Award-winning University professor Alan Stavitsky was recently named as a finalist for dean of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Stavitsky, who has served as the associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication since 1997, has worked at the University since 1990.
Tim Gleason, dean of the University’s School of Journalism and Communication, wrote in an e-mail: “It is a compliment to Associate Dean Stavitsky and to the School of Journalism and Communication that he is being considered for this position. He is a highly valued member of our faculty and a good friend.”
Stavitsky and the University’s media relations office said they cannot comment at this time.
He won the Journalism school’s Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching in 1994 and the Ersted Award for Teaching in 1995. He has been published in many academic journals and worked in radio and television.
While working in broadcast news, he held positions as a news director, anchor and investigative reporter. In radio, he worked as a talk show host and sportscaster.
Stavitsky’s research focus includes telecommunications policy and broadcast journalism, and he is currently working on a book that deals with the state of U.S. radio after the Telecommunications Act of 1996.