College of Communication in the News

Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter (The Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2009)
RTF Professor Craig Watkins discusses his research on young people and social media

Program to recruit young poll workers for future elections (The Daily Texan, Oct. 19, 2009)
Annette Strauss Institute receives grant to train students to work at election polls, increase civic participation

Award honors fusion of art, diversity (The Daily Texan, Oct. 16, 2009)
The UT Project on Conflict Resolution honored three Austin men for their work in bringing people of diverse backgrounds together through music and art.

Social-media sites on Web find niche in college classes (The Arizona Daily Star, Oct. 11, 2009)
Craig Watkins discusses the growing role of social media in college classrooms.

Students conduct study to test guilt of prison inmates (The Daily Texan, Oct. 6, 2009)
Under the tutelage of journalism professors Kate Dawson and Bill Minutaglio, journalism students participate in the Actual Innocence Clinic as part the first independent study of its kind.

Filling gaps in America's story (Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 4, 2009)
The Statesman writes an editorial marking the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which was founded by journalism professor Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez.

Berkeley Breathed, drawn back to 'Bloom County' but looking forward (Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Blog, Oct. 3, 2009)
Berkeley Breathed, Pulitzer Prize winner, School of Journalism alumnus, and creator of the comic strips “Bloom County,” "Outland" and “Opus, reflects on his career.

10 years later, Latino oral history project expands (Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 2, 2009)
The School of Journalism's U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project celebrates milestone and expands to collect narratives from Korea and Vietnam.

New project seeks US Latinos' oral histories (Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2009)
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, associate journalism professor and director of U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, asserts the importance of capturing Latino oral histories.

Rowe grad who works on 'Grey's Anatomy' knows secrets of tonight's season premiere (McAllen Monitor, Sept. 24, 2009)
Former University of Texas Los Angeles Center student and aspiring screenwriter Aaron Serna (BS RTF ‘08) talks about landing his first job in Hollywood and how he arrived on the set of NBC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Mr. Know-It-All on Laptop Autopsies, Rookie Journalism, F-Bomb Tweets (Wired Magazine, Sept. 21, 2009)
Journalism’s George Sylvie asserts that one of the most basic tenets of journalism is that the published record is immutable.

Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant in a World on the Brink? (Common Dreams.org, Sept. 14, 2009)
Robert Jensen proposes a new mission for journalism education.

Procter & Gamble Taps Co-Eds To Sell Products (Forbes, Sept. 9, 2009)
UT advertising students are among 100 college ambassadors pitching P&G products, such as Tide, PUR and TAG deodorant, on campus.

Obama to detail health care vision (USA Today, Sept. 9. 2009)
Rod Hart, dean of the College of Communication and Allan Shivers Centennial Chair in Communication, speaks to the symbolism of president Obama addressing a joint session of Congress in the midst of the health care debate.

Putting It On the Line Online (ABC News.com, Sept. 5, 2009)
Communication Studies’ Jorge Pena shares his insight on the popularity of Web sites allowing people to vent about their bad days.

CineMujer: Life's struggles on film (San Antonio Express-News, Sept. 3, 2009)
Student filmmaker Angela Torres Camarena’s film “Exiled in America” documents the story of a mother’s deportation and her struggle to maintain a life in Texas for her five children.

How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media (Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 24, 2009)
The Chronicle of Higher Education sits down with Radio-TV-Film’s Craig Watkins to discuss the age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas.

25 New Faces of Independent Film (Filmmaker Magazine, August 2009)
Filmmaker Magazine names filmmaker and radio-TV-film lecturer Geoff Marslett one of the 25 new faces of Independent Film.

Hollywood searches for escapism after the apocalypse (The Guardian, Aug. 9, 2009)
Barry Brummet, chairman of Communication Studies, talks about apocalyptic rhetoric.

He did it first! (The New York Post, Aug. 3, 2009)
The New York Post cites Communication Studies’ Keri Stephens and her research on why people electronically multitask in meetings.

Has Michael Jackson's Ghost Come to Your Town? (E! Online, July 28, 2009)
Communication Studies’ Joshua Gunn comments on celebrity ghost sightings

NRA: The new face of the American right? (The Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 2009)
Barry Brummet, chairman of Communication Studies, talks to The Christian Science Monitor about shift in rhetoric over gun rights in the past half century.

H1N1 Virus: Did the health authorities overreact? (The Why Files, May 14, 2009)
Advertising’s LeeAnn Kahlor comments on health authorities’ response to the H1N1 virus

Broadband Internet could give rural residents access to jobs (The Beaumont Enterprise, April 19, 2009)
Radio-TV-Film’s Sharon Strover discusses her research on rural broadband access

By racially profiling black shoppers, retailers will put themselves in the red (The Austin American-Statesman, April 18, 2009)
Jerome Williams and Geraldine R. Henderson of the Department of Advertising write an opinion piece on consumer racial profiling

Better Campaign: Laptop Hunter Or Get a Mac? (PC World, April 10, 2009)
Advertising’s Matt McCutchin shares his insight on Microsoft’s new advertising campaign

Want to know about global warming? Study says you may have to work at it (PR Tactics, March 3, 2009)
Public relations industry publication PR Tactics writes about LeeAnn Kahlor’s research on how people stay informed on global warming

More TV ads project images of racial harmony (Associated Press, March 1, 2009)
The Associated Press taps Professor of Advertising Jerome Williams for his insight on racial diversity in television commercials

Studying the Human Animal (Photo District News online, February 2009)
Photojournalism master’s student Dawn Jones-Garcia traded studying human cells through a microscope lens for studying human forms through a digital SLR camera.