E-mail:bedingfield@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.6272
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room: 4011B

Hours:
Tues., Thurs., & Fri.
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
And by appt.

Spring 2008 Syllabi:
Jour 434- Electronic Journalism

Jour 543- Telecommunications and Society

Sid Bedingfield
Visiting Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence

B.A., Florida State University

Sid Bedingfield, former head of CNN’s US network, has joined the School of Journalism and Mass Communications as a visiting professor. Bedingfield will teach courses in broadcasting and a course on Telecommunications and Society that he is developing.

In nearly 20 years at CNN, Bedingfield held positions that included managing all domestic news programming and production, overseeing documentary and long-form programming, handling day-to-day newsroom management, and launching CNN International. In 2006, he became president and executive editor of California Fault Line Productions, a joint venture with PBS, producing online and television programming for the PBS network.

In 2001, Bedingfield directed CNN’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath, coverage awarded RTNDA’s Edward R. Murrow award. CNN documentary productions, under Bedingfield’s guidance, received Polk, Emmy, Headliner, Overseas Press Club and Edward R. Murrow awards. One documentary, “Autism is a World”, was nominated for an Academy Award

Bedingfield is returning to South Carolina where he formerly worked for the Greenville News and for UPI as its state editor in Columbia.