Welcome to my Home Page. I am a graduate student with the requisite
proper attitude and good health. Onward and upward through knowledge.
I am associated with the University of Arizona
.
I am a graduate student, as noted. I am in the Department of Language,
Reading and Culture and my main interests are in media literacy/media
education, media technologies, and research methodologies. I have M.A.
degrees in journalism and in media arts.
Since I am interested in the mix of media, history,
current events and society, I have put in some appropriate links, e.g., The Museum of Broadcasting,
C-SPAN
, CNN, NBC, and News Media
Catalog. These media venues can and will
lead you to additional profitable locations. Media literacy/media
education/technology links appear below.
I began in radio in the mid-sixties and in television in the early '70's
(for seven years I worked radio and television simultaneously) and in
1971 I began teaching part-time in media at the University of Arizona.
Some years later I began teaching media courses at Pima Community College as
well.
ABC
My interests in media and in teaching about media stem from a
background of toiling in various media venues, provenances and job
descriptions for most of my adult stay here. I have worked mainly in radio
and television--as anchor, talk show host, feature writer/producer/host,
writer/producer/narrator for promotional material, educational media
writer/producer (including numerous medical tapes and films)--and I have
written and produced a number of documentary films and tapes, among them a
promotional film used for several years by the University of Arizona to
publicize the institution.
A tremendous resource.
Although much of what I have done has been in news and public affairs,
I've been lucky in the variety of many of my media endeavors. I have, for
example, produced and hosted a 50-part radio series on modern China; a
60-part series on science fiction; a multi-part series on the ancient
world, and other series on astronomy, anthropology, national, state and
local government and politics.
But most enjoyable and most interesting to
me was broadcasting my observations and impressions during a 14-state, 7,000
mile Amtrak summertime railway journey that looped me and my
at-the-time 14-year-old daughter through parts of the
American West/Northwest and the Midwest. We later put our impressions
together to fashion an hour and a half radio documentary out of the
experience...something of a "Ritters Across America, Riding the Amtrak
Rails."
CBS
I've written and/or performed hundreds of radio and television commercials
over many years, and in the not-too-ancient past I was co-host of Tucson's
number one radio show, the six to ten a.m. daily "Bryan and Bob Show" a
classic for its time (others' words, not mine) and a true Hoot in the
morning. I am currently working in radio as a backup newscaster, which
means I have a lot of extra time. This explains why I spend much of each
day sitting at home in a semi-lit room watching cooking shows on
television. I occasionally go in the closet and play with my shirts, and
I have been known to study for several minutes at a time as I pursue the
world of research and scholarship. All in all, not too bad. Cheers.
You can send email to me at
LRC 595A
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