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Barney McCoy teaches multimedia, broadcast news, journalism and depth reporting courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, before arriving at UNL in 2006, McCoy was a full-time journalist for 27 years. His television documentary “Black Jack Pershing: Love and War” was a 2018 recipient of a national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an Award of Excellence, Special Mention from the Accolade Global Film Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Impact DOCS Global Documentary Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association, and an Eric Sevareid Award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Another McCoy documentary, “They Could Really Play the Game: Reloaded,” was a 2015 Canada International Film Festival Award winner. McCoy has been honored with six Emmy awards and numerous other citations for journalistic excellence. McCoy has co-authored a book chapter on mixed methods research in documentary filmmaking. He has produced and advised on five award-winning documentaries at UNL.
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Charlyne Berens retired in 2014 from the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications where she was associate dean and professor. During her years at the university, she taught courses in writing, reporting and editing as well as an honors seminar on the First Amendment. She was the editor and co-publisher of the Seward County Independent from 1976 until 1990, when she joined UNL. Her Ph.D. is in political science. She has published two books about the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature and two political biographies as well as a number of journal articles about Nebraska history and politics.She received several teaching awards during her career and was named to the Nebraska Press Association Hall of Fame in 2011. She is now an OLLI devotee and is co-chair of OLLI’s Curriculum Committee.
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Joseph Weber teaches courses for undergraduates and graduate students in basic and advanced journalism and business and economic journalism. He worked 22 years for BusinessWeek magazine before going into teaching, covering a myriad of business and economic subjects. He has published academic papers on such issues as how to teach students fairness in their reporting and writing. He has also taught journalism several times in China at universities in Beijing and Shanghai. In addition, because he’s interested in cults and Utopian communities, he has written a book about on a Transcendental Meditation community in Iowa. He has a second book due out in the fall of 2020 out that focuses on recruitment efforts by terrorist groups, including ISIS and al-Shabab, in the Somali-American community in Minnesota.