Dean Paul S. Voakes
Armory 19
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Paul.Voakes@Colorado.edu 
303 492-4364 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Dean Paul S. Voakes joined the School in July 2003, after nine years on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Journalism.  His PhD is from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and his research and teaching specializations are in mass media law and ethics, news writing, reporting and editing and math/statistics for journalism. Before entering academia he was a journalist for 15 years at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently as an op-ed columnist for the San Jose Mercury News.  In the summer of 2000 he was a political reporter at the Portland Oregonian as an American Society of Newspaper Editors Fellow. He is the author of The Newspaper Journalists of the '90s (ASNE, 1997) and has published his research in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, The Newspaper Research Journal and Communications Law & Policy.  He is a co-author of Working with Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists (2005), and a co-author of The American Journalist in the 21st Century, which received the 2007 Book Award from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). He was the winner of the 1995 Nafziger-White Award (best doctoral dissertation in journalism/mass communication) and won numerous teaching awards at Indiana.