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Title: Interview with Dr. Jinx Broussard and Dr. Masudul Biswas
Identifier: camh-dob-007846
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Broussard, Jinx C. (Jinx Coleman), 1949-, Biswas, Masudul Karim
Topic: Journalism, Diversity in higher education, College students, Black, Diversity in the workplace, Online journalism, Mass media--Social aspects, Education
Dates: 1997, 2021-09-09, 2020-09-09
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Jinx C. Broussard is a Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at the University of Southern Louisiana. Dr. Broussard teaches public relations, strategic communications, media history and mass media theory. Broussard was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The national award recognizes excellence in innovative teaching, mentoring of students and faculty scholarship, and leadership in educational and industry activities. Her research interests include the black press, representations of racial and ethnic minorities, media history, alternative media, crisis communication, public relations strategies and tactics, and the civil rights movement. Broussard is the recipient of the LSU 2019 Rainmaker Award in the category of Senior Scholar in Arts, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences. In the classroom, Dr. Broussard’s students have produced two first-place and one second-place national award-winning public relations campaigns since 2014. As a public relations professional, she was the director of public information for the city of New Orleans and, simultaneously, served as press secretary to Mayor Sidney J. Barthelemy in New Orleans for almost eight years. The interview discusses her childhood as she grew up on a plantation with her parents and siblings and how this motivated her to keep excelling and achieving more and driving her students to do better than they could. She holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri, an M.A. in Journalism from Ohio State and a B.S. in English/Secondary Education, from Tuskegee University in Alabama. In 1990, she was named to the Manship School of Mass Communication Hall of Fame. Masudul (Mas) Biswas, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of digital media at Loyola University Maryland’s Communication Department. Before joining Loyola, Biswas was a faculty at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. His broad research interests are media and politics; media and diversity; and web content strategy. Biswas is also site editor and webmaster of Media Diversity Forum. Originally from Bangladesh, Dr. Biswas’s academic and professional interests include strategic use of digital/online media in communication & journalism, content creation for the Web & social media, and diversity in media/communication practices. Biswas teach digital media (and design) and strategic communication courses, mainly geared towards digital media, journalism, and strategic communication students.

Title: Interview with Dr. Laurence Alexander
Identifier: camh-dob-007848
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Alexander, Laurence B.
Topic: Mass media--Social aspects, Diversity in higher education, Education, Journalism
Dates: 2020-09-03
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Laurence B. Alexander, a nationally recognized scholar and academic leader, has served as Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a public land-grant research HBCU in an urban setting, since 2013. He is a transformational university leader, administrator, distinguished professor, First Amendment scholar, attorney, and journalist. Dr. Alexander spent his early years in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. Raised by a single mother who instilled in him the desire to educate himself, Dr. Alexander benefitted from his mentors at home and in academia to make choices that led him to journalism and then to law school where he continued to remain in touch with news publications, sometimes choosing them over academia and sometimes vice versa but at all times focused on growth and service towards students. Dr. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree from the University of New Orleans, a master's degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Florida, a Juris Doctor from Tulane University, and he earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Alexander has been recognized for his academic leadership as an Arkansas Business Journal Influencer in Education in 2017. He was also selected for inclusion in the inaugural publication of the 200 Most Influential Leaders by Arkansas Business Publishing Group in 2018, and he received additional national recognition as one of the HBCU Campaign Fund’s 10 Most Dominant HBCU Leaders in 2019. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Louisiana, and he is a current member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, and the Education Law Association. He also is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Title: Interview with Dr. Sharon Murphy
Identifier: camh-dob-007847
Creator: Daniels, George L., Hines, Barbara, 1947-, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Murphy, Sharon
Topic: Mass media--Social aspects, Journalism, Diversity in the workplace, Education, Indigenous peoples
Dates: 2020-06-26
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Murphy, born in 1940 in Milwaukee, served as a Provost, Academic Vice President, and Professor Bradley University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Murphy has been active in the discipline, serving as vice president of the National Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication from 1983 to 1986, president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass communication from 1986 to 1987 and has been a member for a number of committees for AEJMC and the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is on the boards of directors of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, the Youth Communication/North American Center, the Milwaukee Press Club Endowment, Ltd. The greater Milwaukee Chapter-American Red Cross, the Newspaper Association of American Foundation, and is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Milwaukee Human Relations Radio-Television Council. The interview discusses in detail how Dr. Murphy played a role in bringing diverse faculty to Marquette University but also laid the foundation of journalism in elementary, middle and high schools along with developing courses at university level that had not been done before. Her role in furthering women in the professional world along with documenting the history of Native Americans on reservations went hand in hand with her career in the academia. She received a B. A. in journalism at Marquette University in 1965, an M.A. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1973 at the University of Iowa. She was a Fulbright senior lecturer in mass communications in the University of Nigeria during the 1977 – 1978 academic year. She received a Women in Communications, Inc. National “Headliner Award” in 1965 and in 1991 mini-sabbatical grant from the Freedom Forum.

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