Raymond A. Niekamp
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mass Communications, Penn State University, 2003, Dissertation title: Audience Activity Among Users of the World Wide Web
M.A., Mass Communications, University of Minnesota, 1989, Thesis title: Satellite Newsgathering and Network-Affiliate Relations
B.S., Journalism, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1973.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2005-present
Lecturer, Dept. of Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2001-2005
Instructor, Dept. of Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2000-2001
Instructor, Dept. of Broadcast Communications, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, 1999-2000.
Instructor, Dept. of Communications, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996-1998.
Instructor, College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1995-1996.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1989-1994.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Interim News Director, KAAL-TV, Austin, MN, Summer, 1990.
Assignment Editor, KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN, 1979-1989.
Producer, KMSP-TV, Minneapolis, MN, 1978-1979.
Assistant News Director, KBJR-TV, Duluth, MN, 1975-1978.
Reporter, WDIO-TV, Duluth, MN, 1973-1974.
COURSES TAUGHT
MC 5304K, The Internet and Mass Media
MC 3394, Management of Electronic Media
MC 3311, Video Production
MC 3355, Mass Media and Society
MC 3306, Writing for Electronic Media
MC 2374, Information Gathering and Analysis
MC 1313, Writing for Mass Media
TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient, Friends of Fine Arts & Communication Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006.
Runner-up, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Fine Arts & Communication, 2006.
Completed Program in Excellence in Teaching and Learning, for first-year tenure track faculty. 2005-06.
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
In print: “Opportunity Lost: Blogs on Local TV Station Web Sites.” Electronic News. Scheduled publication: September, 2007.
Niekamp, R. (2007). Podcasts on Television Station Web Sites: An Innovation Whose Time Has Gone. Paper presented at National Broadcasting Society, Chicago, IL, March. First Place award.
Quackenbush, D., and Niekamp, R. (2007). Virtual
opinion leaders and opinion change: an examination of blogging through
the framework of the two-step flow of communication, Paper presented at AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, New Orleans, LA, March.
Niekamp, R. (2007). Book review: Pringle, P., and Starr, M., Electronic Media Management, fifth edition. Boston: Focal Press, in Misiewicz, J. (Ed.), Feedback 48:1, January.
Niekamp, R. (2006). Transparency Lost: Blogs on Local Television Station Web Sites, paper presented at Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April. Second Place, Debut category.
Niekamp, R. (2005). Audience Activity Among Users of the World Wide Web, Paper presented at Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, Greeley, CO, November.
Niekamp, R. (1997). Television Station Web Sites:
Interactivity in News
Stories. Paper presented at AEJMC, Chicago, IL, Aug., 1997.
Niekamp, R. (1996). Television Station Sites on the World Wide Web. Journal of Mediated Communication, 11, 2, Fall.
Niekamp, R. (1996). Television Station Sites on the World Wide Web. Paper presented at AEJMC, Anaheim, CA, August. Best Student Paper award, RTVJ Division.
Niekamp, R. (1990). Satellite News Gathering's Effect on Network-Affiliate Relations. Paper presented at AEJMC, Minneapolis, MN, August.
FELLOWSHIPS
Poynter Teaching Fellowship, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, 1992.
Gannett Teaching Fellowship, Indiana University, 1990.
MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC)
Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ)
National Broadcasting Society (NBS)