By Amelia Brodka
Student Writer
From Aug. 9 – 13, USC Annenberg professors will serve as panel moderators, speakers and award recipients at the annual AEJMC Conference in St. Louis.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) aims to advance education, scholarly research and the professional practice of communication. The annual conference features sessions and panels on the latest research, teaching methods and public service in journalism and mass communication.
Journalism professor Joe Saltzman will receive the 2010 Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award and the Charles E. Scripps Award. Félix Gutiérrez, professor of Communication and Journalism, will be awarded the Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research in Education
School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser, along with professors Saltzman, Gutiérrez Marc Cooper and Kjerstin Thorson, will serve as moderators of sessions for journalism and mass communication administrators, educators, researchers, authors, publishers, companies and organizations tracking emerging trends in higher education as well as social media professionals and internet and technology professionals.
The conference’s topics will range from teaching and media ethics issues to incorporating diversity in the curriculum and media management issues.
Schedule of events:
Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011
12:30 p.m. Journalism professor Joe Saltzman will moderate a panel and present a preview of the 2011 IJPC Video, “The Image of the Public Relations Practitioner in Movies and Television, 1901-2011.”
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Journalism professor Joe Saltzman will serve as a moderator at the workshop titled “The Image of the Public Relations Practitioner in Popular Culture: What is the Predominant Image and How Do We Repair It?”
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011
6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Journalism Professor Joe Saltzman will be presented with the 2010 Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award. He will receive the Charles E. Scripps Award for $10,000 plus a distinctive trophy at the official opening of the AEJMC convention.
Friday, Aug. 12, 2011
8:15 a.m. – 9:45 p.m.
Professor and director of the School of Journalism Geneva Overholser will serve as the moderator of the sessions titled “USC Annenberg Research and Practice Presentation: Journalism Schools and Latino News in the U.S. and the Image of the Journalism in Popular Culture.” She will introduce three Annenberg professors : Marc Cooper, Director of Annenberg Digital News; Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and this year’s AEJMC Teacher of the Year; and Félix Gutiérrez, professor of journalism and this year’s winner of the AEJMC’s Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research in Education. RSVP requested at annenberg.usc.edu/rsvp.
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Professor of Journalism and Communication Félix Gutiérrez will receive the Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research in Education.
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Journalism professor Kjerstin Thorson will present a paper titled “Knowing is Half the Battle: Youth, Civic, Norms and the Informed Citizen in Late Modern Society” from the Refereed Paper Research Session held by the Political Communication Interest Group.
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Professor of Journalism and Communication Félix Gutiérrez will speak at an off-site award luncheon held at the Wyndham Roberts Mayfair Hotel, 806 Saint Charles St., located across the street from the conference hotel.
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Journalism professor Joe Saltzman will moderate the teaching panel session titled “How Our Teachers of the Year Make Journalism Education Riveting and Relevant.”
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Professor of Journalism and Communication Félix Gutiérrez will serve as a roundtable participant at the teaching panel session titled “Minorities and Communication: State of the Discipline and the Research Agenda for the 21st Century,” where participants and audience will have the opportunity to discuss, identify, and reflect on key problems for the research agenda of the 21st century.
Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Professor of Journalism and Communication Félix Gutiérrez will serve as a panelist for the research panel session titled “The Significance of Radical Ethnic, Foreign-Language, and Labor Newspapers in the Media Ecology of their Times.”
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Adjunct journalism professor Mary Hill-Wagner will present her paper titled “Tarred with the Same Brush? African-American Journalists and Memories of Janet Cooke and Jayson Blair” during the Refereed Paper Research Session titled “Racial Discourses in News Media.”
