Charlyne Berens, Ph.D.

Professor of News-Editorial

Contact:
238 Andersen
402.472.8241
cberens1@unl.edu

Bio
Charlyne Berens teaches news-editorial classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln including courses in writing, reporting, editing and freedom of expression as well as a media survey course for majors and non-majors. She was one of the faculty members who helped produce "Renovating the Republic," the depth reporting magazine about Germany that was published in August 2007, and she is one of the faculty teaching the depth reporting class that will produce a magazine about international quilting in 2008.

She taught junior high English before spending 14 years as editor and co-publisher of the community newspaper in Seward, Neb. She has taught full time in the UNL journalism college since 1995. She also serves as editor of the journalism alumni magazine and is head of the news-editorial sequence. She is director of UNL's Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing internship boot camp each spring.

At UNL, she served for two years as a member of the Chancellor's Speaker Bureau and has been a presenter at UNL Honors Colloquia and Distinguished Scholars Day for six years. She also works with incoming students at New Student Enrollment.

Her most recent publication, Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward, is a biography of Nebraska's U.S. Senator. She has also published two books about the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature. One, Power to the People, specifically examines the Unicameral's historical roots in populism and progressivism. The other, One House, looks at whether the one-house body has lived up to the promises of its founders. She has also published a biography of a respected long-time Nebraska state senator, the late Jerome Warner.

Curriculum vitae available upon request.