ACADEMIC PREPARATION

B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1959; Post-graduate Associateship,University of London, 1962; M.A./Ph.D., University of Texas, 1964/1965; also attended Boston University and the National University of Mexico.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1984-present: Professor, School of Telecommunications, teaching/research in areas of new technologies, development communications, multimedia and instructional tele communications, comparative broadcasting systems, international telecommuni cations and satellite communications.

1990-present: Director, Institute for Telecommunication Studies, researchand external relations arm of the School of Telecommunications, engaged in media research, multimedia production, project evaluation, distance education and international training and development.

1981-84: Director, Special Projects, Center For International Studies, Ohio University, worked on international development projects, linkages with institutions abroad, internationalizing the campus and the curriculum, fund-raising.

1971-81: Dean, University College, Ohio University, academic head of an under graduate college of approximately 8,000 students; curricular,budgetary, personnel decisions; responsibilities included associate (two-year general and technical) as well as baccalaureate degree programson Athens and regional campuses.

1969-71: Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo; academic, curriculum coordination, scholastic standards and degree requirements, academic advisement, transfer affairs, new student and faculty orientation, minority programs, registration.

1966-69: Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; responsible for admissions, registration, student counseling, learning resources. Director of the Mexico Project.

1965-66: Assistant Director, Office of Research Administration, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland; manager of institutional research, grants coordinator with state and federal government, private foundations and with industry.

1959-65: Other professional activities included: television production at commercial station WFAA-TV, Channel 8, Dallas; manager of KUT-TV closed-circuit instructional station at University of Texas, Austin; television production coordinator for School of Public Relations and Communications, Boston University; post-graduate intern with Schools Broadcasting, BBC, U.K.

RECENT RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING/VIDEO PROJECTS

International News Flow: Initiated series of longitudinal research studies (1984-present) which have examined the content, infrastructure and major players among satellite news exchanges around the globe. Initiated and sustained (1987- present) an academic archive and program of research on

CNN World Report, the world's first international newscast and global news exchange. Funded in part by OU Research Committee, this activity has produced at least a dozen papers, seven published articles and two books.

Most recent book, with Robert K. Stewart: CNN: MAKING NEWS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET (London: John Libbey Media, 1997, pp.231), is the only book currently in print on CNN and the first book on CNN-International.

Independent Media Development: Initiated and managed (1992-present) series of development/training projects to strengthen independent media in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Under sponsorship of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), International Media Fund, USIA, VOA, and the U.S./Baltic Foundation, helped create training centers in the Baltic national universities and carry out a schedule of in-country and US-based training aimed at journalists, media officials, media associations, university instructors and students from the 15 countries of the NIS.

Serve on the national interview/selection/placement committee for FSA/Muskie Fellows in journalism and mass communications. Ohio Multimedia Lab: Initiator/ director (1993-96) of a new center for research, training and electronic publishing focusing on Rural Regeneration and Third World Development; addressing the media development needs of lesser-developed regions of the world, esp. in the development of low-cost user-friendly teaching technologies, the training of media entrepreneurs and the production and distribution of local materials. In March 1995, the OMML was designated a national New Media Center by Apple, Sony, Kodak and partners.

Consortium for the Advancement of Affordable and Accessible Distance Education: Joined (1995) with CAADE group of universities, centered on University of Tennessee-Knoxville, in submission of proposal to U.S. Department of Commerce (TIIAP) and wrote CAADE proposal to NSF to test and implement low-cost multimedia delivery systems connected to computer-equipped rural schools integrating satellite/internet.

With help of Ohio University Telecommunications Center, School of Communications Systems Management, Computer Engineering, Computing Network Servicesand Nursing, hosted internationally distributed satellite videoconference, demonstrating such distance teaching technologies as MBone, Internet (CuSeeMe), Sharevision and PictureTel. Disaster Recovery, Backup and Communications Augmentation Experiments Using the NASA ACTS Satellite: Project Manager

(1993-95) for a series of tests on the capabilities and performance of Nasa's
Ka-band all-digital exprimental satellite in partnership between the Colleges of Engineering and Communication of Ohio University and the Huntington National Bank. Significant involvement of undergraduate students. Numerous presentations, video stories, press releases, papers and articles have resulted.

African Media Training/Curriculum Development: On assignment in Swaziland (Spring quarter 1988) serving as distance teaching consultant to the Ministry of Education. Work with Swazi radio and television personnel and with university and teacher training college staff, under sponsorship of USAID-Ohio University Teacher Education Project.

Project manager of USIA sponsored training program for middle-management radio, television and public information producers representing 15 African countries (May 1991). Managed a program of radio training and internships in the U.S. for Malagasy broadcasters (June-September 1994) under contract to the Voice of America. Helped coordinate needs assessment for selected African states in a joint program between Ohio University, Howard University and USIA (1994-1995). Travelled to Angola (February 1994) under support of USIA as trainer of radio, television, press and news agency personnel. Assisted in television interviews with US aid officials, U.S. Ambassador and with Angolan Foreign Minister shown on CNN-International.

(In 1995) hosted Angolan Minister of Information, who spoke to Ohio University classes and made a presentation to the University of 200 rare books from the Angolan Writers Union.

Images of Canada in the U.S. Media: Co-researcher with Guido Stempel, Director of the Bush Research Center, in a project commissioned by the Canadian Consulate to examine coverage of Canada in the U.S. press and television. Data collection, analysis and reporting of findings (1991-1993) resulted in a widely-distributed monograph, several papers and articles.

Internationalizing the Campus/Curriculum: wrote two successful Ohio University 1804 grants: "International Issues in Telecommunications" (with Joe Slade and Felix Gagliano for $10,000 in 1992) and "Telecommunication Undergraduate Curriculum Review" (with Joe Slade for $20,000 in 1993).

Principal grant writer (with the Center for International Studies and the Modern Languages Department) to internationalize Ohio University's undergraduate courses (funded 1993-95 by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI at $93,000). School of Telecommunications faculty and others received funding under these grants.

Various Indonesia Projects: Senior Fulbright Scholar (1977-78) to Indonesia, assigned to the Ministry of Education and Culture to help convert 650 Indonesian colleges and universities from the Dutch to an American system of higher education managment. Attended two SE Asian Summer Institutes (1978 and 1983) for Indonesian language and culture.

Since 1978, have worked on about a dozen projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Information, Ministry o Research and Technology, the Department of Transmigration and the Ford Foundation.

(In 1989) worked with Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC), Austin, providing background data and advice on a $200 million bid on a higher education development project in Indonesia. Consultant (in 1992) to new Indonesian media company Atlantis Total Communications on several TV privatization projects; provided (in 1992) curriculum design assistance to STT-Telkom (Indonesian state tele communications authority) in developing TV production and management tracks in its new training facility in Bandung; assistance (in 1997) to the Jakarta-based Universitas Pembangunan Nasional in development of a new communications curriculum within the traditional Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Faculty advisor to the Indonesian Students Association (PERMIAS) for 18 years.

Video Productions Producer/director (1989 and 1990) for video documentaries commissioned by the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology. The first video, following an Advanced Technologies in a Traditional Society theme, was funded by Boeing Commercial Aircraft and focused on aircraft manufacturing in Indonesia; the second, funded by UNOCAL Geothermal, focused on ship-building. Both were produced in the Indonesian language and in English, with significant involvement of OU students, shown on TVRI, the Indonesian national TV network, and used in the USA in the 1990-1991 Festival of Indonesia.

Finalist in the 1991 New York International Film and Video Festival. With Michael Mirarchi, producer/director of 28-minute video documentary on Ohio University's long term relationship with the southern Africa country of Botswana. A three-minute Flournoy/Mirarchi news item on the visit of Botswana President Massire to Ohio University, including excerpts of his undergraduate commencement address, aired on CNN World Report (June 1989).

A three-minute Flournoy/Mirarchi piece covering the nationa Congress of Indonesian Students meeting at Ohio University aired on CN World Report (September 1989). Footage collected by Flournoy and Mirarchi during the Ohio University visit of Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid leader from South Africa, was made into a mini-documentary by Globalvision and distributed internationally.

With former student Charlie Kendall, covered the Ohio University visit of former President Jimmy Carter (May 1989), later used in on-air CNN promotionals. With Kendall, shot the International Sky-diving Championships for CNN in Bali, Indonesia (July 1989). This piece never aired but raw footage was made available for sports editing projects in the School of Telecommunications.

ITVA Video Competitions: hosted annual judging panels (1989-1993) at Ohio University for the International Television Association to identify and honor on a national basis the outstanding corporate video productions of the year. OU students joined with ITVA professionals in these judgings.

Served as founder and faculty advisor to the ITVA student chapter and member of the Columbus, Ohio, chapter (1985-1995).

SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE WORK

Books

THE BROADBAND MILLENIUM: COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MARKETS (300-page text used in telecommunications clases during 1999 under review by McGraw-Hill for Spring 2000 publication.)

CNN: MAKING NEWS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET (with Robert K. Stewart), London: John Libbey & Co., Ltd., 1997, pp.231.

CNN WORLD REPORT: TED TURNER'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS COUP, London: John Libbey & Co., Ltd., 1992, pp. 102. Re-issued 1994.

CONTENT ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS, Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1992, pp. 219.

ANALISA ISI SURATKABAR SURATKABAR INDONESIA, Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1989, pp. 270.

THE RATIONING OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., 1982, pp. 186.

THE NEW TEACHERS, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1972, pp. 206

Articles/Monographs

"Use of Satellites in Distance Education in Turkey and Japan," (with Ugur Demiray et. al.), ED JOURNAL (The Official Publication of the US Distance Learning Association), Vol.11, No. 11, November 1997, J1-J6.

"Media Images of Canada: U.S. Media Coverage of Canadian Issues and U.S. Awareness of Those Issues," (with Guido Stempel III) OHIO JOURNALISM

MONOGRAPHS, Bush Research Center, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio

University, August 1992.

"The Weekly `World Report' on CNN, An Analysis," (with Chuck Ganzert), JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, Vol.69, No.1., Spring 1992.

"Satellites in Development Communications," JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS, December 1991. A shortened version of this article appeared in COMMDEV NEWS, Summer 1990.

"International Distribution of CNN's World Report," SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, February 1991.

"Development News in CNN's World Report," (with Rani Dilawari and Robert Stewart), GAZETTE, Winter 1991.

"CNN Gained Edge by Cultivating Communication, Not through Heroics, Dubious Deals," (with Robert Stewart). THE ATHENS MESSENGER, June 20, 1991.

"International News Flow Surges into the 1990s," MEDIA DEVELOPMENT, Vol. XXXVII/4, 1990, pp.41-44. This same article appeared in condensed form in SASARAN, magazine of the School of Mass Communication, MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia, under the title "Emergence of the International NewsExchange."

"Alternativne Televizijske Tehnologije," (with Misha Nedeljkovich), YUVIDEO, Septembar 1990, broj 81, pp.34-35. The same article was published in English as "Alternative Television Technologies: LPTV, MMDS and DBS," by the Yugoslavian journal RTV THEORY AND PRACTICE, Fall, 1990.

"Monday Memo: a global news commentary," BROADCASTING, Nov.20, 1989.

"The Developing Story of Cable's International News Coverage: A Commentary on Global News," BROADCASTING, February 22, 1988.

"Westminster Cable Set to Wire London," ELECTRONIC MEDIA, October 20, 1986.

"Satellites in the National Interest," SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, February, 1986.

"Asian Countries Form Local News Exchanges," ELECTRONIC MEDIA, October 7, 1985.

Chapters in Books

"The Last Mile: Where Telecommunications Traffic Slows to a Crawl," (with Tom N. Scott), in 1998 ANNUAL REVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS, Chicago: International Engineering Consortium, 1998, pp. 581-593.

"NASA ACTS Satellite: Demonstration of Capabilities," (with Hans Kruse) in 1996 ANNUAL REVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS, Chicago: International Engineering Consortium, 1996, pp.1045-1049.

"NASA ACTS Satellite: A Disaster Recovery Test," (with Hans Kruse) in TECHNOLOGY BEYOND THE HORIZON, IEEE Communications Conference Proceedings, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, August 1995, pp.100-105.

"Distribution Systems," in Alan Richardson ed., CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL VIDEO, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992. Revised and reissued in 1996.

"Telecommunications in Asia and the Pacific," in ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: HANDBOOKS TO THE MODERN WORLD, New York/London: Facts on File Publications, 1991.

"The Developing Story of Cable's International News Coverage," in L. John Martin and Ray Eldon Hiebert, eds., CURRENT ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION, White Plains, New York: Longman, 1990.

"Communicating with Video: An International Perspective" in Mary Cross and Walter Cummins, eds., THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE: MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS AND BUILDING CORPORATE IMAGE IN THE 1990S, Proceedings, the Second Conference on Corporate Communications, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, May 1989.

"Distance Teaching: Telecommunications in Education and Training," in Lorne A. Parker and Christine H. Olgren, eds., TELECONFERENCING AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, Center For Interactive Programs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985.

Bibliography: A 200-title annotated bibliography entitled COMMUNICATIONS/MASS MEDIA BOOKS: A CORE LIST FOR EASTERN EUROPEAN MEDIA PERSONS AND STUDENTS, commissioned by the United States Information Service, Library Resources Division, June 1992.

Papers and Presentations

"The Business of International News: Putting a Brand Name on Information," public presentation while serving as Visiting Scholar, University of Rhode Island, February 1998.

"CNN World Report: A Five Year Analysis," (with Ece Algan and Sang-Chul Lee) Institute for Telecommunications Studies, Ohio University, Athens, 1997; presented to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 1997.

"NASA ACTS Satellite: A Disaster Recovery Test," at Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Conference, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, August 1995.

"Disaster Recovery Via ACTS: the Ohio/Huntington/NASA Experiment" to the National Symposium on the Future Telecommunications Tools of the 21st Century, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Washington D.C., June 23, 1993. Distributed nationally via the NASA TV Channel.

"U.S. Media Coverage of Canada and U.S. Public Awareness of Canadian Issues," (with Debra Mason, Robert Nanney and Guido Stempel III) at the convention of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, New Orleans, Nov. 18, 1993.

"CNN World Report: Ted Turner's International News Coup," to the CNN World Report Contributors Conference, Turner Broadcasting Network, Atlanta, Georgia, May 6, 1993.

"Television Training: Vocational and Academic Models," to the Seminar on the Future of Indonesian Television sponsored by STT-Telkom and ATC Communications, World Trade Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 1992.

"Satellite News Exchanges: Historical Perspectives and Comment" to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1992.

"Images of Canada in the U.S. Media" (with Guido Stempel III), to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), Montreal, Canada, August 1992.

"The Role of Communication in National Development: Theory and Practice" to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) (with Chun-il Park and Rani Dilawari), Montreal, Canada, August 1992.

"Women on the CNN World Report: Reporters and Actors in International Television News," (with Rani Dilawari), Sixth Annual Research Conference, Ohio University, April 1992, and at the International Communications Association Conference (ICA), Miami, May 1992.

"Development Orientation of Domestic and International News on the CNN World Report (with Chun-il Park), Sixth Annual Research Conference, Ohio University, April 1992.

"Results of the International Survey of TV News Organizations Contributing to CNN's World Report," (with Robert Stewart) presentation to the "Impact of Television News on Political Change" conference, One CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1990.

"Emergence of the International News Exchange: The New Global Journalism," to the International Association of Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Bled, Yugoslavia, August 1990.

"Development News in CNN's World Report," (with Rani Dilawari and Robert Stewart), to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1990.

"Communicating with Video: An International Perspective," to the Second Conference on Corporate Communications, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, May 1989.

"Report of Research on Global News Exchanges," (with Robert Stewart) to a five-day "Power of Television News on a Shrinking Planet" meeting of CNN afiliates and World Report contributors at CNN, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1989.

"Televised International News in Five Countries: Throughness, Insularity and Agenda Capacity" (with Anne M. Cooper) to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Barcelona, Spain, July 1988.

"Emerging From the Periphery: Regional Satellite News Exchanges in Asia" to the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) meeting, New Delhi, India, August, 1986.

"Video Formats: the Standards Mess," to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Norman, Oklahoma, August, 1986.

"Satellite News Exchanges in Asia," to the International Television Studies (ITSC) Conference, London, England, July, 1986.

"Asiavision: Satellite News Exchange," to the Broadcast Education Association (BEA-NAB), Las Vegas, Nevada, April 12-14, 1985.

Don M. FLOURNOY,

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS STUDIES

OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OHIO 45701

Tel: 614-593-4866, Fax: 593-9184

e-mail: don.flournoy@ohiou.edu

This CV is revised July 1999