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Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Journal
Co-Founding Editor
Matthew C. Ehrlich
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
Matthew
C. Ehrlich, journalism professor at the University of Illinois at
Urbana- Champaign, is an associate director of the Image of the Journalist
in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the Norman Lear Center at
the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.
Ehrlich holds a bachelor's in journalism from the University of
Missouri, a master's in journalism from the University of Kansas,
and a Ph.D in communications from Illinois. He worked as a journalist
for public radio stations in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois before
entering academia. Ehrlich assumed his current position at Illinois
in 1992 after teaching for a year at the University of Oklahoma.
He is a two-time winner of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching at Illinois' College of Communications.
His newest book, Journalism in the Movies, was published
in hardback in 2004 and in paperback in 2006 by the University of
Illinois Press. The book was named an Outstanding Title by the Association
of American University Presses. Ehrlich's research on journalism
and popular culture has also appeared in Journalism & Communication
Monographs, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Critical
Studies in Media Communication, Journalism: Theory, Practice &
Criticism, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, the Journal of
Broadcasting & Electronic Media, the Notre Dame Journal of Law,
Ethics & Public Policy, American Journalism, the Journal of
Radio Studies, and Mass Comm Review. Ehrlich also
has appeared on many IJPC panels at AEJMC, ICA, Popular Culture
Association and other international and national communication-journalism
conferences.
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