• Print journalism
• Multimedia journalism
• Crime journalism

Jeff South, associate professor of mass communications, can speak about a range of journalism topics, including multimedia journalism. South received a Knight International Press Fellowship in 2007 to spend six months training journalists in the Ukraine about the concepts and practices of new media and multimedia journalism. South spent 20 years as a journalist, working for publications such as the Dallas Times Herald, the Austin-American Statesman and the Phoenix Gazette before becoming a journalism professor at VCU. He is the U.S. book review editor for the publication, “Journalism Studies.” His research studies include the 2004 paper titled “Scene of the Crime: The Study and Practice of Local Television Crime Coverage from the mid-1990s to the Present.” On that topic, he can address why media coverage varies from crime to crime and why some crimes seem to gather significantly more attention than others. South discussed the sweeping changes the media industry is experiencing with VCU OnTopic. He has spoken to reporters about such topics as Second Life, online newspapers, hyperlocal news web sites and print media’s financial struggles.

Porter, Mike
VCU Communications and Public Relations
(804) 828-7037

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