Contact info
- Michael Sweeney, Professor; Associate Director for Graduate Studies
- Phone:
- 740.593.2589
- Email:
- sweenem3@ohio.edu
- Office:
- Scripps Hall 106
Biography
Michael Sweeney received his Ph.D. in Journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He earned his Master of Journalism at the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was the department head of the journalism and communications department and full professor at Utah State University. He also worked as a teaching associate at Ohio University and an adjunct instructor at Texas Christian University. Michael worked as a reporter for National Geographic, filing daily news dispatches for the Web site on the progress of Dr. Robert Ballard’s expedition to Titanic. He also served as Webmaster and editor for the Hard News Café, the Utah State University journalism and communication department news and information site. He was managing editor of Ohio University College of Health and Human Services Digest and features editor at the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram. He was a general assignment reporter and education reporter at the Springfield (Mo.) Daily News. Michael has published many academic and popular books, journal articles and encyclopedia entries including The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce (Evanston, Ill.: Northwest University Press, 2006), Secrets of Victory (Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2003), and "Harvey O’Higgins and the Daily German Lie" in American Journalism 23 (2006). His numerous National Geographic Press publications include The Ultimate Survival Book (2009), Peace: The Biography of a Symbol (2008) and God Grew Tired of Us (2007).
