Conway to present at BEA conference Thursday
Associate professor Mike Conway will present at the Broadcast Education Association virtual conference this week on his book, “Contested Ground: ‘The Tunnel’ and the Struggle Over Television News in Cold War America.”
He’s presenting as the recipient of the 2020 Library of American Broadcasting Foundation Broadcast Historian Award. He also won the Journalism Historians Association’s 2020 Book of the Year Award and was a Tankard Book Award finalist.
The book examines the role of television news during the Cold War era through the lens of a case study on NBC’s 1962 broadcast,“The Tunnel.”
The talk is at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, and the conference registration fee is waived for this presentation. Use the registration form below to request the Zoom login.