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  • Kevin Grieves, Assistant Professor

Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mass Communication, Indiana University Bloomington, 2009. MA in Communication, University of Utah, 1993. Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and in Radio-Television, University of Montana.

EXPERIENCE

Kevin Grieves joined the faculty as assistant professor in the fall of 2009. He worked as a coordinating producer and researcher at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He also worked for a number of years at the Cable News Network (CNN) as a writer and producer, researching and writing news and feature stories for CNN’s German-language news website, and as a producer for CNN International newscasts including CNN World Report. Internationally, Grieves worked at a local television station in Berlin as well as CNN’s bureau in Germany. He has taught a variety of communication courses as an associate instructor at Indiana University and as an instructor at Salt Lake Community College.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Broadcast journalism, television news production, news writing, visual communication, media history, media and society, international media systems.

RESEARCH

Transborder journalism, journalists’ cultural & professional identity, national & regional identity and the media, U.S. and European broadcast history.

Publications include “The U.S. Information Bulletin and Mixed Signals in the Democracy Lessons for Post-War Germany” (2008) in American Journalism and “Villains, Victims and the Virtuous in Bill O’Reilly’s ‘No-Spin Zone:’ Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques” (2007) in Journalism Studies (Mike Conway, Maria Elizabeth Grabe, and Kevin Grieves). Prof. Grieves has presented his research in a number of venues, including conferences of AEJMC, ICA, and the German Journalism and Communication Association (DGPuK).