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John Guiniven has written a column on communicating downsizing that will be published in the June issue of PR Tactics. He delivered a paper, “The Uses of Guilt and Grief in Organizational Communi-cation,” to the Western Social Science Association meeting at Texas Christian University on April 23.
Stacy James received the Advertising Federation of Lincoln’s 1999 Silver Medal Award, presented each year to an individual “in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession, pursuit of creative excellence and demonstration of responsibility to society.”
She conducted two workshops on “Maximizing Design and Sales Effectiveness in Newspaper Advertising,” for clients and staff of the Cheyenne, Wyo., Eagle Tribune in March.
She presented a paper, “Flow, Serendipity, Self-Efficacy and Play: Building a Better Understanding of the User in Hypermedia Instruction,” for the Electronic Commerce and Culture Division of the Popular Culture Association’s national convention in San Diego in April.
Kelly Jo Hinrichs was recognized for contributions to students by the UNL Parents Association. She was a judge for the Nebraska High School Press Association advertising competition in April. She serves on the Nebraska Educational Task Force board of directors and is special projects chairwoman for technical writing and is an academic mentor for a middle school student as part of Tom Osborne’s TeamMates Program.
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Rick Alloway was the announcer Gov. Mike Johanns’ inaugural ball in January and for the Lincoln Civic Choir “Cabaret Night” in February. He produced a series of 11 radio public service announcements with state senators for Community Development Week for Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development in March. He was master of ceremonies for the Nebraska DECA Career Development Conference in March, for the Nebraska Union addition dedication and the university’s Personnel Service Awards ceremony in April. He did the voice-over for the Nebraska Press Association’s awards presentation in April, and he and Jerry Renaud were guest presenters at the AP Broadcasters Association conference in Hastings, also in April.
Fred Davis traveled to Bermuda during NU’s spring break. He met with editors of the Royal Gazette, Bermuda’s newspaper of record. Executive editor Bill Zuill talked about the difficult task of orienting U.S. reporters on his staff to laws of the British Commonwealth. Unlike the U.S. justice system, once a case goes to trial in Bermuda, journalists aren’t permitted to report publicly on court proceedings. According to Zuill, the British way of doing things can pose serious legal consequences for his paper if the British customs are not followed.
Davis explored the possibility of running Davis’s column in the Royal Gazette. The column currently is syndicated in major newspapers in South Carolina and Washington state.
During his stay in Bermuda, Davis was a special guest of Bermuda’s governor during Saint Patrick’s Day ceremonies. The special invitation to the retreat was arranged by Bermuda’s Office of Tourism, whose director, Charles Webb, is a personal friend of Davis’s.
Laurie Thomas Lee wrote a chapter on “Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property” for a forthcoming book titled “Understanding the Web: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of the Internet,” to be published by Iowa State Press. She also gave a panel presentation in April at the Broadcast Education Association Convention in Las Vegas on “Cookies and Spam: Dishing Up Some On-line Privacy Indigestion” and gave a panel presentation at the Central States Communications Association/Southern States Communication Association joint convention in St. Louis on “The Rising Cost of On-line Privacy: Any Legal Remedies?” Lee gave a panel presentation at the AEJMC annual convention in Baltimore on “Network Privacy and Security,” specifically addressing First Amendment concerns associated with Internet spamming
Peter Mayeux was a panelist for a session on media convergence in broadcast newsrooms at the Broadcast Education Association Convention in Las Vegas April 17. He attended the National Association of Broadcasters Convention, also in Las Vegas, following the BEA convention.
Several of Mayeux’s historical projects have been published: a profile of former NBC broadcast journalist Floyd Kalber in the Encyclopedia of Television News; an article titled “Broadcast Pioneers” in History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia.
Mayeux presented a teleconference on radio commercial copywriting and production for the Nebraska Broadcasters Association March 11. Eight sites around the state received the presentation. He also continues his work with the International RTNDA Educators Task Force.
Jerry Renaud received the 1999 Faculty Service Award at the J Days Honor’s Convocation. His video, “Soil: The Path Beneath our Feet,” was given a special award in a video competition sponsored by the Chicago Field Museum. It is now being played in a special exhibit at the museum. Renaud was elected president elect of the Northwest Broadcast News Association. He and Rick Alloway presented a workshop on broadcast performance at the 1999 Nebraska Associated Press Broadcasters Association meeting. Renaud is working with the Lincoln Public Schools to produce a training video for teachers on the Socratic teaching method and is producing a series of 30-minute television programs on Nebraska archeology. He produced four videos for Smith Hayes Financial Services Corporation.
Larry Walklin, in cooperation with members of the staff of the Chancellor’s office, made a presentation to the Association of American Colleges representative on Journalism and Mass Communication distance education. He also made presentation to the chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the chief judge of the Nebraska Court of Appeals about uses of the electronic and visual media in courts.
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Charlyne Berens presented a paper, “Necessary but Not Sufficient: the Role of the Media in Policy Involving Complex Humanitarian Emergencies,” at the Midwest Political Science Association convention in Chicago April 15. She served on a panel, “Trials and Tribulations: the Media Under Fire,” at the Media and Law Seminar in Kansas City April 23. She was a presenter at the college’s Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Center for Editing Excellence residency in May.
Dick Thien was recognized for contributions to students by The Parents Association and The Teaching Council of UNL in January. He conducted an editing seminar for the Inland Press Association in Indianapolis, Ind., in February and served on the nominating committee for officers of the American Copy Editors Society in March. He participated in the National Writers’ Workshop, sponsored by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the Omaha World-Herald in April.
He served as director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Center for Editing Excellence residency at NU in May.
Thien will conduct writing and editing seminars for The Freedom Forum’s Chips Quinn scholars who work at the Contra Costa Times, Contra Costra, Calif., the Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., Florida TODAY, Melbourne, The Oakland Tribune, Oakland, Calif., The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn., The Times, Shreveport, La., and The News Journal, Wilmington, Del., from May to August.
He will conduct an editing seminar in July for Inland Press Association in Denver and will serve on a panel, titled “What Jerk Wrote This?” for the American Copy Editors’ annual convention in September in Dallas.
George Tuck moderated “Photojournalism CAN Change the World,” a seminar held in January in conjunction with a photojournalism exhibition at Sheldon Memorial Gallery. More than 150 people attended the seminar, which featured Hal Buell, former director of Associated Press’ worldwide photo operation; Joel Sartore, contract photographer for National Geographic; Julia Dean, owner of JD&A Associates and director of a worldwide child labor documentary project; and Mike Davis, formerly a picture editor for National Geographic and now visuals director for Copley Newspaper’s Sun Newspapers. Sartore, Davis and Dean are NU journalism graduates.
In conjunction with the photojournalism exhibition, entitled “Icons of Public Memory: Photographs from the Collection of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications,” Tuck conducted more than a dozen group and personal walking tours through the show. Groups included Sheldon’s docents, student groups from Southeast and Northeast High Schools, a photo class from Doane College and several University of Nebraska faculty.
Tuck judged all the black-and-white and color preliminary photography contests for the Nebraska High School Press Association.
He was recognized for contributions to students by the UNL Parents Association and the UNL Teaching Council in January.