Abubakar Alhassan
joined the JAMM faculty fall semester. He
earned a B.A. in Mass Communications from Bayero University in Kano,
Nigeria; an M.A. in Communication Studies from Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo; and his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of
Florida, Gainesville. He also received a Graduate Certificate in African
Studies from the University of Florida.
He has
been a teaching assistant and instructor at the University of Florida, where
he earned a certificate in African Studies in addition to his Ph.D. He also
worked for Nigeria’s first press photo agency, Ayesha Press Foto.
Abubakar teaches Media Ethics, Global Media and Media Writing.
Contact:
aalhassan@uidaho.edu,
885-7888, Administration Bldg, Room 335
Denise Bennett
joined the
JAMM faculty fall 2006 as a senior instructor in TV, video and digital media
production. She earned her BA in Radio/Television and her MA in Electronic
Media & Film/Education from Eastern Washington University. She has worked
professionally as an editor/videographer. She is currently producing and
directing a feature length documentary about high school football on HDV
titled “Pups”. She is also collaborating with Greg Moller, Ph.D. from the
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of
Idaho on a documentary about the environmental and public health impacts of
chemicals released into municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Denise has
earned several grants during her short time at UI including one that supported her trip to the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
Humanities in 2008 where she presented research on body humor with Rebecca Tallent
from JAMM and Deirdre Sommerlad-Rogers from the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and Justice Studies at UI.
Denise
teaches JAMM Introduction to Video/Television &
Digital Media Production,
Broadcast Television & Studio Program Production,
Advanced Digital Media Production, Documentary, Digital Animation in Mass
Media and, Digital Media Thesis Production.
Contact:
deniseb@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7460, Radio-TV Bldg, Room 34
Kenton Bird
has been director of the School of Journalism and Mass Media
since 2003. Kenton holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho, where he was editor of the student newspaper, the Argonaut. He attended University College, Cardiff, Wales, on a Rotary fellowship, earning a master’s degree in journalism history, and Washington State University, earning a Ph.D. in American Studies.
During his 15-year career as a reporter and editor,
Kenton worked for newspapers in Moscow, Lewiston, Sandpoint and Kellogg, Idaho, and spent a summer at the Washington Post. In 1989, he was chosen as a congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association, working as a congressional staff member in Washington, D.C. After three years on the faculty at Colorado State University, Kenton returned to the UI in 1999 as an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication.
Kenton teaches Media and Society, Public Affairs Reporting, History of Mass Media, and Mass Media & Public Opinion. His research interests include political reporting, media history, civic journalism and the relationship between public opinion and public policy. In 2002, Kenton was one of three UI faculty members chosen to be a Humanities Fellow of the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences. Learn more about that project at:
www.class.uidaho.edu/humanities. Kenton is a board member of Heart of the Arts, Inc., and is
a member of the Latah County Community Foundation,
www.latahfoundation.org.
Contact:
kbird@uidaho.edu,
208-885-4947,
Administration Bldg, Room 347C
You can view Kenton's director blog, Bird's Words, at:
www.birds-words.blogspot.com
Jim Clark, lecturer,
received his BA from the University of
Toronto/Windsor, MA at Wayne State University and completed doctoral studies
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He spent five
years at Griswold-Eschleman in Cleveland working as an account planner and
on a creative team. He worked as an account supervisor, management
supervisor and later as vice president of marketing planning. He helped create several award-winning ad and PR campaigns for B.F. Goodrich,
the Advertising Council and INDUSTRY WEEK magazine. He moved to Chicago to work for Marsteller Inc.
(now Young & Rubicam, Inc.) and Burson-Marsteller PR as a creative
director, account supervisor and vice president of strategic planning. Jim
moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked on Eaton Corporation and
Dow Chemical accounts at an ad and PR agency. He worked as a senior vice
president for a local marketing communications agency with national and
international accounts in Lansing. In 1997, he set up his own marketing
consulting business and has worked with a selected amount of clients since
then. Jim has done marketing, creative and PR work for accounts such as
Bridgestone/Firestone, Mitsubishi Motors, McGraw-Hill Publishing, Rand
McNally and Dow Chemical.
Over the course of his career, Jim received over
100 national and international awards for creative excellence. He has also
been a contributing editor for several industry publications, a judge for
national advertising award contests and a featured speaker on creative
topics at businesses and advertising clubs. During the time he worked in the
advertising and marketing industry, Jim has been a part-time instructor of
advertising, public relations, marketing, international business and
marketing and creative thinking courses at Cleveland State University, Grand
Valley State University, Northwestern University, Northwood University and
Lansing (Mich.) Community College. Jim moved from East Lansing, Mich. to
Pullman, Wash. summer 2005.
Contact:
hjclark@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8871,
Administration Bldg, Room 342B
Karin Clifford has been
JAMM's administrative assistant since November 1995. She
also worked at UI from 1980 to 1986, first in the
Registrar's Office as a transcript clerk, then as ASUI secretary.
Originally from Long Island, New York, Karin is a career secretary. Among her
many jobs in many places, she worked at Amarillo College, University of New
Hampshire, and in the corporate world for several companies including Rodale
Press and Air Products and Chemicals, both in Pennsylvania.
She shares her home with her husband Greg
and her sweet
dog, Chile. Karin enjoys
riding her bike, gardening, and an assortment of arts
and crafts. She's a member of the City of Moscow Paradise Path Task Force and has a volunteer
support staff position with the ambulance division of Moscow Fire
Department.
Along with her
administrative assistant and office management tasks Karin is JAMM's Web
wizard.
Contact:
karin@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6458, Administration Bldg, Room 347
Patricia
Hart, assistant professor
of journalism and American Studies, combines teaching courses in writing,
editing and publishing in the School with over twenty years of professional work
in those fields. She is also Coordinator of the American Studies Program and
teaches the Contemporary American Experience Core Discovery course.
Patricia holds a BA in anthropology and art history from the University of
Nebraska and an MA and Ph.D. in American Studies, with an emphasis on U.S.
social and cultural history, from Washington State University.
She is coauthor of Mining Town: The Photographic Record of T.N. Barnard and
Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes (University of Washington Press)
and coeditor of Women Writing Women (University of Nebraska Press). Her
book manuscript A Home for Every Child: Relinquishment and Adoption at the
Washington Children's Home Society is under consideration at the University
of Washington Press.
Prof. Hart’s research areas include history of mass media; media and social and
cultural movements; social welfare, labor, and immigration history; and women in
the West. In JAMM, she teaches Publications Editing, History of the Mass Media
and Media Writing.
Contact:
psh@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6012, Administration Bldg, Room 337
Sue Hinz, lecturer, joined the School in the fall of 2003. She teaches PR
Writing and Production, PR Case Studies and Issues Management, PR Relations
Campaign Design, and Nonprofit Public Relations.
Sue is the faculty adviser
for UIPR, the student public relations club. Sue has worked on community
fund-raising and public issue campaigns for more than 30 years. She led the
state of Washington’s Combined Fund Drive’s 1995 campaign that raised more than
$2 million dollars for charity. She also led Pullman United Way efforts to
increase its campaign support by more than 40 percent in a single year. Sue has
led Lincoln Middle School and Pullman High School PTSA groups, and directed
major fund-raising efforts by PHS Boosters. She has served as president of the
Pullman Memorial Hospital Foundation and Pullman Chamber of Commerce, chairing
fund-raising and community event committees. As a Pullman Education Foundation
board member, she helped direct successful efforts to equip a new fitness center
at PHS. Sue recently finished a nine-year tenure on the Pullman City Council.
Sue retired after a 30-year career in the University Relations/News Bureau at
Washington State University, her alma mater.
During free time, she officiates
the hammer throw for area collegiate track and field meets, the weight throw for
indoor track meets and at cross country meets. In the summer she competes as a
masters athlete in the hammer throw, shot put, discus and javelin. See photo
above, where she winds up with the
hammer during the Senior Games hammer throw competition at Saint Martin's
University, July 24, 2009. Sue took first place for her age group for the
shot put and two categories of the hammer throw. (Photo by Tony
Overman/The Olympian) She and her husband,
Mike, coach track at PHS, have two handsome sons, two awesome daughter-in-laws
and a sweet grandson.
Contact:
susanh@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8873,
Administration Bldg, Room 341
Bill Loftus,
the University
of Idaho’s science writer, covered outdoors and environmental news for 16 years
with the Lewiston
(Idaho) Tribune. He led the Outdoors section, which was judged best in
the nation seven times by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He won C.B.
Blethen Memorial Awards for enterprise reporting and others from the
Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association, Association for Communications
Excellence, Idaho Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists and Idaho
Wildlife Federation. Loftus worked on the UI announcement of Idaho Gem, the
first equine clone who made news worldwide. That project won an outstanding
professional skill award from the Association for Communication Excellence in
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences.
In 2006, Bill oversaw
media relations for the racing debut of Idaho Gem and his brother, Idaho Star,
the world’s first cloned athletes. Stories about the clones appeared in
newspapers worldwide. His stories have appeared in The New York Times. He
wrote a weekly outdoors column for The Associated Press and two travel guides to
Idaho. He is a member of the Idaho Press Club, National Association of Science
Writers and Association for Communications Excellence.
Bill earned a UI
bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in zoology and journalism. He
teaches journalism classes and for three years team-taught the freshman core
class “Fire, Myth and Mankind: Coming to Terms with Nature.”
Contact:
bloftus@uidaho.edu, 208-885-7694, Ag Sci
18B
Glenn
Mosley,
director of broadcasting and senior lecturer, received his BA and MA in
Radio/Television/Film from the University of Maryland. Glenn has been a news
reporter for more than twenty years, working mostly in broadcasting but with
a few stops at newspapers along the way. He reported for several
Massachusetts radio stations, spent two and a half years as a press
secretary/legislative aide in the Massachusetts State Senate, and since 1996
has been a reporter for Northwest Public Radio and public radio stations all
over the Pacific Northwest. For two years, he hosted and co-produced the
"Idaho Voices" program for public television stations.
Over the years, Glenn's journalism work has been recognized by The Idaho
Press Club, the Massachusetts and Washington state chapters of The
Associated Press, The Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, and The Inland
Northwest chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists. Glenn teaches
a variety of courses in broadcasting and journalism and has earned eight UI
awards for teaching excellence. He's also been a Faculty Fellow with the
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, ABC/Disney, and the National
Association of Television Programming Executives.
For a Northwest Public Radio story about Edward R. Murrow's original CBS
studio office door (pictured above with Glenn), visit this Web site:
www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=3751
Contact:
gmosley@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6020, Radio-TV Bldg, Room 33
Shawn O’Neal
teaches media writing and is the manager/adviser at University of Idaho Student Media, which produces the
Argonaut newspaper and the twice-yearly magazine, Blot.
He has worked as a reporter at
The Wenatchee World, The (Bremerton, Wash.) Sun and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, and as an editor/columnist at CBS SportsLine, covering the NBA and national college basketball. He is a senior editor with Lindy’s Sports Annuals, a national magazine based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Shawn is a graduate of Washington State University.
Contact:
shawno@uidaho.edu, 208-885-2220, SUB 303
Vicki
Rishling is a full-time lecturer and has taught media writing and reporting
classes since returning to Idaho
in 2003. She received a B.S. in journalism from University of Idaho,
and a masters from The Ohio State University as a Kiplinger fellow in 2002-2003.
While at OSU she taught advanced reporting classes and served as interim
director for the student newspaper The Lantern. Before that she was the student
media adviser for The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University.
She was a reporter and editor at the Moscow/Pullman Daily News prior to
1994.
Vicki teaches Media Writing, Reporting and Narrative Journalism.
Contact:
rishling@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6019, Administration Bldg, Room 342A
Julie Scott
teaches Media Writing and Principles of Radio and Television. Julie also
works as a radio news producer and a radio talk show producer at KXLY-AM and
KXLY-TV
in Spokane, where she writes, anchors and produces daily newscasts. Julie has
worked as an assistant TV producer where she helped develop a mid-day show which
she directed, wrote and edited. She also produced a weekly television
segment "Spirit of Sports" from 2003-2005
Julie is a golf coach and a certified tennis pro.
Contact:
julies@uidaho.edu, 208-885-8871,
Radio-TV Bldg, Room 7
Mark Secrist, associate professor, has a BA in economics from Brigham Young University (1970) and an MBA from the University of Utah (1972). He worked eight years in television operation and production (at KBYU, a PBS station, and KCPX, the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City) and worked 28 years in advertising agencies. He is owner of his own agency, Secrist Advertising Agency.
Mark has taught advertising at University of Utah, Washington State University and the University of Idaho. He has taken
many different advertising competition teams to the National Student Advertising Competition
(NSAC), winning the Northwest District competition three times, placing second,
seventh and eighth at the national finals.
He loves his family (5 children, 3 grandchildren), advertising and
rivers. Mark teaches Ad Campaign Strategy, Ad Competition Team, Advertising
Media Planning, Advertising Creativity and The Ad Agency.
Contact:
msecrist@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7707,
Administration Bldg, Room 346
Sara
Stout
joined the JAMM administrative staff fall semester as advising assistant.
Sara earned an A.S. in Administrative Office Technology at Centralia College in
1990, a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Idaho in 2005 and
is working on her M.S. in Child, Family and Consumer Studies at UI. Her advising
career includes work at the University of Idaho, Washington State University and Iowa State
University.
Sara's passion is helping new college
students with navigating the university system and helping them realize their
academic potential
Sara has been married for 17 years and have three great kids
Contact:
sstout@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7573, Administration Bldg, Room 115
Rebecca
J. “Becky” Tallent
joined
the JAMM faculty summer 2006 as a full-time, tenure-track professor. Becky
is an award-winning journalist and public relations specialist with more
than 12 years experience as an energy, environmental and financial
journalist plus an additional 18 years experience as a public relations
specialist, primarily with state government agencies. In addition to her UI
teaching, Becky is the ombudsman for the Spokane Spokesman-Review and
is a member of the UI American Indian Studies Faculty.
Becky is a member of both the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and
the Native American Journalists Association (she is of Cherokee heritage),
and she is the adviser to both students groups on campus. Becky is also a
member of the SPJ National Education and Diversity committees. She earned
both her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and her Master of Education in
Journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma, and her Doctor of
Education in Classroom Teaching/Mass Communications from Oklahoma State
University in 1995. As part of her continuing education, Becky attended the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies in the summer of 2007 to learn more
about teaching Diversity Across the Curriculum. In 2007-2008, she held a
Diversity Leadership Fellowship with the Society of Professional
Journalists.
In her spare time, Becky loves hiking, fishing and traveling with her
husband Roger, playing with her cats Arthur and Lady Jane Grey, watching
football, cooking, photography, knitting and doing Native American beadwork.
Becky teaches Media Writing, Reporting. Principles of Public Relations,
Public Relations Campaigns, and Cultural Diversity and the Media.
Contact:
rtallent@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8872,
Administration Bldg, Room 340
Dinah Zeiger
teaches
Media Law, Public Affairs Reporting
and a First Amendment seminar for third-year law students. She
earned a B.A. in English from the
University of Missouri, Kansas City; M.A. in Art from the University of
Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dinah previously taught Mass
Communication Law and News Writing at the University of Denver. Her
background includes 20 years experience as business-economics-financial
journalist working with news organizations ranging from the Wall Street
Journal-Europe, Investor’s Business Daily and the Denver Post
to Knight-Ridder Financial Wire and McGraw Hill-Online. She has a lot of
experience in the “old” newsroom and saw first-hand the introduction of the
‘converged’ news operation, which incorporates visual, audio and print into
a single news product. Her interest in visual communication is related to
her lifelong interest in visual arts. Dinah likes to focus on the political
meanings of images and image-making.
Along
with her interest in politics, Dinah is an enthusiastic gardener and cook
who loves to hike, practice yoga and read anything from mysteries to 19th
century English literature. She strives to help students develop independent critical
thinking skills, and her flexible teaching
style allows interaction between students in the classroom. She sees
learning as an interactive process and dialogue between teachers and
students, and advises students to read in order to achieve critical thinking
skills.
Contact:
dzeiger@uidaho.edu,
208-885-4013,
Administration Bldg, Room 346
