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CU «Ƶ CMCI scholars take top awards and present research at AEJMC 2021

CU «Ƶ CMCI scholars take top awards and present research at AEJMC 2021

Moderators, Discussants, Panelists and Workshop Leaders

  • Kathleen I. Alaimo (PhD student, JRNL)
  • Angie Chuang (associate professor, JRNL)
  • Patrick Ferrucci (associate professor, JRNL)
  • Casey Fiesler (assistant professor, INFO)
  • Kelty Logan (associate professor, APRD)
  • Erin Schauster (assistant professor, APRD)
  • Elizabeth Skewes (associate professor and chair, JRNL)
  • Ross Taylor (assistant professor, JRNL)
  • Paul Voakes (professor emeritus, JRNL

CU «Ƶ CMCI students and faculty from four departments represented 16 divisions and interest groups during this year’s , held virtually from Aug. 4 through 7.

The 104th-annual conference included 21 CMCI scholars, who presented 22 peer-reviewed papers, served on panels and lead workshops. 

Department of Journalism Associate Professor Pat Ferrucci accepted two first-place faculty paper awards at the conference––one for “Covering Sports, When There’s No Sports: COVID, Market Orientation, Paywalls and The Athletic,” and the other for “Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology,” published with Journalism PhD student Fahad Humayun.

Founded in 1912, AEJMC is the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level. Today, the nonprofit organization includes thousands of educators, students and practitioners from around the globe. CMCI Founding Dean Lori Bergen served as the organization’s president in 2016, followed by Journalism Professor Emeritus Paul Voakes in 2017.

Below is a complete list of this year’s papers and participants from CMCI, including from the departments of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design (APRD); Information Science (INFO); Journalism (JRNL); and Media Studies (MDST).

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