Dr. Richard D. Hendrickson
Associate Professor
O'Malley Center, Room 54
Phone: (216) 397-3078 Fax: (216) 397-1759
Emai: rhendrickson@jcu.edu or newsprof@mac.com

After a 40-year career as a reporter and editor, Richard D. Hendrickson, Ph.D., now teaches journalism courses as an associate professor at John Carroll University, the Jesuit school in Cleveland, OH.

Dr. Hendrickson was editorial page editor and special projects director the last nine of his 35 years at The Morning Journal, a daily and Sunday newspaper serving Lorain and nearby communities west of Cleveland. Before that he served at various times as Sunday editor, city editor, news editor, state editor, wire editor, business editor, reporter and bureau chief.

He began his journalism career in the U.S. Navy and later was a reporter for The Syracuse Post Standard and a newsman for The Associated Press at Buffalo.

Hendrickson earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism (1981), master’s in political science (1987) and Ph.D. in communication studies (August 2000) from Bowling Green State University. He was an adjunct instructor of journalism at BGSU, Firelands College, Bluffton College and JCU.

His dissertation was on media access to juvenile courts. His recent research covers editorial writing about a contentious judicial election and the use of e-mail addresses with reporter bylines in print and online publications. He has been frequently consulted on issues of Ohio public meetings and records law.

Ohio First Amendment co-chair for the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Hendrickson is first vice president of the Cleveland SPJ chapter and adviser to the SPJ campus chapter at JCU. He is a communications consultant and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Cleveland and Inside Business magazines.

Besides the introductory Journalism course at JCU, Dr. Hendrickson teaches Investigative Reporting, Ethics & the Media, Communications & the First Amendment, Presidential Politics & the Press, International Journalism and Literary Journalism

He and his wife, Carol, reside in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood.

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