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About Doug Cumming

Doug Cumming is an associate professor emeritus of journalism at Washington & Lee University with 26 years experience at metro newspapers and magazines. After getting a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in mass communications, he taught multimedia reporting and feature writing at Loyola University-New Orleans and at W&L in Virginia. Earlier, he worked at the newspapers in Raleigh, Providence and Atlanta; was editor of the Sunday Magazine in Providence; and helped launch Southpoint monthly magazine in Atlanta. He won a George Polk Award and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

Wading into ‘Riptide’

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Doug Cumming

From my column in Clio Among the Media, the newsletter of the History Division of AEJMC, spring 2014. A year ago, some well-seasoned journalists were hanging around the Kennedy School at Harvard as Shorenstein Fellows. Having a few months to … Continue reading →

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JOUR318 W14

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Doug Cumming

Journalism318: Literature of Journalism Tues., Thurs., 1:25-2:50 p.m., Reid 302 Doug Cumming, Ph.D., cummingd@wlu.edu Reid Hall 101 – 458-8208 In this course we will study nonfiction writing from three perspectives: the New Journalism that emerged in the 1960s and continues … Continue reading →

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CBS Standards and Practices

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Doug Cumming

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