Associate prof @UUtah. I teach reporting, journalism history. I study civil rights, the Black Press. Passions include Zumba, snorkeling, @GoDucks football.
Visit the old sites of The Great Saltair these days and you'll happen upon land that is barren, dry.
As you walk around: you're 12 feet below where the deck & the main pavilion used to be, where the water of the Great Salt Lake once extended out.
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🚨🚨🚨Awards🚨🚨🚨
Congratulations to Kathy Roberts Forde (@krforde), Katherine A. Foss (@DrKatieFoss), Melita M. Garza (@melitagarza), and Will Mari (@willthewordguy), our winners of the 2022 Jinx C. Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History!
A Utah photographer says #AAPI people having their names constantly mispronounced is “the expense of living in America" — and her project for #AAPIHeritageMonth wants Utahns to proudly celebrate their given names. https://t.co/RCbSzcEFW7
With Memorial Day weekend approaching, we're highlighting a commemorative episode from the archives.
"Ernie Pyle, WWII and Telling It Like It Is" features historian Owen Johnson's knowledge about war correspondent Ernie Pyle:
https://t.co/U38bBqiDZK
My @mujschool colleague and I have published groundbreaking research on the history of @NNPA_BlackPress: "The Negro/National Newspaper Publishers Association and Its Dual Roles as a Trade and Advocacy Organization, 1940–2020."
Hear how Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower used public relations in innovative ways and "revolutionized America’s political communication process." @JHistoryJournal @TeriFinneman
This is an old podcast, but as of this morning 612 people had downloaded and listened to it. If you are not one of the 612, will you download and give it a listen?
https://t.co/PSPlW9Wq1G
This year's Sweeney-winning article in Journalism History is now open for free viewing for the next few months. You should check it out: https://t.co/GqQWJDkqRS
Read the *now unlocked* and open-access article, “The Mirror with a Memory”: The Great War through the Lens of Percy Brown, British Correspondent and Photojournalist (1914-1920)" thank you @tandfonline@JHistoryJournal !!!
https://t.co/Xng8XulWzR