The Estlow Center

About Us

Our Mission

The media industries are undergoing tremendous changes. With the Internet, youtube, blogs, online gaming, digital television, satellite radio, and cell phones, people are actively creating their own news and entertainment experiences like never before. Yet at the same time, the global media conglomerates continue to grow in size, swallowing up newcomers and reducing the opportunities for diverse programming while also shrinking news staffs in the interests of profit. The industries are investing huge resources into developing new models for delivering media products in the emergent digital environment.

Center Director Lynn Schofield Clark

Lynn Clark

Lynn Schofield Clark is Associate Professor and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver . She is an interpretive sociologist who studies how popular culture and the news media inform identity, family relationships, and societal values. She is the author of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2003/2005), a co-author of Media, Home, and Family (Routledge, 2004), and editor of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace ( Rutgers , 2007).

Research Associates

Research Associates, 2008-2009:

Alexis Lynn ('09) serves as Graduate Research Associate and Interviewer for the High School Journalism and Public Good project. She conducts in-depth interviews with young people involved in high school journalism efforts in the Denver area and through the biannual National High School Journalism conferences. She is an M.A. student in the Mass Communications & Journalism Studies program. Her research interests center on interview-based methods in communication studies.

Art Bamford ('10) is Graduate Research Associate and Interviewer for the High School Journalism and Public Good Project. He also provides research assistance in the Popular Culture & Religion project. He is an M.A. student in the Mass Communications & Journalism Studies program. His research interests are in popular music, culture, and rhetoric.

Jill Dierberg (Valparaiso '06, Eden '08) and Nik Vukovich (CSU '07) provided Graduate Research Assistance for the projects related to Popular Culture in a Religious and Culturally Plural World. Jill is a Ph.D. student in the joint DU/Iliff School of Theology Religion & Social Change program. Her research interests are in popular culture, music, and American religions.

Staff

Peggy Marlow is Office and Budget Administrator for the Estlow Center and for the School of Communication .
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Center History

The Edward W. Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media was established at the University of Denver in 2000. Since then, the Center has supported excellence in journalism and has embraced a commitment to democracy through its research initiatives, its awards programs, and its outreach and education programs. Its research, education, and public programs are designed to foster conversations about the role of media in protecting democratic freedoms among media professionals, those who aspire to be professionals in the field of journalism, and members of the public.

Who is Ed Estlow?

A man of the future as well as the past

By Jean Otto, longtime editor of the Rocky Mountain News , former President of the Society for Professional Journalists, and founder of the First Amendment Congress

Affiliations

The Cable Center

Located on the University of Denver’s campus, the Cable Center provides leadership and expertise in issues related to the telecommunications industries.

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