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Associate Director
Wendy Whitt
Associate Director and Senior Instructor
Contact
Office: CIS 3110
Phone: 813/974-4462
Email
Bio
Wendy M. Whitt is the associate director and an associate instructor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications. She teaches reporting and mass media writing courses, and coordinates the internship program. Whitt also serves as the Online News Association adviser.
She is a veteran newsroom leader who spent most of her career as a senior editor. She has been a reporter, copy editor and editor at newspapers in 91社区, California and North Carolina. In 91社区, she worked at The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Her editing experience includes investigative and enterprise reporting; local, state and national politics; and local news. Multimedia storytelling and news packaging/design are among her areas of expertise.
education
- M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.Ed., Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.A., Education (English), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
teaching areas
- First Amendment law
- Public affairs and local news reporting
- Multimedia storytelling
- Writing