I was having dinner in the View restaurant above the Marriott at Times Square when I learned that the 1960 Ole Miss baseball team was having a reunion on the weekend of the series against Louisiana State University. This was the team that went 22-3 for the season and beat the University of Florida forRead the story …

Shepherd Smith in FoxNews studios. We were scheduled to see Dr. Jim Pratt’s protege, Shep Smith. Patrizia Barkley, Shep’s assistant, had greeted us in the lobby of the Fox News building at a few minutes before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the last day of March, and we had settled on chairs a few feet fromRead the story …

Harold Burson at Burson-Marstellar offices in New York It is difficult to imagine a more accomplished public relations professional than Harold Burson. Indeed, PRWeek named him the “most influential PR figure” of the 20th century. On Tuesday, March 30 Debbie Vaughn of the University Foundation visited him in his corner office at Burson-Marsteller, the companyRead the story …

Dubai International Airport Our flight arrived about an hour late.  We went through customs easily and picked up our luggage.  As we entered the arrival lobby of the airport, we saw Dr. Gebremedhin Simon and Nigist Teshome, Zenebe’s sister. We drove to the hotel and then met Dr. Gebremedhin to sign the agreement.  The ViceRead the story …

Susanne Shaw, executive Director of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, and I were picked up by the driver at 8:30 a.m. and we were at work before 9 a.m. We met with Ilhem Allagui, interim head of the Department of Mass Communication.  She took us to meet Chancellor Peter HeathRead the story …

On Thursday and Friday, February 18 and 19, I accompanied five students on a reporting trip to the DeSoto Times Tribune in Hernando, Miss.  This was the Meek School’s third field trip to a newspaper this semester.  In January we had traveled to Vicksburg, where our students produced multiple platform pieces for the Vicksburg Post.Read the story …

“He is the best teacher I have had at this university,” a student wrote last January in the evaluation of Zenebe Beyene. Zenebe is the assistant dean at the School of Journalism and Communication at Addis Ababa University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He taught JOUR 400 International Communication during JanuaryRead the story …