Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism Faculty Bios

Sheri Broyles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Advertising
GAB 110A
broyles@unt.edu
(940) 565-4736

Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Methodist University, M.A. in journalism from University of Missouri, bachelor's degree in music from the University of Missouri

Sheri Broyles serves as head of the advertising sequence and has taught a variety of advertising classes at UNT since 1996, from lower-level courses to the capstone Advertising Campaigns classes. Her professional background includes work in advertising, PR and marketing for a symphony orchestra and as a copywriter and account executive for an advertising agency. She has also dabbled in writing for newspapers. Research interests include a variety of aspects of creativity including the creative personality, entry-level creative portfolios and, most recently, the study of women within creative departments at advertising agencies. She also has written on subliminal advertising. Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, the Journal of Consumer Marketing, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, and the Journal of Advertising Education. Dr. Broyles is active in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), with 3,500 members from around the world. She has served as head of the Advertising Division, helps coordinate the annual Teaching Workshop for the Advertising Division and is currently an elected member of the Standing Committee on Teaching.

Roy Busby, PhD
Regents Professor, Advertising, Direct Response and Integrated Communication
GAB 102C
busby@unt.edu
(940) 565-2267

PhD in Business Administration at the University of Oklahoma, MBA in Marketing at the University of North Texas, BS in Journalism at the University of North Texas

Roy Busby teaches integrated communication and direct response communication at the Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism and principles of advertising, integrated communication, direct response communication and public relations at the undergraduate Department of Journalism.  He also teaches in the University of North Texas Honors College.  He has been the director of information, secretary to the Board of Regents and assistant to the president and vice president for university relations and is currently a Regents professor at the University of North Texas.  Busby is nationally recognized for his work in direct response communications and in the roles of minority role models in professional communications.  He was also the first faculty member of a Texas state university to earn national accreditation in public relations from the Public Relations Society of America.

Tracy Everbach, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, News-Editorial
GAB 101J
everbach@unt.edu
(940) 369-7446

Ph.D. in journalism at the University of Missouri, master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University

Tracy Everbach joined the University of North Texas journalism faculty in fall 2004 as an assistant professor and adviser to the North Texas Daily. She teaches writing and reporting classes and often can be found in the newsroom. She worked as a newspaper reporter for 14 years, two at The Boston Herald and 12 at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered police, courts, county government and social services. As a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, she worked on in-depth projects examining domestic violence and juvenile killers and covered the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco. She won several national, state and local journalism awards, including the PASS Award from National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Carole Kneeland Award from the Texas Governor's Commission on Women, Dallas Press Club Katie Award, and Associated Press Managing Editors awards. She taught journalism, writing and reporting, and mass media classes for two years at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., before coming to UNT. Her research focuses on gender and media, including women journalists, women in management and journalism history. She is married to Jake Batsell, a fellow journalist. They have two dogs, Hildy and Scruffy.

Cornelius 'Neil' Foote Jr.
Assistant Professor, Electronic News
GAB 109
foote@unt.edu
(940) 565-2265

M.B.A. at Southern Methodist University, M.S.J. at Northwestern University, B.A. at Wesleyan University

Cornelius 'Neil' Foote Jr. is a veteran media executive who has worked in all facets of journalism: in print, in broadcast and online. During his 25-year career, he has worked at The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, the Belo Corporation and The Tom Joyner Morning Show.   He also worked for the newspaper industry's leading editorial association – The American Society of Newspaper Editors.  In addition to being a newspaper reporter, he has led advertising sales teams, helped develop strategy and launch Web sites and developed and managed public relations for a nationally syndicated radio personality and media company. He is president of Foote Communications LLC, and along with his wife, Jane, launched KindlySpeaking.com, an online tributes site.  Foote is incoming chairperson of the National Association of Minority Media Executives, as well as a longstanding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Foote, who loves tennis and live jazz, lives in Dallas with his wife and daughter.

Koji Fuse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Public Relations
GAB 102H
kfuse@unt.edu
(940) 369-8083

Ph.D. in Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University, B.A. in English Literature at Keio University, Japan

A native of Japan, Koji Fuse came to the United States to study public relations. He joined the journalism faculty at UNT in 2007, after teaching for four years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Fuse worked as a sales and PR representative for a Japanese whiskey manufacturer for about four years. His experience includes customer special events, an IMC campaign for a bourbon brand, and a publicity campaign for a student organization's special event. He is also a research consultant for a magazine-publishing company. His research and teaching cover various communication topics: public relations, mass communication theory, critical/cultural theory, research methods, public opinion, persuasion, managerial/organizational communication, business communication and cross-cultural communication. He is currently the president of the Japan-U.S. Communication Association, an affiliate of the National Communication Association.

George Getschow
Professor, Feature Writing and Narrative Nonfiction
GAB 113
getschow@unt.edu
(940) 369-8631

M.F.A. in Writing-Creative Nonfiction, B.A. in journalism from Iowa State University

George Getschow teaches news reporting and writing practice, feature writing, and narrative nonfiction to students at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. Getschow is also the writer-in-residence for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, a three-day literary event that David Granger, editor of Esquire magazine, says "is rapidly becoming one of the most vital gathering of writers in America" and Gay Talese says "is the gathering place in the country for serious nonfiction writers who want to  deeply explore the craft and learn how its practiced at the highest levels." Before joining the Mayborn, he was a full-time writer, editor and bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, working in the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Houston bureaus. He covered Mexico for two years and worked in New York as a rewrite editor for Page One features. Getschow has received a number of national writing awards, including runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1984, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for "distinguished writing" about the underprivileged and The National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing (NCAEW) first place for best feature series.  Some of his Page One feature stories have been anthologized in books, including The Art and Craft of Feature Writing and The Abundant Land. He's currently completing a literary nonfiction book for New York publisher, Henry Holt. The book, Walled Kingdom, grew out of a two-part narrative for The Wall Street Journal.

Nann Goplerud
Instructional Associate Professor, Electronic News
RTVF 266
goplerud@unt.edu
(940) 565-2591

B.A. and M.A. in Radio-TV-Film from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas

Nann Goplerud joined the University of North Texas in January 2006 after a long, award-winning career as a broadcast journalist. Most recently, she was the Executive Producer of Special Projects at WFAA-TV (Channel 8) in Dallas-Fort Worth. Nann was Executive Producer on two investigative projects that won the two most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism – the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award. She also led the WFAA team that won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television for Political Journalism. Nann has also won numerous other honors during her 30-year broadcast career. She was selected as a 2003-2004 Ethics Fellow at the acclaimed Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. She previously worked as a news reporter at KDFW-TV (Channel 4) in Dallas-Fort Worth, a syndication news writer/producer at CBS News in New York City, and a news reporter at WIBW-TV (Channel 13) in Topeka, Kansas. Nann is an Instructional Associate Professor, with a joint appointment in the Journalism Department and the Radio-TV-Film Department. She led the faculty and staff in developing the new Electronic News major, which is shared between the Journalism and R-TV-F Departments. Nann teaches Introductory Electronic News Writing, Advanced Electronic News Writing and Reporting, and Ethical Decision-Making in the Media.

Elizabeth Koehler, PhD
Professor, News-Editorial
GAB 109
ekoehler@unt.edu
(940) 565-2265

JD at Southern Methodist University (May 2007), PhD in Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA in Communication at the University of Washington, BA in Journalism at the University of Minnesota

Elizabeth Koehler teaches mass media law, media writings, media studies and theories and editing practices at the Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism and the undergraduate Department of Journalism.  She is currently completing her Juris Doctorate at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and is managing editor of The International Lawyer. Her research interests are First Amendment law and ethics, gender, race and culture.  In 1997, she was awarded the Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of North Carolina for a mass media law class.   Her research has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and Free Speech Yearbook.

Jacqueline Lambiase, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Relations and Technology
GAB 101B
lambiase@unt.edu
(940) 565-2268

PhD in Humanities (Rhetoric and Composition, American Studies) at the University of Texas at Arlington, Master of Journalism and BA in Journalism at the University of North Texas

Jacqueline Lambiase teaches technology, writing and public relations at the Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism and in the undergraduate Department of Journalism. She advises students in the PR sequence and serves on the UNT Women's Studies Program steering committee.  Lambiase is treasurer and a board member of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, a member of the Association for Educators for Journalism and Mass Communication and a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Women Journalists. In 2001, she became co-adviser of the UNT student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.  She received the 1998 Professing Women Award from the UNT Women's Studies Program and two Top Prof awards in 1996 and 1997 from the UNT Mortar Board Senior Honor Society.  In 1990 and 1994, she was named a gift honoree of the American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation.  She received a first-place award from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for news-release writing in 1988.  Lambiase lives in Arlington with her spouse, Tom, and two daughters.  She serves as a school volunteer and Girl Scout leader.

Mitchell Land, PhD
Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism Director, Public Relations
GAB 207
mitchland@unt.edu
(940) 565-4564

PhD in Radio, Television and Film (International and Development Communication, Cultural Anthropology) at the University of Texas, MA in Journalism at the University of North Texas, Master of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, BA in French at Midwestern State University, Certificat d'etudes françaises-premier degré at the Université de Haute Bretagne

Mitchell Land serves as director of the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism and founder of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest.  He teaches media ethics, public opinion and propaganda and international communication.  Land worked in media development in the Francophone countries of Africa for 15 years with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention before becoming a professor in 1989.  His research has focused on the political role of television in Cote d'Ivoire and on the status of independent newspapers in Cameroon.  From 2002 to 2005, Land led the Mayborn Institute in helping Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique launch an undergraduate journalism program.  The Mayborn Institute offered journalism graduate courses in Maputo to accelerate training for future instructors in the new program.  His ethics book Contemporary Media Ethics (2006), which offers a new analytical model for analyzing complex ethical dilemmas in the media, was nominated for the 2006 Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research.

James Mueller, PhD
Assistant Professor, News-Editorial
GAB 116
jmueller@unt.edu
(940) 565-2278

PhD in Journalism at the University of Texas, MA in Journalism and BA in Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia

James Mueller teaches reporting, media law, public relations and other media courses.  He worked as a reporter, editor and photographer for roughly 10 years at newspapers in St. Louis. He has served as an assistant professor at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, and taught in Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, as part of a special graduate program offered by the UNT Department of Journalism. He is a faculty adviser to the North Texas Daily. He has also contributed articles to publications including Mass Comm Review, the Journal of Media Economics, Grassroots Editor and The Media in America, a popular journalism history textbook.  He has written a chapter in Media Management Review and published Custer and His Times, Book 4, and Towel-Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-Room Antics to Message Control.

David Wachanga
Lecturer, Information Systems
GAB 109
dwachanga@gmail.com
(940) 565-2265

PhD in Information Science at the University of North Texas (August 2007), MJ at the University of North Texas, BA in English Literature and Kiswahili from Egerton University in Kenya

David Wachanga teaches readings in mass communication, media ethics and international communication as a dual lecturer in the School of Library and Information Sciences and the Department of Journalism.  He was a bilingual editor at East African Educational Publishers and a columnist in Sunday Nation and East African Standard in Kenya.  His research topics include media ethics in African media systems, international communication, information flow in socio-political restrictive environments, clandestine media, media history and development in Africa and media and democracy in Africa.  Wachanga was a Mayborn scholar and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the African Studies Association and the International Communication Association.

Richard Wells, PhD
Professor, Public Relations and News-Editorial
EESAT 220A
wells@unt.edu
(940) 565-2167

PhD at Texas A&M University, MJ and BS in Education at the University of North Texas

Richard Wells teaches public relations communications, leadership in media, public relations cases, problems in public relations and professional protocol at the Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism and the undergraduate Department of Journalism.  Wells has professional experience in public relations and newspapers, including metropolitan papers.  He is a retired rear admiral who headed the Naval Reserve Public Affairs Program, and he served in the Pentagon as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy.  He also served as president of the Naval Postgraduate School in 2000 and again in 2005-2006.  Wells currently serves on the UNT Faculty Senate, the College of Arts & Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee and other university and departmental committees.  He is faculty adviser to the department's PRSSA chapter and Kappa Tau Alpha chapter and to the university's Kappa Sigma fraternity, women's lacrosse team and Mean Green Veteran's Association.  He co-directs the Center for Community and Environmental Journalism.  Wells served executive posts with the Texas Public Relations Association, and TPRA named Wells Outstanding Public Relations Practitioner in Texas in 1999. Wells is a state-certified mediator and a 2001 graduate of the Protocol School of Washington.

Susan Zavoina
Chair, UNT Department of Journalism
GAB 102A
zavoina@unt.edu
(940) 565-2205

MFA at the University of North Texas, BS at the University of North Texas

Susan Zavoina serves as the chair of the Department of Journalism at UNT.  She also coordinates the photojournalism sequence and teaches the advance photojournalism classes.  She is a Poynter Research Fellow conducting a study on photo editing in online newspapers.  She received a grant from the Freedom Forum Foundation to continue a visual documentation of the effects of litter on areas of the Texas Coastline.  Her other documentary projects include images from the French West Indies and Romania.   While in Romania, Zavoina photographed the delivery of medical supplies by Dr. Benjy Brooks, a UNT alumna.  Zavoina also spoke to journalism classes at the University of Sibiu and the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.  After joining the faculty in the fall of 1993, Zavoina established a student chapter of the NPPA and serves as faculty adviser.  Each year the advanced photojournalism students participate in the National Press Photographers Association's Electronic Times by publishing photo essays on the Web.