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Missy Belote, Instructor In addition to teaching Journalism 284 and 381, Missy Shelton Belote works full-time as the Senior Governmental Affairs Producer for KSMU-FM and Ozarks Public Television. She hosts "Jeff City Journal," a public television program that airs statewide during the legislative session. While on assignment, Missy has traveled to Germany, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and China. She has received one national and four regional Edward R. Murrow awards. Her academic interests include civic journalism, international journalism, and agenda setting. Outside of academics, she enjoys serving on the Board of Directors for Springfield Little Theatre. 
Mark M. Biggs, Associate Professor My research and teaching interests lie primarily in the area of film & video aesthetics and production. My focus is divided equally between documentary and narrative production, in the belief that the issues of dramatic storytelling underlie all successful films, regardless of whether you pursue a nonfiction or fiction format. I believe that anyone interested in making films should study the historical, theoretical, and aesthetic issues involved in filmmaking. But I also understand that you learn about filmmaking most directly through the experience of making films. Creative application and critical analysis are ongoing processes in any thoughtful production experience. 
Jaime Bihlmeyer, Associate Professor Jaime Bihlmeyer worked for 8 years in Los Angeles as a videographer, filmmaker and production coordinator for film and video projects with celebrities including Jack LaLanne, Ray Charles, and Neil Young's back up band Crazy Horse. He has received international and national awards for his films including the Telly Award for his film Double Bullseye, produced at Missouri State, and a Special Merit Award at the Athens International Film Festival for his film Valentine. Both of these films explore narrative form as well as cultural and gender representation in fiction films. 
Diana Botsford, Instructor A degree in film from Boston University, Diana Dru Botsford has taught media writing courses throughout southwest Missouri for the past four years. Her background includes a wide variety of credits on motion pictures, network television, online streaming media, and most recently the publishing world. She has also written and directed for the live stage. 
Karen S Buzzard, Department Head Dr. Buzzard is internationally recognized for her seminal scholarship in the area of ratings history and practice. Her books, Chains of Gold: Marketing the Ratings and Rating the Markets (Scarecrow Press, 1990) and Electronic Media Ratings: Turning Audiences into Dollars and Sense (Focal Press, 1992), have resulted in solicitation by scholars, industry professionals, journalists, and business startups for her expertise in the ratings industry. 
Andrew R. Cline, Assistant Professor If someone had told the 20-year-old me that I would be a journalism professor by age 49, well, I would have laughed. The 20-year-old me had specific career plans that certainly did not include teaching and research in the Ivory Tower. I saw myself becoming one of those crusty old journalists my professors always told me about - the ones who sit in smoky bars in foreign lands and tell marvelously insightful war stories and offer an endless stream erudite comments on the important issues of the day.
My interests also include online journalism and weblogs. I am the author of the Press-Politics Journal on The Rhetorica Network. My students write for Bang It Out! and The Golden Mean. I think the study of the liberal art of journalism is an excellent preparation for the vagaries of life. Despite many of its problems, journalism remains, in my opinion, the most important discoursive practice in our culture. It is an honorable profession practiced by honorable people who are vitally concerned with public affairs. Check it out. Arlen E. Diamond, Professor. My research and scholarly interests cross a number of boundaries, however they can be best described as emerging communication technologies and public policy. My approach to research tends to be experimental and empirical; I am less interested in the historical and critical approaches. I am interested in learning more about how new technologies will be integrated into the marketplace (consumer acceptance and use) and how the government will deal with technologies which raise significant public policy issues. For example, telephone companies and cable television companies are merging, but each is regulated differently, How will consumers react to the services offered by these new combined companies and how should the government regulate the new companies in view of the universal access standard applied to telephone companies today? I might be of help to graduate students in the following areas: 1) conceptualization of the research problem; 2) design of the experiment; and 3) drawing conclusions from statistical data. 
Thomas Dickson, Professor. My areas of specialization are: (1) publication editing and design; (2) First Amendment law (3) general media law; (4) media ethics; (5) media education; and (6) sports writing. My scholarly interests include: access to information by the college press; freedom of the high school press; curriculum, instruction and program structure; media ethics and responsibility; media bias and stereotypes; and media and politics. I have conducted several national studies about First Amendment issues at the high school and college levels and several national studies of media education at the post-secondary level. I also have studied journalism education and the mass media in the Soviet Union and China and have attended educator seminars in Cuba, Hungary and Poland . I am currently research chair of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and previously was co-chair of the AEJMC Curriculum Task Force. I have been managing editor of a daily newspaper and was a long-time sports editor. 
Jack Dimond, Instructor Jack Dimond has served as adviser to the Standard, Missouri State University’s student-run newspaper, since August 2005. He also teaches in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film. He worked for five years as a reporter, copy editor and page designer for The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kan., a 10,000-circulation daily newspaper. His beats included local business, city government in both Pittsburg and Frontenac, Kan., and Frontenac schools. While earning a master's degree at Pittsburg State University, he served as assistant adviser to the student-run newspaper, the Collegio, which won the 2004 All-Kansas Award from the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press. He also served as managing editor for the 2005 edition of the Kanza, PSU's yearbook. As an undergraduate at PSU, Dimond worked on the staff of the Collegio for three years, serving as editor in chief in 1999-2000. 
Derek Haff, Instructor Having recently earned my MFA in Sound Design for Theater, I am very excited to be back at my alma mater. I hope to contribute to our top notch media program a strong foundation in Sound Theory. Mine is a deeply philisophical view of sound grounded in practical aplication. My thesis work focuses on the search for a unique radio art form. To this end I am developing a 
Cheryl A. Hellmann, Instructor Cheryl Hellmann is an instructor in broadcast journalism and media production. She worked for several years as a television photojournalist and later as news producer and executive producer. As a producer she earned several journalism awards, including the NATPE International Iris Award for Special Events. 
Deborah Larson, Assistant Professor Deborah L. Larson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri's Department of Communication with an emphasis in Mass Media. At MSU, she coordinates the core course for the department, Mass Media in Society (MED120). In addition, Dr. Larson mentors two graduate assistants who are currently seeking M.A. degrees in the Department of Communication while teaching in the Media, Journalism & Film Department. As a media generalist, Larson teaches many courses for the department including Media Analysis and Criticism, Media Ethics, Television Studio production and Producing and Directing for Television. 
Mary Jane Pardue, Associate Professor I am an assistant professor of journalism at Missouri State University in Springfield. I have 26 years of professional experience and have worked at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the Nashville Banner in Nashville, Tenn. I have experience as a reporter, columnist, assistant city editor, wire editor, copy editor, assistant neighbors editor and business editor. I have taught at the University of Memphis, Florida Atlantic University, Western Kentucky University, Middle Tennessee State University, Palm Beach Community College and Volunteer State Community College. I earned a doctorate in English in 1988 and a master's degree in English in 1984 from Middle Tennessee State University. My bachelor’s degree is from the University of Tennessee. My research interests include the timely and accurate reporting of business news and the training of journalists for business news reporting. I have also studied large independently owned newspapers and their survival strategies in an age of corporate journalism. I am an active member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and have lead workshops for SABEW, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the American Press Institute in several states to train newspaper professionals to improve their reporting and writing skills. I serve on the SABEW Awards Committee, the Education Committee and the Task Force on Diversity, whose goal is to increase diversity in the nation’s business newsrooms. I teach Introduction to Journalism, News Writing and Reporting, Magazine Article Writing and Business Reporting. 
Mark Paxton, Professor As professor teaching journalism, I'm on my second career. My first was as a reporter and editor for 14 years at the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia, the Nashville Banner in Tennessee, and The Associated Press. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Communications, and I've been teaching at Missouri State since 1995. My research interest is the broad area of media law and freedom of expression and the more narrow topic of student press law. I've also published research into how the media "frame" discussion of important issues. I've published articles in journals such as Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Free Speech Yearbook, the Journal of Media and Religion, and College Media Review, among others. The courses I teach at Missouri State include Introduction to Journalism, Feature and Opinion Writing, Media Law, Newspaper Editing, and Publications. 
Joel Persky, Professor. My research/creative activity interests encompass three disparate areas: (1) the First Amendment & the broadcaster; (2) gender stereotyping, i.e. the portrayal of women in prime time television situation comedies; and (3) broadcast writing, broadcast performance, and media criticism i.e. film reviews. 
Janice G. Presley, Administrative Secretary I have seen a lot of changes since I began working full-time on the Springfield campus in October 1978. My first job was in the Records Office. One year later, I was promoted to an Admissions Evaluator in the Admissions Office where I worked processing applications for admission to the university until 2001. Then, I joined the staff of the Communication and Mass Media Department as an Administrative Secretary. Six months later when the Communication and Mass Media department split into two departments, I became the Administrative Secretary for the Media, Journalism, and Film Department. Michael Schilling, Lecturer Schilling, who has lived in Springfield since 1981, is an adjunct instructor. He has taught journalism and media courses, and has also held lectureships at Missouri State in 1991-92, and 2003-2004. 
Weiyan Wang, Associate Professor Weiyan Wang comes to Missouri State University's Department of Media, Journalism & Film with 7 years teaching experience at Beijing Film Academy, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, with an emphasis in Film/Video post-production and theory. Wang participated in feature film productions of "City Paradise", "In Expectation", and "Being with You till Dawn" as Film Editor or Sound Designer, and in many other TV dramas and documentaries. In recent years, she is directing television movies for China's Film Channel - CCTV6. 
Timothy R White, Associate Professor Timothy R White taught at Auburn University for 4 years, at the National University of Singapore for 12 years, and now at Missouri State University for 1 year. He has presented over 50 public lectures and papers at scholarly conferences in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, the United States, England, Sri Lanka, Australia, Israel, the Netherlands and Malaysia; in addition, he has advised Singapore’s National Arts Council and Board of Film Censors, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, on matters concerning film. He has published over 80 articles, book reviews and film reviews in magazines, online journals and in Cinema Journal, Film History, Kinema, Film Criticism, Asian Cinema, the Harvard Asia Pacific Review and other professional journals, and has recently published a book on film analysis. He is active in such professional organizations as the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Association for Animation Studies, the University Film and Video Association, and the Association for Asian Studies. His research interests include animation, Asian cinema and the films of Islamic nations. 
Tammy Wiley, Lecturer I've called Missouri State University "home" for most of my professional media career. My tenure at the University dates back nearly 20 years as I received both my undergraduate and graduate degrees from SMS. As a per course lecturer in the Media Journalism & Film department, I teach courses that focus on the “business” aspects of the media industry. Additionally, I am the Assistant Director of Broadcast Services & General Manager, Radio for the University’s Broadcast Services unit which is comprised of NPR member station KSMU-FM and PBS member station Ozarks Public Television. I provide leadership in all aspects of the radio and television stations including programming, fundraising, technical operations and administration. I enjoy the opportunity to mentor students at KSMU-FM and Ozarks Public Television and in the classroom. I feel fortunate to work in a fast-paced, creative environment with colleagues dedicated to the public affairs mission. |
