UMaine CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism Justin Martin will be interviewed at 2:15 p.m. Friday on WLIP, a Wisconsin-based radio station that broadcasts from Chicago to Milwaukee, about a recent column Martin wrote for the Christian Science Monitor. Martin will talk about the economics of Generation Y. To listen live, go to the WLIP website.
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Wisconsin Radio Station to Interview Martin
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Martin Column on Advertising Practices in Newspaper
Monday, January 30th, 2012Justin Martin, a UMaine CLAS-Honors College Preceptor of Journalism, has a column on the Poynter website in which he writes about advertising practices in the Bangor Daily News. Martin argues that a recent BDN advertising supplement creates confusion over what is news and what is advertising.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Martin Column on the Use of Hyperlinks
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012The Poynter Institute’s news website posted a column by Justin Martin, a UMaine journalism faculty member and CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism. Martin writes about distracting volumes of hyperlinks in web copy and how hyperlinks can be useful, but often are used to keep the reader from leaving a website.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Martin Column in Columbia Journalism Review
Friday, January 6th, 2012The Columbia Journalism Review has a column by Justin Martin, a UMaine journalism faculty member and Honors College preceptor, who related his attempts to reach rock singer Pink about an idea he had to raise funds to help rape and torture victims in the Congo. A video Martin made about his idea, which included him singing a duet with Pink, can be seen on YouTube.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Major Media Outlets Cover Humbleness Study
Thursday, January 5th, 2012UMaine psychology lecturer Jordan LaBouff’s study that found humble people are more likely to be helpful than arrogant people was noted in several media outlets, including National Geographic’s daily news website, Cosmopolitan magazine’s website and the UPI wire service. Time Magazine’s Healthland website also ran a story about the study, which LaBouff conducted with colleagues while at Baylor University.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Personality Study Links Humility, Helpfulness
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Helping one another in times of need is a cornerstone of quality human relationships, according to a University of Maine psychology researcher who has determined that humility trumps arrogance when it comes to offering assistance. (more…)
Sydney Carroll Thomas 1954-2011
Friday, December 30th, 2011Former University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty member Sydney Carroll Thomas has died at the age of 57. Thomas, who left UMaine in 2008, was an associate professor of counselor education and also taught in the Honors College. According to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Thomas joined the UMaine faculty after obtaining a doctorate at the University of Rochester in New York. Thomas is survived by two children and five grandchildren. A memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at The Church of Latter-day Saints, 639 Grandview Ave., Bangor. In lieu of flowers, donations in Sydney’s honor may be made to ASPCA, 424 East 92nd St., New York, NY 10128-6804 or at aspca.org; PETA at peta.org; or Avian Haven, 418 North Palermo Road, Freedom, ME 04941. Notes of condolences may be left at www.birminghamfuneralhome.com
Martin Column on Presidential Debates
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011In his latest column in the Columbia Journalism Review, Justin Martin, a UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors preceptor of journalism, argues that one of the upcoming U.S. presidential election debates, particularly the one that focuses on foreign policy, should be held outside the U.S. The gesture of holding a presidential debate abroad, Martin wrote, would signal to other countries that the U.S. takes foreign policy seriously, as well as remind any ethnocentric Americans that other countries are worthy of our time and respect.
Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Professor Proposes Duet with Pink
Monday, December 12th, 2011A UMaine professor has posted a YouTube video in which he asks pop singer Pink if she will perform a Christmas duet with him in order to raise funds for female mass rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (more…)
Martin set for Monday radio interview
Monday, November 21st, 2011Justin Martin, UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – Honors Preceptor of Journalism, will be interviewed Monday afternoon (3 p.m. eastern time) on Wisconsin radio station WLIP. In a discussion that will be available live online, Martin will discuss the state of the cable television industry in the U.S.
