The New News: The Journalists Guide to Producing Digital Content for Online & Mobile News

About Joan Van TasselJoseph SchmitzMary Murphy

Joan Van Tassel Ph.D. (Annenberg School for Communications/USC 1988) is an educator author and journalist. Shes written seven research-based books about the information telecommunication and entertainment industries including Managing Media: Making Marketing & Moving Digital Content.Dr. Van Tassel taught journalism at the National University Pepperdine University and UCLA Extension School. She produced news documentaries and TV movies for CBS NBC ABC and PBS. Her work won numerous awards including the Cable Industry Book Award an Emmy nomination the Kenny Rogers/UN Prize Los Angeles and San Diego Press Club Award and New Media Institute Standard of Excellence.Mary Murphy is an Associate Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. A Press Club award-winning journalist in print TV and online she was on the staffs of Esquire New York New West and TV Guide magazines and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Los Angeles Times. She was an on-air correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.Currently she writes a blog for TheWrap.com and other digital publications. She co-authored Blood Cold an investigation of the Robert Blake case and is working on another book about Hollywood.Murphy sits on the Boards of Directors of the Broadcast Television Critics Association and Fordham/Marymount University.Joseph Schmitz Ph.D. (Annenberg School for Communications/USC 1990) is an educator researcher and author. Joe developed and tested the Social Influence Model of Communication Technology. He chaired the International Communication Associations Communication and Technology Division. Schmitz was the co-principal investigator and primary research methodologist for National Science Foundation Technology Opportunity and US-EU Trans-Atlantic grants. He helped develop the City of Santa Monicas innovative Public Electronic Network.Schmitz taught research methods and organizational communication at Pepperdine University The University of Southern California Tulsa University and Western Illinois University. Joe collaborated with students to frame important questions and guide their discoveries toward logical fact-based empirical answers.