Mike Dorsher's Home Page

Mike outside Fenway Park

You've reached me at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

If you'd like to send me a message, the address is: mdorsher@uwec.edu
To reserve time with me, see my office hours at: http://www.uwec.edu/mdorsher/advising

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism. I earned a Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999. My curriculum vitae is available online, along with graphical, PowerPoint and textual summaries of my dissertation. I'm teaching: Public Affairs Reporting, Advanced Reporting and the Print Journalism Capstone course, which has produced a report called, Newspapers at the Crossroads: Journalism From Milwaukee to Minneapolis.

While in graduate school, I was one of the founding editors at the Web's top-rated news site, washingtonpost.com. The complete texts and references for four conference papers that I presented while in graduate school are also available:

A few of my other passions in life include: