Modern Mass Media

by John C. Merrill, John Lee, Edward Jay Friedlander

This text offers an all-inclusive assessment of the rapidly changing world of mass communications. Including coverage of global communication and ethics; a meaningful study of evolving media economics in the individual media chapters; and a stronger focus on media history.

445 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Dr. John C. Merrill was a long-time journalism professor/professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri. He served four years in the Navy during WWII. After the war he got his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Delta State College and LSU respectively, a PH.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa and a M.A. in philosophy fom the University of Missouri in 1971.
Professionaly he was affiliated to the Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, Louisiana and to the Texas A & M University. Between 1964 and 1980 he was a professor at the University of Missouri. In 1980 he became a professor at the University of Maryland, where he left after one year to become director of the School of Journalism at Louisiana State University. Three years later he returned to teaching at LSU, from which he retired in 1991. He returnd to Columbia and continued to teach part time at the School of Journalism until 2000 and teaching, lecturing and conducted workshops all over the world.
Dr. Merrill received numerous honors and distinguished professorships. Amongst these were the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism of the University of Missouri (1996) and the campus-wide Award for Research from Louisiana State University. In 1975, he and Bill Rivers of Stanford University, were the first members of the Journalism Hall of Fame at Louisiana State University.

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