Jan Slater

Professor Emerita Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Jan Slater served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Gies College of Business and Professor of Advertising in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois. She aslo served as Dean of the College of Media for six years, and head of the […]

Eric K. Meyer

Associate Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Former Page 1 and planning editor for Milwaukee Journal, creator and publisher of American Journalism Review / NewsLink website and independent strategic planning consultant to more than 350 news organizations worldwide. Current editor and publisher of three weekly newspapers in Kansas, including Marion County Record, which won […]

John Nerone

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Research and Creative Endeavor Nerone is the author or co-author of four books and numerous articles, including “Violence Against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History” (Oxford University Press, 1994), “Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 1995), and, with Kevin Barnhurst, “The Form […]

Clifford Christians

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Background Christians is the former director of the Institute of Communications Research and chair of the doctoral program in communications, positions he held from 1987-2001 and from 2007-2009. He has been a visiting scholar in philosophical ethics at Princeton University, a research fellow in social ethics and also a visiting scholar […]

William E. Berry

Associate Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Berry’s research and teaching focus is on strategic managerial communication, digital communication technologies and information access in less advanced countries, and advertising and mediated communication practices in the Dominican Republic and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, Berry worked for 10 years in the telecommunications […]

Angharad N. Valdivia

Professor Emerita Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Professor Valdivia served as the Inaugural Head of the Media and Cinema Studies Department. As well, she served as the Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research for five years, 2009-2014. Within communications research, Valdivia combines the areas of gender studies with ethnic studies and Latin American […]

Ronald E. Yates

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Yates is a former foreign correspondent, national correspondent and editor at the Chicago Tribune. During a 25-year career at the Tribune, he accumulated extensive international experience. He lived and worked 18 years as a foreign correspondent in Japan, Southeast Asia and Latin America, where he covered several wars […]

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