UNT experts prove to be useful media resources

Since the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, national, statewide and local media coverage has been heavily weighted toward the attack on America, terrorism and the war in Afghanistan.

In anticipation of media calls for the UNT scholarly community’s insights on the tragedies, the Lists of UNT experts were distributed to media on the afternoon of Sept. 11 . Among areas of expertise covered were military strategy, military history, terrorism, emergency administration, extremist groups, Middle Eastern politics, the economic consequences of the attack, counseling, play therapy and other related subjects.

The results have been substantial.

Nationally, UNT’s experts have been interviewed or cited by the Associated Press, the Atlanta Constitution, the Boston Herald, CNN, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cox News Service, Fox News Network, the Hartford Courant, the Kansas City Star, Kiplinger’s News Service, Knight Ridder News Service, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, NPR Weekly Edition, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, Newsday, the Pittsburgh Gazette, the Tampa Tribune, the San Diego Union, the Seattle Times, Univision, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

International coverage included stories in the Daily Telegraph (in Sydney, Australia) and Australian Business Intelligence.

State and local coverage included interviews with UNT faculty, staff and students in numerous stories for the Austin American Statesman, the Dallas Business Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Denton Record-Chronicle, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, KDAF-TV, KDFW — Fox 4 Television (on Good Day Texas, Insights and Texas News), KFWD-TV, KRLD-AM, KTVT-TV — CBS 11, KUVN-TV, KXAS-TV — NBC 5 (on the Early Report, Midday Saturday New and NBC 5 News), TXCN (Texas Cable News), WBAP-AM, WFAA-TV — Channel 8 News and the Wichita Falls Times Record.

Recent UNT news attracting media attention not related to the Sept. 11 tragedies included:

• Record enrollment at UNT
• Enrollment of more than 1,000 students at the UNT System Center at Dallas
• Purchase of the Texas Instruments property in Denton
• The Dallas City Council’s unanimous decision to purchase 202 acres in the I-20 corridor to give to the UNT System for UNT at Dallas
• UNT students working their way through school and taking more than the traditional four years to earn their degrees
• UNT’s selection as an FAA education site
• A UNT study of breast cancer among Hispanic women

BY RODDY WOLPER rwolper@unt.edu

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• TI use planning to start soon
• Regents approve science space construction
• UNT Health Science Center president to speak at fall commencement
• School of Visual Arts faculty member to participate in Leadership Texas program
• UNT employees raise more than $141,000 for SECC
• Future engineering school, TI plant purchase topics of November Faculty Senate meeting
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• Holiday contribution drives in full swing

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