Campus On The Common

Bob Lyons, a 20-year veteran of the media industry and affiliated faculty member at Emerson College discusses the growing prevalence of streaming media and the different impacts they're having on consumers and content creators alike.

ABOUT OUR GUEST...

Lyons has over 20 years experience in media including Director of New Media for Radio and TV at WGBH in Boston, where he worked extensively with NPR, PBS, BBC, PRX and other public media leaders. In addition to digital media, his professional background also includes producing national and international live radio concert broadcasts and recording/engineering.

He served as Executive Professor and as Lecturer in the Music Industry program at the College of Arts, Media and Design of Northeastern University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music.

His research explores the intersection of business, technology and innovation in the Creative Industries, with a current focus on streaming services and business model innovation in China.

As America seethes with unrest following the police killing of yet another unarmed black man, we replay this conversation with Deion Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies.

In this episode, first aired June 6, 2019, Hawkins shares his well-researched insights on:

• The history of policing in the U.S.

• Three (of many) reasons why Black males are disproportionately targeted by police officers

• The impact of racism on health

• The continuance of police brutality despite increased awareness of it outside the Black community

• What those outside the Black community can do to help.

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Deion Hawkins has been involved in competitive speech and debate since he was thirteen years old. In a mere six years of coaching, he has coached several national finalists, including champions in duo interpretation and IPDA debate. In addition to debate, Deion is a health communication scholar whose research utilizes intercultural theory to mitigate health disparities. Deion has studied a myriad of topics including police violence as a health issue and HIV in the Black MSM community; he is an avid social justice advocate for marginalized communities.

In addition to his work in academia, Dr. Hawkins has worked as a health communication consultant for various social marketing campaigns, combatting issues like human trafficking, advanced care directives, youth homelessness and PrEP awareness.

Former CNN correspondent and Journalist-in-Residence at Emerson College, Cheryl Owsley-Jackson discusses how the convergence of broadcast, print, and social media is impacting journalists, and how they balance their humanity with objectivity.

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Cheryl Jackson is a Journalist-In-Residence at Emerson College.

She has worked at CNN as a correspondent, as a writer for Racing for Diversity Magazine, and wrote the diversity column called, “It Takes All Kinds,” for more than a decade.

Cheryl has also taught at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and at Indiana University.

She has led anti-racism training with the staff and students at some of the top journalism colleges in the country such as Northwestern University, Indiana University, Emerson College, and some non-journalism schools like Harvard.

Cheryl has years of experience as a media consultant and crisis manager.

She has trained police officers, firemen, and school officials in diversity competence.

She was the diversity coordinator for an entire school system, organizing training for educating students and staff. She ultimately became a trainer’s trainer in the process so that she could do much of the training herself.

Cheryl has had decades of professional diversity training, including the social status of black males, gender identities, poverty understanding, anti-racism, immigrant immersion, and the understanding of social class.

However, none of that has been as important as growing up in Columbus, Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan was still marching through the streets when she was growing up there.

She is comfortable asking the questions that help elevate the stories and voices of all races. That was the goal of the column she wrote for a decade, “It Takes All Kinds,” for the Columbus Republic.

Cheryl understands systematic racism and the impact of the personal attacks. It has been her life’s work to try to create powerful, emotional stories to help people understand each other.

Dr. Scott Ratzan, Emerson alumnus and affiliated faculty member, medical doctor, and Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government discusses how effective communication can better prepare people to face the challenges of caregiving for family members with Alzheimer's and Dementia.

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Scott C. Ratzan, is the first Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY SPH bringing three decades of pioneering accomplishments domestically and globally in health communication, health literacy and strategic diplomacy.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, established in 1995. He recently was Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School where he published “Guiding Principles for Multisector Engagement for Sustainable Health (MESH) and a series of published articles related to vaccine communication in the Washington Post, Financial Tines, JAMA and Lancet Infectious Disease.

He currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Global Health, the RAND Health Advisory Board, and World Information Transfer, Inc. a UN accredited NGO.His experience has been in multiple sectors including development of multisectoral approaches to reduce harmful drinking, restrictions on tobacco, and promotion women and children’s health. His prior global roles were in Brussels and New Jersey with Johnson & Johnson, ABInBev in New York, and also at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington DC. He has also served as Co-Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Innovation Working Group in support of Every Woman Every Child as Vice Chair of the Business Industry Advisory Council’s Health Committee to the OECD, on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Well-Being and Mental Health. He was appointed to serve on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Board of Scientific Counselors for the Office of Infectious Disease. Dr. Ratzan is a co-author of the term health literacy adopted by HHS and integrated in the Affordable Care Act, defined as "the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions."His books include the Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good, Attaining Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities, and AIDS: Effective Health Communication for the 90s.Scott has an M.D. from the University of Southern California, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an M.A. in Communication from Emerson College.

His academic appointments include Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, Tufts University School of Medicine, and George Washington University School of Public Health.

Veteran reporter and professor of Journalism, Mark Leccese closes out our Reclaiming Conversation series by delving into the role of technology in the public sphere and how that is affecting communication and the field of journalism in an increasingly mediated world.

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A veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, and magazine writer, Mr. Leccese covered politics and government in Massachusetts for more than 25 years and won several New England and Massachusetts Press Association awards.

He has worked as a correspondent for The Boston Globe, political reporter for the Fitchburg Sentinel, editor-in-chief of The Tab Newspapers, State House bureau chief for Community Newspaper Company, and was the founding editor of Beacon Hill: The Newspaper of Massachusetts Government. His freelance reporting and writing has appeared in publications including The Columbia Journalism Review, The Quill, The Boston Phoenix, Commonwealth, and State Legislatures, and he has been a contributing editor at Boston Magazine. Mr. Leccese has taught journalism and writing at Boston University, Northeastern University, and Boston College. His primary areas of interest are public affairs journalism and online journalism, and his research is focused on political blogs.

He was the recipient of the 2011-2012 Emerson College Stanley and Helaine and Miller Outstanding Teacher Award.

He is the author, with his colleague Jerry Lanson, of the book The Elements of Blogging: Expanding the Conversation of Journalism (Routledge, 2015).

From 2010 to 2013 he wrote the media criticism blog "Gatekeeper" for BostonGlobe.com.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

"Online Information Sources of Political Blogs," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, September 2009, Vol. 86 No. 3.

"Shallow Netroots: Hypertext Links to Advocacy Organizations in Political Blogs," Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, April 2014, Vol. 4 No. 2.

"Angry Words: A Content Analysis of Emotion in Political Blogs and Op-Ed Columns," Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, July 2015, Vol. 5 No. 3.

Clinical Instructors Jocelyne Leger and Barbara Worth from Emerson College's Robbins Speech, Language and Hearing Center discuss how they're using cutting-edge speech pathology services to help transgender people use the voice that best matches their identity.

ABOUT Jocelyne Leger...

Jocelyne Leger has 20 years experience working with children and adults. She started her career in an adult inpatient rehabilitation setting and then transitioned to an outpatient clinical setting working with both adults and children. She considers herself a generalist, addressing a wide variety of speech and language disorders. Throughout her career as a clinician, she enjoyed supervising and mentoring graduate students. She is currently supervising graduate students at the Robbins Center.

ABOUT Barbara Worth...

Barbara F. Worth, MS CCC-SLP is a medical Speech-Language Pathologist with more than 20 years of clinical practice in major acute care and rehabilitation teaching hospitals. Earlier in her career, she worked in the areas of dysphagia and neurogenic communication disorders. She now specializes in the evaluation and treatment of voice disorders in singers, and in voice and communication modification for transgender/gender non-conforming individuals.

Worth has been an invited speaker for local and national organizations and recently presented on transgender voice modification at the 2018 American Speech Language Hearing Convention. She has taught courses and lectured extensively, most recently at The New England Conservatory of Music, Northeastern University and the Institute for Vocal Advancement. She is currently teaching the Voice Disorders CSD course at Emerson College.

Throughout her career, Worth has been passionate about teaching and mentoring Speech-Language Pathology graduate students and is very happy to join the clinical faculty at Emerson College.

Fake news is not a term many people used three years ago, but now it is seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy and free debate. The rise of fake news is raising tensions between nations and has some calling for greater regulation of social media. Journalism professors Paul Niwa and Gino Canella unpack this major issue and discuss its implications in journalism and beyond.

ABOUT Paul Niwa...

Mr. Niwa has launched two international television networks, six newscasts and a streaming media newscast for NBC, CNBC and StockHouse Media, Canada's largest internet company.

In 1999, he helped NBC create "Early Today," and in 1996 he launched the award winning "NBC Asia Evening News" in Hong Kong. He produced CNBC's "Today's Business" and the nationally syndicated newscast "This Morning's Business." He's won two Golden Mike awards for radio reporting and documentary. His websites have earned national distinction for innovation, and his broadcast work has been aired on NBC, PBS, NPR and Pacifica.

Mr. Niwa created a fellowship for aspiring foreign correspondents. He is a board member of the US-Japan Council, Pacific Citizen newspaper and the AAJA New England Chapter.

ABOUT Gino Canella...

Gino Canella is a media researcher, instructor, and award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. After working in local television news for 8 years as a photojournalist, producer, and editor, Gino began pursuing graduate studies and independent media productions.

His research and creative works explore activist media, documentary filmmaking, social movements, and the framing of race and class. Gino produces films and researches how the production and distribution of creative multimedia texts have the potential to foster meaningful social relationships among grassroots organizations fighting for social justice. He is interested in how the affective nature of film and media complements traditional community organizing and promotes democratic citizenship.

Department of Communication Studies Chair and Director of the Rediscover Rosarito Program, Gregory Payne and Communication Studies professor, Mark Brodie discuss immigration and border issues and the Rediscover Rosarito program's grassroots efforts to bridge cultural and political divides between the US and Mexico through public diplomacy.

ABOUT Mark Brodie...

Mark is a digital marketing and digital narrative expert with experience in an array of projects, productions, publications and services in markets as diverse as Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Central / South America and the Middle East.

As a marketing and imaging professional, Mark's leadership and creative skills are focused on the development of programs, organizations, technologies, and audiences that believe in consistently pushing the status quo. His work is manifest in support of a number of health and technology related startup that improve the public's well-being.

His current projects include development work with Sustainable Schools International of Cambodia, Public and Sports diplomacy programs in Rosarito Mexico and the USO.

ABOUT Dr. Gregory Payne...

Dr. J. Gregory Payne is Chair of Emerson College's Department of Communication Studies, the first communication department in the United States. He is the Co-Director of the Emerson Blanquerna Center for Global Communication and received an “Honoris Causa” from the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, University of Ramon Llull in Barcelona in the fall of 2019 for his lifelong distinguished academic and professional career.

In addition, Payne has taught at Yale and Tufts University as well as Occidental College. Dr. Payne received his B.A, M.A. and Ph.D at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a Big Ten Traveling Scholar where he studied at the University of Wisconsin- Madison and a special scholar program at the University of Southern California. He earned an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author of Tom Bradley: The Impossible Dream, Mayday: Kent State, the play Kent State: A Requiem, and has authored academic and popular articles and book chapters for publications worldwide. He has lectured internationally on topics related to political communication, public diplomacy, health communication, media, ethics, leadership, negotiation, crisis and risk communication, and political and social movements. After writing the first dissertation on the shootings at Kent State at Illinois, he is a noted expert on the May 1970 tragedy and its aftermath. He directed three, global conferences on Celebrity/Spectacle on the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, and has continued to highlight this issue in politics as well as the infatuation with the British Royal Family. He is on the Advisory board of the Journal of Health Communication, Tripidos, American Behavioral Scientist, Media Ethics, Journal of Promotion Management, among others.

Payne has directed numerous global public diplomacy projects for governments, corporations, NGOs and community groups. He is the co-founder of the Saudi American Exchange, the first grass roots, people to people public diplomacy effort in the wake of 9/11, honored at the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative and the Middle East Public Relations Association. This grassroots collaborative effort received accolades from governments, NGOs, and corporations in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. His public diplomacy projects include Iceland, Mexico, Nepal, Indonesia, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Spain, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Japan, China, among others. Payne has served as speechwriter for Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Robert Dole, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, Queen Noor of Jordan, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, as well as numerous CEO’s and heads of organizations internationally.

Assistant Dean and Executive-in-Residence at the School of Communication at Emerson College, Lu Ann Reeb dives into the world of entrepreneurship and startups in Boston and beyond. A three-time entrepreneur herself, Reeb now heads up Emerson's E3 entrepreneurship program.

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Twice an Emmy Award-winning television executive producer, Lu Ann Reeb is an entrepreneur, who has launched three online media marketing companies. Reeb is founder and president of Boston Media Group, LLC, creating innovative digital and traditional media strategies for clients in various industry sectors. Reeb also founded Legal Talk Network, LLC, an online media and information network for the legal profession, which was acquired by a California firm in 2012.

Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Reeb's career as a television journalist spanned 20 years as a reporter, producer, news director, and Executive Producer at CBS Boston. She produced documentaries and major market Television programs, covering the people and events making news, including five U.S. Presidents, Nelson Mandela, the world's first artificial heart implant, a deadly Air Canada plane crash, John Glenn's second space flight, and the Boston Marathon. Her work as Executive Producer at CBS Boston was instrumental in securing freedom for Joe Salvati, from the North End in Boston, who had been wrongly convicted of murder and served nearly 30 years in prison.

Reeb has received Associated Press awards and community advocacy awards in four television markets. After completing her Master of Business Administration degree, she was honored with a postgraduate Academic Leadership Award from Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. In 2012, her work was recognized with the Massachusetts Bar Foundation President's Award for producing a documentary telling the stories of grantees, including a young man seeking political asylum from Uganda and local legal aid beneficiaries in urban Boston. Reeb is a frequent speaker and moderator at media seminars, entrepreneurship conferences, and academia. In summer 2016, she spoke at the Global Summit on Entrepreneurship Education and Media Innovation in Beijing China. Read more about that here.

Professor Reeb is Assistant Dean in the School of the Arts, and Director of Entrepreneurial Studies and Business Studies, two minors at the college. She teaches the yearlong Entrepreneurship Program (E3) that culminates in the annual E3 Expo and student pitch competition. She led college-wide faculty curricular committees that developed Emerson's Business of Creative Enterprises major that launched in Fall 2016 and the Business of Creative Enterprises Graduate Program launching in Fall 2022. From 2012-2014, Reeb served as Graduate Program Director for the Integrated Marketing Communication Program.

Technology has been instrumental in connecting people around the world, but is it having a negative impact on interpersonal communication and empathy? This week, Business of Creative Enterprises professor, Brenna McCormick explores the topic of "Reclaiming Conversation" as it pertains to the working environment.

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Graduate Program Director, and Senior Executive-in-Residence, Brenna McCormick is a brand and marketing strategist who specializes in creative thinking, collaboration, marketing, and the Creative Economy. She brings over a decade of digital agency and consulting experience to her teaching in the Business of Creative Enterprise undergraduate major and Strategic Marketing Communication graduate program. In her previous position, she was the Director of Expeditions and Strategy at Terra Incognita Ventures // mediaman Innovation Lab, a business division of the international digital agency, mediaman. Her agency and consulting experience includes such clients as: Sperry Top-Sider, Cisco Systems Inc., EMD Serono, Pioneer Investments, Procter & Gamble, Keds, Jones New York: L.e.i.; PVH: Calvin Klein, IZOD; and Reebok. McCormick's career started in the luxury stationery industry where she established a love of all things tactile and tangible when weaving together ideas, strategy and storytelling. Previously an affiliate faculty member since 2009, McCormick believes in applying academic best practices to real world industry challenges.