Mission & Vision

The Center for Media Ethics and Literacy provides resources, education and support for journalists, students and educators. Our mission is to prepare students for challenges they will face in the real world as creators and consumers of media. By supplementing classroom training with expert-led programming, collaborating with SJSM professors on curricula, and pushing for increased access to media ethics and literacy education across the U of A and beyond, the center moves toward its vision of building a generation of professionals who engage critically with the media they consume and act ethically in the work they do.

About Us

 

Director:  Gina Shelton

Email:  ginas@uark.edu

Phone:  479-575-7255

Gina Holland Shelton is a former national reporter for The Associated Press, where her 17-year career included five years covering the U.S. Supreme Court.  Her first experience with media ethics was in high school, working as a breaking news photographer covering crime and accident scenes in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Gina, a second-generation journalist and graduate of Mississippi State University, joined the University of Arkansas in 2013. She has taught multiple courses, including Ethics, Media Law, Government and Media, News Reporting I and II, and Editing. Since 2015, she has directed the Lemke Journalism Project, a high school multicultural reporting program that teaches media literacy and ethics to young people from diverse backgrounds.

She serves as campus adviser to the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is president of the Northwest Arkansas Pro SPJ chapter.

 

 

Graduate Assistant:  Katherine Taylor

Email:  kgt001@uark.edu

Katherine Taylor is a first-year graduate student in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media. She has a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Arkansas and has returned to the Hill to pursue a Master’s in Advertising and Public Relations. As an undergraduate, she was an Honors College Fellow, a columnist for the Arkansas Traveler, and a board member for the Volunteer Action Center.