John Kennedy smiling portrait.

John Kennedy

Lecturer, Department of Journalism

About John Kennedy

Kennedy has been a journalist for more than 40 years and a college instructor for the past 25 years. He was instrumental in launching communication majors at two small colleges, Rosemont College in Pennsylvania and Franklin University Switzerland in Lugano, Switzerland. He has taught graduate students in Greece and the Czech Republic, as well as rural journalists in east Africa. He is the author of A Course of Their Own: A History of African American Golfers, and a contributor to Media Ethics at Work, a journalism ethics textbook.

Education

  • MA, Journalism, University of Oregon
  • BA, Literature and History, Claremont McKenna College