Associate Professor Len Ackland taught In-depth Reporting, Reporting on the Environment and the year-long Scripps Fellows Seminar.

He also created, coordinated and taught a special-topics graduate course, The Nuclear West.

"In conceiving this course, I drew on my own experience in researching nuclear issues where I found that physics and health science were two technical areas important for researchers to understand," he said. "So I recruited a physicist and an epidemiologist to co-teach the class, and all three of us were present for each class, which led to some spirited discussions."

The Center for Environmental Journalism, of which he is a co-director, was awarded a $903,863 three-year grant to continue the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. This year the center hosted the eighth group of five journalists from around the country who spend the academic year at CU taking classes and working on independent projects.

Ackland's research and outreach included an article about the press, national security and nuclear weapons for the University of Utah's Utah Law Review, a public lecture at Chautauqua in Boulder as part of the Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and an appearance on the national radio show "Democracy Now."

Professor Andrew Calabrese taught Media and Public Culture, International Mass Communication, the master's-level Theories of Mass Communication course and the doctoral Proseminar in Communication Theory.

This spring, he was promoted from associate professor to professor.

During the 2004-05 academic year, Calabrese published five journal articles and book chapters, with two additional articles currently in press, all dealing with subjects related to media politics, communication rights and civil society.

Among them is "Toward a Political Economy of Culture," the lead chapter in a book he co-edited by the same title with Colin Sparks of the United Kingdom's University of Westminster.

Calabrese produced several articles, books and research conferences on the subject of the history of communication rights, including directing a three-day conference in April 2005 at CU called "A Rights Revolution? Communication Rights and Global Justice," and co-editing a special issue of the media studies journal Continuum on the subject of global media governance, which includes his essay, "The Promise of Civil Society: A Global Movement for Communication Rights."

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of a historically important UNESCO commission report on communication rights, known popularly as The MacBride Report, Calabrese wrote a new introduction to the book, which was republished in the book series he edits with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. He also recently published an article on the subject in the MIT journal Information Technologies and International Development, and he has an essay on the subject that will soon appear in the quarterly journal of Spain's Catalonian Broadcasting Council, Quaderns del CAC.

Calabrese gave several research presentations at CU and at research conferences in Italy and Brazil. In January, he was invited to speak about U.S. media politics at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

In July, he was elected to serve on the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

He is chair of the SJMC's faculty evaluation committee, and he serves on several other School committees.

Assistant Research Professor Lynn Schofield Clark (Ph.D. '98) taught Media and Public Culture and a new special-topics course, Doing Media Research on the Music Industry.

She said that because of her interest in young people, she taught Media and Public Culture as "Media, Democracy and Youth Culture."

"One of the assignments has the students selecting and discussing a song from the particular time period we're studying and talking about how it expresses some of the themes that often appeared in the journalism and popular culture of that day," she said.

Clark received a grant to develop a course, Media, Self and Society, also known as The Ethical Communicator, for the fall of 2005.  The course, designed for freshmen interested in entering the School and pursuing a future as an actively engaged citizen in work and personal life, will have a service-learning component and will be associated with the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement on the campus.

She was interviewed on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" last June for a week-long series on religion and popular culture, and she was the featured author on the National Public Radio special, "A Return to the Mystery: Religion, Fantasy and Entertainment," which aired in July 2004 and February 2005.

Clark published an article co-authored with Ph.D. candidate Christof Demont-Heinrich and Scott Webber (Ph.D. '03) titled, "Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide," in New Media & Society and a chapter, "The Constant Contact Generation," in Girl Wide Web, Peter Lang Publishers.

Assistant Professor Kendra Gale taught Advertising Research and the master's-level courses Mass Communication Research and Visual Communication.

She continues to teach on the strategic side of the advertising curriculum. In the fall she launched a new course, Consumer Insights, for students who gravitate toward account planning and consumer research. The course provides students the opportunities to practice qualitative research techniques and to turn information into insight.

This semester, participants are interviewing avid collectors of items ranging from Barbie dolls and baseball memorabilia to tattoos to identify the meanings those things have for collectors.

Professor Stewart Hoover taught the Doctoral Proseminar in Communication Theory and the seminar in Media, Myth and Ritual.

He traveled to Ukraine in May 2004 to attend a research conference on the religious image in the post-Communist era. Also last May, he gave the keynote lecture at the founding conference of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University and delivered papers at the International Communication Association meetings in New Orleans.

Hoover gave lectures on religion, media and politics in the post-9/11 era in Austin, Texas, in August and in Berlin in October. He and co-director Lynn Schofield Clark supervised two seminars in the Lilly-funded doctoral fellowship program in Media, Religion, and Culture, one in San Antonio, Texas, the other in Boulder. In February, Hoover was a keynote speaker at the Colorado Press Association annual convention. His topic was religion and media in the November 2004 elections.

He presented papers at the 2004 Conference on Media, Religion and Culture in Louisville, Ky. He has been named chairman of the steering committee for the Media, Religion and Culture conference series, the next of which will be in Sweden in 2006 and Brazil in 2008. His book "Religion in the Media Age" is scheduled to be published next year by Routledge Press in London.

Associate Professor Mike McDevitt taught Quantitative Methods in Mass Communication, Public Affairs Reporting, Reporting 2, and Media Ethics and Responsibility.

This spring he was granted tenure and promoted from assistant professor to associate professor.

McDevitt received a research grant from the School in conjunction with its Project in Ethics and Civic Engagement.

"I will explore the problem of journalism responsibility in the current era of hostility toward the press, characterized by partisan suspicion and widespread myths about bias," he said.

He also supervised data collection for a three-year study on the political involvement of high school students and parents in Colorado, Arizona and Florida. The study examines the influences of news media use and family discussion in motivating and preparing family members for political participation.

McDevitt completed a research paper on "developmental provocation," in which adolescents poke and prod parents in political conversations. The feedback generated by children, while unnerving to many parents, provides children with feedback that helps them to refine their opinions, he said.  

Professor Sandra Moriarty (see related story) taught Visual Communication.
She is celebrating the publication of the "Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media." In the works for some eight years, the publication is an edited volume by Moriarty and three of her visual communication colleagues, Ken Smith, Gretchen Barbatsis and Keith Kenney. It was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Moriarty has five chapters: "From an Oak to a Stand of Aspen: Visual Communication Theory Mapped As Rhizome Analysis," with Gretchen Barbatsis, "Cultural Palettes in Print Advertising: Formative Research Design Method," with CU alumna Lisa Rohe (MA 1991), "Visual Semiotics Theory," "An Intended-Perceived Study Using Visual Semiotics," with Shay Sayre of California State-Fullerton, and "Visual Literacy Theory," with Paul Messaris of the University of Pennsylvania.

Moriarty said another celebration surrounds the publication of "Selling Influence: Using Advertising to Prejudice the Jury Pool" in the spring 2005 issue of the Nebraska Law Review. The School's Professors Robert Trager and Tom Duncan were co-authors.

She also finished the revision of "Advertising Principles & Practices," an introductory advertising textbook that is moving into its seventh edition. Published by Prentice-Hall, it will be available in June.

Moriarty and Duncan continue their work on a two-year contract with the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, one of the largest ad agencies in the world. They are involved in helping Dentsu refocus its efforts on integrated marketing communication, which involves helping the agency define its philosophy and practices, as well as designing training materials for Dentsu's executives.
Moriarty has also finished a draft of a book, "The Art and Science of Branding," that she wrote with Giep Franzen, former head of BBDO Nederland in Amsterdam and now a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Meg Moritz taught TV Reporting and a special-topics course, Gays and Media. She was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she presented seminars and workshops for students and faculty during the spring semester 2004.

Also, she gave lectures on issues of media and trauma at UNESCO and at the University of Paris for French broadcast journalists.

Moritz presented a paper on Internet hate speech at a conference on Racial, Ethnic, Religious and Homophobic Violence in the English Speaking World, at the University of Paris. The paper will appear in a book titled "Killing the Other," to be published by Cavendish Publishing.

Her paper "George W. Bush and the Franco-American Discourse of Derision: Surveying Election Year Rhetoric" looks at the subtext of France in the 2004 presidential campaign. It will be presented at the annual French American Studies Association Conference in May in Lille, France, and will appear in the book "U.S. Presidency, Mass Media and Elections."

Moritz was named a CU ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Fellow.

"This small community of Boulder faculty from a wide range of disciplines will play a leading role in the creation of graduate-level research and teaching initiatives centered on information technologies," she said.

She also obtained $15,000 in grant funds for the creation of new courses in the School's summer program.

Assistant Professor Kirby Moss taught Public Affairs Reporting, Reporting 2 and the graduate-level Newsgathering 1 course.

In November, he was given the Faculty Appreciation Award by the CU-LEAD Alliance.

Moss had a paper accepted for the American Studies Association conference to be held this November in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor Janice Peck taught Media and Public Culture, Television and the Family in American Culture, the graduate seminar Critical Theories of Media and Culture, and the doctoral Proseminar in Communication and Media Theory.

She was a member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee, which undertook a comprehensive review of and revision of all of the School's master's-level programs that was approved by the faculty in spring 2004.

Peck wrote a book review that was published in the Journal of Communication. Her review essay on the political significance of TV talk shows was accepted for publication in the journal Political Communication. Also, an article she wrote that engages in a major theoretical debate in the field of media studies was accepted for publication in the journal Cultural Critique.

Associate Professor Patricia Raybon was on leave. Her new book, "I Told the Mountain to Move," was published by Tyndale/Salt River and shipped to bookstores in April.

"I'm holding my breath, but reviews have been great," she said.

"It follows my struggle through a discordant marriage, conflict with my grown daughters, a complicated relationship with my aging mother and a growing distance from God to learn how to pray real prayers, prayers that get answered. Not typical fare for a journalist."

Professor Michael Tracey taught Mass Communication and Public Opinion, and Media Institutions and Economics, courses for both undergraduate and master's students. He also taught Contemporary Mass Media and the doctoral seminar Power, Politics and Mediated Culture.

Tracey produced the third in the series of documentaries about the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. The documentary aired on ITV, the major commercial network in the United Kingdom, in June and on CBS in December. It also will air on Court TV.

He also presented papers at a number of conferences.

Professor Robert Trager taught Press and the Constitution, the Freedom of Expression seminar and the Doctoral Proseminar in Communication Theory.
Along with Professor Sandra Moriarty and Associate Professor Tom Duncan, he wrote "Selling Influence: Using Advertising to Prejudice the Jury Pool," which was published in Nebraska Law Review.

The UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy published "Obscenity Decisions in the Japanese and United States Supreme Courts: Cultural Values in Interpreting Free Speech," which he wrote with doctoral student Yuri Obata.

Instructor Maura Troester taught Advertising Research and Advertising Campaigns.

In April, she was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her title will become assistant professor on Aug. 15.

Troester said she and her fiancé, Eddie Nuñez, have nixed plans for a big wedding in favor of a private mountaintop ceremony in June.

Associate Professor Jan Whitt taught Critical Thinking and Writing for the School and for the CU-Boulder Division of Continuing Education.

Whitt coordinates between 12 and 20 sections of the course each semester and works with graduate students who teach the individual classes. She also taught Contemporary Media, Introduction to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Issues, and Literature and Journalism of the West. The latter is the capstone course for the Center of the American West certificate program.

Whitt received a faculty appreciation award from the CU-LEAD Alliance and in the fall was featured for her teaching and research both in Boulder Magazine and the Silver and Gold CU faculty newspaper.

She said one of her most enjoyable experiences this year was participating in the week-long advanced leadership workshop sponsored by the Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion program.

Whitt also published two essays in "The New Georgia Encyclopedia" and presented papers at the American Literature Association Symposium and the Popular Culture Association of the South Conference.

Associate Professor Tom Yulsman taught Science Writing, Reporting 3, Newsgathering 2, Science and Environmental Journalism, and the Scripps Fellows seminar.

His article, "Cloudy Future," is to be published in Audubon Magazine. Based on a trip he took to Costa Rica while he was on sabbatical, the story blends travelogue and science to describe threats to one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world: the cloud forest.

In the fall semester, Yulsman became head of the News-Editorial sequence. With three other faculty members, he is helping to guide a complete revision of the school's undergraduate curriculum. As co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism, Yulsman continues to serve as a senior faculty member in CU's Environmental Studies program.