I start this President\u2019s Corner with a reminder about an important current BEA initiative–the beginning work of our new Diversity & Inclusion Faculty Fellow George Daniels.\u00a0\u00a0George has begun planning and will need some of our members to step up and help his work have the desired impact for our members and organization. Plus, I have a related call request for you: I\u2019m always looking for ways to include more BEA members in service to the organization, so I\u2019m asking you to step up and indicate an interest in serving on one of our committees. Many of the committees have specific procedures and rotations, but you can start by going to the BEA web site and look at the Committees and Task Force list. One you choose might be Student Media Clubs, or you might help me identify an area for BEA growth and recommend a Task Force idea. Send me an email no later than November 20th advising me of your area(s) of interest from these or otherwise, and I will be working on committee updates shortly thereafter.\u00a0I do want to hear from all interested BEA members.”<\/b><\/p>\n And now we continue to highlight and recognize some important BEA members.<\/p>\n Coche was born and raised in France and began her career as a freelance sports reporter and producer in Paris.\u00a0She worked on major events such as the 2008 Soccer European Championship, the America\u2019s Cup, the 2010 Olympic Games, the French, U.S. and Australian Opens in tennis, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.\u00a0In 2016, she led U.S. students to cover the Rio 2016 Olympics and is set to repeat the experience with 20 University of Florida students in Tokyo if international travel is safe and allowed in summer 2021.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.beaweb.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Coche_Roxane-200x300.jpg\")
BEA is pleased to announce that Dr. Roxane Coche, University of Florida, is the recipient of BEA\u2019s 2020 New Faculty Research Grant.\u00a0 Roxane Coche<\/b>\u00a0is the Associate Director of Sports Journalism and Communication and an\u00a0Assistant Professor in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Before coming to UF in 2018, Coche was an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis, teaching undergraduate and graduate students in broadcast, sports journalism and entrepreneurial media.\u00a0Prior to that, she was a journalism lecturer at the University of North Georgia Dahlonega and a visiting professor in the Communication and Sciences Program at the Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara in Mexico.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Anne MacLennan<\/b>\u00a0has been the editor of the\u00a0Journal of Radio & Audio Media\u00a0<\/i>since 2016, and we thank her for her quality service as editor. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada.\u00a0 She\u2019s currently the Principal Investigator on a grant called \u201cProgramming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio\u201d with collaborator Kate Moylan, professor at the University of Leicester. It\u2019s funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council.\u00a0This current research project team is concentrating on collecting interviews from campus, community, and indigenous radio stations in Canada, with 227 interviews so far.\u00a0Usually, she writes about radio history.\u00a0 She co-authored a book with Michael Windover, Carleton University, Seeing<\/i>,\u00a0Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956.\u00a0<\/i>That work was part of a grant and curated shows of vintage radios, equipment, and other materials at Carleton University, York University, the Archives of Ontario. They are working on a digital curated show at the Musee des Ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal.<\/p>\n