Each Fall semester, the Department of Advertising/Public Relations in the College of Communications conducts the Donald W. Davis Symposium. Thanks to generous support from alumnus Donald W. Davis Jr. ('42 Journ), who established the program to honor the memory of his father, Donald W. Davis Sr., and to perpetuate the ideals of ethics in advertising he maintained throughout his professional and academic careers, the Symposium brings together leaders in the industry to talk about topics of interest.
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Iris Grossman "Corporate Ethics in a Changing Issues Media Environment" November 6, 2007 |
As the Director of Communications, Group Philanthropy and Community Affairs for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Iris Grossman relates her first-hand experiences on navigating ethics in today's media environment. |
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| Tony Buba "Tales of an Independent Filmmaker: Capturing Racism on Film." April 19, 2007 |
Tony Buba is an active independent filmmaker and lifelong resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Since 1974, Tony has had one-person exhibitions at more than 100 universities and museums including The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art. Tony and Braddock have also been featured on NPR. His awards include fellowships from the NEA, AFI, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. | |
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| Greg Bicket "Corporate Responsibility in Times of Disaster: Responding to Hurricane Katrina" April 11-12, 2007 |
Greg Bicket, Vice President and Regional Manager of Cox Communications in New Orleans discusses the responsibilities of corporations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. | |
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| Deni Elliott "Sources & Sorcery: Creating Journalism in the 21st Century" February 20, 2007 |
Deni Elliott is a professor and Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Specializing in practical ethics, she has written The Kindness of Strangers, Philanthropy in Higher Education and Ethics in the First Person, A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics. | |
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| Media Issues and Activism Symposium October 16th & 17th, 2006 |
Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press in Washington, DC will join State College Mayor Bill Welch, local media activists, and leading media and telecomm scholars from Penn State University in two days of events and discussion. | |
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Lynn Brewer November 1, 2006 |
Lynn Brewer is a former Enron executive and author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story, a riveting account of her career at Enron and her decision to blow the whistle, as well as her fateful meeting with Ken Lay - just two weeks before his untimely death. |
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Judith Miller March 29-30, 2006 |
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail last year for refusing to divulge her sources, will speak to journalism law, ethics and reporting students. |
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Dr. John Horrigan March 15-16, 2006 |
Dr. John Horrigan, will be visiting campus March 15 and 16 to speak to Telecommunications students on the controversies surrounding sex and violence in video games. |
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Richard Jewell & L. Lin Wood January 25, 2006 |
Richard Jewell, the security guard and American hero who saved dozens of lives in 1996 in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park by clearing and evacuating the area before a bomb exploded, and attorney L. Lin Wood, who successfully sued numerous news media outlets for falsely suggesting that Jewell committed the bombing will visit campus. |
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"Trust and the Ethical Management of Corporate Reputation" November 16, 2005 |
Reed Bolton Byrum, the former president of the Public Relations Society of America, is a leading corporate strategist and an expert at positioning small- to mid-sized, pre-IPO companies in the markets and marketplace. |
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