NEWS RELEASE

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

3/21/2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - The Department of Journalism at Northwestern State University will present a lecture by Dr. John Merrill "The Three Myths of Journalism" Wednesday, March 28 at 3 p.m. in the Ora G. Williams Television Studio (Room 142) of Kyser Hall. The public is invited to attend. The lecture is part of The Department of Journalism's Movers and Shakers Open Forum.

Merrill is the Erbon W. and Marie Wise Endowed Chair of Journalism at NSU.

A leading national scholar on media ethics, 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. Merrill previously taught at Northwestern while also handling college publicity and serving as adviser for 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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