My current research agenda includes projects that speak to my interests in pedagogy, journalism, new media, materialism and Buddhist philosophy.

1. •News Writing Across Platforms is a college-level textbook that simultaneously teaches students how to report the fundamental types of news stories and how to tell those stories on traditional and new media platforms. Each chapter pairs a specific news story genre with a media platform. For example, students practice writing breaking news stories for news Web sites; cover meetings through audio podcasts; and produce video packages for news-you-can-use stories. The proposal is currently under consideration by McGraw-Hill. To read a sample chapter, click here.
   

• Begun November 2007, RhyNewService.com is a public access, multi-platform news wire service for groups interested in social change. Once fully operational, environmental, economic, and human and animal rights groups will be able to upload and download stories for print, audio and video broadcast, audio and video podcast, and audio and video Internet streaming. Ideally, the site will function as a clearinghouse for the myriad social change groups doing work. Naturally, the site will also feature a number of columnists (bloggers, commentators, bloviators), drawn from my colleagues in acadmia and journalism.

• My long-term project involves integrating the approaches of Western materialism and Eastern Buddhism.  An example of this is the article, “The Role Meditation May Play in Journalism,” which has been accepted for publication by Sextant, the Salem State College academic journal. To read the piece, click here.