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STEERING COMMITTEE/ ACADEMIC PARTNERS

  • Dr. Elizabeth Hansen, chairman, Foundation Professor of Journalism, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
  • Bill Allen, assistant professor, School of Journalism, and assistant professor of science journalism, College of agriculture, University of Missouri
  • Dr. Paul Ashdown, professor, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Dr. Beth Barnes, director, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, College of Communications and Information Studies, University of Kentucky
  • Edgar Blatchford, associate professor of journalism, University of Alaska-Anchorage
  • Dr. Michael Bugeja, director, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University, Ames
  • Dr. Corley F. Dennison III, dean, W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Marshall University, Huntington, W. Va.
  • Doug Fisher, journalism instructor, Uiversity of South Carolian, Columbia
  • Dr. Amy Glasmeier, professor of geography, The Pennsylvania State University
  • John Greenman, Carter Professor of Journalism, University of Georgia; former president and publisher, Ledger-Inquirer, Columbus, Ga.
  • Ferrel Guillory, director, Program on Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; formerly with News and Observer, Raleigh
  • Dr. Samir Husni, chair, professor and Hederman lecturer, Dept. of Journalism, Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi, Oxford
  • Mary Jane Land, mass communication chair, Department of English, Speech and Journalism, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville
  • Dr. David O. Loomis, assistant professor of journalism, Indiana University of Pennyslvania, Indiana, Pa.
  • Dr. Jacquelyn Lowman, professor, University of Maine, Presque Isle, Maine
  • Pam Luecke, Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
  • Rich Martin, associate professor of journalism, University of Illinois, former city editor, The Roanoke Times, Champaign-Urbana
  • Davitt McAteer, vice president for sponsored programs, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, W. Va.
  • Dr. Jack Mooney, journalism division head, Department of Communication, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
  • Dr. Roy Moore, dean of communication, Middle Tennessee State University; co-principal investigator on rural journalism initiative while at University of Kentucky
  • Dr. Carol Polsgrove, professor emerita, School of Journalism, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Bill Reader, assistant professor, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens; formerly of the Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.
  • Guy Reel, associate professor of mass communications, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C.
  • John Temple , chair, news-editorial program, West Virginia University, Morgantown
  • Dr. Stuart Towns, chairman, Department of Mass Communications, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
  • Dr. Glenda Treadaway, interim dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.
  • Chris Waddle, Ayers Chair in Commuication, Jacksonville State Univ. ; director, Knight Community Journalism Fellows, University of Alabama
  • Dr. Carl Zipper, director, Powell River Project on reclamation, Virginia Tech


Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues
School of Journalism and Telecommunications, College of Communications & Information Studies
122 Grehan Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506-0042
Phone 859-257-3744 - Fax 859-323-3168

Al Cross, director al.cross@uky.edu