Marie Hardin

Blog: http://www.sports-media-society.com/
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Marie Hardin joined the faculty at Penn State in 2003 after working as an assistant professor at the State University of West Georgia. She had previously held a faculty position at Florida Southern College and served as a lecturer and instructor at other universities in Georgia.
 
She has taught a range of journalism courses, including those in ethics, reporting, feature and magazine writing, and ethics. She also teaches a Sports, Media & Society class at Penn State. Hardin has varied professional experience as a contributing writer, newsroom coach and copy writer for newspapers, magazines and advertising agencies.

In 2009, she was honored for her teaching as a recipient--the first ever from the College of Communications--of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.

She has produced numerous book chapters, papers and presentations. Her research has been accepted for publication in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal and Mass Communication and Society, among others. She has also published sports-related research in such journals as the Sociology of Sport Journal and the Journal of Sport Management.
 
Along with research and teaching, Hardin boasts a strong record of service in roles as a coordinator, instructor and judge in contests, programs, workshops and seminars for high school journalists. She has been a director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Center for Editing Excellence at Penn State since 2004.