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Research wins award at BEA
05-02-2009
Professor Larry Dailey's research on newsroom convergence wins award at BEA.
Professor Larry Dailey’s paper “The Convergence Continuum Redux: Does the Web Jeopardize Newspaper-Television Partnerships?” tied for first place in a news division competition. The paper was co-authored with Mary Spillman, an assistant professor at Ball State University.
The research focuses on the relationships that newspapers and television stations formed in order to share resources and form partnerships.
“Growth in newspaper-television convergence efforts is probably unlikely and the very partnerships themselves may be in jeopardy,” Dailey and Spillman concluded in the paper.
“Newspapers are beginning to encroach on areas that television has traditionally seen as its own and that may doom the efforts between the two groups,” Dailey said.
Reynolds School faculty members Howard Goldbaum and Rosemary McCarthy also attended the BEA. The three-day conference provided a chance for journalism professors, researchers, teachers and students to discover the latest research, production efforts and technological resources.
Participants had the opportunity to gather new ideas and knowledge to bring back to their own campuses to use as tools to teach their students and collaborate with other professors.
“It’s an annual conference where educators get together to present their academic work and trade their ideas,” Dailey said. “It’s also a chance for the academics to rub shoulders with the reporters in the field and it gives them a chance to see the latest technologies and techniques that are being practiced.”
McCarthy attends several conferences including those of the Radio Television News Directors Association, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association.
“Each was good in its own way,” she said. However, she also pointed out that it was “a sign of the times was that attendance was down from prior years for RTNDA and NAB ... [I am] not sure about BEA.”
Goldbaum helped to organize some of the sessions, which ranged from Student Newscasts to Innovation and Technology Management to Podcasting.
