Emergent Journalism

Reports from the front line of journalism instruction

Resume/Academic CV (Selected items)

Current as of May 2021

WORK EXPERIENCE

St. John Fisher College, September 2002 to May 2021

  • Professor of Media and Communication. Responsible primarily for courses in multimedia content, introductory and advanced journalism, media law/ethics, and data analytics. (Also held an adjunct position at St. John Fisher from September 1998 to May 2000.)

State University College at Brockport, January 2001 to May 2002.

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication. Full-time position teaching courses in news writing, feature writing, editorial methods, newspaper design, media law/ethics and special-topic seminar on media, business and society. Advised student newspaper the Stylus.

Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester NY, November 1986-September 2002.

  • Copy Editor/Section Editor. Regular duties included content editing, copy editing, headline writing and design/pagination of newspaper pages. Held position with similar responsibilities at Pocono Record newspaper, Stroudsburg, Pa., July 1985 – November 1986.

EDUCATION

 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., 2000 to 2005

  • Ph. D. in Communications conferred in September 2005.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 1976-1980 and 1983-1985

  • Graduate school: MBA degree with marketing major, concentrating in marketing management of innovations and new products, May 1985.
  • Undergraduate: Dual-major bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science, May 1980. Wrote senior honors thesis on government and media during the Nixon administration.

ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE (Publications and other scholarly work, abridged)

BOOKS

  • Community Media and Identity in Ireland. (2018, Routledge). Part of the Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies series.
  • Applied Mass Communication Theory: A Guide for Media Practitioners (2nd ed.), Jack Rosenberry and Lauren A. Vicker. (2017, Routledge). (Third edition currently in press.)
  • Public Journalism 2.0: The Promise and Reality of a Citizen-Engaged Press, Jack Rosenberry and Burton St. John III (Old Dominion University) (2010, Routledge).

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Civic Journalism: Current Journalism Innovations Can Trace Their Ancestry to Civic Journalism. Chapter in Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism. McIntyre, K and Dahmen, N. (Eds). (2021, Peter Lang).
  • “Key Works in Community Journalism Research,” Chapter 2 of The Foundations of Community Journalism: A Primer for Research, Bill Reader (Ohio University) and John Hatcher (University of Minnesota Duluth), editors. (2011, Sage).

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (Selected items within past 10 years)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (NON-REFEREED) (Selected items within past 10 years)

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (Selected items)

  • “Engaged Journalism’s Support for Democracy in Europe.” Refereed paper accepted for presentation at The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association annual conference scheduled in Dublin, Ireland June 2020. (Conference canceled due to travel and concerns amid Covid-19 pandemic.)
  • “Constructed Identity in Irish Local Media.” Mid-Atlantic Meeting, American Conference for Irish Studies, November 2017, Washington DC.
  • “Getting Engaged: Public Engagement on Online Community News Sites Has Tenuous Connection to Civic Engagement.” AEJMC national conference, August 2014, Montreal, Canada.
  • “Community Characteristics Correlate with Social Media Involvement on Online Community News Sites.” AEJMC conference, August 2013, Washington, DC.
  • “Patched In: Corporately Owned Online Community News Sites Pursue Different News Topics Than Independent Ones.” AEJMC conference, August 2011, St. Louis, MO.
  • “Online Hyper-local News Sites Fulfill Classic Functions of Community Journalism.” Convergence and Society conference, October 2010, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

 SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

  •  Research fellowship with Richmond American International University in London, UK, June 2020. sponsored in affiliation with the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS). Accepted for competitive, partially funded two-week research fellowship scheduled to take place during June 2020 but canceled due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.
  • Solutions Journalism Educators Academy, July 2018. Participated in three-day workshop organized and presented by faculty of the University of Oregon on the techniques and pedagogy of helping students learn solutions journalism. Participation was subject to competitive selection; was one of just 10 educators who earned fellowships to attend.
  • Guest Editor, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Spring 2017. Guest edited special section on a collaborative project between AEJMC and the Kettering Foundation on Revitalizing the Bonds of Journalism, Citizenship and Democracy. Online version posted at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699016684779.
  • Research chair, AEJMC Special Presidential Initiative “Revitalizing the Bonds of Journalism, Citizenship and Democracy.” Directed refereed research competition for national conference, August 2016. Also served as research session discussant.
  • Seminar participant, Kettering Foundation seminars on journalism education and the work of citizens in democracy. July 2014, August 2014, February 2015, November 2015, August 2017, August 2018, November 2018, February 2019, August 2019. Presented reports about ongoing Kettering research at most of these sessions.
  • Editorial Board member, peer reviewed journals. Newspaper Research Journal, 2003 – present; and Community Journalism, 2011-present
  • Board member, Rochester Media Association (local trade/networking group), 2011- 2017.

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