Contact info
- Bill Reader, Assistant Professor
- Phone:
- 740.597.1294
- Email:
- reader@ohio.edu
- Office:
- Scripps Hall 102
Biography
EDUCATION: M.A., Media Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
EXPERIENCE: Joined the faculty in 2002. Served as adviser to the Ohio University chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and as advisor to the student-produced alumni newsletter, The Ohio Journalist.
Teaches news writing, news editing, media ethics, online journalism, magazine/newsletter editing/production, and journalism & society. Has taught editing, publication design, opinion writing, Web design, photojournalism, and media graphics at other schools.
Previously taught in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000-2002, and was a lecturer in the College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, 1998-2000.
Worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, photographer, copy editor, and page designer throughout the 1990s. Has several professional awards, including first-place honors for reporting and editorial writing from the Keystone Press Awards in Pennsylvania, and was a member of the design team that won World`s Best Designed Newspapers honors from the Society of News Design in 1998, 1999, and 2000.
PUBLICATIONS/RESERACH: Research focuses on community journalism, journalism ethics, and newsroom management. Research has been published or is in press with Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Newspaper Research Journal and Journal of Mass Media Ethics. Reader also writes occasionally for journalism trade journals such as Quill and The Masthead, for newspapers including the Cincinnati Enquirer, and his opinion columns appear in the Athens News. He has presented research findings and journalism workshops at national academic and professional conferences such as the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the National Newspaper Association.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILITIONS: He is a founding member and current vice-chair of AEJMC’s Community Journalism Interest Group and is a partner with the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. Reader also is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and advises the student chapter of SPJ at Scripps, which was named National Outstanding Campus Chapter in 2006 and was named Outstanding Campus Chapter in Region 4 in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
