James W. Carey

James W. Carey is the CBS Professor of International Journalism in the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University and adjunct professor at Union Theological Seminary, both in New York City. He was dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from l979 to l992. Prior to that, he held the George H. Gallup Chair at the University of Iowa. He has published two books: Media, Myth and Narratives: Television and the Press and Communication as Culture. The University of Minnesota Press published James Carey: A Critical Reader in 1997. At Columbia, he teaches the ethics course required of all students. His research is on the history of journalism and international media. As a Shorenstein fellow, he will work on a short history of journalism for journalists.