Fall 2020
“The Voice”
Glenn Johnson has arguably the most recognizable voice in Pullman. » More ...
Communication, Academic
Fall 2020
Stories on the fly
Matt Loveless had to navigate a pandemic during his first year of teaching broadcast journalism at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. » More ...
Summer 2020
From covering the beat to on the beat
Washington State University alumna Stephanie Schendel made the leap from journalist to police detective. » More ...
Spring 2020
Majestic Storm
Weather reporter Majestic Storm finds her place. » More ...
Winter 2019
Reel deal: Clark Pederson of Deadliest Catch
Clark Pederson, a Washington State University alumnus, married the daughter of Captain Sig Hansen on TV show Deadliest Catch, and that was just the beginning of the danger. » More ...
Winter 2019
Reporting from the hard path
Los Angeles Times reporter Andrea Castillo, a 2012 Washington State University alumna, reports on refugees and immigrants to document history as it unfolds. » More ...
Fall 2018
A formula for funny
When Kelsey Cook ’11 was a junior in college she delivered her first stand-up performance during an open-mic night at a campus dining hall.
“You’re basically intruding on everyone’s dinner,” she recalls. Even if the crowd thought something was funny they had food in their mouth so she couldn’t really hear their reaction.
Cook has since made a name for herself in comedy and last spring made her stand-up debut on The Tonight Show and earned her first credit on Comedy Central.
She was also back on the road performing stand-up, including a weekend last April at the Spokane Comedy Club where a … » More …
Fall 2018
Rescripting gender roles
Sex is everywhere, researchers Stacey Hust and Kathleen Rodgers point out, but, strangely, we get very nervous talking about it—especially with our adolescent children.
That’s a concern to the two Washington State University collaborators, who just published a book, Scripting Adolescent Romance: Adolescents Talk about Romantic Relationships and Media’s Sexual Scripts, that examines the power of media, so chock full of sex and violence, to shape the gender roles of children and adolescents in ways that last a lifetime.
So powerful are the … » More …
Summer 2018
Talkback for Summer 2018
Truth or consequences
I retired in May 2017 after forty-plus years teaching philosophy in various colleges, and I can corroborate the observations of Professor Hindman and Ms. Donaway.
Thirty or forty years ago, people listened to whatever the disc jockey selected for air time. Now, people can drive from Pullman to New York and choose to hear only what they want. One consequence is that young people are trained to think that they never have to hear what they don’t want to hear—including
campus speakers.
The remark, “When you remove truth from the equation, all that is left is power,” captures the … » More …
Spring 2018
Truth or consequences
Fake news nearly started a war between Qatar and its neighbors in 2017. In Pakistan, a highly placed official bought into a fake news story warning that Israel was going to destroy Pakistan, and tweeted a warning at Israel that his country, too, was a nuclear power. And in Washington, D.C., an armed vigilante burst into a pizzeria and fired three shots, thinking he was bringing down a sex-slave ring.
While news has never been neutral, something has changed: Information has become weaponized. What’s changed, says Washington State University communications professor Doug Hindman, is that the marketplace of ideas has broken down under the … » More …