Loren Ghiglione Dean, Medill School of Journalism Media Management Center Internal Committee

Loren Ghiglione, former director of the School of Journalism in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is the dean of the Medill School of Journalism.

A former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Ghiglione has spent the bulk of his career in community newspapers. From 1969-95, he served as editor and publisher of The Southbridge (Mass.) Evening News and president/owner of the parent company, Worcester County Newspapers. He also served as editor and publisher of The Bristol (Conn.) Press from 1985-87.

Ghiglione has been a member of three Pulitzer Prize juries and has chaired ASNE exchange delegations to Russia, consulted to the Freedom Forum on the creation of the Newseum, and served as a founding officer of the National News Council. On the academic side, Ghiglione, who holds both a law degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from George Washington University, has been a guest lecturer or editor-in-residence at more than two dozen colleges and universities, including Northwestern.

He is not entirely new to Medill, having served from 1990-95 as a board member for the Newspaper Management Center, now called the Media Management Center, which is jointly affiliated with Medill and the Kellogg School of Management.

Ghiglione held the James M. Cox Chair in Journalism at Emory University from 1996-99 and has been a professor and director of USC's journalism school since then. He is the author of The American Journalist: Paradox of the Press and editor of six journalism books, including The Buying and Selling of America's Newspapers.

Throughout his career, Ghiglione has worked on diversity issues in journalism. He currently serves on a national journalism educators task force on leadership and diversity. He founded the Task Force on Minorities in the Newspaper Business, organized minority job fairs nationwide as chair of the Minorities Committee of ASNE, and served as a member of the Minority Opportunity Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and of the Diversity Committee of the Newspaper Association of America.

A graduate of Haverford College, Ghiglione received both a law degree and a master of urban studies from Yale.