| Dr. Daniel (Dan) Riffe E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Ohio University Scripps Hall, Room 102 Athens, OH 45701-2979 Phone: 614/593-2597 Fax: 614/593-2592 E-mail: riffe@oak.cats.ohiou.edu |
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| Dr. Daniel (Dan) Riffe E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Ohio University Scripps Hall, Room 102 Athens, OH 45701-2979 Phone: 614/593-2597 Fax: 614/593-2592 E-mail: riffe@oak.cats.ohiou.edu |
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Dan Riffe joined the faculty at Ohio University in Fall 1995 as Professor of Journalism. He and his wife, Dee Dee, have two children.
Prof. Riffe earned a Ph.D. in Communication in 1981 from the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Ohio University, earned in 1976, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Dayton, earned in 1971.
Before coming to Ohio University, Dr. Riffe was professor
and chair of the Department of Journalism at Northern Illinois University
from 1992 to 1995; associate professor at the University of Alabama from
1985 to 1992, serving as coordinator of graduate studies for the last five
years of that appointment; and associate professor from 1980 to 1984 at
Southern Illinois University, where he was director of the Mass Communication
Research Center for three years.
As a graduate student, Prof. Riffe served as a teaching and research assistant
at the University of Tennesee and as a research assistant at Ohio University.
He was an adjunct assistant professor of English at Wright State University
in 1977.
Dr. Riffe has been identified as one of the most active
mass communication scholars in the country. His frequent collaboration
with students and colleagues on research projects, as well as his own diverse
interests, fosters a variety of research topics.
Prof. Riffe has authored or co-authors papers on these topics (among others):
Riffe is co-author, along with Steve Lacy and Fred Fico, of Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998).
Riffe is co-author, with Don Sneed, of The Publisher-Public
Official: Real or Imagined Conflict of Interest? (Praeger Publishers,
1991). In cooperation with his graduate-school mentor, Eugene F. Shaw,
he also co-authored "Orphans of NIS: The Predicament of Some All-News
Stations," published by Journalism Monographs in August 1980.
Prof. Riffe is author or co-author of more than 40 refereed research articles
in Journalism Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism Educator,
International Communication Bulletin, and other scholarly publications.
In addition, he has written more than a dozen non-refereed articles and
reviews in scholarly journals and trade publications.
Among Dr. Riffe's recent scholarly publications are:
In five published research articles, Prof. Riffe is identified
as among the most productive scholars in journalism and mass communication
research. He was cited as AEJMC's most active scholar over a five-year
period from 1985 to 1990.
Dr. Riffe won the Alan Bussell Award for best paper submitted to AEJMC's
Minorities and Communication Division in 1990. The winning paper is titled,
"Comparison of Sources of Information for Black State Legislators."
He also co-authored the winning paper in the same category a year earlier.
In 1988, Prof. Riffe was recognized with a Commitment to Teaching Award
by the University of Alabama chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha, the Communication
Student Honor Society.
Dr. Riffe has served three terms as research chair for AEJMC's Newspaper Division and one year on AEJMC's Newspaper Division Executive Council. He is an associate editor of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and is on the editorial boards of Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism Educator, Journal of Communication and World.
