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Vol. 17 Fall 2007 Graduate program plays vital role in life of department elecomment rarely discusses the tele- ment agencies, private foundations, and understand the influence of media on people communications graduate program the media industry. Grants support the and society. Master’s students can simultane- Tor features its graduate students, university and research in our department ously complete a law degree or an MBA. even though they are a major feature in and, often, help fund graduate students. The PhD in mass communications is offered the life and history of the department. The The top grant recipient in our department in cooperation with the School of Journal- graduate program of the IU Department is Professor Annie Lang, who has received ism and most often leads to research and of Telecommunications is considered one more than $2 million in federal funds over teaching careers at colleges and universities. of the top 10 in the country. This ranking the past eight years. is based on three factors: First, the qual- The Department of Telecommunica- Research ity and quantity of research and creative tions offers three graduate degrees. The IU is a Research I institution, and our de- work that our faculty and graduate students MA prepares students for PhD study, for partment has an international reputation for generate is significant. This includes pre- teaching positions at small colleges, and (continued on page 2) sentations at conferences and authorship in for analytical and research books, journal articles, documentary films, positions in media and and games, as well as exhibitions of work creative industries. The MS About our current graduate students in galleries and online spaces. The second degree prepares students for • Of the 97 students currently enrolled, 36 are in factor is the placement of PhD and MA professional careers in media the PhD program, 34 are in the MA program, graduates at Research I universities and production and manage- and 27 are working toward an MS degree. MS alumni in major professional media ment with advanced course- • They come from 12 states and nine countries. positions. Third, our faculty members are work in these areas as well • Nearly half (44 percent) are international students. successful at securing grants from govern- as theoretical training to

One student’s story of finding answers — through research at IU Zheng Wang completed her doctoral studies and defended her dissertation in August 2007 after six years as an outstanding student in the graduate program. Her undergraduate degree in journalism and mass communications is from China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked as a photographer and columnist for Teenagers in China & Abroad (a monthly magazine) and as an associate editor for evening news programs with China Central Television, the largest network in China. The department wishes her well at Ohio State and will miss her many academic contributions as well as her cheerful approach to work — and life.

ix years ago, I was a freshly minted journalism graduate, work- Sing for a national news program in Beijing, China, my home country. I was always curious to know how the stories produced by my hardworking team would influence our audiences. My curiosity wasn’t satisfied by the audience rating reports that arrived at my desk weekly. With plans to study media effects in the Indiana University Department of Telecommunications — and then return to my news production work — I arrived in Bloomington.

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ates who are trained to be media profes- professor, studies the influence of violence in Graduate program sionals — making and managing media. As the media on different audiences. In a series (continued from page 1) Grabe explains, “Because they also take the of recent experiments, he found that remov- its research productivity. Faculty members core conceptual courses, they leave here ing violent content from popular television work closely with graduate students, col- with much more than sophisticated skills programs such as HBO’s The Sopranos or laborating with them on groundbreaking training. In fact, when they graduate, they Fox’s 24 makes the programs more enjoy- studies that are presented at national and are expert media professionals with an added able for viewers, including young adult international conferences and then published academic understanding of how the industry males, who the are target demographic. The in top-tier journals or books. For example, works. This makes for a new generation of department chair, Professor Walter Gantz, telecommunications students and has worked on three Kaiser Family faculty made 19 presentations at Foundation–funded studies over the International Communication At national conferences in 2006, IU the past seven years. One of the Association conference this year. telecommunications graduate students many interesting findings from his The director of graduate stud- • received a dissertation of the year award research is that children between ies, Professor Betsi Grabe, says • had their dissertation selected for a monograph series the ages of 2 and 17 are likely to colleagues from other universities • received a dissertation-year fellowship see as many as 7,600 food ads often joke with her that “IU is • received Top Student Paper and Top Three Student annually. Most of those ads are for taking over ICA!” The research Paper awards foods that nutritionists, watchdog from the department is also well • co-authored an (open division) Top Paper award groups, and government agen- represented and has won awards cies argue should be eaten either at other national and international in moderation, occasionally, or in media conferences, such as the Association media workers who think critically as they small portions. Together, these projects were for Education in Journalism and Mass Com- create media content and manage media supported by more than $300,000 from the munication, the National Communication companies. I don’t know of too many other Kaiser Family Foundation. Association, the Society for Psychophysi- universities where both practical skills and ological Research, the Broadcast Education scholarship are emphasized in MS pro- Recruitment Association, and the TPRC Research Con- grams.” For example, MS graduate student “You can never stop working on recruit- ference on Communication, Information, Chase Martin, a Hoosier who is preparing ment of students,” Grabe said. “We want and Internet Policy. for a career in the game industry, presented the very best students from across the a paper in Paris at the International Associa- country and around the globe to study with Graduate curriculum tion for Media and Communication Re- us. One focus for this year will be to recruit search conference this summer. In a rapidly Students work closely with their faculty more Hoosiers. We have had outstand- changing and hypercompetitive media envi- advisers to design individualized programs ing graduate and undergraduate students ronment, IU telecommunications graduates fitting their goals and objectives. Programs from Indiana, and I want more Hoosiers to stand out as thinkers and doers. are designed from the large variety of choose IU for graduate school. We’ll also courses offered by the Department of Tele- continue to recruit international students. communications and related areas, such as Our faculty All of us — undergraduates, graduates, and business, fine arts, journalism, law, library “The faculty, as a pool of educators, is faculty — benefit from the diversity that and information sciences, education/in- diverse and entrepreneurial,” Grabe said. international students bring to our class- structional support technology, psychology, “We have research heavyweights and rooms and social lives. When international sociology, and political science. As Grabe also hire faculty straight from the media students return to their homes, they plant describes, “Students can customize their world. In fact, several instructors are still IU’s flag abroad. If they stay — they make studies and are encouraged to go out- doing freelance work for media outlets valuable contributions to the U.S. media side the department for training in other — and they bring that expertise into the industry and the academe.” interest areas. But for each of our degrees, classroom.” Recent hires include Barbara Alumni and friends can help by refer- there are several core conceptual and skills Cherry, an FCC lawyer; Lee Sheldon, a ring potential students — both graduate courses. These core courses are the ‘glue’ writer/producer and game designer; and and undergraduate — to our department. of our program; they are the ‘telecom Andrew Bucksbarg, a media artist. The recommendation of someone who has stamp’ that our students share.” Our research faculty dedicate themselves studied at IU and lived in Bloomington can to the pursuit of new knowledge, and their be powerful. Job placement work advances our understanding of many dimensions of living in a media age. Some- The department’s graduate program is The future times scholarly research is seen as esoteric known for the excellent job placement of its The media environment is undergoing and unimportant to the world outside the graduates. Former doctoral students now enormous and high-speed change during academe. Our faculty does both heavy- hold tenure-track faculty positions at major a period when upper-management Baby duty theory-building and socially relevant universities across the country and oversees. Boomers are retiring. The same scenario research. Master’s degree graduates who choose to is true in academe where large numbers To give a few examples, Professor David continue their education are accepted into of professors are reaching retirement age. Waterman’s book, Hollywood’s Road to some of the most selective doctoral pro- The Department of Telecommunications Riches, shows how, beginning in the 1950s, grams, including Stanford and University of is training the next generation of profes- a largely predictable business has been Pennsylvania. Other students quickly find sionals for both the media industry and transformed into a volatile and complex employment in the media industry or with academia. We expect our graduates to be multimedia enterprise now commanding government agencies. leaders on both fronts not only nationally more than 80 percent of the world’s film The department makes a direct impact on but also internationally. business. Andrew Weaver, a new assistant the industry through its MS degree gradu- — Betsi Grabe and Legene White ICR nurtures interrelationship of research, media industry he Institute for Communication role of media in mental health stigma. More pared to when neutral synonyms are used. Research assists the department than 2,000 programs were analyzed. They Her work helps add support for the old ad- Tin teaching graduate students by found that more than 20 percent of the age that “no word should be wasted” when providing not only a vibrant intellectual shows included some reference to mental ill- writing advertising copy. Lee is currently a working environment but also the facili- ness. Many of those references were, in fact, doctoral candidate in telecommunications. ties, equipment, and supplies students need slang or derogatory terms associated with • Andrew Weaver and Robert F. Potter to develop the skills to conduct original mental illness. For example, more than 65 (assistant professors) are currently collecting empirical social scientific research. percent of the programs on MTV contained data exploring the attraction of graphic vio- The department’s graduate curriculum a slang reference to the mentally ill. Cur- lence in television drama. Past studies using states that MA and PhD students create rently, Lang is also conducting experiments self-report data do not support the hypoth- research that advances theory in telecommu- to determine the effects of different types of esis that violence increases enjoyment. Still, nications. Such an “ivory-tower” objective portrayals of mental illness on the viewing the belief among media producers is that may sound removed from the important public. more violence will attract larger audiences. challenges faced by practitioners in the rap- • Julia Fox (associate professor) has been Weaver and Potter are conducting a study idly changing field of telecommunications. working with a team of graduate students adding psychophysiological measures of But, you may be surprised at just how many exploring the phenomenon of The Daily arousal and emotional response to the self- of the theory-driven studies are directly Show with Jon Stewart. Her first study used report questionnaires to determine whether applicable to industry. Here’s a brief list of content analysis to show that there was no this industry belief is tenable. Watch for graduate student and faculty work conduct- difference in the amount of substantive details of their results on the IU Depart- ed in the ICR over the past year or so: political coverage on The Daily Show and ment of Telecommunications homepage • Yongkuk Chung (PhD 2005) designed the major broadcast nightly newscasts. Her and in future editions of Telecomment. a dissertation that tested the impact of second study, an experiment, showed that • James Angelini (PhD 2007) explored different design elements on the cognitive the positive tone of The Daily Show places the interaction of athlete’s sex and viewer’s processing of banner Web advertisements. college-age participants in an “approach sex on watching televised sports. In his His results showed that Web designers mode,” while the nightly news broadcast dissertation, participants watched televised should use pictures in their ads, as op- version of the same topics resulted in avoid- sporting events while being allowed to use a posed to just text, as the presence of images ance responses. As a result, memory for remote-control device to select their viewing always increased automatic attention to the news information was better when provided preferences between male and female, team ad. When it comes to animation in the ad, by The Daily Show. This knowledge should and individual sports. Participants chose to however, this was only beneficial when the certainly be considered by television news spend more time watching sports featuring picture of the product was in motion, not producers and directors trying to com- male athletes, particularly masculine and when it was the name of the advertiser that bat drastically reduced viewership among team sports. However, sports featuring fe- was animated. Chung is a faculty member younger demographics. male athletes elicited greater cognitive effort at Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea. • Sungkyoung Lee (MA 2006) is interest- and resulted in greater recognition memory • Annie Lang (professor and associate dean ed in how people process audio messages. than sports with male athletes. Angelini is on for research) and a team of faculty and gradu- Using physiological measures, Lee showed the faculty at University of Delaware. ate students from the telecommunications that when radio copywriters use positive • Betsi Grabe and Erik Bucy (associate and sociology departments were funded by words in their advertisements, the result in professors) are wrapping up a content analysis the National Institute of Mental Health to listeners is a brief increase in attention and that scrutinized network news coverage of conduct a series of studies investigating the positive affect in response to the ad com- presidential candidates across four consecu- tive (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004) election campaigns. Results show that candidate sound bites are shrinking from around 40 seconds in the 1960s to less than 10 seconds by the late 1980s, and 7.73 seconds in 2004. That’s not much time for citizens to become informed about presidential candidates. Also, most studies of journalistic bias in television news focus on the volume of coverage or the verbal component of news, neglecting the visual aspect. And indeed, results related to volume of coverage show that Republicans and Democrats received more or less equal coverage. Yet, when the visual aspects of coverage are considered (visual prominence and packaging features such as editing and camera techniques), Democrats received the least favorable visual coverage across all four elections. This finding stands in stark contrast to the liberal

Jim Krause media bias accusation that is so often leveled A research subject is hooked up in a psychophysiology lab. Sensors are used to index cognitive against mainstream journalism. and emotional response to media by measuring heart rate, skin conductance, and facial EMG. —Rob Potter Perspectives: IU as a Research I institution Along with her roles as professor, highly re- arts, that knowledge may consist of a new not enough money is spent on teaching. spected and funded researcher, and mentor to play, a new technique in digital lighting de- Certainly, any great university must balance graduate students, Lang is in her third year sign, a new interpretation of a classic play, its research and teaching missions. But, that as associate dean for research in the College a sculpture, an interactive digital event, balance is not the balance of two unrelated of Arts and Sciences. It is from this overarch- or a new type of kiln for firing pottery. In but weighty burdens; rather, it is the task of ing vantage point that she discusses university the foreign languages, it might be a new balancing two weights that are completely research as it complements teaching. translation of a classic work or a linguistic connected to one another by a myriad of analysis of how language influences culture. flexible cords. Imagine a dumbbell, but in- ave you ever wondered what it In the sciences, it might be identifying stead of a stiff metal rod connecting the two means to be a major research uni- the functional relationships between fruit weights, there were a thousand metal fila- Hversity? It’s a curious thing that by ments of different lengths and strength con- and large, the 30,000 undergraduates who necting the two weights. The task becomes flock to the Bloomington campus, including not one of balancing: research up, teaching the 800 or so who major in telecommuni- Every day, faculty bring down; teaching up, research down. Instead, cations, do not come because of the word the task is strengthening the filaments and “research.” Indeed, the word, to the extent new knowledge, new re- supporting both ends. they consider it at all, likely brings to mind What are the connections between re- memories of all-nighters in the library or an search, and new ideas that search and teaching? Perhaps the strongest exhausting morning searching the Web for arise from their research link between the two is graduate education, information on some obscure topic in order as most doctoral students are in training to turn in one’s term paper on time. But for into the classroom. to become faculty. They are learning how the 1,900 faculty who work at IUB, research to produce new knowledge, and they are nnie ang or creative activity is likely the fundamen- — A L learning how to pass that knowledge on to tal reason why they are here. It’s a curious the next generation. They are students of thing how poorly understood is the role of what is not yet known, and they are teach- research in a major research university. fly genes and behavior, inventing a new ers of students. Have you ever wondered what univer- material, modeling climate, searching for But, this is by no means the only link. sities do? Probably, your answer is that new articles, or understanding how brain (continued on page 5) universities educate the populace. And architecture and function influence sub- indeed, if you read the newspaper, watch stance abuse. In the humanities, it may be television, listen to your legislators, or talk a historical analysis of human society, a new to average Americans, you would get the film, a new poem or novel. Telecomment impression that that is the primary goal of Like our colleagues around the uni- the university. But let’s take a look at the versity, the faculty of the Department of This newsletter is published by the In- larger picture. The primary goal of a major Telecommunications engage in a wide diana University Alumni Association, university is to produce, store, and pass on variety of research and creative activities to in cooperation with the Department of knowledge. Knowledge, not graduates, is produce new knowledge about how people Telecommunications and the College of the fundamental commodity of universities. use the media to communicate, new ways Arts and Sciences Alumni Association, The storage of knowledge results in great of communicating, and new communica- to encourage alumni interest in and support for Indiana University. For activities libraries, great reference works, great mu- tions. Indeed, our department is almost a and membership information, call (800) seums, and great archives. The passing on microcosm of the wide variety of research 824-3044 or send e-mail to iualumni@ of knowledge results in students, graduate and creative activity that occurs across the indiana.edu. students, and graduates. The production of university. Some of our faculty are critics knowledge is research. and interpreters of the modern media envi- Department of Telecommunications America’s system of major research uni- ronment, others study how various aspects Chair...... Walter Gantz versities is the greatest producer of knowl- of mediated messages influence psychologi- ([email protected]) edge that has ever existed in the world. cal, emotional, and physiological responses Editor...... Legene White Those who attempt to quantify such things in media users, yet others produce new ([email protected]) suggest that knowledge is being produced media forms and content, while some ana- College of Arts & Sciences at a rate never before seen in history, and lyze the impact of governmental laws and Dean...... Bennett Bertenthal much of that production happens in our policy on the media industry. The result of Executive Director of Development universities. Every faculty member at a ma- all this research activity is to improve our & Alumni Programs...... David Ellies jor research university is driven by the de- understanding of how media and media IU Alumni Association sire to understand something as it has never industries affect individual media users, President/CEO...... Tom Martz been understood before. Their research society, and the world. Senior Director/CCO... Cynthia Schultz and creative activities vary fantastically It is not uncommon for people to think Director of Alumni depending on discipline and training, but that the university’s research and teaching Programs...... Nicki Bland their overarching goal is the same. They mission are in conflict. They may feel that Class Notes...... Raymond Fleischmann are motivated by the desire to produce new too much time is spent on research and not knowledge and new creations. enough time on teaching. They may feel Faculty in the College of Arts and Sci- that faculty involvement in research distracts ences at IU produce a fantastic variety of them from teaching. They may feel that new knowledge. In the fine and performing too much money is spent on research and research and creative activity occurring in the mathematics of oncology, neutrino Perspectives the College. I have been privileged to talk detectors, Sylvia Plath, telescopes, virtual (continued from page 4) to hundreds of faculty about their research worlds, and X-ray crystallography, to name Every day, faculty bring new knowledge, and to try to help them find the support a few. I hope you find this issue ofTelecom - new research, and new ideas that arise from they need to succeed at their particular ment to be an equally interesting journey their research into the classroom. Faculty endeavor. It has been a pleasure for me to through the range of research and creative at a research university are not teaching old learn about everything from Anna Karenina activity going on in the Department of ideas buried in a textbook written by some- to zebra fish, with stops along the way at Telecommunications here at IU. one else. Instead, they are teaching living, Creole languages, mars rocks, mud flumes, — Annie Lang changing, evolving knowledge that they have helped to create. They are experts teaching knowledge so new it has yet to be archived in a textbook. Faculty and gradu- At a glance ate students bring the excitement of discovery and the understanding that knowledge 2006 faculty research, creative activities is ever changing and ever growing into the Department of Telecommunications faculty are committed to the classroom. The university provides a wealth broad mission of the department, the College of Arts and Sciences, of opportunities for students who want to and Indiana University, teaching both undergraduate and graduate participate in knowledge building. IU courses along with involvement in research and creative activity. In 2006, depart- Faculty research provides the opportu- mental faculty members nity for students of all levels to take part in • published nearly 100 journal articles, book chapters, books, video games, video the university’s central undertaking — pro- projects, and online and off-line installations; duction of new knowledge and creative ac- • presented about six dozen papers and invited talks; tivity. Funding for research and creative ac- • were working on, as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI, just about $1 million in tivity provides much of the capital to build grants received prior to 2006; the laboratories, to buy the equipment, and • received, as PI or co-PI, more than $750,000 in grants; to provide the venues that allow all of our • applied for, as PI or co-PI, nearly $800,000 in grants; students to take part in this endeavor. The • received three top-paper awards, two nominations for Emmy awards, a national new knowledge produced enriches not only Telly award, a nomination for a Lazarsfeld award, and a residency at Steim (in the lives of the students involved but also Amsterdam); and our culture, our science, and the everyday • was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association. lives of people around the world. In my role as associate dean for research, I have been awed by the range and depth of

fascinated by psychological and cognitive science program. I also had the opportu- Student’s story approaches. It seems that my questions nity to learn cognitive modeling from the (continued from page 1) about media effects always finally reduced Decision Lab in Psychology and large-scale When I was applying to master’s degree to: What are the processes in the media news-content analysis with Walter Gantz. programs in the U.S., I was attracted to the processors’ minds that result in these vari- This is a great advantage of our depart- [telecommunications] department for its ous effects? The media effects are numer- ment. It is so open-minded. It stimulates diverse and high-quality programs. Also, ous and changeable, but the underlying your curiosity and motivation; then it the research being conducted by telecom- psychological processes are fundamental provides you all kinds of opportunities to munications faculty caught explore your true interest and potential. my attention. I viewed it as The events that shape one’s destiny can a good opportunity to find be as great as important choices — such as out which direction could ”Not only did I find satisfying answers where to spend years of your golden time to lead me to answers to my to my old questions, but many new pursue your highest degree — or as small as questions. a 50-minute class or a chat with a professor After two years, how- questions had popped up.“ or a classmate in the hallway. I have to be ever, not only did I find frank and tell you that I encountered many satisfying answers to my — Zheng Wang, PhD’07 of the turning points in my career in the old questions, but many Department of Telecommunications. new questions had popped Now, preparing for my new role start- up, grown, and sometimes shouted in my and generalizable. I wanted to understand ing this fall as an assistant professor in the head (or literally shouted during debates in those fundamentals. So, I decided to spend School of Communication at the Ohio State or after classes). My first required course, another several years at IU to get my PhD University, I hope I can provide my students Philosophy of Inquiry, taught by Annie training in these approaches. I joined the with a fraction of what I received in [the IU Lang in 2001, inspired me to ask questions psychophysiological research lab in the In- Department of Telecommunications]. I wish as a scientist and to think as a scientist. This stitute of Communication Research, where to inspire my students as I was inspired here, course also left me with an ultimate ques- research projects are always actively con- help them to find their real enthusiasm as I tion: How can we approach the truth [of ducted. I chose a double major program for did here, and share with them the ways of media] we want to know? my doctoral studies, combining training in learning as I learned here. After exploring many approaches, I was both telecommunications and the cognitive — Zheng Wang, PhD’07 MultiVisions sponsors … We couldn’t do it without you he Department of Telecommunications is pleased to recognize the companies and Tindividuals who provided substantial financial support for conference expenses. • Creative Street Media Group — sponsor of the Media Showcase • Optimus — underwriter of the MultiVisions dinner • TIS/Tichenor Publishing — all printing provided for the 10th year • Paul Caine, BA’86, publisher, The People Group — underwriter of the Networking Luncheon • Interep — supporter of “Advertising, Marketing, and Creative Strategy” panel • Insight Communications — supporter of “New Media: Interactive Design” panel • Tony Williams, BA’87, of Williams Production Services • Dennis, BA’70, and Linda Spalazzi, BA’69, of Bright Light Communications • David Hillenbrand, BA’89, of Hill & Brand Entertainment • Fox59, WXRT, Indianapolis Colts, WYFF • David, BA’72, and Marilyn Shank, BA’73, of Shank Public Relations Panels provide • WTIU/WFIU, IU Student Television, Smithville Digital, IU Alumni Association • Tara Carroll-McKee, BA’79, Michael Hayes, BA’88, Andrew Lennie, BA’99, industry contact Connie Terwilliger, BA’77, Charles Van Winkle, BA’04 he Department of Telecommunications Contact Legene White at [email protected] to Theartily thanks the panelists of the underwrite MultiVisions 2008 and put your name on this list! 2007 MultiVisions Communications Con- ference, held March 30. Find a complete listing at www.indiana.edu/~telecom /multivisions2007. Jim Keelor, BA’64, delivers in keynote • The Executive Board: You’re Hired! You’re Fired! (moderator: David Shank, im Keelor, BA’64, was the keynote workers. It may be old fashioned, but “say speaker for MultiVisions 2007. As the Tel’72, Shank Public Relations): Michael J what you mean and mean what you say” is recently retired president/COO of Liberty Hayes, Tel’88, WYFF-TV; Jeffrey R. still important today. Never take an ethical Broadcasting, Keelor has more than 40 Smith, Tel’76, Carlson Companies; Bruce shortcut. It will always come back to hurt years’ experience in Feniger, Tel’83, Interep; Jim Keelor, you. Tel’64, Liberty Corp. the media indus- • Develop your people skills: Your • New Media: Interactive Design for a try. He reminded T-shirt might say, “Technology rules,” but Digital Era (moderator: Thom Gillespie, pro- the audience that people problems will rule your supervisory despite the dizzy fessor): Travis Isaacs, Tel’02, Sabre Hold- or management career. No technology can pace of techno- ings; Brian Bird, Tel/Span’04, freelance replace the value of testing a handshake, interactive producer/new media developer; logical change, there reading body language, and judging the are some personal Christina Anderson, Tel MS’05, National truth in a person’s eyes. Show respect … characteristics that Cable & Telecommunications Association; earn respect. will always be es- Kortni Lee, Tel’99, IGN Entertainment; • Have a sense of humor: Life is tough Jim Keelor sential to success as Amanda Grasham, Tel’00, Starcom IP. enough without going around like a grump • Telecom Rookies: Fresh Faces (modera- a leader. or a whiner. Be proactive and a positive, • Have a good attitude. tor: Susan Kelly, professor): Matt Bockel- Be flexible: cheery person. Light comments can defuse No job is perfect, and multitasking will be man, Tel’03, freelance videographer/ tough situations. expected. Company silos are out. If you are editor; Jen Paynter, Tel’04, High Noon • Have a social conscience: Give back asked to take on more tasks, do it. Other- Entertainment; Cristina Misko, Tel’05, to the community in which you have wise, your job will become somebody else’s JWT; Jen Anderson, Tel & LAMP’03, thrived. Treat your employees with respect. in short order. Google; Victor Chelaru, Tel MS’07, Elec- They will give it back to you multifold tronic Arts. • Be organized: This includes physical, when you need it. • Building Your Brand: Advertising, personal, and professional dimensions. There • Finally … if you are so inclined, be a Marketing, and Creative Strategy (modera- will be too much information to process, leader! We just don’t have enough leaders too much expected of you, and too many tor: Rob Potter, professor): David Jones, in our companies or communities. A leader demands on your time to just go through FINA’91, FCB Worldwide; Sean Smith, is a person who is flexible, organized, and life disorganized. A disorganized person is Tel’95, WXRT-FM; Enrique Mena, Ethnic has integrity, good people skills, a sense of likely to become career “road kill.” Marketing Group; Tom Bortz, Tel’71, humor, and a social conscience. IU, your WGN Radio. • Have integrity: Achieve the trust and family, faith, and life experiences will pre- • Production: We Make It, You Watch It respect of your employer and your co- pare you to lead and succeed. (moderator: Ron Osgood, professor): Monica Freriks, Tel/FINA’02, Wee Beastie; Lisa Levey, Tel’02, Red Line Films; Jeff Lyons, Mark your calendars for MultiVisions 2008: Tel’86, WFIE-TV; Ward Roberts, IMP Film Prod/Drama’00, writer/director/ac- Friday, April 4 tor; Annie Roberts, Thtr’99, E! Networks. Faculty News

Telecomment goes in-depth with new faculty members Barbara Cherry The resounding theme of Professor Barbara Cherry’s ensemble of professional and academic experience is “interdisciplinary.” She has extensive experience in telecommunications industry policy issues both as a scholar and an industry participant. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Milt Hamburger Milt Hamburger Milt Hamburger Nicole Martins Cherry became interested in both econom- Barbara Cherry Betsi Grabe Lee Sheldon Andrew Weaver ics and law. She pursued advanced degrees in both disciplines at Harvard, earning an MA in economics and law as well as a JD. world.” In her first year at IUB, she has an exchange program with Baylor Universi- Armed with her degrees, Cherry spent been busy designing courses and reintegrat- ty in Waco, Texas. One night in my tiny at- three years as an attorney practicing civil ing her work in the trenches with teaching. tic apartment in Waco, I watched Nightline litigation with a Chicago firm. This was During the 2006–07 academic year, she on television and saw the First Amendment followed by 10 years of working at a variety taught courses in telecommunications regu- at work. As you can imagine, seeing for the of regulatory positions with AT&T, where lation, comparative telecommunications first time how journalists asked tough ques- she was involved in developing and rewrit- policy, and an honors undergraduate semi- tions and fulfilled their watch-dog role over ing telecommunications regulatory laws for nar in industry and management. “It was government was a powerful experience — it nine states. From 1993 to 1998, Cherry especially fun for me to have three JD/MA was something that could not be done in served as director of public policy studies dual-degree students, given the interdisci- South Africa at the time. I knew then that I for Ameritech with responsibility for public plinary nature of my background.” couldn’t work as a journalist in South Afri- policy initiatives, applying analytical rigor The Chicago area still remains a vital ca again.” Within five months, Grabe wrote to policy development. Her interdisciplin- component of Cherry’s life. As with her po- her thesis and accepted an assistantship at ary background came in handy in helping sitions at Michigan State University and the Baylor to study international journalism. lawyers understand economics and econo- FCC, Cherry’s husband, Hayden Daniel, She then completed a PhD in mass media mists understand the law. It was during this remains in the Chicago area running his and communication at Temple University. period, having rediscovered her academic advertising and marketing firm. “Although I will always be African, the bent and passion for studying, that Cherry Oh, and then there’s her horse, Livings- U.S. is my home. It is where I want to live began working toward a PhD in communi- ton, who has also relocated to Blooming- and work. I became a citizen two years ago, cation studies at Northwestern University. ton. Livingston, a 13-year-old Hanoverian, and I can’t wait to vote for the first time in She had become a specialist in the telecom- and Cherry have been companions for the 2008 presidential election,” she said. munications industry with a knowledge four years. They are training in dressage, Grabe came to IU in 1995 as an as- base that was built with each new project and Cherry hopes to one day compete at sistant professor in the School of Journal- and girded by academic study. the national level. “Dressage requires an ism, where she taught for 10 years. As her Subsequently, Cherry worked in both ac- integration of both mind and body. With research and teaching interests evolved, she ademia and government. She taught under- my horse, I have to be ‘in the now.’ For me collaborated with faculty in the Depart- graduate, graduate, and executive master’s it offsets job and all other concerns.” ment of Telecommunications and discov- program courses on telecommunications ered that it was a better fit. The department policy, management, and law at Northwest- Maria ‘Betsi’ Grabe welcomed Grabe in fall 2006. “I always had ern and Michigan State universities. From M.E. Grabe, known to most as Betsi, began great respect for the telecom department. I 2002 to 2006, Cherry was senior counsel at her professional career in her native country taught the News Forum class and appreci- the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy of South Africa. She worked as a documen- ated the contributions of the students from Analysis, the internal “think-tank” of the tary news producer at the South African telecommunications. I’m glad to be in Federal Communications Commission in Broadcasting Corp. from 1985 to 1990, telecommunications while maintaining ties Washington, D.C. Once again putting her during the Apartheid-era, when a state of with my colleagues in journalism.” many skills and experiences to work, she emergency imposed severe restrictions on As a researcher, Grabe is interested in supported and conducted multidisciplinary the press. She had completed her BA in learning how broadcast news can be made policy research. communication and English from the Uni- more memorable for audiences with dif- Having concluded that the academic versity of Johannesburg and was studying ferent education levels. There are ways to lifestyle suits her best, Cherry moved to IU part time for an MA in communication. package news that make it easier to under- Bloomington in fall 2006 as professor of As Grabe tells the story, “Cultural sanc- stand and remember. Adding too many telecommunications and adjunct profes- tions against South Africa had kicked in to production bells and whistles to compelling sor of law. She thrives on the juxtaposition the point where I couldn’t get access to the news creates an overload. At the same time, of study and work. She’s excited to move articles I needed for my thesis. Although adding a few bells and whistles to relatively research to the forefront, “rubbing theories the U.S. had absolutely no appeal to me, I boring news will help people remember it. and analytical rigor up against the real needed a good library, and so I applied for (continued on page 8) New faculty (continued from page 7) High definition comes to IU Bloomington To use one example, it’s been found that e’re proud to announce that the IU Department of Telecommunications women are turned off by strong negative Wnow has a fully operational high-definition studio, making our department emphasis in news stories. They tend to one of the first academic departments in the country to be entirely HD compatible! withdraw attention and don’t learn news Students are being trained for wide screen (16:9) production and its particular chal- information from such stories. But when lenges for set design, graphics, and composition. Proceeds from the Dick Yoakam more positive or constructive aspects of bad Technology Endowment — established by alumni and friends in the past eight years news events are incorporated in reporting, — helped pay for the conversion, which included HD cameras, switcher, and other women do say focused. This does not mean studio equipment. that we need happy news. But we all know that in many accidents and disasters, ordi- nary folks emerge as heroes in helping each dreds of scripts — 200 that bear his name MIME game design program at Indiana other and overcoming enormous hardship. and hundreds more that were rewrites. His University’s Department of Telecommu- If reporters include such information in television credits as a scriptwriter include nications and had conversations with its reporting negative news, women will watch Charlie’s Angels, Quincy, Cagney & Lacey, director, Professor Thom Gillespie, and — and become informed. and Edge of Night and as writer/producer with Professor Ted Castronova. When the Grabe has won seven top-paper awards on the fourth season of Star Trek: The department needed to hire a game writ- from the International Communication As- Next Generation. He is also the author of ing/design and scriptwriting teacher for sociation and the Association for Journal- the mystery novel Impossible Bliss and a its flourishing graduate and undergraduate ism and Mass Communication. She’s also nonfiction book,Character Development programs, Sheldon was a perfect fit. been recognized for excellent teaching and Storytelling for Games. Sheldon spent Now, a year after his arrival at IU, and has won numerous teaching awards. this past summer in Key West researching a Sheldon has become a valued teacher and Starting this fall, Grabe has taken on an second mystery set in the Keys. faculty collaborator while keeping many administrative role as the director of gradu- So, how did a successful television writer, creative irons in the fire. He continues to ate studies for the Department of Telecom- living (what some would describe as) the design commercial video games — his third munications. glamorous Hollywood life, move into the Agatha Christie game, Evil Under the Sun, When not immersed in academic pur- world of game design and to (what some is due out this fall — and he’s designing his suits, Grabe loves gardening. “I’m trying would describe as) the humdrum Mid- own narrative-driven virtual world called to grow lavender in Indiana clay soil. The west? The transformation didn’t happen Londontown. Sheldon is on the team of an gardeners among the alums will be smiling overnight. Somewhere in the early ’80s, ambitious and innovative project of IU’s — lavender likes sandy soil and cool sum- Sheldon realized he wasn’t watching TV for Center on Congress to design a multiplayer mers.” And she does renovation work on fun anymore but instead was playing video online role-play game to help young people old houses. “Tough physical labor is good games. The challenge of writing TV scripts learn about representative democracy and for me and gives balance to all the academic was fading, as was his tolerance for living their role as citizens. He’s also involved head work.” And when both her brain and in Los Angeles. As he played more games, in Quest Atlantis, a learning and teaching her body are fatigued, she watches movies. he became critical of their weak story base project of IU’s School of Education that “I’m addicted to movies — all kinds.” and underdeveloped characters. He wrote uses a 3-D multi-user environment to im- Grabe appreciates the department’s some game reviews arguing that the best merse children in educational tasks. efforts to keep its alumni engaged and game stories weren’t as good as the worst While his work involves interactive hopes that her research can be helpful to TV stories. This led to heated debates worlds, Sheldon is seeking a “spiritual broadcast practitioners. “Alums can be on gamers’ forums and eventually to job home,” a place to set roots. He’s moved very helpful to me. I often need access to offers from game-design firms. In 1994, often for work and obligations, but, at least professionally produced material, especially Sheldon accepted an offer with Sanctuary for now, Sheldon has settled in Blooming- newscasts, for my research studies. I hope Woods, at their Victoria, British Columbia, ton with his two children. Son Graham has Telecom’s alumni relations initiatives can studio. Keeping one foot in Hollywood completed his sophomore year at IU as be mutually beneficial by opening doors to as he tested the computer gaming waters, a theater and telecommunications major, share information and materials, recom- Sheldon stopped writing for TV in 1995 to immersing himself in academic and campus mending students, and training the next concentrate on games. activities and already performing in several wave of professionals.” Sheldon’s remarkable list of credits as productions. Daughter Emma starts this well as his involvement in gaming evolu- fall at Wells College in upstate New York. Lee Sheldon tion can be found on his Web site, www. Sheldon will continue to create — and play “Writing. It’s what I do.” anti-linearlogic.com, and by a simple — games, and we hope his spirit will root It’s quite common for a college profes- Google search. But his relocation to Indi- in Bloomington. sor’s bookshelves to be chock-full. In Lee ana University is serendipitous. After 20 Sheldon’s office, they are filled with his years in Hollywood, followed by 10 years Andrew Weaver own work, the products of his 30-plus years of designing games and several relocations, Take an earnest interest in media; hands- as a writer. Sheldon is a game designer, Sheldon was interested in finding a place on experience producing radio, televi- book author, and television producer and to settle down with his family. He wanted sion, and newspaper; numerous teaching scriptwriter. And since fall 2006, he has to apply his experience in the entertain- and research awards; the underpinning of added the title of assistant professor of ment industry toward improving education academic credentials; a love of sports; and a telecommunications. in game design and writing. Through his Hoosier upbringing, and you have perhaps For 20 years, Sheldon was a television involvement in MMO’s (Massively Multi- the ideal new professor of telecommunica- writer in Hollywood, where he wrote hun- player Online games), he learned about the (continued on page 9) Faculty FLASH! wo faculty members were promoted communication processes and interacted sionals obsolete, as creative production gets this spring. Harmeet Sawhney, with faculty and graduate students in the increasingly outsourced to consumers. Twho joined the IU faculty in 1991, school’s Human-Media Interaction Lab. Ted Castronova, associate professor, has was promoted to full professor. Sawhney Lee Sheldon, assistant professor, deliv- been awarded a 15-month, $240,000 grant teaches classes in telecommunications law ered a keynote address, “Magic, Madness, from the MacArthur Foundation. With and policy. He is editor for The Information and the Muse,” at the Austin Game De- support of the grant, Castronova is build- Society, a journal about the social, organi- veloper’s Conference in September. He’ll ing a prototype synthetic world, “Arden: zational, and public-policy issues related to also be speaking on writing and designing The World of William Shakespeare,” and information technology. Sawhney’s research video games at the SAND (Swansea Anima- will conduct experiments involving the interests include telecommunications infra- tion Days) Conference in Swansea, Wales, quantity theory of money. To build the structure planning and policy. in November. Sheldon’s new videogame, world, Castronova has set up a software Julie Fox was awarded tenure and Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun, will development company using student volun- promotion to associate professor. An IU be released in October. teers in the roles of producers, designers, faculty member since 2000, Fox received David Waterman, professor, has been programmers, artists, etc. Arden will con- considerable notoriety in the past year for appointed managing editor of the journal tinue to evolve as wave after wave of fresh her study comparing the amount of sub- Information Economics and Policy. student volunteers become engaged in its stantive news coverage on The Daily Show Media Work, a new book by Assistant development over time. with Jon Stewart as compared to broadcast Professor Mark Deuze, focuses on the Visual Storytelling: Field Production and television network newscasts. working lives of professionals in the global Post-Production in the Digital Age (forth- Betsi Grabe, associate professor and di- media industries (film, television, video- coming), co-authored by IU telecommuni- rector of graduate studies, received the Top games, advertising, and journalism). It cations Professor Ron Osgood and James Faculty Paper Award in the Visual Studies shows that careers in the media industry Madison University Assistant Professor Joe Division at the International Communica- are not inclusive, or a “free for all,” as Hinshaw, MA’96, PhD’02, will be pub- tions Association annual conference in San often suggested in the popular press. It is a lished by Wadsworth Thomson and available Francisco in May. cut-throat and precarious business in which for spring 2008 semester. The book includes Rob Potter, assistant professor and the “feminine” qualities you need to get in a companion DVD with interactive examples director of the department’s Institute for — excellent communication and social skills and source material for student editing. Communication Research, was a guest of and talent for teamwork — are the same that Ron Osgood’s short documentary “And the School of Digital Content at Kyungsung will keep you from moving to the (male- When I Dim the Lights” won a silver award University in Busan, South Korea. During dominated) top. Furthermore, such digital in the short film category of the Media his July visit, Potter gave a talk on psycho- media as YouTube and Wikipedia threaten Communications Association International physiological methods as tools for studying to make the work and role of media profes- Media Festival.

New faculty Weaver sought a way to combine his tively influencing enjoyment or exposure? practical media skills and his social-scien- Weaver and collaborating professor Rob (continued from page 8) tific psychology background, so he began Potter are currently collecting data con- tions at Indiana University Bloomington. a master’s degree at Illinois. He had every cerning the attraction of graphic violence This is Andrew Weaver’s first faculty intention of returning to the media indus- in TV drama. The entertainment industry appointment; he completed his PhD at the try, but he discovered that he really enjoyed claims that viewers want violence and that University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign academic research and teaching, and so he more violence will attract larger audi- in 2006. His road to IUB may have begun continued on for his PhD. His efforts were ences. Weaver and Potter’s study is adding years earlier while growing up in Pittsboro, rewarded with more than a dozen awards psychophysiological measures to determine Ind., and certainly as an undergraduate for outstanding teaching. At IUB, Weaver whether this industry belief is tenable. at DePauw University in Greencastle. Al- teaches courses in children and media and Weaver emphasizes that he’s interested in though he studied psychology at DePauw, race and media, and he teaches 400-level research that could lead the way to solving Weaver was immersed in media, producing seminars in media violence and the psychol- media problems, particularly when those programs for DPU-TV, writing for The De- ogy of media entertainment. solutions don’t involve imposing censorship Pauw newspaper, and holding positions as Weaver’s demeanor is thoughtful, gentle, or economic sanctions. station manager, public-affairs coordinator, and calm. It comes as a bit of a surprise that Joining the faculty of the IU Depart- and reporter at WGRE radio. He also was his research focuses on the psychology of ment of Telecommunications was an easy the station manager/assistant director for media consumption and effects, particularly choice for Weaver due to its national repu- the Putnam County Youth Radio project at with regard to media violence. His Web site tation in the field and its curriculum that WGRE, which provided hands-on instruc- lists some of the questions that intrigue him: combines media production with media tion and motivation for at-risk middle Who watches graphically violent movies or studies and research. Reflecting on his first school students in the Greencastle area. plays extremely violent video games, and year in the department, Weaver has been After graduating, Weaver was a correspon- why? Is the violence found in television pro- impressed by the students. “They come dent for the Indy Sports Network and a grams and feature-length films enjoyable for from a wide variety of backgrounds, a geo- newspaper reporter with McCarthy Media the average viewer? Does violence increase graphical and rural-urban mix that contrib- Group in Plainfield, Ind. audience size? Could the violence in televi- utes to dynamic classroom discussion.” With this experience under his belt, sion programs be removed without nega- — Legene White

Student News

➤ Phi Beta Kappa Below — The first JoAnne Morris Murphy Award was presented at MultiVisions on March 30. Murphy, BA’58, was on hand to congratulate the recipient, Jeanne Power, BA’07. Designated for a female telecommunications major, the $1,000 award provides funding for living expenses for a student completing an intern- ship in New York City. Power was a summer intern with the prestigious IRTS fellowship program. ➤ Murphy scholarship

Above — Several telecommunications majors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honorary in April. Shown at the initiation dinner are, from left, Paula Klaman, BA’07; Professor Barbara Cherry; Courtney Willibrand; and Bennett Bertenthal, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Herb Terry, also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, took the picture.

➤ Alumni mentoring Amanda Ricks Amanda

Below — Paul Caine, BA’86, group publisher of the PEOPLE Group, taught the latest in a series of industry-related, one-credit, weekend courses in March 2007. About 20 undergraduates were challenged to become publishing executives for the course, titled The Business of Maga- zines.

Above — Bruce Feniger, BA’83, enjoys his role as a mentor to telecommunications students. course

Jeanne Power, BA’07, left, was a summer IRTS fellow and has begun her career in broad- Weekend cast news as a weekend reporter for WTHI-Terre Haute. Janelle Nickelson, BA’07, interned for Feniger’s company, Interep, then was hired as a sales assistant for the radio rep firm ➤ McGavren Guild. They are shown here at Interep in New York City.

10 Student showcase A real-world client: The IU Alumni Association he IU Alumni Association has the most potential, and the class was then seen in a long time … including profes- discovered a gold mine of creativ- divided into three teams of four students. sional animators,” and “The use of humor Tity and technical expertise — the In the end, the IUAA chose the project is very effective.” talented students in the Department of “Benny” by Joey Reinisch, BA’07, project Telecommunications. Several projects have leader; with Bill Boese, who plans to gradu- Student Stories Project been produced by our students and are ate with a BA in 2008; Max Crawford, Another feature on the IUAA Web site prominent features on the IUAA Web site. BA’07; and Stephanie Zuroff, BA’07. was written and produced by a telecom- The winning project is hosted at the munications student intern. The Student Homecoming … in a Flash! IUAA site: http://alumni.indiana.edu/ Stories Project is a series of audio inter- IUAA first began a partnership with a tele- membership/grads/07.shtml. Click on the views produced by Alana Salata, BA’07. communications class in 2006 that resulted cartoon of the guy with the glasses, type in In the interviews, IU student leaders talk in a Flash presentation for Homecoming. your name, and follow the arrow prompts. about their goals, the challenges they face, It’s been updated for 2007 and can be Be sure to turn up your speakers so you can and their most meaningful college experi- seen and heard at http://alumni.indiana. hear the sound effects. ences. Episodes feature a telecommunica- edu/events/homecoming/. tions major who is the musical director of the popular a cappella group Straight No ‘Benny’ Chaser; the president of IU Kokomo’s Last winter, the IUAA approached The IUAA discovered a Multicultural Student Organization; and an telecommunications instructor Norbert gold mine of creativity and IU Bloomington doctoral student research- Herber, BM’96, MS’00, to partner with ing international his class, T461 Advanced Interactive technical expertise. education policy. Transmedia Design, to design a promo- As an intern, tional Web animation. Students were Salata traveled to all challenged to conceptualize, design, and eight campuses to deliver a multimedia presentation suitable In reference to all of the projects that conduct interviews. for integration within the IUAA’s Web site were submitted, Rachael Crouch of the She produced more for new graduates. The goals for the project IUAA noted how “impressed we were than 30 student were to generate interest in the IU Alumni with your creativity, professionalism, and audio podcasts in Association and a complimentary one-year enthusiasm surrounding the project. Each partnership with Robyn Skowronski Alana Salata membership presented to first-time gradu- member of our focus group (composed Kristen Murphy, ates, to engage graduating students from of graduating seniors, staff members, and an IUAA staff writer and editor. Addition- all eight IU campuses, and to encourage recent graduates) couldn’t believe these ally, Salata and Murphy accompanied the exploration of the IUAA home page. were student-made projects.” Some of the IU Kokomo alumni group to the Stratford Twelve students in the class submitted comments from the focus group include: Festival in Ontario, and with footage from project ideas. Staff at the IUAA narrowed “The music is such an appealing aspect of the trip, they produced a 12-minute video these to the three projects they thought had that presentation,” “The quality of this is documentary that captured the experience unbelievable. The best use of Flash I have of traveling with an IU alumni group. Cynthia Schultz, IUAA senior director and chief communications officer, says of the podcasts, “We plan to continue to hire telecom students for this and other projects. In June, we purchased video recording equipment. Ron Osgood and others in telecom advised us on what equipment to purchase. We wanted to make it as similar as possible to what the telecom students were using so that it would be easy for them to work with us. I have funding for another telecom intern this year, and I hope to hire someone as qualified and hard-working as Alana.” You can hear the Student Stories at http://alumni.indiana.edu/profiles/students/. Salata is now living in Los Ange- les, where she is working as a production assistant for E! Networks. Before she left campus, Salata was interviewed about her experiences as an intern, student leader, and IU telecommunications student. Her pod- cast can be heard at http://alumni.indiana. edu/profiles/alumni/asalata.shtml. 11 Alumni Notes

executive producer of Weekend Ivy Tech Community College man Multimedia and Manage- Before 1960 Nightly, and as chief political pro- in Bloomington, Ind. He was ment, is partnering with Levosia Samuel P. Simmermaker, BS’54, ducer of election specials for the named a Distinguished Hoosier Entertainment in the publish- is the sports director at White network. He later served as senior by Gov. Mitch Daniels for his ser- ing, producing, marketing, and River Broadcasting in Columbus, vice president of the NBC News vice with DeMolay International, management of Disney recording Ind. In 2006 he received a silver division and was the producer an organization with more than artist and actress Jordan Pruitt.” medal from the Indiana Basket- in the control room calling the 1,000 chapters worldwide that is An I-winner in football, Cassel- ball Hall of Fame and a Spectrum shots. After leaving NBC News dedicated to enriching the lives man lives in Gallatin, Tenn. Award for play-by-play sports in 1992, he formed his own pro- of boys and young men. Klein Jann Grabski Keenan, BA’77, from the Indiana Broadcasters duction company and taught at joined DeMolay at the age of 14 MS’79, EdS’80, of Ellicott City, Association. He was also honored various universities. Angotti now and was named Grand Master, Md., is president of the Keenan by the Indiana High School teaches journalism at Monmouth the organization’s highest-rank- Group Inc., a social-marketing Basketball Coaches Association College in Illinois. ing officer, at its 2006 conference firm. She received a National for his media contributions. Sim- Ruth Myers Whitbeck, in Seattle. Institute of Health Outstand- mermaker and his wife, Frances BS’62, MS’63, lives in Denton, Alan S. Fritch, BS’67, is ing Category Award for writ- (Rider), BS’57, MAT’65, live in Texas, and is “enjoying watch- program director of radio station ing and design. In late 2006, Columbus. ing my grandchildren grow up.” WTDK 107.1 in Cambridge, Md. she launched the nation’s first Prior to Texas, she and her late He lives in Salisbury. interactive software tool for plain- 1960s husband, George W. Whitbeck, Timothy J. Singleton, language writing from Health Joseph A. Angotti, BS’61, worked at IU Bloomington. She BS’69, MS’74, is the new general Literacy Innovations, where she MA’65, is a 2006 inductee into performed office work for several manager of WBAA-FM, Purdue is a partner. Active in volunteer- the Indiana Journalism Hall of IU departments, and he taught University’s public-radio station ing, she was awarded a Maryland Fame. He has covered a plethora at the School of Library and in West Lafayette, Ind. He has Governor’s Citation for her work of historical events, including the Information Science. She has also 25 years of experience in public- to help reduce health disparities. Watergate hearings, the 1980 Re- worked as a college media and radio management in Indiana, She and her husband, David, publican Convention, and the fall library consultant in New York Alaska, and New Mexico. have five children. of the Berlin Wall. Working with and New Jersey. NBC’s Tom Brokaw for almost Keith K. Klein, BS’66, is an 1970s 1980s 20 years, Angotti served as associ- instructor and chairman of the Donald L. Casselman, BS’73, Julie M. Songer, BA’80, works ate producer of Nightly News, as communications department at writes, “My company, Cassel- in communications for Northrop Grumman, a defense contrac- tor. “I also have eight years of radio experience in the Dallas Ken Beckley, BS’62, retires as president of IUAA area,” she writes. “I also worked for a year at a radio station in en Beckley, BS’62, retired at the end of January 2007 as president and CEO of the IU Taiwan. While there, I was also a KAlumni Association. Under his gracious and capable five-year leadership, the Alumni As- correspondent for CBS radio. In sociation reached new heights of membership, services to alumni, and financial stability. He my current position, I am using came to the presidency of the my radio background to produce IUAA after careers as a podcasts. Now that Northrop television journalist, direc- Grumman has heard my voice, tor of university relations they are going to use me for at IUPUI, and an execu- more voice work for videos.” tive with H.H. Gregg. He Songer works and lives in Dallas. served IU in a volunteer Jimmy T. Davis, MA’82, capacity for more than 30 PhD’87, is dean of the university years, including a year as college and a professor of com- national chairman of the munication studies at Belmont Alumni Association. In University in Nashville, Tenn. His honor of this most-distin- wife, Annette M. Sisson, MA’85, guished alumnus and in PhD’93, has returned to full-time classroom teaching after spending thanks for his support of the last eight years as director of the Department of Tele- general education at Belmont. communications, Legene They live in Nashville. White, the department’s Connie Schopmeyer Dieken, director of alumni affairs, BA’82, received a Leadership presented Beckley with a Ohio Award of Excellence from plaque displaying a 1.5-inch the Leadership Ohio Think Tank Vidicom tube from a 1960s in the small-business category RCA TK27 film camera. for leadership in her organization Thank you, Ken! and in the Cleveland community. Robyn Skowronski She is the founder and president (continued on page 13) 12 Alumni notes (continued from page 12) of onPoint Communication, a communication coaching and consulting firm. She also spent 20 years as a news anchor and reporter. Dieken is the author of the forthcoming business book You Lost Me at Hello: How to Talk to a World of Short Attention Spans. She lives in Avon Lake, Ohio. Lori Dhondt Torres, BA’82, JD’86, was selected by Gov. Mitch Daniels to serve as com- missioner of labor for the Indiana Department of Labor. She also serves on the governor’s cabinet. Her son, Nick, BA’06, works in the admissions office of Franklin (Ind.) College. Lynn Gosey Agnello, BA’83, is the senior vice president of marketing partnerships for the National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Suns. She oversees a team responsible for generating Neil Bolding revenue through partnerships. Agnello moved to Phoenix in The 40th anniversary of WIUS (now WIUX-LP) student radio was celebrated June 29–30. Alumni took over 1989. She worked in radio-sales the station for the weekend, playing the music, promotional jingles, commercials, and other historical pro- positions and was national sales grams of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. In the studio are, from left, Roy Cohen, BA’70; Bob Rodenkirk, BA’74; Bill manager of KESZ-FM and Cox Horn, BA’72; and Jim Hansen, BS’68. Off-camera are Neil Bolding, BS’70; and Don Worsham, BS’70. For Media before joining the Suns. more information, visit the Web site of the IU Campus Radio Alumni Association at www.iucraa.org. She and her husband, Michael, have a son, Dominick. William A. Clossin, BA’83, is FBI in Washington, D.C. He can Conference Tournament title com. “Life is good in Southern the general manager of education has worked for the bureau since game and played in the National California,” he writes. markets for Tandus, a manufac- April 1987 and in the telecom- Invitational Tournament. His Dennis S. Green, BA’86, turer of commercial floorings. munications section for 13 years. 2000 squad won the regular has been promoted to executive He has more than 22 years of “I always enjoy returning to season MAC title. vice president of affiliate sales at marketing and sales experience in Bloomington, Ind.,” Draggett Scott W.L. Daravanis, BA’86, Westwood One, which supplies the flooring and textile industry. writes. “I have attended the three is the city editor for The Daily radio and television stations with Clossin works in Dalton, Ga., and most recent Mini Universities. I Courier in Prescott, Ariz. He traffic-reporting services and lives in Ooltewah, Tenn. love Bloomington in June and writes, “I oversee the work of programming, including news, Bruce D. Feniger, BA’83, was taking classes from IU faculty. 11 reporters, including making sports, talk, music, and special- promoted to president of Interep In the summer of 2003, I took assignments, coordinating articles events programming. Previously, NetSolutions for Interep Radio in a course presented by [associate with photographs and graphics, he was senior vice president and New York City. He continues his professor of telecommunications] proofreading, editing, and teach- regional manager of affiliate sales. duties of regional sales execu- Herb Terry, who was my instruc- ing. I also co-direct with the news Green lives in West Orange, N.J. tive and director of the training tor for R405 Law and Ethics in editor for the final look of every Kerry Hyatt Blomquist, program for Interep. Feniger, his Telecommunications in 1983. It issue and [special section], assist BA’87, JD’90, is legal counsel wife, Bonnie, and their children was good to see him again.” in developing the newspaper’s for the Indiana Coalition Against Leah, 7, and Will, 5, live in Car- In March, I-Man in basket- editorial position, and participate Domestic Violence in India- mel, N.Y., and enjoy traveling. ball Daniel J. Dakich, BA’85, in the corporate decision-making napolis. She is secretary of the Joshua B. Fine, BA’83, of announced his resignation from process for the Prescott/northern Indianapolis Bar Association. Mount Kisco, N.Y., has become his 10-season tenure as head Arizona arm of Western Newspa- David A. Milne, MA’87, an information-technology men’s basketball coach at Bowl- pers Inc.” MM’90, plays alto saxophone for manager in the law department of ing Green State University in David A. DeCaro, BA’86, JazzMN Big Band. He is chair TIAA-CREF, a financial services Ohio. With a coaching record is the principal publications and professor of music at the company. of 156–140, he finished tied for coordinator of dining services at University of Wisconsin-River Dorria L. Ball, BA’84, is a di- third in all-time victories at the the University of California San Falls, where he teaches jazz histo- rector of human resources in the university. Dakich posted four Diego. His artwork appears in the ry, improvisation, and woodwind desserts division of Kraft Foods in seasons with more than 18 wins, book Marilyn in Art by Roger performance. He also directs the Tarrytown, N.Y. which is tied for second all-time Taylor, published in 2006 by university’s jazz ensemble. Mark P. Draggett, BA’84, among coaches who have guided Chaucer Press. He continues to Carrie S. Lederer, BA’89, is a works for the telecommunica- the BGSU Falcons. In 2002 his sell his art and photography on tions-services section of the (continued on page 14) team advanced to the Mid-Ameri- his Web site, www.davelandweb. 13 events at the Indiana Memo- Alumni notes rial Union in Bloomington. His (continued from page 13) Tony Perkins, BA’80, joins WTIU wife, Carrie (Stuckey), BA’94, is travel guide on Not Your Average Tony Perkins, BA’80, a stay-at-home mom. Previously, Travel Guide, a new series on began in March as the news she served as the accreditation Discovery Travel Channel. She director for WTIU, IU’s coordinator for AYS Inc. child is given an assignment location, public broadcast station, services. They live in Blooming- ton. then researches, produces, scripts, heading up news breaks, The Leslie Smith Babione, BA’96, shoots, edits, and hosts the half- Weekly Special, and supervis- works in Indianapolis as the hour show. ing the student-produced director of communications for Wendy Weatherford-Marks, WTIU News Forum. Perkins BA’89, has joined the television the Great Lakes Division of the spent the past 10 years as network VH1 as vice president American Cancer Society. Her a reporter for WISH-TV of consumer and music market- husband, John C., BS’95, JD’01, in Indianapolis. His career ing. She oversees all off-chan- is an attorney at Mitchell Hurst highlights also include a nel marketing for VH1, VH1 Milt Hamburger Jacobs & Dick in Indianapolis. Classic, and VH1 Soul. In 2000 stint as a schedule director The Babiones live in Carmel. she founded Kosmic Market- for WTIU while an undergraduate. It’s great to have an IU Joanna Mishler Storey, ing Inc. and continues to run telecommunications alumnus teaching and mentoring IU Cert/BA’97, is an associate at the the company, which represents students interested in broadcasting. law firm of Hassard Bonnington clients such as New Line Cinema, in San Francisco. She writes, “I Universal Home Entertainment, got married in September to a Paramount Classics, IMAX, and wonderful man — Eric. We live USA Networks. She lives and a teacher at LaVilla School of Texas. She and her husband, with our beagle, Toby, in the works in New York City. the Arts. Her play A Step in the Matthew, BGS’94, have 2-year- Bernal Heights neighborhood of Right Direction toured 14 public old twins and a 6-year-old. She San Francisco.” 1990s schools in Duval County, Fla. writes, “My husband has been Amanda Ellis Turnipseed, She received a Character Counts with General Electric for eight BA’97, works at IU Blooming- Francis A. Harvey III, BA’90, is Award from the city of Jackson- years. We have lived in India- ton. Her husband, Douglas, pursuing a career in voiceovers in ville for the play. napolis, Denver, Tampa, Fla., and AS’87, is a lab manager at Lens- Los Angeles. He has done work Kristin Sample Curts, ’92, now Atlanta.” Crafters in Bloomington. for public service announcements, works at BSA LifeStructures, Kathleen Graham Wolf, Melissa A. Federoff, BA’98, commercials, video releases, new which designs health care, higher BA’92, is a senior account MS’02, a user research engineer media, and promotions. Harvey education, research, and technol- supervisor at Wordsworth Com- for Microsoft Game Studios, was and his wife have a 1-year-old ogy facilities. She serves as the munications, a public relations a keynote speaker at the Women son, Tate. Harvey’s Web site is firm’s administrative assistant for agency in Cincinnati. In her new in Games 2005 Conference in www.franharvey.com. the planning-implementation position, she plans, supervises, Scotland. She gave a presentation Lainie B. Mumbrue, BA’90, team in Indianapolis. and coordinates the implementa- on “Researching Your Target Au- of Los Angeles, is a post-produc- Jeffrey M. Quinn, BA’92, is tion of public-relations programs dience: How to Give the Player tion producer for Viewpoint Cre- the senior manager of carrier cost for several lines of business for the Experience You Intend.” ative, a creative-services company. management for Verizon Busi- Procter & Gamble Professional. Amber E. Amerson, BA’92, ness. He writes, “I am working Wolf lives in Mason, Ohio. writes, “My telecommunications 2000s in an arcane, little section of the Timothy J. Cerimele, BA’93, degree served me well in Los For the past two years, Andrew industry that audits and manages of Greenwood, Ind., is a senior Angeles, where I was an agent N. Lambert, Cert’00, BA’01, the costs for ‘switched access.’ We programmer analyst at Sallie Mae with Judy Schoen and Associates, has been a professor at Pennsyl- spend our time reviewing ‘CABS’ Inc. in Fishers. a development executive for Wa- vania State University’s Smeal invoices and the ‘tariffs.’ I have Edward M. Kominowski, terstreet Films, and an executive College of Business in University been in this part of the industry BA’93, MS’95, is director of producer with Blacklight Pictures Park. for 12 years now.” Quinn lives in development for Relevant Radio, during my seven years of resi- Paul K. Apelgren, BA’01, is Park Forest, Ill. the largest Catholic talk radio dence. But my true calling is back the director of White Cane and Kristine Darrington Web- network in the country. He leads in my hometown of Jacksonville, Wheels, a documentary that was ster, BA’92, is vice president of the development efforts for the Fla., serving students through the aired on Cinemax on July 7. marketing and business develop- southwest Florida market, where integration of arts in academic Philip J. Popovich, BA’01, ment for HyperTec Inc. in Olney, Relevant Radio has two stations. and life settings.” Amerson is moved to Mesa, Ariz., in March Colleen Anderson Law, and works as the marketing direc- BA’93, was promoted from pro- tor for the U.S. Department of duction assistant to programming Labor. We want to hear from coordinator at television station Joshua S. Combs, BA’02, is a WROC/WUHF in Rochester, you! Fill out the class promotions producer at the local N.Y., where she has worked since ABC affiliate in Panama City, note coupon on the 1998. Married on Aug. 19, she Fla. His wife, Allison M. Riggle, back page and send it and her husband, Bryan, bought BA’01, MSW’04, works as a co- a house in Victor, N.Y. Law in. We’ll publish your ordinator of a federal TRIO pro- serves as secretary and treasurer gram and is pursuing a doctoral news in a future issue of the Buffalo/Western New degree in education at University of Telecomment. York Chapter of the IUAA. of West Florida. The couple spent Corbin J. Smyth, BA’94, is six months in western Australia. assistant director of activities and (continued on page 15) 14 Jordan E. Faut, BA’03, works ate work in student affairs at Washington, D.C. Alumni notes for Nissan North American in Florida State University and am Matthew R. Tierney, BA’05, (continued from page 14) Nashville, Tenn. He is president excited about my first job search works for Spike TV in New York Matthew R. Cramer, BA’02, of the Nashville Chapter of the in the field.” City. is a production assistant at televi- IUAA. Jennifer A. Gubitz, BA’05, is Lauren A. Moore, BA’06, sion station KEYE in Austin, Tex- Jill Philipps, BA’03, is a cor- the Israel education fellow at Hil- of Pittsburgh, works for New as. His wife, Allison (Mehringer), porate recruiter for Humana Inc. lel International in Washington, Dominion Pictures in Suffolk, Va. MBA’03, is a marketing manager in Louisville, Ky. D.C. Her duties include creating She is a researcher for the Discov- for the retail point-of-sale busi- Jeffrey A. Post, BA’03, was Israel programming as part of ery Channel television series A ness for Dell Inc. in Austin. She promoted to project manager at Hillel’s Joseph Meyerhoff Center Haunting, which is in its fourth focuses on complexity manage- Northrop Grumman Informa- for Jewish Learning. She lives in season of production. ment. The couple married tion Technology/TASC in the Aug. 19, 2006, and live in Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Austin. He lives in Chesapeake, Va. Adrian D. Eilbott, BA’02, Emily A. Detroy, BA’04, is a News from professors emeriti and Eric M. Satz, BS’02, married project manager at Coolfire here Blood Runs Black and White, a book by Professor on May 28, 2006, in St. Louis. Media in St. Louis. She has WEmeritus LeRoy Bannerman, has been published by The couple met while attending worked at the production com- AuthorHouse. The storyline came from Bannerman’s personal IU Bloomington. Eric writes that pany for more than six months experience teaching at the University of Alabama in the 1950s and helped launch their new Web they were thrilled to have many when the university was being forced to integrate. Bannerman’s site, www.coolfiremedia.com. college friends attend their wed- dismay with racial segregation forced him to leave the South and Detroy lives in St. Louis. ding, who honored the couple resulted in his move to Indiana University. with an “IU groom’s cake.” The Timothy M. Musho, BA’04, Bob Petranoff, BA’48, MS’63, professor emeritus of tele- couple lives in Atlanta and can be is an art director, producer, and communications and retired broadcast director for the IU News reached at [email protected]. videographer at Fig Media Inc. Bureau, was honored for his role in broadcast history. He directed Monica N. Freriks, BA’02, in Chicago. He was the editor the world’s first televised broadcast of a regular season collegiate started a production company, for a promotional video for Phil Wee Beastie, specializing in ad- Stefani Restaurants that won a basketball game on Dec. 6, 1951, by WTTV. The game, IU vs. vertising for television networks. 2006 Telly Award in the creative- Valparaiso, was played in Wildermuth Gym, where a commemora- She works in New York City and editing category. tive plaque now hangs. Petranoff and the other key individuals lives in Brooklyn. Ryan T. O’Connell, BA’04, were recognized during halftime of IU’s basketball game on Heather Coon Lissner, writes, “I am finishing my gradu- Dec. 20, 2006. BA’02, is a communications specialist at AIG Financial Advisors in Phoenix. On June 17, 2006, she married Gerard “Jay” Lissner Jr., and the coupled honey- mooned in Greece. They live in Phoenix. Jennifer L. Micon, BA’02, is an eighth-grade English and social-studies teacher at Rufino Tamayo Charter School in Chica- go. “Next time any Hoosiers are in Chicago, come by Kirkwood Bar & Grill — the new IU fan’s hangout,” she writes. Micon lives in Chicago. Daniel Nelson, BA’02, moved to Boston in May 2006 and is a local development producer for television station WGBH. Prior to his move from south Florida, he spent three years as an on-air pledge and special-events producer for radio station WLRN. He produced an episode of Gar- rison Keillor’s A Prairie Home

Companion and a show with Chris Meyer writer David Sedaris. Nick Solga, BA’02, is an Jeri Taylor, BA’59, was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at IU Bloomington account manager at LaBov & Commencement ceremonies in May. A prolific television scriptwriter and producer, she is best Beyond Marketing Communica- known for her contributions to the Star Trek series, winning an Emmy for Star Trek: The Next tions Inc. in Fort Wayne, Ind. Generation in 1994. Taylor lives in California with her husband, David Moessinger, also a retired Previously, he spent five years as television writer/producer. In a curious twist of fate, IU telecommunications professor Lee Sheldon a media supervisor and account was a writer/producer with Taylor on The Next Generation. executive at a Fort Wayne advertising agency.

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