CURRICULUM VITAE
David Abrahamson
March 2010
OFFICE Medill School of Journalism
ADDRESS Northwestern University
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PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, DC; raised in Annapolis, MD.
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY (Ph.D. American Civilization: Journalism,
Culture and Communication, American History, 1992).
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (Media Arts, 1986).
Oxford University (Worcester College), Oxford, UK (Certificate: International
Economics, 1983).
University of California Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, CA. (Master
of Journalism, 1973).
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. (B.A. History, 1969).
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS/COURSES
2007-present Professor of Journalism.
2005-present Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2003-present General Editor, "Visions of the American Press" series,
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL.
2002-2006 Director, Center for the Writing Arts, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL.
2002-2005 Helen Gurley Brown Research Professorship in Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-2007 Associate Professor, "Literary Journalism," "Magazine Editing,"
"Magazine Writing," "Magazine Publishing Project," Medill School
of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1998 Visiting Associate Professor, "Magazine Editing in an
International Context," International Communications Program, The
American University of Paris, Paris, France/Medill School of
Journalism.
1988-1994 Associate Professor, adj., "Magazine Editing Master Class" and
"Magazine Editorial Management," Diploma Program in Magazine
Publishing, New York University Management Institute Center for
Publishing, New York, NY.
1991-1994 Assistant Professor, adj., "The Journalistic Tradition," "The
Literature of Journalism," "The Magazine Article," "Magazine
Writing Workshop," New York University Department of Journalism
and Mass Communication, New York, NY.
1991-1992 "U.S. History to 1865" and "U.S. History from 1865," New York
University Department of History, New York, NY (Senior Teaching
Assistantship).
1990-1991 "Executive Seminar in Magazine Editorial Management,"
"Management Conference Series, Enfield Research, New York, NY.
1987-1989 "Magazine Writing," Pratt Institute, New York, NY (Adjunct
Faculty).
1986-1988 "Magazine Writing" and "Feature Writing," School of Visual
Arts, New York, NY (Adjunct Faculty).
1983-1990 "Magazine Writing and Editing," AMC Pinkham Notch Center
(University of New Hampshire) Gorham, NH (Adjunct Faculty).
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1983-present Faculty Member (see above).
1979-present Management Consultant, Enfield Research/Editorial Consultants.
1977-present Journalist/Author.
1973-1977 Managing Editor, Car and Driver Magazine, Ziff-Davis Publishing,
New York, NY.
1973 Editor-in-Chief, AutoWeek Magazine, Crain Communications, Reno,
NV.
1972-1973 Associate Editor, American Boating Magazine, Competition Press,
Lafayette, CA.
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS
Journalism:
Literary Journalism
New Media and Print Culture
Info Technology and Media Ecology
Journalism History
Online Journalism
Magazine Writing and Editing
Magazine Publishing
Media Management and Economics
History (20th-C. American):
Social and Cultural History
Print Culture Studies
History of Science/Technology
Popular and Material Culture
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Abrahamson, David. Magazine-Made America: The Cultural
Transformation of the
Postwar Periodical. New York: Hampton Press, 1996.
_______, ed. The American Magazine: Research Perspectives and Prospects. Ames,
IA: Iowa State University Press, 1995.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
(REFEREED JOURNALS AND/OR INVITED)
_______. "The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary
Literary Journalism in a
Shrinking
World." In Bak, John, ed. Literary Journalism Across the Globe.
Amherst, MA:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010: in press.
_______. "The New Journalism" and "News Magazines." In King, Elliot, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishers,
2010: in press.
_______ and Polsgrove, Carol. "The Right Niche: Consumer Magazines and
Advertisers." In Nord, David Paul; Rubin, Joan Shelley; and Schudson, Michael,
eds. History
of the Book in America -- The Enduring Book: Print Culture in
Postwar America (Vol. 5). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2009: 107-118.
_______. "The Future of Magazines, 2010-2020." Journal
of Magazine and New
Media Research, 11:1 (Spring 2009): <http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "An Inconvenient Legacy: The Jungle and the Immigrant Imperative."
Journalism
History 34:2 (Fall 2008).
_______ and Ashwood, Loka. "A.J. Liebling." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 267-268.
_______ and Bryza, Christina. "Magazine Publishers." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 280-282.
_______ and Lu, Haiwen. "TV Guide Magazine." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 546-547.
_______ and Price Fasig, Nicole. "Vanity Fair Magazine." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 560.
_______ and Rosenblum, Ilene. "Forbes Magazine." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 176.
_______ and Weisensee, Kim. "Men's Magazines." In Vaughn, Stephen, ed.
Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008: 282-284.
_______. "Magazine Exceptionalism: The Concepts, the Criteria, the Challenge."
Journalism Studies, 8:4 (August 2007): 667-670.
_______. "What I've Learned, What I've Unlearned."
Journal of Magazine and New
Media Research, 9:2 (Summer 2007): <http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "The Problem with Sources, A Source of the
Problem." Journal of
Magazine and New Media Research, 9:1 (Fall 2006):
<http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "The Rise of the New Partisan Press: Forward
into the Past." Journal of
Magazine and New Media Research, 8:1 (Spring 2006):
<http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "Teaching Literary Journalism: A Diverted
Pyramid." Journalism and
Mass
Communication Educator, 60:4 (Winter 2006),
430-433.
_______. "From the Many, to the Many: The Journalistic Promise of Weblogs."
Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 7:2 (Summer 2005):
<http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "The Press Celebrity and the Celebrity Press: Historical Antecedents,
Future Prospects." Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 7:1 (Spring
2005): <http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______; Bowman, Rebecca Lynn; Greer, Mark Richard; and Yeado, William Brian.
"A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Consumer Magazines: A Ten-Year Longitudinal
Study." Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 5:2 (Spring 2003):
<http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "Special-Interest Magazines and the Evolution of the Magazine Form."
In Johnston,
Donald H., ed. Encyclopedia of International Media and
Communications. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2003: 3: 101-114.
_______. "Beyond the Mirror Metaphor: Magazine Exceptionalism and
Sociocultural Change." Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 4:1
(Spring 2002): <http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "An Evaluative Bibliography: Digital Culture, Information Technology,
the Internet, the Web." Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 3:1
(Fall 2000): <http://aejmcmagazine.bsu.edu/journal>.
_______. "Magazines: A Past in Paper and a Future on
the Web." Media Studies
Journal, 13.2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 44-51.
_______. "Magazines: Shaping and Reflecting Society." In "Clio's Top 10 Lists:
Experts Pick
Best Media History Sources." Clio Among the Media: The
Newsletter of the AEJMC History Division, 31.3 (Spring 1999): 4-7.
_______. "Odgen Mills Reid." In Garraty, John A. and Carnes, March C., eds.
(American Council of Learned Societies). American National Biography. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 18: 310-311.
_______. "Magazines in the Twentieth Century." In Blanchard, Margaret A., ed.
History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998: 340-342.
_______. "The Visible Hand and the Future of the Internet: Money, Markets and
Media Evolution." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 75:1 (Spring
1998): 14-18.
_______. The Connected Classroom: Internet Applications for a Magazine
Publishing
Course." In Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue
Electronique de Communication, "The Impact of the Internet on Journalism,"
7:4 (December 1997): <http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v7n497.htm>
_______. "The Interpretive Imperative: Online Sources and the Future of
Historical Scholarship." American Journalism, 14:2 (Spring 1997): 219-222.
_______. "The Bright New-Media Future for
Magazines." Magazine Matter: The
Newsletter
of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Magazine Division, Summer 1996: 1.
_______. "New York Woman Magazine." In Endres, Kathleen and Lueck, Therese,
eds. Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1995: 258-265.
_______. "Sassy Magazine." In Endres, Kathleen and Lueck, Therese, eds.
Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1995: 311-317.
_______. "Brilliant Fragments: The Scholarly Engagement with the American
Magazine." Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue
Electronique de
Communication, 4:2-4 (December 1994).
_______. "Bernard George Davis." In Jackson,
Kenneth T., ed., Dictionary of
American Biography. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994: 222-223.
_______. "La Press Ecrite." In Editions Gallimard, New York. Paris: Editions
Gallimard, 1993: 52-53.
_______. "Teaching Journalism as Literature and the Possibilities of Artistic
Growth." Journalism Educator, 46:2 (Summer 1991): 54-60.
PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS
(REFEREED AND/OR INVITED)
_______. "Teaching Long-Form Journalism in a Short-Form
World: The Thematic
Challenges." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism
and
Mass
Communication Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 5 August 2009.
_______. "Literary Journalism across Cultures: A
Comparative Approach to
Nonfiction
Writing." Presented at the American Comparative Literature
Association
for Literary Journalism Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 27
March 2009.
_______. "Literary Journalism and the Canon: Long-Form
Writing Resisting
Extinction in
the New Media Short-Form World." Seminar leader at the European
Society for
the Study of English International Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 23
August 2008.
_______. "The State of the Art: Core Knowledge for
Research in Long-Form
Journalism." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism
and
Mass
Communication Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 8 August 2008.
_______. "Memento Vivere: The Lessons of Literary Journalism." Presented at
International
Association for Literary Journalism Studies Annual Conference,
Lisbon,
Portugal, 17 May 2008.
_______. "The Jungle 100 Years Later: A Century of the Journalism of Reform."
Presented at the
American Journalism Historians Association Annual Conference,
Richmond, VA, 6
October 2007.
_______. "The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Literary
Journalism in a Shrinking
World."
Presented at the International Association for Literary Journalism
Studies Annual
Conference, Paris, France, 18 May 2007.
_______. "The Getting of Wisdom." Presented at
Association for Education in
Journalism and
Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 3
August 2006.
_______. "Re-Defining Writing: Emerging New Models of
Journalistic Practice."
Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annual Conference,
San Francisco, CA, 2 August 2006.
_______. "The Pedagogical
Challenges of Literary Journalism"." Presented at
the First International Conference on Literary Journalism,
Nancy, France, 19 May
2006.
_______. "The Omniscient Analytical Observation: A
Brief History." Presented at
Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and American
Journalism
Historians Association Joint History Meeting, New York, NY, 18
March 2006.
_______. "The Uneasy Embrace: The Journalist and the Source." Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication South East
Colloquium, Tuscaloosa, AL, 3 March 2006.
_______. "The Divergent Forms of News Writing." Presented at the international
conference, "Mapping the Magazine II: A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Magazine
Studies" at Cardiff University, Wales, UK, 16 September 2005.
_______. "Literary Journalism and the Argumentative Imperative." Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual
Conference,
San Antonio, TX, 12 August 2005.
_______. "What Goes Around: A
Return to a Partisan Press?" Presented
at Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual
Conference, San Antonio, TX, 11 August 2005.
_______. "The Possible Journalistic Futures of Weblogs." Presented at Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 7
August 2004.
_______. "The Role of Celebrity in the Evolution of the Popular Press."
Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 6 August 2004.
_______. "The City Magazine: The Cultural Evolution of Consumption, Identity and
Class." Prepared for the Print Culture and the City Conference, McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec, 27 March 2004.
_______. "The Premise Imperative: Beyond Objectivity." Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication South East
Colloquium, Tampa, FL, 5 March 2004.
_______. "Media Divergence and 'The Magazine Exception': The Historical Agency
of the Periodical Form." Accepted at American Journalism Historians
Association Annual Conference, Billings, MT, 3 October 2003.
_______. "Plagiarism Without End, Amen: A Disquieting Historical Perspective."
Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 30 July 2003.
_______. "Magazine Exceptionalism." Keynote presentation at the international
conference, "Mapping the Magazine: A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Magazine
Studies" at Cardiff University, Wales, UK, 26 June 2003.
_______; Bowman, Rebecca Lynn; Greer, Mark Richard; and Yeado, William Brian.
"A Longitudinal Quantitative Study of Gender and Related Determinants
in U.S. Consumer Magazines" Presented at Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Miami, FL, 8 August
2002.
_______. "Reloading the Canon: Repercussus Mirabilis: Literary Journalism and
Technological Possibility." Presented at Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Miami, FL, 8 August
2002.
_______. "From the Fall of Life to the Rise of the Salon: Magazines and
Sociocultural Change." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 8 August 2001.
_______. "The Ideal of Synergy: Authoring from the Classroom." Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication South East
Colloquium, Columbia, SC, 10 March 2001.
_______. "The Unseen Aspects of Guest Recruitment: Innocence Abroad (or)
Please Don't Insist I Join You for Dinner in Paris!" Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual
Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 9 August 2000.
_______. "The Voice Within the Voice: Narration in the Literary Journalism
of Hemingway, Ross and Thompson." Presented at Western Journalism Historians
Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 26 February 2000.
_______. "Historical Method versus Journalistic Methodology: Cultures in
Conflict." Presented at American Journalism Historians Association Annual
Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 24 October 1998.
_______. "The End of the Beginning: The Next Generation of Online
Publications." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 6 August 1998.
_______. "Sex, Lies and Contemporary History: The Necessary Discomforts of
Sallie Tisdale's Literary Journalism." Presented at American Journalism
Historians Association Annual Conference, University of South Alabama,
Mobile, AL, 16 October 1997.
_______. "Integrating the Student Magazine into the Journalism Curriculum."
Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 1 August 1997.
_______. "Whither the Internet? Historical Models of Media Evolution."
Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 30 July 1997.
_______. "New Media, New Methods, New Mentalities: The Cultural Implications
of Technological Change." Presented at American Journalism Historians
Association Annual Conference, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario, 4 October 1996.
_______. "Using the Internet in a Magazine Prototype Class." Presented at
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual
Conference, Anaheim, CA, 13 August 1996.
_______. "The Need for Interpretation: The Future of Online Historical
Scholarship." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, 12 August 1996.
_______. "A Current Overview: Journalism History in the Larger World of Online
Scholarship." Presented at American Journalism Historians Association Annual
Conference, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 30 September 1995.
_______. "Magazine-Made America: Uncertain Mirrors of the Sociocultural
Reality, 1945-1995." Presented at American Journalism Historians Association
Annual Conference, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 30 September 1995.
_______. "A New Sense of Place: The Emerging Role of Online Scholarship in
Journalism History." Presented at Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 11 August 1995.
_______. "The Times of the Times: Historical Models for Stylistic Change."
Presented at American Journalism Historians Association Annual Conference,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Roanoke, VA, 8 October 1994.
_______. "Davids and Goliaths: The Economic Restructuring of the Postwar
Magazine Industry, 1950-1970." Presented at Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 14
August 1993.
_______. "Who Reads What: The Implications of Gender and Readership."
Presented at Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and
Gender Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 16 October 1992.
_______. "A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Consumer Magazines: Baseline Study
and Gender Determinants." Presented at Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 5
August 1992.
_______. "The Rise of the Special-Interest Magazine in 'The Other 1960s': An
Economic and Sociocultural History." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1992.
_______. "The Role of Reader Gender as an Economic Determinant in U.S. Consumer Magazines." Communication Institute for Online Scholarship Research Database, (September 1991): <http://www.cios.org/getfile\magstats_article>.
_______. "Academic-Professional Interaction: Magazine Journalism in the
Electronic Age." Presented at AEJMC Magazine Division Conference, William
and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA, 4 April 1991.
REVIEWS
_______ and Eddy, Nathan. "Magazines that Make History:
Their Origins,
Development
and Influence" and "The Layers of Magazine Editing." (review).
Journalism
and Mass Communication Educator: 60:4
(Winter 2005-2006), 441-443.
_______. "Anti-Intellectualism in American Media."
(review). American Journalism
21:3 (Summer 2004): 110-111.
_______. "Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media." (review).
J-History (18 January 2003): <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~jhistory>.
_______. "The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation and Reporting in the New
On-Line Environment." (review). American Journalism 16:3 (Summer 1999): 115-
117
_______. "Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American
Literature." (review). Journalism History 24:2 (Summer 1998): 83-84.
_______. "A Love Affair with Life and
Smithsonian." (review). American
Journalism 13:1 (Winter 1996): 514-515.
_______. "The Dream of New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-
1914." (review). Journalism History 21:4 (Winter 1995-1996):174-175.
_______. "Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporters Life, and My Times:
Adventures in the News Trade." (review). American Journalism 12:2 (Spring
1995): 171-172.
_______. "Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word." (review).
Journalism Quarterly 71:3 (Autumn 1994): 736.
_______. "New York Days." (review). American Journalism 11:4 (Fall 1994): 287-
289.
_______. "Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communications
History." (review). Journalism Educator 49:2 (Summer 1994): 89.
_______. "Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional
Reform, 1861-1876." (review). Journalism History 20:1 (Spring 1994): 39-40.
_______. "West of Eden: Writers in Hollywood,
1928-1940." (review). American
Journalism 11:2 (Spring 1994): 182-183.
_______. "The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding
Davis." (review). American Journalism 10:3-4 (Summer-Fall 1993): 125-127.
_______. "Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman."
(review). American Journalism 10:3-4 (Summer-Fall 1993): 100-101.
_______. "The Power of News: The History of
Reuters." (review). Journalism
History 19:1 (Spring 1993): 35-36.
ACTIVITIES/SERVICE TO SCHOOL
STANDING COMMITTEE
SERVICE
2003-2006 Member, Curriculum Committee, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2003-2009 Founder and Chair, Summer Reading Project Committee, Medill School
of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2000-present Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Medill School of
Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1999-2000 Member, Curriculum Committee, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-2003 Member, Graduate Admissions and Scholarships Committee, Medill
School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-1998 Member, Inquiry Honors Program Subcommittee, Medill School of
Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-1998 Member, Inquiry Long-Range Planning Committee, Medill School of
Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-1997 Member, Curriculum Committee, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-1996 Member, Search Committee, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-1996 Member, Technology Committee, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
AD HOC SERVICE TO SCHOOL
1998-present Faculty Adviser, Teaching Magazine Program, Medill School of
Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-present Founder and Organizer, Faculty Research Colloquium, Medill
School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1995-present Screening Jury Member, John Bartlow Martin Award for Public-
Interest Magazine Journalism, Magazine Publishing Program,
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL.
1995-2000 Ad Hoc Screening Faculty Member, William Randolph Hearst
Journalism Awards Entries, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-2001 Ad Hoc Coordinator, Graduate Admissions, Magazine Publishing
Program, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL.
1994-present Faculty Adviser, Undergraduate and Graduate Students (including
placement advisement), Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
1994-2002 Co-Editor, Magazines @ Medill Newsletter, Magazine Publishing
Program, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL.
Michelle Weinberger, "Non-Participation
in Consumption Rituals - A Christmas Story," 10 March 2010.
Owen Youngman, "Paths to
Payment: Strategies for Sustaining Journalism On-Line," 10 February 2010.
Beth Bennett, "The Making of Under the Ice," 13
January 2010.
Tom Diemers, " A Primer for
First-Time Authors," 9 December 2009.
Mary Coffman, " Backpack
Journalism: A How-To Guide," 11 November 2009.
Jeremy Gilbert, " News &
Human Centered Design," 14 October 2009.
Rich Gordon, "Applying Network
Theory to Journalism, Media and Marketing," 6 May 2009.
Matt Manfield, ""Interactive
Forms in News Design, "8 April 2009.
Ava Grennwell, "Forty Years
After the Kerner Commission Report," 4 March 2009.
Kalyan Raman, "Chance,
Circumstance and Conventional Wisdom," 4 February 2009.
Abe Peck, ""B2B At (and
Beyond) Medill," 15 January 2009.
Ashlee Humphreys, "The
Wikipedia Conundrum: Managing Dissent in Media Co-Production," 3 December
2008.
Alec Klein, "Moving Target: Researching And Writing A Nonfiction Book in
Real Time," 19 November 2008.
Rachel Davis Mersey,
"Measuring Journalism: Is the Yardstick Mightier than the Pen?" 29
October 2008.
David Abrahamson and Frank Mulhern, "Research 101: An Easy Introduction to the World of Scholarly Research," 21 November 2007.
Bob McClory, "The Agony of Creation: So You Want to Write a Book!" 17 October May 2007.
Ellen Blum Barish, "Writing about Motherhood: Wrapping a Woman's Life Around the Lives of her Children," 2 May 2007.
John Calkins, "Recent Trends in Intellectual property and Student Affairs Law," 11 April 2007.
Gerri
Henderson, "'Remember Me?': Exploring the Impact
of Experience on Face Perception and Recognition," 7 March 2007.
Gary Swanson, "What Informed Chinese Know about America," 7 February 2007.
Sarah Pritchard, "Current Trends in University Libraries," 10 January 2007.
Michele Bitoun, "Global Research by Medill Undergrads," 6 December 2006.
Ava Greenwell, "How I Spent my summer at CBS2Chicago,com," 8 November 2006.
Joe Mathewson, "Defending Press Freedom: Are the States, Not Washington, the Answer?" 4 October 2006.
Rich Gordon, "How New Technologies Disrupt the Media Business," 5 June 2006.
Craig Lamay, "Exporting Press Freedom," 10 May 2006.
Doug Foster, "Why South Africa?" 8 March 2006.
Clarke Caywood, "Using Artificial Intelligence to Track and Read Content of Worldwide Media," 15 February 2006.
Michele Weldon, "Everyone's News," 18 January 2006.
Janice Castro, " The Art and Science of Course Revision," 16 November 2005.
Martin
Block, " "Implementing a Media Consumption Model," 19 October
2005.
Rich Gordon, "The Internet: The First 10 Years, The Next 10 Years," 28 September 2005.
Jon Marshall, "Blogs, Pods and Camera Phones," 18 May 2005.
Michele Bitoun, "Reporting from India in Words and Pictures," 20 April 2005.
Jon Ziomek, "Transparency in the Newsroom," 16 February 2005.
Ava Greenwell, "Medill: What We Now Know About Ourselves," 10 November 2004.
Jack Doppelt, Janice Castro, Patti Wolter, "Are You Ready for Google?" 29 September 2004.
Alex Kotlowitz, "Where Do Ideas for Books Come From?" 19 May 2004.
Lee Huebner, "The New Globalism: The New York Times and the Future of the International Herald Tribune," 14 April 2004.
David Abrahamson, "Visions of the American Press," 10 March 2004.
Loren Ghiglione, "Strategic Planning," 11 February 2004.
Pam Cytrynbaum, "Coming Up Friends: A Memoir of Integration," 7 January 2004
Rohit Saran, "Indian Media: The Most Free. The Most Read. The Most Insecure," 3 December 2003.
Tom Goldstein, "Thinking About Journalism: Letting Outsiders In," 5 November 2003.
Michele Weldon, "Paper Has More Patience: The Pesonal and Universal Significance of Writing Family Stories, " 15 October 2003.
Kristian Hammond, "Beyond Broadcast: Using Broadcast News as a Source for Online Information Gathering," 4 June 2003.
Abe Peck and Clarke Caywood, "Consider Consulting," 14 May 2003.
Newton Minow, Martin Block, Ed Malthouse and Craig Lamay, "Data-Mining: Vast Potential and Privacy Concerns," 23 April 2003.
Eric Kinenberg, "Feeling the Heat, Missing the Story", 26 February 2003.
Joe Angotti, Rich Gordon, Richard Alvarez, David Nelson and Richard Roth, "Experiments in Convergence," 12 February 2003.
Janice Castro, "The Resurgence of Visual Journalism," 15 January 2003.
Jack Doppelt, Lee Huebner, Mary Ann Weston and Bob McClory, "Medill's Global Program: The Evolving Door to Distinctiveness in Journalism Education'" 4 December 2002.
Dick Schwarzlose, Martin Block and Abe Peck, "Issues in Medill's Strategic," IL, 6 November 2002.
Mary Ann Weston and Marda Dunsky, "One Culture, Two Frameworks: U.S. Media Coverage of Arabs at Home and Abroad," 15 May 2002.
Rich Gordon, "Convergence: In the Newsroom and in the Classroom," 24 April 2002.
Craig Lamay, "Journalism and the Democratization Business," 13 March 2002.
Ed Malthouse, "Measuring Newspaper Readership," 20 February 2002.
Jack Doppelt, "Medill Sans Frontieres: Projects Across Class Lines and a Future for the School," 5 December 2001.
Marda Dunsky, "U.S. Media Bias in Middle East Coverage: Israel, Palestine and Beyond," 14 November 2001.
Loren Ghiglione, "Using Science Fiction to Think About the Future of Journalism," 31 October 2001.
Dick Longworth, "Missing the Story: Chicago's Media and Globalization," 6 June 2001.
Ken Bode, "Reporting on a Murder in Your Own Family," 11 April 2001.
Ginny Carrol, "Crazy Rhythms and Other Undulations on the Path from the Profession to the Academy," 6 March 2001.
Janice Castro, "The Rise and Retreat of Brintannica.Com," 14 February 2001.
Pat Dean, George, Harmon, Donna Leff, Abe Peck and Jon Ziomek, "Are We Seeing a Change In Student Expectations24 January 2001.
Richard Roth, "Attica at Thirty," 17 May 2000.
Patricia Whalen, "The Role of Communication During Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions," 12 April 2000.
Rich Gordon, "So What Is Mew Media Journalism Anyway?" 8 March 2000.
Dick Schwarzlose, "A New Interpretive History of American Journalism," 16 February 2000.
Joe Angotti, "Reflections on Organizing a Election Debate," 19 January 2000.
David Protess, "Detachment vs. Involvement in Doing Investigative Reporting with Students on Miscarriages of Justice," 10 June 1998.
Marda Dunsky, "Perspective Turned Upside Down: The Palestinians in Israel," 14 May 1998.
Abe Peck, "ASM: From Publishing Company to Electronic Commerce," 14 April 1998.
Mary Ann Weston, "Work in Progress," 17 March 1998.
Donna Leff, "Work in Progress," 17 February 1998.
Carolyn Kitch, "The Girl on the Magazine Cover," 13 January 1998.
ACTIVITIES/SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY
STANDING COMMITTEE
SERVICE
2003-present
General Editor, "Visions of the American Press"
series,
Northwestern University Press, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL.
Volumes in series published to date:
Herbert
Gans, Deciding What's News (25th
anniversary edition reprint).
Maurine H. Beasley, First
Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age (foreword by Caryl Rivers).
Patricia Bradley, Women and
the Press: The Struggle for Equality: Feminism and the Press (foreword by Gail Collins).
David A. Copeland, The Idea of
a Free Press: The Enlightenment and its Unruly Legacy (foreword by Daniel Schorr).
Michael S. Sweeney, The
Military and the Press: The Uneasy Truce (foreword
by Roy Gutman).
Patrick Washburn, The African
American Newspapers: Voices of Freedom (foreword
by Clarence Page).
David R. Spencer, The Yellow
Journalism: The Press and American's Emergence as a World Power" (foreword by Geneva Overholser).
Karla
Gower, Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace (foreword by Kurt Andersen).
Tom Goldstein, Journalism and
Truth: Strange Bedfellows (foreword by
Howard Baker).
Patricia L. Dooley, The
Technology of Journalism: Cultural Agents, Cultural Icons (foreword by Neil Chase).
Norman H. Sims, True Stories:
A Century of Literary Journalism (foreword
by Ted Conover).
James B. McPherson, The
Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the
Right (foreword by Sidney
Blumenthal).
Mark Neuzil, The Environment
and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy (foreword by Russell Train).
Barbara Cloud, , The Frontier Press: How the West Was Really Won
(foreword by Alan Simpson).
Norman H. Sims, Literary
Journalism in the 20th Century (foreword by
John Hartsock, reprint).
Ford
Risley, Abolition and the Press: A Mission of Moral Struggle.
Doug
Cumming, The Southern Press: Literary Traditions and the Challenge of
Modernity (foreword by Hodding Carter
III).
Claude
Cookman, American Photojournalism: Motivation and Meaning (foreword by Richard Stolley).
Elliot
King, Free for All: The Internet's Transformation of Journalism (foreword by Jeff Jarvis).
Joe
Mathewson, The Supreme Court and the Press: The Indispensable Conflict (foreword by Fred Graham), in press.
Jon
Marshall, Watergate's Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse (foreword by Bob Woodward)
Tom
Connery, Journalism and Realism: Rendering American Life (possible foreword by Gay Talese)
2002-2006 Director, Center for the Writing Arts, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL.
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2001-2003 Participating Faculty Member and Principal Investigator,
Undergraduate Research Experience Program, Office of the Provost,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2000-2001 Chair, University Study Abroad Committee, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
1999-2002 Member, University Research Grants Committee, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
1999-2002 Member, Creative Nonfiction Advisory Board, University College,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-2009 Faculty Fellow and Participating Principal Investigator,
Faculty Associate Research Assistantship Program, Communications
Residential College, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1997-1998 Editor, Passport: NU Study Abroad Office Newsletter, University
Office of Study Abroad, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL.
1995-1996 Faculty Affiliate Fellow, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the
Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1994-2002 Member, Steering Committee, Center for the Writing Arts,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994-1998 Editor, The Newsletter of the Center for the Writing Arts,
Center for the Writing Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL.
ORGANIZER, LITERATURE OF
FACT LECTURE SERIES
David Carr, The New York Times,
"Reporting on the Media Madness," 22 February 2010.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Monthly, Journalism and the New American Reality," 15 February 2010.
Alessandra Stanley, The New York
Times, "Reporting on Popular Culture," 16 November 2009.
David Samuels, Harper's, "Reporting Across Boundaries: The
Political/Social/Cultural Frontier," 23 February 2009.
C.J. Chivers, The New York Times, "Foreign Correspondence: The World on Deadline,"
16 February 2009.
Margo Jefferson, The New York
Times, "The Eye of the Critic:
Journalism and the Arts," 24 November 2008.
Katie
Roiphe, The New Yorker, " The
Reportorial First-Person," 17 November 2008.
Erik
Larson, The New Yorker, "Reporting
on the Past; The Craft of Nonfiction," 25 February 2008.
Diane
McWhorter, The New York Times, "Searching
for America: Reporting on the Social Frontier," 18 February 2008.
Alex
Kuczynski, The New York Times, "Style
and Substance: Reporting on Popular Culture," 12 November 2007.
Michael
Specter, The New Yorker, "Writing
about Science and Society," 26 February 2007.
Brooke
Kroeger, New York University, "Reporting on People: The biographical
Imperative," 19 February 2007.
James
McManus, The New York Times,
"Writing a Column: Personal Voice, Public Passion," 20 November 2006.
Margaret
Talbot, The New Yorker, "Reporting
on Tomorrow," 13 February 2006.
Charlie
LeDuff, The New York Times, "Other
Stories, Other Americas," 20 November 2006.
Dan
and Meg Baum, The New Yorker,
"Reporting on Consequences," 13 February 2006.
Jennifer 8. Lee, The New York
Times, "Reporting on Other
Worlds," 21 November 2005.
Katherine
Boo, The New Yorker, "Questioning
the Purposes of Journalism," 14 November 2005.
Rick
Atkinson, The Washington Post,
"History, Journalism and Writing About Wars Past and Present," 28
February 2005.
Deborah
Sontag, The New York Times,
"Passion and Compassion in Journalism," 21 February 2005.
Peter
Landesman, The New York Times,
"Reporting Other Realities," 15 November 2004.
Gail Collins, The New York Times, "Penning Up Opinions," 8 November 2004.
Jodi
Wilgoren, The New York Times,
"Lessons from the Campaign Trail," 24 May 2004.
Michael
Wolff, Vanity Fair, "The
Self-Referential Press," 17 May 2004.
Rick Lyman, The New York Times, "America, the Movie: The Press and Popular Culture," 1 March 2004.
Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal, "Advocacy Journalism: Setting the Record Straight," 23 February 2004.
Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, "The New Yorker Profile: People and Place," 17 November 2003.
Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, "Journalism That Matters," 10 November 2003.
Ron Rosenbaum, The New Yorker, "The Journalism of Ideas," 12 May 2003.
Gretel Ehrlich, The New Yorker, "Reporting from the Edge: Places with Meaning," 3 March 2003.
Stephen Kinzer, The New York Times, "Journalism and Culture: Between Two," 24 February 2003.
Bil Gilbert, Sports Illustrated, "Telling Stories: Thoughts on Narrative Journalism," 27 January 2003.
Peggy Orenstein, The New York Times Magazine, "Reporting on the Politics of Everyday Life," 11 November, 2002.
Roger Cohen, The New York Times, "Substitute for Love," 4 March 2002.
Caryl Rivers, Boston University, "The Personal Made Public: Reporting on Change," 25 November 2002.
JoAnn Wypijewski, Harper's, "Reporting/Editing/Writing: Telling the Untold Story," 19 November, 2001.
Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, "Reporting on the Future: Culture, Technology, Consequences," 12 November, 2001.
Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair, "Truth and Consequences: Reporting That Matters," 19 February 2001.
Scott Anderson, Harper's, "War Correspondence: Journalism on the Edge," 20 November 2000.
Lillian Ross, The Yorker, "Reporting," 13 November 2000.
Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, "Reporting on the American Dream," 6 March 2000.
Katie Hafner, The New York Times, "Journalism and Technology: The New Literacy," 21 February 2000.
Sebastian Junger, "The Lessons of The Perfect Storm," 29 November 1999.
Alex Witchel, The New York Times, "Girls Only: Writing and Style," 21 November 1999.
John Seabrook, The New Yorker, "High Brow, Low Brow, No Brow: A Recent History of The New Yorker," 1 March 1999.
Sallie Tisdale, Harper's, "The Politics of the Personal: Writing As If It Really Mattered," , 24 November 1997.
Gay and Nan Talese, "Perspectives on Today's Literary Moment: Writers' and Editors' Realities," 10 November 1997.
ACTIVITIES/SERVICE TO ACADEME
EDITORIAL BOARD SERVICE: SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
2006-present
Member, Editorial Board, Literary Journalism Studies,
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, NY.
2000-present
Member, Editorial Board, Journalism and Mass Communication
Quarterly, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
1998-present
Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Magazine and New Media
Research, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Magazine Division, Ball State University, Muncie,
IN.
1998-present
Member, Editorial Board, Journalism and Mass Communication
Monographs, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Magazine Division, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA.
1994-present Member, Editorial Board, American Journalism, American
Journalism Historians Association, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, AL.
1993-present Member, Editorial Board, Journalism History, Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History
Division, Ohio University, Athens, OH..
REFEREE/MEMBER:
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH COMMITTEES
2006-present Member, Research Committee, International Association for Literary
Journalism Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.
1993-present Member, Research Committee, Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Magazine Division, Columbia,
SC.
1993-present Member, Research Committee, Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication History Division, Columbia,
SC.
1993-present Member, Research Committee, American Journalism Historians
Association, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
OFFICERSHIPS/COMMITTEE
SERVICE
2008-present President, International Association for Literary Journalism
Studies, Evanston, IL.
2006-2008 Founding Vice President and President-Elect, International
Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Nancy, France.
2006-present Editor, Literary Journalism: The Newsletter of the International
Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Evanston, IL.
2002-2003 Head, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication History Division, Columbia, SC.
1998-2001 Member, Board of
Directors, American Journalism Historians
Association, St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ.
1998-2000 Editor, Magazine Matter: The Newsletter of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Magazine
Division, Columbia, SC.
1997-1998 Head, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Magazine Division, Columbia, SC.
1997-present Chair, Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral
Dissertation Prize
Committee, American Journalism Historians Association,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
ACTIVITIES/SERVICE TO INDUSTRY
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING
CLIENTS (partial list)
Am. Assn for the Advncmnt of Science
American Broadcasting Companies
Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association
CBS, Inc.
Chief Executive Group
Crain Communications
Film Odyssey/PBS
Florida Trend Magazine
Garland Publishing
Grosset & Dunlap
Hachette Filipacchi Magazines
Harcourt Brace
HarperCollins
IDG Communications
The Jerusalem Report, Inc.
Madison Avenue Publishing
McGraw-Hill
Mercedes Benz of North America
MicroClear Publishing
Murdoch Magazines
NTC Publishing
The Oceanic Society
PennWell Publishing
Port Authority of NY/New Jersey
Primedia Magazines
Rodale Press
Sage Publications
The Source Magazine
TeleMedia Publishing
Times Mirror Magazines
University Communications
Wadsworth Publishing
Weider Publishing
Ziff Communications
PROFESSIONAL
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES (sample)
_______. "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Joy of the High Places." Backpacker, May
1985, 62-63.
_______. "Tool Use: Creatures of Invention." National Wildlife, February 1985,
24-28.
_______. "Land of the Masai." Chicago Tribune Magazine, 1 April 1984, 37-40.
_______. "No Nostalgia Need Apply: Ships of Carriacou." Oceans, November 1983,
32-35.
_______. "Gentlemen, You May Smoke." Playboy, November 1983, 105-107.
_______. "Africans on African Wildlife." International Wildlife, July 1983,
38-41.
_______. "Supreme Court Searches and Destroys." Car and Driver, February 1983,
49-51.
_______. "A Polar Epic." Cross Country Skier, December 1982, 77-82.
_______. "Grenada: A Fragrant Revolution." Adventure Travel, September 1981,
69-77.
_______. "Rosetta Stones from Space." New York Times Magazine, 26 April 1981,
86-91.
_______. "Life in Ocean Pressure Cooker." New York Times Magazine, 1 February
1981, 22-29.
_______. "Profile: Leni Riefenstahl." Sport Diver, Summer 1979, 113-117.
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2009 AJHA Book of the Year: Ford Risley, Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery, "Visions of the American Press" in Series (general editor), Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, awarded by American Journalism Historians Association, Birmingham, AL, 10 October 2009.
2009 AEJMC James Tankard Award for Book of the Year: Mark Neuzil, The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy, in "Visions of the American Press" Series (general editor), Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, awarded by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Boston, MA, 7 August 2009.
2007 AEJMC James Tankard Award for Book of the Year: Patrick Washburn, The African American Press: Voice of Freedom, in "Visions of the American Press" Series (general editor), Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006, awarded by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA, 3 August 2007.
2005-present Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2002-2005 Helen Gurley Brown Research Professorship in Journalism,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2002 Caroline Dow Prize for Best Faculty Research Paper, Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Magazine
Division, Miami, FL.
2000 Meritorious Faculty Award (inaugural recipient), Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Magazine
Division, Columbia, SC.
1992 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, New York University, New
York, NY.
1991 Doctoral Examinations "With Distinction," New York University
Program in American Civilization, New York, NY.
1978 Ken Purdy Memorial Award for Excellence in Automotive
Journalism, International Motor Press Association, New York, NY.
ASSOCIATIONS
International Association for Literary
Journalism Studies
Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication
American Journalism Historians Assn.
Am. Society of Journalists and Authors
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Research Society for Am. Periodicals
American Studies Association
MILITARY SERVICE
Lieutenant (Infantry), U.S. Army, 1969-1971; honorable discharge.