Dr. Sylvia Chan-Olmsted 
Academic Director
Professor, Department of Telecommunication
Office: 2010 Weimer
Phone: (352) 273-1648
E-mail: fl-institute@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Mass Media, Michigan State University, 1991
Research Areas
Media Management and Economics, Strategic Competition in
Media Industries, Brand Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, and New
Media Adoption
Chan-Olmsted received her Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University with an emphasis in media economics and marketing. She is the author/editor of three books, one of which in 2006 received the Most Significant Contribution to Media Management and Economics Award. She has published over forty refereed articles in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Telecommunications Policy, New Media and Society, Journal of Media Economics, and International Journal on Media Management. Her research focuses on comparative studies of world media markets, mergers and acquisitions and alliances of media firms, expansions of global media conglomerates, new media audience, and strategic media management. Chan-Olmsted held the University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship from 2002 to 2004 and currently holds the Al and Effie Flanagan Professorship in the College of Journalism and Communications. She served as a graduate coordinator for the Department of Telecommunication from 2002-2006 and the chair of the media management and economics division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Communications in 2002. In 2006, Chan-Olmsted was selected to attend and completed the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration sponsored jointly by Bryn Mawr College and Higher Education Resource Services (HERS). She is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.
Dr. Norman Lewis 
Academic Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism
Office: 2028 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-5137
E-mail: nlewis@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D., Journalism, “Paradigm Disguise: Systemic Influences on Newspaper Plagiarism,” University of Maryland, 2007
B.A., Journalism, Eastern Illinois University, 1979
Norm Lewis joined the faculty in the fall of 2007 after completing a doctorate at the University of Maryland. He has a quarter-century of experience in newspapers, ranging from the Washington Post financial desk to three smaller dailies in the Pacific Northwest where he served as editor for 15 years. He also was a publisher for three of those years.
His research involves plagiarism and newsroom culture. He is the first to systematically study professional plagiarism. His work applies theories from organizational behavior and psychology to document and explain systemic influences on plagiarism.
Melinda McAdams 
Institute Section Leader, Online Journalism and Communication Technology Professor, Department of Journalism
Knight Chair, journalism technologies & the democratic process
Office: 3049 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-8456
E-mail: mmcadams@jou.ufl.edu
M.A., New School for Social Research (New York), 1993
B.A., Penn State University, 1981
Research Areas
New communication technologies, online journalism, Internet, the changes in societies that are related to the adoption and diffusion of new communication technologies
McAdams wrote the book “Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages,” which was published in 2005 by Focal Press/Elsevier. She teaches production and theory courses about interactive media and online journalism. A pioneer in online newspapers, she was No. 15 on the Online Journalism Review’s list of 50 “Names to Know” in new media in 1998. She joined the UF faculty in 1999. Previously she was the Web strategist at the American Press Institute; an information design and online news consultant in North America and abroad; and the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post’s first online newspaper. For 11 years she worked as a copy editor — on The Washington Post’s Metro desk, at Time magazine, at a technology business newspaper, and at Dell Publishing in New York. She is also co-author of the book The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists (1997, 2nd ed. 2000, 3rd ed. 2002), published by Guilford Press.
Dr. Dave Ostroff, Ph.D. 
Institute Section Leader,Media Policy and Regulation
Professor and Chair - Department of Telecommunication
Office: 2081 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-0463
E-mail: dostroff@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D., Ohio University
David Ostroff has served as department chair since 2003, and before that was the graduate coordinator for nine years. The undergraduate courses that he usually teaches include World Communication Systems, and New Media Systems. At the graduate level, he teaches International Communication, and Telecommunication Outlets and Systems. Dr. Ostroff joined the faculty at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1979, and Florida’s Telecommunication faculty in 1985 He has lectured at universities in Belgium and The Netherlands. He has conducted extended research in Europe, focusing on European Union media policies towards emerging technologies. He is the author of more than fifty scholarly articles, papers and book chapters and is co-author, with Les Smith and John Wright of Perspectives on Radio and Television, 4th ed., Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 1998, and The Uses of Video in Organizations: An Annotated Bibliography, with Arnall Downs and Pamela Franklin. Dr. Ostroff has a BA and MA from Fresno State, and his professional experience includes full-time positions as an instructional media specialist, and a cable television marketing director.
Research area
Telecommunication, domestic and international media policy, applications of new media technologies in public and private environments, technology history.
Dr. Cory Armstrong 
Institute Research Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Office: 3045 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-0847
E-mail: carmstrong@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
B.A., Miami University, 1991
Research Areas
Gender representations in media coverage, micro and macro influences on news content, effects of news coverage, media/source credibility, and print journalism
Armstrong joined the journalism faculty in Fall 2004. She has approximately eight years of professional journalism experience on newspapers in Ohio, as a copy editor, reporter, and bureau chief. She has interdisciplinary interests in research and her dissertation focused on the influence of community pluralism on local news content. She received the Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research in 2003 from the Commission on the Status of Women in the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication for her dissertation proposal. She has also won a top research paper award from the AEJMC Newspaper Division. Armstrong has had articles published in Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Mass Communication & Society, and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Her teaching areas included the core journalism courses of applied fact-finding and newswriting/reporting. At the graduate level, she teaches Issues in the Press and Race, Class, Gender and Media. Her research interests are: influences on news content, media credibility, gender and media and effects of news coverage. She is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
Dr. Amy Jo Coffey 
Institute Section Leader, Media Business Models
Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication
Office: 2042 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-6522
E-mail: acoffey@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2007
Research Areas
Media and audience economics, foreign language programming
Coffey received her doctorate from the University of Georgia, where she focused on media management, economics, and audience issues. Her research interests stem in part from her professional news background, which included positions with CNN in Atlanta, as well as reporting, anchoring, assignment editing, and production positions in television and radio in Ohio, Tennessee, and Georgia. Coffey teaches courses in audience analysis, telecommunication programming, and telecommunications management. Her research interests include audience economics and language, with an emphasis on foreign language programming within the United States, as well as market segmentation and other strategic competition issues. Dr. Coffey was the recipient of a 2006 research grant from the National Association of Broadcasters, and has made numerous presentations at meetings of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), and the International Communication Association (ICA). Coffey also has a masters degree in journalism from The Ohio State University and has served on the faculty of Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia.
Dr. Kim B. Walsh-Childers 
Institute Evaluator
Professor, Department of Journalism
Office: 3044 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-3924
E-mail: kwchilders@jou.ufl.edu
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Areas
Journalism ethics, news coverage of health, media effects on adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, use of the Internet for health information and health communication
Walsh-Childers has taught at UF since August 1990. Her teaching areas include journalism ethics, newswriting, a graduate seminar in mass media and health and magazine feature writing. Her research focuses on print media news coverage of health issues, mass media effects on individual health and health policy, and the relationship between mass media content and adolescent sexual beliefs and behavior. Her work has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Communication Research, Pediatrics, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care. Walsh-Childers earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed her master’s degree in journalism and doctorate in mass communication research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Ellen Nodine 
Program Coordinator
Office: 3063 Weimer
Phone: (904) 254-3939
E-mail: fl-institute@jou.ufl.edu
B.A., Anthropology, University of Florida, 1981
B.S., Journalism, University of Florida, 1984
Ellen recently returned to the United States after spending fifteen years in the West Indies, where she worked as a school administrator and foundation coordinator. Prior to that, she spent ten years working in marketing, public relations, advertising and community relations for the City of Gainesville. This is her second year working with the institute.