What: American University experts to discuss changing media industry landscape
When: August 9 and on-going
Where: In-Studio, via Skype, via telephone, or at American University
Washington, D.C. August 9, 2013: In a period of less than one week, three of the most respected titles in journalism, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and the Washington Post, all were sold off for what would have been considered bargain prices just a few short years ago. In an era of print decline and digital expansion, is it now obvious that the future of journalism is on the web and on the tablet? These American University journalism experts are available to comment on the issue.
Jane Hall is a professor of Journalism. She specializes in media and politics, particularly in issues of special interest to young people. A former weekly commentator on Fox News Watch, she also moderates the American University School of Communication’s American Forum series on NPR station WAMU. Hall is a frequent contributor to Columbia Journalism Review, the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and other publications. She teaches reporting and media studies. In 2007-2008, she developed a year-long collaboration between her students and washingtonpost.com about the presidential election. Working out of New York, Hall covered the media for nine years for the Los Angeles Times. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Editor's Awards and the Los Angeles Press Club Award. She is also a regular guest on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” and has appeared on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki”.
Angie Chuang is a professor of Journalism. Her research and teaching focuses on race and identity issues in the news media. She joined the AU School of Communication faculty in 2007 after a thirteen-year career in newspaper journalism, as a staff writer at The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant, and the Los Angeles Times. Prof. Chuang developed one of the first regional newspaper race and ethnicity issues beats in 2000. Her reporting, including stories from Afghanistan, Vietnam, and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, won many national and regional awards, including one from the Columbia University School of Journalism Workshop on Journalism, Race & Ethnicity. She developed an SOC course, Race, Ethnic and Community Reporting, based on her reporting experiences. Prof. Chuang also oversees an SOC partnership with New America Media, the nation’s largest collaborative for ethnic media.
Jill Olmsted is a professor of Journalism and the Journalism Division Director for American University’s School of Communication. She worked as an on-air television and radio news anchor, reporter, and editorialist as well as a producer, editor, photographer, and news manager for stations around the country. She also worked as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for nationally syndicated programs, covering the White House and federal agencies. She also writes about media issues.
Rick Rockwell is the AU School of Communication's Director of the International Media Program. Also, he is a professor of journalism. He teaches broadcast journalism, communication and multimedia courses.
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