Tariq Nadim, SOC Graduate Program Specialist, received the Academic Advising Outstanding Collaboration award on 5/24, at the awards breakfast.
In conjunction with the recent PBA Annual meeting, Current published a database of executive compensation in the top 25 public media markets. This is the first data project of its kind since 2015, with salary information largely culled from public sources. A slice of the chart was published in the print newspaper distributed at the conference; the entire chart can be found online. An accompanying story found that leaders at university stations earn less on average than their community licensee counterparts. Congratulations to reporters Julian Wyllie and Tyler Falk, editors Mike Janssen and Karen Everhart for their work gathering and presenting this important and controversial information. The data should be available to all AU employees on campus through IP authentication. If you are interested in reading it but hit the paywall, please contact Julie Drizin (julie@current.org) in order to bring that paywall down.
Joe Campbell was interviewed for the "Choiceology" podcast about the 1936 Literary Digest polling failure. The Literary Digest magazine, on the basis of its massive mail-in poll, predicted Alf Landon would easily defeat President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential elections. Roosevelt in fact won a sweeping landslide, defeating Landon by 24 percentage points and carrying 46 of 48 states. The Literary Digest polling debaclewas among the cases Joe discussed in his 2020 book Lost in a Gallup.
Joe Campbell's "last lecture," a presentation and discussion about the zeitgeist of the 1990s, was aired four times Sunday on the C-SPAN3 "Lectures in History" program. The lecture, taped April 27 in Joe's "American 1990s" class, was the finale of his 26-year career on the AU faculty.
Margot Susca was an invited panelist at a May 23 policy workshop hosted by Gallup, the Knight Foundation, and Rebuild Local News at Gallup headquarters in Washington, D.C. Margot discussed the impacts of hedge fund ownership of newspaper chains on local communities and addressed regulatory and legislative solutions to rein in fund power.
Patricia Aufderheide co-presented, with Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy, University of Virginia, "Global Obstacles to Text and Datamining," at the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, May 17, 2023.
Patricia also wrote an article in Filmmaker magazine on May 25, with Brandon Butler and emeritus prof Peter Jaszi, on fair use after the SCOTUS Warhol decision. Takeaway: For most of us most of the time, this doesn't change anything. It was a narrow decision, focused on the particulars of a commercial transaction.
In addition, Patricia interviewed filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff in a video released in tandem with the screening of his groundbreaking film After Sherman on the public TV series POV.
Aram Sinnreich was an invited respondent at a Workshop on Deceptive Design Regulation organized by Cambridge University and the Electronic Privacy Information Center as part of the Nobel Prize Summit.
Aram also spoke with MarketWatch about the lawyer who got caught using ChatGPT and what it betokens for our professional and public lives.
Graduating senior Syedah Asghar and rising junior Jane Fusco — winners of the annual scholarships for outstanding journalism students from the American News Women’s Club in D.C. — were honored and introduced along with CNN anchor Dana Bash at a reception on May 24 in DC. Bash — who was honored for excellence in journalism — praised Syedah and Jane as the important next generation of journalists at the event. Jane Hall, who has led SOC’s nominating and mentoring of numerous winners of this award, attended with Syedah and Jane. CNN president Chris Licht, Wolf Blitzer, Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC, AU alumnus Polson Kanneth of CNN, and others there spoke about working with Dana Bash since Bash was an intern running teleprompter at CNN years ago.
