Dr. John Allen Hendricks, chair and professor of Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of Mass Communication, received the 2022 Broadcast Education Association’s Book Award for “Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives” published by Rutgers University Press. He was presented the award in April at the BEA’s 2022 conference held in Las Vegas.
His book, “Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House,” was the recipient of the National Communication Association’s Applied Research Division’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award in 2011.
The BEA Book Award was established in 2020 to recognize an outstanding book written by BEA members in the field of broadcasting and mass communication. BEA is the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises.
For more information about SFA’s Department of Mass Communication, visit sfasu.edu/masscomm.
