Gary Kebbel

Dean › College of Journalism and Mass Communications

University of Nebraska-Lincoln • 147 ANDN • Lincoln NE, 68588-0405 • 402.472.3041 • gkebbel2@unl.edu

Gary Kebbel became dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications on July 1, 2010.

Kebbel previously was journalism program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where he directed the $25 million Knight News Challenge, which funds digital news innovations. He has been director of AOL News, was founding editor of USAToday.com and Newsweek.com. He also directed AOL's online election and government guides. He was a graphics editor at USA Today and managing editor for The Record in Troy, N.Y.; managing editor and assistant managing editor of the Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y.; and city editor of the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal. He has been adjunct instructor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park, Northern Illinois University and Adirondack Community College.

He has a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University, master's degrees in journalism and political science from University of Illinois, and an MSW from the Catholic University of America. He has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Tshawne University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, and assisted the State and Defense departments by teaching public affairs officers the latest digital media and social networking techniques.

Kebbel also is a tenured professor in the college's journalism sequence.

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