Lyombe "Leo" Eko
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1997, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
E322 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-333-1926
leo-eko@uiowa.edu
Areas of academic specialization: Comparative media law and ethics,
International Communication.
Lyombe Eko teaches courses in Media Law and Ethics, Comparative
Communication and Video Production.
Before joining the University of Iowa, he was an Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media Law at the University of Maine. He has served as a journalist and producer at the African Broadcasting Union (URTNA) in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation. Professor Eko has produced several video documentaries on African topics. Three of them won honorable mention at festivals in Germany and Canada, and are part of the holdings of several American and Canadian university libraries. His research has been published in Communication Law and Policy (Journal of the Law and Policy Division of AEJMC), Communications and the Law, The International Journal of Communication Law and Policy, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, The Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, the Journal for Journalism in Southern Africa (Ecquid Novi), the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, the Encyclopedia of Radio, and several book chapters.