Research Integrity and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Lecture Series
Data and the Media
Presenter: John Carlin, anchor WSLS-10 News
Recorded on November 15, 2024
Lecture Description:
Public trust is vital to the research enterprise. Whether results are
shared through scientific presentations, at conferences, or in the media it’s
important to consider how to share information responsibly. This lecture will
focus on how data is received and processed by news media and the
considerations that are taken when the information is then reported to the
public.
Speaker Bio:
John
Carlin co-anchors the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on WSLS 10.
A
dedicated community servant, John is a board member of Visit Virginia’s Blue
Ridge, past board chair of the YMCA of Virginia’s Blue Ridge, member of the
board of Saint Francis Service Dogs, board member of the Associated Press of
the Virginias and serves on the board of Trustees for Lewis Gale Hospital. He
is a co-founder of the Blue Ridge Marathon, and serves on the patient advisory
committee for the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, where he hosts an
award-winning podcast.
Carlin
was a part of the WSLS 10 team that earned the Peabody Award for coverage of
the April 16, 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech. John is the recipient of eight
Emmy awards for reporting and anchoring, as well as numerous awards from RTNDA,
VAB and the Associated Press. He has been honored with distinguished service
awards by both the Virginia Association of Broadcasters and the Virginia
Associated Press.
John
stepped away from broadcasting four about 4 years from 2009 to 2013 to practice
public relations, including a stint as Director of Public Relations for Ferrum
College, where he helped launch most of the college’s social media pages and
oversaw a major revision of the campus website.
He also contributed heavily to campus alumni and development
activities. During that time, he also
served local, national, and international clients.
John’s
broadcasting career includes stops at WPTZ in Plattsburgh, NY/Burlington, Vt.
WDTV in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and WTVR in Richmond. As part of a news
sharing agreement with WFXR (FOX), John co-anchored the 10 p.m. news in Roanoke
for more than a decade. He also taught broadcast writing as adjunct faculty at
Virginia Tech from 1996 – 2007. He has
also taught at Radford University.
John
is a graduate of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a degree
in mass communication.
In
his spare time, John is an avid cyclist and fisherman. He lives in
Roanoke, where he and his wife Mary enjoy time with their three grown sons and seven
grandchildren.