The fourteen full-time faculty members of the Department of Journalism are leaders in journalism education, research and practice.

• One Temple University Great Teacher Award Winner — Edward Trayes
• Three Temple University Lindback Teaching Award Winners — Chris Harper, Carolyn Kitch and Karen M. Turner
• Five School of Communications and Theater Distinguished Teaching Award Winners — Carolyn Kitch, Karen M. Turner, Christopher Harper, Fabienne Darling-Wolf and Lori Tharps
• Two School of Communications and Theater Teaching Innovation Awards — Karen M. Turner, Christopher Harper,
• Three-time Winner of the Messenger Award for Civil Rights Commentary — Linn Washington
• 2006 James W. Carey Media Research Award Winner — Carolyn Kitch
• 2009 and 2010 Society of Professional Journalism Keystone Pro Journalism Award Winner — George Miller
• 2009 and 2010 Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Keystone Press Award Winner — George Miller
• 2010 School of Communications and Theater Service Award Winner — Christopher Harper
• 2011 Outstanding Faculty Service Award from Temple’s Office of the Provost and Faculty Senate — Karen M. Turner
• 2011 American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award for Personal Service — Larry Stains
• At the 2013 Philly Hip Hop Awards, George Miller’s JUMP magazine was named “Best Magazine.”

Meredith Broussard

merbroussard@temple.edu

Professor Broussard teaches courses in data journalism, journalism research, and entrepreneurial journalism. Her work focuses on data-driven journalism, with a particular interest in using data analysis tools to understand risk perception in everyday life. Her professional experience includes serving as Features Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs, and a multimedia software developer at the MIT Media Lab. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Slate, The Washington Post, Philadelphia Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Huffington Post and other outlets. Read Professor Broussard’s full profile.

Brian Creech

brian.creech@temple.edu

Professor Creech teaches the multi-media storytelling course as well as courses in reporting and writing. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and has worked previously as a reporter, music critic, and technology copywriter. His research attempts to bring insights from poststructuralist theory into the study of journalism, communication, and technology. His current research projects focus on the way objects of public knowledge and discourse emerge amid the overlap of mobile technologies, social movements and media production practices. Read Professor Creech’s full profile.

Fabienne Darling-Wolf

fdarling@temple.edu

Professor Darling-Wolf teaches publication design, international news communication, gender and the American mass media, and history of journalism. She also teaches qualitative research methods in the Mass Media and Communication doctorate program, and a six-week summer workshop in Contemporary Japanese Media and Culture at Temple University Japan. She was born and raised in a small French town, and lived in Texas, Japan, and Iowa before coming to Philadelphia. Her research focuses on processes of cultural identity formation. Her work is concerned with the impact of increasingly global communication flows on culture and social organization. Read Professor Darling-Wolf’s full profile.

Christopher Harper

charper@temple.edu

Professor Harper worked for more than 20 years in journalism at the Associated Press (Chicago), Newsweek (Chicago, Washington and Beirut), ABC News (Cairo and Rome) and ABC 20/20. He previously taught at New York University, Rostov State University (Russia) and Adam Mickiewiez University (Poland). He teaches Ethics, History of Journalism, Journalism and the Law, Journalism Research, International Reporting and a variety of reporting courses. His research has focused on community journalism and multimedia applications, although his current work deals with the baby boomer generation. He has written and edited six books. Read Professor Harper’s Full profile.

Carolyn Kitch (Department Chair)

ckitch@temple.edu

Professor Kitch teaches or has taught courses including History of Journalism, Critical Perspectives on Journalism, Magazine Editing and Design, Intro to Magazines, Gender and American Mass Media, and The American Magazine. She also teaches doctoral classes including Media and Social Memory, Critical Analysis of Mass Media, and Qualitative Research Methods, and she has served as the Faculty Director for SCT’s programs in London (2001, 2003, and 2010) and in Dublin (2006). Her research focuses on journalism history, media and memory , and public memory. She has authored or co-authored four books: The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media (University of North Carolina Press, 2001); Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines (UNC Press, 2005); Journalism in a Culture of Grief, co-authored with Janice Hume (Routledge, 2008); and Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past (forthcoming in February 2012 from Penn State University Press). For 11 years, she was a magazine editor and writer in New York City. Read Professor Kitch’s full profile.

George Miller

gwm3@temple.edu

Professor Miller teaches Journalism & Society and he directs Philadelphia Neighborhoods, the senior capstone program. He worked at the Philadelphia Daily News for more than 11 years, serving as a staff photographer, features writer, general assignment reporter and police beat writer. His words and images appeared throughout the paper, in every section. He now publishes JUMP, a local music magazine in print and online. Read Professor Miller’s full profile.

Maida Odom

mcodom@temple.edu

Professor Odom teaches courses in newswriting and investigative reporting. She was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 20 years. She is the director of the Journalism Department’s Internship program. Read Professor Odom’s full profile.

Larry Stains

lstains@temple.edu

Professor Stains teaches courses in magazine writing, editing and design. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the magazine industry, and has worked in various capacities for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Worth, GQ, USA Weekend, This Old House Magazine, Sports Illustrated, AARP Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Money, Philadelphia Magazine, Child, Men’s Health and Best Life. Read Professor Stain’s full profile.

Lori Tharps

tharps@temple.edu

Lori L. Tharps teaches or has taught the following classes at Temple: Magazine Writing, Magazine Editing, Race and Racism in the News and Ripped from the Headlines: Using Journalism Tools to Create Fiction. She likes to write stories about race, identity and pop culture. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple, Tharps was a magazine writer and editor, working on staff at Vibe magazine and Entertainment Weekly before embarking on a freelance career. She is the author of two award-winning non-fiction books, Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America and Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain and the novel, Substitute Me. Read Prof. Tharps’s full profile.

Edward Trayes

trayes@temple.edu

Professor Trayes is Director of the Master of Journalism program. He has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses including news editing, photography, media management, communication research, publication graphics and design, and journalism research. He is the founding editor of Mass Communication Review, an international journal he edited from l972 until l986. His main research and writing interests are in media management, newspaper content, editing, and minority hiring and recruiting in the mass media. Read Professor Trayes’ full profile.

Karen M. Turner

kturner@temple.edu

Professor Turner teaches broadcast and media studies courses including, Radio News Reporting, Experimental Journalism, and the online course Race and Racism in the News. Her research interests include news content development using and for various technologies, and media criticism with an emphasis on race issues. Before joining the Temple faculty, she was the press secretary to then-Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell. She has extensive experience as a radio journalist and talk radio interviewer having worked in such markets as Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New Brunswick, NJ. Read Professor Turner’s full profile.

Francesca Viola

fviola@temple.edu

Professor Viola teaches courses in broadcast news writing, TV news reporting and journalism law. She has many years experience in TV news reporting. She began her journalism career in print, as a reporter for the Germantown Courier. Later she worked as a writer for KYW-TV Eyewitness News (now CBS-3), then became the Associate Producer of the first Ten O’Clock News in this market at Fox-29. While at Fox-29 she was part of the team that expanded the evening broadcast to one hour, and produced a weekend news show. She was part of the Emmy-Award-winning team that covered the fire at the Meridian Building, one of the worst fires in Philadelphia history. Read Professor Viola’s full profile.

Linn Washington

lwashing@temple.edu

Professor Washington teaches courses in news reporting, investigative reporting, and journalism law. He has many years’ experience as an investigative reporter. He is the author of the book Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench. Read Professor Washington’s full profile.

Sherry Yu

sherry.yu@temple.edu

Sherry S. Yu received her Ph.D. in communication from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on ethnic news media with particular interest in cultural literacy and civic engagement in multicultural society. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, she was a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, Simon Fraser University, and an instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley and Simon Fraser University. Her professional experience includes serving as a researcher at ACNielsen. Read Professor Yu’s full profile.