TEACHING
Below is a sampling of some of my teaching work and appearances on local media speaking as a journalism professor.
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Below is a sampling of some of my teaching work and appearances on local media speaking as a journalism professor.
In December 2016, I traveled to Jordan to lead a multi-day multimedia investigative journalism workshop for journalists from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia. I prepared and taught the entire workshop solo with lessons in shooting, editing, online interactive graphics, using multimedia journalism kits, and interview techniques.
In April 2016, I traveled to Algiers, Algeria on a United States State Department-sponsored trip to teach professional journalists and college students. I created four full days of unique content, teaching topics from data journalism and mapping to investigative interviewing techniques and mobile journalism techniques.
I created two modules for the American Society of News Editors training program aimed at educating high school journalism instructors. For the program, I created videos, additional content and links, as well as quizzes on the content. I created modules about video and sound gathering and reporting and interviewing.
While working in Idaho, I created a webinar for Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. about how to use data as a television journalist. The presentation included how to find story ideas, how to visualize data for television and a walk-through of data stories I had done that could be replicated in any market.
I have appeared multiple times as a guest on Views of the News, a show that is broadcast on KBIA radio (an NPR-member station).
Episode description: Fox News Channel scored huge ratings with last week’s exclusive interview with members of the Duggar family. Megyn Kelly promised to ask the tough questions. Did she? Did the Duggars do anything to help themselves in the court of public opinion? Also, how the gender gap affects the quality of news reporting, the next steps at Gawker Media now that employees agree to union representation, and an NPR/ProPublica follows Red Cross spending in Haiti. Missouri School of Journalism professors Jamie Grey, Katherine Reed and Amy Simons discuss the issues on KBIA-FM's media criticism program, "Views of the News."
Episode summary: Is any publicity good publicity for Donald Trump? He’s certainly testing that proposition with his attack on John McCain’s war record. And some say the media are depriving more serious presidential contenders of oxygen by focusing so much on the real estate mogul and reality TV star. Amateur drones are getting in the way of California firefighters. The publisher of the celebrity gossip site Gawker pulls a salacious story, prompting two of his editors to quit. Critics accuse journalists of being too quick to blame sexism for the resignation of Reddit’s CEO. And Harper Lee’s new novel raises some difficult questions for reviewers. It’s Views of the News with Missouri School of Journalism professors Mike McKean, Lynda Kraxberger and Jamie Grey.