E-mail: c@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.4979
Fax: 803.777.4103
Coliseum Room 4016
Web site: www.chrisrob.com

Hours:
Tues., Wed., Thurs.:
10 a.m. - noon
By appointment.

Summer 2008 Course Syllabus:

Jour 201 - Intro to Mass Communications

Chris Roberts
Assistant Professor
Print and Electronic Journalism Sequence

B.A. Journalism, University of Alabama, 1987
M.A. Journalism, University of Alabama, 1990
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2007*

Chris Roberts earned his doctoral degree in May 2007 after defending his dissertation, "Measuring the Relationship Between Journalistic Transparency and Credibility."

In Spring 2008 he is teaching 200-plus students in JOUR 201 (Survey of Mass Communications) and the editing component of The Carolina Reporter.

He also has taught advanced editing, computer-assisted reporting and mass media research methods at USC, and he holds computer training sessions each semester for Carolina Reporter and Carolina News students. He has taught reporting and editing at Samford University and at the University of Alabama.

His research interests include credibility, gatekeeping, ethics, and technology. He has been a member of the board of The Journal of Mass Media Ethics since 1990, and he is Professional Freedom & Responsibility chairman for the Media Ethics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Chris joined the faculty as an instructor in January 2006 after more than eight years as an editor at The State newspaper. He was the paper's Sunday business editor, database editor, investigations editor and (for a few weeks) an assistant features editor. In a dozen years at The Birmingham News he was an intern, correspondent, reporter, editor and technology columnist syndicated through the Newhouse News Service.

His wife teaches kindergarten at Nursery Road Elementary, and their child is a sixth grader. He teaches Sunday School for college students at Riverland Hills Baptist Church.