Faculty

Kevin Blackistone

Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism

Kevin Blackistone is a longtime national sports columnist, a panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn, an occasional contributor to National Public Radio and co-author of A Gift for Ron, a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls published in November 2009 about his kidney donation to one-time teammate Ron Springs.

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Ira Chinoy

Associate Professor & Associate Dean

Ira Chinoy has 24 years of experience as a journalist at four newspapers: The Washington Post, The Providence (R.I.) Journal, The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune and The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial. As director of computer-assisted reporting at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a 1998 series on the use of deadly force by the D.C. police. At The Providence Journal, where he was a reporter from 1981 to 1995, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts.

Lucy A. Dalglish

Dean and Professor

Lucy A. Dalglish became Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland on August 1, 2012.

She served as executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press from 2000 to 2012. The Reporters Committee is a voluntary, unincorporated association of reporters and news editors dedicated to protecting the First Amendment interests of the news media. Based in Arlington, Va., the Reporters Committee has provided research, guidance and representation in major press cases in state and federal courts since 1970.

Mark Feldstein

Richard Eaton Professor of Broadcast Journalism

Mark Feldstein spent twenty years as an award-winning on-air investigative correspondent at CNN, ABC News, and various local television stations.  He has been beaten up in the U.S., detained and censored by government authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed guard in Haiti.  His exposés led to resignations, firings, multi-million dollar fines, and prison terms.  Feldstein has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals; his recent book Poisoning The Press has received widespread critical acclaim and earned top academic awards for

Douglas Gomery

Professor Emeritus; Resident Scholar, Center for Visual and Mass Media at the University of Maryland Libraries

Douglas Gomery is the award-winning author of 21 books, and more than 600 articles on the history and economics of the mass media. His book, "The History of Broadcasting" is a standard in the industry and he is an acknowledged expert on the life and times of country western singer Patsy Cline.  Gomery taught in the Merrill College of Journalism from 1993 - 2005, when he was named professor emeritus. He is currently Resident Scholar at the Center for Visual and Mass Media at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Chris Harvey

Director of Internships and Career Development, director of assessments and multimedia instructor

Chris Harvey has worked as an online editor, a magazine editor, a political reporter and a journalism teacher. In her earliest positions at the college, she directed the student-staffed Capital News Service bureaus in Washington and Annapolis. But she has been immersed in multimedia storytelling since 1996, when she went to work part time (and later full time) as an associate editor at The Washington Post’s website.

Haynes Johnson

Professor and Knight Chair of Public Affairs Journalism

Haynes Johnson is a best-selling author, national TV commentator, former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post and The Washington Star. He is considered one of the nation's leading political journalists. In addition to teaching and advising students, he is a contributing editor for American Journalism Review, the national magazine published by the College. 

Kevin Klose

Professor

A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and worldwide broadcasting executive. He is now a tenured professor after serving as dean of the Merrill College from April 2009 to July 2012. He came to Merrill from his post as president emeritus of National Public Radio, where he served as president from 1998 to 2008. Klose is currently on faculty leave, serving as Acting President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Susan Moeller

Professor of Media and International Affairs & Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda

Dr. Susan Moeller is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA), an academic center that forms a bridge between the College of Journalism and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is Professor of Media and International Affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and an affiliated faculty member at the School of Public Policy.

Follow on Twitter: @sdmoeller

Deborah Nelson

Senior lecturer

Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Fulbright specialist in investigative reporting. She joined the Merrill faculty in 2006 after five years as the Washington investigations editor for The Los Angeles Times. She also reported for the Washington Post, Seattle Times and Chicago Sun-Times. Twitter: @Newshawks.

Click on "How Safe is Your Food?" for the News21 student project that won two national Mark of Excellence Awards from SPJ in 2012 and "Falling Behind" to see the Abell-Carnegie student project on Maryland's working class families that won a first place SPJ regional Mark of Excellence Award and was a finalist for the national award.

Rem Rieder

Editor and Senior Vice President, American Journalism Review; Lecturer

Rem Rieder is editor and senior vice president of American Journalism Review, a national magazine based at the Merrill College that covers digital, print and broadcast journalism. Rieder, who has edited the magazine since 1991, also writes frequent columns on media issues for the magazine’s website, ajr.org. He teaches a capstone course in which senior and master’s journalism students write about media issues for ajr.org.

Carol L. Rogers

Professor of the Practice

Carol L. Rogers, former head of the Office of Communications for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, specializes in science journalism, in particular media coverage of climate change, and women in the media. She is on the Editoral Advisory Board of the international social science journal Science Communication, for which she served as editor for nine years.

Linda Steiner

Professor

Linda Steiner studies how and when gender matters in news and newsrooms and how feminist groups use media. Other research areas include media ethics; journalism history; and public journalism. Steiner is editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication and serves on six editorial boards. Before coming to Maryland she taught at Rutgers University, where she served as Department Chair and coordinator of the Ph.D. program's Media Studies track. She has written, co-authored, or edited several books, book chapters, and refereed articles.

Bethany Swain

Lecturer

From the Pope and Sarah Palin to the Queen of England and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Bethany Swain covered a wide variety of news events during her 10 years shooting, editing, writing and producing stories for CNN. She was a versatile member of the Washington Bureau, and was one of the women that made up only 5 percent of CNN’s domestic photojournalists team.

Ronald A. Yaros

Assistant Professor

As a former broadcast journalist and entrepreneur of a software corporation, Ronald Yaros is a nationally recognized researcher and teacher of digital environments. His work on Explain My News.org replaces "audiences" with interactive users who seek, select, learn and share information on the web, social media and mobile devices. More than fifty presentations and publications include book chapters plus articles in top tier journals, the American Journalism Review and Harvard's Nieman Reports. Dr. Yaros received Maryland's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012.

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