Steve Helle

Professor Emeritus of Journalism  Education Course Specialties Background Helle is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. He was named the Freedom Forum National Journalism Teacher of the Year and three times has received the campuswide award as outstanding undergraduate teacher at the University of Illinois. He has written numerous articles on communications law in academic […]

Walt Harrington

Professor Emeritus of Journalism Education Course Specialties Background Harrington is a former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. He has held various news, investigative and feature editing and reporting positions at the Washington Post, the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call and the Illinois Observer. Awards include the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, numerous feature […]

Matthew Ehrlich

Professor Emeritus of Journalism  Education Affiliations Background Ehrlich is a winner of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the University of Illinois’ highest teaching honor. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a former reporter, producer, editor and anchor for WILL-AM, Urbana; KANU-FM, Lawrence, Kan.; KCUR-FM, […]

Margaret Yee Man Ng

Associate Professor of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Ng is a media researcher with certified industrial training (Galvanize) in data science and database tools. Broadly speaking, her research examines technology use, social media, and information diffusion using large-scale, unstructured data and computational methods. Particularly, she explores three distinctive yet interrelated components of the web: […]

Josh Heuman

Senior Lecturer of Journalism Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation […]

Charles “Stretch” Ledford

Associate Professor of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Recipient of the 2020 Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award and named the 2014 Associated Press Media Editors Innovator of the Year for College Students, Stretch Ledford has worked as a journalist telling stories through audio, photographs and video in more than 55 countries. His career […]

Brian Johnson

Professor Emeritus of Journalism Education Course Specialties Background Johnson started his journalism career as a staff photojournalist at The News-Gazette in Champaign and has been teaching at the University since 1988. Johnson’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday and others. Research and Creative […]

Brant Houston

Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, Department of Journalism Background Professor Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois. Houston teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois. He also […]

Kenneth R. Erdey

Instructor and Technical Coordinator for Richmond Studio Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Erdey previously worked as a news photographer/editor for the television station WCIA in Champaign, Illinois. Other stations include CLTV, WFLD-Fox32, WCIU, CNN Chicago Bureau, all based in Chicago. He is a current board member of IJEA and has served as the Executive Director of […]

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