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Dr. A. David Gordon is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He retired in May, 2002, after serving as chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism since 1997. His academic career spanned 34 years, and included teaching and administrative positions at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, the University of Miami (FL) and Emerson College. His special areas of interest include media ethics, law, and the roles of the mass media in society. He spent five years as a reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, WI, where he was a general assignment reporter before covering the county government and city government beats. He also spent three years as an assistant to the mayor of Madison. Gordon is a graduate of Carleton College, Northfield, MN, where he majored in government and international relations. He holds master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science, and from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His Ph.D. is from UW-Madison, in mass communication. He is the senior author of Controversies in Media Ethics, which is in its second edition, and has written extensively on the law of journalists' privilege and source confidentiality. He has recently co-authored two convention papers and a journal article on cyberspace ethics issues as they affect academia, and wrote a short article on ethical dimensions of journalistic privilege. He has been active in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and in the journalism/mass communication administrators' organization, as well as in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Gordon is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. He is married, with three grown daughters. |
A. David Gordon