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About
Michael Ray Smith |
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Michael Ray Smith
earned a Ph.D. from Regent University and taught at
state and private universities, at graduate and undergraduate schools and is
a professor of communication studies at Campbell
University.
An award-winning writer and photographer, he has
been quoted in the New
York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The
Philadelphia
Inquirer, The Arizona Republic, The Christian Science
Monitor, The
Louisville Courier-Journal, Editor & Publisher,
Christianity Today, Writeršs
Digest and many other periodicals. He has been a guest
on radio and TV
including French TV 24, a Paris-based television
broadcast, and online sites
such as Ourblook.com.
He has written five books, 12 journal articles and
hundreds of articles
for the popular press. eHis chapter on "Labels in Media
Bias" is part of the
2007 book, Media Bias, Finding It, Fixing It "FeatureWriting.Net," explores popular writing and
"The Jesus Newspaper"
explores the idea of the Christian journalist. His Free
press, Free hand:
The handwritten newspapers of John McLean Harrington: A
cultural approach is
scheduled for release in 2011.
Michael spent a decade working in the newsroom and
more than two decades
working in the classroom.
In 2008 Shippensburg University, his graduate
school, honored him as a
Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, the highest award
presented by the
university. That same year Prince Georgešs Community
College in suburban
Washington, D.C., recognized him as one of its top 50
graduates.
He has presented workshops on writing in the United
States and overseas
including a weeklong seminar on magazine writing for
Magazine Training
International.
He works with the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass
Communication on issues of equity and disability. Michael and Barbara Smith
have two daughters, both involved in media and the arts. |
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