Education

• Ph.D., 1972, The Ohio State University. Speech (Mass Communications). Dissertation: "An Analysis of the Literature and Language of Change With Implications for Communication Theory."
  
• M.A., 1970, The Ohio State University. Mass Communications. Thesis: "Selective Retention in Film."
  
• B.A., 1968, University of Guam. English, Secondary Education.

Professional Development

• RIAS Berlin Komission Senior Fellow, Program for News Directors and Managers: Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, September 2007.
  
• National Association of Television Program Executives Faculty Fellowship, 2007.
• Fulbright German Studies Seminar "Challenges of Demographics:" Berlin, Rostock, Frankfurt; June/July 2003.
  
• Manoa Forums VII and VIII on "Truth" and "Leadership," 2000 & 2001.
• RIAS Berlin Kommission/Radio-Television News Directors Foundation Journalist Exchange Program: Study of politics, economics, and journalism in Germany & the European Union, 1999; 2000; 2001; 2004.
• Fulbright Summer Seminar in German Studies: Media and Communication Systems: Bonn, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Munich; June/July 1997.
  
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies Seminar on Covering Race in Your Community, St. Petersburg, Florida, December 1996.
  
• Freedom Forum/AEJMC National Workshop on the Teaching of Ethics, University of Missouri, July 1994.
  
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies Conference on Journalism and Society, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 1993.
  
• Teaching Fellowship in Ethics, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Florida May 1992.
  
• American Press Institute Journalism Educators Seminar, Reston, Virginia, October 1991.
  
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies Conference on Journalism Ethics, "10 Years After 'Jimmy's World,'" St. Petersburg, Florida, October 1990.
  
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies Seminar on Journalism Ethics for Professional Journalists, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 1989.
  
• American Press Institute Seminar for City/Metro Editors of Major Daily Newspapers, Reston, Virginia, January 1989.
  
• American Press Institute Seminar on Effective Writing and Editing for reporters & editors, Pomona, California, December 1984.
  
• Gannett Teaching Fellowship in Journalism, Indiana University, July 1978.
  
• East-West Center Flow of News in the Pacific research project and conference, Agana, Guam and Honolulu, Hawaii, 1976-1978.