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Dr. David Loomis had a career in print journalism as copy boy,
researcher, reporter, columnist and editor before receiving a 2002
doctorate as a Park Fellow in journalism and mass communication at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Loomis brings 25 years of journalism and newsroom-management
experience into his classes, which include Writing for Print Media,
News Reporting, Mass Media in American Politics, Women and the Press,
Journalism and Mass Media, Journalism Law and The Editorial Page.
His writing-intensive reporting classes emphasize his research
interest in civic engagement and civic journalism. These classes
feature student work with campus and local news media. They provide
for students real-world experience with campus and commercial
newspapers and produce student portfolios of published clips. His
classes have won for students statewide press-association awards for
public-service reporting.
Dr. Loomis holds memberships in The Society of Professional
Journalists and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, including its Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest
Group.
His avocations include playing racquetball, bicycling and performing
gypsy jazz on a Dell'Arte archtop guitar -- but not simultaneously.
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