Dennis F. Herrick
Dennis F. Herrick holds an M.A. in journalism from the University
of Iowa. He is on the journalism faculty in the Department
of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico.
He taught part-time for two years at the University of Iowa.
He was owner and publisher of a group of weekly newspapers
and a shopper in Iowa for 12 years before selling his company
in 1997. His newspapers won several awards for news coverage,
editorials, photography and newspaper design during his ownership.
He also was a reporter for more than 11 years with daily newspapers
in Michigan, and he is a former licensed commercial real estate
broker who specialized in the sale of weekly newspapers. He
was chief of staff for a member of Congress in 1977-85.
He is the author of Media
Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism,
published in 2003 by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing and reissued
in 2005 in India by Surjeet Publications.
As for the photo, one of his hobbies is raising and tagging
migrating monarch butterflies. He also writes fiction and
won the 2004 Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Contest.
Sample
Publications:
- "Winter of the Metal People: The Tiguex War,"
contract for 2009 publication, Gibbs Smith, Publisher
- "Handbook of Media
Management and Economics," (pdf) review in Journalism
& Mass Communication Quarterly, Spring 2006
- "Spirit Journey," fictional short story, Wapsipinicon
Almanac literary magazine, December 2005
- "Hunting
Season," fictional short story, Tony Hillerman
Mystery Contest winner, Cowboys & Indians magazine,
March 2005
- "The Problem
of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century,"
(pdf) review in Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly, Winter 2004
- "Backstory: Inside
the Business of News," (pdf) review in Journalism
& Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 2004
- Media
Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism,
a textbook for media management courses, Wiley-Blackwell
Publishing (formerly Iowa State Press), 2003
- "The
Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest,"
(pdf) review in Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly, Summer 2002
- "Acquiring a neighbor's paper often the fastest,
safest way to grow," Publishers' Auxiliary, National
Newspaper Association, December 2001
- "What you should know to sell your newspaper," Publishers'
Auxiliary, National Newspaper Association, December 2007
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