University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

  • Philip Meyer – author, journalist and professor emeritus
  • Jim Shumaker - editor, teacher and inspiration for the comic strip Shoe
  • Chuck Stone – author, journalist and professor emeritus
  • Sri Kalyanaraman - Associate Professor, Director of the Media Effects Laboratory
  • Rhonda Gibson - Associate Professor, Director of the newly launched Master of Arts in Technology and Communication and former director of the Ph.D. program
  • Paul Jones - Clinical associate professor, director of ibiblio, the first manager of SunSITE.unc.edu (one of the first World Wide Web sites in North America) and Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science.
  • Donald Shaw - Kenan Professor, U.S. Army Colonel (retired), internationally renowned scholar best known for his work on the agenda setting function of the press.
  • Barbara Friedman - Associate Professor, M.A. Program Adviser
  • Ruth Walden - James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professor, director of the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence

A number of academic journals in the journalism and mass communication discipline are currently edited by the school's faculty:

  • Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Dan Riffe (editor-in-chief)
  • American Journalism, the flagship journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, Barbara Friedman (editor-in-chief)
  • Media Psychology, published by Taylor & Francis, Sri Kalyanaraman (editor)
  • Case Studies in Strategic Communication, published by the school, Daren C. Brabham (editor-in-chief)
  • Health Communication, published by Taylor & Francis, Brian G. Southwell (senior editor)

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