Jo-Ann Huff Albers is director, School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University. Her teaching areas include press law and ethics, reporting, editing, editorial and feature writing, and current issues in mass communication. She was the 2000 Gerald Sass Journalism Administrator of the Year designated by the Freedom Forum/ASJMC, and holds numerous other awards in the field. She was the second woman to be president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (Mary Kahl Sparks of Texas Woman's University was the first). Albers spent 20 years at The Cincinnati Enquirer, ending as the Kentucky executive editor. She was editor and publisher of two daily newspapers before joining Western, the Sturgis Journal in Michigan and the Public Opinion in Pennsylvania. She has a Master of Education in Communication Arts from Xavier University, 1962, and the Bachelor of Arts, Broadcasting, Miami University, 1959. She has published hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines and professional organization newsletters.