New Faculty - Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Tim McGuire
Frank Russell Chair of Journalism

Propfessor McGuire is the newly named Frank Russell Chair of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Mr. McGuire will focus on providing courses on ethics and on the business components of journalism including operations, emerging media, corporate responsibility and the future of media. He retired in June 2002 as editor and senior vice president of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He served in that position since 1992. He joined the company in 1979 as managing editor of the Star Tribune, and was managing editor when that publication won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. He has been a Pulitzer jurist six times, most recently in 2003. Professor McGuire is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (2001-2002). He was the James Batten Visiting Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Davidson College in the fall of 2003 and spent the spring of 2005 at Washington and Lee University as the first Donald W. Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor. His move to full-time teaching is evidence of his growing belief that a middle ground must be found between bottom line profit orientation in the media business and the pursuit of journalism for the common good. As the Russell Chair, McGuire hopes to focus on the tensions between business and journalism. McGuire continues to make speeches and conduct seminars and retreats on calling and spirituality in work and he consults in the media industry. He speaks on a variety of topics including, "Ways to Tote Heart and Soul to Work," "Doing the Right Thing in Business," "Finding Purpose in Work," and "Facing the Future Ethically." McGuire also speaks on faith and family issues and on the challenges facing families with handicaps.