Ph.D. Forum Interview: Media coverage of crises in higher education
I would like to thank Bruce Hurwitz for the nice interview yesterday. I could talk about my dissertation for a long time, and he was kind enough to chat me at length about it for Blogtalkradio. The complete interview is below. Listen to internet radio with Bruce Hurwitz on Blog Talk...
read moreA mediated dissertation on crisis coverage
Traditional news vs. social media: What’s different? Picking a dissertation topic is not for the faint of heart or the unprepared. Narrowing an issue into components and sub-components involves, first, picking a topic, then exploring what others have researched in that area and, finally, finding your own niche. Crisis communications, social media and higher-education leadership were my interest areas, and it literally took years to find a topic that I could research in a way that would be relevant and would cover each of these topics. My...
read moreInterviewed for the “On the Record” podcast
Earlier this year, my friend and colleague Christel Hall hooked me up with Eric Schwartzman for an “On the Record” podcast. A few notes: Information presented in this interview was gleaned from a number of sources. The first was a story by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which had compiled records on the top water users in Las Vegas. You may read it here. The second is a series in the Las Vegas Sun called “For Want of Water.” The third was my article from 2003 on Professor Dale Devitt , who studies water conservation in...
read moreSlideshow: Inside Lehman Cave
I was fortunate to be able to visit eastern Nevada last week. Here is a slideshow from the trip, with more images to...
read more“Burros on a Boat”: 420,000 views
In the spring of 2007 Bob was fortunate to attend a rare gather or wild burros at Lead Mead outside of Las Vegas. The project, one of our first video productions, documented the gather. It involved transporting burros by boat across Lake Mead. The clip recently reached more than 420,000 views on Youtube. We conducted the interview, shot the footage, edited it down and even recorded the soundtrack provided by a local band....
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