Cornerstone Donors: Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell
Director
Journalism Program
Miami University

Richard Campbell directs the Journalism Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also the interim chair of the Department of Communication. He is the author of 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America (University of Illinois Press, 1991) and coauthor of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy (Duke University Press, 1994). Campbell has also written for Columbia Journalism Review, Journal of Communication, and Television Quarterly. He is the lead author of Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, the nation's top media survey textbook, and Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction (both from Bedford/St. Martin's).

Campbell earned his Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from Northwestern University, where he was a Danforth Fellow. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mount Mary College, the University of Michigan, and Middle Tennessee State University, where he directed the School of Journalism for six years.