Emmanuel (Manny) E. Paraschos, Ph.D.

Résumé

 

 

Emmanuel  E.  (Manny)  Paraschos

Professor Emeritus, Department  of Journalism

 

 

Emerson College

120 Boylston St.

Boston, MA 02116

Tel. 617-512-0606

emmanuel_paraschos@emerson.edu

 

I. Education

 

Ph.D., 1975, University of Missouri‑Columbia (UMC) (Dr. R. Lowenstein, adviser). Emphases:  controls of information, international communication and social psychology.  Dissertation: National Security and the People's Right to Know.

 

M.A., 1970, UMC (Dr. J. C. Merrill, adviser). Emphasis: international communication. Thesis: The Rise and Fall of the Greek Press--A Study of the Greek Press in the Sixties.

 

B.J., 1967, UMC. Emphases: news‑editorial, newspaper publishing.

 

 

II. Teaching Experience

 

Professor (with tenure), Department of Journalism, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, and Emerson's European Institute for International Communication (EIIC), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1988 to present. Courses Taught: introduction to mass communication/journalism, media ethics, global communication/journalism, public affairs reporting, reporting principles, news editing, online journalism, editorial and opinion, writing, topics (such as coordinating the student-faculty team that covered the 1991 European Union Summit and the 1994 anniversary celebration of D-Day in Normandy and developing Maastricht's only English language newspaper and its teletext equivalent, both of which were produced by EIIC students). Coordinated the creation of the original WWW sites of the journalism department and the student newspaper and founded Emerson's Journalism Students' Online News Service (JSONS).

 

Fulbright Professor, Norwegian Institute of Journalism, 1986‑87. Lectured at the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Volda (Norway), Kalmar (Sweden) and the College of Post-Graduate Journalism Education at Aarhus (Denmark). Courses taught: newsroom organization and management, journalism ethics, journalism in the 21st century, electronic news sources, international mass communication, journalism in America.

 

Professor (with tenure), Department of Journalism, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), 1984‑1988. Associate professor, 1979‑84. Assistant professor, 1975‑79. Courses taught:  media and society, press and propaganda, press and national development,  media ethics, international journalism, theory and methodology, news writing, reporting principles, editorial writing. Adviser: UALR student newspaper, 1975‑79. (During that time the paper received regional and national recognition for the first time in its history.)

 

Instructor, University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1972‑1975. Courses taught: editorial writing, editorial page direction.

 

 

III. Administrative Experience

 

A. Summary

 

Dean, European Institute for International Communication (EIIC), Maastricht, The Netherlands, the international branch of Emerson College, May 1991 to August 1994. (See photo below.)

 

Acting chairperson, Emerson’s Department of Journalism, 1996-97 and Mass Communication Division, Summer 1989. Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Journalism, 1997-2012.

 

Chairperson, Department of Journalism, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), 1982‑1988. Director, journalism graduate program, 1979‑84.

 

Acting dean, College of Communication (Departments of Speech, Communication Disorders, Radio-Television-Film and Journalism), UALR, Fall 1985.

 

Founder/director, Arkansas' Urban Minority Workshop in Journalism, sponsored by the Newspaper Fund, 1979‑83.

 

Head, International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1984‑85; chair, AEJMC Internationalization Committee, 1985‑86.

 

Emerson campus‑wide elected committees: Faculty Status (P&T) Committee, 1997-99, chair in 2002-03; Academic Policy Council, 1997-98; Technology Policy Committee, 1994-96; President's Policy Advisory Council, 1988‑89; Academic Policy Council, 1989-91. Member of the Mass Communication Division's Promotion and Tenure Committee every year I was on the Boston campus.

 

UALR campus‑wide elected committees: Chairperson, Promotion and Tenure Council, 1984‑86; Chairperson, Graduate Council, 1981‑82, 1982‑83, and 1983‑84; Chairperson, International Programs Committee, 1985; Member, Chancellor's Policy Council, 1981‑88.

 

 

B. Accomplishments as EIIC Dean, 1991 - 1994

 

As the founding dean of the Institute, I was the chief site administrator, managing an approximately $1.5 million annual budget and all facets of the operation--academic, administrative, service, development and student life, including student residence. I was in charge of three academic units: Mass Communication (Journalism, Radio, Television and Film), Communication Studies (Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, Speech, Political Communication) and Writing, Literature and Publishing.

 

More specifically, my main task in the Institute's first years of operation was: a. to ensure that our programs were of high enough quality to be considered comparable to those of European universities; b. to employ high quality faculty from the region's universities; c. to develop library and laboratory facilities (computers, audio/video studios,  on-line services, etc.); d. to identify  internship sites and e. to create appropriate student life activities.

 

In its third year of operation, my last year there, EIIC had tripled its original enrollment and more than 25 nationalities were represented among its faculty and students. A comprehensive infrastructure of professionals in ESL and academic advising was in operation along with state-of-the-art computer and video studio facilities as well as electronic on-site access to international databases and local, regional, national and transnational library systems. Professors, high school counselors, parents, students and industry professionals, familiar with EIIC, repeatedly praised it for its academic integrity.

 

With help from colleagues in the U.S. and Europe, I coordinated the implementation of EIIC's first graduate program, Global Marketing Communication and Advertising, and led it through its accreditation by the International Advertising Association. Furthermore, I negotiated cooperative programs at our site with the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Howard University and the premier universities of Lithuania and Ukraine. The Missouri program began in the Fall of 1994.  

 

I directed EIIC's internship program and placed students with such diverse organizations as Radio Moscow, CNN International/London, ORLY Films/Paris as well as  many media, advertising and public relations posts  in our Benelux/France/Germany region. Furthermore, I coordinated numerous debate and political communication activities and international conferences sponsored by EIIC or cosponsored by EIIC and neighboring universities.

 

Finally, I led the effort to establish a high profile and high quality EIIC international advisory board, which included some of Europe's top communication industry leaders, and I regularly represented the Institute in official state, diplomatic and professional functions.

 

 

C. Accomplishments as UALR Journalism Department Chairperson, 1982‑88

 

One of my most important accomplishments as UALR journalism chair was the department's re-accreditation by the Accrediting Council of the Association in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1985. Our department was the first in Arkansas to be nationally accredited and the first to be re-accredited without any probationary periods.

 

I promoted a dynamic and enticing faculty development program that gave my colleagues the opportunity to envision their long-term goals within the department, the university and their discipline and to focus on how to best achieve them.  The result was a much better balance in the quality of the department's teaching, research and service and an active pursuit of research by all faculty. I felt that leading by example was the best way in which to achieve this, so I remained productively involved in teaching, research and service throughout my tenure as chairperson.

    

On the programmatic front, and after years of haggling on many organizational levels, I conceived, planned and negotiated the Public Information Sequence which was offered jointly by the Department of Journalism and the Department of Marketing and Advertising. Furthermore, after consultations with the state's high school journalism teachers, I was able to successfully negotiate a Master's in Education degree with a journalism emphasis, which was cosponsored by the Department of Journalism and the College of Education at UALR.

 

The quality of our work and the energy exhibited by our department resulted in my obtaining funds to expand and update the equipment of all departmental facilities (print and broadcast). At the time of my departure, the department had word processing, videotext (including wire service feeds), pagination and modern audio/video editing capabilities.

 

Among my other accomplishments were: a. the implementation of a summer curriculum to meet the needs of the state's high school journalism teachers and working journalists; b. the award of several major grants (see part VII) that benefited the department faculty and c. the acquisition of several new scholarships for students.

 

Generally, I presided over the department's most productive period during which its students and faculty began to distinguish themselves regionally and nationally and were so recognized repeatedly by the University, the state's professional communities and regional and national journalism education organizations.

 

 

IV. Media Experience

 

Editorial Page coordinator (1971‑75), The Columbia Missourian. Op‑Ed Page founder and assistant Editorial Page coordinator (1969‑71).

 

United Nations correspondent for daily Ethnikos Kyrix and weekly Embros, both of Athens, Greece (1963‑65). Special assignments for Embros: London, Paris, Geneva (Summer 1969), Brussels (Summer 1965).

 

Special city editor (part time), summers 1978‑88, North Little Rock Times, Arkansas's largest weekly; directed reporting classes whose students became the newspaper's reporters for six weeks.

 

Publications editor (part time) for the College of Engineering, University of Missouri‑Columbia (1967‑69).

 

Assistant editor (part time) of Cogwheel, the magazine of the National Society of Industrial Engineers (1967‑69).

 

General assignment reporter (part time) for Ethnikos Kyrix (1960‑63).

 

Sports writer and translator (part time) for the weekly magazine Diaplasis ton Paidon, Athens, Greece (1959‑60).

 

 

 

V. Scholarly Work

 See "Scholarship," in the next site chapter.

 

 

VI. Grants

 

Emerson College’s Academic Excellence Fund grant ($3,000) to develop a “Newsroom Without Walls” course (2000).

 

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund grant ($4,000) to train high school journalism teachers (1996).

 

Co-author, with the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, of a grant (app.  $ 225,000) from the European Union to train former East European journalists (1994-95).

 

Wexler Foundation grant (app. $5,000) to train high school journalism teachers (1995).

 

U.S. Department of Defense grant ($9,000) for high school teacher summer courses in journalism (1993) and speech (1994) held at EIIC, Maastricht.

 

U.S. Information Agency Grant ($9,000) for a conference on the 1992 U.S. presidential election coverage by European and U.S. media, November 1992, EIIC, Maastricht.

 

Two‑year Department of Defense grant ($26,000) for Army Reservist training in journalism (1983‑85) by the UALR Department of Journalism.

 

Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities grant ($25,000) for the development of a 3‑year program of arts criticism in Arkansas (1985‑88) (with UALR's College of Arts). 

 

Faculty research grant ($1,500) for research on foreign press laws, 1982‑83. 

 

Donaghey Foundation research fellow for a study on "The Press and Revolution," 1981.

 

Donaghey Foundation research fellow for media research in Sweden in 1979 and at the universities of Ruhr and Munster in Germany in 1977.

 

UALR Innovative Teaching grant ($500) for a slide collection on American political cartoons, 1981.

 

UALR Development Council grant ($1,700) for a seminar on "Foreign News in a Local Press," 1980.

 

Instructional Development grant ($1,750) for a multi‑media project "Elite Newspapers of the World: A Visual Profile," 1979.

 

Innovative Teaching grant ($300) for a multi‑media project on propaganda history, 1978.

 

Arkansas Press Women grant ($500) for a job‑satisfaction study, 1977.

 

 

VII. Other Professional Activities

 

Selected Consultancies

 

--Member, Advisory Committee, Boston Public Library’s National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Grant, 2021-2022.

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--Member of a working group of mass communication professors that advises the Greek Ministry of the Press on Greece's image in the United States, 2001 to the present;

 

--"The People's Century," a co-production of the BBC and WGBH-TV, Boston, 1994-96;

 

--Hull (Massachusetts) School District, Journalism/Writing Program, 1994-2000;

 

--Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 1988-91;

 

--Holy Cross Graduate School of Theology, Greek Orthodox Church of America, series of lectures on the Church and the media, spring semesters, 1989 to the present;

 

--KLRE‑FM, National Public Radio's Little Rock affiliate, 1983‑88;

 

--Arkansas Roman Catholic Diocese, 1985‑88;

 

--Arkansas Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1977‑88;

 

--Annunciation Greek Orthodox Parish Council, Little Rock, Ark., 1975-88.

 

--World Press Institute, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., 1977-79.

 

Chairperson of the AEJMC Correspondent's Fund Scholarship Committee, 1988-90.

 

Producer‑moderator, "Meet the Chancellor," a bi‑weekly news/interviews program of KUAR‑TV, Little Rock, Ark., 1985-88.

 

Judge of the annual American Society of Newspaper Editors, Quill and Scroll writing competition (1985 to present), the New England Media Sword of Hope Award (1997) and of the Suburban Newspapers of America Excellence Contest (1989).

 

 

 

VIII. Honors

 

--Received Emerson College's Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Member Award, 1995.

 

--Received an American Text and Academic Authors Association Award for a book manuscript on European media law, 1996.

 

-- Founder/editor of the Journalism Students' Online News Service (JSONS), which in 2001 was recognized by Apple Corp. as one of the most innovative academic news sites in the nation.

 

--Member of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 1997 to present.

 

-- Was named to the National Council of College Publications Advisers Honor Roll for “professional excellence in advising student journalists,” 1978.

 

--Received the first Journalism Teacher‑of‑the‑Year Award given by the UALR student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, 1978.

 

--Received the outstanding Graduate Student Assistant Award at the University of Missouri, 1971, as well as University of Missouri Curators' Scholarships, 1965‑68.  

 

--Member of the New Directions in News team, a project of professional journalists and academicians headquartered at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1988-98.

 

--Was invited to present a lecture series on press and the Church by Holy Cross Graduate School of Theology, Greek Orthodox Church of America, every Spring semester since 1990.

 

--Was invited to join the Arkansas' teacher certification standards review committee, 1988.

 

--Was invited to join the Little Rock Committee on Foreign Relations, 1986. 

 

--Was nominated by Arkansas' leading newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette, for a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. Proposal: "The Press and Foreign Policy," 1981.

 

--Was invited to chair the Women and the Media Committee of the Arkansas Commission on the Status of Women, 1976.

 

--Member of Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA), journalism honor society, UMC, since 1971.

 

 

 

 

IX. Miscellaneous Information

 

A. Memberships

 

International Association for Mass Communication Research, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Society of Professional Journalists, American Association of University Professors

 

 

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B. Personal

 

Born in 1945. Married to Janet Nyberg, a freelance writer and editor; former vice president/editor of Mediascan of America, Inc.; former assistant editor of American Preservation magazine, and former copy editor at the Minneapolis Tribune. Two children: Sophia and Alexander.

 

 

 

 

September 2012