Erica Salkin, professor of communication studies and interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Emma Maple ’24 recently presented a study they co-authored at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference in Philadelphia. Their study, about newspaper coverage of Supreme Court free speech cases, began as Maple’s honors project and grew into a comparative content analysis that the pair worked on together.
“The presentation went well, with lots of good feedback (and some surprise that Emma was an undergrad! That’s how we do things here at Whitworth),” Salkin says.
Salkin and Maple, a recent grad and former editor-in-chief of The Whitworthian, are now pursuing publication for their study, “Newspaper coverage of the Supreme Court’s decisions in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ and ‘303 Creative.’”
“It will be exciting to see Emma add a journal publication to all of her great journalism work,” Salkin says.
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