Jock Lauterer

Director

Carolina Community Media Project

(B.A. Journ./Geog., UNC-Chapel Hill, 1967)

Jock Lauterer is the founding director of the Carolina Community Media Project. This new initiative (Jan., ’01) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is supported by the Carolina Center for Public Service, as well as the School of Journalism and Mass Communication where Lauterer also teaches community journalism and newswriting.

The Project is dedicated to the proposition that great community media help build, strengthen and nurture great communities. Through teaching, research and outreach, the Project aims to fulfill Carolina’s mission as an engaged university working to make life better in N.C.

Prior to returning to his alma mater in 2001, Lauterer created and ran the photojournalism program for 10 years at Penn State where he was an associate professor. He has 15 years journalistic experience as co-founder, publisher and editor of two newspapers, the McDowell Express in Marion, N.C., and the Daily Courier in Forest City, N.C. Prior to coming to Penn State, he taught photojournalism for three years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Subsequently, he designed the journalism program at Brevard College (N.C.) where he was also in charge of the college news bureau, publications and public relations.

Lauterer is the author of six books: Only In Chapel Hill (UNC -CH Journalism Foundation, 1968), Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now (UNC Press, 1980), Running’ on Rims (Algonquin Books, 1986) and Hogwild: a Back-to-the-Land Saga (Appalachian Consortium Press, 1993). A textbook titled Community Journalism: the Personal Approach was published fall 1995 by Iowa State University Press, followed in the fall of 1996 by a Community Journalism Instructor's Manual. Second editions to both texts were published August 2000. A third edition is currently at press, slated for publication summer 2005.

Lauterer, who writes monthly commentary for the Chapel Hill News , was also the 1998 winner of the National Geographic Magazine Faculty Fellowship. He was also the inaugural winner of the Ed Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching, awarded spring 2004 at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

 

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