Paul S. Voakes
Professor Emeritus • Dean Emeritus (SJMC)
Journalism

ÌýOffice: Armory 113C

Professor EmeritusÌýand Founding Department ChairÌýPaul VoakesÌýhas taught at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØsince 2003. He served as dean of Journalism & Mass CommunicationÌýfrom 2003 until June 2011.Ìý He came to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØafter nine years on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Journalism.

His research and teaching specializations are in digital media law and ethics, digital news writing, reporting and editing, and math/statistics for journalism. Before entering academia in 1990, he was a journalist for 15 years at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Voakes has published his research inÌýJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,ÌýJournal of Mass Media EthicsÌýand other academic journals andÌýis coauthor ofÌýThe American Journalist in the 21st Century, which received the 2007 Book Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

He was recently elected vice president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the world’s largest organization of JMC educators, and will serve as president in 2016-17.Ìý

His PhDÌýis from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.Ìý