Research agendaNineteenth-Century U.S. press history -- In general, I research constraints on press performance. My primary focus is press suppression in the Civil War. Scholastic journalism -- Along with three other researchers, I am looking at advisers' attempts to create free-press environments in the Hazelwood era. This study is being done with Calvin Hall of Appalachian State, Adam Maksl of Ball State, and Joe Owens, my research assistant at Iowa State. Again, both of these studies deal with constraints on press performance, in this case student journalists. International communication -- Porismita Borah and I have written a paper on the increased role of women in Indian newsrooms. This study was accepted by the United Nations World Forum on the digital media divide for its conference in Tunis in November 2005. The paper found that a majority of the women interviewed felt constrained professionally by a glass ceiling. Sports communication -- My thesis at Indiana University was on insider journalism, and I am investigating the proliferation of this approach by literary journalists and the sports media. In particular, I look at the limitations of insider journalism and outsider journalism. I am also studying the concept of self-convergence, where sports writers work across platforms and ultimately become a self-brand. Self-convergence has major implications for the quality of journalism, yet it also liberates the best sports writers to pursue a higher degree of economic self-fulfillment. |
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