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Ashir Badami

Ashir Badami

Senior Lecturer

Ashir Badami leads the Media Management and Leadership (MML) specialization at Medill, a program dedicated to equipping the next generation of journalists, media leaders, and media entrepreneurs with the knowledge and training required to help define, design and deliver audience-centric media products powered by sustainable business models. Badami brings deep expertise in content strategy, product marketing, and user experience design acquired from more than 15 years of professional experience across a range of industries and organizations including publicly-owned and venture-backed companies. He holds a Master’s in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from Bentley University. 

Jill Blackman

Jill Blackman

Lecturer and Director of Data Journalism

Jill Blackman’s expertise includes the study of digital trends and the evolution of social media in journalism. She focuses on storytelling through innovative digital techniques, including interactive data visualizations, explanatory animations, mapping and various programming languages.

Jonathan Copulsky

Jonathan Copulsky

Senior Lecturer

Jonathan Copulsky's research focuses on the impact of digital disruption and innovative technologies on brand-customer interactions. He is the co-author of two critically acclaimed books on digital disruption (The Technology Fallacy and The Transformation Myth). He also researches and writes about the evolution of business-to-business marketing.

Kelly Cutler

Kelly Cutler

Lecturer

Kelly Cutler has more than 20 years of experience with digital marketing and digital media. Her work focuses on the areas of search marketing, social media marketing, programmatic, retargeting and digital analytics and measurement. She works in both theory and practice.

Judy Franks

Judy Ungar Franks

Professor

Judy Franks' research focuses on the supply of media audience attention that flows into the advertising economy. Franks is also studying how self-serve ad portals are democratizing access for businesses of all sizes. Her book, "Media: From Chaos to Clarity" (2nd Ed) provides history and context for today's digital media world and where it's headed.

Jeremy Gilbert

Jeremy Gilbert

Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy

Jeremy Gilbert's work and research focuses on the content and revenue strategies of existing and emerging media companies. He explores the intersection of technology and media, employing a human-centered design process to examine how new tools and techniques will affect the creation, consumption and distribution of media.

Michael Spikes

Michael Spikes

Lecturer and Director of Teach for Chicago Journalism Program

Michael Spikes' research is centered on the practice and pedagogy of media literacy education (MLE) and news media literacy (NML) toward encouraging critical thinking to limit the effects of exposure to mis- and disinformation. His focus is on the design, assessment, and enactments of MLE & NML in classrooms and other learning environments.

Vijay Viswanathan

Vijay Viswanathan

Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications and Associate Dean of IMC

Vijay Viswanathan studies customer experience and marketing effectiveness in B2C and B2B using surveys, text analytics and machine learning. His current work is on online communities, virtual influencers, loyalty programs and governance. He has given numerous talks to industry on customer centricity, embedding AI in analytics and enabling a data culture.