1st Edition
Global Journalism Collaborations Worldwide Storytelling Projects in Higher Education
Global Journalism Collaborations offers guidance on detailed ways to create collaborative international projects in the communications and journalism fields – a hot topic in higher education.
The chapters are contributed by professors and journalists from around the world. The authors explain, step-by-step, the process of collaborating with students and instructors at universities in dozens of countries in order to produce digital storytelling projects that are streamed worldwide. The book will inspire academics and students in any discipline to develop and create their own collaborative projects by sharing lessons learned through case studies of successful global collaborations.
This truly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars and instructors of journalism, media studies, mass communication, higher education and anyone working on collaborative projects across a variety of disciplines.
Introduction
Faith Sidlow
CHAPTER 1: The Big Picture
Nick Duarte
CHAPTER 2: Student Engagement: How the Global News Relay began
Sarah Jones
CHAPTER 3: Global News Relay (GNR) 2.0
Faith Sidlow and Katherine C. Blair
CHAPTER 4: Global Campus Studio Productions (GCSP)
Marion Coomey
CHAPTER 5: The Global Pop-Up Newsroom
David Baines and Devadas Rajaram
CHAPTER 6: Global E-News Immersion Initiative (GENII)
Priya Rajasekar
CHAPTER 7: Global Reporting Program (GRP)
Peter Klein and Britney Dennison
CHAPTER 8: Student Perspectives
Katherine C. Blair
CHAPTER 9: Instructor Feedback
Marion Coomey
CHAPTER 10: Technology: Getting it right
Marion Coomey
CHAPTER 11: The challenges of an uneven playing field
Sylvia Vollenhoven
CHAPTER 12: Industry: How the Pros Do It
Faith Sidlow and Katherine C. Blair
CHAPTER 13: Lessons Learned
Katherine C. Blair, Marion Coomey and Faith Sidlow
CHAPTER 14: Still to Come…
Katherine C. Blair, Marion Coomey and Faith Sidlow
Biography
Katherine C. Blair is an Associate Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Leeds Trinity University, UK where she has taught television and social media journalism for 16 years. Before that, she was a television presenter, reporter, producer and director at ITV Yorkshire, CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador and MCTV in Timmins Canada for 20 years.
Marion Coomey is a Professor in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. She teaches international media production, broadcast presentation and writing. Marion has been a news reporter, host, writer and producer at CBC TV and Radio across Canada. She is Executive Producer of Global Campus Studio Productions, a project bringing together students from 15 countries to produce online shows.
Faith Sidlow is the chair of the Media, Communications and Journalism Department at California State University, Fresno, and associate professor of broadcast and multimedia journalism. She is an award-winning broadcast journalist with 30 years experience in TV and radio news. Faith worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for the Fresno NBC affiliate for 28 years. Her early broadcast career included radio reporter and board operator at KPBS-FM; San Diego reporter for KNX News Radio, Los Angeles and research intern for CBS News in London.
