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- Chair and Professor
Ted Gup has been a journalist and teacher of journalism for three decades. A former staff writer for The Washington Post and Time Magazine, he has also written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, Slate, Salon, GQ, Mother Jones, Audubon, Columbia Journalism Review, NPR, Newsweek, and other publications.
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Doug Struck was a reporter for more than 30 years at the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and other newspapers. He has extensive foreign reporting experience, and served as bureau chief in the Middle East, Asia and Canada. He reported extensively from Iraq over 16 years, and covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the West Bank , East Timor and the southern Philippines.
Read More - Professor and Graduate Program Director
Dr. Paraschos was formerly the Dean of the European Institute for International Communication in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Chairperson of the Journalism Department at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. He served as a Fulbright Professor in Scandinavia where he taught at the Norwegian Institute of Journalism and universities in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He is the author of the Boston Journalism Trail.
Read More - Assistant Professor
Mr. Brown has been on the faculty at Emerson since 1970, and has also taught a variety of courses at Northeastern University, Boston College, Bunker Hill Community College and the Massachusetts School of Law.
Read More - Associate Professor
Dr. Della-Giustina has had a long career as a television news producer. Among her honors are a Gracie Award, a National Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television, and awards from the National Education Writers Association and the National Association of Government Communicators.
Read More - Associate Professor
Roger House, associate professor in American Studies, is author of Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy. Blue Smoke was published by Lousiana State University Press in 2010. It is a finalist for the 2011 award for Excellence in Historical Writing by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.
Read More - Associate Professor
Prof. Kolodzy brings more than two decades of professional journalism experience in print and broadcast news to her teaching of convergence-oriented and broadcast journalism courses at Emerson. She uses her study of innovative approaches to the practice of journalism to infuse her teaching with relevance and dynamism.
Read More - Associate Professor
A writing coach and commentator for opinion pages, Mr. Lanson joined the journalism faculty at Emerson as chair in 1999 after four years on the faculty at Syracuse University. He returned to teaching full time in 2005. Mr. Lanson is a former Deputy City Editor and Peninsula Bureau Chief of the San Jose Mercury News in San Jose, California.
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A veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, and magazine writer, Mr. Leccese covered politics and government in Massachusetts for more than 25 years and won several New England and Massachusetts Press Association awards.
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Mr. Niwa has launched two international television networks, six newscasts and a streaming media newscast for NBC, CNBC and StockHouse Media, Canada's largest internet company.
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NPR critic Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988); Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage1992, Da Capo 1999); Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992); Fever: How Rock'N'Roll Transformed Gender In America (St. Martin's/Picador 2005).
Read More - Associate Professor
Dr. Robins has extensive international media experience.
Read More - Journalist-in-Residence
Cindy Rodríguez is an award-winning journalist, instructor, blogger, social media strategist and web content creator whose career spans 20 years.
Read More - Leader-In-Residence
After 24 years, 3-time Emmy-award winning anchor and senior correspondent, Carole Simpson, retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communication in Boston. She is a member of the full-time faculty and teaches courses in public affairs reporting, political communication, and broadcast journalism.
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With degrees from Columbia and Princeton Universities, Bradford Verter is interested in American cultural history, and in theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion. He has been a fellow of the Warburg Institute, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and has held positions at Princeton, Amherst, Williams, Bennington, Boston University, and New York University.
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