- Kembrew McLeod
Kembrew McLeod is an American journalist, artist, activist, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is perhaps best known as a performance artist or "media prankster" who filed an application in 1997 to register the phrase "Freedom of Expression" as a trademark in the United States. This phrase was the name of his zine/artist book series, and on January 6, 1998 McLeod was granted registration no. - Nancy Baym
Nancy Baym, Ph.D. is an American academic, currently an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She is a co-founder and former president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and serves on the board of several academic journals covering new media and communication. She is the author of "Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community" (2000), a book which performs an ethnographic analysis on soap opera fans, … - Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholars in the area of advertising, media, and consumption. He is the producer of several documentaries on media literacy topics and the founder and executive director of the "Media Education Foundation", … - Graeme Turner
Graeme Turner (born 1947) is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Federation Fellow, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Turner gained a Master's Degree from Queen's University, Canada, and his Doctorate from the University of East Anglia, in the UK. - Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham (born 1953) is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). With degrees from the University of Queensland, and McGill University in Canada, Cunningham was awarded his Doctorate from Griffith University in Brisbane in 1988. - Jim A. Kuypers
Jim A. Kuypers is an American Academic specializing in communication studies at Virginia Tech. He has written on the news media, rhetorical criticism, and presidential rhetoric. He is particularly known for his work in political communication which explores the qualitative aspects of Framing (social sciences) analysis and its relationship to presidential communication and news media bias. - Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Oscar H. Gandy Jr., retired since 2006, was the Herbert Schiller Professor of Communication studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Gandy is a world-renowned scholar of the political economy of information. His work spans many subjects, including privacy, race, information technology, media framing, media development, and educational subsidy. - Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts (b. 1960) is an American television broadcaster, who is the co-anchor of ABC's popular morning show "Good Morning America". Roberts' father was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. She grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis among other sports, and graduated from high school as the class salutatorian. She then attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, … - Maria Rita
Maria Rita (born September 19 1977 in São Paulo, Brazil) is the performance name of Maria Rita Mariano, a Brazilian singer. She is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano. Her namesake is family friend and famed Brazilian rocker Rita Lee. Maria Rita majored in Latin American studies and communications at New York University, … - Peter Gutmann
Peter Gutmann, born August 3, 1949 in Kew Gardens, New York, United States. Gutmann is a professional journalist and an attorney. He graduated from Wesleyan University, "cum laude", with a B.A. in 1971 and a M.A. in Communications in 1974. He also attended the University of North Carolina, where he earned a J.D. in 1978. - Miss Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Hulette, known best as Miss Elizabeth, was a U.S. professional wrestling manager. She gained international fame during the late-1980s and early-1990s in the World Wrestling Federation, and the mid-1990s in World Championship Wrestling in her role as the ever-demure and graceful counterpart to the wild and brash pro wrestling character "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Hulette was originally from Frankfort, Kentucky. - Susan Peters
Susan Peters (born September 27) is a main anchor on KAKE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas. Susan graduated from Western Illinois University with a B.A. in Communications. - David Horsey
David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appear in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3. He began perfecting his craft as a cartoonist in the "Cascade", the school newspaper at Ingraham High School. - Nick Harvey
Nicholas Barton "Nick" Harvey (born August 3, 1961) is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Devon. Nick Harvey was born in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire and was educated at the Queen's College in Taunton and the Middlesex Poytechnic at Enfield where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in business studies in 1983, he also served as the president of the students' union in 1981. - Brian Unger
Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. He was an original contributor to "The Daily Show", from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show "Day to Day" and guest hosts MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication. - Shereen Bhan
Shereen Bhan is 29 years old and is the Delhi Bureau Chief and Associate Editor (Political Affairs) of CNBC-TV18, India. She was named "FICCI Woman of the Year 2005". Shereen Bhan started her career with UTV as an associate producer in the news and current affairs division and has worked with Karan Thapar producing shows like Hard Talk India and Face to Face for the BBC, We the People for Star TV and Line of Fire for Sab TV. - Carleton Sheets
Carleton Sheets (name often misspelled as "Carlton") (born August 25, 1939) is head of the Professional Education Institute. The group uses infomercials to sell real estate investing literature, audio, and video to beginners. Sheets claims that beginners (even those with bad credit) can purchase property for "no money down." He has degrees in business, psychology, and speech from Ohio Wesleyan University (1961). - Amir Hassanpour
Amir Hassanpour, (1943-), is a prominent Iranian Kurdish scholar and researcher. He was born in Mahabad, in north-western Iran. He received Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English language in 1964 from University of Tehran. He taught in the secondary schools of Mahabad in the period of 1965-66. In 1968, he began studying linguistics at Tehran University, and received his M.A. in 1970. - Dustin Nguyen
Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyễn Xuân Trí on September 17, 1962, in Saigon, South Vietnam - now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American actor. His mother My Le was an actress and dancer and his father Xuan Phat an actor, writer and producer in South Vietnam. The family left Vietnam in April 1975 as it fell to Communist Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces. They arrived in Guam, then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Arkansas, … - Karen Lancaume
Karen Lancaume (born Karine Bach was a French adult film star. Despite her short resumé of having appeared in only 29 films from her beginnings as an adult film star in 1997, she was quite a popular actress, with her natural beautiful looks and self-esteem, especially among the francophone public. Born near Lyon, she spent her childhood in the Lyon countryside and completed her studies in communications. She was married to a DJ named Franck, … - Antonio Serrano
José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the "Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art" in England and the "Odin Teatre" of Denmark. He studied with the following directors: Polish Jerzy Grotowsky, French Phillipe Gaullier and Italian Carlos Bosso. - Kristine Hanson
Kristine Hanson (born September 23, 1951 in Illinois) is an American television broadcaster who also was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1974 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by David Chan. She currently is the host of DIY Network's "The Dirt on Gardening". Hanson has been the meteorologist on KOVR and KCRA in Sacramento, California, on KTVU, KGO, and KRON in San Francisco, and KZST in Santa Rosa, California. - William G. Covington Jr.
Dr. William G. Covington, Jr. is a communications professor and consultant who has taught at colleges and universities in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. He has published books on motivation and goal-setting, in addition to books on media management. Before entering academe, Dr. Covington was a broadcast journalist and he produced and hosted television and radio shows. - Liz Balmaseda
Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who writes for the "Miami Herald". Balmaseda was born in Puerto Padre, Cuba amidst the Cuban Revolution. Her family emigrated to the United States, and she grew up in Miami, Florida. She received an associate's degree from Miami-Dade Community College, and then a bachelor's degree from Florida International University in communications in 1981. - Curt Johnson
Curt Johnson is former General Manager of the Kansas City Wizards, a position he had held from 1999 to 2006. Johnson attended North Carolina State University, graduating in 1991 with a BA in Communication studies. He played as a defender for NC State, starting all four years, and captaining the 1990 side that made the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) semifinals. From 1992-94 he served as the Midwest region's marketing director for Adidas. - Steve Czaban
Steve Czaban ("The Czabe") (born June 1, 1968) is an American sports radio personality. He currently hosts Fox Sports Radio's "The First Team on Fox" from the studios of WTEM in Washington, D.C., co-hosts "The Sports Reporters" on WTEM and does a daily sports segment for "Bob and Brian", a syndicated Wisconsin-area morning show. His theme for that segment is It's Raining Men. - Jane Pratt
Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of "Sassy" and "Jane". - Eric Close
Eric Close has starred in the series "Now and Again" and "The Magnificent Seven," both on CBS, as well as "Dark Skies" and "McKenna." His additional television credits include appearances in the series "Sisters" and "Santa Barbara." He also starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation "Follow the Stars Home," on CBS, and the 20-hour, 10-part mini-series "Taken," which was executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and received a Golden Globe nomination. - Jeff Cannell
Jeff Cannell (born September 24, 1971 in Columbus, Ohio) is the pastor of Central Vineyard Church in Columbus, Ohio. Jeff is the son of Steve Cannell: and Kathleen Cannell:. Jeff Cannell became serious about his Christian faith in High School. He attended Taylor University where he received a degree in communications. After graduation, Jeff worked in sales and account management at various companies. - Rena Heer
Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality, seen as a traffic reporter on CHAN's "Global BC Morning News" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Heer attended Simon Fraser University on a scholarship where she did her undergraduate degree in communications. After completing her degree, she was hired by a local software company and spent the next five years in software business development, while contributing part-time to various local South Asian media. - Tara Hitchcock
Tara Hitchcock (born 1971) is an American journalist and news anchor. She was born in Pennsylvania, the eldest of four daughters. Her family lived in Massachusetts and New Jersey. In 1981, they settled in Plano, Texas, near Dallas. Her parents still live in Plano. Tara attended Boston College and holds a BA in political science and communications. She received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. - Susan Hay
Susan Hay is a Canadian weather anchor for Global Toronto. She has been with Global since May 1989 and was previously with the CTV television network affiliate CICI in Sudbury, Ontario. Hay has also donated to many charities as well as hosts the televised Toronto Santa Claus Parade. She graduated from Canadore College with an honorary diploma for communication arts where a scholarship in her name was also established. - Dave Strader
Dave Strader is an American sportscaster and currently does double-duty as the play-by-play announcer of the Florida Panthers on FSN Florida and as the #2 play-by-play announcer for The NHL on NBC and The NHL on Versus. He also broadcasts the Stanley Cup Finals on the NHL's International feed. - Danny Clark
Danny Clark IV (born May 9, 1977 in Blue Island, Illinois) is an American football player and a middle linebacker with the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was released by the Oakland Raiders prior to the 2006 season and signed with the Saints, whom he played for one year before signing with Houston in 2007. Clark was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft, with the 245th overall selection. - Javier Fesser
Javier Fesser is a Spanish film director and publicist. He made Communication studies in Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His brother Guillermo Fesser is a famous journalist. He was the founder of Línea Films in 1986. - Gustavo Cordera
Gustavo Edgardo Cordera is an Argentine rock musician, best known as the frontman of the band Bersuit Vergarabat. Cordera's musical career began in 1988, when he was studying communications at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora and running his own auto dealership, Cordera Bros. In the spring of that year, he visited Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval and was inspired to become a musician. Returning to Lanús, he sold his dealership, abandoned his studies, … - Fatih Akın
Fatih Akın is a Turkish-German film director. In 1994 he attended Hamburg's College of Fine Arts to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. Akın made his debut as director of a full length film already in 1998 with "Kurz und schmerzlos" ("Short Sharp Shock"), which brought him the award "Bronze Leopard" at Locarno, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for the best young director in Munich the same year. - Ziya Tong
Ziya Tong is a television personality and television producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was born in London, England and then lived in Hong Kong, and is of Chinese and Macedonian descent. In university, she majored in communications and psychology. Afterwards, she worked as a reporter, and as a Senior Producer for the news-portal Orientation Global Networks in New York. She began hosting the CBC television series "ZeD" in the 2004-05 season, … - Mariko Kōda
(sometimes romanized Mariko Kouda) is a seiyū, J-Pop singer and radio personality born on September 5, 1969 in Miyashiro, Minami Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kōda has had at least one song appear on the NHK program "Minna no Uta". She works for the talent management firm Aoni Production. - Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games .
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