Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction
Richard Campbell directs the Journalism Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also interim chair of the Department of Communication. He is the author of 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America and coauthor of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy. Campbell has written for both academic and popular trade journals, including Columbia Journalism Review, Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Television Quarterly.  Campbell earned his PhD in Radio-Television-Film from Northwestern University, where he was a Danforth Fellow.  He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mount Mary College, Middle Tennessee State University, and the University of Michigan.  He has also worked as print reporter and TV and radio news writer in Milwaukee. Bettina Fabos, an award-winning video maker and former print reporter, is an assistant professor of Visual Communication and interactive media studies at University of Northern Iowa. She is the author ofWrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialized Internet(2003). Her areas of expertise include critical media literacy, Internet commercialization, the role of the Internet in education, and media representations of popular culture.