Richard Schaefer
General Information: I currently advise broadcast and multimedia
undergrads, as well as communication graduate students. My
teaching and research interests include immigration issues,
broadcast journalism and journalistic policies and visual
communication.
Before becoming a professor, I worked in the United States
as a broadcast journalist, a writer of interactive videodisks
and a non-representational film artists. My undergraduate
degree was earned at the University of Notre Dame and my master
and doctoral degrees are from the University of Utah.
I have chaired the Communication Technology Division of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
and served as the Review and Criticism Editor of the Broadcast
Education Association's Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic
Media, which is disseminated quarterly to over 2,500 research
libraries around the world. Working on Cross-Border
Issues
Since
2007 I have worked with small groups of U.S. students and
Mexican journalism students from institutions such as Universidad
Fray Luca Paccioli and Tec de Monterrey. We have studied immigration
issues by going to immigration hot spots in Central America,
on both Mexican borders and throughout Mexico. Carolyn Gonzales,
who is pictured above holding the water bottle, and UFLP’s
Arturo López Durán and I founded the Cross-Border
Issues Group program to study and facilitate student exchanges
around in-depth studies of immigration and indigenous issues.
The immigration program has the goal of informing students
and citizens to the realities of current immigration policies,
and encourage appropriate reforms. We generally work in Spanish.
Talk
Radio News Service
For the last few years, I have been the UNM faculty director
for the Talk Radio News
Service internship for UNM students in Washington, D.C.
Each spring semester about half a dozen students work for TRNS,
which provides reports to more than 300 radio stations across
the nation. Interns receive housing and travel support from
the New Mexico Broadcasters Association.
Sample Publications:
- Schaefer, Richard J. (2010). Writing for the Media.
A digital online textbook published by the GreatRiver Technologies,
Dubuque, IA.
- Schaefer, Richard J., Gonzales, Carolyn, and Schaefer,
JoAnn (2010). Casa de Migrante: Lecheria Albergue. A competitive
paper delivered to the Latin American Crises and Opportunities
Conference in Riverside, CA, on April 24, 2010.
- Schaefer, Richard J. & Martinez, T. J. (2009). "Trends
in network news editing strategies from 1969 through 2005."
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,
53:3, 347-364.
- Cross-Border Issues Group (2008, Nov. 23.). Schaefer,
Richard J., executive producer and reporter, and Carolyn
Gonzales, producer and reporter, of one-hour radio documentary
entitled “Perspectives on Mexican Immigration”
about Mexican and indigenous perspectives on migration.
Reporters Jennifer Vieth, Christina Lovato and Maggie Ybarra
also produced material for the Cross-Border Issues Group
documentary. (Aired on KUNM-FM and the public radio exchange.
Winner New Mexico Press Women best radio documentary for
2008 and runner-up in National Press Association long-format
radio reporting competition for 2008.)
- Schaefer, Richard J. (2003). "Whither digital television?"
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,
47:1, 145
- Schaefer, Richard J. & Gonda, Gillian K. (2003). "U.S.
public television workers’ initial impressions of
the DTV transition." Southwestern Mass Communication
Journal, 19:1.
- Schaefer, Richard J. (1998). "The development of
CBS News Guidelines during the Salant years." Journal
of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 42:1, 1-20
- Richard J. Schaefer (1996, Feb.). Annotated Synopsis of
the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A synopsis of new legislation
that was electronically published through the Communication
Technology and Policy Division Web page. (www.unm.edu/~aejmcctp/ctphome.htm
and http://excellent.com.utk.edu/CTP/telcom96.html)
Research Areas: Digital technologies and
journalistic writing, television production practices. Conducting
research on telecommunications and information technology
policy and the visual aspects of communication, as well as
immigration issues.
Teaching Style: Traditional. A combination
of what students sometimes describe as "long lectures"
with a practical component of completing a project for most
courses.
Courses Taught: C&J 171 -Writing for
the Media; C&J 360 and 460 Broadcast News I & II;
C&J 501 - Fundamentals of Communication Research; C&J
562: Media Seminar.
Teaching: Broadcast news production classes
and telecommunication and media specific theory courses. Graduate-level
research methods and mass communication seminars. Director
of the introductory mass media writing courses.

Interests: Tennis--play more than enough of that.
Butchering, languages that is –Spanish and occasionally
Chinese. Eating--probably too much of that too, but it's even
more fun with company. Traveling, hiking and cross-country
skiing, particularly with family members, JoAnn and Adrian.
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