This blog covers a week of academic training in convergence journalism being conducted at The IFRA Newsplex at the University of South Carolina

Monday, May 12, 2008

Nahed Tantawy -- from commodities to convergence

A new assistant professor at High Point University starting this fall, Nahed Tantawy started her journalism career with Reuters news agency in Cairo. A political science/economics grad from American University in Cairo, she specialized in reporting about stocks and commodities, specifically wheat.

She found herself in Atlanta -- "homesick" at first -- and working to complete an unfinished M.A. back home in Egypt. She defended her thesis by videoconference and joined the Ph.D. program at Georgia State University. Her dissertation was a discourse analysis of US news media representations of Muslim women post 911.





-Melissa

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