EDUCATION
New York University, New York
Ph.D., American Studies, 1996
Dissertation: “Building the Pyramid: A Cultural History of ‘Objectivity’
in American Journalism, 1832-1894”
New York University, New York
M.A., American Civilization, 1989
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
B.A., English and American Literature, 1985
University College London, London, U.K., 1983-84
BOOKS
Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News
Oxford University Press, 2004 (cloth); 2005 (paper); finalist, KTA Mott Award
Prepublication review: This is a very important book. Professor Mindich has undertaken to determine
the extent of the news illiteracy of an entire generation of American young people, and, to speculate
with authorities in broadcasting and print as to what can be done about it. This volume is a handbook
for the desperately needed attempt to inspire in the young generation a curiosity that generates the
news habit. Their lack of knowledge or even interest in our government bodes a critical danger to
democracy as they become the nation's voting majority. --Walter Cronkite
Selected Reviews: Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Seven Days,
Burlington Free Press, Journalism History, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Communication,
Vermont Guardian, Hardwick Gazette, Sacramento Bee, etc.
Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism. New York University Press,
2000 (paper); 1998 (cloth)
Selected Reviews: Christian Science Monitor, Washington Monthly (cover story),
Chronicle of Higher Education (“nota bene”), Columbia Journalism Review, Rutland Herald,
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Journalism History,
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, American Studies Journal, Choice
(“Choice Outstanding Academic Title”), Journal of American History, American Historical Review,
Journal of Popular Culture, American Journalism
August 1994-present Founder and Editor, Jhistory
Jhistory is an independent listserve under the H-Net umbrella of lists.
• 1995 Winner, AJHA Outstanding Service Award
Work: Journalism and Mass Communication Dept., St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT 05439, (802) 654-2637
E-mail and Web: dmindich@smcvt.edu; http://academics.smcvt.edu/dmindich/
Curriculum Vitae Updated: June 2009
BOOK CHAPTERS
2007 “How to Tune Back In”
In -30- The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper, Ivan R. Dee, 2007
2005 “The Press and the Politics of Representation,” (co-written with Mitchell Stephens)
In Institutions of Democracy: The Press, Annenberg / Oxford University Press, 2005
2005 “Facticity: Cholera, Culture and the Rise of Journalism’s Scientific Mindset,
1832-1866.” In A History of Objectivity, Vision Press, 2005
October 2001 “The Moroccan Driver and the Great Experiment” (short essay).
09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy
Adapted for the stage for a performance titled, Voices from
September 11 in London’s Old Vic Theatre, September 11, 2002
February 2000 “Edwin M. Stanton, the Inverted Pyramid, and Information Control.”
Fall 2000 Guest Editor,
The Buzz: Technology in Journalism and Mass Communication History. Special Issue, American Journalism.
ARTICLES
April 2009 “Things People Older/Younger than Me Don’t Understand about the Internet.”
(A cluster of articles with John Carey, Matthew Powers, and Sue Robinson).
Journalism Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2
April 2009 A review of Michele Weldon, Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page
(Missouri) in PUBLIZISTIK -- Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung
January 2009 “Journalism and Citizenship: Making the Connection,”
Nieman Reports
November 2008 “Don’t Vote!”
Air America Web Site
April 2008 A review of Thinking with James Carey (Packer and Robertson)
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism
February 2008 “Could Our Democracy Withstand Another 9/11?”
AlterNet
September 2007 A review of Playing the News (video)
Journalism History
January 2007 “To Be Neutral on a Moving Train: What Should Journalism and Journalism Educators do in
Response to Attacks on the Press.” (A cluster of articles with Mark Feldstein, Geneva
Overholser, and Jane Kirtley).
Journalism Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1
July 2006 “Shaw to be honored with Deutschmann Award,”
AEJMC News
April 2006 “How and Why Young People Are Tuning Out Broadcast News,”
Museum of Television and Radio Media Center report
April 2005 “The Young and the Restless,” (cover story)
Wilson Quarterly
•Reprinted in Gary Goshgarian, The Contemporary Reader, in 2008
•Reprinted in Lester Faigley, Backpack Writing, in 2008
•Reprinted in Lester Faigley, A Guide to Writing, in 2007
March 2005 Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West (Miles)
Book Review, New York Post
September 2004 “Dude, Where’s Your Newspaper?”
Op-Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education
Selected by the Chronicle as a “Notable Review Article, 2004”
Fall 2004 The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860 (Copeland)
Book Review, American Journalism
Spring 2004 Giving Meaning to the World (Dell’Orto) and Fanatics & Fire-Eaters (Ratner and Teeter)
Book Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
Summer 2003 “Teaching Journalism History in a Post-Journalism Age,”
Clio Among the Media
Spring 2002 “September 11 and its Challenge to Journalism Criticism.”
Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism
Summer 2001 The Drunken Journalist: The Biography of a Film Stereotype (Good),
Book Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
October 2001 “Essence of New York Endures after the Attacks.”
Op-Ed, Burlington Free Press. Reprinted in the Brandeis Review,
Saint Michael’s College Magazine.
December 2000 War and Press Prerogative (Smith),
Book Review, American Historical Review
December 2000 “W. E. B. Du Bois,”
Entry, Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press
Spring 2000 “Understanding Frederick Douglass: Toward a New Synthesis Approach to the Birth of Modern
American Journalism” Journalism History
July 2000 “Human Rights Can Go On and On and On,”
Baltimore Sun. Reprinted in Poppolitics.com, Out in the Mountains, Sept. 2000
March 2000 “Henry Raymond,”
Entry, American National Biography, Oxford Univ. Press
March 2000 “Benjamin Harris,”
Entry, American National Biography, Oxford Univ. Press
March 2000 “L. A. Whitely,”
Entry, American National Biography, Oxford Univ. Press
Winter 1999 “Telegraphy from the Chair,”
Clio Among the Media
Fall 1999 Telegraphy from the Chair,”
Clio Among the Media
Fall 1999 The American Century (Evans),
Book Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Fall 1999 “Parting Words from the Chair,”
Clio Among the Media
July 1999 “The New New Journalism,”
Wall Street Journal
July 1999 Introduction, Invited Paper Book, AEJMC History and MAC divisions
Summer 1999 History of the Mass Media in the United States (Blanchard),
Book Review, Journalism History
Summer 1999 "Telegraphy from the Chair,"
Clio Among the Media
Spring 1999 "Telegraphy from the Chair,"
Clio Among the Media
Fall 1998 “Standing Up for the Facts,”
Media Studies Journal
Summer 1998 “The Press,” Seaport Magazine
Summer 1998 “Research Paper Update,” Clio Among the Media
Spring 1998 “The Future of the Internet: A Historical Perspective,” accompanied by articles by Mitchell Stephens,
David Abrahamson, Hazel Dicken-Garcia and James Carey, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Winter 1998 “Searching For Journalism History in Cyberspace,”
“Great Ideas” Research Essay, American Journalism
Spring 1998 Colonial American Newspapers (Copeland),
Book Review, American Journalism
Spring 1997 “That’s the Way it Was”
Review Article, Media Studies Journal. Reprinted in Current.
Fall 1997 “Wanted: A Metaphor for Jhistory.”
Electronic Journal of Communication (refereed; unknown acceptance rate)
Spring 1997 “The Jhistorian Online,” with David Abrahamson, Barbara Reed & Elliot King.
Research Essay, American Journalism
Autumn 1996 Who Killed George Polk? The Press Covers Up a Death in the Family, (Vlanton)
Book Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
September 1996 “Voters Need to Take Back Presidential Debates,”
Burlington Free Press
Winter 1995 “Journalism Historians Join New Colony in Cyberspace,”
Clio Among the Media
April 1994 “An Intellectual History of the Intellectual History Interest Group,”
Clio Among the Media
January 1994 “Subway Joe Approximately,” New York Magazine
August 1993 Edwin M. Stanton, the Inverted Pyramid, and Information Control.
Austin: Assoc. for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC),
August 1993. Published as a Journalism Monograph
September 1992 “‘Walking Tour’ Means Courting the Flatbed Truck,” Quill Magazine
August 1991 “Education Dollars Could Help Pay Slavery's Debt,”
Opinion, Christian Science Monitor; reprinted as a “Viewpoint” in Newsday
JOURNALISM, EDITING EXPERIENCE
1987-present Part-time free-lance writer
Articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Christian Science Monitor,
New York Newsday, New York Post, Wilson Quarterly, Baltimore Sun, Media Studies Journal,
Chronicle of Higher Education, etc. (see articles, above)
September 2000 Guest editor,
Special Issue, American Journalism
The Buzz: Technology in Journalism and Mass Communication History
1996-1997 Editor, Clio Among the Media
Clio is the newsletter of the History Division of the AEJMC
1991-1992 Story suggestions, Cable News Network (CNN), New York
Lower East Side Doctor 1991, Baby Bell Breakup 1992, Series on
Gay Communities, 1992
1986-1987 Assignment editor, Cable News Network (CNN), New York
Developed, wrote, and assigned news stories for the network
•During my tenure, the network won two Ace Awards for Cable Excellence
(Space Shuttle coverage and Statue of Liberty centennial; I was on both teams)
1985 Intern, production assistant, Cable News Network (CNN), New York
1986-1987 Free-lance correspondent, Echoes Magazine, London, UK
September 1985 Substitute announcer, Capital Radio, London
AWARDS AND SUPPORT
July 2008-July 2009 Sabbatical leave, Saint Michael's College
November 2007 Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Excellence in Journalism History
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Spring 2007 Honored, President's Dinner,
Saint Michael's College
2007 Scholarship & Artistic Achievement Award
Saint Michael's College
An annual award given by the college to one faculty member.
2006 Vermont Professor of the Year
CASE/Carnegie Foundation
Spring 2006 Honored, President's Dinner,
Saint Michael's College
2006 Tuned Out was a named finalist, Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for
the best book on journalism/mass communication based on original research published during 2005
2005 Class Appreciation Award, Saint Michael's College
“A citation of excellence in recognition of your quality, sincerity, and dedication…” presented by
the senior class.
2005 Honorarium ($2000) for participation in Annenberg’s conference on revisiting the Hutchins Commission
2003-2005 Honoraria and author’s payment ($6000) for participation in the Annenberg Press Commission
Spring 2003 Honored, President's Dinner,
Saint Michael's College
August 2002 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship, and Service,
AEJMC
•The Krieghbaum Under-40 Award is one of the association’s two highest honors.
$1000 Prize
July 2001-July 2002 Sabbatical leave, Saint Michael's College
January 2000 Outstanding Academic Title, Just the Facts, Choice Magazine
Summer 1999 Grant, USIA Scholars Program
Invited lectures in Bonn, Cologne, and Vienna
Spring 1999 Grant, Professors Publishing Project,
Freedom Forum
Spring 1999 Honored, President's Dinner,
Saint Michael's College
1997 Best Paper Award, American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA), Mobile. “Between the Bank
and the Kitchen,” named best paper of 77 submitted to the conference
1997 Runner-Up,
AJHA Doctoral Dissertation Prize
“...the prize jury noted the originality of your argument, the thoroughness
of your research, and the clarity of your writing. Moreover, the Award
Committee firmly believes that it is the exceptional quality of scholarship
such as yours which clearly advances the art of journalism and mass
communication history.”
1997-1998 Faculty Development Grant, Saint Michael’s College
For research on “Baseball at Mumford’s Pasture Lot: An Investigation of Primordial Baseball”
1996-present Multiple Travel Grants, Saint Michael’s College
1997 Travel Grant, Media Studies Center
1995 Outstanding Service Award, AJHA
“...Whereas, Professor David T. Z. Mindich has performed an exemplary
job setting up a computer network for historians of journalism across the
nation....Be It Resolved, that we of the...American Journalism Association hereby recognize Professor
David Mindich for outstanding service to journalism historians and applaud his outstanding efforts.”
1994-1995 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University
This grant is awarded to selected dissertation writers during their final year.
1993-1994 Penfield Fellowship, N.Y.U.
1990-1993 Teaching Assistant, Expository Writing Program, N.Y.U.
1991-1995 Travel and Research Grants (4), Dean’s Office, History Dept., N.Y.U.
1991 Travel and Research Grant, History Dept., N.Y.U.
1988-1989 University Fellowship, N.Y.U.
1986-1987 Co-winner, 2 Ace Awards for Cable Excellence,
For team coverage of the Challenger explosion and the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty
REFEREED PAPERS
November 1998 “Just the Facts: the Past, Present and Prospects of Journalistic 'Objectivity.'”
Symposium on Ante-Bellum and Civil War Press, U. of Tennessee, Chat.
October 1997 “Between the ‘Bank’ and the ‘Kitchen’: Shades of Nonpartisanship in Antebellum America,”
AJHA, Mobile, Alabama
Best Paper Award: Named best paper of 77 submitted to the conference
October 1996 “Beyond a ‘Symbol of Black Achievement’: Journalism History Textbooks’ Depictions of Frederick
Douglass and a Proposal For Different Narrative Structures,” Work-in-Progress Paper, AJHA London, Ont.
August 1996 “A ‘Slanderous and Nasty-Minded Mulattress,’ Ida B. Wells, Confronts ‘Objectivity’ in the 1890s,”
Hist. Div., AEJMC, Anaheim
November 1995 “The Emergence of a Nonpartisan Ethic,”
Symposium on Ante-Bellum and Civil War Press, U. of Tennessee, Chat.
September 1995 “The Rise of the Fact and ‘Naive Empiricism’ in Journalism, as Seen in the Great Cholera Epidemics
of 1832, 1849 and 1866,”AJHA, Tulsa
September 1995 “Building the Pyramid: A Cultural History of ‘Objectivity’ in American Journalism, 1832-1894,”
Work-in-Progress Paper, AJHA, Tulsa
August 1995 “The Caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and the Primordial Soup of Modern
American Journalism,”AEJMC, Washington, D. C.
November 1994 “The Birth of ‘Objectivity’ and the Bennett-Webb Conflict,”
Symposium on Ante-Bellum and Civil War Press, University of Tennessee
August 1994 “Building the Pyramid: An Overview of the History of
‘Objectivity’ in Nineteenth Century American Journalism,”
Work-in-Progress Paper, AEJMC, Graduate Student Division, Atlanta
November 1993 “‘Making Us an Is’: Lincoln, Censorship, and the End of the Party Press in the Civil War,”
Symposium on Ante-Bellum and Civil War Press, University of Tennessee
April 1993 “Objectivity, Nation Building, and the Inverted Pyramid,”
American Studies Colloquium, New York University
April 1991 “Edwin M. Stanton and the Inverted Pyramid,”
Midwest AEJMC, St. Paul
PANELS AND OTHER CONVENTION PARTICIPATION
August 2008 Moderator, “Things People Older/Younger than Me Don’t Understand about the Internet” Jhistory panel,
AEJMC, Chicago
August 2007 Moderator and organizer, “In Honor of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research:
Guido Stempel.” AEJMC, Washington, DC
August 2007 Panelist, “Whatever You Do, Don’t do THAT! Best and Worst-Case Job Search Experiences.”
AEJMC, Washington, DC
August 2007 Panelist, “Teaching Media History in an Age of Convergence.”
AEJMC, Washington, DC
August 2006 Co-moderator and co-organizer (with Jay Rosen), “Friends and Colleagues, Scholars and Critics:
Remembering James W. Carey” AEJMC, San Francisco
August 2006 Moderator and organizer, “In Honor of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in
Research: Donald L. Shaw.” AEJMC, San Francisco
August 2006 Moderator, “Questioning Whether to be Neutral on a Moving Train: What Should Journalism and
Mass Communication Educators Do in Response to Attacks on the Press?” Jhistory panel,
AEJMC, San Francisco
August 2006 Co-moderator and co-organizer (with Jay Rosen), “Friends and Colleagues, Scholars and Critics:
Remembering James W. Carey” AEJMC, San Francisco
December 2005 “Tuned Out Young people and the challenge to democracy”
Panelist, MLA, Washington DC
September 2005 “Tuned Out Young People and the Challenge to the Newspaper Industry”
Keynote speaker, National Newspaper Association (NNA), Milwaukee
August 2005 Moderator, “Things I Used to Teach That I No Longer Believe”
AEJMC, San Antonio
August 2005 Panelist, “Why Young Americans Tune Out and What That Means for Democracy”
AEJMC, San Antonio
June 2005 Participant, Conference to reconsider the Hutchens Commission. The conference was convened by
Kathleen Hall Jamieson,of the University of Pennsylvania, and Geneva Overholser, University of Missouri.
April 2005 Panel, “Making Television News Relevant to 21st Century College-Age Students”
BEA, Las Vegas
April 2005 “Tuned Out book talk”
Keynote speaker, Media Literacy Conference, Storrs
August 2004 Moderator and panelist, “The Last Lecture: What would you talk about if you had only 50 minutes left?”
AEJMC, Toronto
August 2003 Moderator and panelist, “Journalism and ‘Imagined Communities’” AEJMC, Kansas City
July 2003 Participant, Institutions of Democracy Commission on the Press. The commission is headed by
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, of the University of Pennsylvania,and Geneva Overholser, University of Missouri.
It is part of a wider examination of American culture, co-sponsored by Annenberg and Oxford
University Press. Overseeing the project is a national advisory board headed by John Brademas,
Lee Hamilton, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, David Gergen, George Shultz, and Jaroslav Pelikan.
August 2002 Moderator, “Teaching Students About September 11th By Introducing Them to Historical Precedents”
AEJMC, Miami
August 2002 Panelist, “Why Young People Don’t Follow the News.”
AEJMC, Miami
October 2001 Panelist, “Critiquing the Work of Michael Schudson,”
AJHA, San Diego
October 2001 Panelist, “Technology and Journalism History Scholarship,” AJHA, San Diego
August 2001 Discussant, History Division, AEJMC, Washington, D. C.
March 2001 “Toward a New Synthesis: Rethinking Frederick Douglass in Antebellum American Journalism History,”
Lunchtime Lecture, AEJMC/AJHA N. E. Regional, N. Y. C.
March 2001 Panelist, “Teaching History at a Small College,” AEJMC/AJHA N. E. Regional, N.Y. C.
October 2000 Panelist, “The Last Draft of History? When Journalists Take on the Role of Historians,” AJHA, Pittsburgh
October 2000 Panelist, “History of Objectivity,” AJHA, Pittsburgh
August 2000 Moderator and Panelist, “Can New Technology Save Journalism? Has It Ever?” AEJMC., New Orleans
August 2000 Discussant, History Division, AEJMC, Phoenix
August 1999 Discussant, History Division, AEJMC, New Orleans
August 1999 Panelist, “Defining What’s News: A Forum on ‘Objectivity,’ ‘Balance,’ and Civic Journalism,” AEJMC,
New Orleans
October 1998 Panel Member, “Alternative Historical Perspectives on Journalistic
Objectivity--and Lessons for the Present,” AJHA, Louisville
August 1998 Moderator, “The Internet Moment and Past Moments,” AEJMC, Baltimore
August 1998 Moderator, “Fine Tuning the Signal in Broadcasting History,” AEJMC, Baltimore
August 1998 Panel Member, “Beyond Big U.,” AEJMC, Baltimore
March 1998 Opening remarks, AJHA/AEJMC Northeastern Regional Conf., New York City
March 1998 Moderator, “Intersections of Journalism and Literature,”
AJHA/AEJMC Northeastern Regional Conf., New York City
August 1997 Co-Moderator, “Identity versus Democracy: Will Niche Building
Fracture the Body Politic?” AEJMC, Chicago
July 1997 Moderator, “The Future of the Internet: A Historical Perspective,” AEJMC, Chicago
October 1996 Panel Member, “The Internet Effect: Changing How Journalists and Historians Work,” AJHA, London, Ont.
October 1996 Panel Member, “The Civil War Era and Modern Journalism History Studies” AJHA, London, Ont.
August 1996 Discussant, “The Evolution of the Summary News Lead,” AEJMC, Anaheim
August 1996 Moderator, Magazine Paper Session, AEJMC, Anaheim
August 1996 Moderator, “The Jhistorian Online,” AEJMC, Anaheim
February 1996 Moderator, “The Internet: On the Verge of History,” AJHA N.E. Regional, Trenton
September 1995 Moderator, “Jhistory and the History of Journalism,” AJHA, Tulsa
August 1995 Panel Member, “Changing Concepts of News in History,” AEJMC, Washington, D. C.
August 1995 Moderator, “New Insights into the Histories of Print and Electronic Media,”
AEJMC, Washington D.C.
August 1995 Panelist, “Jhistory Meeting.” AEJMC, Washington D.C.
August 1994 Chair, “Changing Concepts of News in a Multicultural Society,” AEJMC, Atlanta
August 1993 Panelist, “How News Technology Affects Our Sense of History,” AEJMC, Kansas City
August 1991 Panelist, “The Concept of ‘Objectivity’ in Journalism History,” AEJMC, Boston
NON-CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
September 2008 “Helping kids follow the news and participate in democracy”
ACME Media Literacy Conference, Burlington
June 2008 Classroom visit
University of Vermont
March 2008 Carnegie Distinguished Lecturer
University of Texas
February 2008 Speaker “We the People: In Search of the Common Good” series
Exeter, New Hampshire
February 2008 Assembly speaker
Phillips Exeter, New Hampshire
February 2008 Classroom visit
University of Vermont
November 2007 Keynote speaker, Conference on antebellum and Civil War Press
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
October 2007 Phone interview about Tuned Out
University of Oregon
October 2007 Classroom visit about Tuned Out
Brandeis University
September 2007 Constitution Day speech
Saint Michael's College
October 2006 Keynote speaker, Youth Indifference to News Conference
University of Georgia
September 2006 Keynote speaker, Media Law and Ethics Conference
SUNY Plattsburgh
September 2006 Discussion about young people and the news
Spokesman Review newsroom, Spokane, Washington
September 2006 Keynote speaker, Constitution Day
Whitworth College, Washington
May 2006 Discussion about young people and the news
USA Today reporters and editors, McLean, Virginia
March 2006 Discussion about young people and the news
South Bend Tribune newsroom
March 2006 Visiting Speaker, World Tabloid Conference
Poynter Institute
March 2006 Co-Keynoter (with the Washington Post’s Deborah Howell), St. Thomas University
Minnesota
March 2006 Co-Keynoter (with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone), Goshen College conference
Indiana
March 2006 Keynote, New England Newspaper Association
Boston
November 2005 “Tuned Out book talks”
Elon University
September 2005 Visits to the Kingswood-Oxford School to discuss young people and civic engagement
West Hartford, Ct.
September 2005 Guest speaker, CVU High School
Hinesburg, Vt.
March 2005 “Tuned Out book talks”
Ithaca College
March 2005 “Tuned Out book talks”
West Chester University
March 2005 Discussion about young people and the news
New York Times circulation and marketing executives
March 2005 “What Happens to Democracy when Under 40 Americans are Tuned Out?”
Presentation, Social Science Research Seminar Series, Saint Michael’s College
November 2004 “Tuned Out book talk”
Overseas Press Club, New York City, Broadcast on C-SPAN
November 2004 Speaker, New York University Journalism and Mass Communication, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Book signing, Barnes and Noble, South Burlington
September 2004 Panelist, “American Power and Global Security”
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
September 2004 “Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News,” a discussion with
West Philadelphia high school students
September 2004 “Tuned Out: Why So Many Young Americans Don’t Read Their Local Newspaper.”
Keynote Address, Vermont Press Association
March 2004 Keynote address, University of Toledo
September 2002 Moderator and organizer, faculty panels commemorating September 11th, 2001
Saint Michael’s College
February 2000 Panel Member, Book Discussion, “Speaking of Sex,”
Women’s Caucus and Social Science Research Seminar Series, Saint Michael’s College
February 2000 “Just the Facts: Journalism, ‘Objectivity,’ and the Challenge of New Media”
Presentation, Social Science Research Seminar Series, Saint Michael’s College
Summer 1999 Invited expert, USIA Scholars Program
Invited lectures in Bonn, Cologne, Vienna and Krems
May 1999 “Just the Facts: Journalism, ‘Objectivity,’ and the Challenge of New Media”
Keynote Address, Vermont Press Association
March 1998 Panelist, “Educational Technology: Where is it Going?” Saint Michael’s College
May 1997 Panel Member, “Was there ever a Golden Age of American Journalism?”
Media Studies Center, New York
November 1996 “The 1996 Presidential Election: Four Perspectives,”
Presentation, Social Science Research Seminar Series, Saint Michael’s College
October 1996 “Watching and Reading the Presidential Debates,”
Political Science Department, University of Vermont
OTHER SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2009- Chair, AEJMC Strategic Planning Committee
Co-Chair, subcommittee to empower the president
2009 Co-Author, External review committee of Emerson’s Journalism program
2007 Nominated, Vice President of AEJMC (lost to Jan Slater in a close election).
2006 Author, “A motion to object to the Bush administration’s anti-press policies and practices.” The resolution
passed at the AEJMC’s annual convention.
2004-2007 Member, AEJMC Research Committee (elected by the national membership)
2005-present Editorial Board Member, Journalism History
2005-present Editorial Board Member, Communication Methodologies and Measures
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
2003 Participant, Task Force on Roles and Responsibilities of Elected Standing Committees, AEJMC
1994-present Founder and Editor of Jhistory
Jhistory is a listserve (an Internet discussion group) for historians of journalism
and mass communication. Jhistory now has more than 450 members and is under the
H-Net system of lists.
• Outstanding Service Award, AJHA, for editorship of the Jhistory Internet group
1998-1999 Head, History Division, AEJMC
• 1997-1998, Vice-Head; 1996-1997, Secretary
1993-present Member, Steering Committee, Judge, academic papers (1996-97)
Conferences on the antebellum and Civil War Press, U.T. Chattanooga
1994-1996 Researcher for the Freedom Forum’s Newseum
1993-1994 Chair, Intellectual History Study Group,
AEJMC national convention, Atlanta
1993-1994 Member, Executive Board, History Division, AEJMC
1992-1995 Member, AEJMC Graduate Students Association
• Graduate Students Association Liaison to the History Division
• Worked with the GSA to create study and reading groups via e-mail
Summer 1992 Researcher, Time-Life Books
Researched 19th century newspapers for a book on Hawaii.
1989-90 Member, Morehouse Journalism Committee. Helped students find internships
1988-1989 Member, N.Y.U. American Civilization Graduate Students Assn.
MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION
2005-present Acquisitions editor (part-time), Oxford University Press
1997-present Judge of Book Manuscripts,
Oxford University Press, New York University Press, Westview Press, Strada Publishing, University of
Illinois Press, Northwestern University Press
June 2000 Editor and Consultant, Entries, Encyclopedia Britannica
2005-2007 Judge of Dissertations
AEJMC
2006-2007 Judge of Books, Tankard Book Award
AEJMC
2003, 2004 Judge of History Dissertations (Jury Chair)
AJHA
1994-present Judge of Academic Article Submissions, Political Communication, (2007-present),
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2005- present), Journalism Monographs (1994-present),
Journal of American History, (1999-present), Journalism History (1997-present), and
American Journalism (1996-present)
1994-present Judge of Academic Paper Submissions, History, Minorities and Communication, Magazine,
Communication Technology and Policy Divisions, AEJMC
July 2009- Chair, Journalism and Mass Communication, Saint Michael’s College
2005- Professor (with tenure), Saint Michael’s College
• First full professor of Journalism and Mass Communication since the department was founded in 1974
• Promoted to full professor after nine years at the college
Teaching Editing and Design (Online), Mass Communication and Society, Media Law and Ethics, Media
and American Politics, History of U. S. Media, and Senior Seminar. Advised Bryan Agran, a master’s
candidate in media studies, Union Institute, 2004-2005.
2000-2006 Chair, Journalism and Mass Communication, Saint Michael’s College
• In 2003, St. Michael’s College was granted a chapter in Kappa Tau
Alpha, the only non-university to have such an honor and the only
chapter in northern New England.
• Acting chair, 2008 (spring)
2000-2005 Associate Professor (with tenure), Saint Michael’s College
Taught Editing and Design (Online), Mass Communication and Society, Media Law and Ethics, Media
and American Politics, New Media, and Senior Seminar.
1996- 2000 Assistant Professor, Saint Michael’s College
Taught Mass Communication and Society, Introduction to Writing,
New Media, and Senior Seminar.
Spring 1994 Adjunct Professor, Journalism Department, New York University
Taught History of the Media, an undergraduate lecture course of sixty
students. The course examined shifting media patterns over several millennia.
Spring 1993 Adjunct Professor, Journalism Department, Long Island University
Taught History of the Press, a small undergraduate lecture course.
1990-1993 Instructor, Expository Writing Program, New York University
Taught Writing Workshop, a freshman writing course. Taught computer- aided and non-computer
writing classes, as well as writing for students for whom English is a second language.
• Developed Deciphering the News, an honors course, Spring 1992. Students also participated in
a running electronic bulletin board, called “Op-Ed,” in which they debated news topics.
1989-1990 Instructor, Morehouse College, Atlanta
Taught freshman and sophomore English and Humanities classes. Redesigned the curricula for
Freshman Writing and World Literature. Served on the Journalism Committee. Helped with
student internships.
SERVICE TO SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE
2006-2007 Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee (elected by the faculty)
Chaired a committee that successfully lobbied the administration to bring all faculty ranks to the
50 percentile of a mix of NE IIB and aspirant institutions, the largest salary increase in more than a decade.
2006-2007 Member, Faculty Executive Committee
As chair of the Faculty Welfare Committee, I was part of small committee that interfaced between the faculty
and the administration. Participated in interviews with candidates for the Saint Michael's College presidency.
2004-2008 Member, Faculty Welfare Committee (elected by the faculty)
Helped to author the college's first merit pay system. My role in these discussions was to advocate
for a system that rejected reward-the-few models wherein 10 percent of faculty received additional
merit pay. Instead, the committee devised a system that found 90 percent of the faculty meritorious
and thus worthy of a small merit-based reward.
2000-2006 Committee Member, Dean’s Council of Chairs: As chair, I brought in numerous speakers
(see Other Service to the College); helped to organize a film series;
oversaw five faculty searches and multiple reviews; organized alumni reunions, senior project displays,
and graduation events for journalism graduates; wrote three assessment reports (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006);
supervised four fulltime faculty members and up to 10 adjuncts a year. Managed and balanced the
departmental budget for six years. During my tenure as chair, our department
…grew from 80 majors (1997) to 162 majors (2006);
…saw a grade deflation, bucking national and college-wide trends;
…became a Kappa Tau Alpha chapter, the only one in the nation at a small college and the
only one in northern New England;
…successfully fundraised for a $150k external grant for multimedia lab (Lynch);
…designed and built this lab (Lynch and Hyde);
…lobbied for & received digital still cameras, video cameras, and editing stations;
…saw its reputation rise within the college; we’re now considered among the best;
…saw its research output and presence at the AEJMC increase markedly;
…embraced new initiatives in Global Studies (Hyde and Sultze), video production and analysis (Hyde),
New Media (Hyde and Sultze), Law (Griffith), political events and classes (Mindich), and ethics (Lynch);
…committed to a new emphasis, particularly in Senior Seminar, and later in the online
publication class, on producing media for a regional, national, or global audience (Hyde, Sultze, and Mindich)
2003-2005 Member, Dispute Resolution Committee (elected by the faculty)
2002-2004 Member (and Chair, 2003-04), Lecture Series Committee
2002-2004 Member, Faculty Evaluation of Administrators Committee
1997-2001, 2004-2007 Member, American Studies group, St. Michael’s College
2000- 2001 Member, Campus Culture Committee
Fall 2000 Member, Provost Research Scholarship Committee
February 2000 Founder and Organizer, Saint Michael's College Film Series
1998-2000 Member, Faculty Development Committee, St. Michael’s College
1997-2000 Faculty Sponsor, Visiting Faculty Program (dorm advisor)
1997-1998 Consultant, Educational Technology Committee, St. Michael’s College
(left the committee in anticipation of the publication of my first book and then joined
the Faculty Development Committee).
1997 Faculty Representative, Board of Trustees Retreat, St. Michael’s College
1997-present Participant, academic admissions fairs
1997-present Academic Adviser, Journalism Department, St. Michael’s College
I have always advised 21-50 majors a year, double to triple the college average
1996, 1997, ‘00, ‘04, ‘05 Member (Chair in ‘00, ‘04, ‘05), Journalism Search Committees, St. Michael’s College
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2008 Appointed member, Burlington Committee on Open Government
2007 Volunteer, Edmunds Elementary
• Videotaped school play, chaperoned events
2007 After School Volunteer, Edmunds Elementary
• Taught a self defense class
1997-2006 Board of Trustees Member, Schoolhouse, South Burlington, Vermont
• Developed a Web page for the school
• Taught a five-week class at the school every year starting in 1996. Most of these
classes involved producing a newspaper.
• Taught weekend martial arts class, 2004 to 2006.
2000-2001 President, Schoolhouse, Burlington, Vermont
• The 2000-2001 was one of the most important year in the school’s history with a $400,000
fundraising drive, the acquisition of a new building, and a restructuring of officers’ duties and pay.
1999-2002 Board of Trustees Member, Vermont Press Association
1990-2002 Board of Trustees Member, Project Ezra, New York
1998, 2000 Host Family, Fresh Air Fund
1998 Judge, Vermont Press Association competition
INTERVIEWED IN, COVERED BY THE POPULAR MEDIA (see p. 1 for reviews of books)
May 2009 “More Newspapers Going Down,” Chronicle of Higher Education
March 2009 “Service helps parents monitor kids' Web pages,” Burlington Free Press
January 2009 “High Noon for the Burlington Free Press,” Seven Days
December 2008 “Recession ripples the airwaves: WCAX-TV cuts five staffers,” Times Argus
December 2008 A discussion about the future of newspapers, VPR
November 2008 Young people and news, WalletPop.com
July 2008 “So how dumb are we?” Chicago Tribune
July 2008 “Front Porch Forum brings connection…,” Burlington Free Press
June 2008 “Burlington residents protest Al-Jazeera station,” NECN
April 2008 “Young voters: What they know,” Raleigh News and Observer
March 2008 “Freyne ends column,” Barre Montpelier Times Argus
January 2008 “Can the Internet hurt more than help?” Daily Aztec, San Diego
January 2008 San-Antonio Express
March 2008 Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
January 2008 “New Hampshire’s other candidates,” Marketplace (Los Angeles)
January 2008 Vermont Public Radio
December 2007 AP story about “minor” candidates Web site (published by my students)
-Printed in the Boston Globe, and in more than 40 other publications
December 2007 The Brandeis Hoot
November 2007 The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
October 2007 Kankakee Daily Journal
October 2007 The Daily Orange (Syracuse University)
October 2007 Burlington Free Press
October 2007 Providence Journal
September 2007 Minneapolis Star Tribune
June 2007 Burlington Free Press (Sicko)
June 2007 Hagerstown Morning Herald (Tuned Out)
May 2007 Online Journalism Review (about the Virginia Tech shootings)
April 2007 Allentown Morning Call
April 2007 Inside Out (Internet radio)
January 2007 The Agenda (television show), Toronto
January 2007 Blame the Media?, XM Radio show, WFDU
November 2006 Burlington Free Press
October 2006 Editor and Publisher
October 2006 Georgia Public Radio
October 2006 WGAU Radio
October 2006 Red and Black, Athens, Ga.
October 2006 Blame the Media?, XM Radio show, WFDU
September 2006 Spokesman-Review, Spokane
September 2006 Poynter Institute Online
September 2006 Indianapolis Star
August 2006 Equal time with Anthony Pollina, WDEV Radio
August 2006 Radio interview, Reality Now
August 2006 Vermont Public Radio
August 2006 First Amendment Center
August 2006 Editor and Publisher
August 2006 Huffington Post
July 2006 Burlington Free Press
July 2006 Arkansas Democrat Gazette
June/July 2006 American Journalism Review
March 2006 Burlington Free Press
February 2006 Sacramento Bee
February 2006 Salon.com
February 2006 South Bend Tribune
November 2005 Daily Utah Chronicle
November 2005 Burlington Free Press
October 2005 Badger Herald (Wisc.)
September 2005 Radio interview, KTSA San Antonio
September 2005 Interview, Investor’s Business Daily
September 2005 Interview, KTSA San Antonio talk radio
August 2005 Interview, Newsday
July 2005 Switchboard, Vermont Public Radio
May 2005 Caledonian Record (Vt.)
May 2005 Pittsburgh-Tribune-Review
May 2005 Washington Post (George Will’s column, syndicated)
April/May 2005 American Journalism Review
March 2005 Texarkana Gazette
March 2005 Ithaca Times
March 2005 Indianapolis Star
March 2005 Central Maine Morning Sentinel
March 2005 Kennebec (Maine) Journal
January 2005 The Chicago Tribune, about media bias
January 2005 The Oregonian, about Tuned Out
January 2005 Columbia Journalism Review, about Tuned Out
January 2005 KFBK, Sacramento, about Tuned Out
December 2004 Liberation (Paris), about the Washington Post’s purchase of Slate
Fall 2004 Article, Bostonia
November 2004 Los Angeles Times, about celebrity interviews
October 2004 Burlington Free Press, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Buffalo News, about Tuned Out
October 2004 USA Today, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Switchboard, Vermont Public Radio, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Don Ranly radio show, Texas, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Wisconsin Public Radio, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Reno Gazette-Journal, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Burlington Free Press, about a public showing of the first presidential debate
October 2004 Buffalo News, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Baltimore Sun, about Tuned Out
October 2004 Los Angeles Times, about Tuned Out
September 2004 Hartwick Gazette, editorial about Tuned Out
September 2004 Radio Times, WHYY Philadelphia (Public Radio)
September 2004 Los Angeles Times, about Tuned Out
September 2004 I Want Media.com, about Tuned Out
September 2004 Barry Lynn’s Culture Shock radio show, about Tuned Out
August 2004 San Francisco Chronicle, about Tuned Out
August 2004 Vail Daily News, about Tuned Out
August 2004 Palm Beach Post, about Tuned Out
August 2004 Newark Star Ledger, about Tuned Out
August 2004 Hartford Courant, about Tuned Out
July 2004 Interviewed on RETN about the documentary Outfoxed
July 2004 Seven Days, about the beliefs of leading press critics in Vermont
October 2003 Sacramento Bee, about cynicism among young people
June 2003 Columbia Journalism Review, about the history of women’s pages
May 2003 Columbia Journalism Review, about the history of objectivity
April 2003 Burlington Free Press, about war coverage
April 2003 MSNBC, interview about war and technology
March 2003 Burlington Free Press, about the shuttle disaster
March 2003 WNYU 89.1: “Why Aren’t Young People Watching?”
December 2001 CNN, live interview about the news habits of young Americans following 9/11
November 2001 WERC Birmingham
November 2001 AP National story: “Attacks Spawn New News Junkies.”
April 2001 In Newsweekly
March 2001 The Other Paper
October 2000 WCAX, Vermont
January 2000 Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
December 1999 Rambling With Gambling, WOR, New York City
December 1999 AP National story: National story on the end of the last century
October 1999 Switchboard, Vermont Public Radio
July 1999 Mike Scott Show, CBS Radio-Affiliate, Detroit
May 1999 Interview, Blue Danube Radio, Austria
May 1999 Interview, Close Up, C-Span
May 1999 Interview, Florida Public Radio
April 1999 Boston Globe
March 1999 In Profile, CNBC
February 1999 Interview, Talk of Vermont Radio Network
January 1999 Switchboard, Vermont Public Radio
January 1999 Cover story on Just the Facts, Washington Monthly
December 1998 On the Media, National Public Radio
July 1998 On the Media, National Public Radio
April 1998 Burlington Free Press
March 1998 Forbes Magazine
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Society of Professional Journalists; Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication;
American Journalism Historians Association; American Studies Association, Kappa Tau Alpha
REFERENCES
Dean Dianne Lynch
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Former chair, Saint Michael's College Journalism and Mass Communication
dlynch@ithaca.edu
Professor Jon Hyde
Saint Michael's College Journalism and Mass Communication
Colchester, VT 04539
(802) 654-2000
Professor Kimberly Sultze
Chair, Saint Michael's College Journalism and Mass Communication
Colchester, VT 04539
(802) 654-2000
Professor Mitchell Stephens
Journalism Department (dissertation adviser)
New York University
(212) 998-7997
Mitch.stephens@nyu.edu
Professor Carl Prince
History Department (dissertation adviser)
New York University
(212) 998-8622
Professor Jay Rosen
Journalism Department
New York University
(212) 998-7965
jr3@nyu.edu
PERSONAL
Born 1963 in New York City. Two children.