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Full Name

Dane Claussen

University Affiliation

Point Park University

Biography

Dane is Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Programs at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pa. He teaches Communication Law and Regulation; Applied Mass Communication Research Methods; Media Ethics and Professional Culture; Mass Communication History; Newspaper and Magazine Management; and Writing the Nonfiction Book. Dr. Claussen also regularly chairs master's thesis committees and supervises many Directed Readings, Directed Research and Publication Project studies. (From August 2005 to May 2006, he also was Point Park’s first campus-wide Faculty Development Coordinator.) Since July 1987, Dr. Claussen has been President/Principal of American Newspaper Consultants, Ltd., a management consulting, expert witness, research, writing, editing, and publishing firm.

Beginning with the Summer 2006 issue, Dr. Claussen is Editor of the quarterly Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, one of the two major scholarly journals published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In the Editorship, which is for a renewable three-year term, he is working with an Editorial Board of 50 scholars nationwide and with researchers throughout North America who submit article manuscripts.

In 1984, he graduated with a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. In 1986, he completed his M.B.A. degree in corporate finance and labor relations at The University of Chicago. From 1986 until 1995, Dr. Claussen was Publisher, President & Editor of weekly, biweekly and monthly community newspapers in Lakewood (suburban Tacoma), Wash.; the Oregon-based Executive Editor of a biweekly international trade magazine and a weekly international consumer publication for Capital Cities/ABC (now part of Disney); Publisher, CEO & Editor of The Daily Reporter, a statewide business and law newspaper based in Milwaukee; and Midwest media mergers/acquisitions broker for Maryland-based W.B. Grimes & Co. From November 1996 until June 2003, he was Editor of the Industrial Marketing Practitioner, a monthly/quarterly newsletter.

While working for the Grimes company, he also held management positions at alternative newsweeklies in Milwaukee (Shepherd Express) and Kansas City (PitchWeekly), and was elected the first President of the Midwest Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN-Midwest). Starting in 1993, Dr. Claussen began teaching, part-time, courses in English composition, advertising, organizational behavior, corporate finance, human resources management, and journalism. From early 1992 until late 1994, he was a member of the Media-Law Relations Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin and helped edit the Wisconsin News Reporter's Legal Handbook, 3rd Edition (1995).

Dr. Claussen completed his M.S. degree in mass communications at Kansas State University in August 1996, and his Ph.D. degree in mass communication at The University of Georgia in April 1999. From August 1999 until July 2001, he was Assistant Professor of Communication and Mass Media at Missouri State University (Springfield), where he served as Journalism Area Coordinator, Graduate Council representative, a Gender Studies Program faculty member, and advisor to The Scope, an independent student publication.

Dr. Claussen currently is writing Managing for Excellence at Community Newspapers (forthcoming, 2007); revising “Public Affairs Reporting: The Citizen’s News” (2nd Edition), by Ralph Izard and Marilyn Greenwald; writing a history of newspaper marketing practices from 1920 to 1970; and writing a history of community journalism (for Northwestern University Press). In addition, he has written scores of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and national conference papers (as well as trade press articles for Publishers' Auxiliary, Free Paper Publisher, and Grassroots Editor). Dr. Claussen also sits on the Editorial Boards of the Newspaper Research Journal, Mass Communication & Society, Journalism History, and the Journal of Media and Religion; reviews manuscripts for the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Media Economics, American Journalism, Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, Journal of Men's Studies, Men and Masculinities, and the Review of Religious Research, and has assessed mass communication textbook proposals for Allyn & Bacon; Houghton Mifflin; and Mayfield/McGraw-Hill. Dr. Claussen is a former member of the AEJMC's standing Publications Committee, and the former Book Reviews Editor of JHISTORY, a scholarly listserv in the H-NET system based at Michigan State University. He also regularly judges papers for numerous national and regional scholarly conferences. Dr. Claussen has been quoted as an expert source by The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, The Denver Post, Chicago magazine, The Denver Business Journal, Editor & Publisher magazine, Quill magazine, and many other publications, and has had letters to the editor published in the Sunday New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Details magazine, among others.

He is committed to the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, the premier organization for mass communication professors and graduate students. During 2005-2006, Dr. Claussen is Head & Program Chair, History Division (the fourth largest of AEJMC's 30 specialized divisions, interest groups and commissions); Chair, Research Committee, Magazine Division; Chair, Teaching Standards Committee, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Interest Group; and Vice-Chair, Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee, Media Management & Economics Division. He is a former Head of the Mass Communication & Society Division (AEJMC's second largest), former Head of the GLBT Interest Group, and a former officer of the Cultural & Critical Studies Division. In the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), Dr. Claussen is Vice-Chair of its Hall of Fame Committee; an advisory board member for the Leroy F. Aarons Journalism Education Program, and moderator for the Educators Caucus. Dr. Claussen is Immediate Past President of the American Philatelic Society Writers Unit, a former board member of the American Men's Studies Association, and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA), Committee of Concerned Journalists, Media Ecology Association, National Communication Association (NCA), Research Society for American Periodicals, and Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

Dr. Claussen lives in a 100+-year-old house in Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets neighborhood, reflecting his longtime interests in Victorian architecture, antiques, museums, and history generally. He is the former newsletter editor and former board member of Preservation Pittsburgh, and also is a member of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, National Aviary (Pittsburgh), Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pennsylvania Heritage Society, Preservation Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, and Animal Rescue League of Western Pennsylvania. Dr. Claussen is especially honored by having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society, London (Patron: Her Majesty the Queen).

Selected Publications

Sex, Religion, Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)

The Promise Keepers: Essays on Masculinity & Christianity (McFarland & Co., 2000)

Standing on the Promises: The Promise Keepers and the Revival of Manhood (Pilgrim Press, 1999)

Anti-Intellectualism in American Media: Magazines and Higher Education (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004)

Personal Site

http://www.pointpark.edu/default.aspx?id=1007

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