Richard D. Hendrickson
After nearly 40 years as a reporter and editor, Richard D. Hendrickson, Ph.D., now teaches journalism courses as an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at John Carroll University, the Jesuit school in Cleveland.
Dr. Hendrickson was editorial page editor and special projects director the last nine of his 35 years at the The Morning Journal in Lorain, OH. Before that he served at various times as Sunday editor, city editor, news editor, state editor, wire editor, business editor, reporter and bureau chief. Hcareer in the U.S. Navy and later was a reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Syracuse Post Standard, and a newsman for The Associated Press at Buffalo.
Hendrickson earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism (1981), master’s in political science (1987) and Ph.D. in communication studies (August 2000) from Bowling Green State University. He was an adjunct instructor in journalism at BGSU, Firelands College, Bluffton College and JCU.
His dissertation was on media access to juvenile courts. His primary research interests are access to official proceedings and the impact of the Internet on journalism.
He is Ohio First Amendment co-chair for the Society of Professional Journalists, past president of the Cleveland SPJ chapter and adviser to the SPJ campus chapter at JCU. He is a communications consultant and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Cleveland and Inside Business magazines. He is editor of Writer’s Week, the newsletter of Cleveland SPJ.
Besides the introductory Journalism course at JCU, Dr. Hendrickson teaches Investigative Reporting, Ethics & the Media, Communications & the First Amendment, Politics, Policy & the Press, International Journalism, Literary Journalism, Editing and Design, and Convergent Journalism (in development).
He and his wife, Carol, reside in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood.
A veteran journalist takes teaching
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DR. HENDRICKSON
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