Veterans needed for University of Alabama study on PTSD
Tuscaloosa News – Sept. 24
A University of Alabama doctoral student and Army veteran is seeking combat veterans for a study exploring the relationship between transformational leadership and post-traumatic stress and depression. Mike LaRocca, a doctoral student in the clinical psychology at UA, is searching for about 100 more combat veterans of any age or service branch for a survey in support of his dissertation work. LaRocca’s study is titled “The Impact of Posttraumatic Growth, Transformational Leadership, and Self-efficacy on Psychological Symptoms Among Combat Veterans.” LaRocca is looking at whether transformational leadership during a veteran’s military service in combat affected their ability to make meaning of their experience. LaRocca is looking at whether the interaction can offer indicators of veterans’ long-term physical well-being. It’s an exploration of the veteran’s post-traumatic growth.
Music Coverage Endangered as Writers From USA Today, Times-Picayune, New York Daily News Exit
Billboard.com – Sept. 24
Music coverage at metropolitan dailies has taken a major hit in recent weeks, with writers at several legacy city papers leaving their full-time positions. Jim Farber announced on Sept. 17 that he had been let go from the New York Daily News, where he had been covering music since 1990, in a round of layoffs that hit the paper’s highest-profile talent particularly hard. New Orleans’ Times-Picayune dissolved its music department in a 21 percent budget slice of the paper’s content operation. The Advance Publications-owned title laid off music writer Alison Fensterstock and offered her colleague Keith Spera a metro reporting job that would, according to a Facebook post, allow him to “write the occasional music-related news story.” … “What used to be the case, to a certain extent, was that rock critics occupied a version of the bourgeois public sphere in newspapers,” offers Eric Weisbard, associate professor at the University of Alabama and author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams Of American Music. “They had staff positions; they were allowed to write column-length appreciations of music that told their community, ‘Here’s how to value this music.’ … Now, it’s a highly interactive space that’s less [about] imagining and more [about] experiencing.”