauren Boyles
reports the following new publications accepted:
- Boyles, J.L. (2019). "Deciphering Code: How Newsroom Developers Communicate Journalistic Labor," Journalism Studies.
- Boyles, J.L. (In press, 2021). "The Mindful Dissertation: Finding the Focus to Write," in Master Class: Graduate Student Handbook, Rowman and Littlefield.
Boyles also had three submissions accepted to the International Communication Association's annual conference:
- She will present a working manuscript to the Journalism Studies division titled, "Area Code v2.0: Building Local Journalistic 'Place Trust' through the Civic Tech Movement."
- Boyles also will present, "Wanted, Both Dead and Alive: Restoring Platforms for Historical Preservation of Digital News," to ICA's Communication History division.
- Lastly, Boyles organized and will chair a panel around the conference's special theme on Open Communication.
Last fall, Boyles also served as a guest lecturer for a doctoral course at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
In service, Boyles traveled to AEJMC headquarters in November as part of her duties as Vice Chair of the Council of Divisions. During the trip, the programming schedule was finalized for AEJMC's 2020 annual conference in San Francisco. She also traveled to Dallas in December for the AEJMC Board of Directors meeting.
Boyles has recently reviewed manuscripts for the
Journal of Communication
,
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
,
Newspaper Research Journal
and
Convergence
. She also reviewed nominees for AEJMC's Tankard Book award and conference paper submissions for ICA's Journalism Studies division.
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Distinguished Professor
Michael Bugeja spoke at the Faculty Senate on Feb. 11 at the invitation of President Jonathan Sturm to encourage each academic department to have a stand-alone diversity plan.
Read his article on the topic. CELT is using this and other diversity documents he has written as a resource.
Book Chapters:
- “Correction Policies” in Encyclopedia of Journalism, edited by Gregory A. Borchard, Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage, 2020. [invited with peer review]
- “Digital Ethics in Autonomous Systems” in Handbook of Media Ethics (second edition), edited by Clifford Christians and Lee Wilkins, New York: Routledge, forthcoming in 2021. [invited with peer review]
Articles:
- “Internships and Harassment: A Follow-Up about Avenues of Redress," The Department Chair, 02 January 2020
- “Pursuing New Year Happiness,” Iowa Capital Dispatch, Jan. 6, 2020
- “Truth in Absentia: 25 years of excuse-making in media ethics,” Poynter, Jan. 6, 2020
- A New Holiday Tradition: Hide the router, Des Moines Register, Dec. 23, 2019,
- How to be a Radically Open Department Head, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 4, 2019
- Maltese Midwestern: What you should know about Pete Buttigieg, Des Moines Register, Nov. 26, 2019
- Iowans drawn to Buttigieg's Midwest moderation, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Nov. 21, 2019
- Creating and Publicizing a Diversity Plan, Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 20, 2019
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Associate Director
Joel Geske attended CES (Consumer Electronics Show) as part of his IRTS Fellowship.
Approximately 40 professors were selected nationally to attend a three-day workshop highlighting current practices and latest developments in broadcast media and media trends. He also attended a session on how data and analytics inform and guide the creative storytelling for marketers.
Geske reports he will be using info he gathered in his online virtual and augmented reality course. He found that the equipment we are using is state-of-the-art and as far as he could tell visiting with fellow professors, we are one of a very few programs teaching Virtual and Augmented Reality. Funding for course development and some travel funds were part of his Essman Faculty Fellowship.
Geske's research paper “Minds, Emotions and Virtual Reality,” has been selected for the 70th Annual ICA Conference, to be held 21-25 May 2020.
Abstract
Within the last decade, new understandings of how the mind and emotions work have led to new theories on emotional responses to media. This study explores Virtual Reality (VR) and its effects on mental processing and emotions. Specifically, it looks at embodied emotions and physical reactions to virtual stimuli. In this study, participants were able to identify emotions and were able to place those emotions at specific body regions. They reported physical sensations and reaction to VR such as increased heart rate and sweating, even when they “knew” in their mind the stimuli were not real. This work supports the Theory of Constructed Emotions indicating emotions are constructed through a combination of environment, embodiment and brain processing.
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Associate Professor
Novotny Lawrence
was interviewed for the first episode of the "There's Something About Dolemite" podcast. The podcast was made as a companion piece to Eddie Murphy's Netflix film,
My Name is Dolemite
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Associate Professor
Tracy Lucht reports the following:
I am happy to be back! I completed a semester-long Faculty Professional Development Assignment, during which I conducted archival research on Amelia Bloomer, publisher of the first woman’s rights newspaper in the United States. In addition, I completed work on a co-edited book coming out this month:
The Media in America: A History, 12th edition, eds. Wm. David Sloan, Tracy Lucht and Erika Pribanic-Smith (Vision Press, 2020). This is the leading textbook used in journalism history courses and features chapters and essays by top scholars. I also have a co-authored chapter in the book
The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (Palgrave, 2019), which was published in December.
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Assistant Teaching Professor
Lisa Munger's
proposal on “Unearthing Biases” in reporting was accepted by the Poynter Institute for their annual conference for teaching professors.
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Professor
Jay Newell
worked with the Washington Media Scholars Foundation to extend a scholarship in memory of Mia Guion, a 2017 advertising graduate who tragically died in a car accident at the age of 23. Guion and her teammate Emily Belloma placed first in the Media Scholars competition in 2017. The scholarship will remember Guion on a continuing basis and will be awarded to the National Case Competition finalist who best represents Mia's skills in preparation and presentation. WMSF will choose the recipient and fund the award.
Newell mentored students as they prepared for this year's National Case Competition, and an Iowa State team made the finals. (See story above.)
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Assistant Teaching Professor
Grace Provenzano's
textbook was selected as the winner of the 2020 BEA Textbook Award.
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Assistant Teaching Professor
Gary Sawyer
presented a one-hour podcasting workshop to the Alumni Relations Council on Feb. 20.
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Associate Teaching Professor
Michael Wigton reports the following:
- During finals week last semester my ADVRT 434 campaigns class was able to present their campaign ideas to our client - Smash Park of Des Moines. It went very well and they plan to implement some of the ideas presented. Comment from the client: “The students understood Smash Park’s vision and followed our brand through and through. I am so happy I got to witness these presentations and I look forward to working with the students to make their ideas come to life!” —Mariah Johannesen, SmashPark Marketing
- The fall semester client for ADVRT 434 is slated to be Wells, Inc. of Le Mars, IA. Their product line includes Blue Bunny, Halo Top and Bomb Pops. Our students will be working on an advertising campaign to promote their summer ice cream festival.
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Associate Teaching Professor
Erin Wilgenbusch
reports the following:
- Hosted a session for the LAS 101 Home class for open option freshman and talked about what GSJC has to offer students who major here
- Provided a faculty development workshop on personal branding for the Provost’s Office
- Reviewed a new PR textbook for Sage Publishing
- Guest lectured for the Honors 121 class. The topic was Mass Media and Society.
- Spoke about the PR and ADVRT degrees at a luncheon GSJC hosted for the ISU admissions staff
- Was interviewed and featured in a DMR article about the PR value of ISU playing in the Camping World Bowl game
- Earned her APR reaccreditation
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Assistant Professor
Kelly Winfrey reports the following:
- Speaker on the “History and the Horse Race” panel discussion at the Iowa Historical Museum, broadcast by CSPAN, on January 5, 2020
- Guest speaker about gender and elections in Iowa to the 2019-20 class of Leadership Iowa, a program of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation
- Appointed to and began five-year term on the Story County Board of Adjustment
- Organizing and presenting two workshops for women interested in running for Student Government at ISU
- Organizing, presenting, and hosting faculty and graduate students from five out-of-state universities to learn about the Iowa Caucus on Feb. 3
News coverage:
- ISU professors, panelists share caucus predictions, Ames Tribune
- Interviewed by Robbie Sequeira, Ames Tribune, about sexism in media coverage of the 2020 campaigns
- Interviewed by French reporter Karen LeJon of Le Journal Dimanche (The Sunday Journal) about gender issues in the upcoming caucuses.
- Interviewed by Maurin Picard, French reporter from the daily newspaper Le Figaro about Trump’s appeal to Iowa voters and the Democratic candidates
- Appeared on Iowa Press Jan. 24, 7:30pm to discuss the Iowa Caucus
- Appeared on This Week in Iowa (WOI) Jan. 26 to discuss media and Iowa Caucus campaigns
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Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
Iowa State University
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613 Wallace Rd.
Ames, Iowa 50011
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