JEROME AUMENTE: BIOGRAPHICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Jerome Aumente is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication and Information, (SC&I) Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. He devotes his time to writing and to regional, national and international assignments as a media consultant specializing in journalism and mass communications training and university curriculum development. He has extensive experience in the international training of journalists; joint curriculum development with universities internationally and in the United States; health communication; the Internet and newer media technologies; investigative and enterprise reporting; business, economic and financial reporting.  

He is Special Counselor to the Dean of SC&I, and a member of the SC&I Advisory Board. He was founding Director of the Journalism Resources Institute (JRI) where he is senior research associate, and was founder and former Chairperson of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.   Both units are in the School of Communication and Information, one of the first interdisciplinary schools founded in the United States, which he     helped design at the request of the university     provost.

The Journalism Resources Institute conducted nearly $5 million in projects, and trained over 14,000 print and broadcast journalists under his direction, with over $2 million in media training and journalism projects in Central and Eastern Europe. The JRI, under his leadership, had special projects   in international affairs, journalism and mass communications; new media technologies; health, medical, and environmental coverage; media and law; evaluation   of professional training of journalists; business and financial journalism.        

He has published four books with the most recent, “ From Ink on Paper to the Internet”, an examination of   newer     media   technology and the   Internet,   winning the Society of Professional Journalists national award for journalism research in 2008. His other books examine journalism in Eastern Europe; the development of electronic publishing, and a guide for young people examining misinformation in the media.  

HIGHLIGHTS AMONG   HIS CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

·                 ARAB JOURNALISM AND MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVES:  Ongoing programs for journalists from the Middle East through 2008. Program co-developer, trainer and moderator for a series of three, three-week   workshops in 2004 and two,   two-week workshops in 2005   for journalists from Arab news media   representing print and   broadcast journalists   from   approximately eight different countries in the Middle East, North Africa and   from European operations. The intensive workshops   were sponsored by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, with support from the U.S. State Department through the Arab Media Outreach Center , American Embassy,   London and the Foreign Press Centers of the State Department. Journalists traveled in the United States during 2004 and 2005. The October, 2005, program for Iraqi journalists included a private meeting with President George Bush, Under Secretary of State Karen Hughes and Assistant Secretary of State, Dina Powell, at the White House.   Follow up programs are now under development with plans for an Internet exchange project. He   has conducted workshops and exchange visits for Arab   journalists in 2007, including one with journalists from predominantly Islamic countries from Asia in cooperation with the East-West Center , Hawaii, and Meridian International Center.   In 2008, he conducted two workshops and media visits for broadcast journalists from Saudi Arabia through Meridian International with State Department support.   In the Fall of 2008, he conducted a seminar and lectures in Beirut, Lebanon for Iraqi journalists   through the Iraqi Institute for   Strategic Studies.    

·                 Invited paper presenter at the Saudi Association for Media and Communication   (SAMC) annual conference , King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2005: a blue print for Arab and American journalists, media associations and   universities to cooperate in   developing cooperative programs, training and Internet projects.

·                 Workshop trainer for two programs on a) health and environmental reporting, and b) economic, business and   financial reporting for Arab journalists, government and non–government professionals, at the Alfaisal   International Academy (ALFAC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December, 2005 in cooperation with SAMC.

·                 Designer of an “Arab and American Journalists   Internet and Exchange Project (AAJ I-Net)”   project,     being planned   with Meridian International Center, Rutgers University and invited universities, news organizations and media associations.   The concept has been expanded in a long term cooperative agreement between Rutgers-SC&I and Meridian in a 2008 memo of understanding to develop blue ribbon lectures, workshops and seminars, the Internet platform and a special focus on young people designed by Professor Aumente.

·                 MEDIA TRAINING INITIATIVES IN THE BALKANS:                            

·                 Economic reporting workshop for journalists in Kosovo in Pristina   in the Spring   and Fall   of 2008 with support from the American Embassy and the International Broadcasting Bureau-Voice of America International Media Training Center., and in cooperation with the Kosovo Media Institute in Pristina and the Media Center in Caglivica.

·                 Principal trainer and moderator of seminars for professional journalists in Macedonia on a) news writing and commentary, and b) economic reporting.   Site visits to news organizations, public and university lectures. .Assistance in developing an Internet network for East European journalists on covering issues if human trafficking. In conjunction with the American Embassy, Skopje, Macedonia and International Media Training Center of International Broadcasting Board, Washington, DC.     Programs in Spring and Summer of   2004 and 2005.

·                 Principal trainer in 2006 for workshops in Belgrade and Nis in Serbia for print and electronic journalists on coverage of economic, business and financial issues.   This was a sequel to previous workshops in Serbia in 1998 in cooperation with ANEM, the Independent Association of Journalists , B-92 and Veran Matic through the American Embassy.

·                 Principal trainer for a workshop in Stip, Macedonia, Spring of 2005, on Broadcast Management in cooperation with the Association of Private Broadcasters in Macedonia ( APEMM) and the Public Affairs section of the American Embassy   in Skopje, and the International Broadcasting   Board ( IBB-V0A).

·                 Principal trainer for a workshop on economic and financial reporting in Podgorica, Montenegro, Summer of 2005, in cooperation with American Embassy, Podgorica; the International Broadcasting Board (IBB-VOA) and the Montenegro Media Institute.

·                 Advisor to a project   in 2004   of the American Embassy, Skopje, Macedonia, on development of   an   Internet website to assist journalists in the Balkans in covering issues of the human trafficking of women and children. Prototype for   a project to be introduced   in other geographical sectors .

·                 Recipient of an honorary professorship , Faculty of Political Science, Journalism, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in recognition   of his assistance as designer and co-director of a   US State Department four year grant to the Sarajevo journalism department. (Spring, 2004).

·                 Contributing author to the book, “New Media; Theory and Practice: Implications for a Changing World”. Published by the University of Sarajevo, 2004. ( Paper presented in Sarajevo in 2003).

·                 Principal workshop developer and moderator for a one week program in Opatija, Croatia, for   Balkan journalists on issues of   human trafficking, 2002. Workshop developed and moderated in the US for Montenegrin journalists on investigative reporting, 2002. Workshop for Bosnian journalists in 2003 on economic reporting. All under the auspices of International Media Training Center, International Broadcasting Bureau and US State Department and American embassies in the host countries .

·                 NEWSPAPERS   AND THE IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INTERNET:

Author of the book, “ From Ink on Paper to the Internet: Past Challenges and Future Transformation for New Jersey’s Newspapers.” published in 2007. (499 pp.).   In 2008, the Society of Professional Journalists   selected the book for its Sigma Delta Chi   national excellence   in journalism research   award presented at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.     Judges called the book “ a well researched book (in which)… the larger and more complex issue of the relationship between media and the Internet is revealed” and further described it as a labor of love, the research is thorough and well-executed. A must have for every journalist’s reading   list.”   A case study of newspapers in New Jersey--- their history from the 18^th through the 21^st centuries; interviews with editors and publishers; analysis of the impact of newer media technologies and the Internet on newspapers; the need for newspapers to reinvent themselves in a multimedia, online format, and implications for universities in educating future journalists. The research was supported by the New Jersey Press Association, which is the oldest continuing operating press association in the United States and which   celebrated   its 150^th anniversary in 2007. The book was a center piece in the anniversary year. It was published by New Jersey Heritage Press,, an imprint of The Policy Center of New Jersey which also published “New Jersey Reporter” magazine.   The book includes interviews with major national journalism figures with experience in the state including the current head of the Associated Press; former CEO of Gannett Co. Inc; former editors-in-chief of “USA Today”, and the owners of MediaNew Group, the fourth largest newspaper chain in the United States. The book has both a regional and national perspective on newspapers and mass media in an Internet age.

·                 ACTIVITIES IN SPAIN:

·                 Coauthor, “El Communicador Digital”, a book published by UCAM, Universidad Catolica San Antonio, Murcia, Spain, reviewing new media and digital trends in Spain, 2004. Research advisor to the project initiated during a visiting professorship to UCAM in Spain 2002 funded by a national Spanish Seneca educational   grant.

·                 Lecturer at seven major universities throughout Spain on new media technologies and the impact on journalism, mass media and libraries. Programs organized every three years beginning in the 1990s by Complutense University in Madrid.  

·                 RUSSIA : JOURNALISM TRAINING AND CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES.

·                 Program evaluator, for a U.S. State Department funded project in which the University of Missouri and Moscow State University Schools of Journalism   designed curriculum, convergence laboratory facilities for   new media and faculty exchanges. Periodic visits to Moscow beginning in 2003 and continued through 2007. Note: This was preceded by my consultancy visit to Moscow in 2002 for the U.S. State Department to evaluate the feasibility of creating a support project for MSU.   A final summative evaluation of the project was completed in 2007.  

·                 Invited paper presenter on newer media technologies and the Internet, and the implications for universities and   news organizations. October 2005, in the “Media and Change” conference in Moscow sponsored by Moscow State University School of Journalism and Warsaw University Journalism Institute   included in a published book by Warsaw University Institute.

·                 Contributor to the book. “Journalism at the Crossroads: Russia and American   Experiences” published by Moscow State University   and University of Missouri Schools of Journalism in 2006. Published by Media Mir, Moscow. Editor: Professor Elena Vartanova. My chapter assesses current project efforts and future potential in cooperative journalism education and training.

·                 Contributor to the quarterly publication of the Moscow State University School of Journalism , “Academia”, on American attitudes toward the news media. Fall, 2004.

·                 Moscow State University, Spring     Conference, 2004. Paper presented on journalism curriculum change as ongoing program evaluator for a University of Missouri-Moscow State journalism schools grant of the U.S. State Department, begun in 2003 and continuing through 2007. Paper published in MSU   book , “Media and Change. Periodic visits to Moscow in 2003, 2004 and following as program evaluator of the project.

·                 Guest lecturer in Russia in 2001 and 2002 in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg. Kaliningrad and Novgorod   for the American Embassy and consulates sponsored by U.S. State Department. Speaker and principal coordinator for agreement signed by St. Petersburg State University and Rutgers University—School of Communication in 2002

·                 Author of     an article, “Modernizing the News Media in a Global Environment”   for the faculty journal   of the Journalism Department, Urals State University, Yekaterinburg, and a   chapter, examining newer media and the Internet, and the impact on the news media and university curriculum for a forthcoming book “Modern Foreign Mass Media” edited by by Aleksei Bykov of   Urals State University.

·                 CHILDHOOD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT:

·                 Principal developer and moderator of seminars for a) journalists , b)   young people as communicators on covering issues of child health and development   and c) policymaking   issues for Children’s Futures, a $20 million project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Trenton, New Jersey. 2003 and 2004.   Project reported in my article in “Nieman Reports of Harvard University “, Fall of 2004.

·                 GUIDANCE ON TRAINING OF JOURNALISTS:

·                 Article entitled   “Multimedia Journalism Changes what Universities Teach”, Fall, 2007 issue of   “Nieman Reports of Harvard University”. Special Section of articles   , “Teaching Journalism in the Digital Age.”

·                 Article entitled   “Lessons in Teaching Foreign Journalists”   in the 2005 Summer Issue of   “Nieman   Reports of Harvard University”. Special section on the topic of international training   of journalists originated from my suggestion to the editor to examine the international training of journalists.

 BACKGROUND ON PREVIOUS WORK:

Joined Rutgers University in 1969:

Aumente joined the Rutgers University faculty in 1969 after ten years as a daily journalist, and developed programs in urban/metropolitan communication studies, community development and planning at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Previously, he was a journalist with newspapers in the United States and Europe including Urban Affairs and Canadian affairs specialist at The Detroit News, then the largest afternoon newspaper in the United States.

He is a graduate of Rutgers University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University specializing in urban affairs and Canadian Affairs.   At Rutgers, he established and   was director of the Urban Communications Teaching and Research Center and the Urban Communications Program in the Department of Community Development which later became a separate Department of Journalism for the university under his direction.

PUBLICATIONS: His writings include five   published books:

  o From Ink on Paper to the Internet: Past Challenges and Future Transformations for New Jersey’s Newspapers.

        (New Jersey Heritage Press)    

    o El Communicador Digital Co-author   of book studying digital and new media trends in Spain.

          (UCAM, Murcia Spain, University Press).

      o Eastern European Journalism: Before, During and After Communism.

      (Hampton Press) Co-authored.

  o New Electronic Pathways. Videotex, Teletext and OnlineDatabases. (Sage Publications)

  o Against Misinformation:An Action Program for Young People    (ADL)

He has written numerous monographs, and articles for publications including American Journalism Review; Washington Journalism Review; Editor and Publisher; Quill; Design and Environment; Architectural Forum; City Magazine;   The Nation; Channels of Communication; Travel; Chronicle of Higher Education,;   Nieman Reports of Harvard University,   the Freedom Forum Media Studies Journal, and Television Quarterly. His reports on urban affairs: "Urban Challenge: Can the Cities Survive?" for The Detroit News was distributed nationally as a monograph. He has written a report for the Aspen Institute Communication and Society program on uses of the Internet for social issues. He did a   research and policy analysis report for Rutgers University on   cable television and broad band communications at major universities.

SOME CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS:

Currently, he   recently published   an award-winning   book on the history of newspapers in New Jersey under contract with the New Jersey Press Association   for its 150^th anniversary in 2007. He is developing   a long term program with Rutgers University SC&I-JRI with Meridian International Center in Washington for a lecture series, seminars and exchange programs for international journalists, an Internet platform, and program for young people.   This builds on eight programs he has completed from 2004-2008 with Arab and Islamic journalists.     He has developed and conducted fourteen   workshops for Eastern and Central European journalists for the International Media Training Center of the International Broadcasting Bureau, IBB He   was a principal advisor, content writer and evaluator for a multimedia CD   to train journalists in health reporting internationally. He developed and directed a series of seminars on coverage of childhood health and development for Children’s Futures, a $20 million project supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He evaluated programs for the US State Department at Moscow State University, and   was program evaluator for new initiatives for MSU and University of Missouri.   His latest writing projects     include analysis of training, exchange and fellowship programs for journalists.

AWARDS:

Aumente received   the   Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi   national award for excellence in journalism research in 2008 for his book, “ From Ink on Paper to the Internet” . He received a lifetime achievement award   from the New Jersey Press Association for his training of journalists . The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism honored him with its coveted Alumni Award for his work in journalism education and training in the United States and globally. He is the recipient of the Rutgers University Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service. He received the Golden Quill Award for Distinguished Service from the New Jersey Scholastic Press Association   which he helped found. He was awarded an honorary     professorship at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in recognition of his developing and co-directing a four year, State Department funded program to assist the journalism department. Previously, he was visiting professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland where he helped create its International School of Journalism. He is the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University and bronze medallion service awards from the Rectors of   Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Mining and Engineering in Krakow, Poland, for assistance to those universities in curriculum and media development.        

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

He has been to the Central and East European region and Western Europe over   100   times since 1989, and has also worked   in Central and Latin America, and the Middle East. His work included:   media needs assessments in Poland, the Czech Republic and       Slovakia for the U.S. Information Agency and the International     Media Fund; lectures and curriculum assistance at universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Novgorod and Yekaterinburg   in   Russia for the U.S. State   Department; evaluation of the Faculty of Journalism program at Moscow State University for the U.S. State Department leading to creation of     a major grant program for MSU   and post evaluation; design of the relationship between St. Petersburg State University   School of Journalism and the School of   Communication, Information and Library   Studies of Rutgers University which culminated   in a long term agreement in 2002 between both universities.

Other international work included creation of a Media Resources Center in Warsaw; assistance in founding the school, and visiting professor and chair of, the international advisory board of the International School of Journalism at Jagiellonian University   in Krakow, Poland; assistance in founding a public radio station for the Krakow   region at the Academy of Mining   and Engineering; journalism workshops in Serbia in Belgrade, Nis, Cacak and Zrenjanin for independent   broadcast media.; co-director   of a   three year grant to assist the Journalism Department at the University of   Sarajevo to modernize its curriculum, support faculty exchanges and distance learning and   Internet resources; expansion of the University of Sarajevo project to universities in Tuzla and Banja Luka in   Bosnia-Herzegovina; Media counseling for Balkan journalists in Rome as part of a   program with the FNSI-- National Federation of Italian   Journalists--- and the American Embassy;   Grants reviewer for the US State Department for journalism programs for the Balkans and      Southern Europe in 2002 through the Academy for Educational Development.  

Design and moderating of   fourteen   workshops overseas or   in Washington and New York   City for Bosnian-Herzegovian and Balkan     journalists with the International Media Training Center of Voice of America-International     Broadcast Bureau, US State Department.   The workshops     included:1) health,     medical, environmental and social   welfare issues;2) human rights abuses in the trafficking of     women and children;3)   economic, business and financial reporting; 4) enterprise and investigative reporting;   5) management issues for directors   of news agencies 6)   a workshop in Opatija, Croatia, for journalists from five Balkan countries on human rights coverage of   trafficking of women and children , and one in the US for Bosnian journalists; a workshop in investigative and enterprise reporting   for journalists from Montenegro. He conducted workshops in Macedonia on news reporting and commentary and economic reporting in 2004, and on broadcast management in 2005. He conducted a workshop on economic and business reporting in Montenegro in 2005.   He conducted workshops for journalists in Belgrade and Nis in Serbia in 2006 with support from the American Embassy, the State Department and the International Media Training Center of VOA-IBB.     In 2008, he conducted an economic reporting workshop in Pristina, Kosovo.

Lectures on journalism issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech     Republic, Slovakia   and   Serbia and Macedonia; periodic lecture series at major universities in Spain on new media technologies, journalism, library and information   sciences in Madrid, Murcia, Granada, Zaragoza, Badajoz, Malaga,   Salamanca and Alcala. Visiting professorship at UCAM, Catholic University in   Murcia, Spain to assist in graduate   development and research. Lectures on journalism issues in Central and Latin America including the Latin American Journalism Center in Panama, and Universidad del Norte in Baranquilla, Colombia. Assistance to the Voice of America and USAID in creation of multimedia materials to train journalists in Latin America in     health/medical coverage in cooperation with Pan American Health   Organization and World Health Organization. An interactive CD to train journalists in health journalism was beta tested   at University of the West Indies, CARIMAC, in Kingston, Jamaica under his direction and analysis, and     final development of additional   scenarios and user progress review materials were created for this. A module on women’s health issues, prenatal care and family planning was created for the Population Reference Bureau with a focus on Africa. A previous module on coverage of natural   disasters and health issues in the Caribbean and Central America was completed earlier.   Workshops on health reporting, and business, economic and financial reporting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .

Leader of numerous workshops in Europe on local and regional news coverage, newer media     technologies, media ethics, specialized reporting in health, medical and environmental issues, investigative and public affairs reporting,   print/broadcast media. Coordinator/speaker at training workshops for visiting CEE journalists in Washington, New     York and at Rutgers. Director of one year fellowships for journalists from Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Hungary in residence at the JRI at Rutgers   University. At The Detroit News, he was Canadian Affairs specialist as well as Urban Affairs specialist and frequently covered assignments in Canada in Toronto, Montreal and did   a series of transcontinental articles in Canada and its Northwest   Territories.  

HEALTH JOURNALISM:

He designed and administered the Merck Science Journalism Student Awards program for seven years from 1994   to 2000 which assembles faculty and students from major universities in the United States each year for indepth review of health/medical, science coverage by news media. He authored " Preparing Health, Medical and Science Journalists for the Future", a report of the first three years of the Merck program available from JRI or on the JRI website, and a monograph of the next   three years. He has written articles and papers and lectured frequently on health, medical and environmental journalism and communication strategies employing newer media technologies including the Internet in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He designed and was moderator of numerous workshops in the United States and in Europe for journalists, faculty and students, and government, corporate and nonprofit organizations in health, medical, environmental and social welfare issues; issues of aging; mental health, environmental protection, land use and life quality. Most recently, he developed for SC&I the successful proposal for   a blue ribbon lecture series on health issues funded by the Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies. He has written content materials for an innovative CD to train journalists in health coverage developed by the International Broadcasting Bureau-Voice of America; the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization and U.S Agency for International Development, and UNAIDS. He designed and conducted the alpha and beta testing of the CD. He was moderator for a panel examining global communications, alternative news and community health issues at a   conference   supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.

He was a consultant for Children’s Futures, a $20 million project funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to assist children and families in health and childhood development, and   developed training workshops for journalists in coverage of childhood development issues, for youth interested in communications careers, and   in policymaking seminars.  

MEDIA LAW:

He designed a unique Press, Bar and Bench series of seminars in cooperation with the New Jersey State Supreme Court, the NJ Bar Association and the NJ Press Association to improve coverage of civil and criminal trials, and promote better understanding among judges, lawyers and journalists. (Funded by the Newhouse Foundation). The program continued for three years under his direction.

BROADCASTING:

In broadcasting, he served for many years as a board member or advisor to the New Jersey Broadcasting Authority and its statewide public television network, as a representative of two Chancellors of Higher Education in New Jersey. He also served as a consultant for a program series on urban issues at WOR-TV when it was an RKO affiliate.  

FUNDING:

He has developed and administered over $5 million in grants from such organizations as Ford Foundation; John and Mary Markle Foundation; Florence and John Schumann Foundation; Times-Mirror Foundation; John S. Knight Foundation; Newhouse Foundation; The New York Times Foundation; The Record Publishing Company; Rockefeller Brothers; U.S. State Department and its former United States Information Agency, and College and University Affiliates Program; International Media Fund; Merck Foundation; Johnson and Johnson Foundation; German Marshall Fund; International Media Training Center, Voice of America and International Broadcasting Bureau; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; various New Jersey State agencies including Department of Community Affairs; Mental Health and Community Services, and the Department of Higher Education.

CONSULTING:

He has been a consultant for the John S. Knight Foundation and the German Marshall Fund, doing extensive surveys and analysis of their funded, professional training programs for print and electronic journalists. He previously did a study of professional development for journalists as a Ford Foundation consultant, and was a consultant for its Office of Communication, focusing on public broadcasting. He has been a consultant to public and private groups including   the Ford Foundation; the John S. Knight Foundation; the German Marshall Fund; BMW of North America; John Portman and Associates; International Broadcasting Bureau of Voice of America, and as an expert witness for a law firm in libel matters in which news media are defendants.   His current or recent consulting has included Children’s Futures, a   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported program; the University of Missouri   and Moscow State University   as program evaluator for their State Department grant to journalism education ,   the New Jersey Press Association and Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information.

He   consults in the United States and internationally in such areas as curriculum development for journalism, mass media, library and information sciences; health, medical and environmental communication; international affairs; newer media technologies including online services and the Internet; communication strategies for corporations, government and nonprofit organizations, and professional development training for print and broadcast journalists.

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JEROME AUMENTE,   Long Mountain, 617 Seven Oaks Drive, Bentonville, Virginia 22610 USA

Telephone: 540/635-6395

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                                      _______________________________________________________________

JEROME AUMENTE, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Special Counselor to the Dean, School of Communication and Information   (SC&I), 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 USA Telephone: Office of the Dean: 732/932-7500, ext. 8000   Fax: 732/932-6916

JEROME AUMENTE, Founding Director Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, Journalism Resources Institute, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, 185 College Ave., New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. USA.   Tel: 732/932-7500, EXT.8171     Fax: 732/932-7059            

Website:comminfo.rutgers.edu/jri/index        

(Full Vita available upon request)