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Kim, Hun Shik

Associate Professor

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Research

research overview

  • Dr. Hun Shik Kim's research areas include broadcast and multimedia journalism, international communication, war and conflict reporting, and media performances in Asia-Pacific nations. Dr. Kim has researched the transformation of the news media environment during and after wartime in the Middle East. He has worked on a series of research projects to investigate how news media cover military conflicts and political upheavals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Dr. Kim's ongoing research focuses on public diplomacy and news media performances during global crises. Dr. Kim's research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Mass Communication and Society, and Journalism Studies.

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  • broadcast news, multimedia storytelling, international communication, war and conflict reporting, news media in social and political transitions, emerging telecommunication technologies, public diplomacy, global journalism

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Teaching

courses taught

  • APRD 7004 - Doctoral Professionalization Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Introduces you to the university and gives you a chance to think out loud about what your academic future might look like. The course is designed to be responsive to your needs regarding your career, getting a job, getting tenure and teaching. In short, the course prepares you for a career in academia. Same as JRNL 7004.
  • JRNL 1000 - Principles of Journalism and Networked Communication
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2022
    Surveys the history, practices and responsibilities of journalism in a democracy. Examines ethics, best practices in institutional and network settings, reporting and writing, international news systems, personal branding, and strategies for creating and distributing content across media platforms. Promotes the highest professional values and encourages students to be leaders who recognize the possibilities of journalism in a democratic society.
  • JRNL 2001 - Fundamentals of Reporting Technologies
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Develops news-gathering skills for work in news enterprises. Students learn skills for working with technologies used in news reporting and in storytelling for various media formats. Students are introduced to a range of technologies for recording, editing and producing. Students encouraged to take concurrently with JRNL 2000.
  • JRNL 3401 - Sociology of News
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
    Provides students with an introduction to the factors that shape news reporting and production, including gatekeeping, intermedia agenda setting, pack journalism, beat structures, news values and issues unique to the various platforms on which news is delivered.
  • JRNL 4351 - Reporting Wars, Conflict and Peace
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Explores how journalists report international breaking news with a focus on war, disaster and peace and how these news events affect peoples' lives, governmental decisions and news media operations.
  • JRNL 4354 - Video News Reporting
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2023
    Focuses on writing and reporting compelling visual stories using mobile devices and video cameras. Students also learn storytelling techniques of backpack video journalism and reporting for broadcast television and online news.
  • JRNL 4411 - International Media and Global Crises
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
    Investigates how media organizations, audiences and other international organizations function during various global crises, such as national disasters, climate change and health epidemics, due to imbalanced distribution of wealth and resources, ethnic tensions and diplomatic failures.
  • JRNL 4931 - Internship
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
    Internship
  • JRNL 5011 - Newsgathering and Multimedia Storytelling
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
    Develops skills in research and reporting on public issues and news events, and in the construction of narrative in the journalistic and documentary traditions, using a variety of media platforms.
  • JRNL 5411 - Global Journalism and International News
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    This graduate course provides students with an overview of the field of international and global journalism with particular foci on comparative media research and international affairs reporting. The course seeks to expose students to theoretical foundations and key concepts in the news media systems and journalistic practices around the world. It also addresses the political, social, and economic consequences of global journalism and the challenges related to it.
  • JRNL 5851 - Graduate Professional Project
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2021
  • JRNL 7004 - Doctoral Professionalization Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Introduces you to the university and gives you a chance to think out loud about what your academic future might look like. The course is designed to be responsive to your needs regarding your career, getting a job, getting tenure and teaching. In short, the course prepares you for a career in academia. Same as APRD 7004.

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