My story

I am the former executive director of student media at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Here’s a link to the student newspaper, campus radio station, yearbook, video production units and sports network.

Previously, I was a journalist and newsroom manager for many years and I taught journalism for two years at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., where I also was the adviser to the campus newspaper.

I worked as a reporter and city editor for nearly 30 years at locally owned and corporate newspapers in North Dakota, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin. While a newspaper reporter, I covered local government, agriculture, and the environment. As an editor, I directed daily staff efforts and numerous projects. I also worked as a radio reporter/producer, and I was the webmaster for a nonprofit organization.

From 2005-2010, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leading discussion groups on the history of journalism and mass communication and working as an instructor in the school’s entry-level skills course.

My research interests include newspapers in the twentieth century, labor journalism and public relations, and print culture. My dissertation focused on how general circulation newspapers and magazines responded to the labor movement in the 1930s and 1940s. I was a finalist for the Krooss dissertation prize from the Business History Conference and received honorable mention in the Blanchard dissertation prize competition from the American Journalism Historians Association. I received the Moroney Award for scholarship in postal history in 2009 and the 2007 Price Award for the best student paper in the History Division at AEJMC. My work has been published in Journalism and Communication Monographs, American Journalism, Journalism History, the Newspaper Research Journal, Enterprise and Society, Essays in Economic and Business History, JHistory, H-Net Reviews, and elsewhere.