Chris Harvey | Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Chris Harvey
Online Bureau Director, Lecturer
B.S., Maryland

Office: 4119 Journalism
Phone: 301-405-6256
E-mail: charvey@jmail.umd.edu

Chris Harvey has worked as an online editor, a magazine editor, a newspaper reporter and a journalism teacher. She left her job as managing editor at American Journalism Review in August 2000 to help build the online curriculum at the College. She created and now edits the College's online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline, which is staffed by students. She also teaches an introductory online journalism course. Before coming to AJR, Harvey worked as an associate Metro editor at washingtonpost.com. There, she led a content redesign of the Metro section and edited news and feature stories. She earlier taught reporting and editing at the College and ran the College's student-staffed Capital News Service print bureaus in Washington and Annapolis. She has held reporting and editing jobs at several newspapers, including The Washington Times, and has free-lanced for The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America." For more info, see http://www.newsline.umd.edu/Harvey/resume.htm.

Courses Taught: Currently teaching Online Journalism (JOUR 352/652); the online news bureau for graduate students (JOUR 655); and multimedia reporting and editing for undergrads (JOUR 353 and 355). Have also taught News Writing and Reporting I (JOUR 201); News Editing (JOUR 202); Writing the Complext Story (JOUR 372); and Reporting for Graduate Students (JOUR 502). Co-taught Topics in Public Affairs Reporting (JOUR 728). For more info, see: http://www.newsline.umd.edu/Harvey/classes.htm.

Expertise: Reporting and editing for Web sites, magazines and newspapers

Affiliations: On the Advisory Board for J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism; on the Board of Editorial Advisers of American Journalism Review; member of the Online News Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.