Biography

Leonard Teel (Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1984) is Professor of Communication and the founding director of the GSU Center for International Media Education (CIME). Teel’s research interests include U.S. and international media history and international/global communication. He has received the Journalism Historians Association’s Excellence in Research Award on four occasions, and received the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication best researched book award for his biography, Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of a Southern Conscience (Tennessee 2001). His newest book is The Public Press, 1900-1945: A History of American Journalism (Praeger, 2006). In the international arena, Teel was a founding member and the first president of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators. He is the recipient of more than $1 million in external funding to lead journalism training and faculty and student exchanges with the Middle East, North Africa, and China. Teel is the founding editor of two journals, the Journal of Middle East Media and the Atlanta Review of Journalism History, the creator of the Economic Information Network (an online network of economic news reporters throughout the world), and the host for more than sixty World Media Forums (which bring panels of journalists from around the world to interact with Georgia State students and faculty). Teel has an extensive background as a journalist, having worked as a reporter, feature writer, columnist, investigative reporter, or copy editor at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the Washington Evening Star, The Miami Herald, the Fort Lauderdale News, and the Lancaster (Pa.) New Era. He has also freelanced for newspapers and CNN, where he won a broadcast Emmy as part of the team news coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Research Areas: Media History; International Communication. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Public Communication), M.A. (Mass Communication). Core Graduate Seminars regularly taught: International Communication; Media History; International Media and Culture; Communication in a Global Context.