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Rong Wang, broadcast journalist from China. |
Broadcast Journalist To Spend Year In The Cox International Center
Chinese broadcast journalist Rong Wang joined the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia in early October for a one-year research program as a visiting scholar.
Under the coordination of Cox Center director Dr. Lee B. Becker and Associate Director Dr. Tudor Vlad, Wang is planning to study how the new media revolution has impacted the traditional media content and the journalists’ work.
“I hope to make contact with American professors who focus on digital and social media in order to understand the future of the broad field of communication,” said the Chinese visitor.
Wang is planning to work with Professor David Hazinski, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, who specializes in digital and broadcast news. He is a former NBC correspondent who has helped launch a dozen international networks.
Rong Wang is a director of the Property Management Center, a unit of Golden Eagle Broadcasting Group in Hunan. During her career in television, she has been a program producer, a news editor and a reporter.
“I hope I can help the Cox Center with my expertise in Chinese media,” said the guest. “It is pleasure for me to share my 20-year experience as a journalist and a media manager, if I have the opportunity. I also hope to attend more sessions here in the Grady College on corporate and multi-cultural communication.”
“We are glad to have a broadcast journalist with such impressive experience here in the Center,” said Dr. Becker. “I’m sure we will find interesting areas of collaboration in some joint research projects.”
Asked about her first observations in Athens and at UGA, Wang said that she couldn’t imagine that fall was so beautiful here and that the library is so rich and so easy accessible.
