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JSU names former Star editor Waddle Ayers Chair of CommunicationsDec 05, 2008 (The Anniston Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Jacksonville State University recently named former Star editor and veteran journalist Chris Waddle its Ayers Chair of Communications. "I have been a teacher all my career in a sense that every editor shares his or her talent with people who are coming up in the industry," Waddle said. "And teaching on campus is a more formalized way to do that." Waddle, who held many positions while at the Star, including managing editor and executive editor, teaches an introduction to news course this semester at JSU and plans to teach opinion writing in the spring. He is president of the Ayers Family Institute for Community Journalism, and also the Anniston coordinator of the Knight Fellows in Community Journalism program. He also reviews books for The Star. "But to hold a named chair at Jacksonville State is a distinct honor and real pleasure to be able to work with students who come from this region," he said. While the managing editor at the Kansas City Times, Waddle's newsroom won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for general news reporting. He's also a former Fulbright scholar and Nieman fellow. "I guess he's probably the most qualified person ever to hold that chair," said Star Publisher and President H. Brandt Ayers. "He's written a thousand editorials and directed hundreds of news stories." "He's done it all," Ayers said. To see more of The Anniston Star or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.annistonstar.com/. Copyright (c) 2008, The Anniston Star, Ala. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |