People
Associate Director
Wendy Whitt
Contact
Email
Phone: (813) 974-4462
Office: CIS 3110
Bio
Wendy M. Whitt is the associate director and an associate instructor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications. She teaches reporting and mass media writing courses, and coordinates the internship program. Whitt also serves as the Online News Association adviser.
She is a veteran newsroom leader who spent most of her career as a senior editor. She has been a reporter, copy editor and editor at newspapers in Florida, California and North Carolina. In Florida, she worked at The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Her editing experience includes investigative and enterprise reporting; local, state and national politics; and local news. Multimedia storytelling and news packaging/design are among her areas of expertise.
Areas of Expertise/Interest
- First Amendment law
- Public affairs and local news reporting
- Multimedia storytelling
- Writing
- Education
- M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.Ed., Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.A., Education (English), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professional Experience
18 years in newspaper journalism; 1.5 years in public relations
Teaching
USF since 2013. Other experience: adjunct instructor at USF, community college instructor and high school English teacher
Specialty Area
Reporting and writing
Courses Taught
- Writing for the Mass Media (MMC 2100)
- Beginning Reporting (JOU 2100)
- Public Affairs Reporting (JOU 4181)
- Media Law & Ethics (MMC 4208)
- Social Media Opinion (MMC 4936ST)
- Social Media as Mass Communication (MMC 4936ST)·
- Multimedia Journalism (JOU 5344)
- Newswriting & Editing (JOU 5105)
- Multimedia Journalism(JOU 5344)
- Multimedia Journalism (MMC 4936ST)
- Mass Communications Internships (MMC 4945)