Celebrating newsmakers
Every day, Concordia faculty, students, staff and alumni garner headlines in local, national and international media. They provide expert commentary on breaking news stories, and their research findings and personal and professional accomplishments are reported on.
Concordia stories generate a significant amount of media attention. In the fall of 2010 alone, more than 4,000 stories with a Concordia connection appeared in print media. During that same period, the university earned an average of 50 to 60 mentions in broadcast media each month.
Concordia experts are in great demand. By being part of the daily discourse on issues that shape the world, they share their knowledge and perspectives. There’s also a growing interest among academics to share their research results with the public, and those findings are being picked up by media.
Now there’s a showcase for this media success: Newsmakers.
- Concordia’s first Newsmaker of the week, Mervin Blair, a PhD student from the Department of Psychology and a member at the Centre for Research in Human Development, will be available for a live, online chat about his research on Monday, May 9, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
- Blair’s question to the community will be: “When working on projects, do you find your mind is cluttered with irrelevant information and, if so, when is it worst?”
Newsmakers is a web page that is updated daily and features the Newsmaker of the week — the Concordian who has had the greatest impact in the media during the current week, based on the media outlets his or her story appeared in and the size of the audience reached.
The page provides a nice snapshot of the breadth of coverage and includes links to the various news stories. Visitors are invited to leave comments and participate in the weekly Newsmakers online poll. Occasionally, readers are able to interact with the Newsmaker of the week through online conversations.
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• Newsmakers