CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael D. Dorsher, Ph.D.
164 Hibbard Humanities Hall (715) 836-5729
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire mdorsher@uwec.edu
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EDUCATION Fulbright Scholar post-doctorate research fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, 8/08-5/09 Fulbright Lecture: The Wal-Marting of Canada's Media: How Convenience Gores the Truth
Ph.D. in Mass
Communication, Dissertation: Hegemony Online: The Quiet Convergence of Power, Culture, and Computers
Master of Public
Administration, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., 9/74-8/78 |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, UW-Eau Claire, 8/09-present
CJ 412: Mass Media Ethics, spring 2003 through fall 2007, summer 2008, summer 2009, spring 2010
Co-authored the text we use, "Controversies in Media Ethics," (Routledge, 2010). Students learn to apply classical and modern philosophy to devise and defend ethical solutions for contemporary dilemmas in journalism, advertising, and public relations. Extended this class into Desire2Learn hybrid classroom for the first time. Won internal grant for fall 2005 to pioneer the use of a student response system, facilitating immediate polling of all students during class discussions. Won internal grant to adapt this course into an all-online, multimedia, eight-week summer class. I have developed a pre-test/post-test assessment for this course and incorporated my research on hegemony online, “clickers” use, and new media analysis.
CJ 323: News Editing and Design, fall 2009, spring 2010
Reoriented this course to the future of journalism, with students producing and editing a half-dozen websites for students in Advanced Reporting and Public Affairs Reporting.
CJ 321: Public Affairs Reporting, fall 2000, spring 2001, spring 2004 through summer 2007, fall 2009, spring 2010
Students learn to cover government agencies and produce fully triangulated, multimedia stories. Among the websites developed by this class are an all-Soundslides diversity project
and election preview sites E.C. Council Insider and VoteSmart, which were featured on the UW-Eau Claire home page. I have incorporated my research on multicultural journalists and reporting excellence into this course.
CJ 495: Directed Studies, spring 2001, spring 2002, fall 2002, fall 2004 through fall 2006
Directed research with students involving the ethics of undercover reporting, contrasting coverage of U.S. and Cuban news media, and a magazine article on Scuba diving. Several other projects have involved The Spectator: e.g., its ethics policies, its first and second systematic readership surveys, and a survey of its advertisers.
CJ 222: News Reporting and Writing, fall 2000 through fall 2003, including summer 2001 and summer 2002
Led the revision of this class from one focused solely on newspapers to one where students learn the fundamentals common to all forms of journalism, then practice writing news stories for broadcast and online media, as well as newspapers. Won internal grant to develop a totally Web-delivered version of this class for eight-week summer sessions.
CJ 427: Advanced Reporting, fall 2000, fall 2001, fall 2002, fall 2009
Websites developed by these students, in fulfillment of their service learning requirement, include: Regents Returning and Clear Vision, which covered the latest UW Board of Regents meetings at UW-Eau Claire; Native News; and Hmong Matters.
CJ 429: Print Journalism Seminar, spring 2002
This 12-student capstone class collected surveys from 550
CJ 317: Women and the Mass Media, fall 2001
Team-taught this course with Knight Journalist in Residence Lynette Nyman, making full use of WebCT quizzes, scanned-in readings and online discussions to supplement in-class discussions.
Assistant professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, UW-Eau Claire, 8/00-5/09
Visiting faculty, Harlaxton College, England, 1/08-4/08
Developed the college's first online multimedia news site with my Web Design students. Also taught Media Ethics & Law and Introduction to Communication while on exchange at this study-abroad campus for U.S. students.
Adjunct professor, University of Maryland University College, 1/99-8/00
Co-wrote the curricula and taught two totally Web-delivered courses: News Reporting and News Editing.
Teaching assistant,
Fully responsible for teaching eight semester-long sections of News Reporting and four sections of News Editing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Expert witness on new media cases, Thomson Reuters Round Table Group, Washington, D.C., 3/10-present.
Subject matter expert/consultant, writing ethics test questions for corporations, Prometric Inc., Baltimore, Md., 3/10-present.
Freelance writer, 7/06-present. Published stories in the The Fargo Forum, The
Bismarck Tribune, the Bottineau Courant and The Lake Metigoshe Mirror, all in
washingtonpost.com, founding editor on the home page and news digest, 3/96-7/00. A portfolio of my work is available online.
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, legislative and higher education reporter, 10/90-5/94; fill-in city editor and copy editor, 5/94-8/94. Won two state Associated Press reporting awards.
The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N.D., Capitol bureau chief, 7/86-5/90; interim metro editor, 5/90-10/90. Won national reporting award from The Arc and more than a dozen N.D. Newspaper Association awards.
United Press International, Bismarck and Minneapolis, state editor, 2/81-10/85. Covered the North Dakota and Minnesota legislatures, courts, natural disasters, business, the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota North Stars. Had stories in The New York Times and most other major newspapers.
Lakeville-Apple Valley (Minn.) Countryside, reporter, 10/79-1/81.
Faribault Daily News,
The Catholic
Bulletin,
ADVISING
Academic Adviser to
Communication and Journalism majors
Nominated for the Student Senate’s Academic Advising Award, spring 2006. Having completed two advising training sessions and learned to use the degree audit, course searching and academic advising programs, I am now advising 37 students and have advised up to 68. To facilitate meeting with them, I developed a unique interactive scheduling form lauded as a model by the University Senate. I surveyed my academic advisees in May 2006, and only 10% of them disagreed that I had helped them stay on schedule to graduate in four years.
Faculty Adviser to The Spectator, fall 2001-fall 2005, fall 2006-fall 2007, fall 2009-present
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association named The Spectator the best collegiate newspaper in the state in 2007 and 2003, and its online edition won a 2001 national Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press. I initiated annual ethics training day, leading to the newspaper's policies banning ads featuring alcoholic drink specials, politicking by staffers, and editorial endorsements of candidates. Shepherded signing of new three-year printing contract. Devised more-equitable, incentive-based salary and budgeting system, allowing The Spectator to progress from a $20,000 annual deficit to a $60,000 annual surplus and decline a segregated fee allocation from the Student Senate for the first time, removing that conflict of interest. Conducted student-faculty collaborative research that gave the paper its first two systematic readership surveys and an advertising survey, and cut its print run from 7,000 to 6,000 without reducing readership or revenue.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Publications
Books, Book
Chapters and Published Websites
Dorsher, M. (2011). Controversies in Media Ethics. Retrieved September 5, 2011, from http://www.routledge.com/cw/gordon/.
Gordon, A. D., Kittross, J. M., Merrill, J. C., Babcock, W. & Dorsher, M. (2011). Controversies in Media Ethics (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.
Dorsher, M. (2009). Sports journalism, pp. 1326-1332, in Christopher H. Sterling (ed.), Encyclopedia of Journalism, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dorsher, M. (2009). Sportswriters, pp. 1333-1338, in Christopher H. Sterling (ed.), Encyclopedia of Journalism, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dorsher, M. (2009). Digital media Europe, pp. 412-415, in Christopher H. Sterling (ed.), Encyclopedia of Journalism, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dorsher, M. (2009). Minneapolis-St. Paul journalism, pp. 906-908, in Christopher H. Sterling (ed.), Encyclopedia of Journalism, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Koyani, S. J., Bailey, R. W., Nall, J. R., (M. Dorsher,
named contributor) (2003). Research-based Web design & usability
guidelines.
Mahoney, T. Jack’s boy (M. Dorsher, ed.). Manuscript submitted for publication.
Mahoney, T. Pali slide (M. Dorsher, ed.). Manuscript submitted for publication.
Periodicals
Al-Shohaib, K.; Frederick, E.; Jamal, A.; Dorsher, M. D. (2010, February). Factors influencing Internet adoption by public relations practitioners in the private and public sectors of Saudi Arabia. Management Communication Quarterly 24(1), 104-121.
Dorsher, M. (2009, August 19). Pinwheels on the prairie; state's largest wind farm opening. The Bottineau Courant, pp. 1, 2.
Dorsher, M. (2009, January 22). Sides argue in Wal-Mart Canada case. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, p. C1.
Dorsher, M. (2008, June 25). The end of an era: Auction ends 115 years of hardware on Bottineau's Main Street. The Lake Metigoshe (N.D.) Mirror, pp. 1, 8.
Dorsher, M. (2006, August 30). Masters of the sky: three
generations of fliers call
Dorsher, M. (2006, July 19). Alumni, family and friends help MSU-B celebrate. The Lake Metigoshe (N.D.) Mirror, pp. 1, 10.
Dorsher, M. (2006, July 8). Birthday/wake for church. The Forum of Fargo, N.D., p. B2.
Dorsher, M. (2006, July 6). A birthday and a funeral. The Bismarck Tribune, p. C1.
Dorsher, M. (2005, December). Bringing sports and crowds to
big-big screen TV. WBA
Dorsher, M. (2005, October). Applying the ‘Laws of Media’ to
radio and TV. WBA
Dorsher, M. (2005, August). The great debate over The Great
Debate. WBA
Dorsher, M. D. (2005). Review of the book Online news and the public. Newspaper Research Journal, 26, 133-134.
Conference Papers,
Posters and Presentations
Dorsher, M. (2009, April). The Wal-Marting of Canada's media: how convenience gores the truth. The 2009 Fulbright Lecture at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montreal, QC.
Dorsher, M. (2009, April). The 2008 debates in the United States and Canada: how U.S. and Canadian viewers, listeners and readers pick their winners. A paper presented to the Midwest Political Science Association national conference, Chicago, IL.
Dorsher, M. (2009, March). Wal-Mart and the media in Canada and the United States. A multimedia presentation hosted by the Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, MB.
Dorsher, M. (2007, August). Marshaling
McLuhan’s ‘Laws’ to explicate new media. A paper presented to the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference,
Dorsher, M. (2007, July). Talking heads: putting together names, faces and voice in Desire2Learn. A workshop presentation to the FUSION 2007 international conference of Desire2Learn online educators, Duluth, MN.
Dorsher, M. (2006, November). Making ethics click: using a student response system in a humanities discussion course. A presentation to the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference, Washington, DC.
Dorsher, M. (2006, August). Is seeing--or
hearing--believing? Responses to the 2004 presidential debates. A paper
presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
conference,
Dorsher, M. (2006, August). How to thrive in
J-school and newsrooms: Wisconsin’s multicultural journalists tell their
stories. A poster presented to the UW-Eau Claire Teaching and Learning
Symposium,
Dorsher, M. (2006, August). A summer of
hot-button issues online: CJ 412: Mass Media Ethics goes from the classroom to
chat room. A poster presented to the UW-Eau Claire Teaching and
Learning Symposium,
Neuwirth, K., Curry, S., Frederick, E., Jang, W. J., Kapfer,
J., Dorsher, M., & Mayo, C. (2005, November). Conformity and debate
about abortion: the spiral of silence in multiple contexts. A paper
presented to the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research conference,
Dorsher, M. & Anderson, A. (2005, November). The role of the American media in international crises. A presentation for The Forum series speech by Paul Rusesabagina, Eau Claire, WI.
Dorsher, M. (2005, October). Hurricane Katrina and the media maelstrom. A presentation to a Leader-Telegram symposium, Eau Claire, WI.
Whitsitt, J. & Dorsher, M. (2005, May). The ethics of undercover reporting. A Student Research Day presentation, Eau Claire, WI.
Dorsher, M. (2005, February). Understanding new media and old in four fun steps. A presentation to the Chippewa Valley Teachers Technology Fair, Chippewa Falls, WI.
Dorsher, M. (2005, February). Online journalism: the nuts and bolts. A presentation to the Chippewa Valley Teachers Technology Fair, Chippewa Falls, WI.
Dorsher, M. (2005, February). Explicating new media and
old. A “Breakfast With the Professor” presentation to honors students,
Dorsher, M. (2004, February). Hegemony online: Will the
Web set you free? A “Breakfast With the Professor” presentation to honors
students,
Dorsher, M. (2004, August). Wild watching: fans' reaction
to televised sports in a movie theater. A paper presented to the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference,
Dorsher, M. (2002, October). Hegemony
online: the quiet convergence of power, culture, and computers. A paper
presented to the Association of Internet Researchers international conference,
Dorsher, M. (2001, November). Achieving excellence in reporting. A presentation to the National College Media conference, New Orleans, LA.
Dorsher, M. (2001, November). Online journalism: Have you got what it takes? A presentation to the National College Media conference, New Orleans, LA.
Dorsher, M. (1997, July). Women and ‘all the
news that’s fit to print’? A paper presented to the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference,
Dorsher, M. (1997, March). Deadlines and
domination: the intersection of race and gender at America’s newspapers.
A paper presented to the Mid-Atlantic Graduate Communication conference,
Dorsher, M. (1996, March). Whither the public
sphere: prospects for cybersphere. A paper presented to the AEJMC
Society and Mass Comm Division spring conference,
Dorsher, M. (1996, March). Cal Ripkin: modern-day
Lindbergh or media myth? A paper presented to the Mid-Atlantic Graduate
Communication conference,
SERVICE
To the University
Department Personnel Committee, chair, 9/10-5/11; secretary, 9/09-5/10; member, 9/07-present.
Journalism & Beyond Camp, co-coordinator, 11/05-7/07. Did all the student and mentor recruiting, curriculum planning, logistics, research and most of the teaching for this weeklong multimedia workshop for high school students of color.
CJ Curriculum and Assessment Committee, journalism sequence representative, 9/04-present.
Milwaukee Journal Foundation Damm Scholarship Committee, member, 10/03-present.
University Senate, Department of Communication and Journalism representative, 9/03-12/07.
Electronic Communications and Publications Administrative Advisory Committee, member, 9/03-12/07. Appointed as the lone faculty representative. Chaired a subcommittee that met weekly to implement a system allowing UW-Eau Claire students to register for their own Web space for the first time.
Campus Media Advisory Committee, voting member as faculty adviser to The Spectator, 9/03-12/07. Authored report suggesting alternatives for alleviating the conflict of interest inherent in Student Senate’s allocation of student segregated fees to campus media organizations.
CJ Scholarships Committee, member, 4/02-present.
Ann Devroy Fellowship Committee, member, 4/02-12/07; chair, 9/09-present.
Help select and interview each year's Ann Devroy Fellowship winner; help maintain ties with the fellowship's sponsors at The Washington Post; added Green Bay Press Gazette as a host for the Devroy winner's summer internship; formally introduced 2003 featured speaker Lou Cannon; chose and made all the arrangements for 2010 featured speaker Helen Thomas.
Women Studies Program Committee, member, 8/01-present.
Proofread two articles for Feminist Teacher.
Club Baseball, faculty adviser, 2/01-12/07.
Provided off-field advice for back-to-back conference
champions and only non-Division I team to win a berth in the 2004 and 2005
World Series of the National Club Baseball Association, in
Scholar Day, answered enrollment questions for high-achieving high school students and their parents, 10/06.
CJ search committees, spring 2004, spring 2005, fall 2006. Member of committees that successfully sought current colleagues Ed Frederick, Arlyn Anderson, and Jeanie Geurink.
Guest lecturer, fall 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, fall 2009. Taught Jan Larson’s News Reporting and Writing, Blaine Peden’s Psychology Ethics, and Jeanie Geurink’s Communication in the Information Age classes for one day each.
Exit interviewer for graduating students, spring 2004.
Completed daylong training session, interviews with seven students graduating in 2004, and a three-hour debriefing session.
DPC Task Force on External Reviewers, member, spring 2004.
CJ Integrated Media Center Subcommittee, member, spring 2002.
Produced working paper, "The I's Have It," on the strengths and challenges of new media for 21st century journalism students.
Baccalaureate Portfolios Assessment Committee, member, 6/01.
Worked for a 40-hour week on this campuswide committee to development recommendations on how to assess the effectiveness of the portfolio initiative.
Knight Foundation Journalist in Residence Search Committee, member, spring 2001.
Traveled with the committee to
Department of Communication & Journalism Alumni Newsletter, copy editor for 2000, 2001 and 2006 editions.
To the Journalism Profession
Textbook reviewer and contributor, 5/05-present.
Received acknowledgements in: Friend, C., Challenger, D., and McAdams, K. C. (2005). Contemporary Editing, (2nd ed). New York: McGraw-Hill; and Foust, J. (2011). Online Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web, (3rd ed.). Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway.
Midwest Political Science Association, member, 10/04-present.
Served as peer reviewer for research papers in 2005.
College Media Advisers, member, 10/01-12/07.
Wisconsin Newspaper Association, “Partners” program committee member, 9/01-present.
Judged the general excellence "Better Newspaper Contest" for large Wisconsin high schools, 4/10. Advised David Tank, faculty adviser of The Stoutonia at UW-Stout, 4/06. Served on online panel for Wisconsin Associated Press editors meeting, 5/05.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, member, 5/98-present.
Served as peer reviewer for research papers from the Media Ethics and Newspaper divisions.
International Communication Association, member, 5/98-present.
Served as peer reviewer for research papers from the Mass Communications Division and the Feminist Scholarship Division.
Park Bugle community newspaper, St. Anthony Park, Minn., readership survey consultant, 3/10.
Taught workshops on “Avoiding Censorship,” “Sports Writing” and “The Color of Journalism”; judged writing competition.
Eau Claire Youth Leadership, presenter, 2/07.
Made multimedia presentation about online journalism to 27 top juniors from four high schools.
Newsroom ethics seminars, 4/06.
Led journalism ethics seminars within the newsrooms of the Wisconsin State Journal, Green Bay Press-Gazette and Wausau Daily Herald.
Society of Professional Journalists, campus chapter, moderator, 4/05, 9/05, 11/06 and 11/09.
Led panel discussions on journalism ethics, how journalists should cover public meetings and the film, “Shattered Glass.”
Society of Politics, roundtable guest speaker, 11/04 and 11/06.
Only non-political scientist invited to discuss the results of the 2004 and 2006 elections with the Department of Political Science's student organization.
Eau Claire News Web Sites Survey, 4/04.
Within 36 hours, wrote an online survey completed by 118 respondents, reported the results and emceed meeting of the Western Wisconsin Professional Chapter and UW-Eau Claire student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Communication Journalism Organization, speaker, 10/03.
Addressed 15 students, staff and faculty on my experiences editing washingtonpost.com.
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram critique, at the request of Managing Editor Doug Mell, 10/02.
Newspapers at the Crossroads: Journalism from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, spring 2002.
Study conducted with Advanced Reporting students, showing
To the Public
Expert news source for state and national media, 10/01-present.
Interviewed by the Ontario Sound Sun Times on my Wal-Mart and the media research, 3/09
Interviewed by USA Today on my "Wild Watching" research paper, 2/09
Interviewed by WEAU-TV on the 2006 elections, 10/06.
Interviewed by The Miami Herald for an article on Donna Shalala, 8/06.
Interviewed by The View for an article on Club Baseball President Kyle Buchmann, fall 2005.
Interviewed by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, WQOW-TV, and WAYY-AM on the 2004 elections, 10/04.
Interviewed by WQOW-TV on interstate commuting, 3/03.
Fulbright Alumni Association Minnesota Chapter, president of the Board of Directors, 1/11-present; vice president, 12/09-12/10.
Wrote successful grant applications for $4,500 in 2011 and $2,000 in 2010 from the U.S. Department of State for Fulbright Association Outreach, Mentoring and Enrichment.
Bonaventure Condominium Board of Directors, president, 9/10-present.
National
Cathedral Association,
Served at the Episcopal Church National Convention in Minneapolis, 8/03.
From the Newsroom, Chippewa Valley cable access TV, featured expert for three half-hour programs (streaming video and DVDs available), 10/07, 11/07, 3/10.
CPR Heartsavers certified by the American Red Cross, 1/10.
Page Education Foundation, senior mentor, 1/06-12/07.
Met monthly with Latino college student to advise him on his studies and social service.
Cafesjian's
Carousel,
Jazz88 FM, KBEM,
HONORS and AWARDS
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar Visiting Chair in Media, McGill University, Montreal, including $25,000 research grant and $1,000 mobility grant, 8/08-5/09.
Vice president, Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association, 12/09-present.
Only UW-Eau Claire faculty member chosen to teach in England at Harlaxton College in spring semester 2008.
Diversity Fellow, including $7,000 internal grant, UW-Eau Claire, 10/05-8/06.
Summer Online Faculty, including $5,000 internal grant, UW-Eau Claire, 10/05-8/06.
Academic Advising Award nominee, UWEC Student Senate, 5/06.
Student Response System Faculty, including $1,500 UW System grant, 7/04-5/05.
Chosen for expenses-paid Poynter Institute Convergence Journalism for College Educators workshop, 2/04.
Faculty Technology Project, including $750 external grant from dreamweaver software, fall 2003.
ICPSR Computing Across the Curriculum workshop, UW-Eau Claire, spring 2002.
Summer Online Faculty, including $1,500 internal grant, UW-Eau Claire, 1/01-8/01.
Chosen for expenses-paid Indiana University Journalism Workshop on Teaching, Writing, Reporting and Editing, 6/01.