Dr. Jack Lule is the Joseph B. McFadden Distinguished Professor of Journalism and the Director of the Globalization and Social Change Initiative at Lehigh University. His research interests include globalization and media, international communication, international news reporting, cultural and critical studies of news, online journalism, and teaching with technology.

He is the author of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism, published in 2001 by Guilford Press. Called "a landmark book in the sociology of news," the book argues that ancient myths can be found daily in the pages of the news. The book won the 2002 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship. His current book is a study of globalization and the media.

The author of more than 40 scholarly articles and book chapters, Dr. Lule is also a frequent contributor to numerous newspapers and periodicals, and has served as a commentator about the news on National Public Radio, BBC and other media outlets.

A member of the editorial board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and Critical Studies in Media Communication, Dr. Lule is also a three-time winner of the James E. Murphy Award for research given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

His teaching awards include the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. In October 2006, he was named Director of the Globalization and Social Change Initiative at Lehigh, an interdisciplinary program that brings together research and teaching from the four colleges at Lehigh in study of globalization.

A former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dr. Lule received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1987. He has been teaching at Lehigh since 1990. He lives in Bethlehem with his wife, Gregorie, and their three sons.