John Bender, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of News-Editorial

Contact:
132 Andersen Hall
402.472.3053
jbender1@unl.edu

Bio:
John R. Bender is an associate professor in the news-editorial sequence of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bender has taught at the college or university level for more than 25 years. He joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska in 1990, and before that he was an assistant professor of journalism at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo. In 2007, Bender received the College Distinguished Teaching Award.

Bender is lead author of "Reporting for the Media," one of the best-selling textbooks on news reporting and writing. The 9th edition of the book, which is published by Oxford University Press, is being released in the spring of 2008.

His teaching and research areas include news reporting and writing, mass media law, media history and controls of information. He is also executive director of the Nebraska High School Press Association.

Before entering teaching, Bender worked for six years for the Pittsburg (Kan.) Morning Sun. He started as a reporter covering local government and politics. He became the paper's assignment editor, news editor and then managing editor. During his term as managing editor, the Morning Sun won awards for farm coverage, photography and editorial writing.

As an undergraduate, Bender majored in sociology at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. He holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and a doctorate in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Curriculum vitae available upon request.