SJMC Weekly Announcements

Kudos

PhD candidate Margarita Orozco accepts tenure track position at Kansas University

Congratulations to Margarita, who has accepted a tenure track position starting Fall 2023 at the Kansas University School of Journalism and Mass Communication!

PhD student Elaine Almeida becomes a doctoral candidate

Elaine passed her preliminary exams and has become a doctoral candidate. Congratulations, Elaine!

PhD candidate Alex Koo accepts tenure-track position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Alex has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong's School of Journalism and Communication. He begins January 2024. Congratulations, Alex!

Professor Sue Robinson's engagement journalism research mentioned in two publications

Sue's ongoing research with newsroom training programs and journalists across the United States around engagement journalism was mentioned in two publications: "Conduits of misinformation" in Quill and "Journalists must understand the power of community engagement to earn trust" in Poynter.

Publications

Article in The Washington Post

Assistant Professor Kathryn McGarr's piece about Fox News's mishandling of 2020 election results was published in The Washington Post this week. Read "Fox News's handling of election lies was extreme but far from unusual" in The Washington Post.

Article in Journal of Health Communication

New article led by PhD student Linqi Lu along with alum Jiawei Liu (PhD'19), PhD candidate Sang Jung Kim, PhD candidate Ran Tao, and Professors Dhavan Shah and Douglas McLeod, “The effects of vaccine efficacy information on vaccination intentions through perceived response efficacy and hope” investigating how vaccine efficacy messages can promote vaccination intentions. Read in the Journal of Health Communication.