Briefly . . .

•Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., has been named the Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at Kent JMC. This summer he received the prestigious Gerald Sass Award from ASJMC. He’ll join the faculty in January.

•Candace Bowen, director of the Scholastic Media Program in JMC, has been appointed an assistant professor on a tenure track.

•Kent student media have begun the trek to a much closer working partnership. Look for their new, converged site, KentNewsNet. Later this semester, student media staffers will move into the converged newsroom in the new addition to Franklin Hall.

•Graduate Coordinator, Von Whitmore, was named Vice Chair of the Council of Divisions at the AEJMC convention. She will move up to Chair in two years and will be a member of the national board for four years. The Council is responsible for working with divisions and interest groups within AEJMC to plan the annual conventions. Von also is the outgoing chair of the Commission on the Status of Women. Gary Hanson, associate professor, was elected research chair for the RTV Division. And, assistant professor, Candace Bowen, was named incoming Head of the Scholastic Journalism Division.

•Associate Prof. Gary Hanson’s Media, Power and Culture (MPC) web site captured first place in AEJMC’s highly competitive Best of the Web contest, Teaching Site category.

•Hanson and Paul Haridakis, associate professor in Comm Studies, had the top faculty paper in the RTV division at AEJMC. The paper was entitled “YouTube Users: Watching and Sharing the News.”