Herbert Lowe Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, FL, US

Gainesville, Florida, United States

I teach students – in Multimedia Reporting (JOU 3346L), a three-credit intermediate course – to report local news stories involving government and politics, education and schools, public safety and criminal justice, business and economic development, etc., as well as breaking news, trends, profiles and enterprise – and how to present those stories using.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Served as a lecturer in the department of journalism who specializes in community-based reporting and multiplatform storytelling, as well as topics and issues related to the intersection of race, sports and culture. I.
• Re-created and taught a required three-credit intermediate course – Multimedia Reporting (JOU 3346L) – in which all undergraduate journalism students in the college learn to identify, report and produce multimedia.
• Created and taught a three-credit journalism course – Race, Sports and Culture (JOU 4930) – in which undergraduate and graduate students examine the longstanding connection of sports and media to culture and social.
• Created and taught a one-credit university honors program course – Roberto Clemente (IDH 2930) – focusing on a biography of one of baseball’s most revered superstars.
• Created online-only versions of both Multimedia Reporting and Race, Sports and Culture for UF’s distance-learning programs.
• Coordinated an interdisciplinary town hall meeting on race, social media and sports that attracted participants from ESPN and The Undefeated.com.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Provided year-round administrative and programmatic stewardship of annual five-day, six-night program that each June brings to campus between 120-150 high school students interested in journalism or communications careers. SMI has existed for decades, and a landscape analysis suggests it may be the largest such program in the nation. Responsible for.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Provided administrative, curricular and programmatic support for the Perry and Alicia O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. Each academic year, the fellowship enables three accomplished journalists to produce world-class projects while based at the Diederich College of Communication. The fellows also engage with journalism and graduate students.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Journalism professional in residence teaching courses focusing on newswriting and newsgathering basics; best practices for using text, video, audio, photos and social media as digital journalists; and the media's.
• Named AEJMC-ASJMC Institute for Diverse Leadership (IDL) Fellow, 2016-17.
• Named Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy (SHALA) Fellow, 2015.
• Earned 2012 Diederich College Dean’s Recognition Award: Outstanding Faculty Adviser.
• Cited by The Marquette Journal as among the “Top 5 Marquette Tweeters,” March 2012.
• Earned 2011 Diederich College Dean’s Recognition Award: Outstanding Service.

Greater Chicago Area

Communications consultancy specializing in writing, editing and design for print and multimedia projects; Web design and management; personal and corporate branding; social media; digital asset management; strategic planning, etc.Projects included editing books by pastors focused on helping people deal with wounds from sexual and drug addictions..

Worked with commissioners, staff, advisors and others to research, organize, draft, design and publish the federal commission's final report to Congress and the American people in April 2010. Congress established the commission to plan educational, public and legacy events to mark Lincoln's 200th birthday in 2009. See http://tinyurl.com/ALBCreport

Helped to enhance and enlarge the brand of nonpartisan, nonprofit, public policy, research and education institute established in 1976. Editor of "Continuing the Legacy: A Salute to the Congressional Black Caucus of the 110th Congress," a 160-page, coffee-table book commemorating unprecedented influence of CBC members in Congress and the 2008 presidential.

Last assigned to new online news team charged with reporting breaking news on Newsday.com for Long Island’s largest newspaper. Previously spent four-plus years covering courts and the district attorney’s office in Queens. Notable coverage on death penalty, kidnapping, child-abuse and wrongful-conviction cases. Initially, general assignment reporter.

Cited among "100+ Most Influential Black Americans" by Ebony in 2004 and 2005. Accountable for a $2 million annual budget, 10-member national office staff and annual convention drawing more than 3,000 attendees. Supervised a full-time executive director. Increased NABJ's visibility and advocacy regarding newsroom diversity by regularly meeting with media.

National board member and communications committee co-chairman for alliance comprised of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and Native American Journalists Association (NAJA). Helped inspire cooperative spirit among the alliance partners.

Last assigned to North Philadelphia, spotlighting neighborhood essence and initiatives and major economic development. Initially assigned as politics and government reporter in native Camden, N.J., and in Camden and Burlington counties. Lead reporter on high-profile Camden mayoral election in 1995. Also reported on New Jersey governor’s race in 1993.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Mass Communication

Defended my graduate-level thesis — focusing on journalism and community via a case study of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Graduate Certificate, Digital Storytelling

Completed the Diederich College of Communication's 15-credit hour graduate Digital Storytelling certificate program. Focused on.

Education record

Completed various multimedia courses offered by Sessions.edu, an accredited online Web design school based in New York City.

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: WMUR-AM, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.