Stephen D. Perry (Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1995) - A Consolidated History of Media (4th edition)

Stephen Perry is an Associate Professor of Communication at Illinois State University where he teaches the introductory course in mass communication as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate level theory courses. He has also taught at Stillman College and at the University of Alabama.

Perry is the author of over a dozen journal articles published in the Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Radio Studies, and Mass Communication and Society among others. He also co-edited the textbook Communication Theories for Everyday Life, published by Allyn & Bacon. His research interests include radio history, media effects on society, and religious broadcasting.

Perry has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist, a radio disc jockey, and a television sports announcer and producer.

 

Michael R. Smith (Ph.D., Regent University, 1999) - FeatureWriting.Net

Michael Smith is Chair of the Department of Mass Communication at Campbell University. He is the author of more than 3000 articles for newspapers and magazines. He spent nearly a decade in newsrooms across the nation, writing for small community newspapers and large, metropolitan newspapers such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has taught on the college or university level for more than 14 years.

Smith conducts research on Christianity and mass media. He has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Media and Religion, Journal of Mediated Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, and American Journalism among others. Smith has published three books includingWorship in Franklin County: Sketches of faith from the mid-1700s to the Civil War, published in 1991 by University Press in Shippensburg, PA, and The Jesus newspaper, published by University Press of America in 2002.

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