Loren  Ghiglione

Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics

Loren Ghiglione, a veteran of almost four decades in journalism and journalism education, is the inaugural Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics at Medill, where he teaches journalism history and global journalism, as well as media ethics.

His biography of CBS correspondent Don Hollenbeck (Columbia University Press) and his collection of Hollenbeck’s “CBS Views the Press” radio broadcasts of media criticism (University of Nebraska Press) were published in fall 2008. He has written, edited or co-edited six other books about journalism. His Evaluating the Press won a national Sigma Delta Chi Award for research about journalism.

Ghiglione owned and edited the Southbridge (Mass.) Evening News and ran its parent company, Worcester County Newspapers, for 26 years (1969-1995). He won two dozen regional and national awards for reporting and editorial writing. He also served as a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, guest curator of a 1990 Library of Congress exhibit on the American journalist and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. As ASNE president in 1989-1990, he established journalism history and disabilities committees, pushed for greater diversity throughout the news industry and initiated a groundbreaking study of gays and lesbians in America’s newsrooms.

After selling his newspaper firm in 1995, he was a consultant to the Freedom Forum on its creation of The Newseum (1995-96), the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism and the director of the journalism program at Emory University (1996-99), director of the University of Southern California’s journalism school (1999-2001) and dean of Medill (2001-06). He was president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2006-07.

He received his B.A. from Haverford College, his Ph.D. in American civilization from George Washington University and his Master of Urban Studies and J.D. from Yale, where he was an Irving M. Engel Fund Fellow. He was awarded a Newspaper Fund Fellowship, a Congressional Fellowship, a Reuters Foundation Fellowship at Oxford University and fellowships to the Media Studies Center at Columbia University and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard University.

 He was elected a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in 1985, a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1991 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He leads an Academy project on “The Media in Society” and serves as contributing editor of an upcoming edition of the Academy’s Daedalus journal that will be devoted to “The Future of News in America.”

Ghiglione has been a guest commentator on “Nightline,” “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” “Talk of the Nation,” “The Tavis Smiley Show,” “The Abrams Report,” “The Jesse Jackson Show,” “Fox Sunday Perspective” and C-Span. He is spending the fall 2008 quarter researching and writing a book about the future of news as portrayed in fiction and film. More information about Ghiglione and his books is available at lorenghiglione.com.

Ghiglione’s teaching philosophy is based on his hope that he can help students learn to think and learn how to learn, and not just about writing and storytelling artfully and ethically for multiple media. The best journalists are eager to learn about the world, always attempting to diminish their ignorance about cities and cultures, history and humanity.

Office

MTC 2-117

Phone

847-491-4837

Email

ghiglion@northwestern.edu