I'm currently living and working in Cairo, Egypt as a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo.
Creative Works
AWARD WINNING AUDIO
Ehky Ya Masr roughly means 'tell your story Egypt.' Kim Fox serves as the executive producer of the project. She is tasked with fine tuning pitches, green-lighting features, consulting on feature content like potential interviewees, music, etc, editing scripts, voice coaching, editing audio, sound design, executing final audio mixes and promotion of audio content across social media and other web platforms.
The Ehky Ya Masr Podcast was the first and only recipient of TWO (2) of the Broadcast Education Association's (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Awards in 2022.
The Ehky Ya Masr Podcast was the first and only recipient of TWO (2) of the Broadcast Education Association's (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Awards in 2022.
Listen to some of our award-winning Ehky Ya Masr audio features.
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Audio projects about Egypt
- A narrative non-fiction bilingual podcast about life in Egypt.
- This short doc from 2013 was featured on the Third Coast International Audio Festival's (TCIAF) Re:Sound Podcast.
- An interactive map of nat sounds of the American University in Cairo (AUC) campus.
AWARD WINNING STUDENT AUDIO
CREATIVE WORKS IN PROGRESS
Collaborative Creative Scholarship
- An oral history project to document and archive the history of WIZF, The Wiz, a FM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen M. Turner, a professor at Temple University, is a collaborator on this project.
- Audio Diaries :: #AUCdiariesA 3-year initiative to document AUC students, staff and faculty life on and off campus. The project is funded by AMICAL, with support from the Mellon Foundation. Additionally, the project will culminate with the university's centennial.
- This project is spearheaded by the School of Humanities at AUC. The podcast captures some of the activities including lectures.
"She has inspired dozens of students to incorporate podcasts into their lives and built a community of podcasters in Egypt where there wasn't one before!"
-Podcast Magazine's 40 Over 40 in Podcasting in 2022
-Podcast Magazine's 40 Over 40 in Podcasting in 2022
WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor of Practice
The American University in Cairo (2009- present)
Primarily teaching Audio Production and Multimedia Writing
Primarily teaching Audio Production and Multimedia Writing
Radio Reporter and Weekend Radio Show Host
WOSU AM/FM/TV (2009)
Radio reporter and local weekend host for NPR's "Weekend Edition"
Radio reporter and local weekend host for NPR's "Weekend Edition"
Instructor
Penn State University - New Kensington (2007-2008)
Taught a variety of journalism courses in a small journalism program.
Taught a variety of journalism courses in a small journalism program.
Instructor and Station Manager
Muskingum University (2003-2007)
Taught journalism, media and speech communication courses. Also, was the general manager of WMCO, the campus radio station.
Taught journalism, media and speech communication courses. Also, was the general manager of WMCO, the campus radio station.
TEACHING
Introduction to Podcasting Course
Teach students the basics of podcasting including scriptwriting, voice performance, developing a podcast proposal and pitch deck.
Audio Production Course
Teach students audio basics including editing, writing scripts, delivery, use of audio elements, like nat sound, and production of an audio documentary.
Multimedia Writing Course
Teach students how to write across media platforms including audio, social media, video, public relations and online. Students produce an ePortfolio of their work in the course at the end of the semester.
Multimedia Journalism Capstone
This course is designed as a newsroom with the student journalists pitching multimedia projects to address civil society issues in Egypt. Each group project must include articles, videos, audio, interactive element and the use of social media. The multimedia content is displayed on a website that they create.
Mass Communication Course
In this survey course, students learn how media works. To make the course less lecture and more interactive, students are required to present on a media topic, write short papers on media topics, contribute to a media Wiki, produce short multimedia content and more.
Online Communication Course
In this survey course, students learn practical and theoretical approaches to online communication. The course was held in a new Active Learning Classroom (ALC with movable furniture), designed for vibrant discussions and class activities. Additionally, the class was a part of the cohort to pilot AUC's transition from Blackboard's LMS to Canvas' LMS.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Here are some of the professional organizations I'm involved with.
WORKSHOPS
Past Facilitated Workshops
- American University of BeirutFacilitated a 10-hour podcasting workshop as a part of the Digital Humanities Institute Beirut.
- Central European UniversityA 2-day workshop in Budapest for the CEU Podcasting Hub.
- American University of Central AsiaFacilitated a 1-hour workshop as a part of AMICAL 2018.
- NYU Abu DhabiFacilitated a 3-day workshop as a part of the 2024 Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (WIDH)
HONORS and AWARDS
A short list of recent honors and awards
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Inaugural School Rankings
2022
- AUC/JRMC Audio Program earned a fourth place ranking in the inaugural BEA School Rankings
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2022
- Best of Festival Faculty Audio "Ehky Ya Masr's How Egypt's Water Crisis Impacts Food Production"
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2022
- Best of Festival Faculty News "Ehky Ya Masr's "The Syrian Shawarma Takeover"
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2022
- Award of Excellence Faculty Audio "Ehky Ya Masr's "Come Drink Tea, The Egyptian Way"
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Radio and Audio Media (ram) Division
2021
- Co-authored top paper: "From COVID to Black Lives Matter: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Small Programs Interest Group (SPIG)
2021
- Dalton Landon Foundation Award for service to SPIG as the division's social media editor
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship
2021
- Robert Picard Award for Books and Monographs for "The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Media Management & Business." Fox contributed a chapter in the book on podcasting
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2021
- Best of Competition International Faculty Audio – Short-Form Production "One Day in January 2011 Promo"
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2020
- Best of Competition Faculty Audio Short-Form Production Category – co-produced audio "Ehky Ya Masr "Come Drink Tea" Podcast Promo"
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
2020
- Best of Competition International Faculty Audio – "Ehky Ya Masr's How Egypt's Water Crisis Impacts Food Production Promo"
PUBLICATIONS
Research articles, book chapters and public scholarship
- Ebada, Y., & Fox, K. (2023). "Public pedagogy, autotheory, and Egyptian female podcasters." Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231200429
- Fox, K. (2023). UNESCO Handbook Teaching Journalism Online. Chapter 11: Teaching audio production and podcasting online.
- Fox, K. (2023). An Analysis of Black American Radio Listenership. In McDonald, K. (Ed.) & Chignell, H. (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio (pp. 162-173). Bloomsbury.
- Miller, K. J., Fox, K., & Dowling, D. O. (2022). From Black Lives Matter to COVID-19: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting. Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 20(2), 131–152. https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00063_1
- Fox, K., & Ebada, Y. (2022). Egyptian female podcasters: Shaping feminist identities. Learning, Media and Technology, 47(1), 53–64.
- Johnston, D. & López, I. (Eds.). (2022). The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement: Chapter 8: Cross-Training and Perspective Taking: The Development of An Oral History Project in the Sciences and Humanities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Fox, K. (2021). Say It Louder For The People In The Back: A Review of NPR Music's Louder Than A Riot. RadioDoc Review, 7(1).
- Fox, K. (2021). Book review: Deb Van Tassel Warner and Stuart Warner, Akron's Daily Miracle: Reporting the News in the Rubber City. Newspaper Research Journal, 42(3), 418–420.
- Fox, K., & Karianjahi, J. (2021, October 14). African Podcasting: Challenges and Chances. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
- Fox, K., Dowling, D. O., & Miller, K. (2020). A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides, 2010-2020. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 27(2), 298–318.
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
A short list of individual and
collaborative grants and fellowships
collaborative grants and fellowships
- 2020–21: Socially Just AcademiaThe Socially Just Academia cohort was tasked with building and initiating antiracist, decolonial practices in education.
- 2020–21: Robert Colescott: The Cairo Years ExhibitThe Robert Colescott: The Cairo Years Exhibit grants were provided to support the international exhibit, which included student-produced multimedia content related to the exhibit.
- 2018–19: AEJMC Scripps Howard Foundation Visiting Professor in Social Media FellowshipThis fellowship's placement was embedded in the newsroom at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio.
BIOGRAPHY
Kim Fox is currently a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Cairo, Egypt. She primarily teaches audio production courses and Multimedia Writing.
She is the executive producer of the award-winning Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast, a narrative nonfiction bilingual podcast about life in Egypt. In 2022, the Ehky Ya Masr Podcast made history with the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) when it was the first to win two Best of Festival (BEA's highest creative honor) awards in the same year!
She received both her B.S. and her M.A. degrees from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Kim spent decades working in the U.S. radio industry in various positions at radio stations including WOUB AM/FM/TV in Athens, Ohio; WIZF in Cincinnati, Ohio; WBLK in Buffalo, New York, WAKR in Akron, Ohio and many more.
You won't find her ranting on Twitter, but check her out there … just in case.
Photo credit: Ian Antonio Patterson
She is the executive producer of the award-winning Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast, a narrative nonfiction bilingual podcast about life in Egypt. In 2022, the Ehky Ya Masr Podcast made history with the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) when it was the first to win two Best of Festival (BEA's highest creative honor) awards in the same year!
She received both her B.S. and her M.A. degrees from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Kim spent decades working in the U.S. radio industry in various positions at radio stations including WOUB AM/FM/TV in Athens, Ohio; WIZF in Cincinnati, Ohio; WBLK in Buffalo, New York, WAKR in Akron, Ohio and many more.
You won't find her ranting on Twitter, but check her out there … just in case.
Photo credit: Ian Antonio Patterson
RESOURCES for JOURNALISM EDUCATORS
- 1A list of generative AI resources for journalism and media educators.
- 2A list of data journalism resources for journalism educators
- 3A list of mobile journalism resources for journalism educators
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