Awards, Appointments & Elections

Awards

Distinguished Leadership Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August 2003.

Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Communication, Stanford University, June 16, 2002.

Society of Professional Journalists’ 1998 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Research About Journalism for Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, written with James S. Ettema.  Presented at the annual convention of the Society of Professional Journalists, Indianapolis, October 5, 1999.

Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best research-based book on journalism/mass communication published in 1998 for Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, written with James S. Ettema.  Presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, August 5, 1999.

1998 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, sponsored by The Pennsylvania State University College of Communications, for Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, written with James S. Ettema.  Presented at the National Press Club, Washington, D. C., June 10, 1999.

First Amendment Award for "significant contribution to the fight for press freedom and accountability," Washington and Lee University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, March 1995.

James E. Murphy Award for Best Faculty Research Paper, Qualitative Studies Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1994 ("Habermas On Communication and Ethics: Lessons for Journalists"); with P. J. Bowers.

James E. Murphy Award for Best Faculty Research Paper, Qualitative Studies Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1992 ("The Irony in--and of--Journalism: A Case Study in the Moral Vocabulary of Liberal Democracy"); with J. S. Ettema.

Communication Policy Research Award, presented by the McGannon Communication Research Center, Fordham University, for "Investigative Journalism and the Moral Order,"  Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 6 (March 1989):  1-20; with J.S. Ettema.

Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research, and Public Service, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1987.

 

Appointments

Faculty appointments: University of Hartford, 1976-1980; University of Minnesota, 1980-1990; Stanford University, 1990-

Visiting faculty appointments: Senior Fulbright Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1993); Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Summer 2002); School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland (Summer 1996, 1997).

Current editorial board appointments: Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journalism and Communication Monographs, Communication Law and Policy, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Newspaper Research Journal, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Mass Media Ethics and Seoul National Journal of Communication. 

Other appointments: Program Committee, John S. Knight Fellowships, Stanford University; Advisory Board, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota; Advisory Board, Sino-American Center for Media Technology and Training, University of Maryland; Advisory Board, Media and Peace Institute, University for Peace, Paris, France and San José, Costa Rica; Advisory Board, Grade the News, San Jose State University; Advisory Board, Midpeninsula Community Media Center, Palo Alto, California.

 

Elections

Elected President of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2002-2003

Elected Chair of the Mass Communication Division and Vice President of the International Communication Association, 1984-1987.

Elected Head of the Qualitative Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1983-1984.

Elected Chair of the Mass Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, 1980-1981.