Revising Journalism Education in India and the Roots of the Honduran Diaspora, by Richard Schaefer

When: Tue, Nov 11 2014 6:00pm

Where: UNM SUB

The 21 Club wishes to thank our speaker, Dr. Richard Schaefer -- Associate Professor, Department of Communication

Richard Schaefer will describe his recent Fulbright experience revising graduate journalism curricula for the Mass Communication Research Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia University, a Moslem-targeted convergent journalism program in New Delhi, India. Schaefer, a founder of the Cross-Border Issues Group, will also briefly draw upon his research and journalism exchange program experiences to uncover the roots of the recent Honduran Diaspora, in which tens of thousands of young Hondurans have attempted to migrate to the United States. Finally, he will show stories from a current research project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of video journalism techniques for presenting data trends.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Schaefer is a co-founder of the Cross-Border Issues Group (CBIG), which focuses on boots-on-the-ground primary-source journalism and research by taking bi-national groups of journalism students to immigration hot spots in Mexico and Central America. He also administers a political journalism program for student interns in Washington, D.C. and has served as a Fulbright specialist scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, where he helped redesign the curriculum for the master’s program in convergent journalism. His teaching specialties include broadcast news, media writing, immigration issues and media institutions and structures.

Dr. Schaefer will speak about his Fulbright experience in India in 2013 and his research on the roots of the Honduran Diaspora (2008-2014).