Subject: [jomcfac] Documentary on newsrooms coming
Greetings!
Bravo documentary on the New York Daily News coming. "A team of filmmakersis planning a documentary series based on the workings of a real newsroom -- that ofthe New York Daily News. The six-part series, tentatively called "The Daily News," isexpected to air next year on Bravo, the cable network announced Tuesday.
"Lauren Zalaznick, the head of Bravo, said the unscripted series would be based onactual reporters and the stories they work on, but it would be edited and structuredlike a dramatic series. She said it would be the first documentary series set insidea major American newspaper. . . ."
Read on for more details at:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF8&scoring=d&q=newsroom+documentary+bravo

Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 10:21 AM

 
Subject: Gifts to The Park Library

From: Title: Year:

Dean Cole Journalism Transparency and the Public Trust 2005
The Breaux Symposium March 20, 2004

Tom Bowers The Gunn Report and Showreel of the Year 2004

Carol Reuss The Magazine From Cover to Cover 1999
Public Relations Review issues Dec. '04, Mar. '05

Michael Hofges CD-ROM for FTC Workshop: Green Lights & Red Flags
April 19, 2005
Jan Yopp The IRE Journal: Jan./Feb. '05, Mar./Apr. '05

Best regards,

Barbara Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 10:01 AM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] More press coverage on Phil Meyer's new book
Greetings!
The Spring 2005 issue of Nieman Reports carries a five-page review of Phil'sbook, "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age." The authorof the review is Lou Ureneck, prof of business and economics journalism at BostonUniversity.
This issue is shelved in the Park Library's serials. Or, if anyone wishes toread the article online, go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/
and click on "A" for ABI/Inform Global and search for author or title. You'll get itin pdf.
Best regards,

Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 10:00 AM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] Our Planet Earth - NewsBank's Special Report - Now Available For Your Use
Greetings!
March 20th is officially Earth Day, but back in 1970 the first Earth Day wasactually launched on March 21.
NewsBank, one of our Park Library's online full-text databases, announces theavailability of its Special Report, "Our Planet Earth." Our JoMC students and facultycan access this electronic resource in the Park Library's Computer Lab. Look for theNewsBank icon and then click on the link to "Our Planet Earth." Read on for detailsabout what is included in the report.
Best regards,

Barbara Semonche,
Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 9:53 AM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] Fall 2005 Textbook Requests
Greetings!
It's time to alert UNC Student Stores about your Fall 2005 course textbookrequests. The best way for you to submit your textbook requests is through the UNCStudent Stores website. Here is the URL:
http://www.store.unc.edu/textbooks/
Click on the link to "Faculty" (in the left-hand column) and proceed to the nextscreen. You will then be required to enter your UNC PID number *and* your password.If you have "forgotten your password", click on the prompt.
As always, if you have any questions, please contact me, your friendly"booker."

Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 9:50 AM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] Newsly arrived JoMC MA Theses and Dissertations
Greetings!
Here is the list. Congratulations to both the grad students and their advisors!
JOMC DISSERTATIONS
Author: Cassandra Jacqueline Imfeld (2004)
Title: Repeated resistance to new technologies: A case study of the Recording industry's tactics to protect copyrighted works in cyberspace between 1993 and 2003
Advisor: Cathy Packer

Author: Pamela C. Laucella (2004)
Title: An analysis of mainstream, black, and communist press coverage of Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games
Advisor: Tom Bowers

Author: LaHoma Smith Romocki (2004)
Title: Little sisters in cyberspace: Rural black adolescent girls' Selections, interactions with, and interpretations of sexual and reproductive health messages on the Internet
Advisor: Jane Brown

Author: Yuan Zhang (2004)
Title: Good for me or for us? A comparative content analysis of individualist and collectivist values and orientations in global and local television advertising in China
Advisor: Jane Brown

LATEST JOMC MASTERS THESES
Author: Copeland, Mims Rowe (2004)
Title: Creating a clean, authoritative, and elegant design for a Community newspaper
Advisor: Rich Beckman

Author: Strauss, Jessalynn R. (2004)
Title: A (new) place to call home in the twenty-first century university: Building a public relations plan for UNC-CH's Panhellic sororities
Advisor: Patricia A. Curtin

Author: West, Jennifer Paige (2004)
Title: The role of online news organizations in revitalizing American democracy
Advisor: Rich Beckman

Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 4:47 PM

 
Subject: New Books and Reports in Park Library; Also, some donated "gems"
Greetings!
Here is the latest list of new and "vintage" arrivals.
NEW BOOKS IN PARK LIBRARY
* Race, Gender, Media: Considering diversity across audiences, content, andproducers. Rebecca Ann Lind. 2004
* Media, Audiences, Effects: An introduction to the study of media contents andaudience analysis. Paul J. Traudt. 2005
* World Press Trends 2004. World Association of Newspapers. 2004
* Photographers in North Carolina: The First Century, 1842-1941.Complied by Stephen E. Massengill. 2004
* The Media in America: A History. Wm. David Sloan. 2005
NEW REPORTS IN PARK LIBRARY
* A Profile of Enrolled Students.Office of the University Registrar. 2005
* Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year-olds.A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. 2005
DONATED BOOKS
> From Jim Mullen
* In the Heart of a Jool. William Allen White. 1918. (autographed by William Allen White).
* Stratagems and Spoils. William Allen White. 1901. (autographed by William Allen White).
* Masks in a Pageant. William Allen White. 1928. (autographed by William Allen White).
* The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me. William Allen White. 1918. (autographed by William Allen White).
* In Our Town. William Allen White. 1906.
* The Autobiography of William Allen White. William Allen White. 1946.
* The Court of Boyville. William Allen White. 1899.

> From Phil Meyer * Knightfall: Knight Ridder and how the erosion of newspaper journalism is putting democracy at risk. Davis Merritt. 2005. (2 copies).

> From Rich Beckman * News Photographer. July 2004-Nov. 2004, Jan 2005, May 2005.
* The Best of Photojournalism 2004. NPPA. 2004.

> From Dean Cole
* News in the Public Interest: A free and subsidized press. The Breaux Symposium. 2004.
* Darwinian Myths: The legends and misuses. Edward Caudill. 1997.
* The Myths of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. 2005.

> From Lois Boynton Samples of media kits.
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Thank you all!
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 4:42 PM