Will Norton, Jr., Ph.D.

Dean
Professor of News-Editorial

Contact:
147 Andersen
402.472.3041
wnorton1@unl.edu

Bio
Will Norton, Jr., has been dean at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since August 1990. He served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2000-2001) and as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications (1989 to 1990).

He was vice president of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. (2001-2007) He has made more than 70 campus visits as a consultant, a member or chair of site teams of ACEJMC or a state board program evaluator. In the process he has visited nearly 50 nations.

He has written articles for publication in journals and popular magazines, has ghost written three books and directed funded research for a dozen newspapers.

Norton is a partner in ownership of The South Reporter, Inc., Holly Springs, Miss., a corporation that publishes two newspapers and a total market publication. He was managing editor of Christian Life Publications and publisher of The Daily Iowan. He previously was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune and was sports editor of The Daily Journal, Wheaton, Illinois. Norton is a trustee of The Freedom Forum, the Newseum and the Diversity Institute.

He is a member of the Board of the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communications in Pristina, Kosovo. He has been a visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Journalism and Communications at Addis Ababa University.

He was graduated from the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in Mass Communications. He also holds an M.A. in mass communications from Indiana University and a B.A. with honors in history from Wheaton College.

He and his spouse, Susan, are the parents of Laine and Will, graduates of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Curriculum vitae available upon request.