Friday October 23rd 12:30-1:30 Mayo Hall
In this lecture, four key alumni authors of different chapters in Dr. John Pollock’s latest book, “Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage” (Routledge), co-authored with 28 TCNJ students, will discuss how they learned to write publishable work as undergraduates as well as the opportunities they have found in health communication/public health after graduating from TCNJ. The TCNJ alumni include: Kelsey Zink ’14, enrolled in the Master’s in Public Health (MPH) program at George Washington U; Jordan Kohn ’14, enrolled in the MPH program at Johns Hopkins; Kyle Bauer ’15, employed at McCann Torre Lazur, a major advertising firm; and James Etheridge ’15, employed at both McCann Global Health and enrolled in the MPH program at Columbia. All of the alumni accompanied Dr. Pollock on internships he organized in Durban, South Africa, in the summers of either 2013 and 2014, helping students learn how South Africans fight gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS.
In “Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage” (Routledge, 2015) media sociologist and communication studies professor Pollock and co-authors compare cross-national coverage of human trafficking, HIV/AIDS treatment, water handling/contamination, child labor; and US cross-city reporting on same-sex marriage, detainee rights at Guantanamo, immigration reform, and post-traumatic stress, illuminating the critical role of variations in both female empowerment and “vulnerability” demographic measures.