Media Ethics and Performance

Susan Moeller - assistant professor of journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: media coverage of international crises and war; media analysis and criticism; how photographic images shape attitudes toward war

Credentials: analyzed media coverage of weapons of mass destruction issue prior to Iraq war (http://www.cissm.umd.edu/documents/WMDstudy_full.pdf); books include, "Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death," a study of how American print and broadcast media cover international crises, and "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat," which analyzes how 20th century photographic images shaped American attitudes toward war; Fulbright Professor of International Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan and Bangkok, Thailand
Contact: 301-405-2419 (office); smoeller@jmail.umd.edu ; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/smoeller/

Chris Hanson - assistant professor of journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: media coverage of war; media-military relations; journalism ethics

Credentials: combat correspondent in the Gulf War; covered the civil war in Rwanda; covered Pentagon and State Department; written on potential journalistic pitfalls in covering terrorism
Contact: 301-405-6049 (office); 202-257-7921 (home); chanson@jmail.umd.edu
Web site: www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/chanson/

Tom Kunkel - dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: media analysis and criticism

Credentials: former top editor, San Jose Mercury and Miami Herald ; media criticism columnist, American Journalism Review
Contact: 301-405-2383 (office); 301-879-8924 (home); tkunkel@jmail.umd.edu
Web site: www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/tkunkel/

Advertisers and Patriotism
Eric Zanot - professor of journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: use of September 11 and patriotic themes in advertising; regulation of advertising; public attitudes toward advertising

Credentials: conducted a study on advertising, including condolence ads, placed in major newspapers following September 11; board member of the National Advertising Review Board; co-editor of "Advertising: Concepts, Strategies, and Issues"
Contact: 301-405-2429 (office); ezanot@jmail.umd.edu ; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/ezanot/