Introducing the School of Journalism faculty. Click on the professor's name to reach individual home pages. You'll find more about that faculty member's courses and research interests.

Professor Adler specializes in television news. She teaches TV News Production, TV News writing, News writing and Interpreting the Day's News. She comes to the School of Journalism from CNN, where she was a medical unit producer. While at CNN she was responsible for a weekly half-hour medical show, "Your Health." She also produced medical stories for day-of-air broadcasts and coordinated special series. Professor Adler received her bachelor's degree from State University of New York in 1973 and her master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1976. She can be reached at (617) 373-3221.

A 30-year veteran in national media, Professor Daniloff joined Northeastern University in 1989 and became director of journalism programs in 1992. Daniloff has written two books, The Kremlin and the Cosmos (1972) and Two Lives One Russia (1988) and numerous popular and academic articles. He is a former Washington and Moscow correspondent for United Press International and U.S. News &World Report. Professor Daniloff teaches ethics, and graduate and undergraduate print journalism courses. He can be reached at (617) 373-4050.

Professor Fountain teaches graduate and undergraduate print journalism courses. His love of history, sports and fine writing reached a happy confluence in his work on the life and times of American sportswriter, Grantland Rice. His biography of Rice was published in 1993 by Oxford University Press. An earlier biography of an American Journalist, Another Man's Poison: The Live and Writing of Columnist George Frazier, was published in 1984. He is a graduate of Boston College (B.A. 1972) and Columbia University (M.S. 1993). Professor Fountain is currently working on a book about the news coverage of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To assist his research activities, he was honored with a Residential Fellowship at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York City. Professor Fountain can be reached at (617) 373-4533.

Professor Kirtz teaches print journalism courses. He worked as an editor for The Patriot Ledger and publisher/editor for the Marblehead (MA) Messenger, receiving regional and national citations for editorial and feature writing. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Herald-Tribune, The Chicago Tribune and the North American Newspaper Alliance. He is a frequent contributor to the university's alumni magazine. Professor Kirtz can be reached at (617) 373-4045.

Professor Leff was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Miami Herald and an editor with American Lawyer and Media and The Hartford Courant. She has an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a Master's in communication from the University of Miami and a Master's in the Study of Law from Yale University. She teaches news writing and reporting, law of the press, and magazine writing to undergraduate and graduate students. She can be reached at (617) 373-3226.

Professor McKie teaches design and graphics, public relations and advertising courses. She is also a faculty advisor for the Ad Club and the Public Relations Student Society of America. She was a staff reporter, photographer and graphic designer for Nursing Pulse of New England. She also worked as a public relations professional for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Newton Wellesley Hospital. She currently owns her own company, McKie Communications, an agency providing public relations, advertising and graphic designed services. She can be reached at (617) 373-4054.

Professor Ross teaches graduate and undergraduate reporting courses, law of the press, ethics and literary journalism. He speaks Spanish and some Chinese and has taught and lectured in China and Ecuador. Professor Ross has published two non-fiction books and is at work on a third book about lost and dispersed Jewish communities throughout the world, a project that has taken him to the Amazon, Africa and India. He can be reached at (617) 373-3238.

Professor Schroeder teaches a variety of courses in the field of television journalism, as well as news writing and Interpreting the Day's News. A native of Kansas, Professor Schroeder began his career as a newspaper reporter, then moved into television. He spend ten years as a TV producer in Wichita, Denver and Boston before becoming a professor. He is a graduate of Wichita State University and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of government. Professor Schoreder is writing a book about televised presidential debates for Columbia University Press, due for publication in 2000. He can be reached at (617) 373-8701.