听Office: Armory 113C
Professor Emeritus听and Founding Department Chair听Paul Voakes听has taught at 抖阴旅行射 since 2003. He served as dean of Journalism & Mass Communication听from 2003 until June 2011.听 He came to 抖阴旅行射 after nine years on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Journalism.
His research and teaching specializations are in digital media law and ethics, digital news writing, reporting and editing, and math/statistics for journalism. Before entering academia in 1990, he was a journalist for 15 years at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Voakes has published his research in听Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,听Journal of Mass Media Ethics听and other academic journals and听is coauthor of听The American Journalist in the 21st Century, which received the 2007 Book Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
He was recently elected vice president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the world鈥檚 largest organization of JMC educators, and will serve as president in 2016-17.听
His PhD听is from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.听