Liz Viall
Instructor
Dept. of Journalism
BB2544
217.581.7117

Eastern Illinois University

Contact information:
ekviall@eiu.edu

Elizabeth K. Viall

Education

Indiana University: Bloomington, In., doctoral studies, study emphases new technologies, media law.

University of Alabama: Tuscaloosa, Ala., master’s degree in journalism, May 1993, 4.0 GPA, thesis emphasis media law.

Eastern Washington University: Cheney, Wash., bachelor of arts, cum laude, 3.52 GPA, June 1979, majors in journalism and government, scholastic honors - dean’s list 1975-79.

Experience

Instructor, Eastern Illinois University, 2004 to present. Teaching courses in publication design, online journalism, news writing, visual communication, advanced publication design.

Lecturer, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Tex., August 2002 – July 2004. Teaching courses in media writing, small publications/desktop publishing, advanced reporting, media law, media and society, media production, media history, and public speaking.

Part-time Lecturer/Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, In., August 1998 to May 2002. Teaching courses in reporting, writing and editing, communication law, and visual communication.

Instructor,Lamar University-Beaumont, Beaumont, Tex., 8/93 to 7/98. Tenure-track position teaching courses in media writing, news reporting, communication law and ethics, public speaking, mediated culture, and desktop publishing; activities include advising communication majors and planning programs, participating in recruitment activities, serving as departmental liaison with university library, participating in writing and publication of new public speaking materials for core curriculum course, working to restore a broadcasting track to the department and to obtain video equipment and facilities, planning and maintaining a Macintosh lab for the department.

Instructor/GTA, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 8/90 to 12/92. Adjunct instructor and graduate teaching assistant for courses in introduction to media writing and news reporting; responsible for instruction of reporting and interviewing techniques, research instruction, securing guest lecturers, drafting and administering tests, grading, student advising.

Editor, Davenport Times, Davenport, Wash., 7/87 to 8/90. In charge of editing, layout, paste up of weekly publication and several special issues, management of reporting and photography staff, coordination with advertising department, editorial opinions for paper, writing and photography.

Reporter-photographer, Enumclaw Courier-Herald, Enumclaw, Wash., 5/83 to 7/87. Position included reporting, editing and photography in areas of education, government, sports, family articles, and business news; editing of two news sections, selection of photos; dummy, layout and paste up of pages; writing headlines, coordination of special sections, staff management.

Quality control, Photo and Film, Inc., Bellevue, Wash., 8/81 to 5/83. Responsibilities included approval of color photographic work for sale to public, arrangement of special processing needs with out labs, retail and accounting details.

Reporter-photographer, Prosser-Grandview Publishers, Grandview, Wash., 8/79 to 8/81. Position held at two weekly newspapers included writing and editing articles, coordinating two staffs in special sections coverage, supervising publication of promotional material for area’s main recreational event; also editing, layout and paste up of tabloid sections.

Activities

Assistant editor, Nuestra Cultura, The Hispanic Magazine of the Permian Basin and West Texas, May – Dec. 2004.

Member, committee to nominate new chairman for the UTPB Department of Humanities and Fine Arts, 2003.

Judge, area high school UIL Lincoln-Douglas debates, March 2003.

UTPB university-wide committee member, to rewrite the school’s policy on student publications, 2002-2003.

Newswriting judge, IU School of Journalism’s High School Journalism Institute, April 2000, 2001, 2002.

Search Committee member, IU School of Journalism, Spring 2000.

Supervisor of the Lamar department’s Macintosh Lab. Responsible for establishing lab, ordering equipment, maintaining equipment, up-dating software, 1995-1998.

Advisor for the Cardinal Chronicles, student electronic magazine sponsored by the Dept. of Communication, Lamar University, 1997-1998.

Committee participation on Lamar University registration committee, College of Fine Arts and Communication student/faculty relations committee, departmental chair search committee, 1996 -1998.

Library representative for the Lamar Dept. of Communication, 1994 - 1998.

Subcommittee Chair for the committee working on reaccredidation for Lamar University from the Southern Association of Colleges, April 1996 to June 1998, responsible for report on the continuing education, service and outreach programs, and distance learning.

Reviewer for The Complete Communicator: Media Writing for Now and the Future, Wadsworth, pre-publication, December 1997.Reviewer for second edition of Communications Law-Liberties, Restraints and the Modern Media, Wadsworth, John Zelezny, 1997.

Member of the journalism committee of the Texas Education Agency responsible for writing, reviewing test questions for the state’s journalism ExCet test (which must be passed by all secondary teachers in Texas wishing to teach journalism), Oct. 1995 to 1998.

Designer for Department of Communication brochure, Lamar University, published June 1996.

Speaker at area public school events including “Career Day,” Westbrook High School, Jan. 1996, and Jan. 1997 and “I Have a Dream” program, summer 1995.Journalism judge for area high school UIL writing events, March 1994, 1995, 1996.

Organizer of Communication Day 1994, 1995, 1996, Lamar University-Beaumont, for about 90 high school students to participate in speaking and writing events and attend mini-sessions focusing on technology and communication in the workplace.

Participant in the First Amendment Center’s seminar on freedom of press, religion, and the right to petition, Nov. 3-4, 1992, The Freedom Forum, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.

Participant in King and Ballow’s seminars, “The Media and the First Amendment,” Oct. 1992 and 1991, Nashville, Tenn.

Participant in the 26th Freedom Forum Center Technology Studies seminar, Feb. 23-27, 1992, Columbia University, NY., by invitation, focusing on the nature and implications of the convergence of media technologies, teaching, and research.

Media Planning BoardMember at the University of Alabama, June 1991-Aug. 1992, appointment to board which oversees all university publications and is responsible for contracts, hiring, policies and budgets for the campus newspaper, literary magazines, and journals with a combined operation budget of about $750,000.

Participant in Supreme Court Preview, Sept. 1991 and Law Seminar, April 1991, sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Vir.

Instructor at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., Communications Workshop, Sept. 1991, presented lectures on media law, feature writing,and complex story construction.

Assistant director of Minorities in Journalism Workshop, University of Alabama, June 1991, assisted in supervision and classroom instruction of high school students during two-week event.

Member of Kappa Tau Alpha, journalism honorary, and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Publications

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 56, No. 2, summer 2001, “Pedagogy Under Construction: Learning to Teach Collaboratively, by Pai-lin Chen, Deborah Chung, Amanda Crane, Laura Hlavach, Jacqueline Pierce, and Elizabeth K. Viall.

Public Speaking Workbook, by L. King, M.A. Baker, W. Harrigan, E.K. Viall, and B. Barnett, 3rd edition, MacGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.

Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, autumn 1993, “International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times: An Update,” by D. Riffe, C.F. Aust, R. Gibson, E.K. Viall, and H. Yi.

Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1992, “Measuring Journalistic Values: A Cosmopolitan-to-community Continuum.”

Quill, magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists, Nov./Dec. 1991 issue on ethics, “Crossing That Line: Journalists Reconsider Forsaking Active Citizenship for “Objective” Watchdog Role.”

Awards

Paper, "Framing Blogs: How Did the U.S. Traditional and Online Media Report on the Blogging Phenomenon?" by Eunseong Kim, Eastern Illinois University; Elizabeth K. Viall, Eastern Illinois University; and Deborah Chung, University of Kentucky, presented at the AEJMC national convention, Chicago, Ill., August 2008.

Paper, “Indiana’s General Assembly on the Web: Do Newspaper Journalists Pay Attention?” presented at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, winter convention, Chicago, Ill., November 2002.

Paper “If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it: Journalism Faculty in No Hurry to See Scholarly Works Published Electronically,” presented at the International Communication Association’s 51st National Convention, Washington, D.C., May 2001.

Paper “Pedagogy Under Construction: Learning to Teach Collaboratively” (with co-authors) took first place in AEJMC Teaching Standards Committee competition at the AEJMC National Convention, New Orleans, La., August 1999.

Nominated by the Lamar University College of Fine Arts and Communication for the University Merit Award, 1997.

Teaching bonus award for excellence and effectiveness in the classroom, Lamar University, spring 1996.

Paper, “Richard Nixon: Print Media’s View from 1994 - a Content Analysis,” presented during panel discussion at the Southern States Speech Association, April 6-9, 1995, New Orleans, La.

Content analysis paper presented at the Southeast Colloquium of AEJMC, “Difference in Content Selection by Male and Female Newspaper Lifestyle Editors, “ by E. K. Viall and R. Gibson, March 25-27, 1993, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in newspaper division.

Paper accepted at the AEJMC National Convention, Montreal, Canada, “Effects of a Media Ethics Course on Student Values: A Replication and Expansion,” by J. Black, B. Rawlins, E.K. Viall, and J. Plumley, Aug. 5-8, 1992, in the mass communication and society division.

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Journalism, University of Alabama, 1992.

Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher for the Department of Journalism, University of Alabama, 1992.

Presentation of history paper, “The Mobile Advertiser and Register: Sectionalism and Journalism,” at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, March 26-28, 1992, Stone Mountain, Ga.

Ethics paper accepted and presented at the National Conference on Ethics and the Professions, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 1992, at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl.

First Place award in the Carol Burnett Ethics Competition for graduate paper, “The Prioritizing of Values by Metropolitan and Community Journalists,” from all national graduate entries, awarded by AEJMC, Aug. 1991, at the national convention, Boston, Mass.

Paper accepted at the AEJMC National Convention, Boston, Mass., Aug. 1991, “The Application of ‘Publication’ to New Information Transfer Technologies,” in the communication technology and policy group.Third placeaward for special sections and second place award for sports coverage from the Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association (WNPA); first place award for special section “Women at Work,” from WNPA; second place award for sports sections, WNPA, all Oct. 1989.

First place award for spot news reporting with staff, from Western Washington Sigma Delta Chi, “Century’s Worst Storm Rakes City,” May 1984.

National honorable mention from the National Newspaper Association for feature on religion in schools, Sept. 1981. National third place publicity and promotion award from National Federation of Press Women, July 1981.

National grand prize from the National School Directors’ Association for a single education article from a weekly paper, selected from 191 entries, awarded in Dallas, Tex., April 1981.

First prize for education writing among weekly papers in the state, awarded by the Washington State School Directors’ Association, Dec. 1980.

“Better Understanding Award” for weekly newspaper reporting on education in the state of Washington, awarded by the Washington Education Association, May 1980.