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Sandra Banisky
Abell Professor in Baltimore Journalism
Sandy Banisky, former deputy managing editor of The (Baltimore) Sun, teaches urban affairs reporting, a class that explores issues important to cities using Baltimore as a laboratory. At the
Maurine H. Beasley
Professor Emerita
Professor Emerita Maurine H. Beasley, a former education editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star and former staff writer for the Washington Post, is a journalism historian who specializes in women’s portrayal and participation in journalism. Her particular focus is Washington women journalists including Eleanor Roosevelt, who considered herself a journalist, and the coverage of first ladies.
Kevin Blackistone
Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism
Kevin Blackistone is a longtime national sports columnist, a panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn, an occasional contributor to National Public Radio and co-author of A Gift for Ron, a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls published in November 2009 about his kidney donation to one-time teammate Ron Springs.
Follow on Twitter : @ProfBlackistone
Kalyani Chadha
Assistant Professor; Director, Media, Self and Society Program, College Park Scholars
As a teacher and a researcher, Kalyani Chadha has focused on analyzing trends in international communication as well as television programming and its impact on society. The recipient of a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, she has published articles in several communication conferences, journals and books.
Ira Chinoy
Associate Professor & Associate Dean
Ira Chinoy has 24 years of experience as a journalist at four newspapers: The Washington Post, The Providence (R.I.) Journal, The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune and The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial. As director of computer-assisted reporting at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won the
Cassandra Clayton
Broadcast Lecturer
Cassandra Clayton has served as director of the Capital News Service broadcast bureau, and now teaches broadcast writing and reporting courses as the college. Hired as an
Lucy A. Dalglish
Dean and Professor
Lucy A. Dalglish became Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland on August 1, 2012.
She served as executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press from 2000 to 2012. The Reporters Committee is a voluntary, unincorporated association of reporters and news editors dedicated to protecting the First Amendment interests of the news media. Based in Arlington, Va., the Reporters Committee has provided research, guidance and representation in major press cases in state and federal courts since 1970.
Julie Drizin
Director, Journalism Center on Children & Families
Julie Drizin directs the Journalism Center on Children & Families (JCCF), a center devoted to inspiring, enhancing and deepening media coverage on issues that affect children and families, particularly the disadvantaged. This national center offers training, resources, tips, and best practices to reporters and editors throughout the U.S. JCCF sponsors a prestigious annual awards contest, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism.
Mark Feldstein
Richard Eaton Professor of Broadcast Journalism
Mark Feldstein spent twenty years as an award-winning on-air investigative correspondent at CNN, ABC News, and various local television stations. He has been beaten up in the U.S., detained and censored by government authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed guard in Haiti. His exposés led to resignations, firings, multi-million dollar fines, and prison terms. Feldstein has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals; his recent book Poisoning The Press has received widespread critical acclaim and earned top academic awards for
Adrianne Flynn
CNS Washington Bureau Director, Lecturer
Adrianne Flynn is the Washington, D.C., bureau director for the College's Capital News Service. Formerly a Washington correspondent for the
Douglas Gomery
Professor Emeritus; Resident Scholar, Center for Visual and Mass Media at the University of Maryland Libraries
Douglas Gomery is the award-winning author of 21 books, and more than 600 articles on the history and economics of the mass media. His book, "The History of Broadcasting" is a standard in the industry and he is an acknowledged expert on the life and times of country western singer Patsy Cline. Gomery taught in the Merrill College of Journalism from 1993 - 2005, when he was named professor emeritus. He is currently Resident Scholar at the Center for Visual and Mass Media at the University of Maryland Libraries.
Christopher Hanson
Associate Professor
Christopher Hanson worked for 20 years as a reporter for Time, The Washington Star, Reuters and the
Chris Harvey
Director of Internships and Career Development, director of assessments and multimedia instructor
Chris Harvey has worked as an online editor, a magazine editor, a political reporter and a journalism teacher. In her earliest positions at the college, she directed the student-staffed Capital News Service bureaus in Washington and Annapolis. But she has been immersed in multimedia storytelling since 1996, when she went to work part time (and later full time) as an associate editor at The Washington Post’s website.
Diana Huffman
Baltimore Sun Distinguished Lecturer
Diana Huffman has served as managing editor of National Journal and as editor of Legal Times in Washington, D.C. She also worked as a radio and TV reporter in New York City and Louisville, Ky. Huffman served as a senior aide in the U.S. Senate for 10 years, as staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee (1987-1991) and as legislative director for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) from 1992-1996.
Haynes Johnson
Professor and Knight Chair of Public Affairs Journalism
Haynes Johnson is a best-selling author, national TV commentator, former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post and The Washington Star. He is considered one of the nation's leading political journalists. In addition to teaching and advising students, he is a contributing editor for American Journalism Review, the national magazine published by the College.
Sue Kopen Katcef
Lecturer and Director: Maryland Newsline
Sue Kopen Katcef is an award-winning veteran broadcast journalist who serves as director of "Maryland Newsline," the nightly news show produced by advanced broadcast news reporting students as part of the College's Capital News Service program. “Maryland Newsline” airs on UMTV, the cable TV channel operated by the Merrill College of Journalism which is seen in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.
Follow on Twitter: @UMNewsie
Kevin Klose
Professor
A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and worldwide broadcasting executive. He is now a tenured professor after serving as dean of the Merrill College from April 2009 to July 2012. He came to Merrill from his post as president emeritus of National Public Radio, where he served as president from 1998 to 2008. Klose is currently on faculty leave, serving as Acting President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Rafael Lorente
Annapolis Bureau Director, Capital News Service
Rafael Lorente is the Annapolis bureau chief of Capital News Service. Lorente is a former reporter with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald. As a reporter in Washington for the Sun-Sentinel, Lorente covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, the attacks of Sept. 11, and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, particularly Cuba.
Follow on Twitter: @ProfLorente
Susan Moeller
Professor of Media and International Affairs & Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda
Dr. Susan Moeller is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA), an academic center that forms a bridge between the College of Journalism and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is Professor of Media and International Affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and an affiliated faculty member at the School of Public Policy.
Follow on Twitter: @sdmoeller
Sean Mussenden
Capital News Service Director & Lecturer
Sean Mussenden is director of the Merrill College's Capital News Service online bureau and a full-time lecturer of digital journalism.
A Merrill College alum, Mussenden began his journalism career in the Capital News Service Annapolis bureau. From 2000-2005, he worked as a statehouse reporter, business desk reporter and Washington correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel. Before joining the Merrill College in 2009, he was a multimedia Washington correspondent and Web producer/editor for Media General News Service.
Deborah Nelson
Senior lecturer
Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Fulbright specialist in investigative reporting. She joined the Merrill faculty in 2006 after five years as the Washington investigations editor for The Los Angeles Times. She also reported for the Washington Post, Seattle Times and Chicago Sun-Times. Twitter: @Newshawks.
Click on "How Safe is Your Food?" for the News21 student project that won two national Mark of Excellence Awards from SPJ in 2012 and "Falling Behind" to see the Abell-Carnegie student project on Maryland's working class families that won a first place SPJ regional Mark of Excellence Award and was a finalist for the national award.
John Newhagen
Associate Professor
John Newhagen worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean for nearly 10 years. He served as bureau chief in San Salvador, regional correspondent in Mexico City, and foreign editor in Washington, D.C. for United Press International during the 1980s. Newhagen's research on the effects of emotion in television and on the Internet have been published widely in a number of leading academic journals. He is currently writing a book about theories of the Internet as a communication medium.
Sarah Oates
Professor and Senior Scholar
Sarah Oates is a scholar in the field of political communication and democratization. A major theme in her work is the way in which the traditional media and the Internet can support or subvert democracy in places as diverse as Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Follow on Twitter: @media_politics
Rem Rieder
Editor and Senior Vice President, American Journalism Review; Lecturer
Rem Rieder is editor and senior vice president of American Journalism Review, a national magazine based at the Merrill College that covers digital, print and broadcast journalism. Rieder, who has edited the magazine since 1991, also writes frequent columns on media issues for the magazine’s website, ajr.org. He teaches a capstone course in which senior and master’s journalism students write about media issues for ajr.org.
Gene Roberts
Professor Emeritus
Gene Roberts came to the College in 1991, following 18 years as the executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes during his editorship. He took a hiatus from his university work from 1994 to 1997 to serve as managing editor of The New York Times. In 1998, he returned to the College, where he teaches courses on writing the complex story, the press and the civil rights movement, and newsroom management. He received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.
Carol L. Rogers
Professor of the Practice
Carol L. Rogers, former head of the Office of Communications for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, specializes in science journalism, in particular media coverage of climate change, and women in the media. She is on the Editoral Advisory Board of the international social science journal Science Communication, for which she served as editor for nine years.
George Solomon
Professor of the Practice and Director, Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism
George Solomon was Assistant Managing Editor for Sports at the Washington Post from June 1975 to June 2003. Mr. Solomon began working at the Post in June 1972, joining the sports staff as a reporter covering the Redskins, the National Football League, and college sports.
He came to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2003 and was named Professor of the Practice in 2008. He assumed the directorship of the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism in Nov. 2011.
Linda Steiner
Professor
Linda Steiner studies how and when gender matters in news and newsrooms and how feminist groups use media. Other research areas include media ethics; journalism history; and public journalism. Steiner is editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication and serves on six editorial boards. Before coming to Maryland she taught at Rutgers University, where she served as Department Chair and coordinator of the Ph.D. program's Media Studies track. She has written, co-authored, or edited several books, book chapters, and refereed articles.
Carl Sessions Stepp
Professor
Carl Sessions Stepp specializes in writing and editing, journalism’s history and heritage, and newsroom organization and change. He has written two books, Writing as Craft and Magic and Editing for Today's Newsroom, and is senior contributing editor of American Journalism Review. He has done writing and editing consulting for news organizations around the country and was a reporter and editor for 12 years with the St. Petersburg Times, Charlotte Observer and USA Today.
Bethany Swain
Lecturer
From the Pope and Sarah Palin to the Queen of England and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Bethany Swain covered a wide variety of news events during her 10 years shooting, editing, writing and producing stories for CNN. She was a versatile member of the Washington Bureau, and was one of the women that made up only 5 percent of CNN’s domestic photojournalists team.
Leslie Walker
Visiting Professor in Digital Innovation
A newspaper journalist and pioneer in Internet news, Leslie Walker served as vice president for news and editor of washingtonpost.com at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, the digital media subsidiary of the Washington Post Co.
She spent 16 years writing and editing for The Washington Post and earlier covered state politics for the Baltimore Evening Sun.
Ronald A. Yaros
Assistant Professor
As a former broadcast journalist and entrepreneur of a software corporation, Ronald Yaros is a nationally recognized researcher and teacher of digital environments. His work on Explain My News.org replaces "audiences" with interactive users who seek, select, learn and share information on the web, social media and mobile devices. More than fifty presentations and publications include book chapters plus articles in top tier journals, the American Journalism Review and Harvard's Nieman Reports. Dr. Yaros received Maryland's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012.
Follow on Twitter: @ryaros
Eric Zanot
Associate Professor
In addition to teaching at three major universities, Eric Zanot's professional experience includes work in public information for public television and stints in two of the nation's largest advertising agencies. Zanot's research interests focus on the regulation of false and deceptive advertising. He has co-edited a book, authored chapters and monographs, written numerous articles and delivered many academic papers on advertising topics. Some of his work can be found in Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly and the Journal of Advertising.
