January & February 2016 College News

Faculty Accolades A feature story by Elizabeth Clark , published July 6 in the San Antonio Express-News , was reprinted in the coffee-table book, San Antonio: Our Story of 150 Years in the Alamo City , published in 2015 by Trinity University Press/ San Antonio Express-News. Clark’s story traces the expansion and renovation of The Witte Museum, founded in the 1920s. Vanessa Higgins Joyce’s co-authored book Television Audience Trends: An Analysis of 10 years of TGI Latin America (2004-2014) was published in December 2015 by the Program in Latino and Latin-American Media Studies in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. In January 2016, Journalism Practice accepted her co-authored article “Sharing the Stage: Analysis of Social Media Adoption by Latin American Journalists” for an upcoming publication. Vanessa Higgins Joyce also had two of her studies accepted to be presented at the International Communication Association’s conference in Fukuoka, Japan. She will be presenting the co-authored studies, “Why Audiences Stay Loyal to National Broadcast Television” and “Second Screening in Latin America: A Window for Added Engagement with TV Industry” in June 2016. Cindy Royal was selected as a runner-up for Texas State University’s Award for Excellence in Online Teaching for her course MC 5316 Digital Media Issues. Susan Weill will present her research, “How Journalist P. J. O’Rourke’s Rolling Stone Magazine Work (1981-2001) Created a Generation of News Junkies,” at the 2016 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in March. The conference is co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION