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    Associate Professor Mitch McKenney

    Mitch McKenney

    School of Media and Journalism
    Associate Professor/Undergraduate Coordinator
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    Franklin Hall
    Office Hours:
    Spring 2024: Sabbatical
    Contact Information
    Email:
    mmckenne@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-3665

    Biography

    Mitch McKenney teaches Journalism courses that include Reporting, Ethics, Interviewing & Data and Media, Power & Culture.

    He joined the KSU faculty in 2008 following an 18-year newsroom career at the Akron Beacon Journal, The Palm Beach Post and the Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y. From 2011-17, he taught the International Storytelling course that took students to China, India, Brazil, Estonia, South Korea, Cyprus and Ghana to produce multimedia stories.

    He previously co-led the Stark Campus' H.W. Hoover initiative in environmental media, a cross-disciplinary project with multimedia courses, speakers and research on the region’s watersheds. His research explores issues newsroom managers face online, how legacy newsrooms reshape themselves for today's realities, the role of startup news sites and dealing with reader comments and source requests to have stories removed. He also has conducted research in environmental media, international reporting and watchdog issues such as public records access.

    He's a former head of the Newspaper and Online News Division of AEJMC, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2013 he was a visiting professor of journalism at Shanghai International Studies University in China.

    He lives in Hartville with his wife, Kim. They have three grown children.

    He can be found online at:

    Twitter: @mmckenney

     

     

    Education

    Bachelor in News, Kent State University, M.B.A., Kent State University

    Expertise

    Journalism
    Mass Communication
    Environmental Media
    Community Journalism
    Environmental Journalism
    Religion in Media
    Arts Coverage
    Storytelling Credibility
    Public Records/Access
    Story Commenting
    Communication
    Information

    Affiliations

  • Member of Your Vote Ohio/Your Voice Ohio and the Ohio Media Project
  • a collaborative effort of Ohio newsrooms to do a better job covering their communities
  • Awards/Achievements

    • Patriot Award, Ohio Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, for accommodating students as they meet their Guard obligations, November 2019
    • Newspaper & Online News Division service award, August 2016
    • Distinguished Teaching Award nomination (Stark Campus) in 2015 and 2011

    Documents

    PDF icon McKenney_vita_August_2020.pdf
    School of Media and Journalism
    College of Communication & Information

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    Kent, OH 44242

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