{"id":17801,"date":"2017-03-27T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17801"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:08:48","slug":"ritchard-prof-mbayo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ritchard-prof-mbayo\/","title":{"rendered":"RITCHARD, Prof. M&#8217;Bayo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.A, Ph.D; journalist, media consuItanL lecturer, administrator, ed: Howard University, USA; cr: United Nations Mass Media Consultant forSierra Leone, 1996;Graduate ProgrammeCoordinator, Dept. of Communications, Bowie State University, USA; Head, Dept. of Communications, Bowie. State University, USA; Head,of Dept., Mass Communication, UniversityofUgos; Ucturer,Howard University, USA; Ucturer, George Mason University, USA; Fulbright Professor, University of Ugos; Professor of Communications and Media Studies, Bowie State University, USA; Executive Advisor tothe President and Professor of Communication andMultimedia Studies,AUN,currently, mm: Association forEducation inJournalism andMassCommunication, USA;BlackCollege Communication Association, USA; National Communication Association, NCA, USA; African Council for Communication Education, AC.C.E.Africa; Member, Three National Judges for theA Phillip. Randolph Awards for Excellence inJournalism; Founding Editor, Journal ofAfrican Communication; Journal ofAfricaSocial Sciences &#038;Humanities Studies; ah:Distinguished Faculty Award, Bowie State University, Distinguished Faculty Award, George Mason University, USA; Distinguished Faculty Award, UniversityofUgos, Nigeria; Award Winner, Poynter Institute of Media Studies; American Society of Newspaper Editors; America Press Institute; Nominee, Wilson H. Elkins Professorship ofthe University System of Maryland, USA; publ: Communication inanEra ofGlobal Conflicts, University Pressof American, USA, 2008; Press &#038;Politics inAfrica, Mellen Press, USA, 2002; Africa &#038; the Global Information Infrastructure. Prospects. Obstacles. Preferences^ Policies. Gazette, International Journal of Communication Studies, Vol.59, 4-5, 345-364; The Public Face of Public Violence, Media &#038; Conflict in Africa, Equid Novo, South African Journal ofJournalism, Vol.26,1 pp.23-32, 2005; Status ofthe Media inEnglish Speaking West African States: Sierra Leone, Liberia &#038; the Gambia, Encyclopedia of International Media &#038; Communication, Academic Press, USA, 2000; Communication &#038; the Transformation of Society, University Press of America, USA, 1995; off: School of Information Technology &#038; Communications, America University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State; e-m: rmbayo@aaun.edu.ng or teembyo@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17801","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20571,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17801\/revisions\/20571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}