Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism. In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]
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President Obama has appointed 1971 UMaine graduate Pamela White ambassador to The Ghana. White is an Auburn native who earned a UMaine journalism degree before embarking on a career in public service that began with work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. She joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1978, serving in […]
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Former UMaine hockey All-American Jack Capuano has been named interim head coach of the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders. Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News has a story about Capuano and his new job, announced on Monday by Islanders general manager (also a former Black Bear hockey player) Garth Snow. Capuano, who lives in Bangor with […]
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Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty is featured in a WABI television story about issues related to wolves in the Maine woods. The report was the first in a two-part series scheduled to conclude on Tuesday evening’s news.
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Comments from Mick Peterson of the UMaine mechanical engineering faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story reporting on a tidal power forum held Saturday at Maine Maritime Academy.
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A Sunday WLBZ television story included perspectives from Paul Myer of the UMaine business faculty, discussing the demise of the printed telephone book. In the business context, Myer says, those publications are a “historical relic.”
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Laura Wilson from the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was featured in a WLBZ (Channel 2) news story about the importance of having well water tested for contaminants. The report says that more than half of Mainers get their water from wells.
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Monday’s Boston Globe includes a story about “bridge-in-a-backpack” technology created at UMaine. The story features comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with Brit Svoboda, chief executive of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies. His company licenced the technology from UMaine to develop it for commercial applications.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a report about Friday’s UMaine forum, “The Promise and Problem of Transparency.” The session, which featured an address by Cary Coglianese of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was part of UMaine’s William S. Cohen Papers Forum series. It was sponsored by UMaine’s Fogler Library (home of the Cohen papers), […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty provided comment for a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the impact and relevance of political parties in Maine politics. The story is based in part on post-election comments from Eliot Cutler, the independent candidate who lost Maine’s gubernatorial election by about one percent of the vote.
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