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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Why is it that some people migrate to Florida and always look and act like the folks that visit just to get that rosy half-baked glow before lining up at the airport, ready to head back north of the Mason-Dixon and others move to the state and are immediately assimilated? Being a Floridian is not so much a matter of living in a certain state as much as it is living with a certain state of mind.
Many people come to visit a Florida that they believe is the land of the mouse and beaches ringing with the sounds of tropical steel drums. While that is not a bad impression on the surface, Florida is so much more for us natives. We are never quite sure when we might run into an alligator or rattlesnake on a bike trail or get whisked off by a friend on an adventure that oddly resembles trespassing, only to end up in a hidden graveyard or snacking on a critter that was alive no more than
an hour prior.
This book began out of a bit of spare time I had over the winter break. Though feeling blessed to finally have a breather from the stresses of school and work, it seems that my idle mind becomes quickly discontented. I began picking up books about Florida and I realized that most of the literature is either contained in travel books or in books that simply scratch the surface of all that Florida has to offer. For this book, I wanted more. I wanted to capture the true essence of Florida as experienced
by a native.
I hope that as the reader of this book, whether a Floridian or an honorary Floridian, you are inspired to enjoy some of the adventures and understand why so many people continually return to enjoy all that Florida has to offer.
-Marc P. Vallin
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Starting in January 2009, Paul Mena worked with members of the Poynter Institute to design the running of the online social network of Spanish-speaking journalists called Periodistas en Red, through the networking service that is provided by Poynter Online. The starting goal of this social network was to gather Hispanic journalists and allow them to promote discussions, establish connections, recommend articles and journalism training opportunities, create profiles, and more online activities that can be useful for their professional development and the advancement of knowledge and performance in journalism.
As the Periodistas en Red’s group guide, what Paul Mena did during this project was to promote the group, develop contacts between Spanish-speaking journalists, and write group’s blog posts on the Spanish-speaking media industry, as well as about some elements of the class discussions in which he participated during his Master’s program in areas such as media convergence, media ethics and media theory.
The blog posts that Paul Mena wrote also included the provision of information related to useful resources for Spanish-speaking journalists in terms of journalism training, multimedia tutorials, and Web sites focused on journalism, the Hispanic media industry and digital media.
This project was developed during the spring 2009 semester. The success in the implementation of this online social network has encouraged Poynter’s members to continue running Periodistas en Red.
They crossed the ocean to build a new life in Florida. They left the tranquility of Alessandria della Rocca, a small town in the Sicilian countryside, and immersed themselves in the fast-paced reality of Tampa.
They strengthened old relationships and started new families, fusing their Italian values and traditions into their new world.
They created a slice of Italian life in the States. Caterina, Giuseppe and his son Guido became the new generation of Italian immigrants in Tampa. This is the story of their journeys.
