Olivia Engkvist, a graduating senior who was a finalist for the annual Rosemarie Martha Spitaleri Award for top female graduate of UW, invited Professor George Gladney to join her at the May 2007 awards luncheon where she received a plaque for her achievement. Engkvist, whose hometown is Rawlins, completed a double major—journalism and Spanish. During her career at UW, she endured four journalism courses taught by Professor Gladney.

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George Gladney
PROFESSOR 
Department of Communication and Journalism
Room 429, Ross Hall
P.O. Box 3904
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
307-766-3814 (office), 307-766-5293 (fax), ggladney@uwyo.edu 

George Gladney is a professor  in the Department of Communication and Journalism. His areas of interest and specialization include mass communication law, theory, and ethics; sociology of news; social impacts of communication technology; news writing and reporting. 

Gladney has worked as a financial reporter for the Los Angeles Times and as an editor of the Jackson Hole News and Colorado Springs Gazette. He also owned and operated his own business/financial public relations firm in Denver. He received his Ph.D. in communication in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his Master’s degree in journalism in 1988 from the University of Oregon, his B.J. degree in 1971 from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, and his B.A. degree (English) in 1969 from Waynesburg (PA) College. 

He has won numerous awards for his newspaper writing and reporting, as well as awards for outstanding teaching and research. He currently serves on the editorial board of Mass Communication and Society, the official journal of the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He formerly served as head of the MC&S Division. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Newspaper Research Journal, the official journal of the Newspaper Division of AEJMC. 

His scholarly research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal and Broadcast and Electronic Media; Mass Comm Review, Newspaper Research Journal, New Jersey Journal of Communication, and Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

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