VISITORS
The journalist and war correspondent Dhar Jamil delivered the seminar ‘Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq’ on April 9. With almost 120 in attendance, the event was organized by the Stirling Media Research Institute and co-sponsored by the news agency Inter-Press Service.
Paula Bushell, marketing and promotions manager of Scotsman Newspapers Ltd, gave a talk to students on the PR/Media Management Marketing Communications module on Thursday April 24.
Giles Blair, Chief Sub-editor with the Daily Record visited students taking JOU9J4, Writing and Research for Journalists, and led workshops on editing skills.
OUTSIDE VISITS
Journalism students visited the BBC on April 25 and the Guardian on April 26 in London as apart of the extra-curricular activities of Introduction to Journalism Studies. The visit included a look into the newsroom, a meeting with BBC news staff and visits to current exhibitions held at these two media outlets.
MEETINGS, CONFERENCES & COMMITTEES
The team funded by the AHRC to investigate the Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson (John Izod, Karl Magee, Kathryn Mackenzie and Isabelle Gourdin) attended a conference on The Philosophy of the Archive, The University of Dundee, April 10-11.
Jacquie L’Etang attended the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Course Leaders meeting on April 21 at De Montfort University, Leicester. The meeting discussed criteria for Chartered Practitioner status and the level of fees to be charged to universities by CIPR.
PUBLICATIONS
L’Etang, J. (2008), ‘Public relations, persuasion and propaganda: truth, knowledge, spirituality and mystique’ in Zerfass, A., van Ruler, B. & Siramesh, K. (eds) Public relations research: European and international perspectives and innovations, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften pp 251¬-271.
Peter Meech (2008), ‘Advertising’ in Bob Franklin (ed), Pulling Newspapers Apart. Analysing Print Journalism, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 235-43.
Graham Meikle co-edited a special issue of M/C Journal (vol. 11, no. 1) with two Australian colleagues.
An Nguyen (2008),‘Facing the “fabulous monster”: the traditional media’s fear-driven innovation culture in the development of online news’. Journalism Studies. 9(1), pp. 91-104.
An Nguyen (2008), ‘The contribution of online news attributes to its diffusion: an empirical exploration based on a proposed theoretical model for the micro process of online news adoption/use.’ First Monday. 13(4). Online: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2127/1952.
WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, LECTURES
Jacquie L’Etang gave a lecture entitled ‘Celebrity, events, politics and business: the wonderful world of sports PR’ at Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday April 16.
OTHER
In March, as part of his ongoing research into the history of sports commentary Richard Haynes interviewed the motor-racing commentator Murray Walker, the darts commentator Sid Waddell, the football commentator Mike Ingham, the cricket commentator and producer of the BBC’s Test Match Special for 35 years Peter Baxter and the snooker commentator and journalist Clive Everton.
Richard Haynes was an external assessor for the validation of a new BA (Hons) in Sports Journalism at the University of Bedfordshire on April 1.
Richard Haynes was an external validator for a new BA (Hons) in a)Sports Journalism and BA (Hons) in Magazine Journalism at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton on Tuesday April 1.
Richard Haynes has been confirmed as the new external examiner for the BA (Hons) Sports Journalism at the University of Brighton for the period October 2007 to September 2011.
As part of his ongoing research funded by the AHRC on sports commentary and the history of sports broadcasting Richard Haynes interviewed snooker commentator Clive Everton, Alec Weeks (leading producer of the BBC’s coverage of football from the 1960s onwards including the 1966 World Cup), Sir Paul Fox (producer and orginator of the BBC programmes Sportsview and Grandstand) and Nick Hunter (the first producer of darts and snooker for the BBC as well as the chief producer of cricket during the 1980s).
Jacquie L’Etang has been acting as a referee on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and for the International Communication Association.
Jenny McKay took part in the preliminary and final days of judging for the Scottish School Magazine of the Year Award on April 24 and 29 in Edinburgh.
