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Books and Book Chapters
Transforming Newsrooms: Connecting Organizational Culture, Strategy, and Innovation, co-authored with Jonathan Groves, Focal Press (Routledge), 2020.
“Making Journalism: New Ways Honor Timeless Values” in Principles of American Journalism, 3rd Ed. by Stephanie Craft and Charles N.Davis, 2021. This textbook is used by all students at the University of Missouri’s journalism program and other schools.
Publications – Refereed
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2018). “Changing “habits of thought”: An examination of eight years of digital evolution at the Christian Science Monitor.” ISOJ 8(1).
Brown, C., Willis, E., Havard, C., and Irwin, R. (2015) ”From tailgating to Twitter: Fans’ use of social media at a gridiron matchup between two historically black colleges.” Journal of Applied Sport Management 7 (3), pp 1-18.
Brown, C, Hendrickson, E. and Littau, J. (2014) “New opportunities for diversity: Twitter, journalists and traditionally underserved communities.” Social Media Studies 1(1) pp. 1-16.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2013). “40 million page views is not enough: An examination of the Christian Science Monitor’s evolution from SEO to engagement.” ISOJ 3(2), pp. 19-38.
Brown, C. (2012). “Memstorm: Twitter as a community-driven breaking news tool.” ISOJ 2(2). pp. 5-32.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2011). “Stopping the presses: A longitudinal case study of the Christian Science Monitor transition from print daily to web always.” ISOJ 1(2) pp. 95-136.
Brown, C. and Groves, J. (2010). “New media, enduring values: How three news organizations managed change in an age of uncertainty.” Electronic News 4(3). pp. 131-145
Publications – Non-Refereed
Brown, C. (2019, December). “Engaged journalism: It’s finally happening.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2018, December). “Advocating a healthy civic life is no journalistic crime.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2017, December). “Transparency finally takes off.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2016, December). “We won’t do enough.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2015, November 2). Book review: Making News at The New York Times, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 16 (7), pp. 971-972.
Brown, C. (2015, December). “Invest in people.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2013, December). “Startups need to address real needs.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2013, June 18). “Memphis brings diversity to entrepreneurship in journalism education.” PBS MediaShift.
Brown, C. (2012, December 20). “Journalistic skills are still marketable.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (2012, Fall). “Student paper at Memphis fights censorship.” Media Law Notes 41 (1), p. 1.
Brown, C. (2012, June). “Participatory journalism: A case study of emergency news in Memphis.” Convergence Newsletter IX (5).
Brown, C. (2012, April 1). Book Review: Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 3(1), pp. 388-389.
Brown, C. (2012, Winter). Book Review: Changing The News: The Forces Shaping Journalism in Uncertain Times. Newspaper Research Journal 33(1), pp. 136-137.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2012, March 12.) A call for leadership: Newspaper execs deserve the blame for not changing the culture. Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. [Note: This post got 4,108 pageviews, 4:53 average time on page, ~327 hours of total time, 308 tweets, 18 Facebook likes/shares, 127 LinkedIn shares and was referenced by the Guardian newspaper]
Brown, C. (2011, December 19). “The social media bubble may burst, and more predictions for 2012.” Nieman Journalism Lab.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2011, April 20). “Chasing pageviews with values: How the Christian Science Monitor has adjusted to a web-first, SEO’d world.” Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab.
Brown, C. (January/February 2010). Book Review: The Truth About Email Marketing. The Bridge (26)1: pg. 6.
Conference Presentations – Invited
Invited panelist, Re-imagining Journalism Education, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC (August 2023).
Invited moderator, Making Journalism Education More Inclusive and Less Extractive, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC (August 2023).
Invited discussant, New Research in Participatory Journalism, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC (August 2023).
Invited speaker, Research Breakfast, International Association of Online Journalism, Austin, TX (April 2023).
Invited moderator, “Building Trust: Audiences, Transparency, & Credibility,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Detroit, MI (August 2022).
Invited moderator, “Solutions Journalism and Revenue,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference Detroit, MI (August 2022).
Invited panelist, Listening Before (and After) the Story Pitch: Teaching Students About Public-Powered Journalism,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, virtual (August 2020).
Invited panel moderator, “Dialogue-driven journalism: engaging the public across divides,” International Journalism Festival, Perujia, Italy (April 2020 – canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Discussant, Newspaper and Online News Division Scholar to Scholar Session, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Toronto, Canada (August 2019).
Invited panelist, “Public Powered Classrooms: Teaching Journalism In and With Communities,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Toronto, Canada (August 2019).
Invited panelist, “So you’ve decided to earn a PhD, now what?” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Toronto, Canada (August 2019).
Invited panelist, “Lessons from Gather, A Project and Platform to Support Community-Minded Journalists and Other Engagement Professionals,” People Powered Publishing conference, Chicago, IL, (November 2018).
Invited panelist, “10 Ways to Teach Students How to Engage and Impact an Audience,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC, (August 2018).
Invited panelist, “Bringing Entrepreneurship into the Classroom: Challenges and Best Practices,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC, (August 2018).
Invited panelist, “Third Annual 10 Tech Tools in 10 Minutes,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC, (August 2018).
Panel proposal accepted, “Social Discovery,” Excellence in Journalism conference, Anaheim, CA, (September 2017).
Invited panelist, “Speed Dating: Great Ideas in Journalism Education,” Excellence in Journalism conference, Anaheim, CA, (September 2017).
Invited panelist, “Innovation in Curriculum,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Chicago, IL, (August 2017).
Invited panelist, “Innovative Media Partnerships that Help Student Media Thrive,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Chicago, IL, (August 2017).
Proposed session accepted, “Should Our Engineers Donate to Campaigns?” SRCCON conference, Minneapolis, MN, (August 2017).
Invited panelist, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Fort Worth, TX, (March 2017).
Invited panelist, Sustain Local conference, Montclair State University, NJ, (October 2016).
Invited speaker, “Teaching Social Journalism and Community Engagement,” Tow Center Educator’s Symposium, New York, NY (September 2016).
Invited panelist, “WANTED: Your next great engagement hire.” 10UP Poynter Institute Summit, New York, NY (August 2016).
Invited panelist, “New and Emerging Business Models in Media Industries,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2016).
Invited panelist, “Medium as a Publishing Tool for College Media,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2016).
Invited panelist, “Building Your College Media as a Brand,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2016).
Invited panelist, “Entrepreneurial Journalism Ethics,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Minneapolis, MN. (August 2016).
Moderator, “Techniques for Listening” panel, Entrepreneurial Journalism Educators Summit, New York, NY. (July 2016).
Invited panelist, “Disrupting Journalism Programs & Accomplishing Institutional Change,” Entrepreneurial Journalism Educators Summit, New York, NY. (July 2016).
Invited panelist/moderator, “From tips, to stories, to paying the bills: A playbook for crowd-driven investigations,” Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, New Orleans, LA, (June 2016).
Keynote speaker, Iowa High School Journalism Innovation and Leadership Conference, Des Moines, Iowa. (April 2016).
Invited facilitator, “Pre-conference workshop on media entrepreneurship.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, San Francisco, CA. (August 2015).
Invited panelist, “Journalism as a Mad Science.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, San Francisco, CA. (August 2015).
Invited panelist, Center for Cooperative Media’s Engage Local conference, Newark, NJ. (June, 2015).
Invited panelist, “What’s Next in Digital Journalism Scholarship?” International Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, TX (April 2015).
Invited panelist, “Social, Solutions and Public Interest: The emerging fields of how news and information can affect the greater good,” Journalism Interactive conference, Columbia, MO. (April 2015).
Invited speaker, American Society of Journalists and Authors, (March 2015).
Invited facilitator, Collab/Space Austin, (April 2015).
Invited panelist, “Blowing Up J-School: Journalism’s New Relevance.” South by Southwest, Austin, TX (March 2015).
Invited panelist, “Goodbye Disruption, Hello Disintermediation.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Montreal, Canada (August 2014).
Invited panelist, “Teaching entrepreneurial journalism.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC. (August 2013).
Invited panelist. “Presenting the best of the best student journalism entrepreneurs.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC. (August 2013).
Invited panelist. “Participatory journalism.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, DC. (August 2013).
Session chair, “Participatory journalism: Re-imagining the role of audiences and journalists.” International Communication Association conference in London, England (June 2013).
Featured speaker, “Tapping into social media.” Society of Professional Journalists conference, University of Mississippi (April 2013).
Invited panelist, “The Digital Curators: Finding the signal in a sea of noise.” Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Chicago, IL (August 2012).
Invited panelist, “We’ll Do it Live: Real-time Reporting Without Regrets.” Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Chicago, IL (August 2012).
Invited panelist, “Location, Location, Location: Using Location-based Services to Add some Mobile to your Journalism Course” Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in St. Louis, MO. (August 2011).
Invited presentation, Brown, C. and Arant, D. “Facebook, Twitter, and Journalism: What Social Media Means For Objectivity and Verification in the Digital Age.” College Media Advisers conference, New York, NY (March 2009).
Conference Presentations – Refereed
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2018). “Changing “habits of thought:” An examination of eight years of digital evolution at the Christian Science Monitor.” Paper accepted for presentation at the International Symposium for Online Journalism in Austin, TX.
Brown, C. (2013). “Newsroom 2.0: Organizational culture and managing change at a daily newspaper in the digital age.” Paper accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association conference in London, England.
Brown, C., Willis, E., and Irwin, R. (2013). “From tailgating to Twitter: Fans’ use of social media at a gridiron matchup between two historically black colleges.” Paper accepted for presentation at the American Advertising Association International conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2013). 40 million page views is not enough: An examination of the Christian Science Monitor’s evolution from SEO to Engagement. Paper accepted for presentation by the International Symposium of Online Journalism in Austin, TX.
“Changing newsrooms: Contributions from newsroom ethnography in the digital age.” (2012). Proposed panel accepted by the Newspaper and Online News Division; served as panel moderator at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Chicago, IL.
Brown, C. (2012). “Memstorm: Twitter as a community-driven breaking news tool.” Paper accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX. (Note: Acceptance rate was 32 percent)
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2011) “Stopping the presses: A longitudinal case study of the Christian Science Monitor transition From print daily to web always.” Paper accepted for presentation at the Communication in the Millenium conference in San Diego, CA.
Brown, C, Hendrickson, E. and Littau, J. (2011) “New opportunities for diversity: Twitter, journalists and traditionally underserved communities.” Paper accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX.
Groves, J. and Brown, C. (2011) “Stopping the presses: A longitudinal case study of the Christian Science Monitor transition From print daily to web always.” Paper accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX.
Littau, J., Brown, C., Hendrickson, E. and Oyedeji, T. (2010). “Curated creativity: The relationship between Twitter use and blog productivity.” Accepted for presentation at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Denver, CO.
“Bringing in the audience: Social media and new connections in magazines and the news classroom.” (2010) Proposed panel accepted by Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Denver, CO.
Brown, C. and Groves, J. (2009) “New media, enduring values: How three news organizations managed change in an age of uncertainty.” Accepted for presentation at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Boston, MA.
Brown, C. (2007). “Bias in the Newsroom: Newspaper staff describe the personal, organizational and structural influences on coverage.” Accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Washington, D.C.
Brown, C., Thorson, E. and Fleming, K. (2006). “Taking action on credibility: Does APME’s Credibility Roundtable Program have measurable effects?” Accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA.