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Associate Director

Wendy Whitt

Wendy Whitt

Associate Director and Senior Instructor

Contact

Office: CIS 3110
Phone: 813/974-4462
Email

Bio

Wendy M. Whitt is the associate director and an associate instructor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications. She teaches reporting and mass media writing courses, and coordinates the internship program. Whitt also serves as the Online News Association adviser.

She is a veteran newsroom leader who spent most of her career as a senior editor. She has been a reporter, copy editor and editor at newspapers in Florida, California and North Carolina. In Florida, she worked at The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Her editing experience includes investigative and enterprise reporting; local, state and national politics; and local news. Multimedia storytelling and news packaging/design are among her areas of expertise.

education

  • M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.Ed., Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • B.A., Education (English), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

teaching areas

  • First Amendment law
  • Public affairs and local news reporting
  • Multimedia storytelling
  • Writing