AUSTIN, TX, May 03, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Gene Arnold Burd is a celebrated Marquis Who's Who biographee. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name Dr. Burd a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Dr. Burd celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field.
About Dr. Gene Arnold Burd
Dr. Gene Burd has studied, practiced and taught journalism for more than 60 years, the last 45 at Texas, and before that at Minnesota, Marquette, Northwestern, Iowa and at UCLA on a fellowship from the Los Angeles Times. He frequented Aspen Institute and Chautauqua in the early 1950s.
He wrote for the Kansas City Star, Albuquerque Journal, Houston Chronicle, Three Rivers, Michigan Commercial, and suburban weeklies in Los Angeles and Chicago, where he also wrote for Encyclopedia Britannica, and was one of the last residents of Jane Addams' Hull-House. He was on the city planning information staff of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, was an adviser to Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier, and a consultant to the Metropolitan Council of Minneapolis-St. Paul and the Denver Urban Observatory.
He was chair and/or a founder of three divisions of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) over a 24-year period (for magazines, mass communication & society, qualitative/critical studies); and chaired for two years the mass communication division of the Western Social Science Association.
At Texas, he created courses in minority media, community journalism, urban communication, sports and music journalism, and critical/qualitative studies, and chaired the magazine sequence and graduate studies committees.
His research in 15 book chapters, more than 45 journal articles, 26 abstracts, many poems, and more than 200 conference presentations (including 75 refereed papers and 40 media workshops) has appeared in Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Educator, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Urban Affairs, Nation's Cities, National Civic Review, Quill, Ecquid Novi, Grassroots Editor, Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, American National Biography, Mass Comm Review, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Journalism History, Heritage of the Great Plains, Sporting Dystopias and Ethnic Media in America.
He has presented research to AEJMC, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, Popular Culture Association, America Political Science Association, American Studies Association, American Sociological Association, as well as to numerous newspaper and regional scholarly associations. At Texas, he has taught 15 courses and supervised 70 master's theses and reports.
Dr. Burd was honored as Texas Statesman of the Year and received both the Distinguished Student Service Award and the Minority Student Services Award. He was the founder-benefactor of The Urban Communication Foundation headquartered in New York and Chicago, and the Annual Institute on Media and Politics in Los Angeles for the Junior Statesmen of America.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Gene Arnold Burd has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit http://whoswholifetimeachievers.com/2017/02/28/gene-arnold-burd/ to view this distinguished honor. Dr. Burd has also been a featured listee in Who's Who in America.
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