Our Faculty
Learn from experienced professionals, academic scholars and thought leaders.
Medill journalism faculty members are a mix of both industry professionals and academic scholars. They have led major media outlets and won some of the top prizes in journalism for their ground-breaking work. They are engaged in research about audience engagement, media history and local news. And they maintain professional connections writing and producing journalism for top media.
At Medill, not only do you learn from these experienced thought leaders in the classroom, but they also become your mentors and supporters. In addition, you join their networks of journalism professionals who work all over the world.
Charles Whitaker
Dean and Professor
An expert in magazine journalism, Whitaker has won numerous awards for his teaching. He was a senior editor at Ebony magazine, where he covered two U.S. presidential campaigns. He has worked at the Miami Herald and the Louisville (Ky.) Times.
Beth Bennett
Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration
Beth Bennett is an award-winning producer and reporter with more than 15 years of experience in broadcast television news and video production. Her experience spans many areas of television news, including on-air reporting, studio/booth producing and field producing.
Doug Foster
Professor
Benson, a journalist and lawyer, is a professor of journalism. As a professional journalist, Benson has worked as Washington editor for Ebony magazine, city hall reporter in Chicago for WBMX-FM, and as a contributor for The Chicago Reporter, writing a weekly online column on justice, race and media issues. Additionally, he has contributed feature articles to Chicago, Savoy, and The Crisis magazines, and has contributed commentary to The Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Natalie Moore
Senior Lecturer & Director of Audio Journalism Programming
Moore (MSJ99) covers segregation and inequality for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.