Recent Faculty Publications
Professor Nick McBride, right, speaks during the National Conference for Media Reform in April 2011.
Nick McBride was awarded both the SBS College Outstanding Teacher award and the Distinguished Academic Outreach Award for Outreach in Teaching.
Brad Tuttle recently appeared on CNN to discuss the trend of adult children moving back in with their parents, and was a guest on Boston's NPR station talking about fake online reviews of products, services, and hotels. He covered both topics for TIME, where he is a regular contributor.
Brian McDermott exhibited a selection of photographs from an ongoing project on farmers under 30 at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
Razvan Sibii appeared on a list of the "Top 100 Romanians Who Make Things Happen" compiled by Foreign Policy Romania.
Brian McDermott published an article and accompanying video on glass artist Josh Simpson for Boston Magazine's spring Home issue.
Brad Tuttle published an article about J.C. Penney's new CEO and another about hybrid electric cars for Time Magazine.
B.J. Roche was awared a grant by the Open Education Initiative to develop a set of resources for Entrepreneurial Journalism and Media Management courses.
Nancy Cohen reported a three-part series for Vermont Public Radio on families that lost their homes because of the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene.
Steve Fox published his take on social media and Joe Paterno's death in the Online Journalism Review.
Brian McDermott took portraits of the new 22-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Alex Morse, for a story in CommonWealth Magazine.
Razvan Sibii published an article based on interviews with Occupy Wall Street protesters in Foreign Policy Romania. He also recently published an article titled "National Identity Through Prototypes and Metaphors: The Case of 'Romanianness'" in the Journal of Global Initiatives.
Brian McDermott published an article in the Online Journalism Review about how the subjects of visual journalists are becoming warier of having their image published in the media, and how commercial face recognition software could make this wariness even more acute.
Brian McDermott wrote a three-part series about designing and building a portfolio website for the National Press Photographers Association's Visual Student blog, a website he helped redesign. You can also read the transcript of a live chat he participated in with photojournalism students from around the country.
B.J. Roche published a travel essay in The Boston Globe about two French chapels designed by Henri Matisse and Jean Cocteau.
Brad Tuttle won the Silver Medal in the 2011 Folio Awards for his "Trip Coach" column in Budget Travel. He also wrote two recent stories for Real Simple magazine, "Best Days to Do Christmas Online Shopping" and "Why Do Children Lie, Cheat, and Steal?"
Nancy Cohen has been covering the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in Vermont for Vermont Public Radio and NPR. You can listen to her stories about Vermonters trapped by washed-out bridges and how the cleanup affected local businesses and individuals.
Steve Fox wrote a piece for the Daily Hampshire Gazette entitled "Ten Years Later, Still Sifting Mentally Through the Wreckage."
Nancy Cohen reported on the tornados that hit western Massachusetts and the floods associated with Hurricane Irene for public radio.
Brian McDermott published an editorial about preserving access for visual journalists for Free Press on their SaveTheNews.org site.
Karen List published an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, "Why Courts Are Still Leery of the Media," in which she argues that courts have never been comfortable with the media, and certainly not 21st century media technology.
Karen List published an essay, "Dancing with Bonnie," in the book Extraordinary Healers, published by CURE Media Group.
Nick McBride presented on "Local Journalism That Made a Difference" at the National Conference for Media Reform.
Razvan Sibii published a Romanian-language article profiling Ahmed Naguib, one of the youth leaders of the Egyptian revolution in Adevarul.
Steve Fox published "Washington Post Plagiarism Case Challenges Educators Who Tell Students Not to Break the Rules" for Poynter.org.
Brian McDermott published "An Ad Buyer's S.E.O. Advice for Online Publishers" in the Online Journalism Review.
Steve Fox published an editorial, "On Parenting Text-Happy Teens," in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Brad Tuttle, a blogger for Time.com, wrote an article about a web company encouraging job seekers to offer cash rewards for job leads for the print version of the magazine.
Steve Fox published an editorial, "Parsing News Value Amid Tragedy," for the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Karen List published an article on "the right to publicity" in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Does an Arizona State quarterback have the same right to his likeness that the Supreme Court granted to a human cannonball in 1977?
Razvan Sibii delivered a presentation titled "The Easy Example: Pedagogical Convenience or Clever Distraction?" on Nov. 14, at the National Communication Association's Annual Convention in San Francisco.
Nancy Cohen moderated a gubernatorial candidate forum in Connecticut on energy and the environment at Yale's School of Forestryand Environmental Studies.
Brian McDermott photographed and wrote a feature in Boston Magazine's Fall Home issue.
Madeleine Blais wrote about teaching journalism in Bulgaria for Nieman Reports.
