JMS graduate research paper wins first place in national competition
Galina Tishchenko, a former JMS graduate student, won the first place in the 2010 BEA International Division research paper competition (open category) for her paper co-authored with Dr. Xiaopeng Wang, assistant professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.
Tishchenko graduated from the Department of Journalism and Media Studies with an M.A. degree in 2009. As part of her applied research project, the paper, A comparative analysis of the broadcast coverage of local news in the Russian Federation and the United States of America in the paradigm of attention span theory, compares the broadcast programing and editorial content of local TV news between two nations. Dr. Xiaopeng Wang and Dr. Tony Silvia served in her graduate committee.
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is a national professional organization for broadcast educators, scholars and researchers. The 2010 BEA International Division research paper competition included many excellent papers. The competition was strong. Each paper went through a rigorous blind review by three reviewers. The top papers were accepted according to the blind review results.
In the open category, the other winners include Shuhua Zhou, University of Alabama, and Xin Zhong, Renmin University of China, “Olympics Coverage: Projection of Professionalism and Olympic Goals” (Second Place); and Daekyung Kim, Idaho State University, and Junwoo Song, Idaho State University “The Civic Duty to Keep Informed Revisited in Korea: News Media Exposure and Civic Duty” (Third Place).
The BEA International Division winning papers will be presented at the BEA 2010 convention in April in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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