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Sam Swan, professor and director of internationalization and outreach for the College of Communication and Information, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education. 

As world leaders grapple with issues such as diplomacy and democracy with Middle Eastern countries, some University of Tennessee communications professors are quietly building relationships, both professional and sometimes personal, with colleagues in the nation of Jordan. "

Nannette Baker began her career as a broadcast journalist. But along the way, she made a sharp turn that brought her to the legal profession. Today she is chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District—the first African American woman to preside over a Missouri state court and just the third black judge to serve as chief of the Eastern District.

The School of Journalism and Electronic Media presented 2008-2009 academic year scholarship awards to outstanding students Monday, April 21 at the JEM Honors Convocation.

Oleg Manaev, now a visiting professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, continues to fight for democratic freedom in his native Belarus despite government-led propaganda attacks and arrest threats.