
Douglas J. Fisher
Instructor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence
B.A., Economics and Political Science, Indiana University
M.A., Journalism, and former Kiplinger Fellow, The Ohio State University
Fisher is a veteran journalist who most recently spent nine years
as a news editor for The Associated Press. His interests are in reporting,
precision writing, ethics, media economics, and new ways to manage
the increasing flow of information so that reporters and editors,
as well as consumers, do not suffer information burnout. He
began his career in radio and television, became a newspaper reporter
and then was a fellow in the Kiplinger Public Affairs Reporting Program
at Ohio State University before joining the AP in 1983.
Among the major stories he has covered or helped cover were the
shooting of civil-rights leader Vernon Jordan; the return of those
who fled to Canada rather than serve in Vietnam; the collapse of
credit union systems in Ohio and Rhode Island; the largest evacuation
at the time after a hazardous chemical accident outside Dayton, Ohio;
and development of many of the Air Forces secret weapons, including
the stealth fighter, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton.
He has covered legislatures in Indiana, Ohio, Rhode Island and South
Carolina; has covered or helped direct coverage of presidential campaigns
dating to Jimmy Carters; and directed the APs coverage
in South Carolina of the Susan Smith murder case and trial and of
numerous hurricanes. His work exposing flaws in management of the
federal revenue sharing system won a San Francisco State University
award.
He is the founder of the HartsvilleToday.com community news project
that has shown, in conjunction with the Hartsville Messenger newspaper,
how such sites can invigorate local news coverage and form a vibrant
online community. In 2007, he became executive editor of The Convergence
Newsletter, and he is co-author of Principles of Convergent Journalism
(Oxford, 2008).
On the Web:
"USC's scariest professors:
Doug Fisher, copy editing", garnet&black, March
2005 (pdf)
Fisher's Keynote
Address at the Florida Press Club Annual Meeting, Oct. 15,
2005, Orlando, Fla. |
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E-mail: fisherdj@mailbox.sc.edu
Office:
Phone: (803) 777-3315
Fax: (803) 777-4103
Room: Coliseum 2046
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Office Hours:
Tue/Th - 9:30-10:15 a.m.
Thurs - 2-4 p.m.
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Fall 2009 Syllabi:
Jour 202 - Writing for Mass Media
Jour 333 - Copy Editing
Jour 532 - Public Affairs Reporting
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