Introduction

Laura Castañeda
www.ijpc.org
University of Southern California
United States

Laura Castañeda is a Professor of
Professional Practice of Journalism and
Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Access.
Laura Castañeda, EdD, an award-winning professor of professional practice in the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, has been a member of the faculty since 2000. Before joining USC Annenberg, she taught at Temple University and worked as a staff writer, editor and columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and The Associated Press in San Francisco, New York and Mexico. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, and Columbia Journalism Review magazine, among others. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and Journalism Studies.

Castañeda is co-editor of News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity, which was published by Sage Publications in October 2005. She is the co-author of The Latino Guide to Personal Money Management, which was published by Bloomberg Press in May 1999, and was released in Spanish by Seven Stories Press in 2001.

She earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and international affairs from USC, a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a doctorate from the USC Rossier School of Education. She also was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business and economics reporting from Columbia’s School of Journalism.

Castañeda served as associate director and assistant director of the School of Journalism between 2010-2014, where she oversaw undergraduate and graduate curriculum revisions. She also served as the academic at-large officer for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) from 2016-2018, and is a currently a member of the Advisory Board for Report for America. She teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses focused on reporting, writing and diversity.

In 2019, Castañeda was awarded the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship by the American Society of News Editors in recognition of an educator’s outstanding efforts to encourage students of color in the field of journalism.

Richard R. Ness
www.ijpc.org
Western Illinois University
United States

Richard R. Ness, professor of film and media studies at Western Illinois University, is the associate director of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Ness is the leading scholar in the country on the depiction of journalists in films.

His new book the Encyclopedia of Journalism on Film, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is the definition book on journalists on film. His earlier book, From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography, published by Scarecrow Press, has become the definitive book on the subject. He also is the author of Alan Rudolph: Romance and a Crazed World (Twayne), the only book to date on the director, as well as articles and reviews in the Hitchcock Annual, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. His current project examines the treatment of gender in musical scores for motion pictures.

Joe Saltzman
http://www.ijpc.org
University of Southern California

Joe Saltzman, the director and founder of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) and the author of "Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film," is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

He received his B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California and his M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After working for several years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Saltzman joined CBS television in Los Angeles in 1964 and for the next ten years produced documentaries, news magazine shows, and daily news shows, winning more than fifty awards, including the Columbia University-duPont broadcast journalism award (the broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), four Emmys, four Golden Mikes, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Silver Gavel, and one of the first NAACP Image Awards.

He was among the first broadcast documentarians to produce, write, and report on important social issues, including "Black on Black," a ninety-minute program with no written narration on what it is like to be black in urban America in 1967; "Rape," a 30-minute 1970 program on the crime, which resulted in changes in California law; "The Junior High School," a two-hour program on education in America in 1970; and "Why Me?" a one-hour program on breast cancer in 1974 that resulted in thousands of lives being saved and advocated changes in the treatment of breast cancer in America.

In 1974, Saltzman created the broadcasting sequence in the USC School of Journalism. During his tenure at USC, Saltzman, who has won three teaching awards, was associate dean of USC Annenberg for five years, and has remained an active journalist who has produced medical documentaries, been a TV consultant and wrote articles, reviews, columns, and opinion pieces for numerous magazines and newspapers.

He has been researching the image of the journalist in popular culture for fifteen years and is considered an expert in the field. Saltzman was awarded the 2005 Journalism Alumni Award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the Alumni Association�s highest alumni honor.

Matthew C. Ehrlich
www.ijpc.org
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States

Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Ehrlich is a winner of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the University of Illinois’ highest teaching honor. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a former reporter, producer, editor and anchor for WILL-AM, Urbana; KANU-FM, Lawrence, Kan.; KCUR-FM, Kansas City; KBIA-FM, Columbia, Mo.; and KOPN-FM, Columbia, Mo. Ehrlich has earned honors from the Ohio State Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, Illinois Broadcasters Association, Indiana Associated Press and Kansas Association of Broadcasters.

Ehrlich's research focuses on social and cultural history. His most recent book is Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK. His earlier books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era; Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, which won the 2012 James W. Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Journalism in the Movies, which was named an Outstanding Title by the Association of American University Presses; and Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, which was coauthored with Joe Saltzman. Ehrlich also has written several scholarly articles on broadcast news, audio documentary, journalism history, and cinematic portrayals of the press. He has won top paper honors from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and from the International Communication Association.