Managing
Director
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m-smith3@northwestern.edu
847-467-2065
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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