Doug Anderson

Douglas A. Anderson has served since July 1999 as a 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 the author or co-author of six books, two of which have gone into subsequent editions: "Contemporary Sports Reporting" (in its second edition) and "News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media" (in its seventh edition). 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 in 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 Anderson Journalism Administrator of the Year, making him he youngest person ever to receive the award. In 1997, he served as the inaugural fellow at the Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center in San Francisco, where he conducted a study on the state of journalism-mass communications education. He served on the faculty at Arizona State from 1977 to 1999.