Bruce Evensen spent thirteen years in broadcast and print journalism as a reporter, producer and bureau chief in Washington and the Middle East before receiving his PhD in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989.
Areas of interest and specialization
Journalism history and ethics; mass communication history; new media; the press and the political process; sports journalism; religion and media; sensationalism
Professional Organizations
American Journalism Historians Association; Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Fulbright Association
Publications and Research
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"Journalism and the American Experience" (Routledge, 2018)
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"The Responsible Reporter: Journalism in the Information Age" (Peter Lang, third ed. 2008; Vision Press, first ed. 1995, second ed. 1997)
- "Encyclopedia of American Journalism" (assistant editor and author of 59 articles, 2008)
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"God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism" (Oxford University Press, 2003)
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"When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age" (University of Tennessee Press, 1996)
- "Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War" (Greenwood Press, 1992)
- Sixteen book chapters and 21 articles on: journalism history, objectivity, the media and reform, the media and religion, reporting the Middle East, sports journalism, the media and national character
- One hundred twenty-eight biographical articles for Encyclopedia of American Journalism History; Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America; Encyclopedia of the Midwest; Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications; Encyclopedia of the World Press; Television News Encyclopedia; American Cities and Suburbs.
Courses Taught
CMN 102 Introduction to Mass Communication
JOUR 275 Introduction to Journalism
JOUR 343 Journalism and the American Experience
JOUR 362 The Press and the Presidency
JOUR 501 The Social Responsibility of Journalism
JOUR 532 The Press and the Presidency
JOUR 537 From Franklin to the Internet: A History of American Journalism
JOUR 538 Mass Communication in the Digital Age
SPRTCMN 300/JOUR 376/JOUR 515 Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Hawks: A History of Sports Reporting
Outside Interests
History; The Cubs and the Bears; news and current events; reading; classic Hollywood cinema; Swing and Classical music
Media
Appearances on PBS, Fox News, ABC7, CBS2, NBC5. Interviews for Associated Press, ESPN, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post