Craig LaMay

Craig LaMay is a journalist and has been on the Medill faculty since 2000. He is the former acting dean at Northwestern University in Qatar, where he also served as director of the journalism and strategic communications program.

LaMay began his career as a business reporter at the Raleigh, NC, News & Observer. For several years, he was the editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University and editor of the Media Studies Journal. He is a long-time practitioner in the field of international media development, and is a founding advisory board member of the Center for International Media Assistance in Washington, D.C. He has worked as a reporter and editor in Southeast and Central Europe, Central America and Southeast Asia.

LaMay's essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, US News and World Report, Federal Communications Law Journal, Health Policy, Communications and the Law, The Hill, and many other publications. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including two with former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, Abandoned in the Wasteland (1995) and Inside the Presidential Debates (2008). The former won the 1995 Silver Gavel Award for best legal book of the year from the American Bar Association.

LaMay teaches US and comparative media law, and sports history and human rights. He is the former Middle East editor of the International Journal of Sports History, and is a faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research.