David
A. Craig
Assistant Professor
Gaylord College of Journalism
and Mass Communication
University of Oklahoma
David Craig has been an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma since August 1996. He earned a B.S. in journalism in 1982 from Northwestern University, an M.A. in communications from Wheaton College in 1993 and a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1997. He was a news copy editor and trained new editors and interns at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader from 1982-91. He taught editing at Northwestern from 1991-93 and Missouri from 1995-96. His research interests include journalism ethics, coverage of ethics in medicine and other professions, and public journalism.
Ph.D. in journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, December 1997. Study and research focused on journalism ethics, coverage of ethics and values, mass communication and society, civic journalism. Dissertation: "Covering the Ethics Angle: Toward a Method to Evaluate and Improve How Journalists Portray the Ethical Dimension of Professions and Society."
Master of arts in communications, Wheaton College, 1993. Focused on foundations of ethics in theology and philosophy and application of ethical reasoning to journalistic cases. Thesis: "Agapé as an Ethical Value for Journalistic Practice."
Bachelor of science in journalism, Northwestern University, 1982.
Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, 120,000-circulation Knight-Ridder newspaper, 1982 to 1991: Copy editor
Assisted copy desk chief in the slot. Did final reads on stories, rewrote headlines and monitored copy flow to composing room.
Trained new copy editors and interns. Gave feedback on headlines and editing, taught new editors the computer system and oriented them to desk procedures.
Supervised page makeup in the composing room. Made final cuts in stories, checked pages and tracked copy flow.
Assisted in two revisions of the newspaper's stylebook.
Lexington Herald, winter 1981: Copy editing and reporting intern on Northwestern's Teaching Newspaper program.
Hardware Retailing, trade magazine in Indianapolis, summer 1980 and 1981: Editorial assistant. Work included reporting and copy editing.
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma
News editor at the school's community newspaper, the Columbia Missourian, summer 1995: Supervised and coached student copy editors and page designers two nights a week. Oversaw story play decisions and wire copy selection. Responsible for final editing and approval of news pages.
Adjunct lecturer, 1991-92: Taught undergraduate and graduate editing labs. Assisted in lecture section of the basic undergraduate editing course (C21-1). Edited Monitor copy.
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONSDavid Craig, "Ethical Language and Themes in News Coverage of Genetic Testing," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 160-74.
David Craig, "A Framework for Evaluating Coverage of Ethics in Professions and Society," Journal of Mass Media Ethics, vol. 14, no. 1 (1999), pp. 16-27.
David Craig, "Influences on Editing Quality at the Daily Oklahoman," Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 58-71.
David Craig, "Communitarian Journalism(s): Clearing Conceptual Landscapes," Journal of Mass Media Ethics, vol. 11, no. 2 (1996), pp. 107-18. [Reviewed by journal's editors.]
Jane B. Singer, David Craig, Chris W. Allen, Virginia Whitehouse, Anelia Dimitrova, and Keith P. Sanders, "Attitudes of Professors and Students About New Media Technology," Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, vol. 51, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 36-45.
Edmund Lambeth and David Craig, "Civic Journalism as Research," Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2 (Spring 1995), pp. 148-60.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
David Craig, "Covering the Ethics of Death: An Exploration of Three Model Approaches," presented in the Media Ethics Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix, Ariz., August 2000.
David Craig, "Conquering Complexity: Barriers to Better News Coverage of Ethics and Recommendations for Improvement," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Crystal City, Va., February 1999.
David Craig, "A Critical Assessment of News Coverage of the Ethical Implications of Genetic Testing," paper presented in the Qualitative Studies Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, Md., August 1998.
David Craig, "A Theoretical Framework for Evaluating News Coverage of Ethics in Professions and Society," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Dallas, Texas, February 1998.
David Craig, "Rules for Getting Real: How One Newspaper's Editors Talk About 'Real People,'" paper presented in the Newspaper Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C., August 1995.
David Craig, "Communitarian Journalism(s): Clearing the Conceptual Landscape," paper presented in the Qualitative Studies Division at the AEJMC annual meeting, Washington, D.C., August 1995.
David Craig, Jane B. Singer, Chris W. Allen, Virginia Whitehouse, Anelia Dimitrova, Keith P. Sanders, "Facing the Future: Attitudes of Journalism Educators and Students About New Media Technology," paper presented in the Communication Technology and Policy Division at the AEJMC annual meeting, Washington, D.C., August 1995.
David Craig, "Toward a Normative Justification for Civic Journalism," paper presented at the Media, Government and Public Policy conference of the Mass Communication and Society Division, AEJMC, Syracuse, N.Y., April 1995.
TEXTBOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
David Craig, "New Times in Los Angeles," case and commentary in Clifford G. Christians, Mark Fackler and Kim B. Rotzoll, Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 4th ed. (Longman, 1995), pp. 44-50.
PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES
David Craig, "Cross-Training, Rotation Leads to Less Stress," The American Editor, January 1998, pp. 16-17.
Jean Gaddy Wilson and David Craig, "On Our Minds" commentaries in Presstime:
"To Meet Our Challenges, We Must First Identify Them," May 1994, pp. 57-58. "This Month: The Trouble With Advertising," June 1994, pp. 66-67.
"This Month: Stemming Readership Declines," July/August 1994, pp. 70-71.
"This Month: Journalists As the Translators of Cultural Transition," September 1994, pp. 39-40.
"Past Columns Detailed Top-of-Mind Concerns. In This Last Effort, We Tell Why Training Should Be One," October 1994, pp. 41, 43.