So happy to such a crowd for « My First Year as a Full-Time Faculty Member » at #aejmc24 with @PR_Johnson, @colorofresearch, @katiemontalbano, Omar Hammad and @AlyviaWalters. @aejmc

Packed room for @aejmc keynote speaker Wajahat Ali, a Daily Beast columnist, “Democracy-ish” podcast co-host, recovering attorney, playwright and author. #aejmc24

Listening to @WNYC hosts celebrating the station’s 100th birthday by talking about the work with the station by New Yorker Tony Schwartz, creator of the Lyndon Johnson “Daisy” ad. I interviewed Schwartz, who died in 2008, about the ad in the late 1990s for a master’s course.

Bad news, #IAMCR24 friends: I just tested positive for COVID. I attended the opening keynote (sat on back row) interacted with a few people at the reception. Vaccinated and boosted several times, most recently just before Xmas. Of course, I won’t be back to the conference.

Pleased to have made it to the Te Pae in Christchurch, New Zealand, for the opening session of #iamcr24 I’m (still) a little jet lagged and battling allergies, but I’m here!

Finally at Penn Station. Only 67 minutes late. #njtransit

Stuck on a stopped @NJTRANSIT train again, thanks to @amtrak track issues that are forcing single-tracking into NYC. Just another frustrating commute.

With @njtransit trains suspended, lines for buses to New Jersey wind through Port Authority well after 8 p.m.

The ⁦@RutgersCommInfo⁩ Journalism and Media Studies Kappa Tau Alpha inductees with chapter adviser John Pavlik, ⁦@tseanherbert⁩ and JMS Chair ⁦@abjordan505⁩

CBS News producer and @RutgersU Journalism and Media Studies graduate @tseanherbert speaks to students, parents and faculty before a second @RutgersCommInfo JMS event of the day: the Kappa Tau Alpha honor society inductions.

@RutgersCommInfo @stevemillerru JMS Showcase host @khadastrophic gets a photo of @RutgersCommInfo student Erin Burke, (with @stevemillerru) who received the Excellence in Corporate/Event Journalism Award for work in a course with Prof. Neal Bennett.

@RutgersCommInfo @stevemillerru @RutgersCommInfo JMS student Ashley Medrano talks about reporting on navigating the post-COVID gig economy in Mary D’Ambrosio’s Reporting on Social Issues course.

@RutgersCommInfo JMS Undergraduate Director @stevemillerru introduces the team — Madison Brooks, Briana Disla, Heta Flowers and Genesis Garcia — that received the Best News Story Award from Television Reporting.

Students from Dr. Regina Marchi’s summer 2023 Travel Writing course in Bologna, Italy, talk about working with Italian interpretation students to conduct interviews about student activism in Bologna.

Kicking off now: the ⁦@RutgersCommInfo⁩ Journalism and Media Studies Showcase at Alexander Library’s fourth-floor teleconference center, with awards for student work from 2023-24.

Finally got home, 5 hours and 10 minutes after I left work and considerably poorer.

Sometime tonight, I hope to get home. It’s now 4 hours, 20 mins since I walked out of the office.

These kids — @AnthonyFargo1 of @IUMediaSchool, me, and @BamaProducer of @uaccis — had a 25-year reunion at the @aejmc Southeast Colloquium at @uk_ci. It was last at @universityofky in 1999, when we were Ph.D. students at, respectively, @UFCJCGrad, @HussmanGrad & @ugagradygrad

Wonderful presentation at @aejmc SEC by @merrillcollege UG student Bridget Byrne and her professor @colorofresearch, a @RutgersCommInfo Ph.D. alum, on « The Weather Girls and WAVES: Comparing the US Press’s Early Depictions of Women in Meterology, 1942-1967. » Much promise here!

⁦@RutgersCommInfo⁩ 2023 Distinguished Alumnus ⁦@vmsalama⁩ remembers her early career at ⁦@WNBC⁩ during a presentation at Rutgers New Brunswick.