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2008

Howard Good, Professor, New Paltz University, SUNY will speak on “History’s Losers: The War Correspondent in the Graphic Novel. Good: “Using the 2007 graphic novel Shooting War by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman as a stepping-off point, this presentation will examine the unusual way in which graphic novels, a hybrid verbal-visual form that has only recently achieved cultural status, represent the war correspondent. Although often set in a dystopian future, and featuring a twenty-something protagonist who looks as if he belongs more in a skateboard park than in a newsroom, Shooting War and similar works provide, under the guise of adolescent entertainment, critical commentary on current events, particularly the American response to 9/11, including the invasion of Iraq, the torture of suspected terrorists, and the passage of the repressive Patriot Act. The novels suggest through the disillusioning experiences of their protagonists that big media have failed – largely out of an obscene craving for profit -- to serve as a check on government abuse of power. In questioning government policies, and the social institutions that support and enforce them, the novels themselves assume the adversarial stance toward power and authority that was once thought to define the essence of the American press.”

Norma Green, Professor, Columbia College, Chicago will speak on “The Portrayal of Women Journalists in War Zones from World War II to the Present.”

Green: “Reporter May Craig told the Women’s National Press Club in 1944: “The war has given women
a chance to show what they can do in the news world and they have done well.” This presentation surveys U.S. cinematic depictions of women who covered conflicts from World War II to the present.”


Sammye Johnson, Professor, Trinity University will speak on “The Female War Correspondent in Fiction: Covering Cold Wars, Hot Battles and Covert Operations Around the World.”

Johnson: “This presentation looks at several fictional heroines who, in their roles as reporters, face espionage and counterespionage in Europe, stress and strife in Vietnam, and murder and mayhem in Africa and Iraq. In popular novels, the female war/ foreign correspondent is almost always bright, beautiful, idealistic, and gutsy. When she's not dodging bullets or tailing suspicious diplomats, she is caught up in the throes of passion with a handsome stranger or dashing colleague. It's no wonder that readers -- mostly women -- see being a war correspondent as glamorous, exciting, and romantic."

2007

THE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION FOR JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (AEJMC) in Washington, D.C. featured a PF&R Panel sponsored by the Entertainment Studies Interest Group and the Media Ethics Division on “Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies,” at 11:45 a.m., Friday, August 10, 2007.
The panel was based on Howard Good’s new book, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies. Moderator and Presenter is Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and director of the IJPC produced a 10-minute preview of a new IJPC Video, a companion piece to Good’s book. Each member of the panel contributed a chapter to Good’s book.

Howard Good, professor of journalism at New Paltz University, provided an introduction to journalism ethics and film. Berrin A. Beasley, assistant chair and associate professor in the department of communication at the University of North Florida summarized her chapter on truth-telling in the age of spin doctors in “Wag the Dog.” Saltzman talked about undercover reporting and deception using the films, “Mr. Deeds Goes To Town” and its remake, “Mr. Deeds.” Matthew Ehrlich, professor of journalism at the University of Illinois spoke on plagiarism and making up stories in “Shattered Glass,”
Since 1977, the number of journalism ethics courses at U.S. colleges and universities has tripled. This raises a rather embarrassing question: why, despite the huge growth in journalism ethics education, are journalists still seen as – and often are – rude, pushy, inaccurate, sensational, and callous? Movies provide vivid stories of journalists up against ethical dilemmas. Panel members explored major ethical issues using film to illustrate their points.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, San Francisco, May 26, 2007 featured a panel on "Gender, Journalism and Popular Culture: The Female Journalist in Film and Television. Radhika E. Parameswaran from Indiana University was the session organizer and chair, and presented "Tabloid News in the Film 'Page Three': Gender, Generation, and the Decline of the Nation." The other panelists were IJPC Associate Director Matthew C. Ehrlich, University of Illinois, who spoke on "Journalism and Gender in "The Devil Wears Prada"; Parameswaran presented ; Berrin Beasley, University of North Florida analyzed "'Pepper Dennis': A Traditional Female Masquerading as a Modern Feminist Journalist," and Mary-Lou Galician, Arizona State University, spoke on "The Return of the Sob Sister in 'Superman Returns': Lois Lane and the Fight for Truth and Justice." The respondent was Bonnie S. Brennen of Temple University.
Abstract: Analyses of journalism’s numerous forms in popular culture can give us insights into the boundaries of the profession and the meanings of journalism’s relations with justice, democracy, citizenship, and the social construction of gender. This panel aims to bring together scholars, who in their research on gender and media have taken seriously popular culture’s symbolic portrayal of the contemporary female journalist. Throughout its historical development, journalism’s struggles to define success, professional standards, and best practices have been thoroughly entangled with the cultural meanings of masculinity and femininity. Historical and sociological media research shows that women journalists first faced the challenges of acceptance and then the problems of being perceived as objective, competent, ethical, independent, and entrepreneurial—in short, the model professional. Popular media portrayals of journalism offer a window into a culture’s mythic narratives about female journalists’ successes and failures in the profession.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM ALUMNI WEEKEND 2007. IJPC Director Joe Saltzman spoke on “The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture” in the Low Library Faculty Room at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 21. Saltzman, Class of ’62 and winner of the 2005 Alumni Award, presented a one-hour version of his popular course at USC's Annenberg School on the portrayal of journalists in movies and television fiction, from crusaders to scoundrels.

2007 HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTS & HUMANITIES on January 12-15, 2007 included a panel on the Image of the Broadcast Journalist in Movies and Television. Joe Saltzman was the moderator-discussant and will show a 10-minute video, "The Image of the Broadcast Journalist in Movies and Television, 1937-2006." The two other members of the panel were Richard Ness, assistant professor of communication, Western Illinois University and author of “From Headline Hunter to Superman,” the definitive journalism filmography, spoke on “From the Voice in the Dark to the Face in the Crowd: The Rise and Fall of the Radio Film” and Matthew Ehrlich, Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois and the author of the book, “Journalism in the Movies” discussed the portrayal of Edward R. Murrow and CBS in “Good Night, and Good Luck” showing how the movie was used to comment on what is right and wrong with television news today.

2006

THE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION FOR JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (AEJMC) in San Francisco, CA. featured a PF&R Panel sponsored by the Entertainment Studies Interest Group and the Visual Communication Division on the Image of the Broadcast Journalist in Movies and Television 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 2, 2006. Joe Saltzman was the moderator-discussant and produced a 10-minute video, "The Image of the Broadcast Journalist in Movies and Television, 1937-2006."
The video previewed the new IJPC Associate Premium Video which runs two hours and 45 minutes and includes more than 200 motion picture and TV clips.

Saltzman offered the introductory and summary remarks based on the latest IJPC research, and introduced the other three members of the panel:

Richard Ness, assistant professor of communication, Western Illinois University and author of “From Headline Hunter to Superman,” the definitive journalism filmography, spoke on “From the Voice in the Dark to the Face in the Crowd: The Rise and Fall of the Radio Film.”
Howard Good, Professor and Coordinator of the Journalism Program at SUNY New Paltz at New Paltz and pioneering author of books on the image of the journalist in films and novels discussed TV journalists featured in “Welcome to Sarajevo.”

Matthew Ehrlich, Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois and the author of the book, “Journalism in the Movies” talked about the portrayal of Edward R. Murrow and CBS in “Good Night, and Good Luck” showing how the movie was used to comment on what is right and wrong with television news today.

CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL'S 2006 TEACHERS SUMMER INSTITUTE, June 28-30, 2006. Joe Saltzman was the featured guest speaker on the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture. Included in the presentation was a 32-minute video, "Hollywood Looks at the News, 1925 to 2006.

LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL'S JOURNALIST LAW GRADUATION DINNER, June 17, 2006. Joe Saltzman, director of the IJPC, delivered the keynote speech on "The Images of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Their Impact on the Public, the Media and American Democracy."

The pilot journalist law program was created to help support journalists who cover the courts on national, regional, or local levels, the Civil Justice Program at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. The 31 Journalist Law School Fellows selected represented media from around the country. Sponsors included the American Board of trial Advocates, the Association of Trial Lawyers, the Austin Bar Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys Public Education Fund, Defense Research Institute, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, The Los Angeles County Bar Association, The Los Angeles Press Club, Loyola Law School and McNicholas & McNicholas.

JOURNALISM AND AMERICAN CINEMA CONFERENCE AND FILM FEST, April 13, 14 and 15 2006 at The American University in Cairo, The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies & Research featured IJPC Associate Matthew C. Ehrlich, associate professor of journalism at the University of Illinois, author of Journalism Goes to the Movies. The conference was inspired by the IJPC Web site and featured such topics such as "Media's Role in America's 'Culture Wars" (Good Night, and Good Luck), "How American Newsroom Politics Affect Public Perceptions," (Broadcast News), "The Journalist as Celebrity" (Capote), and "The Business of American News" (The Insider).

2005

TROJAN FAMILY WEEKEND PRESENTATION @ ANNENBERG: "Hollywood Looks at the News: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture," presentation by IJPC Director and USC Annenberg Professor of Journalism Joe Saltzman of the Norman Lear Center on Thursday, Oct. 6, 4 to 5 p.m. ASC 207.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION FOR JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS (AEJMC) in San Antonio, Texas, August 12, 2005, Joe Saltzman, IJPC Director and USC Annenberg Professor of Journalism presented a paper during a scholar-to-scholar research session in the AEJMC History Division. It was one of 25 papers selected for the 2005 national convention. The paper's title: "Analyzing the Images of the Journalist in Popular Culture: A Unique Method of Studying the Public's Perception of Its Journalists and the News Media."

THE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION FOR JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (AEJMC) in San Antonio, Texas, 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2005. A PF&R Panel sponsored by the Entertainment Studies Interest Group and the Visual Communication Division on the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture: Real-Life Journalists as Depicted in Film and Television. Moderator-Discussant: ESIG member Joe Saltzman, Professor of Journalism and Director of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the Norman Lear Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Producer: 8-minute video on “Real-Life Journalists as Depicted in Film and Television” created especially for AEJMC.

Panelists include: Richard Ness, Assistant Professor, Western Illinois
Ness is author of From Headline Hunter toSuperman: A Journalism Filmography and IJPC Associate Director. Title of Presentation: “Ripped from Today’s Headlines!: Fact Meets Fiction in Journalism Films of the Early Sound Era.”

Matthew Ehrlich, Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Ehrlich is the author of Journalism in the Movies. Title of presentation: “Stephen Glass, `Shattered Glass,' and the `Free Press' Myth.”

Bonnie Brennen, Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Temple University
Title of presentation: “Malice in Wonderland: Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons in Hollywood."

Alicia Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Journalism, American University
Title of Presentation: “How Are Real Journalists Portrayed in Film?”

MEDIA HISTORY AND HISTORY IN THE MEDIA CONFERENCE at the University of Wales, March 31-April 1, 2005 at Gregynog, Wales: "Approaches to media history: Journalists." IJPC Director Joe Saltzman, USC Annenberg, USA presented his paper, "Analysing the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture: A Unique Method of Studying Media and their influence on the Public's Perception of its News Media and Journalists."

2005 PCA/ACA NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM Panel, "Journalism and Media Culture I: Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular Culture," March 23-24, 2005, San Diego. The Popular Culture Association panel was moderated by Joe Saltzman, USC Annenberg (Director of the IJPC) who presened an 8-minute video, "Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist, 1929-2003." Panel members included Richard Ness, Western Illinois University ("Silent Sobs: The Female Reporter in Films of the Pre-Sound Era"); Matthew Ehrlich, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois ("How Hollywood Gave Jessica Savitch a Happy Ending (Almost)") and Loren Ghiglione, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University ("The Brenda Starrs of the Future").

JOURNALIST IMAGE RESEARCH AT IJPC is featured in "ENTERTAINING IDEAS," AEJMC ENTERTAINMENT STUDIES INTEREST GROUP, WINTER NEWSLETTER 2005, Vol. 5, No. 1,
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2004

JOURNALISM STUDIES INTEREST GROUP - INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER 2004 NEWSLETTER - ARTICLE ON IJPC

NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (NCA), 2004 Convention featured the NCA First VIce President Panel Discussion, "The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture," on Friday, November 12, 2004 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. in Boulevard C., second floor, Chicago Hilton, Chicago. Participants included Dr. Mary-Lou Galician, chair, Arizona State University; Joe Saltzman, USC Annenberg and Director of the IJPC project, Dr. Sammye Johnson, Trinity University, and Dr. David Natharius, Arizona State University. The panel discussed cinematic portrayals of journalists in such films as His Girl Friday and Chicago as well as novels by such diverse writers as Sally Quinn, Edna Buchanan, Danielle Steele, Jackie Collins and Irving Wallace.

ASSOCIATE IJPC DIRECTOR RICHARD NESS was a guest scholar-critic at the Locarno International Film Festival in August, 2004 appearing on a panel called "Retrospective: Newsfront -- Reporters, media, scoops and the search for truth. The retrospective portrayed the rapport between film and journalism. "This signifies an attempt to outline two paths which have progressed in parallel through the last century, growing ever closer until they have almost merged." Topics discussed: The myth of the crusading journalist, the obsession with the truth, the scandal of the real and double vision -- the hypothesis being that cinema has become the journalism of our time.

AEJMC 2004 Convention in Toronto, August, 2004. “Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular Culture,” a panel sponsored by the Entertainment Studies Interest Group (ESIG) and the Comission on the Status of Women (CSW), was coordinated by Joe Saltzman, director of the IJPC, USC Annenberg, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 4 in Room 250 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Canada.

Moderator-Discussant Saltzman with a video presentation,“Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist, 1929-2003."

Panelist Richard Ness, Assistant Professor of Communication, Western Illinois is the author of the definitive book on journalists in film, From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography. Presentation: “Silent Sobs: The Female Reporter in Films of the Pre-Sound Era.”

Panelist Howard Good, Professor, Journalism Program, SUNY New Paltz. at New Paltz, has written more books on the subject than any one else including Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies (1998). Presentation: "Torchy Blane: Fire & Ashes."

Panelist Matthew Ehrlich, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois. Author of the book, Journalism in the Movies. Presentation: “How Hollywood Gave Jessica Savitch a Happy Ending (Almost).”

Panelist Loren Ghiglione, dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Author of The American Journalist: Paradox of the Press. Presentation: “The Brenda Starrs of the Future.”

Panelist Sammye Johnson, Professor and Carlos Augustus de Lozano Chair in Journalism, Department of Communication, Trinity University. Presentation: “The Reel World: Images of Women Reporters as Reflectors of Journalistic Practices.”

USC Annenberg booth at the convention featured IJPC tapes and other materials.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION'S REEL JOURNALISM FILM FESTIVAL, March 26-28, 2004 sponsored by the American University School of Communication, AFI, the Newseum and the Washington Post. IJPC Director Joe Saltzman will be a panelist on “Hollywood’s Portrayal of the Media: Fact or Fiction?” on Saturday, March 27 at the American Film Institute from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. The panel discussion will take place after a special screening of Shattered Glass. Other panelists include Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic; Desson Thomson and Rita Kempley, the film critics for the Washington Post, and Nell Minow, author and Chicago Tribune columnist. The panel will be moderated by Margaret Engel of the Newseum.

CINEMA STUDIES CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA, MARCH 4, 2004. IJPC Associate Director Richard Ness will be presenting a paper on "Stop the Press, Move the Camera: Tracking Camera Movement in Newspaper Films of the Early Sound Era." He is also chairing a panel, "Film Aesthetics: Putting It All Together in the Frame," from 2 to 3:45 p.m.on March 4. The conference is being held at the Omni CNN Center.

WESTERN STATES COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (WSCA) CONVENTION in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February, 2004. “The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture” is a WSCA Media Studies Interest Group (MSIG) panel chaired by Dr. Mary Lou Galician, Head of Media Analysis & Criticism, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communications at Arizona State University, 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Sunday, February 16, 2004. Panel members include Saltzman (“Images and Icons From ‘The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) Project.” Dr. Sammye Johnson, Professor and Carlos Augustus de Lozano Chair in Journalism, Department of Communication, Trinity University (“Women Journalists in Film and Novels”), and Dr. David Natharius, Professor Emeritus, California State University-Fresno and Adjunct Professor of Visual Communication at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communications at Arizona State University (“Images of the Combat Photojournalist: From Reality to Fantasy.”)

2003

AEJMC 2003 CONVENTION. Joe Saltzman, Director of the IJPC, introduced Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular Culture, an introductory essay with a bibliography of 4,500 films, television and radio programs, fiction and other items featuring female journalists from 1700 to 2003 at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 86th Annual Convention in July-August 2003. He also introduced the 2004 edition of The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) Database© IJPC Database and signed copies of Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film at the USC Annenberg AEJMC Exhibit Booth. Saltzman was also the discussant for a referred paper session, "Politics, News and Entertainment: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows," an Entertainment Studies Interest Group panel. He was one of a dozen USC Annenberg faculty who attended the event.

Retired Faculty Association Luncheon featured Joe Saltzman, IJPC director, discussing his book Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2003 at the Faculty Center.

Frank Capra Film Festival. Following a screening of Meet John Doe at Caltech, Joe Saltzman, IJPC Director, joined Caltech film professor Robert Rosenstone in a discussion of the Capra film on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. on the Caltech campus.

2002

IJPC Director Joe Saltzman Featured Speaker at the Annual Holiday Dinner of the Friends of Caltech Libraries (FOCAL) at the Caltech Atheneum on Tuesday, December 10, 2002. Saltzman discussed Frank Capra, a Caltech alumnus, and the Image of the Journalist in American Film.

The Christian Science Monitor quotes IJPC's Joe Saltzman and Richard Ness in "Can Michael Keaton Solve Media's Image Problem? A New TV movie, 'Live in Baghdad,' Offers Insights Into Journalism, An Often-Maligned Profession in Film.
By Staff writer Kim Campbell, Dec. 6, 2002.

From the Newsroom to the Screening Room: How Hollywood Covers the News Business, October 11, 2002. "Breaking News" cast members joined award-winning producer Joe Saltzman to discuss TV portrayals of news media professionals on Friday, Oct. 11, 2002 at 3 p.m. in Norris Theatre on the USC campus.

The Association for Education of Journalism and Mass Communicaiton (AEJMC) Convention in Miami, August 7 to 10, 2002. The IJPC Associates were introduced at the AEJMC convention and a special presentation and signing of the Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film was held from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, August 9, at the USC Annenberg Booth #30.

Images of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Their Impact on the Public, the Media and the American Democracy Was the Keynote Speech by Joe Saltzman at the Program on the Media and American Democracy, June 14, 2002.

The New York Times Closeup with Sam Roberts on NY 1 News, NYC's 24-hour News Channel, April 26, 2002. Interview with Joe Saltzman on The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (7:23 Video).

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Reunion Weekend Book Fair to Display and Sell Saltzman's Frank Capra book, April 26-28, 2002. The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism displayed and sold copies of Joe Saltzman's Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film at a book fair held Reunion Weekend. The book was sold in two locations: the Rotunda of Low Library and the Columbia University Bookstore.

Saltzman's Literary Luncheon Speech, March 27, 2002 -- Complete Details

Announcement of Literary Luncheon for Saltzman's "Capra" book, March 27, 2002

Saltzman Appears on Talk of the City To Discuss Portrayals of Journalists on Film On KPCC, FM 89.3, Southern California Public Radio, March 6, 2002. USC Professor and IJPC Director Joe Saltzman joins host Kitty Felde to discuss the results of his first exploration of the image of the journalist in Frank Capra films in this 30-minute radio program.

From Sob Sister to Mary Richards -- the Changing Image of the Journalist. Joe Saltzman's new book shows how the stereotypes in Frank Capra's popular movies influenced the portrayal of the news media for years to come. By Usha Sutliff.