This is a collection of information about mass communications gathered over four decades of teaching in high school and college. “The Exchange” is primarily for high school journalists and “Mass Media Stuff” is for college students majoring in media communications — journalism, photography, radio-television-broadcast, digital design or music business -- or Introduction to Mass Communication. Here also is my department site during my teaching days.
Here are other sites I have developed. Column writing / Feature writing / Editorial writing / UIL contest help / Speech story writing / Headliines / Review writing / A Reporter's Checklist / Design / What is Public Relations? / News values / Copy Editor's Help / Interviewing / Online resources for reporting / Photo Tips for photojournalists / Media law / Libel/Slander / Media ethics / Magazines / Magazine formula / The query letter / Newspapers / History of music / Public relations / Advertising / Radio / TV / Nonverbal communication / Letter to the Editor / Getting a job / Sports writing / World of sports writing / Writing radio copy / Brainstorming / Managing time wisely / Media Organizations / Titles, not headlines / Infographics / Mass Media Stuff / Writing Tips / Editing Tips / Other Stuff / UK Journalism / Yearbooks / Literary magazines / The Ranger Online Design Manual / NEW Editorial Cartoons
Education -- B.A. in social sciences, 1958, from Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University-San Marcos); M.A. in journalism, 1966, from the University of Texas-Austin. Postgraduate work at the University of Texas School of Law and at the University of Texas
Memberships -- Texas Association of Journalism Educators, Society of Professional Journalists
Teaching experience -- UT-Austin, reporting, editing and advising scholastic publications; Robert E. Lee High School adviser to The Bugle Call and Traveler for six years; San Antonio College, Introduction to Mass Communications, Introduction to Magazine Editing, Editing of Copy, Principles of Public Relations, Principles of Advertising and adviser to The Ranger, The Fourth Write and The Ranger Online for 28 years.
Workshops -- Taught at high school workshops in Austin; Norman, OK; Las Cruces, N.M.; San Angelo; Dallas; Arlington; College Station; San Marcos; Huntsville; Commerce; Columbia, S.C.; Kingsville; Kilgore; Lubbock; Corpus Christi; and San Antonio. Taught at college workshops in Arlington, Houston and Dallas and SPJ's Photography Workshop for High School Teachers at SAC. Co-founder of the Urban Journalism Workshop at San Antonio College, a project with Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, San Antonio Light, the San Antonio Express-News and San Antonio Press and an instructor in the workshop for 22 years. Currently volunteer to work with journalism students -- when asked.
Honors -- High School Journalism Teacher of the Year (1976) from the University Interscholastic League Press Conference; Journalism Achievement Award (1971 and 1972) from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund; editor and managing editor of Acequia, San Antonio College faculty journal (four years); Editor, The Community College Journalism Association Journalist; "Legend of Texas Scholastic Journalism" by Interscholastic League Press Conference in 2002; 2005 NISOD recipient; Edna McGaffey Media Excellence Award, sponsored by The San Antonio Express-News, from The Association for Women in Communications in 2007; Trailblazer Award from Texas Association of Journalism Educators, 2008