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Chair, Broadcast Journalism & Mass Communication

Dr. Michael D. Murray is the UM Board of Curator’s Distinguished Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for CBS News and the News Election Service. His doctoral dissertation was an analysis of Edward R. Murrow’s SEE IT NOW “Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.” He was the founder and first program director in Communication at the University of Louisville, and was the first person tenured in the field there. He also taught at Virginia Tech University and recently served (2004-2005) as founding director of the Greenspun School of Journalism & Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

He served two terms as department chair on the UM-St. Louis campus before being named the UM Board of Curators’ Distinguished Professor. He has held fellowships at Stanford and Cambridge universities and the Freedom Forum in New York. He was the first John Adams Fellow in Mass Media at the University of London, and Frank Stanton Fellow of the International Radio-TV Society (IRTS). He served as a broadcast officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, completing service as Captain in the Signal Corps during the Viet Nam era. He received a Goldsmith Research Award from Harvard University for his book “The Political Performers: CBS Broadcasts in the Public Interest,” and published “Television in America,” “Indelible Images,” and was Editor-in-Chief of “Encyclopedia of TV News.” He also published two books on education in the field: “Teaching Mass Communication” (Praeger) and “Mass Communication Education” (Blackwell).

He has been honored for teaching excellence by most of the major organizations in the field including the International Radio & TV Society (IRTS), American Communication Association (ACA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the National Communication Association (NCA). He received the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Journalism Historian’s Association (AJHA) and serves as corresponding editor of “Journalism History” and review/criticism editor for “Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.”

Contact:
Dr. Michael Murray
University of Missouri-St.Louis
233 General Services Building
phone: 516-5496
email: murraymd@umsl.edu