Lew Klein, president of the NATPE Educational Foundation, with EMST Faculty Shira Chess and Taylor Cole Miller.
Lew Klein, president of the NATPE Educational Foundation, with EMST Faculty Shira Chess and Taylor Cole Miller.

EMST faculty attend NATPE 2018

Entertainment and Media Studies faculty Shira Chess and Taylor Cole Miller attended the annual National Association of Television Program Executives Miami Marketplace and Conference.

Attending the conference is more than 5,000 media executives and 1,100 content buyers. This year’s event took place Jan. 16-18.

Pictured with Chess and Miller is Lew Klein, described as a legend of the television industry. Klein is currently on the NATPE executive committee and is president of the NATPE Educational Foundation.

Chess and Miller attended as part of the NATPE Faculty Fellowship Program. It provides selected college and university media faculty with complete access to the sessions and activities of the annual NATPE Miami Marketplace & Conference, with the goals of exposing educators to current television issues and practices, and fostering improved communication and cooperation between educators and the industry.

Lew Klein is the former president of Gateway Communications, former executive producer of pioneering dance show American Bandstand, and one of the founders of NATPE more than 50 years ago. He also oversaw programming for The Triangle Group and was a director of Dick Clark Productions.

The industry veteran also has an active academic career, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and also the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Date: January 22, 2018
Author:  James Hamilton,  hamilton@uga.edu