SUMMARY

Twenty two years of faculty experience in higher education: community college, university, Christian private college. Eleven years of administrative experience as chair of large, complex department. Academic focus: communication ethics, law, theory, Third World studies.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, May 1982.

Dissertation: "The Hutchins Commissioners and the Crisis in Democratic Theory."

M.A. Theological studies, Wheaton College, June 1978.

M.A. Mass communication, University of Minnesota, June 1971.

A.B. Philosophy, Westmont College, June 1969.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1998-present: Professor of Communication, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1983-1998: Professor of Communication, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

1982-1983: Assistant professor of communications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

BOOKS

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 7 th ed. with Clifford Christians, Kim B. Rotzoll, Kathy McKee, Robert Woods (New York: Longman, 2005).

Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, (Greenwood, 1995). With Charles Lippy, eds.

Good News: Social Ethics and the Press, (Oxford , 1993). With Clifford Christians and John Ferre.

PAPERS, ARTICLES, AND REVIEWS

The Second Coming of Holy Writ: Niche Bibles and the Manufacture of Market Segments,” in New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium. Edited by Robert M. Fowler, Edith Blumhofer, and Fernando F. Segovia (New York : T & T Clark, 2004).

“Response” in Media Ethics, Vol 15, No. 1 (Fall 2003), p. 19.

Review of The Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective, eds. Shannon Martin and David Copeland (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) in American Journalism, forthcoming.

“Communitarian Media Theory with an African Flexion” in Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, eds. Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage (London: T&T Clark, 2003).

“The Media in Uganda ” (with Aggrey Mugisha) and “The Media in Ethiopia ” (with Oyvind Aadland), in World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide, Amanda C Quick, ed. (Farmington, MI: Gale, 2002).

"Condoms and Constitutions: Religion News in Kenya," Religion in the News 3:1 (Spring 2000): 22-23.

"Cat World" in Corporate Magazines in the United States, ed. Sam Riley (Greenwood Press, 1992).

" Lakeland Boating" and "The Chicagoan," in Regional Interest Magazines of the United States , ed. Sam Riley and Gary Selnow (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991).

Review of Unreasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins by Harry S. Ashmore in Journalism Quarterly 67 (Summer 1990): 422-23.

"Charles C. Morrison," in American Magazine Journalists, 1900-1960, First Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 91, ed. Sam G. Riley (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark/Gale, 1990).

"Religious Watchdog Groups and Prime-Time Programming," in Channels of Belief: Religion and American Commercial Television, ed. by John Ferre (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990).

"A Short Story of Evangelical Scholarship in Mass Media," in American Evangelicals and the Mass Media, ed. by Quentin J. Schultze (Zondervan, 1990).

Review of Reckless Disregard by Renata Adler, Suing the Press by Rodney Smolla, and Libel Law and the Press by Randall Bezanson, et al. in Quarterly Journal of Speech (May 1989), 239-241.

"Forgiveness on Prime-Time Television, A Case Study: Hill Street Blues," (with Stephen Darling), Studies in Popular Culture X (1987): 64-73.

"Teaching Moral Decision Making," a presentation (with Al Smith) at the Christian College Consortium Institute on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Wheaton College, 19 June 1987.

Review of The Black Abolitionist Papers, Canada, 1830-1865, ed. Peter C. Ripley in Journalism History 14 (Winter 1987): 134-135.

Review of Religious Television , by Peter Horsfield. Journal of Communication, 35 (Spring 1985): 221-222.

"Henry Raymond (1820-1869)," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Newspaper Journalists, 1690-1872, ed. Perry Ashley (Detroit: Gale Research, 1985).

"Frank Knox (1874-1944)," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Newspaper Journalists, 1873-1945, ed. Perry Ashley (Detroit: Gale Research, 1984).

"Hutchins Commission," in Review and Criticism Section, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 1 (March 1984): 105-106.

"Moral Guardians of the Movies and Social Responsibility of the Press: Two Movements Toward a Moral Center," in Mass Media Between the Wars, ed. Catherine L. Covert and John D. Stevens (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1984).

Review of Mass Media and the American Mind, by Daniel J. Czitrom. Journal of Communication 33 (Spring 1983): 180-181.

"Charles Horton Cooley and the Futuristic Vision," Qualitative Sociology 5 (Fall 1982): 182-198.

"John Milton's Place in Journalism History: Champion or Turncoat," (with Clifford Christians) Journalism Quarterly 57 (Winter 1980): 563-570.

Review of Reporters' Ethics , by Bruce M. Swain. Newspaper Research Journal 3 (May 1980): 97-98.

" Liberty Within the Bounds of Virtue," (with Clifford Christians) in Ethics and Mass Communication, pp. 16-41, ed. by Anne VanderMeiden. Department of Mass Communications, State University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1980.

Review of Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life , by Sissela Bok. Journal of Communication 29 (Summer 1979): 235-237.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Ethics of Intellectual Property Protection in the Developing World: Kenya, a Case Study.” Presentation at the National Communication Association (NCA) convention, Miami Beach, November 2003.

"Journalism as Stewardship," Presentation to media professionals at the Kampala Evangelical School of theology, Kampala, Uganda, 22 July 2000.

"Media Professionals and Values," Presentation at Makerere University, Department of Communications, Kampala, Uganda, 22 July 2000.

"Communication Theory with an African Flexion and a Note on the Maelstrom." Academic paper. Third International Conference on Media, Culture, and Religion, Edinburgh, July 1999.

Hoover Fellow, European Centre for Ethics, Catholic University of Leuven ( Belgium ), March 1999.

Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty: "Two Points of Moral Contact." Academic paper. Communications Ethics Commission, May, 1992, Gull Lake, Michigan.

"How To Stay Ethical and Keep Your Tail Out of Court," a panel for the executives of the McClatchy Newspapers, 21 September 1990, Monterey, California.

"Television and Religion," a presentation at the Midwest Regional Symposium of the Religious Education Association, Chicago, October 1988.

"The Person, Community, and Communication Ethics." Academic paper. Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November, 1988.

"Health, Faith and Ethics in the Media.” Academic panel, Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, Illinois, 14 March 1987.

"Teaching Moral Decision Making," a presentation (with Al Smith) at the Christian College Consortium Institute on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Wheaton College, 19 June 1987.

"Reinhold Niebuhr's Political Realism and the Press Freedom Debate.” Academic paper. Speech Communication Association, Boston, November 1987.

"Calling a Nation to Faith: Network News Coverage of the Shuttle Crisis." Academic paper. Speech Communication Association, Chicago , November 1986.

"Can Values Govern the Media?" Academic paper. Conflicts in the Public Square, a conference sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, Illinois, 20 November 1986.

National Teaching Award in Ethics, with conference participation, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, June 1985.

"Social Responsibility Theory Revisited," Academic panel. International Communication Association, Honolulu, June 1985.

"Forgiveness on Prime-Time Television," Academic paper. Speech Communication Association, Washington D. C., November 1983.

"John Milton and Press Freedom: Was He a Censor?" Academic paper (with Clifford Christians). Association for Education in Journalism, Houston , August 1979.

MORE ACTIVITIES

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Mass Media Ethics , Journal of Media and Religion, and Journal of Media and Communication.

Active member of National Speech Association (Communication Ethics Commission), Religious Speech Association (past president), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the World Affairs Council.

International teaching and faculty development at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya; the Gimlekolen Mediasenter, Kristiansand Norway, and among media professionals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Occasional guest on local media, at the arrangement of Calvin Media Relations.

requent contributor to publications and projects of Christian Booksellers Association members.