Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction
RICHARD CAMPBELL, director of the journalism program at Miami University, is the author of“60 Minutes” and the News: A Mythology for Middle America(1991) and coauthor ofCracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy(1994). Campbell has written for numerous publications includingColumbia Journalism Review,Journal ofCommunication, andMedia Studies Journaland he has served on the editorial boards ofCritical Studies in Mass CommunicationandTelevision Quarterly. As a writer and media critic, he is a frequent speaker on public radio and television. CHRISTOPHER R. MARTIN is a professor of journalism at University of Northern Iowa and author ofFramed! Labor and the Corporate Media(2003). He has written articles and reviews on journalism, televised sports, the Internet, and labor for several publications, includingCommunication Research,Journal of Communication,Journal of Communication Inquiry,Labor Studies Journal, andCulture, Sport, and Society. He is also on the editorial board of the Journalism of Communication Inquiry. BETTINA FABOS, an award-winning video maker and former print reporter, is an associate professor of visual communication and interactive media studies at University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of Wrong 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. Her work has been published inLibrary Trends,Review of Educational Research, andHarvard Educational Review.