John C. Merrill
John Calhoun Merrill (9 January 1924 – 20 September 2012) was an American author and professor of journalism. He was
Merrill was born January 9, 1924, in Eden, Mississippi, and served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1946. He met his wife at Delta State University, where he graduated from in 1949.[3] He the went on to receive a Master's degree at Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Iowa in 1961.[3][4] His first teaching position was at Northwestern State College from 1951 to 1962, after which he moved to Columbia in order to teach at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.[3]
Merrill served as Chair of Journalism at
Merrill was awarded the Distinguished Research Master at
He was an active member of First Baptist Church in Columbia, and had five children with his wife Dorothy.[3]
He died on September 20, 2012, in Birmingham, Alabama, at 88.[3]
Selected works
- Handbook of the Foreign Press (1955)
- Gringo: The U.S. As Seen By Mexican Journalists (1963)
- The Foreign Press (with C. Bryan and M. Alisky; 1964)
- The Elite Press (1968)
- International Communication (with H.D. Fischer; 1970)
- Dimensions Of Christian Writing (with D. Bell; 1970)
- Media, Messages & Men (with R. Lowenstein; 1971)
- The Imperative of Freedom (1974)
- Ethics and the Press (with R. Barney; 1975)
- International & Intercultural Communication (with H.D. Fischer; 1976)
- Existential Journalism (1977)
- The World's Great Dailies (with Harold Fisher; 1980)
- Philosophy--and Journalism (with Jack O'Dell; 1983)
- Global Journalism: A Survey of the World's Media (1983)
- Basic Issues in Mass Communication (with E. Dennis; 1984)
- The Dialectic in Journalism (1989)
- Modern Mass Media (with J. Lee and J. Friedlander; 1990)
- Macromedia: Mission, Message, and Morality (with R. Lowenstein; 1990)
- Media Debates (with E. Dennis; 1991)
- Journalism Ethics: Philosophical Foundations for Journalists (1997)
- Legacy of Wisdom: Great Thinkers and Journalism (1994)
- Media Controversies (with D. Gordon, C. Reuss and Mike Kittross; 1995)
- The Princely Press: Machiavelli on American Journalism (1998)
- Twilight of Press Freedom: Rise of People's Journalism (2000)
References
- ^ a b c d Professor Emeritus John C. Merrill Honored in New Book for His Six Decades of Service to Journalism Education Missouri School of Journalism, 16 July 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ a b "John Calhoun Merrill: A Legacy of Wisdom". Media Ethics. 24 (1). Fall 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Journalism Scholar, Former MU Professor John Merrill Dies at 88 – Missouri School of Journalism". 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ^ "Distinguished Research Master Award". www.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ^ "John C. Merrill: 'There's less and less journalism going on'. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2023-09-05.