Faculty News

SID BEDINGFIELD

is co-editing and contributing chapters to a new book coming out in 2021. The University of Illinois Press has Sid Bedingfield scheduled a fall publication date for Journalism & Jim Crow: The Press and the Making of White Supremacy in the New South, which Bedingfield is co-editing with former Hubbard School faculty member Kathy Roberts Forde. In November, Bedingfield published a column for the Washington Post based on research from the book. He also appeared on a post-election panel sponsored by the University of South Carolina’s History Center. As part of the Norwegian research council grant on mediated disinformation, VALERIE

BELAIR-GAGNON

is working on uses of technologies with tech companies, news and fact-checking organizations, including during the 2020 U.S. elections. With colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kristianna University, and OsloMet, she is also working on a Digital Journalism special issue titled “Fighting Fakes: News publishers, fact-checkers, platform companies, and policymaking.”

Valerie Belair-Gagnon

MATT CARLSON’s chapter “Journalistic critical incidents as boundary making and the making of boundaries around critical incidents” was published in the book Critical Incidents in Journalism. Carlson also presented “Beyond journalistic detachment: Discovering a moral voice for journalism” Matt Carlson at the Ivan L. Preston Symposium: What Now? A Post-Election Symposium on Political Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in November 2020. ELISIA COHEN has joined the UMN's Center for Translational Science Institute's Communications Work group and Communication Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) committee. She along with Mickey Eder (PI) and a team of researchers from Mayo have created a variety of social media and Science Cafe educational offerings to improve public understanding of medicine and science. Their work will be featured in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

DIANE CORMANY’s article, “Love is an emergency savings fund: Suze Orman’s advice as affective discipline,” was published online in Communication, Culture & Critique from the International Communication Association.

RUTH DEFOSTER had a paper accepted by the journal SN Social Sciences titled “Poor and hurting: Media habits and views on drugs,” forthcoming in Spring 2021.

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO’s last single-authored book, Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present, an oral history revealing the practices of U.S. foreign correspondence during the last eight decades, has been published in Korean. The translator was Dr. Wooyeol Shin (Ph.D. ’16) who’s now an assistant professor at Kyungnam University in South Korea, and who won a grant to work on the translation.

GAYLE (G.G.) GOLDEN was one of four panelists featured on the Oct. 21, 2020 webinar “Behind the headlines: Reporters and news consumers in a 24/7 media world,” a UMN Libraries event co-sponsored by the Hubbard School and the Star Tribune.

Gayle Golden

JISU HUH edited the Journal of Advertising Special Section “Advances in Computational Advertising.” The collection of five articles included in this journal issue is the fruit of the Computational Advertising Research Thought Leadership Forum (TLF) sponsored by and held at the Hubbard School in October 2019. Huh’s editorial, co-authored with Edward C. Malthouse of Northwestern University, “Advancing computational advertising: Conceptualization of the field and future directions,” has been translated into Chinese as well. Huh won the 2020 Dyason Fellowship awarded by the University of Melbourne in Australia. This fellowship provides funding for a short-term visit by leading international scholars to the University of Melbourne to engage in

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Giovanna Dell’Orto

Jisu Huh

Mark Jenson

significant and lasting research collaborations with the university’s faculty. With this fellowship funding, Huh will be a visiting scholar at the School of Culture and Communication at the University Melbourne in spring 2021, and engage in research collaboration with their faculty and give lectures to students.

In MARK JENSON’s Fall 2020 Jour 4263: Campaigns course, the client was U.S. Bank. Four teams worked since early September and presented their final presentations to the client on Dec. 10. The challenge was to develop a complete IMC plan to help U.S. Bank recruit more digital talent to the organization. The four teams presented to three clients and the feedback was very enthusiastic for the ideas presented and the professionalism of their presentations. The client indicated they will be sharing the ideas with additional departments in the organization.

STACEY KANIHAN, Patrick Meirick and

CLAIRE SEGIJN

published the article “Thinking, knowing, or thinking you know: The Relationship between multiscreening and political learning” in September 2020 in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Stacey Kanihan

SHERRI JEAN

KATZ had an article titled “High school youth and e-cigarettes: The influence of modified risk statements and flavors on e-cigarette packaging” published in the American Journal of Health Behavior.

In January, DANIELLE KILGO published “When is the ‘racist’ designation truly applicable? News media’s contribution to the debatability of racism” in a special issue of Television and News Media on Nationalisms and Racisms on Digital Media.

JANE KIRTLEY was interviewed many times about cameras in the courtroom during the upcoming George Floyd trials. She was featured on KSTP-TV, in the Star Tribune and in the Associated Press, to name a few.

SCOTT LIBIN presented a session on ethical decision-making in The Radio Television Digital News Association’s September webinar titled “Always-On Ethics: Staying Ethical in an Age of Super-Speed News Cycles.” Over the summer, Libin led training on coverage of race for Altice, which operates News 12 networks in the New York City area and Cheddar, a live-streaming financial news network.

REGINA MCCOMBS wrote the lead article for the July-August issue of News Photographer Magazine, the magazine of the National Press Photographers Association, on how Twin Cities photojournalists handled the protests and riots around the killing of George Floyd titled, “Chaos and Crossfire For Photojournalists Covering Protests of George Floyd’s Death.”

SCOTT MEMMEL successfully defended his dissertation, “Pressing the police and policing the press: The history and law of the relationship between the news media and law enforcement in the United States,” and started his postdoc assignment with the Hubbard School at the end of August 2020.

REBEKAH NAGLER, MARCO YZER and their research team published “Americans' perceptions of disparities in COVID-19 mortality: Results from a nationally-representative survey” in Preventive Medicine and “Public perceptions of conflicting information surrounding COVID-19: Results from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults” in PLOS ONE. Both projects were completed using funds from the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research’s COVID rapid response grant program.

AMY O’CONNOR, along with master’s students Renee Mitson and Cory Gilbert, presented “Hometown advantage? Exploring the relationship between location, CSR/CSI behaviors, and stakeholders’ activist intentions,” their paper featuring data collected in the Driven to Discover barn at the Minnesota State Fair, at the National Communication Association’s annual conference.

AMELIA REIGSTAD successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Gender Differences in Communication Styles and their Influence on Workplace Communication and the Practice of Public Relations in the U.S.” Her work was completed through the University of Leicester located in the U.K.

HYEJOON RIM and Hubbard School alumni, Keonyoung Park and Hyejin Kim, published “Exploring variations in corporations’ communication after a CA versus CSR crisis: A semantic

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Scott Libin

Rebekah Nagler

Amy O’Connor

Hyejoon Rim

network analysis of sustainability reports” in the International Journal of Business Communication.

ADAM SAFFER had two manuscripts that were accepted for publication from his research project on the NGO networks that have emerged from the global refugee crisis. The first manuscript, “Standing out in a networked communication context: Toward a network contingency model of public attention,” will be published at New Media & Society. The second manuscript, “The influence of interdependence in networked publics spheres: How community interactions affect the evolution of topics in online discourse,” will be published at Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. He also presented two papers at the National Communication Association’s annual conference. One of those was awarded the top faculty paper in the organizational communication division.

CLAIRE SEGIJN

was awarded the First Place Special Topics Paper Award (topic: Emerging Technologies) of the Ad Division Claire Segijn at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The paper awarded is titled “Am I being watched? The role of perceived surveillance and privacy cynicism in synced advertising effects” and was co-authored by Ph.D. candidate Eunah Kim. In addition, she also won the John E. Hunter Meta-Analysis Award from the Information Systems Division at the annual conference of the International Communication Association for her paper “A meta-analysis into multiscreening and advertising effectiveness: Direct effects, moderators, and underlying mechanisms.” This work is published in Journal of Advertising and co-authored by Martin Eisend.

EMILY VRAGA assisted the World Health Organization with its first Infodemiology conference in July 2020 as a Topic Master on “Which Interventions Work to Protect and Mitigate,” where she co-hosted four sessions with experts in the field what is known and what needs more research in terms of interventions for infodemics. She concluded by publicly presenting the findings to an international audience in the post-conference on July 21, 2020. (For more information, see p. 7.)

MARCO YZER spent his Fall 2020 sabbatical working on various research projects relating to mental health communication. Several articles Yzer co-authored were published or accepted Marco Yzer for publication, including “Theories of behavior,” in Health Communication Theory; “Advancing health communication research: Issues and controversies in research design and data analysis,” in The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication; “Public perceptions of conflicting information surrounding COVID-19: Results from a nationally representative survey among U.S. adults,” in PLOS ONE; and “Americans’ perceptions of disparities in COVID-19 mortality: Results from a nationally-representative survey,” in Preventive Medicine.

MEET THE 2020-2021 HUBBARD SCHOOL DIVERSITY FELLOWS

NITIN DUA, Senior Strategist, Fallon

MARISSA EVANS, Social Issues Reporter, Star Tribune

RIHAM FESHIR, Multimedia Reporter, MPR News

LIZ FLORES, Photojournalist, Star Tribune

CARLOS GONZALEZ, Photojournalist, Star Tribune

JERRY HOLT, Staff Photographer, Star Tribune

MUKHTAR IBRAHIM, Founder, Sahan Journal

JUSTIN MCCRAY, News Photojournalist, FOX 9

MARSHA PITTS-PHILLIPS, Founder, MRPP & Associates Communications LLC

ANJULA RAZDAN, Digital Deputy Editor, Experience Life

ALEX WEST STEINMAN, Founder, The Coven

HEIDI WIGDAHL, Multimedia Journalist, KARE-11

NANCY YANG, Digital Producer, MPR News