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Eisman created a Distance Education course, Media @ the Millennium, about the influence of technology, business and audience on journalism.

Amy Eisman

Adjunct Associate Professor
Communication, School of

  • Amy Eisman oversees SOC’s basic writing classes and the weekend graduate journalism programs. She teaches reporting and writing for convergent media. Eisman was an editor with Gannett for 17 years, first as a cover story editor at USA TODAY and later as Executive Editor of USA WEEKEND. Eisman was also a managing editor at AOL and a Fulbright lecturer in Moscow. Today she trains newsrooms on Web content and writing. She co-authored, with Larry Gillick, online training modules for Gannett about breaking news online, interactivity and database journalism. With Professor Wendell Cochran, she co-wrote a module about tools for citizen journalists for Knight Citizen News Network. She’s held workshops at the washingtonpost.com, Freedom Forum, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and Moscow.

  • Degrees

    BA University of Pennsylvania; MA American University

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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

  • Spring 2010

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Professional Presentations

 
  • Speaker at JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention, Washington, D.C., on Media Landscape, Nov. 13, 2009
  • Online News Association, hosted panels on Web writing, and on companies hiring journalists, San Francisco, October, 2009
  • Quoted in AU Center for Social Media white paper about best practices in digital journalism
  • Panelist on Social Media panel, Lockheed Martin, September 2009
  • Speaker "New Trends in Public Diplomacy: The Future of Media," Foreign Services Institute, June 2009
  • Speaker on "Web 2.0: Unlocking Online Resources," for the Washington, D.C., chapter of NBC Universal's African American Forum, October 2008
  • Panel moderator at the Online News Association annual conference, Washington, D.C. The first, at J-Lab's preconference workshop, was "Building Innovation in the Curriculum." The second was "So you want to teach? Ha!" for potential first-time faculty, September 2008
  • Panelist, Marketing Brand You: Self-Branding Online, Silverdocs, an AFI/Discovery Channel documentary film festival, June 2008
  • Panelist at thenewsmarket's "Digital Marketing and Online Video for Public Relations and Public Affairs," National Press Club, June 2008
  • Panelist at Association of Health Care Journalists, "Multimedia Tools for Telling Stories," Arlington, Va., March 2008
  • Moderated panel of USA TODAY editors (scroll down in link) on newspaper's 25th anniversary, September, 2007
  • Freedom Forum, Online Multimedia Reporting Seminar, Nashville, workshop on Web writing and editing, Aug. 12-17- 2007
  • Freedom Forum, conference call to 100-plus journalists on how to write for the Web, April 26, 2007
  • National Press Club, Washington, DC, participated in panel, "New Trends in Electronic Media," April 3, 2007

Media Appearances

Professional Services

Conducted Web-writing workshops

Created Online Training Modules

  • Co-authored in 2006-2007 with Prof. Larry Gillick online training modules for 5,500 employees of Gannett Co. on breaking news online, interactivity and datbase journalism.
  • Co-authored, in 2007 with Prof. Wendell Cochran training for citizen journalists at the Knight Citizen News Network.

Served as Judge

  • Advisory Board Member for Knight-Batten Awards in innovative journalism, July 2009
  • Robert F. Kennedy Annual RFK Journalism Awards, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Best of Gannett, 2005
  • CHINFO judging for U.S. Navy, 2005

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: New media landscape, convergent media, writing and editing for online publications, journalism, newspapers, new media, mass media, print versus Web journalism, citizen media

Additional Information: Amy Eisman is one of the founding editors ofUSA Today, former executive editor of USA Weekend magazine, and a former managing editor in content at AOL. She created an online course in the School of Communication called Media@ the Millennium, which explores the influences of technology, business, audience, and bias on journalism. She trains journalists in Web writing, holding sessions for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and Moscow; for Voice of America, washingtonpost.com, World Resources Institute, wtopnews.com, and for the Diversity Institute of the Freedom Forum in Nashville, Tenn. A frequent panelist, she is the coauthor of multimedia online training modules for Gannett and of those for citizen journalists. She was a Fulbright lecturer at Moscow State University in summer 2004.

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