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Paper presented at The Dynamics of Convergent Media Conference (November). Nielsen Media Research. (2002) Available: http://nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html. USNews.com. (2002) America’s Best Colleges 2003. (September 23). Available: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php About the Authors Dr. Carrie Anna Criado Dr. Criado holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center. Criado remains a media scholar while working as an attorney and PR Director for U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. Criado worked for the SMU Division of Journalism from 1999-2003 and received two "H.O.P.E." awards from SMU students. Criado also worked for Middle Tennessee State University where she won "Most Influential" faculty awards during her two years at MTSU. Criado's research interests are media convergence and the First Amendment. She and professor Camille Kraeplin presented preliminary findings of their convergence journalism research at The Dynamics of Convergent Media Conference in November 2002. The final results of the study are available on this website. While at SMU & MTSU, Criado was faculty advisor for the student chapter of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). She also served as news director and executive producer of student radio & television newcasts. Criado has interned as a law clerk for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC and worked for the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt after law school. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and Tennessee. Criado also has more than eight years experience in television news and has worked as a news anchor and news reporter for KVII-TV (Amarillo) and as a general assignment reporter for KEYT-TV (Santa Barbara). She also served as host and moderator for two series produced by KUHT-TV (Houston Public Television). Criado can be reached at (832) 576-6207 or via email at carriecriado@yahoo.com. Dr. Camille Kraeplin Dr. Kraeplin holds both a master’s (1994) and a doctorate (1998) in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. She completed a master’s degree in international communication at Baylor University, finishing in 1988 after spending six months as a reporter for an English-language newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kraeplin’s bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science is also from Baylor. Dr. Kraeplin spent nearly a decade working as a reporter and editor with such publications as The Dallas Morning News, Texas Monthly, Dallas-Fort Worth Home & Garden and The Austin American-Statesman. While a food writer with The Dallas Morning News, she won the Carnation Award for health and nutrition reporting. She continues to write freelance and in summer 1991 spent six weeks at The Dallas Morning News on a fellowship sponsored by The American Society of Newspaper Editors. She has also worked as a consultant developing and analyzing public opinion surveys for the research department of The Dallas Morning News. Dr. Kraeplin’s research interests include intercultural communication and the portrayal of women and minorities in the media, newspaper research, and media and public opinion. Her doctoral dissertation on public journalism and newspaper editorial pages was funded by Pew Center's Project for Public Life and the Press. Her work has appeared in several books and professional journals. Most recently, she co-authored a chapter in Communication in Black & Brown, an anthology that looks at media coverage of African-Americans and Latinos, and contributed a chapter on the association between eating disorders among young women and their portrayal in popular media to the journalism text Contemporary Media Issues. She has presented papers at numerous academic conferences. In 1998, her study of media coverage of race relations in Dallas in the 1950s was named as one of the top student papers by the History Division of The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Professor Kraeplin can be reached at (214) 768-3431 or via email at kraeplin@mail.smu.edu. _______________________________________ Website http://convergencejournalism.com Convergence Journalism.com features landmark U.S. Media & University study by Professors Carrie Criado and Camille Kraeplin. Sitemap Information http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convergencejournalism.com&btnG=Google+Search