John Lavine
John Lavine is an United States journalist and educator and former Dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is a professor of media management and strategy at Medill and the Kellogg School of Management.[1] He focuses on the emerging role and trends of media ranging from traditional and digital journalism and marketing communications to social networking, participatory media, the impact of new technologies, and how to increase audience engagement with the media.
Life
Lavine graduated from Carleton College in 1963.[2] Lavine's career spanned 25 years as a publisher and editor of a group of four daily and four weekly newspapers in Wisconsin. He was also the publisher and co-founder, with Kenneth Swaiman, of an international medical journal. He co-founded and was an executive with the American half of Cygnet Films of London. The company made documentaries, films for television, educational and sports films.
Lavine had his editorial syndicated nationally by King Features. He held leadership positions with the major industry associations, Newspaper Association of America, Inland Press, and Inter American Press Association. He also presented the Media Management Center's research findings to thousands of magazine, newspaper, television, online, and business-to-business media executives as well as leaders of advertising and marketing agencies.
Lavine helped to create the academic field of media management. From 1984 to 1989 he was the first John and Elizabeth Cowles Professor of Media Management and Economics at the University of Minnesota.[3] He co-authored Managing Media Organizations: Effective Leadership of the Media, the first text on the subject with Daniel Wackman in 1988.[4]
For 16 years Lavine founded and led Northwestern's Media Management Center which educates senior executives around the world and does research on some of the media's most pressing problems. He launched and chaired the Kellogg School of Management's major in media management for MBAs. He directed the major study of Latin American media for the Inter American Press Association from 1985, and founded the International Media Management Academic Association in 2004.[5]
On January 9, 2006, Lavine became dean of the Medill School of Journalism replacing Loren Ghiglione.[3]
In 2008, he was the subject of an investigation by Daniel I. Linzer into whether Lavine fabricated quotes from unidentified students for use in the alumni magazine. Wrote Linzer: "The committee found that there is ample evidence that the quotes were consistent with sentiment students expressed about the course in course evaluations and no evidence to point to any likelihood that the quotes were fabricated."[6]
Lavine was a regent and vice president of the University of Wisconsin System and was instrumental in merging the state universities and the University of Wisconsin into what was then the nation's fourth largest system. In addition, he served as a trustee of Coker College, an experimental school in Hartsville, North Carolina, as well as a member of the board of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and on the board of one of the nation's federal educational laboratories. He received an honorary LLD degree from Emerson College.[3]
References
- ↑ "Administration". Medill School of Journalism web site. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ↑ "Alumni". Nordic Skiing Club. Carleton College. 2005. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Lavine Named Dean of Medill School of Journalism". MMC news (Media Management Center). December 5, 2005.
- ↑ John M. Lavine; Daniel B. Wackman (1988). Managing Media Organizations: Effective Leadership of the Media. ISBN 978-0-582-28634-4.
- ↑ "John Lavine: Dean of Medill, Professor and Founder, Media Management Center". Faculty biography. Northwestern University. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ↑ "Northwestern: No Evidence of Made-Up Quotes". Associated Press. March 1, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2011.