Mary E. Beadle, Ph.D.
Mary E. Beadle is a professor of Communication in the Tim Russert Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio. She previously served as Chair of the department and as Dean of The Graduate School and Director of Faculty Research, Development, and Grants. Dr. Beadle has had numerous leadership positions in professional organizations including Broadcast education Association (BEA), National Communication Association (NCA), and Central States Communication Association (CSCA). Her teaching areas include media ethics, media history, diversity in media and film. She publishes in the areas of media history and international media. Recent publications include two articles published online by Sage Research Methods which compared a local TV and newspaper account of a local murder and trial. She and co-author Reed Smith appeared as co-authors in a roundtable discussion about the importance of teaching news in Historiography in Mass Communication. Indelible Images documents the work of women who established local television in the US. She has given communication seminars in South America, Hungary and Russia and her research has taken her to Vietnam, Belgium, Italy, Argentina, Lithuania, and Paraguay.
Reed W. Smith, PhD
Reed Smith is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Georgia Southern University. Following a career as a DJ, newscaster and manager in commercial and public broadcasting, he began his teaching career at Ohio University, the institution from which he holds the Ph.D. He was the Multimedia Sequence Coordinator for twenty years at Georgia Southern, where he also formed and directed the Professional Media Advisory Board, has served on the American Journalism Historian Association’s Board of Directors and is the book review editor of American Journalism: A Journal of Media History. He has published multiple journal articles, two books and a monograph, all concerning media history. AEJMC honored him with the Covert Award for his monograph concerning news coverage of lynchings in the U.S. South, and his most recent book is about one of the unsung members of the renowned World War II CBS radio news team (Cecil Brown: The Murrow Boy Who Became Broadcasting’s Crusader for Truth). He currently teaches courses in sports broadcasting, media ethics, history of mass communication, broadcast announcing and audio production for journalists.
Alan R. Stephenson, PhD
Alan R. Stephenson was a Professor of Communications at John Carroll University where he taught classes in television production and performance, supervised the JCU Media Archives, and directed the graduate program. Prior to his academic work, he spent twenty years in broadcasting and cable in virtually all phases from documentary production to performance and management. His work included regular coaching of professional talent. He authored numerous articles related to the media field.