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David Kurpius

Associate Dean
Phone: 225-578-1697

E-mail: kurpius@lsu.edu
Office: B39-A Hodges Hall

Website: http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/kurpius/

:: Ph.D., 1997, University of Wisconsin - Mass Communication
 

Dave Kurpius focuses his research and teaching on local television news and the connections between journalistic practice and democratic life. He has a number of years of professional newsroom experience at commercial television stations. His experience ranges from production assistant to reporter to news director. In his teaching, Kurpius focuses on developing creative storytelling narratives that lead to more accurate reflections of the communities presented in the story. His research primarily studies civic journalism and local television news. He conducts research for the Consortium for Local Television Surveys, which studies local television news content in several markets. He is also a national CIES Fulbright reviewer for media arts. Kurpius joined the faculty in 1997.

Selected works:

Kurpius, David D. (2004) "Television civic journalism and the portrayal of class," in Don Heider, ed., Class & News. Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 325-337. 

Kurpius, David D. & Fuqua, Dale (2003) Organizational consulting in the local newsroom. Consulting Psychology.

Rowley, Karen & Kurpius, David D. (2003) Separate and still unequal: A comparative case study of coverage of blacks in business magazines. Howard Journal of Communication.

Kurpius, David D. (2003) Bucking a Trend in Local Television News: Combating Market-Driven Journalism, Journalism 4: 77-95.

Kurpius, David D. (2002) Sources and Civic Journalism: Changing Patterns of Reporting, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 79: 853-866.

Kurpius, David D. and Andrew Mendelson (2002) A Case Study of Deliberative Democracy on Television: Civic Dialogue on C-SPAN Call-in Shows, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79: 587-601.

Potter, Deborah and David D. Kurpius (2000) "Public Journalism and Television News," in A. J. Eksterowicz and R. N. Roberts, eds., Public Journalism and Political Knowledge. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
 

Kurpius, D. D. (2000).  Civic Journalism and Commercial Local Television News: In search of a model. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

Potter, D. and D. D. Kurpius. (2000).  "Public Journalism and the Television News Media." in A.J. Eksterowicz & R. Roberts, eds., Public Journalism and Political Knowledge . Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Voakes, P., Kurpius, D., Kapfer, J, and Chern, S. (1995). Diversity in the News: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

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