He joined the KSU faculty in 2008 following an 18-year career at the Akron Beacon Journal, The Palm Beach Post and the Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y. He also has been a visiting professor of journalism at Shanghai International Studies University in China. He is the vice head of the Newspaper and Online News Division of AEJMC, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Contact Mitch at mmckenne@kent.edu.