Tuesday, January 13, 2009

WORLD JOURNALISM INSTITUTE

Dr. Michael Longinow, Professor of Journalism at Biola University and nationally recognized journalism scholar, has been named to the position of the John McCandlish Phillips chair of journalism at the World Journalism Institute for the academic year of 2008-2009. Longinow is the chair of Biola's Department of Journalism and the advisor of The Chimes newspaper. Dr. Longinow will continue his full time administrative and teaching responsibilities for Biola University during the WJI appointment.

Longinow attended Wheaton College, earning a B.A., and completed the University of Illinois' graduate program in news-editorial journalism. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky.

Longinow is a regular workshop presenter and panelist at national conventions of the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers, the American Press Institute, Baptist Press Student Journalism Conference, and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He has written chapters for five books and numerous magazine articles.

The World Journalism Institute is located in New York City and exists to recruit, equip, place and encourage Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America. To that end, WJI holds conferences, workshops, college-level, and multi-week courses. Additionally, WJI prints and distributes a series of essays dealing with the intersection of Christianity and journalism. For more information, www.worldji.com .

For more information:

Kim Collins

Deputy Director

World Journalism Institute

800-769-7870

office@worldji.com

www.worldji.com

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