Doug Anderson
Ph.D.: Southern Illinois University
M.S.: Kearney (Neb.) State College
B.A.: Hastings (Neb.) College

Douglas A. Anderson has served since July 1999 as professor of journalism and dean of the College of Communications. Prior to that, he was Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees Professor and director of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University.

He is author or co-author of six books, two of which have gone into subsequent editions: A “Washington Merry-Go-Round” of Libel Actions, Contemporary Sports Reporting (in its second edition), Electronic Age News Editing, Contemporary News Reporting, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media (in its seventh edition) and Writing the News. He also has written more than 70 academic articles, papers, book chapters and workbooks.

A former daily newspaper reporter, sports editor and managing editor, Anderson is a past president of the Nebraska Associated Press Managing Editors Association. He also is a past president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Southwest Education Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the former three-term chair of the national Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He also serves as chair of the steering committee of the Journalism Awards Program of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

In 1996, The Freedom Forum named him Journalism Administrator of the Year, the youngest person ever to receive the award. In 1997, he served as inaugural fellow at the Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center in San Francisco, where he conducted a study of the state of journalism-mass communication education. He served on the faculty at Arizona State from 1979 to 1999.