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Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

10/10/2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -Journalism scholar and educator Dr. John C. Merrill will present "The Star of FICAR: Existential Journalism Ethics" Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. in The Ora G. Williams Studio (Room 142) of Kyser Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

Merrill, the Erbon W. and Marie Wise Endowed Chair in Journalism, is
a leading national scholar on media ethics. His presentation is sponsored by the Department of Journalism's News Makers and Shakers Forum.

Merrill is professor emeritus at the University of Missouri. He has taught at various universities in the U.S. and abroad for more than 50 years. While at Northwestern, he also did college publicity and advised the student newspaper, the Current Sauce, and the student yearbook, the Potpourri. Merrill was also a faculty member at Texas A&M, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, California State-Long Beach, the University of North Carolina and Missouri.

He has taught internationally in Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Egypt and has lectured and held workshops in at least 70 other countries. He is the author of 30 books and more than 100 journal articles.

Merrill has a bachelor's in English and history, a master's in journalism from LSU, a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa and a master's in philosophy from Missouri. A Navy veteran of World War II, he served in both the Atlantic and the Pacific theatres of operations.

For more information, contact the NSU Department of Journalism at (318) 357-4425.

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