(Posted 9-20-99)
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News Service Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5371

DR. LAURA LINDER OF UNCG HAS NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

        GREENSBORO--Dr. Laura R. Linder, an assistant professor of media studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of a new book "Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox," which was published recently by Praeger Publishers.
        The book illustrates how public access television has addressed and can address the problems of concentrated media ownership. Those problems include the narrowing of the range of opinions in the mass media and decreasing coverage of local issues, said Linder.
        The book reviews the history, regulations and current status of public access television. It also identifies key factors that will affect the future of public access television, and offers recommendations for securing the future of the "electronic soapbox" in the 21st century.
        At UNCG, Linder teaches media law and ethics, introduction to media studies and directing for television. Her experience in mass media includes working as  a production coordinator for WFMY-TV. She also was managing editor of Carolina Film/Southeast Film, regional trade publications, during the mid-1980s. She holds undergraduate and master's degrees form UNCG and received her  Ph.D. degree from UNC-Chapel Hill.
        In 1998, she was among 17 persons who were selected to attend the faculty seminar of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. In addition to her book, Linder is the author of three entries in the "History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia." Among her community activities, Linder is secretary and founding president of the board of directors of Greensboro Community Television; first vice-chair of the Guilford County Democratic Party; a member and a past president of Citizens for Responsible Government.

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