John E. Newhagen is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies in 1977 and a M.A. in Journalism in 1979 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also studied as a Fellow at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica in 1976. He attended Leland Stanford Junior University, where he earned an A.M. in Communication in 1989. In 1990 he received his Ph.D. at Stanford. He worked as a journalist in Central America and the Caribbean during the 1970s and 1980s; as Bureau Manager in San Salvador; as Regional Correspondent for Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean; and as International News Editor in Washington D.C. He currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and Journalism Educator. He has been a member of the ICA for 15 years. His research focuses on the effects of emotion-laden television images on viewer attention and memory. He has extended that work to include new technology, and he is currently looking at methods for employing the Internet as a platform for survey administration.