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Lew
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Email: lfriedla@facstaff.wisc.edu
Lewis
Friedland is Director of the Broadcasting Program at the School
of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and is co-founder of CPN. He also directs ONline Wisconsin, and
heads the ONline@UW Publishing Group.
Dr. Friedland
spent nearly a decade as a news director and documentary producer
at NBC and CBS affiliates, and has continued to produce for Wisconsin
Public Television. His documentary, "My Promised Land: The Bernice
Cooper Story," won the Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Silver
Baton in 1995, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award,
the National Association of Black Journalists First Place in Television
Broadcasting, and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in
1994. His documentary, "Teen Sex: Expecting Trouble," won the
Society of Professional Journalists' National Award for Public
Service and the Parents Choice Award in 1991.
His publications
include Covering the World: International Television News Services,
for the Twentieth Century Fund (1992), "Beijing Spring," Journalism
Monographs (1996), "Public Television and the Crisis of Democracy,"
Communication Review (1995), "Public Television as Public
Sphere: A Case Study of the Wisconsin Collaborative Project,"
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (1995), "Electronic
Democracy and the New Citizenship," Media, Culture and Society
(1996), Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment,
Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal (2001) with
Carmen Sirianni, .
He is married
to Stacey Oliker, who teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
and has a son, Sam. Before working in television and academia,
he was a union activist in the mental health industry in Massachusetts,
helped found a community newspaper in upstate New York, and helped
establish community cable access stations in the San Francisco
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