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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator,
Department of Journalism & Communication
At USU since 1994.
Specialty Areas: Print
journalism, media criticism, racial/gender diversity
Contact: (435) 797-3292; FAX 435-797-3973
ted.pease@usu.edu
Pease Curriculum
Vita
Academic Degrees:
-- Ph.D., Journalism & Communication, Ohio University, 1991
-- M.A., Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 1981
-- B.A., English/Journalism, University of New Hampshire, 1978
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Edward C. Pease , Ph.D.,
is a veteran newspaper journalist and media scholar who has
served since 1994 as professor of journalism. From 1994 to
2005 he was head of the Department of Journalism and Communication
at Utah State University.
A nationally published mass media critic,
Pease developed and co-teaches a required media literacy course
at Utah State University, “Media
Smarts: Making Sense of the Information Age," in
which students learn to be more savvy consumers of mass media
content. He is a newspaper columnist, a photographer, served
as a Pulitzer Prize juror, and was co-editor of four books
on the mass media and society, including volumes on racial
diversity, book publishing, radio, and children and the mass
media.
Asked why an Eastern liberal Democrat would
move from New York City to the land of Orrin Hatch, Pease's
stock response is that he's doing “missionary work."
Although that began as a joke, Pease says outreach to help
people think critically for themselves is work that is never
finished.
Since 1996, Pease also has published “Today's Word on Journalism,” quoted snippets of wisdom on the press, free expression, the mass media and writing, sent via email to more than 1,600 subscribers on five continents (http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu/opinion/ours/0626_word.html). The WORD is picked up by industry groups, (such journalism listservs at the University of Maryland and PRNewswire's Media Insider), and appears daily on USU's Hard News Café (see http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu/ and http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu/opinion/ours/0707_newhnc.html ).
Before moving to Utah, he was associate
director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New
York City and editor of the Center's Media Studies Journal.
Among the projects he directed were issues on media and women,
race, children and presidential politics, plus issues on the
information superhighway and media fairness. Other recent
publications include an essay on censorship of university
student media for The Chronicle of Higher Education ,
and a chapter on free expression in Hollywood in F. Manuel
Valenti's 2000 book, More Than A Movie: Ethics in Entertainment.
Pease's researc has focused on news media
performance in both covering and engaging people of color
in the news product. His 1991 dissertation, Still the
Invisible People: Job Satisfaction of Minority Journalists
at U.S. Daily Newspapers, excerpted in Ohio Journalism
Monographs as “The Newsroom Barometer,” is a comprehensive
national look at the attitudes of 1,327 journalists at 30
newspapers. In 2001, Pease directed The News & Race Models
of Excellence Project, funded by The Poynter Institute for
Media Studies and the Ford Foundation, on the news media and
racial diversity in America (http://www.usu.edu/journalism/news/archives/102201_newsrace.htm).
The project examines both content and newsroom attitudes at
11 major newspaper and TV newsrooms, to evaluate their performance
in serving racially diverse communities. (http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5045
)
Pease also is a longtime elected officer of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC), and has served as an elected national officer of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and various other national and regional professional media organizations.
Previously, Pease taught at Ohio University,
where he headed the Midwest Newspaper Workshop for Minorities
and served for four years as associate editor of Newspaper
Research Journal ; he also taught at the University of
Dayton for four years, and at St. Michael's College in Vermont,
where he was Journalism Department chair. His Ph.D. is from
Ohio University, M.S. from the University of Minnesota, and
BA from the University of New Hampshire. A New England native,
he has worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist
in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Arkansas. For reasons that
now escape him, he once rode a bicycle from Seattle to Atlanta.
He also spent a year playing “la guitare américaine” in the
Paris métro, and ran the Olympic torch before the 2002 Winter
Games in Salt Lake City. He likes boats, dogs, cooking, golf
and tennis. (Want more? Click on
Pease Curriculum Vita)
Quotes:
"It
is not just because I grew up loving newspapers that I believe
the future of humankind is tied to communication. In the Information
Age, when the media touch everyone's lives every day, those
who don't understand how the media work and how to live in
this brave, new, information-rich world are functionally illiterate."
--Ted Pease, journalism
professor
"Ted is a serious journalist, with
all the ethics, honor, appetite and determination that word
ought to imply. He really does bridge the gap between academic
and professional communications by respecting, enjoying and
being experienced in both. "
--Hope S. Green,
Media Consultant and Former President
Vermont Educational TV (1995)
"Pease is a rare bird. Steeped
with practical experience, he nonetheless seems to understand,
even to thrive in, the challenges and peculiarities of academia.
He enjoys the respect of Utah's news media and of editors
nationally from his time at the Freedom Forum. Pease possesses
the requisite qualifications, including in the area od ‘distinguished
professional experience' which, rightly or wrongly, counts
the most with us professionals.”
--James E. Shelledy
, former editor, The Salt Lake Tribune (1998)
“Media practitioners and other professionals
look to leading journalism schools not only as institutes
of higher learning, but for important and socially relevant
research and for a critical conscience and macro view of the
world and the mass media's role in it. Ted Pease has that
kind of breadth of vision.”
--Nadine Strossen , president, ACLU (2001)
“Pease, you rock!”
--Student course evaluation (2003)
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