Michael Ray Smith

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Michael Ray Smith

      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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