An award-winning student paper at AEJMC!

Congratulations to Francis Dalisay, whose paper submitted to the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Conference has won a top-five student paper award from the Critical & Cultural Studies Division!

  The award comes with complimentary registration to the convention. Congratulations also to Doug Hindman, who mentored Francis on this paper!

Erica Weintraub Austin

More kudos for our faculty,
congratulations to Scott Vik!

I'm delighted to inform you that Scott Vik, a long-time adjunct instructor for the Murrow School, recently was named WSU Greek Outstanding Faculty Member! The award is given by the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils,

and he was nominated by Alpha Phi. We are very fortunate to have such dedicated and accomplished adjunct faculty helping our School!

Erica Weintraub Austin

Dr. Alex Tan
Images of Americans Abroad: Why Are We Disliked?

Stereotyping and attributing traits based on group affiliations have very significant consequences on interpersonal relations, says an American professor of communication and intercultural affairs. Dr. Alex Tan, a visiting Fulbright Senior Specialist, spoke at a lecture entitled, 'Images of Americans Abroad: Why Are We Disliked?' hosted by The Gulf Studies Center and The Communications and Media Program at the American University of Kuwait.

In his words, negative stereotyping leads to avoidance, which can then lead to exclusion. Exclusion, on the other hand, he said, leads to discrimination, aggression and in the worst-case scenario violence. This was Dr Tan's first visit to Kuwait. He opened up his talk saying that in many universities in the US, Middle Eastern studies are becoming more popular.

Murrow School's first PhD recipient
has won a prestigious dissertation award!

To all of our faculty, students and friends: I'm sure you'll be as excited as I am to know that Dave Cuillier, our very first Murrow Ph.D. recipient, has won the 2007 Nafziger-White Dissertation Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication! He will receive his award at the AEJMC business meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 11, in Washington, DC. Dr. Cuillier is now an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.  His dissertation focused on public attitudes toward freedom of information.  You can look him up at University of Arizona Department of Journalism. His committee was chaired by Susan Ross and included Bruce Pinkleton and Jeff Joireman.  Congratulations to all of them!

WSU Bateman Team Earns Honorable Mention!

This year's WSU Bateman team has earned honorable mention! It was a fierce competition as 64 teams from across the country competed.

Only the top 25% were given honorable mention or were named as finalists. Our 2007 Bateman team members were: Monica Rodriguez, Renee Parkins, Samantha Spears, Lauren Lemkau, and Christine Davis.

Murrow Students have stories posted in Cougfan.com

Matt Boudia: Read Matt's story

Cody Glad: Read Cody's stories

Kari Hockett: Read Kari's stories

Dustin Goodnight: Read Dustin's stories

Murrow Student Wins National Broadcasting Honor

Monique Dugaw and Q13 News
evening anchor Mark Wright

PULLMAN, Wash. – Monique Dugaw, a senior broadcast major in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, has won high honors from American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT).

It was announced this week that Dugaw, a senior communication major from Olympia, Wash., is the winner of the Gracie Award for Outstanding Interview Program for her report “Credit Card Debt: A Student’s Perspective.”

Dugaw plans to be in New York City on June 19 to attend the Gracie Awards luncheon at the Tavern on the Green.

2007 Dr. William R. Wiley Exposition of
Graduate and Professional Studies

The annual Wiley Exposition of Graduate and Professional Studies provides graduate and professional students an excellent opportunity to present their original research or scholarship to peers, faculty, and the general public. It also provides the GPSA and Graduate School an opportunity to honor those students engaged in the central purpose of their graduate or professional careers.

The five judging divisions are: AgMed; Business
& Social Sciences; Engineering & Architecture; Humanities, Arts & Education; and Sciences.

Wiley 2007 Results for
Business & Social Sciences Division:

  1) Daeil Nam

  2) Yvonnes Chen

  3) Rita Kepner

Congratulations to Yvonnes and Rita!!!!
A very well-deserved honor for each of you!

Erica Weintraub Austin

Murrow Student reports for ABC Video on Demand

Murrow School Students Receive National Honors

PULLMAN, Wash. ‑ Cristina E. Romento and Rachel Padget, students in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, have been named winners in two national competitions for a project completed as part of their studies in the Murrow School.

In a letter received the last week of February, Romento and Padget were informed their video project, “Teaching a Woman to Fish,” had won a Telly Award. According to Recognition Media, owner of the competition, the Telly was created in 1978 to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting and supporting creativity.

Days earlier Romento and Padget received word they had won the 2006 Gracie Allen Award sponsored by American Women in Radio and Television Inc.

Classes team to create
energy-drink PSAs

The assignment was daunting: Students in PR 475 and DTC 335 had six weeks to create an animated 3D public service announcement about the dangers of energy drinks that would eventually become part of a WSU video library on health-related topics.

Along with an extensive checklist of necessary components that covered both the message and the medium, students needed to create something both educational and entertaining, submit it to a focus group and then analyze the effectiveness of what they had created.

“They rose to the occasion,” Stacey Hust, assistant professor of public relations in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, said last week, just days before the culminating Animation Showcase. “From a pedagogical perspective, this has just been an incredibly rewarding experience.”

Media Literacy, Regulations Needed to
Mitigate Effects of Advertising on Children

Research led by Erica Weintraub Austin, professor and interim director of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, is cited in the American Association of Pediatrics' (AAP) policy statement “Children, Adolescents and Advertising.” The new policy statement, published in this month's issue of the journal Pediatrics, calls for more media

education and restrictions to ads to mitigate some of advertising's negative effects on children.

Austin has conducted research that suggests that ads increase cigarette and alcohol use among young consumers and has also worked to understand how media literacy can help children dissect and understand media and advertising.

Q13 FOX and WSU Provide Rare Student Experience

PULLMAN, Wash. – Television news viewers in western Washington will soon be face-to-face with students from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University.

In a collaboration announced today, Q13 FOX

(KCPQ-TV, Channel 13, Seattle) will provide real life learning experiences for some WSU broadcast news majors. Selected by Murrow School professors, the students will work in pairs and write and produce franchise reports for broadcast on Q13 FOX News.