Louis Liebovich

Research Professor of Communications

Professor of Media Studies

Professor of Journalism

liebovich@uiuc.edu

Primary areas of interest: The Press and the Presidency, Media and Politics, Media and Foreign Policy, Press and Foreign Policy, Economics of the Media, Twentieth Century Media History

Professor Liebovich was a reporter for ten years, an investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Sentinel for half those years. He won nine awards as a reporter. He has written five books on the press and the presidency and the press and foreign policy. He teaches media history. Liebovich's fourth book, The Press and the Modern Presidency won the Choice Magazine Award in 1998 as one of the outstanding academic books of 1998. (The second edition of The Press and the Modern Presidency was published in June of 2001). His latest book, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the U.S. News Media, was published in 2002.

Ph.D. Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin - Madison.