Dr. Tony Silvia is Professor of Communication Studies, Undergraduate
Studies Advisor, and Coordinator of the Public Relations Major at the
University of Rhode Island. Professor Silvia has taught at URI since
1988, primarily in the areas of broadcast journalism,media ethics, broadcasting
history, and literary journalism. Specifically, in the Department of
Communication Studies, he teaches courses in "Race, Gender, and the
News," "The Ethics of Persuasion," "TV News Producing," and "The Business
of Television." As a member of the department's graduate faculty, he
regularly teaches seminars in media studies.
From 1998-2001, he served as chair of the URI Department of Journalism.
Dr. Silvia is the author of more than two dozen nationally published
articles in his field, the author of two books, Student Television in
America: Channels of Change (1998) and Global News: Perspectives on
the Information Age (2001). A forthcoming book will focus on two seminal
figures in the history of media law.
Dr. Silvia the recipient of three Emmy Award nominations for excellence
in television news, and an Associated Press Award for Outstanding Documentary,
His documentary work, as well as a 1995 series of programs focused on
media criticism, have appeared on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
Professor Silvia received a Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
Award for work done as a CNN correspondent while on sabbatical in 1996.
That year he was the recipient of a CNN Faculty Fellowship, and serves
on the advisory board of CNN-SB, the AOL-Time Warner's student-run news
bureau network. He is a freelance correspondent/producer for CNN, and
is called upon by the network's Boston bureau as needed.
Dr. Silvia is also on the editorial board of several national academic
journals, and in 1990 was a founding member of the National Association
of College Broadcasters Faculty Advisory Board, a position that led
to his seminal work in the study and practice of student television
stations.
Professor Silvia holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of Birmingham, England. Before joining URI, he was a consumer reporter/anchor
at WLNE-TV, Channel 6, in Providence, a reporter for Providence's WPRI-TV,
Channel 12, a presenter at ATV, Birmingham, England and Beacon Radio,
Wolverhampton, England, and reported from Washington, D.C. as a correspondent
for Potomac News Service, a sattelite network that provides news coverage
to over 300 local stations daily from the nation's capitol.
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