Ronald Sitton Email & Phone Number

ACMA website manager: liaison with Arkansas State Foundation

Jonesboro, Arkansas Area

Jonesboro, Arkansas Area

Teaching Media Regulation, Public Interest and the Law (seven-week master’s level course online), Multimedia Reporting, Reporting for Electronic Media, Mass Communication and Modern Society, News Design, Media Writing, Sports Reporting and News Editing; Advising Delta Digital News Service; Chairing Honors Thesis

Articles appeared in Arkansounds.com, SEARK Today, Little Rock's Free Press, MonticelloLive, The Southerner Journal, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Springdale Morning News, Arkansas Trooper

*Broadened annual contest judging from state to a national panel.*Acquired sponsorships for General Excellence Awards -- Reporter of the Year (Society of Professional Journalists' Arkansas Pro Chapter) and Advertising Designer of the Year (Arkansas Newspaper Federation)

Taught mass communication, general and advanced reporting, editing and design, feature writing, public relations writing, journalism ethics and literature, and public speaking as a one-man journalism discipline in the School of Arts and Humanities' department of Communication; served as adviser for award-winning online newspaper, yearbook, Journalism Club and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity; Communication department assessment coordinator; took students to conferences in Little Rock, Kansas City, St. Louis and New York City; oversaw production of three yearbooks in 2007; brought gubernatorial debate of independents and elections issue forum to campus; committee work on Faculty Excellence Awards, Academic Appeals, Centennial Celebration, documentary film festival, foreign film festival and student publications (chair); state representative for American Democracy Project's southern consortium; board member for the Arkansas Professional Chapter-Society of Professional Journalists; director of the Arkansas College Media Association (2009-13); performed in Shakespeare Festivals and multiple coffee-shop settings for the Creative Society.

Taught general reporting, editing and design, feature writing, public relations writing, writing and design practicums; advised journalism majors and the "Black & Magenta" newspaper, which went online during my stay; served on the Division of Arts and Humanities Ad-hoc Committee on Graphic Arts as a consultant; worked as Disc Jockey for WMCO's "Eclectic Radio" show featuring Muskingum professors; sang tenor in the Southeastern Ohio Choral Society; worked with editors of local newspaper, "The Daily Jeffersonian," on production issues.

Taught Mass Media Research and Mass Media Writing; served on the Election Ethics Committee for Student Government Association; Graduate student paper reviewer for the Communication Theory & Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication

Also worked as Web technician, Arts & Entertainment Editor, photographer; helped bring Playboy to the University of Tennessee campus for a workshop co-sponsored by our online magazine.

Also worked as Circulation Manager, copy editor and production assistant; Increased circulation from 25,000 to 50,000; coordinated advertising production for National award-winning biweekly

Covered 1997 Arkansas Legislative session

Also worked as columnist, photographer, copy editor; won Arkansas College Media Association award for A&E review for an article on Boston's concert in Little Rock.

Covered all public meetings in North Little Rock; photographer, feature reporter, columnist

Doctorate, Communications

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association (GSA) Communication College Representative (1997-1999)Graduate Teaching Associate.

Masters, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Kappa Tau Alpha journalism honor society vice president, Public Relations Student Society of America vice.

Bachelors, Journalism

Activities and Societies: UALR concert choir member — Carnegie Hall performance; contributor to The Forum newspaperMinor in Criminal Justice

Honors Graduate