Description: Kevin M. Lerner serves as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the author of Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism, published by The University of Missouri Press. He teaches American press history, media law, narrative journalism, news editing, and reporting…
Kevin M. Lerner serves as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the author of Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism , published by The University of Missouri Press.
He teaches American press history, media law, narrative journalism, news editing, and reporting and writing integrating contemporary technology and social media tools. He edits the peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Magazine Media , and is a past head of the Magazine Media Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He also serves on the executive committees of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies and the Joint Journalism and Communication Histor
He earned his doctorate in journalism and media studies from Rutgers University, where he completed a dissertation entitled “Gadfly to the Watchdogs: How The Journalism Review (MORE) Goaded the Mainstream Press Toward Self-Criticism in the 1970s,” chronicling an influential journalism review and its role in countering anti-intellectualism in the American press.