Jane Singer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1996 University of Missouri-Columbia
W341 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-3431
jane-singer@uiowa.edu
Jane Singer currently is on leave from Iowa. She has a three-year position in England as Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire. She works closely with Johnston Press, one of the largest publishers of regional newspapers in Britain, to explore issues related to journalists' ongoing transition to a digital environment. As a university faculty member, she also continues her research into other aspects of digital journalism; she is especially interested in media ethics and in the sociology of online news work, or the people and processes behind the creation of news in a networked environment.
Singer returns in 2010 to Iowa, where she teaches conceptual and hands-on classes in digital journalism, as well as undergraduate courses in editing, journalism ethics and political coverage, and graduate courses in communication technology and theory.
Singer's professional experience includes 10 years in the editorial department of what evolved into the Prodigy service. She was Prodigy's first news manager, in charge of one of the first around-the-clock news products ever to be delivered to people's homes through a computer. She also has five years experience as a reporter and editor at three East Coast newspapers.
Singer holds a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an M.A. in liberal studies from New York University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. Born in New York and raised in Atlanta, she came to Iowa in 1999 after several years on the journalism faculty at Colorado State University. She is co-author of Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions, published in 2007, and is the 2007 recipient of the Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award. She currently is on the editorial boards of seven scholarly journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, Journalism Studies and the Journal of Mass Media Ethics; her work has appeared in these and other publications. She is a contributing editor of Media Ethics magazine and is active in both the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the International Communication Association. Singer currently is national vice president of Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalism honor society, and will become president later in 2008.