BC DEMS MONTHLY MEETING
BC Dems June MEETING
June 24, 2019 Lunch: 11:00 am Meeting: 12:00 noon
Golden Corral, 2605 W. Pleasant Crossing Dr, Rogers
Speaker: Dr. Rob Wells, Assistant Professor of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Arkansas, and some of his students
Topic: The Student Loan Debt Crisis
June 24, 2019 Lunch: 11:00 am Meeting: 12:00 noon
Golden Corral, 2605 W. Pleasant Crossing Dr, Rogers
Speaker: Dr. Rob Wells, Assistant Professor of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Arkansas, and some of his students
Topic: The Student Loan Debt Crisis
Professor Rob Wells and his students will discuss their research on how student loan debt has affected people’s lifestyles and career choices after graduation.
Rob Wells is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas. He teaches data journalism, journalism theory, business reporting and basic news reporting and is Graduate Coordinator for the journalism school’s Master of Arts program. His research interests involve examining the history of business journalism and its problems, such as business journalism’s inability to serve the general public effectively. He is author of a forthcoming book, The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism, due out in November on the University of Illinois Press. This book examines the problems with business journalism and describes ways it can improve based on a case study of a small business newspaper’s reporting during the savings and loan crisis.
In 2016, he earned a doctorate in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. His dissertation won the Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Endowed Award, University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2017. An earlier version of this research was awarded Top Paper Competition, History Division, Student Category at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in 2015. In 2013, he earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at St. John’s College in Annapolis; he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from California State University, Sacramento.
From 2010-2016, Wells was an adjunct lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park. He taught basic and intermediate reporting and business journalism courses. Wells was a 2012 Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
He has conducted training sessions for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., Dow Jones News Fund, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Association of Area Business Publishers, and the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism.
Prior to his academic career, Wells was Deputy Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires in Washington, D.C.; he has also reported for Bloomberg News, The Associated Press and newspapers in California. He and his wife, Deborah C. St. Coeur, play music, ride bikes and listen to a vast collection of jazz, blues and soul records. Wells is the host of the Jazz Scoop, a jazz program on KUAF, 91.3 in Fayetteville.
Rob Wells is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas. He teaches data journalism, journalism theory, business reporting and basic news reporting and is Graduate Coordinator for the journalism school’s Master of Arts program. His research interests involve examining the history of business journalism and its problems, such as business journalism’s inability to serve the general public effectively. He is author of a forthcoming book, The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism, due out in November on the University of Illinois Press. This book examines the problems with business journalism and describes ways it can improve based on a case study of a small business newspaper’s reporting during the savings and loan crisis.
In 2016, he earned a doctorate in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. His dissertation won the Ray Hiebert History of Journalism Endowed Award, University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2017. An earlier version of this research was awarded Top Paper Competition, History Division, Student Category at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in 2015. In 2013, he earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at St. John’s College in Annapolis; he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from California State University, Sacramento.
From 2010-2016, Wells was an adjunct lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park. He taught basic and intermediate reporting and business journalism courses. Wells was a 2012 Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
He has conducted training sessions for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., Dow Jones News Fund, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Association of Area Business Publishers, and the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism.
Prior to his academic career, Wells was Deputy Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires in Washington, D.C.; he has also reported for Bloomberg News, The Associated Press and newspapers in California. He and his wife, Deborah C. St. Coeur, play music, ride bikes and listen to a vast collection of jazz, blues and soul records. Wells is the host of the Jazz Scoop, a jazz program on KUAF, 91.3 in Fayetteville.
NOTE: Please respect the speaker's time and do not interrupt the speech with questions or statements. There will be a question and answer period at the end of the presentation.
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