Managing
Director
Media
Management Center
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m-smith3@northwestern.edu
Michael P. Smith is managing director of the Center. He oversees
the Center's research projects as well as the faculty and curriculum
for the Center's on-campus programs.
Smith was a journalist and editor
for 23 years. Before joining the Center, he was assigned to the
corporate staff of Knight Ridder. In 1982, as assistant managing
editor, he was part of the team at the Ft. Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel
that won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. Smith is the author
or editor of several monographs, including Values. Culture. Content.,
The Newsroom Brain and The Changing Reader. He is
on the executive committee of the Center for Religion and the News
Media, a member of the board of the American Association of Sunday
and Feature Editors, and served as AASFE's president in 1996. Smith
also works with committees of the Associated Press Managing Editors
and is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Smith has a B.Sc. degree
in journalism from Ball State University and a Master of Management
from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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