Lucinda Davenport
Dr. Lucinda D. Davenport was recently inducted into the state of Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. She has been recognized as an Outstanding Woman in Journalism and Mass Communication Education from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and MSUs top Robert F. Banks Award for Institutional Leadership. Her credentials include national, state and university excellence in teaching awards, DEI and community engagement grants, national research awards and an...See more
Dr. Lucinda D. Davenport was recently inducted into the state of Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. She has been recognized as an Outstanding Woman in Journalism and Mass Communication Education from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and MSUs top Robert F. Banks Award for Institutional Leadership. Her credentials include national, state and university excellence in teaching awards, DEI and community engagement grants, national research awards and an alumna award from Ohio University. After 10 years she stepped aside as MSUs Director of the School of Journalism, a nationally accredited program since 1949. She previously served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, among other administrative positions. Her work focuses mainly on news media and innovative technology, media history, journalistic ethics and DEI. Dr. Davenport has professional experience in newspaper, radio, television, public relations and digital news, and she is known to be an innovator with digital news and journalism education. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from Ohio University, an MA in journalism from the University of Iowa and a BA double major in journalism and Radio/TV/Film from Baylor University. Her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation were firsts in the country on computerized information services and online news. Visit Dr. Davenport at https://comartsci.msu.edu/our-people/lucinda-d-davenport. See less
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