The Roy H. Park School of Communications has announced the appointment of veteran journalist Christopher Harper as the first Park Distinguished Chair in Communications. A former producer and bureau chief for ABC News, Harper has taught for the past three years in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at New York University. In addition to his classroom teaching, he will work closely with students in our cocurricular efforts in television, radio, and print journalism, and with the faculty in developing special workshops and seminars in journalism education.
Harper has extensive broadcast and print journalism credentials.
He started his journalism career as a Chicago reporter for the Associated Press. News Media in the Digital Age and editor of Mass Communications in the New Millennium, both scheduled for publication this fall. In addition to the endowed chair, the grant funds undergraduate scholarships, a distinguished visitors series, and capital equipment acquisitions in the school. Harper joined the faculty of New York University in 1994 as an associate professor of journalism, serving as director of graduate studies in 1995-96. He held a Freedom Forum teaching fellowship at Indiana University in 1996 and has lectured at Columbia University and Case Western Reserve University law school.