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Before my careers in newspaper and online journalism, I taught college journalism at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. I was honored as the best teacher in the Journalism Department and one of the 10 best teachers in the 1,200-member faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
I currently teach online journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where I also have taught copyediting.
When I was managing editor of The (Glens Falls, N.Y.) Post-Star in Upstate New York, I created a class in which journalism students from Adirondack Community College reported, wrote and edited a special section of the daily newspaper. The class became a prototype for joint efforts between the college and local businesses.
I received grants from the Reader’s Digest Foundation for a reporting project in which my students traveled Illinois for a week, writing about the people they met. They compiled these stories in a newspaper they produced and published. I was awarded a Gannett Foundation grant to bring six distinguished publishing professionals to lecture and team-teach my newspaper management class.
I have guest lectured at American University in Washington, D.C.; the University of Missouri at Columbia, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of Florida at Gainesville, the University of Texas at Austin, Illinois State University at Normal, Ithaca College at Ithaca, N. Y.
My academic articles include:
NEWSPAPER RESEARCH JOURNAL, “The Strength of Political Activity in Predicting Newspaper Use,” Winter 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, P.1 (Refereed)
JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, “The Importance of Political Activity in Explaining Multiple News Media Use,” Autumn 1985, Vol. 62, No. 3, P. 559 (Refereed)
JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, “The Different Functions of Speech in Supreme Court Defamation and Privacy Cases: An Aid to Predicting Decisions,” Autumn, 1984, Vol. 61, No. 3, P. 629 (Refereed)
JOURNALISM EDUCATOR, “Identifying Causes, Not Symptoms of Writing Problems,” Part I, Fall 1979; Part II, Winter 1979. This article also appeared in the National Council of Teachers of English magazine RESOURCES IN EDUCATION, June 1979. It later was published in the JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION, Fall 1979. Co-authored.
Education
- M.S.W., (master’s degree in social work), The Catholic University of America, 1998
- M.A., political science, University of Illinois, 1977
- M.S., journalism, University of Illinois, 1976
- B.A., communication, Illinois State University, 1974 (Graduated with High Honors)
- B.A., German, Illinois State University, 1974 (Graduated with High Honors)
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