found: stcloudstate.academia.edu, April 20, 2022(Dale E Zacher; chair of the Mass Communications Department at St. Cloud State University since August 2014; he was promoted to full professor in July 2017; he previously worked at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Northern Illinois University, the University of North Dakota and Creighton University; before going into academia, he worked in radio and television news in North Dakota and Minnesota, and worked in government and political campaign public relations in North Dakota; he earned a BA in broadcast journalism with minors in economics and political science at the University of North Dakota; he later earned an MS in journalism and a Ph. D. in mass communication from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens; he studies the American news media (usually of the early 20th Century), and his research generally focuses on the relationship between government and the news media, especially during wartime; he has become increasingly interested in the business side of the news media; he currently serves on the editorial board of the academic journal Journalism History)
