Staff at the Center on Media & Society

 

 

 

 Frank Herron, Director

In addition to overseeing the Center on Media and Society, Frank Herron directs the journalistic work of the New England Ethnic Newswire. He teaches in the political science and communication studies departments at University of Massachusetts Boston.

He has a master's degree in media studies from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University.

He worked as an editor and staff writer for more than 18 years at The Post Standard newspaper in Syracuse, N.Y., and taught news writing as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University's Newshouse School of Public Communications for 13 years.

He is keenly interested in fostering an appreciation of the value newspapers have as historical sources and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society.  He is on the Advisory Council of the Egan Maritime Institute in Nantucket. In addition, he is an editor and partner in Cambridge-based TidePool Press.

And, since April 2006, he has written a blog that keeps track of what was in the news 100 years ago on a given day.

Email: frank.herron@umb.edu

Office phone: 617.287.6798

Mailing address : Wheatley Hall 06-086, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA 02125

Ellen Hume, Founder


Ellen Hume is a former White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, former executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, and former director of PBS’s Democracy Project.

Starting in 2003, she began teaching at UMass Boston in media and communication studies. She has an extensive background in journalism at the local, national and international levels, as well as a 15-year career in teaching and media analysis.

Hume, an experienced national television commentator, appears frequently as a media analyst and trains journalists in American and foreign newsrooms for the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the U.S. Department of State.

In January 2008, she became the research director for the Center for the Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She remains involved in the main work of the Center on Media and Society, as publisher of New England Ethnic Newswire.

More on Ellen Hume

 

Staff at the New England Ethnic News

Posing at a weekly staff meeting at UMass Boston (from left) are health reporter Eduardo de Oliveira, editor Mary Thang, chief editor Frank Herron and administrator, Lunecee Eligene.

 

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