Presentations

Black History Month keynote speech at the University of Toledo. Yanick Rice Lamb moderates a forum with Johnson Publishing executives LInda Johnson Rice and Desiree Rogers on “Black Women and Power.” More than 200 women attended the session, sponsored by Executive Leadership Council in July 2012 at Target Field in Minneapolis. Yanick Rice Lamb shared early results of her research on the digital strategies of several national magazines. (Photo credit: George Daniels/University of Alabama) Refereed Papers and Presentations 2012, AEJMC Council of Affiliates, one of three proposals selected for the Second Annual Industry Research Forum Award; $1,000 for “All the News That Fits on Tablets: An Analysis of News Consumption and Best Practices” to be presented at national AEJMC conference, August 2013 in Washington, D.C. “The Seven Sisters and Their Siblings Go Digital: An Analysis of Women’s Magazine Content on Websites, iPads and Cell Phones,” 37th Annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Communication at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (March 2012). Keynote Speaker Black History Month keynote speaker, University of Toledo; also gave sermon at the Historic Third Baptist Church and spoke at Scott High School and the Ella P. Stewart Academy, February 2014 Keynote Panel “Black Women on Power,” moderator of keynote session of Executive Leadership Council’s Women’s Leadership Summit, Minneapolis, July 10, 2012 Other Presentations NABJ, Boston 2014 ER Loads, AHCJ, 2014 Job Fair, 2013 AEJMC Magazines, August 2013 NABJ Magazines, Orlando 2013 NABJ, 2013 “Productive Trends and Opportunities in the Print and Publishing Industries, Bowie State University, April 20, 2013 “Waiting for Children: New Stories About Infertility,” Association for Health Care Journalists...
Black Women on Power

Black Women on Power

Linda Johnson Rice, chairwoman of Johnson Publishing Company, and Desiree Rogers, president and CEO of Johnson Publishing, joined moderator Yanick Rice Lamb to speak about what it takes to take charge of your career and personal brand. More than 200 women executives, managers and students attended the panel held July 10, 2012, at Target Field in...

Stepping Up The Social Media Teaching Strategies Thanks To AEJMC Magazine Panel

Excerpt from George Daniels, University of Alabama at AEJCM Southeast Colloquium at Virginia Tech in 2012. BLACKSBURG, Va– The notion of “save the best for last,” definitely applies to a trio of presentations scheduled for the tail end of  the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium last weekend here on the Virginia Tech campus. Representing the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Magazine Division, Yanick Rice Lamb, Erin Coyle, and Susan Sivek delivered a set of recommendations for “Going Digital: Preparing Students to Succeed as Magazines Move from Paper to Pixels.” … “Change is the cost of doing business,” said Yanick Rice Lamb, who teaches several courses in the journalism department at Howard University’s School of Communications. (Full disclosure: I am a proud 1992 graduate of this program– Go Bison!) Lamb’s research focuses on the innovative way national magazines are changing in the age of iPod and e-Reader platforms. Among the findings from her study was the realization that many magazines are expecting  those new hires in the magazine design arena to not just have traditional skills in pagination programs such as Quark X Press and Adobe InDesign. Increasingly, those designers may be called upon to design contact for a mobile APP and thus must arrive at the publication with some familiarity with HTML5 and...