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Manship School of Mass Communication ׀
Louisiana State University
225.578-2223 ׀ adrienn@lsu.edu
Programs & Activities
Forums, Symposia and Conferences
Political Tuesdays: Join us
in the Holliday Forum each Tuesday leading up to the election to
watch political movies, historic debates, play presidential trivia
games and other exciting political activities. Check back each
week for up-to-date programming information.
September 29
Holliday Forum, 5 p.m.
Mixing up your media with Callie
Crossley
October 7
Holliday Forum, 5 p.m.
Debate 101: The hidden messages in
tonight’s Presidential Debate with Kirby Goidel and
Bob Mann
October 16
Holliday Forum, 5 p.m.
The Race for the White House with Charlie Cook
November 4
Holliday Forum, 6 p.m.-till
Election Night Results Party
Public Policy Fellows
The
Manship School of Mass Communication's Reilly Center for Media & Public
Affairs brings in internationally recognized public policy experts to
discuss topics of importance to Louisiana and its citizens. Fellows
provide classroom lectures, public presentations and meet with public
officials, business, university and civic leaders.
September 29-October
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Callie Crossley is an award
winning broadcast journalist, and filmmaker turned television and radio
commentator. She is a regular commentator for NPR radio programs,
including Tell Me More with Michel Martin, NPR News and Notes and a
frequent commentator for other national radio programs including On the
Media. Crossley can also be seen on national television programs
including CNN’s Reliable Sources, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She
is, however, best known to Bostonians for her weekly television
commentary on WGBH-TV’s ten year old media criticism program, Beat the
Press, which examines local and national media coverage. When not
working as a commentator, moderator, public speaker and producer, Ms.
Crossley serves as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for
Journalism at Harvard directing the speakers program for the current
class of Nieman Fellows.Callie Crossley has been awarded two Harvard
Fellowships from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and
from the Institute of Politics at the John K. Kennedy School of
Government. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and is also the
recipient of an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Pine Manor College.
Manship School's
Research Facility
The Manship School's
Research Facility houses the Public Policy Research Lab and the newly
created Media Effects Lab. For more information on the services
they provide, please visit
www.survey.lsu.edu.
The Public Policy Research
Lab, one of the largest such research facilities in the
Southeastern Conference, is dedicated to quality public
policy research through state-of-the-art survey
technologies. It helps advance scholarly and practical
research while playing a leadership role in state and
national public policy development. The PPRL serves
other units on campus, government agencies, non-profits,
business and industry. National surveys have resulted in
publication in both practical and scholarly journals.
The Media Effects Lab is one
of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind within
a mass communication program in the country. It is a
state-of-the-art experimental lab equipped with 16
computer stations and a living room area for research in
a more natural environment. Researchers can measure
audiences' physical responses (heart rate, blood
pressure, eye movement and brain activity) to various
media messages, as well as gather their attitudes toward
those messages.
Five Years of the
Louisiana Survey
The annual Louisiana Survey began with a simple idea: to provide a
nonpartisan source of public opinion data to state opinion leaders and
media outlets that could serve as a barometer of state public opinion.
The release of the
Spring 2007 Louisiana Survey marks our fifth year in providing this
service and illustrates the importance of public opinion in the
policy-making process. If the state is to overcome the challenges of
rebuilding while also addressing other perennial concerns, it must do so
with the public’s backing.
For the full report,
see www.survey.lsu.edu. For more
information about the survey, contact Kirby Goidel, Director of Public
Policy Research, Manship School of Mass Communication’s Reilly Center
for Media & Public Affairs, at 225-578-7588 or
kgoidel@lsu.edu.
We gratefully
acknowledge the Irene W. & C. B. Pennington Foundation for their support
of this project.
Mass Communicating:
the Forum on Media Diversity
Mass Communicating:
the Forum on Media Diversity
is a comprehensive action plan of the Manship School of Mass
Communication and its Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs dedicated
to improving media and academic diversity.
Site components
include:
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The establishment
of www.masscommunicating.lsu.edu, featuring an annotated
bibliography on diversity and media and including more than 1600
articles from more than 100 journals. This is intended to be a
centralized resource for journalism educators, researchers and
professionals.
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Recruitment of
minority mid-career Ph.D. students and continued research on race
and media issues, including training models, enrollment strategies,
faculty and student recruitment and course materials.
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The development of
a list of experts who will be available as resources for campuses
and newsrooms.
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Curricular
development through special fellowships and workshops for
underrepresented educators and professionals.
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The establishment
of a Chair on Diversity, Media and Public Affairs to provide
leadership and administration for the Forum as well as teaching and
research.
Media &
Public Affairs
Book Series
(in collaboration with LSU Press)
Published works:
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Falling Up: How A Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting
by Raymond Strother, President and Founder of Strother, Duffy,
Strother, Democratic Consultants, 2003.
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Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit
by Edwin M. Yoder, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorialist and former
syndicated columnist; Foreword by Jonathan Yardley, 2004.
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Freeing the Presses: The First Amendment in Action
edited by Timothy Cook,
Kevin P. Reilly
Sr. Chair in Political Communication, Louisiana State University,
2005.
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Money, Power,
and Elections:
How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy,
by Rodney Smith of Smith, Inc.
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Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating
Conventions in the Media Age edited by Costas
Panagopoulos
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From Pigeons
to News Portals, Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New
Technology,
edited by David Perlmutter and John Maxwell Hamilton, 2007.
For
more information on the Media & Public Affairs book series, please
contact the series editor, Bob Mann, at
bookseries@lsu.edu.
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