Convention 2006 - Calendar of Newspaper Division Events

Also available as as 3-page pdf file for printing, or as separate lists:
papers, posters & panels (with paper abstracts)
and business & joint-sponsored sessions

Wednesday, Aug. 2, 8:15-9 a.m.

Research Panel
“All the News We Print Is True, We Think: Reader Credibility”

Carrie Brown, Esther Thorson and Ken Fleming, Missouri-Columbia:

“Taking Action on Credibility:
Does APME’s Credibility Roundtable Program Have Measurable Effects?”

Michael Bugeja, Jane Peterson, Rut Rey and Fernando Anton, Iowa State:

“Rating the completeness of newspaper corrections in 2005
as compiled by ‘Regret the Error’”

Peggie Evans, Texas-Austin:

“Washington Bureau Chiefs Assess Changing Policies, Attitudes
on Using Anonymous Sources”

Ron Smith, Central Florida:

“Are Readers Really Suspicious of Unnamed Sources?”

Moderator: Andy Bechtel, North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Discussant: TBA

Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1:30 p.m.

Teaching Panel; RTVJ is lead sponsor with Newspaper as co-sponsor

Teaching and Learning in a Converged Media World

Moderator: Judith Cramer, St. John’s. Panelists: Tim Bajkiewicz, South Florida; Ann Auman, Hawaii; Vince Filak, Ball State; James Gentry, Kansas

Wednesday, Aug. 2, 3:15 p.m.

Teaching Mini-plenary; co-sponsored with RTVJ, CCS and MCD

Katrina as Curriculum: Considering Media Coverage of Race and Class in America

Moderator: Mark Dolan of the University of Mississippi. Panelists: Marguerite J. Moritz, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Preparing Students for Covering Disasters"; Kirk Johnson, University of Mississippi, “From ‘Sniper Kings’ to ‘New Orleans Thugs’: A Comparative Analysis of New Images of African Americans During Urban Unrest"; Stephanie Houston Grey, Louisiana State University, “Race, Religion and Emotion as Rubrics for Survivor Accounts"; Anita Fleming-Rife, Clark Atlanta University, “The Color of Disaster: Coverage of Hurricane Katrina—Its Language, Its Meanings and Its Implications"; Peggy Bowers, Clemson University, “The Ethics of Disaster: Social problems and Personal Stories"; Federico Subervi, Texas State University, “Before the Next Emergency: Emergency Preparedness for Communicating with non-English Speaking Populations.”

Thursday, Aug. 3, 11:45 a.m.

PF&R Panel; co-sponsored with the Community Journalism Interest Group

What’s next for newspapers?

Moderator: Wilson Lowery, University of Alabama. Panelists: Jerry Ceppos, former vice president/news, Knight Ridder and former executive editor, San Jose Mercury News; Andrew DeVigal, San Francisco State, co-principal of the interactive firm DeVigal Design; Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of The Vanishing Newspaper; Mary Nesbitt, Northwestern, managing director of the Readership Institute; Jan Schaffer, Maryland, director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism

Thursday, Aug. 3, 1:30 - 3 p.m.

Scholar-to-Scholar (Poster)

Steve Collins, Central Florida, and Cory Armstrong, Florida:

“Following the Setting Sun”

Fred Fedler, Central Florida:

“Reporters' Conflicting Attitudes And Struggle To Unionize”

Steve Scauzillo and Tony Rimmer, California State - Fullerton:

“Whose View Is It? Gatekeeping Theory and the Selection and Publication of Letters to the Editor”

Marc Seamon, Marshall:

“Frame-mapping Analysis of Newspaper Coverage
of Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia: 1985-2004”

Hai Tran, North Carolina – Chapel Hill:

“30 Years after, Friend or Foe?
A Narrative Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Vietnam in 2005”

Douglas Underwood and Dana Bagwell, Washington:

“Newspapers as Launching Pads for Literary Careers”

Denis Wu and Ralph Izard, Louisiana State:

“Representing the Total Community: Relationships between Asian-American Staff and Asian-American Coverage”

Thursday, Aug. 3 3:15 p.m.

Law and Newspaper Divisions PF&R Panel

FOIA Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary: A Promise Fulfilled or a Bureaucratic Roadblock?

Moderating/Presiding: Jeanni Atkins, Mississippi. Panelists: Paul McMasters, First Amendment Center, Arlington, Va.; Sandra F. Chance, Florida; Charles Davis, Missouri; Jane Kirtley, Minnesota; Seth Rosenfeld, San Francisco Chronicle

Thursday, Aug. 3, 5-6:30 p.m.

Poster session co-sponsored with Mass Communication & Society

Steven Hallock, Southern Illinois - Carbondale:

“Editorials and Public Policy:
Illinois legislators read and heed newspaper editorials”

Mark Harmon, Tennessee:

“Non-Presidential Newspaper Endorsements, 2002 and 2004”

Abhiyan Humane, Carly Yuenger, Xiao Yu Wang, Daniel Gartenberg
and Porismita Borah, Wisconsin-Madison:

“How the New York Times covered the 2004 Presidential Campaign:
A Case of New York Times Coverage”

Staci Jordan and Douglas Fisher, South Carolina:

“The reality of graphics editing in the newsroom:
A study of practices at 6 newspapers in the Carolina”

Paula Rausch, Florida:

“Newspaper Coverage of Trans Fats:
An Agenda for Policy Change?"

Michael Sheehy, Cincinnati:

“Unnamed Sources in the Washington Post, 1970-2000”

Steve Urbanski, Duquesne, and Andre Quenum:

“Giving a Voice to the Silenced: A Journalism Project in Benin, West Africa”

Amy Zerba, Texas - Austin:

“Physical News:
Why Some Young Adults Don’t Read Newspapers”

Thursday, Aug. 3 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Newspaper Division Business Session:

Members’ Meeting

Moderating/Presiding, Wilson Lowery, Alabama

Friday, Aug. 4 7 am to 8 a.m.

Newspaper Division Business Session:

Executive Committee

Moderating/Presiding, Wilson Lowery, Alabama

Friday, Aug. 4, 8:15-9:45 a.m.

INMA Prize Research Panel: Responding to the Needs of the Industry

Co-sponsors: Newspaper Division, Council of Affiliates

H. Iris Chyi, Arizona, and George Sylvie, Texas-Austin: * INMA Prize Winner

“One Product, Two Markets:
How Geography Differentiates Online Newspaper Audiences”

Cory Armstrong, Florida, and Steve Collins, Central Florida:

“Reaching Out: Newspaper Credibility Among Younger Readers”

Patricia Curtin, Oregon, Elizabeth Dougall
and Rachel Davis Mersey, North Carolina:

“The Internet and the Future of Journalism:
Comparing News Producers’ and Users’ Preferences
on the Yahoo! News Portal "

Peter Gade, Oklahoma, and Jacqueline Eckstein:

“Concern, Frustration and Guarded Optimism:
Newspaper Editors Assess Their Changing Organizational Roles”

Moderator: Frank E. Fee Jr., North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Discussant: Joseph Bernt, Ohio

Friday, Aug. 4, 1:30 p.m.

PF&R Panel; CCJIG is lead with Newspaper as co-sponsor

Citizen Media: Promises and pitfalls for citizen-created content

Moderating/Presiding: Jan Schaffer, executive director, J-lab Institute for Interactive Journalism, Maryland. Panelists: Jeremy Iggers, founder, The Daily Planet, author, Good News, Bad News; Mark Trahant, editor editorial page, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Doug Fisher, project leader, HartsvilleToday.com, South Carolina; Steve Outing, interactive media columnist, Editor & Publisher Online, founder, Enthusiast Group; Jan Schaffer, executive director, J-lab Institute for Interactive Journalism, Maryland. Discussant: Cecilia Friend, Utica.

Friday, Aug. 4, 3:15-4:45 p.m.

Research Panel
“Making News: The Way We See It”

Shannon Kahle, Penn State, Nan Yu and Erin Whiteside, Penn State:

“An examination of portrayals of race in hurricane Katrina coverage”

Lori Herber and Vince Filak, Ball State:

“A Nation at War Versus a Culture of Restraint”

Michael McCluskey, California State - Fresno:

“Activist group attributes and their influences on news portrayal”

Liwen Jiang, Jeff Sheets, Javier Camaño and Brad Rawlins, Brigham Young:

“Framing a Terrorist Event on Neutral Soil:
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Chinese Newspaper Coverage”

Moderator: Barbara Reed, Rutgers

Discussant: TBA

Friday, Aug. 4, 5 p.m.

PF&R panel; co-sponsored with MED

No Laughing Matter: Editorial Cartoons and Disasters

Moderator: Bill Reader, Ohio. Panelists: Steve Kelly, New Orleans Times-Picayune; Rex Babin, Sacramento Bee; Don Asmussen, San Francisco Chronicle.

Saturday, Aug. 5, 8:15-9:45 a.m.

Research Panel
“‘Going My Way’ on the Super Highway? Journalists and Readers Online”

Larry Dailey and Donica Mensing, Nevada-Reno:

“The Convergence Conundrum:
Choosing Between the Strength of Weak Ties and Jacks of All Trades”

George Gladney, Wyoming, Ivor Shapiro, Ryerson, and Joseph Castaldo:

“New Media, Familiar Standards:
How Online News People Rate 38 Criteria of Quality for News Web Sites”

Randle Quint, Brigham Young, Lucinda Davenport, Michigan State,
and Scott Lunt, Brigham Young:

“Walkin’ the Walk; Talkin’ the Talk:
Reporters’ Online Interaction with Readers”

Jessica Smith, Abilene Christian:

“Content differences between print and online newspapers”

Moderator: TBA
Discussant: TBA

Saturday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m.

PF&R Panel; co-sponsored with VisCom

Classroom on Wheels: UMABJ Visual Communication Project in New Orleans and Coastal Mississippi

Moderator: Loret Steinberg, Rochester Inst. Tech. Panelists: Michael Cheers, University of Mississippi, and panelists, Deborah Willis, New York University; and Jasmine Cole, University of Mississippi.

Saturday, Aug. 5, 11:45-1:15 p.m.

Research Panel
“Behavior in the Newsroom: Good, Bad or Just Our Way?”

Jia Dai and Dominic Lasorsa, Texas-Austin:

“Newsroom’s Normal Accident?
An Exploratory Study of 10 Cases of News Fabrications”

Qingmiao Hu and Jennifer Greer, Nevada-Reno:

“Happy Journalists: Good for Business?
A Survey of Business Journalists’ Job Satisfaction and Plans”

Neil Nemeth, Purdue - Calumet:

“Somebody's Got to Do It:
How Three Editors Explain to the Public”

Norman Lewis, Maryland:

“Newspaper Plagiarism Trends Since Jayson Blair”