Clifford Christians

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Background Christians is the former director of the Institute of Communications Research and chair of the doctoral program in communications, positions he held from 1987-2001 and from 2007-2009. He has been a visiting scholar in philosophical ethics at Princeton University, a research fellow in social ethics and also a visiting scholar […]

Ronald E. Yates

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Yates is a former foreign correspondent, national correspondent and editor at the Chicago Tribune. During a 25-year career at the Tribune, he accumulated extensive international experience. He lived and worked 18 years as a foreign correspondent in Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America, where he covered several wars […]

Rich Martin

Associate Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Martin served as Journalism Department Head from March 2011 till August 2016 and as Director of Journalism Graduate Studies 2008-11. He has 32 years of journalism experience, including 29 as a reporter and editor at The Roanoke Times in Virginia. He was managing editor of the Times […]

Louis Liebovich

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Liebovich was formerly a reporter and editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel, a reporter/editor for the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic, and a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana Courier. He won several awards as a reporter. He has written five books on the press the presidency and the press and foreign policy. […]

Steve Helle

Professor Emeritus  Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Helle is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. He was named the Freedom Forum National Journalism Teacher of the Year and three times has received the campuswide award as outstanding undergraduate teacher at the University of Illinois. He has written numerous articles on communications law in academic journals, […]

Walt Harrington

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Harrington is a former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. He has held various news, investigative and feature editing and reporting positions at the Washington Post, the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call and the Illinois Observer. Awards include the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, numerous feature writing […]

Matthew Ehrlich

Professor Emeritus  Affiliations Education Background Ehrlich is a winner of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the University of Illinois’ highest teaching honor. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a former reporter, producer, editor and anchor for WILL-AM, Urbana; KANU-FM, Lawrence, Kan.; KCUR-FM, Kansas City; […]

Margaret Yee Man Ng

Associate Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Ng is a media researcher with certified industrial training (Galvanize) in data science and database tools. Broadly speaking, her research examines technology use, social media, and information diffusion using large-scale, unstructured data and computational methods. Particularly, she explores three distinctive yet interrelated components of the web: user behavior, […]

Josh Heuman

Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation as a style of cultural criticism to the […]

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