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School of Journalism and Mass Media
 

Contact & Location

Moscow

School of Journalism
and Mass Media

Physical Address:
Administration Bldg. 347
PHONE: (208) 885-6458
FAX: (208) 885-6450
E-MAIL: jamm@uidaho.edu

Mailing Address:
School of Journalism
and Mass Media
c/o University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 3178
Moscow, ID 83844-3178

Rebecca Tallent

Office: 340 Administration Building
Phone: (208) 885-8872
Email: rtallent@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address: JAMM - University of Idaho
MS 3178 875 Perimeter Dr.
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3178

College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
School of Journalism and Mass Media
Associate Professor

Home Town: Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Campus Locations: Moscow
With UI Since 2006
  • Ed.D. Oklahoma State University, Higher Education/Classroom Teaching/Mass Communications, 1995
  • M.Ed. University of Central Oklahoma, Journalism, Community College emphasis, 1977
  • B.A. Education, University of Central Oklahoma, Journalism, secondary education emphasis, 1975
  •
    Research/Focus Areas
    • Native American Free Press Issues
    • Media Ethics
    • Science and the News Media
  •
    Biography
    Rebecca J. “Becky” Tallent joined the JAMM faculty summer 2006 as a full-time, tenure-track professor. Becky is an award-winning journalist and public relations specialist with more than 12 years experience as an energy, environmental and financial journalist plus an additional 18 years experience as a public relations specialist, primarily with state government agencies. In addition to her UI teaching, Becky was the ombudsman for the Spokane Spokesman-Review in 2008 and is a member of the UI American Indian Studies Faculty.

    Becky is a member of both the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Native American Journalists Association (she is of Cherokee heritage), and she is the adviser to both students groups on campus.  Becky is also a member of the SPJ National Education and Diversity committees. She earned both her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and her Master of Education in Journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma, and her Doctor of Education in Classroom Teaching/Mass Communications from Oklahoma State University in 1995. As part of her continuing education, Becky attended the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in the summer of 2007 to learn more about teaching Diversity Across the Curriculum. In 2007-2008, she held a Diversity Leadership Fellowship with the Society of Professional Journalists.

    In her spare time, Becky loves hiking, fishing and traveling with her husband Roger, watching football, cooking, photography, knitting and doing Native American beadwork.
  •
    Selected Publications
       

    • Tallent, Rebecca J. (2011, July/August) "Same rules apply for those with disabilities." Quill, 99 (4) page 17. 

    • Tallent, Rebecca J. & Dingman, Rubell S. (2011, July). Cherokee Independent Press Act of 2000. Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 252-274. 

    • Tallent, Rebecca J. (2011, July). Killing with silence, not even softly. The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 246-249. 

    • Tallent, R.J. (2010, Sept. 17). “Spokane Spokesman-Review Gets New Code of Ethics.” St. Louis Journalism Review Online at http://sjreview.org/2010/09/17/529/.

    • Tallent, Rebecca J. (2010). “Research and choose words carefully.” The Quill, July/August 2010, Vol. 98, No. 4, Page 19.

    • Tallent, Rebecca J., Sommerlad-Rogers, Deirdre & Bennett, Denise “Humor as Social Control: Less than a laughing matter.” Published by the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, 2008

    • Tallent, R.J. and Dingman, R.S., “Native Press Freedoms: Federal and Tribal Legal Issues Restricting Native Media”, book chapter for Interracial Communication: Contexts, Communities and Choices edited by Brunson, D. and Lampl, L.L., Summer, 2010

    • Media and Diversity, by Luther, C., Lepre, L.& Clark, N.. Book review for Wiley-Blackwell Publishing submitted Nov. 10, 2008

    • Tallent, Rebecca J., “Leap the Native American Journalistic Divide” The Quill, September 2008, Vol. 96, Issue 7, Page 34

    • Tallent, Rebecca J., “Reporting on disabilities: Putting people first” The Quill, August, 2007, Vol. 95, Issue 6, Pages 34-38

    • Strategic Planning for Public Relations , 2nd Edition, 2007 Ronald D. Smith, (Book Review) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers Submitted Oct. 10, 2007

    • Tallent, Rebecca J., “Newspaper Works to include Blogging in Code of Ethics” The Quill, December, 2006, Vol. 94, Issue 9, Page 27

  •
    Outreach Projects
    • Member, National Diversity Committee and National Journalism Education Committee, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
    • Member, Native American Journalists Association
    • Kappa Tau Alpha (national journalism honor society)
    • American Association of University Women

  • Awards and Honors
    • SPJ Diversity Leadership Fellowship, 2007
    • Educational Diversity Fellowship, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 2007
    • Faculty Member of the Year, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Oklahoma City, 2002-2003
    • First Place, American Marketer’s Association, Oklahoma City Chapter, Marketing Campaign for Epworth Villa, 2001
    • Second Place, SPJ, Oklahoma Professional Chapter, Not-For-Profit Publications,  2001
    • First Place, SPJ, Oklahoma Professional Chapter, Not-For-Profit Publications, 2000
    • Award of Merit, External Publications,International Assn. of Business Communicators Oklahoma Chapter, awarded April, 1999
    • Outstanding Deputy Regional Director, SPJ Region 8, 1988-89
    • Outstanding Performance for SPJ Ethics Education, 1990

My Courses

  • JAMM 100
    Media and Society
  • JAMM 121
    Media Writing
  • JAMM 225
    Reporting
  • JAMM 252
    Principles of Public Relations
  • JAMM 340
    Cultural Diversity and the Media
  • JAMM 440
    Critical Issues in the Media
  • JAMM 452
    Public Relations Campaign Design

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