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Faculty & Staff

Sam Riley
Journalism
Office: 103 Shanks Hall
Phone: (540) 231-7165
Email: sriley@vt.edu

Education
Ph.D., Mass Communication Research, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1970.
MBA, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1962
A.B., DavidsonCollege, 1961

Teaching Interests
Magazine Writing
Opinion Writing (columns, editorials, reviews)
Communication Law & Ethics
Media Institutions


Recent Scholarship
10 books on the history of the magazine publishing industry
3 books on newspaper columnists and their work
2 books about African Americans in the U.S. news media
1 non-academic paperback, though comm-connected, on how Americans use personalized license plates
-scholarly journal articles and conference papers about such media figures as James Branch Cabell, Langston Hughes, & James Weldon Johnson
-1,000+reference book entries on Southern newspapers, Southern magazines, African-American newspaper columnists in the South, Will Rogers, other media figures and topics.


Professional Affiliations
Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, American Journalism Historians Association, Kappa Tau Alpha, Phi Beta Delta