Dr. Jack Lule is the Joseph B. McFadden Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Director of the Globalization and Social Change Initiative at Lehigh University.
His research interests include cultural and critical studies of news, international communication, online journalism, sports and media, and teaching with technology.
He is the the author of more than 35 scholarly articles and book chapters, is a member of the editorial board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and is associate editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication.
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Every new messenger brings evil report/About armies on the march and time that is short/ And famines and earthquakes and train wrecks and the tearing down of the walls. -- B. Dylan |
jack.lule@lehigh.edu Address: Department of Journalism & Communication Coppee Hall: 33 Coppee Drive Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015 Co-adviser, The Brown and White, the student newspaper Coursework in online journalism at Lehigh University |
Daily
News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism was
published in 2001 by Guilford Press. Called “a landmark book in the
sociology of news,” the book argues that archetypes and myths can
be found daily in the pages of the news.
The book won the 2002 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association.
Daily News, Eternal Stories was also a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best book in journalism and mass communication research published in 2001.