April 12, 2007

News briefs

Ghiglione named Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics

Loren F. Ghiglione, professor and former dean of the Medill School of Journalism, has been named the Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics.

Ghiglione, dean from 2001 to 2006, is on leave this year and serving as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He also is completing a biography of CBS correspondent Don Hollenbeck and beginning work on books about the reporting of suicide and the future of news.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ghiglione spent spring quarter in Cambridge, Mass., working on a project about the future of news as a senior visiting scholar at the Academy. 

Ghiglione serves on the advisory boards of the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, the Journal of Media Ethics and the New England New Forum.

A frequent television guest commentator, Ghiglione has appeared on “Nightline,” “McNeil Lehrer NewsHour,” NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and C-Span.

Before coming to Northwestern as Medill’s dean in 2001, Ghiglione directed the journalism programs at Emory University for three years and the University of Southern California for two years.

Prior to his career in journalism education, he owned and operated a newspaper company for 26 years, earned national journalism awards and served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror.

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Malthouse appointed Sills Professor in Journalism

Edward C. Malthouse, an associate professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at the Medill School of Journalism, has been appointed Theodore R. Sills and Annie Laurie Sills Professor in Journalism.

Malthouse specializes in media marketing and database marketing. He has worked with Northwestern’s Media Management Center on research projects to understand consumer experiences with newspapers, magazines, news web sites and television news and their effects on readership, advertising and civic participation. 

His work in database marketing proposes methods of using large corporate databases to improve communications between firms and customers.

A sought-after teacher, Malthouse has won teaching awards from Medill students and has been an invited visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Wuhan University, Münster University and Università Della Svizzera Italiana. He teaches statistics and research methods courses for Medill and the School of Communication.

Malthouse is the co-editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing and has published numerous articles and book chapters. The Journal of Interactive Marketing awarded him and his co-author the Best Paper of the Year in 2006.

Malthouse, who joined the Northwestern faculty in 1997, has served as a consultant for many leading companies including Discover, Sachs Group, Bell Laboratories and Marketing Solutions.

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McBride awarded Stanford Center fellowship

Dwight A. McBride, chair and Leon Forrest Professor of African American studies and professor of English, has been awarded a 2007-08 fellowship at the Stanford Center for the Humanities. He will use the fellowship to work on a book about Phyllis Wheatley, who is known as the first African American woman ever to publish a book.

Born in Gambia between 1753 and 1755, Wheatley was brought to America and sold as a slave. Her Boston owners taught her to read at a young age and encouraged her obvious gift for writing. A popular poet, in 1772 she was forced to defend her literary ability in court because many people doubted that a black woman could write as well she did. Her popularity as a poet eventually led to her liberation from slavery

McBride’s recent book, “Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch,” was a collection of essays on race and sexuality. He also is the author of “Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bi-Sexual Fiction” (2002 Cleis Press), “Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony” (2001, NYU Press) and “James Baldwin Now” (1999, NYU Press).

He received the Lamda Literary Award and the Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award in 2003.