This site is hosted on
a server at George Mason University (see a campus map)
in Fairfax, Va. I
have taught for 19 years at GMU,
American
University, Michigan
State University and Cape
Cod Community College, the first 14 years as adjunct
faculty while working as a full-time journalist. This
is my fifth year in a full-time academic position at
GMU and ninth overall.
I teach two sections
of Comm203/Introduction to Journalism and Comm399/Political
Journalism during fall semester. Students interested
in either of these courses can review these syllabi
and others from the pull-down menu at the top of this
page under "GMU Courses" or by accessing Townhall,
GMU's conferencing and collaboration software program.
During the spring semester
of 2008, I am teaching Comm203/Introduction to Journalism,
Comm361/Online Journalism, and Comm371-001/Sports Writing
& Reporting. During the Summer A term, I teach Comm303/Writing
Across Media.
This summer, I will
lead a journalism program (Comm307/Field Study in Communication)
July 6-20 in Sligo,
Ireland.
My office
is located in 219-B Thompson Hall office.
Office hours during the spring semester are 10-11:30
a.m. Monday and Wednesday in 219-B Thompson Hall and
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, also in 219-B Thompson
Hall. I update changes to my office hours and location
on my office door.
What's
happening in the GMU Journalism program
Mitch
Albom, an old friend from my days as sports
editor of the Lansing State Journal, spoke at GMU's Fall
for the Book '07 celebration in September.
This
isn't the George Mason campus. It's the lovely town
of Sligo
on the northwest coast of Ireland, where I will host
a Global
Education Program July 6-20. We'll also visit Dublin
and Belfast. Interested? Check out the program!
The
George Mason statue
by the Johnson
Center is a popular gathering spot on the GMU campus.
Although I got to pose this time, I often take a picture
of my guests here.
George Mason students
join C-SPAN Political Editor Steve Scully
(on screen) in two-way live collaborative classes
as part of my Political Journalism and Online Journalism
classes in the GMU-TV video studio. Students from
the University of Denver and Pace University also
participate.
Guest speakers the 2007-08 academic year have included (from left) Rodger Streitmatter, author of "Mightier Than the Sword;" WJLA and News8 sports anchor Greg Toland; and journalist and GMU Robinson Professor Roger Wilkins.
George
Mason Journalism students, including members of Student
Media, engage in conversation with Rob Curley,
Vice President/New Media for Washington Post-Newsweek
Interactive, in a chat session March 4. Students on
the right with Rob are (from left) Isaac Pacheco,
Whitney Rhodes (director of Connect
Mason) and Emmy Crawford, one of
three Mason-WPNI interns.
(Photo on the right by Isaac Pacheco;
photo on the left by Steve Klein)
Also
This
spring, students from other classes, faculty
and staff are invited to attend guest lectures
in the 455 Innovation
Hall GMU-TV video studio classroom as space
allows. Guests this semester include Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Brit Hume, Walter
Mondale and
Ari Fleischer.
In the United Arab Emirates
with Magda
Abu-Fadil, director of
the Institute for Professional Journalists
at the Lebanese American University (Beirut)
To view websites,
blogs
and class projects from Comm361/Online Journalism
Spring 2008, please click
here.
To learn something about me,
click on the links to mybio
and resume.
I write about integrated media
and convergence, online sports content and online
journalism as a regular contributor to a weblog
called E-Media
Tidbits on the Poynter Institute
site.
From time to time, I get quoted
in the media. Most recently, Stefan Fatsis quoted
me on my Master's thesis research on Hugh
Fullerton; and by Jennifer Dorroh
in the American
Journalism Review on online journalism.
Instructors at universities
throughout the United States are now podcasting
their lectures and making them available online.
Here's a short lecture
(under seven minutes) that I gave dealing with
bias to my Comm203/Introduction to Journalism
students. Click
here for the RSS feed file of this lecture
(the first of a lecture series) to copy into your
iTunes (or other podcatching software).
Listen to an audio
clip about the Electronic Journalism Minor
(mp3).
The late Kurt Vonnegut had something important to say about the United States' effort to bring democracy to Iraq.
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