Sept. 1, 2009 to Present
(Academic Year 2009-2010)
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Center Activities Sept. 1, 2009 to Present (Academic Year 2009-2010) |
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Cox Center Associate Director Vlad Emphasizes Value of Collaboration to Romanians |
| The associate director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia told faculty and students at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest in November that collaboration was critical for success. | |
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Cox center Tells Cairo Meeting Pollsters Asked Wrong Questions about Palin |
Political polling experts in the United States failed to ask the right questions about voter reactions to Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, a University of Georgia professor told a gathering of public opinion researchers in Cairo, Egypt, in November. |
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Cox Center Director Discusses Techniques At Meeting on Media Assistance Assessment |
| The director of the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia discussed the design used to evaluate a media project the Center conducted in the Philippines to a conference on media and development issues in Germany in October. | |
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Cox Center Associate Director Vlad Discusses Journalism Enrollment Trends |
| Enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs could slow down, especially at the undergraduate levels, Dr. Tudor Vlad from the University of Georgia told to a group of journalism faculty and professionals meeting in Oakland in October. | |
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16 Journalists from French-speaking Africa Visit Grady and University of Georgia in October |
| Sixteen journalists from francophone African countries spent two days meeting with students and faculty in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and from other units in the University of Georgia in October. |
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Government Communicator from Tbilisi Joins Grady College to Study Public Relations |
| A passion for governmental communications brought a Muskie Graduate Fellow from her home in Tbilisi, Georgia, to the University of Georgia in the United States where she has begun her studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication | |
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Cox Center Director Speaks at Conference On Measurement of Democracy Indicators |
| A University of Georgia researcher told a gathering at the University of California, Berkeley, in late October that existing media freedom indicators meet standard criteria for evaluating such indices. | |
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Georgia Doctoral Student Reports On Studies of Sampling Techniques |
| A doctoral student in mass communications at the University of Georgia told a gathering of public opinion researchers that voter registration lists can be used to generate samples both for mail and telephone surveys that reflect the characteristics of the larger list of registered voters in communities. | |
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Two Georgia Professors Join German Conference, Discuss Research on Effects of Media Competition |
| Two University of Georgia communication professors joined with specialists from Europe and the United States for a three-day discussion on media ethics in Eichstaett, Germany, in September, where most of the discussion focused on changes in ethical issues resulting from changes in the media landscape. |