Author: Holly Nicole Rushakoff

Associate Professor Emeritus

Affiliations

• Department of Journalism

Education

• B.A., Hampden-Sydney College
• M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Course Specialties

• Introductory and Advanced Reporting

Background

Martin served as Journalism Department Head from March 2011 till August 2016 and as Director of Journalism Graduate Studies 2008-11. He has 32 years of journalism experience, including 29 as a reporter and editor at The Roanoke Times in Virginia. He was managing editor of the Times from 1997 until 2004. He edited projects that were finalists three times for Pulitzer Prizes. He also supervised work that won a George Polk Award, a National Headliners Award, Southern Journalism awards and numerous state awards for reporting and writing. In the 1990s, the newspaper won the public service award given by the Virginia Press Association five times, far more than any other newspaper.

Research and Creative Endeavor

Martin organized and participated in four Knight-Illinois Investigative Reporting Workshops for journalists from small and medium-sized papers around Illinois. In the summer of 2006, he lectured and taught journalism courses in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the CU-Citizen Access project, which reports on economic and social issues in Champaign County.

Martin’s book, “Living Journalism: Principles and Practices for an Essential Profession,” was published in August 2011 by Holcomb Hathaway, Publishers.

Martin is a former member of the board of directors for the Illinois Press Association and a faculty member of the Illini Media Board.

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• CU-Citizen Access

Professor Emeritus

Affiliations

• Department of Journalism

Education

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Mass Communications)
• M.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• B.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Course Specialties

• History of American Journalism
• The Press and the Modern Presidency
• Issues in Journalism

Background

Liebovich was formerly a reporter and editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel, a reporter/editor for the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic, and a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana Courier. He won several awards as a reporter. He has written five books on the press the presidency and the press and foreign policy. He previously was an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Whitewater.

Research and Creative Endeavor

Liebovich is the author of “Abraham’s Rhyme” (Nightengale Press, 2007); “Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective” (Praeger, 2003); “The Press and the Modern Presidency” (Praeger, 1998, 2nd edition in 2001); “Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression and the U.S. News Media” (Praeger, 1994), and “The Press and the Origins of the Cold War 1944-‘47” (Praeger, 1988). He is a co-author (with Shraga Feivel Bielawski) and editor of “The Last Jew From Wegrow” (Praeger, 1991). His fourth book, “The Press and the Modern Presidency,” won the Choice Magazine Award as one of the outstanding academic books of 1998. His areas of interest include media history, the press and the presidency, media economic history, politics and the media.

Professor Emeritus 

Affiliations

• Department of Journalism

Education

• J.D., University of Iowa
• M.A., University of Iowa
• B.S., University of Iowa

Course Specialties

• Media law, including defamation
• Invasion of privacy
• Copyright and open meetings/freedom of information

Background

Helle is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. He was named the Freedom Forum National Journalism Teacher of the Year and three times has received the campuswide award as outstanding undergraduate teacher at the University of Illinois. He has written numerous articles on communications law in academic journals, newspapers and magazines, including the Duke Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review and Villanova Law Review. He has also chaired the Provost’s Teaching Advancement Board, received a UI Instructional Award, and chaired the University committee for the improvement of undergraduate education. Helle has chaired the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Media Law Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association, and the ISBA Human Rights Section Council.

Professor Emeritus

Affiliations

• Department of Journalism

Education

• M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia (Journalism)
• M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia (Sociology)
• B.A., Blackburn College

Course Specialties

• Advanced Public Affairs Reporting
• Literary Journalism

Background

Harrington is a former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. He has held various news, investigative and feature editing and reporting positions at the Washington Post, the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call and the Illinois Observer. Awards include the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, numerous feature writing awards and the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

Research and Creative Endeavor

Harrington is the author of “American Profiles,” “At the Heart of It,” “Crossings: A White Man’s Journey into Black America,” “Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life,” “The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family” and “The Beholder’s Eye: A Collection of America’s Finest Personal Journalism.” He wrote and co-produced a documentary, “The Everlasting Stream,” which appeared nationally on PBS stations and won a regional Emmy Award in 2007.