Open 1st Place Paper: Daniel Marshall Haygood, Elon University; The Rise and Demise of the Tobacco Sports Network: The Story of University Sports Radio Networks Overtaking the Southeast’s Oldest Regional Sports Radio Network
Open 2nd Place Paper: Tabitha Ann Bartoe, Regent University, WKEF/WRGT; Not Just A Girl or A Curl: Mary Pickford’s Image and the Rhetoric of Femininity
Craig Allen, Arizona State University; The Origin of Advocacy Journalism in U.S. Spanish-Language Television News: The 1970 Killing of Ruben Salazar and the Activism of Los Angeles Station KMEX
Nathan Dale Crissman, Regent University; Historical Communicative Governance: The Pirate Code as a Model of Shared Risk and Ethical Reciprocity
