Washington, DC – February 6, 2012 – The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Sara Magee, Loyola University Maryland, is the recipient of BEA’s 2012 New Faculty Research Grant.
Dr. Magee teaches courses in television news writing, production and reporting as well as media ethics at Loyola University Maryland. Her research interests include news and entertainment in today’s media, popular culture and its impact on society and media, online culture and media, and National Public Radio programs and news content.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1997, Magee produced and reported for WICU 12 TV, the NBC affiliate in Erie, PA, for three years before heading out to Sin City where she produced the 11 pm newscast at the local CBS affiliate KLAS TV. During her time in Las Vegas, Magee won an Emmy award for her New Year’s Eve live broadcast, produced several other award-winning newscasts and served as assignment editor and reporter.
After more than six years in the business, she returned to school for her masters in English literature from Virginia Commonwealth and later moved on to receive her doctorate from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where she taught broadcast journalism classes and oversaw a live, daily, student-produced newscast. She was also producer and fill-in managing editor for WOUB-TV and radio and hosted NPR programs, including All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
The next three years were spent as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at West Virginia University where she taught Television and Radio writing and reporting, the student produced weekly TV newscast class WVU News, the journalism and media ethics classes, and advised the school’s chapter of RTDNA. She won the Golden Quill Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2009-2010, an award voted on by all students in the School of Journalism.
BEA’s New Faculty Research Grant (NFRG) seeks to promote scholarship through achievement by untenured broadcast and electronic media faculty. A cash grant of $1,000 will be awarded to Dr. Sara Magee at BEA’s annual convention in Las Vegas, April 15-18. Initial funding for this grant was provided by Rebecca Hayden, winner of BEA’s Distinguished Education Service Award in 1993, and long-time editor/publisher of broadcast and media books at Wadsworth Publishing Co. The grant honors the memory of Sydney W. Head (1913-1991) and Harrison B. Summers (1894-1980), two key pioneers in broadcast education.
