Faculty and Staff
- About the Department
- Curriculum
- Faculty and Staff
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Student Work
- Rockbridge Report
- Editing and Design for Journalism and Strategic Communication
- Investigative Reporting
- Reporting and Communicating the Climate Crisis in Barbados
- Radio News Hour
- Covering Courts and the Law
- Audio Production, Podcasting, and Recording Your Voice
- Podcasting
- Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking
- Multimedia Storytelling Design
- Sports Journalism
- The Magazine: Past, Present, Future
- AIM Insider
- Internships
- Scholarships
- Graduation and Retention Rates
Faculty
Mark Coddington
Department Head and Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 203
- Email: coddingtonm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8430
Coddington teaches courses on digital journalism, media bias, social media and reporting. His research interests include media sociology, online news production, networked and participatory journalism, and social media.
Adedayo (Dayo) Abah
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 204
- Email: abahd@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8077
Abah teaches courses on communications law, news media, crisis communication, and international communication. Her research areas include online anonymous speech, international defamation law, copyright issues, Nollywood in African cinema, women and Nollywood, religion and the media, and immigrant media use.
L. Ady Dewey
Reynolds Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication
- Reid Hall 118
- Email: adewey@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4298
Kevin Finch
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 301
- Email: finchk@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8218
Finch teaches broadcast producing, announcing and documentaries. He was a large market TV news director who also covered 9/11 in Washington, the Senate post-impeachment vote on President Clinton and the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
Toni Locy
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Locy teaches courses on covering the courts and law, news writing, in-depth reporting, multimedia storytelling design and sports journalism. She was previously a journalist for 25 years, covering primarily the federal court system.
Jared Macary
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 202
- Email: jmacary@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8240
Alecia Swasy
Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism
- Reid Hall 117
- Email: swasya@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8436
Swasy teaches courses on business and economic reporting, media management and entrepreneurship. She previously worked as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal and Tampa Bay Times. She is the author of four books.
Patrick Walters
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 304
- Email: pwalters@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8865
Emeritus Faculty
Claudette G. Artwick
Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications Emerita
Aly Colón
John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Media Ethics Emeritus
- Reid Hall 120
- Email: colona@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8433
Douglas O. Cumming
Associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications Emeritus
John K. Jennings
Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications Emeritus
Pam Luecke
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications Emerita
Brian Richardson
Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications Emeritus
Hampden H. Smith III
Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications Emeritus
Staff
Steve Cross
Radio Station Manager WLUR-FM
- John W. Elrod University Commons
- Email: scross@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4017
Heather Dobbins
Internship Coordinator and Lecturer of Music
- Reid Hall 112
- Email: dobbinsh@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8435
Joan Mack Millon
Knight Program Administrative Assistant
- Reid Hall 119
- Email: millonj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8786
Department Info
- P: 540-458-8432
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Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Reid Hall
Washington and Lee University
204 West Washington St.
Lexington, Virginia 24450