Weintraub Austin

PULLMAN  – Three Edward R. Murrow Awards will be given by Washington State University this year to recognize communication excellence. The 2007 awards honoring “distinguished achievement displaying journalistic integrity and courage” will be given to the PBS news program “Frontline” and to “Frontline” producers David Fanning and Michael Sullivan. The award ceremony will take place […]

A new study by WSU researchers Erica Weintraub Austin and Bruce Pinkleton found that in-school public affairs programming, which contains news and advertising or public service announcements, can provide some benefits to young adolescents. But the study also found justification for concerns-including those voiced by the American Academy of Pediatrics- about the commercialization of the […]