When

Wednesdays from 4-5:30 p.m.
Oct. 4 - Nov. 1, 2017

Where

Ocean Pines Community Center
235 Ocean Pkwy.
Ocean Pines, MD 21811

 
Driving Directions 

Contact

Molly Riordan 
Salisbury University 
410-543-6090 
cell@salisbury.edu 
 

Delmarva's Window to the World:
Global Journalism and the Local Media Landscape 

The Center for Extended & Lifelong Learning at Salisbury University and Ocean Pines Association have teamed up to bring SU to the Shore!

 

 


Wednesdays, Oct. 4 - Nov. 1 
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Cost: $35

Join Dr. David Burns, Salisbury University Associate Professor of Journalism, for a five-week series on the intersection between global events and local media, and the impact and impression on Delmarva residents.

From the first radio broadcasts in the 1920s to weather and news information provided by residents in 2017, Delmarva has played an important role in the electronic media’s 90-year history in the United States. In this 5-week workshop, Dr. Burns discusses Delmarva’s contributions to the creation and development of today’s electronic media. Discussions will cover early radio and television broadcasts, government regulations, the changing role of news in society and the rise of citizen journalists and augmented reality. 


Dr. Burns has worked for CNN and NBC News, in both permanent and freelance capacities, as a videotape editor and field camera operator in the United States and abroad. While living outside the US, he worked as a technology correspondent for the IDG Wire Service and for a Polish business and finance weekly newspaper.  He has taught new media courses to students and professional journalism workshops to media professionals in the United States, Poland, Russia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Afghanistan.

Burns is a past president of the Society of Professional Journalists Maryland Professional Chapter.  His research interests involve the media-politics linkage.  His doctoral dissertation examined the role of the Catholic Church in the development of the Polish media landscape during the transition from communism to capitalism.

He is currently writing and editing a sports communication textbook entitled, You Make the Call: Case Studies in Sport Communication (Routledge) due out in summer 2018.