Media Smackdown

Biographical notes

Abe Aamidor (Author) Jim A. Kuypers (Author) Susan Wiesinger (Author)

Abe Aamidor began his journalism career with the Chicago Reader and later wrote for The (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and The Indianapolis Star. He is a past president of The Indianapolis Newspaper Guild. He has taught journalism at Indiana University, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Georgia Southern University, and Butler University. He is the author of Real Feature Writing (2nd Edition, 2006) and editor of Real Sports Reporting (2003). Jim A. Kuypers is Associate Professor of Communication at Virginia Tech. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (2009, co-edited) and Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age (2006). He is a former editor for the American Communication Journal. He is the recipient of the American Communication Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Communication Scholarship Award. Susan Wiesinger is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at California State University, Chico. She is a former newspaper reporter, editor, and publisher whose research focuses on the interaction among media, technology, and culture. She completed an AEJMC-Scripps Howard externship at The Oregonian, and is an Indiana University Teaching Fellow and an Alan H. Monroe Scholar at Purdue University.